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but the figures (to wit water, bread, or wine) ¹be delivered them by the hands of Gods ministers. Howbeit the chiefest thing, that in all the Sacraments is ⟨p. 68⟩proposed of God, and taken heed unto of all the godly in all ages (which other call the substance and matter of the Sacraments) is Christ their saviour that only sacrifice, and that lamb of God, which was slain from the beginning of the world, and that rock whereof all our forefathers did drink, by whom all the elect are Circumcised without hands, and by the holy Ghost are washed from all their since, and are nourished with the true body and blood of Christ, to life everlasting.

but the figures (to wit water, bread, or wine) ¹bee deliuered theim by the handes of Gods ministers. Howbeit the cheifest thyng, that in all the Sacramentes is ⟨p. 68⟩proposed of God, and taken hede vnto of all the godlie in all ages (whiche other call the substaunce and matter of the Sacramentes) is Christe their sauior that onely sacrifice, and that lābe of God, whiche was slain from the beginnyng of the worlde, and that rocke whereof al our forefathers did drinke, by whom all the electe are Circumcised without handes, and by the holie Ghoste are washed from all their synnes, and are nourished with the true bodie and bloud of Christ, to life euerlastyng.

1. 1Christ is the chiefest thing to be considered in the sacraments.

And touching that, which is chiefest ¹in the Sacrament, and the thing it self, the Sacraments of both people are like. For Christ the only mediator and Saviour of the faithful in the Sacraments, both of the old and new Testament, is that chief principal thing, and the thing it self, meant by the Sacrament. One and the self same God, is author of them in both. To both people they were given as tokens, yea, as pledges of God his grace, & promises, which may bring