Iewel.* 1.1S. Augustine saith in an other place: The Sacraments of the olde lavv vvere promises of thinges to be accomplished: our Sacraments of the nevv lavv are tokens that the same promises be alreadie accomplished.
Harding.
If your wordes had any pith in them, I would laye them out at large and answer them fully: But now I graunt al that you saie. What then? Wil it folow, that bicause our Sacramentes doo shewe, that Christe is al∣readie come, therefore our Sacramentes geue no grace? For that is the point whiche you denie. Nay rather they geue grace therefore, bicause they shew so much by his Institution. For Christe maketh not naked shewes, his wordes worke, and his deedes be effectual in the soule, and his Sacramentes both shew that, whiche is done, to wit, the death of Christe, and make vs partakers of the grace purchased by the same. He that eateth Christes fleash,* 1.2 sheweth his death (saith S. Paul) and he that eateth my fleash (saith Christ) hath life euerlasting. Marke, how our hauing of life goeth together with our shewing of Christes death. You diuide these matters, and make Christes Sacramentes only to be shewes.