The canons and decrees of the Council of Trent celebrated under Paul III, Julius III, and Pius IV, Bishops of Rome / faithfully translated into English.

CHAP. I. Of the institution of the Sacrament of Extreme Ʋnction.

THis Holy Unction, instituted for the sake of the Infirm by our Lord Jesus Christ, as a real and proper Sacrament of the New Testament, insinuated indeed to us by St. Mark, and commended and published unto the Faithful by St. James the Apostle, and Brother of our Lord: He says, Is any among you sick and weak; Let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with Oil in the name of the Lord: And the Prayer of Faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will ease him; and if he lie under sins, they shall be forgiven him. From which words, as being of Apostolical Tradition, handed down to the Church, it hath Learn'd and doth teach the Matter, Form, proper Minister, and Effect of this Salutary Sacrament; for the Church has understood the Matter to be Oil blessed by the Bishop, seeing that Unction does most fitly represent the Grace of the Holy Spirit, wherewith the Soul of the Sick is invisibly Anointed: The Form begins in these words, By this Unction or Anointing, &c.