from eternity, and also true man, bom of the Virgin Maiy, is 
my Lord, who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned human 
creature, has purchased and won me from all sins, from death 
and from the power of the devil, not with silver and gold, but 
with his own holy precious blood, and with his innocent suffer- 
ing and dying, that I may be his own, and live in his kingdom 



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under him, and serve him in endless righteousness, innocence, 
and , even as he is risen from the dead, and lives 
and reigns for ever. This is certainly true. 

And again, 

 I believe in the Holy Ghost." 

"What does that mean?" 

" I believe that not by my own reason or power can I believe 
on Jesus Christ my Lord, pr come to him ; but the Holy Ghost 
has called me through the gospel, enlightened me with his gifts, 
sanctified and kept me in the right faith, as he calls all Christian 
people on earth, gathers, enlightens, sanctifies them, and through 
Jesus keeps them in the right and only faith, among which 
Christian people he daily richly forgives all sins, to me and all 
believers, and at the last day will awaken me and all the dead