A discourse concerning unction and washing of feet proving that they be not instituted sacraments or ordinances in the churches by Isaac Chauncy ...

Obj. 1. This is to make more Sacraments than two. Which he Answers by way of Con∣cession, only distinguishing betwixt Seals of the Co∣venant of Grace, and Seals of other Promises.

Reply. There are no Promises made even of outward good Things to God's Children but in Christ Jesus, and contained in the Covenant of Grace, and there needs no other Seals but what are Seals to that. Circumcision Sealed the Promise of Christ to Abraham, and all the Promi∣ses of the Land of Canaan, and of External Bles∣sings

therein. He instanceth in the Rainbow, Gen. 9.11,12, &c. But that was God's confirm∣ing Seal of the Covenant of Grace to Noah, and of an External Good promised to the Church, and to the World, for the sake of the Church, and accordingly applied by the Prophet Isaiah to the Covenant of Grace, as a Confir∣ming Sign to us.

But what is this Instance to our purpose? Whatever the Rainbow was, it was no Insti∣tuted Church Ordinance, and cannot be called a Sacrament; for that is such a Sign and Seal as is Instituted by Christ for our Obedience thereto, wherein by some Acts of ours appoin∣ted by Christ, we shew forth some Spiritual Thing that our Faith is exercised on thereby.