Key to the Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World

that Ablutio pedum Washing of the feet of the disciples, which Peter must know afterward, in the second Peter.

3. For just as for the observers of the legis Naturae law of Nature, who were hardened and who were deceiving their own consciences, it was necessary after the punishments of the Flood to write Sin into the precept of Circumcision, and various rites even before Moses accustomed to be observed by the pious, so that they might recognize in exterior things the Sin of man in Conscience, which was already long neglected, sufficiently for salvation with the received Grace: so also it was necessary, after the gens Mosaica Mosaic race, or the youthful age of the Church, had turned its disgrace and acknowledgment of sin into a vain boasting of Good Works, that there should be present one who would show in himself the magnitude of sin, while being Dearest to God and substantially united to Him, and would pay the penalties in the name of all to God the Most Good and Great.

4. So now for the extreme Remedy of Nature, it is necessary, after the Human race in conscience and external worship—never in any nation, despite false institution, having known the sin not recognized through Grace present to all: and after those who have known, and have received its remedies in the exterior sacraments in the blood