The Consensus of the Ministers of the Church of Bremen:

VII. Next, as regards the glory of office, the Son of God in the human nature He assumed and indeed through and by means of it, that is, through its cooperative sufferings and death, has accomplished the entire work of the redemption of mankind and manifested many visible miracles for the confirmation of His office. He has also made His flesh to participate in all His conquests, victories, and triumphs, and still does many works through this manhood of His, such as pertain to His office as head of His church (known as His spiritual body), and at the last day shall conduct a visible judgment of the living and the dead. . . . [654]

IX. And in this regard Christ’s death and sufferings, which are done in His human nature, are the one and only sufficient payment as a sin offering and ransom for the sins of the whole world, and His resurrection brings righteousness and eternal life to all believers.

X. Also in this regard, for reasons related previously from Cyril’s eleventh anathema, "the flesh of Christ is life-giving,” as the ancient teachers say. That is, the flesh of Christ is a life-giving flesh inasmuch as He has given His life for the world (John 6[:51]). Or as it is said in the schools, it is in respect of merit [respectu meriti] predicated of the person according to both natures, and imparted and applied to us, and by us appropriated through faith, by the power of the Holy Spirit.p655,

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