Gospel-Worship

Now first for the word Sacrament, I confess we have not that word in all the Scripture, as neither have we the word Trinity, and divers other words that Ministers make use of, to set forth the Mysteries of Religion by, but yet it is useful to consider the meaning why Ministers in the Church have given this name, unto those signs and seals that the Church receives; Sacrament, is to hallow a thing, or to dedicate, because in the Sacraments there are outward things, that are made holy, for holy and spiritual ends.

Now first for the word Sacrament, I confesse wee have not that word in all the Scripture, as neither have we the word Trinitie, and divers other words that Ministers make use of, to set forth the Mysteries of Religion by, but yet it is usefull to consider the meaning why Ministers in the Church have given this name, unto those signes and seals that the Church receives; Sacrament, is to hallow a thing, or to dedicate, because in the Sacraments there are outward things, that are made holy, for holy and spirituall ends.

Secondly, we our selves do as it were hallow, or dedicate our selves unto God in the use of these Ordinances; that's one reason from whence it hath the name.

Secondly, wee our selves do as it were hallow, or dedicate our selves unto God in the use of these Ordinances; that's one reason from whence it hath the name.

Or otherwise as some will have it Sacramentum, because it is to be received Sacrament with a holy mind, and therefore called the Sacrament. The Churches have used it a long time; in Tertullians time (which was above fourteen hundred years ago) he was the first that we find used this word, and most that ⟨p. 226⟩