The next enquiry is,
What is the use of faith in this Sacrament? It is tied but to little duty, and a few plain articles; what then is the use and advantages of it? To what graces does it minister, and what effect does it produce? To this the answer is easie, but yet such as introduces a further enquiry. Faith indeed is not curious but material: and therefore in the contemplation of this mysterious Sacrament and its Symbols, we are more to regard their signifi∣cation than their matter; their holy imployment than their natural usuage, what they are by grace than what they are by nature; what they signifie rather than what they are defin'd. Faith con∣siders not how they nourish the body, but how they support and exalt the soul: that they are Sa∣cramental not that they are also nutritive; that