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ANd what sayst thou of the supper?
Thou canste not well vnder∣stande what the Supper is, if thou doe not first know what baptisme is.
Hast thou any thing then yet to say concerning baptisme?
For so muche as regenera∣tion emporteth renewing of lyfe, as if we were borne again in the house of GOD,
thou knowest well that a man must first be borne, and then nourished after that hée is borne.
Wilte thou then saye that Baptisme is to vs a Sacramente of oure newe and spirituall birthe, by the whiche we are borne againe children of God in his Church, and that the Supper is to vs an other Sacrament of the spiri∣tuall nouriture, whiche is necessarie for vs, to entertayne vs in this new and spi∣rituall lyfe, of the whiche baptisme is to vs a sacrament?
Thou haste herein to note, that God will first assure vs, that hée accompteth vs for hys children, be∣gotten by the incorruptible séede of hys woorde, in the vertue of the holy Ghost into his Churche, whiche is the espouse of his sonne Iesus Chryste: and therfore hée will witnesse vnto vs by thys Sa∣cramente of Baptisme that he receyueth vs into his house, and dothe aduowe vs for his lawfull children, whiche he hath adopted to hym selfe in his sonne Iesus Chryste, whiche he will as it were enroll in the booke of his housholde, as his true children and enheritours.