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Nothing is more expedient to answer directly unto the question, then to consider the time of our fathers. They thought it best to name the sacraments by y• name of the thing was represented by the sacraments. Yet in many places of their writings, they so interpret them ⟨image 139⟩selves, that no man except he will be wilfully blind, can say but they understood the sacrament to signify, and not to be the thing signified: to confirm, & not to exhibit grace, to help, and not to give faith: to seal, and not to win the promise of God. Ro. iiii: to show what we be before the use of them, and not to make us the thing we declare to be after them: to show we are Christs, to show we be in grace, and not by them to be received into grace: to show we be saved, and not yet to be saved by them: to show we be regenerated, and not to be regenerated by them, thus the old doctors meant.

NOthing is more expedient to answer directlye vnto the question, then to cōsyder the time of our fathers. They thought it best to name the sacramentes by y• name of the thyng was represented by the sacramentes. Yet in manye places of theyr wryryngs, they so interpretate thē ⟨image 139⟩selues, that no man excepte he wyl be wylfully blynd, can say but they vnderstode the sacrament to sygnifie, and not to be the thing signified: to cōfirme, & not to exhibit grace, to helpe, and not to giue faythe: to seale, and not to wynne the promyse of God. Ro. iiii: to shewe what we be before the vse of thē, and not to make vs the thynge we declare to be after thē: to shew we are Christes, to shew we be in grace, and not by thē to be receaued into grace: to shewe we be saued, and not yet to be saued by them: to shewe we be regenerated, and not to be regenerated by them, thus the old doctours ment.