CHAPTER LX.
Of Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord.
1. AFter the nature of the New Testament, the Sa∣craments of the same doe follow, for they are for number few, to be obtained, and observed easy, and in their signification must perspicuous.
2. They were sanctified and instituted by Christ himselfe: for although the one Sacrament was first used by Iohn Baptist, yet in that very thing he was the fore∣runner of Christ, that he might shew, what Christ him∣selfe afterward would allow and institute, neither had it the respect of an ordinary institution by the Ministery of Iohn, but by the institution of Christ himselfe.
3. These Sacraments are Baptisme, and the Supper of the Lord, for neither were there either other Sacra∣ments or Sacramentall signes delivered to the Church by Christ or his Apostles: neither can there other be appointed by men in the Church.
4. In respect of Gods Institution, there lieth greatest necessity upon the faithfull to use these Sacraments, diligently, and religiously, yet they are not so absolu∣tely necessary to salvation, that the absence, or meere privation of them doth bring a privation of this institu∣tion: