3. "Works of man, how fair and good soever they may be, are, to all appearance, only mortal sins.
4. "Works of God, how deformed and bad soever they may appear, have always an immortal merit.
7. "The works of the just themselves would be mortal sins, did they not, through holy reverence for the Lord, fear that their works would in fact be mortal sins.[459]
9. "To maintain that works done without Christ are dead, but not mortal, is dangerous forgetfulness of the fear of God.
13. "Since the fall of man, free will exists only in name, and when man does all that is possible for him to do, he sins mortally.
16. "A man who expects to attain to grace by doing all that it is possible for him to do, adds sin to sin, and doubles his guilt.
18. "It is certain that man, to become capable of receiving the grace of Christ, must entirely despair of himself.
21. "An honorary theologian calls evil good, and good evil; but a theologian of the cross speaks according to truth.
22. "The wisdom which teaches man to know the invisible perfections of God in his works, inflates, blinds, and hardens him.
23. "The law excites the wrath of God, kills, curses, accuses, judges, and condemns, whatever is not in Christ.[460]