53. To know and acknowledge her God is the first and foremost thing of the Church, because without that there is no salvation, as can be established from the Jews, that when they did not worship Jehovah, although steadfast in other rites, they were accursed; the passages from the Word. Also the Lord so often said, 'Because you believe' therefore it was done to them. For this then was the first thing, to believe in the Lord, and to believe that He had all power; and because of their former faith He said in their presence 'the Father' but meant Himself as is established from the passages; the passages are to be quoted. --This knowledge and acknowledgment conjoin; and without that there is no conjunction and thus no salvation.