1. It is a universal of faith that God is one in Person and in Essence, in whom there is a Trinity, and that the Lord is that God. 2. It is a universal of faith that no mortal could have been saved unless the Lord had come into the world. 3. It is a universal of faith that He came into the world to remove hell from man; that He removed it by combats against it and by victories over it; and that He thus subjugated it, and reduced it to order and under obedience to Himself. 4. It is also a universal of faith that He came into the world to glorify the Human which He assumed in the world, that is, to unite it to the originating Divine; and that, having subjugated hell, He thus keeps it in order and under obedience to Himself to eternity. As neither of these purposes could have been effected except by temptations, even to the last of them which was the passion of the cross, He therefore endured that also.

These are the universals of the Christian faith concerning the Lord.