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The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…
The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally received as being proved from scripture : now further cleared and confirmed by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally receiv'd as being prov'd from scripture : now further cleared and confirm'd by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...
London : s.n., 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. 92.1 A Sacrament is an holy Ordinance, instituted of Christ, wherein by sensible signs, Christ and the benefits of the new Covenant are representedz, sealed, and applied to believersa.
- 1What is a Sacrament?
- zGen. 17.10. This is my Covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee, Every man-child among you shall be circumcised.
- aRom. 4.11. And he received the sign of Circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the Faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised.
Expl. 92. In the general, all sound Divines do agree, that a Sacrament hath these two parts, (1) an outward sign, such as are the objects of sense, and especially of seeing; for though bread and wine be objected or presented to the taste, as well as to the eye; and water to the touch, yet the representation or the resemblance of Christs body broken and his blood shed, is in seeing the bread broken and the wine poured out; and the spiritual washing of the soul represented to the eye of faith, by that washing of the filth of the flesh which is visibly done before the eye of the body. (2) Invisible grace; for the internal application of Christs benefits to the soul being of a spiritual nature, cannot be seen by the eye of the body; yet more particularly, in this A. we have the nature and quality of a Sacrament, 'tis a holy Ordinance, (1) it has holiness to the Lord stamped upon it, and so is spiritual in its nature. (2) It is instituted by Christ the holy one; it is not his Holiness at Rome, or rather that man of sin, that can institute a Sacrament, though he hath taken the boldness to add five Sacraments to those two which Christ hath appointed. The holiest man upon earth cannot appoint a Sacrament; it is privilege enough in man to celebrate it when it is instituted by God. (3) It is a means for the promoting of sanctification and holiness,