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formed by the power of the Holy Ghost for the salvation of all, and was made of a woman, made under the law, that He might redeem them that were under the law, and that He might quicken all those who had died in Adam, having abolished in His flesh the law of commandments contained in ordinances, opened the blind eyes of our minds, made known to us the way of salvation, and enlightened us with the light of the knowledge of divine truth: and such as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God, and purified and cleansed us by the holy baptism of water, and sanctified us, in His grace, by the gift of the Holy Spirit; and them that have been buried with Him in baptism unto death He hath raised up and exalted and hath made them to sit down with Him in heaven, according to His promise, and having loved His own which are in this world, He loved them unto the end, and became the propitiation for the sins of our race and for the life of all, and yielded Himself up unto death for every man, under whose sentence they were, to whose power all were subject, and to whom we were sold through our sins. And He descended into sheol and loosed the bands of death; and because it was not possible that the First-begotten of our salvation should be holden of sheol, He arose from the dead on the third day, and became the first-fruits of them that slept, that in everything He might have the pre-eminence, and ascended into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of Thy Majesty, O God, and committed to us the memorial of our salvation in this sacrament which we now offer up before Thee. For when the time came when He was about to suffer, and to offer Himself up unto death, in that same night in which He was to be betrayed for the life of the world, after the Paschal supper of Moses, He took bread in His holy, immaculate, and pure hands, and blessed, and brake, and ate, and gave it to His disciples, saying: Take, eat ye all of this. This is My body, which is broken for you for the remission of sins. And also the cup, after He had mixed it with wine and water. He blessed, gave thanks, and drank, and gave it to His disciples, saying: Drink ye all of this, for this is My blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Do this in remembrance of Me until My coming again; for as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show My