to be the way, the truth, and the life to all mankind; that is, He came to be the way, by showing us the true way of heaven, which had been darkened, and obscured by the sin of our first parents; He came to be the truth, by revealing to us those supernatural truths, which the natural law did not reveal, and by revealing to us more clearly those truths, which the natural law revealed only obscurely; and lastly, He came to be our life, by communicating to mankind His graces, by which they were enabled to _practise_ the truths, which this divine law _taught_, and thus, by the _knowledge_, and _faithful practice_ of this divine law, to arrive at last at the kingdom of heaven. Hence, fully sensible of this truth, the Apostles are continually in the Scriptures reminding us, on _the one hand_, of man's fall, and the sad consequences of that fall; and _on the other hand_, of our liberation from sin, and of the abundant blessings we have received, by redemption through Jesus Christ. Now, that mankind _in every age_, might be partakers of these abundant, and spiritual blessings, Jesus Christ was pleased to found a Church, and to invest this Church with the same spiritual powers, which He had received from His heavenly Father. This Church, _through Jesus Christ_, was to be the _infallible_ source of all spiritual knowledge, and of all spiritual grace; in short, it was to be the _visible_, the _infallible_, and _the incorruptible_ Church of all ages, with the world for its boundaries, and time for its duration.