Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the adversaries of the sameQuestions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same

The Romish church hath seven Sacraments, of all¹ the which we do account but two to be true Sacraments of Christs church, and that is Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord: and unto these we attribute so much as the holy Scripture willeth us. And as touching these two, Confirmation & Extreme unction or anointing, as they be now used in the church of Rome, we do not acknowledge them for any Sacraments ⟨p. 84⟩of Christ, neither suppose we that they have their original from gods word. The other three, that is, penance, Imposition of hands, or Orders & Matrimony, although we reckon them not amongst the Sacraments of Christs church, as we do baptism & the supper of the Lord, yet we acknowledge them to be profitable & necessary institutions of God, and very wholesome for the faithful, if they use them in such sort, and to the end for which they were ordained, and as the Saints have used them in times paste. Neither do we allow or think well of all those things which the church of Rome doth use in these three, but we allow that only which is agreeable with the word of God. But where we allow baptism & the Lords supper only for true Sacraments, I have else where more largely taught, showing that it only belongeth to God, and not to man, to institute or ordain Sacraments, the signs of Gods verity and grace, but also how the promises of God are in the Sacraments and outward signs of his benefits.

THe Romish church hath seuen Sacraments, of al