27. That it is impossible to attain to
God the Father, except by His Son Jesus Christ.
In the Gospel: “I am the way, and the
truth, and the life: no one cometh to the Father but by
me.”
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Also in
the same place: “I am the door: by me if any man
shall enter in, he shall be saved.”
4104
Also in the same place:
“Many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things
which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye
hear, and have not heard them.”
4105
Also in the same place:
“He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life: he that is
not obedient in word to the Son hath not life; but the wrath of God
shall abide upon him.”
4106
Also Paul to the Ephesians:
“And when He had come, He preached peace to you, to those which
are afar off, and peace to those which are near, because through Him we
both have access in one Spirit unto the Father.”
4107
Also to
the Romans: “For all have sinned, and fail of the glory of
God; but they are justified by His gift and grace, through the
redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”
4108
Also in the Epistle of Peter the
apostle: “Christ hath died once for our sins, the just for
the unjust, that He might present us to God.”
4109
Also in the same place:
“For in this also was it preached to them that are dead, that
they might be raised again.”
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Also in the Epistle of John:
“Whosoever denieth the Son, the same also hath not the
Father. He that confesseth the Son, hath both the Son and the
Father.”
4111
4103
John xiv. 6
.
4104
John x. 9
.
4105
Matt. xiii. 17
.
4106
John iii. 36
.
4107
Eph. ii. 17, 18
.
4108
Rom. iii. 23, 24
.
4109
1 Pet. iii. 18
.
4110
1 Pet. iv. 6
.
4111
1 John ii. 23
.