I. VVhat wee meane by the name of a Sa∣crament.
We knowe that a Sacrament is properly a
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We knowe that a Sacrament is properly a
holie couenant or oath and promise, on both sides, that is, made betweene God & his peo∣ple, not simply, but established and confirmed by sacred rites & ceremonies: as it manifestly appeareth in the Sacrament of circumcision betweene God and Abraham: and betweene Christ and vs in Baptisme, which succeeded the circumcision. Therefore Sacrament is oftē taken of the Fathers for that whole action, ei∣ther of Baptisme, or of the Lords Supper: wherein there goeth before, a promise on both sides, holily confirmed with external rites and seales or signes, and euen with the bloode of Christ. But afterward by a Synecdoche, they vn∣derstood by the name of Sacrament, onely the rites, and signes added to the word. And this last signification hath beene much vsed in the church. We therefore call a Sacrament, accor∣ding to the significatiō receiued in the church, not the word alone, nor the element alone, but the element, water, or bread & wine, ioy∣ned with the worde of the gospell according to Christs institution: according to that same of Augustine. To the element commeth the worde, and then it is a Sacrament.