The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

That Sacraments be rightly ministered, we judge two things requisite: The one, that they be ministered by lawful Ministers, whom we affirm to be only they that are appointed to the Preaching of the Word, or unto whose mouths God hath put some Sermon of Exhortation, they being men of lawful choosing thereto by some Church. The other, That they be ministered in such elements, and in such sort as God hath appointed. Else we affirm, That they cease to be right Sacraments of Christ Jesus. And therefore it is, that we flee the society with the Papistical Church, in participation of their Sacraments; First, because their Ministers are no Ministers of Jesus Christ (yea,¹ which is more horrible) they suffer women, whom the holy Ghost will not suffer to teach in the Congregation, to Baptize. And secondly, because they have so adulterate, both the one Sacrament and the other, with their own inventions, that no part of Christs action abideth in the original purity, for Oil, Salt, Spittle, and such like in Baptism, are but mens inventions, Adoration, Veneration, bearing through Streets and Townes, and keeping of bread in Boxes, are profanation of Christs Sacraments, and no use of the same: For Christ Jesus said, Take and eat, &c. Do ye this in remembrance of me. By which words and charge he sanctified Bread and Wine to be the Sacrament of his Body and Blood; to the end, that one should be eaten, and that all should drink of the other, and not that they should be kept to be worshipped and honoured as God, as the blind Papists have done heretofore, who also have committed Sacrilege, stealing from the people one part of the Sacrament; to wit, The blessed Cup. Moreover, that the Sacraments be rightly used, it is required, That the end and cause why the Sacraments were instituted, be understood and observed, as well of the Minister as the Receivers: for if the opinion be changed in the Receiver, the right use ceaseth: which is most evident by the rejection of the sacrifices (as also if the teacher teach false Doctrine) which were odious and abominable unto God (albeit they were his own ordinances) because that wicked men used them to another ⟨p. 270⟩end then God hath ordained. The same affirm we of the Sacraments in the Papistical Church, in which we affirm the whole action of the Lord Jesus to be adulterate, as well in the external form, as in the end and opinion;

THat Sacraments be rightly ministred, we judge two things requisite: The one, that they be ministred by lawfull Ministers, whom we affirme to be onely they that are appointed to the Preaching of the Word, or unto whose mouthes God hath put some Sermon of Exhortation, they being men of lawfull choosing thereto by some Church. The other, That they be ministred in such elements, and in such sort as God hath appointed. Else we affirme, That they cease to be right Sacraments of Christ Jesus. And therefore it is, that we flee the societie with the Papisticall Church, in participation of their Sacraments; First, because their Ministers are no Ministers of Jesus Christ (yea,