COROLLARY XI.
God removed the damage inflicted by human guilt, applied medicine to the lethal wound, averted the necessity of perishing, restored the opportunity and faculty of entering upon the inheritance, and in Christ—
—and through Christ restored his work and lost humanity. For, as the Catholic doctors testify with one mouth1, God did not assume the person of a judge in such a way that he put off the person of a father; nor did he indulge justice to such a degree that he seemed forgetful of his work and his image. According to his justice he punished humanity which had wandered from the way, but according to his goodness he led it back into the way; he condemned all in Adam, but in turn absolved all in Christ; in the first man he proscribed all, deprived them of the grace of adoption, and stripped them of the faculty by which they might obtain the eternal inheritance; but in turn, in the second man, he recalled all and furnished all the opportunity of recovering adoption and salvation.