promote the salvation of his own people; for their success and their victories had always a reference to the benefit of the Church. This is certain, that as we have been banished by sin from God’s kingdom, we can have no communion with angels except through the reconciliation made by Christ; and this we may see by the ladder shewn in a vision to the patriarch Jacob. CHAPTER 2 1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them
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