Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.

How manifold be the Sacraments after the fall?

Some of the old Testament, & some of the New. Those shadowed out the Messias to be exhibited, these do testifie that he is exhibi∣ted. Again of those wherin was shadowed out the Messias to bee exhibited, some were for a time accidental & extrordinary, which god vsed only once, or for a certain time: some were set & ordinary, which ought to be in ordinary vse vntil the time of reformationa 1.1, for those things are said to be reformed, which are truely direct∣ed to their proper end: wheras these tended to the same, but yet thwartly not directly. Temporary were the floudb 1.2. The passing tho∣row the red seac 1.3, the staying vnder the cloudd 1.4, which three were as it were a certain baptisme of the old Testament. Manna sent from heauene 1.5, & water out of the rockf 1.6, were as the Eucharist, & spiritual drink, 1 Cor. 10, 1.2:3. I would not haue you ignorant, that al our fa∣thers were vnder the cloud, & al passed through the sea, & al were bap∣tised in the cloud, & in the sea, & did all eate the same spirituall meate, & drink the same spiritual drink. From the floud, the deliuerance or escaping frō the waters which befel Noe, & his family, was a signe to him of the spiritual deliuerāce, & escaping of the church out of the gulf of sin & death, & to a new life, wherof at this day baptism is a type to vs, and therefore is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, an exmplar or picture correspondēt to that deliuerāce which came to passe in the floudg 1.7.

There are therefore two types, but the former is the figure of shadow of the latter ^h. And the latter the patterne of the former or the figure answering to it. In which respect the Sacraments of the new Couenant, may be called the patterns answering to them of the old. So the passing through the red Sea, and that staying vnder the Cloud were shadowes, and signes of washing from sins, and a shadowing forth of the heauenly power of the spirit. But in respect of vs, they were types of our Baptisme: and in like manner our baptisme a patterne of them; Wherupon the Apostle 1. Cor. 10 2. saith the Fathers were Baptized in the Cloud, and in the sea vnto Moses, that is, not into the name of Moses, but Mo∣ses being their guid.

2. So the M••nna from heauen, and water flowing out of the rock were in steede of the Supper, and signified the spirituall food of Christ, and the meate & drink to nourish our soules spiritually vnto eternall life, and to the beleeuers did truely offer it by faith to bee receiued spiritually. Whereupon the Apostle. 1. Cor. 10.3. calleth Manna (considering it as a Sacrament) spirituall meate, that is saith Augustin, meate signifying some spirituall thing, to wit, Christ in his time to be exhibited,* 1.8 but euen then present and effectuall to the godly, who did by faith lay hold on him, who was to come. And verse. 4. in the same respect, he calleth the stone, or rock wher∣out the Riuer which followed the Israelits, or went with them, the spirituall drinke, & Sacramentally, or by a Metonymie, Christ: For they dranke, saith he of that spirituall rock that followed, & that rock was Christ: Now our Supper is the patterne or resemblance of that Manna, and that water.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Heb. 9.18
• b 1.2

  Gen. 7.6
• c 1.3

  Exod. 14.22
• d 1.4

  Exod. 13 22
• e 1.5

  Exod. 16.14.15 Ioh. 6.31
• f 1.6

  Exod. 17, 6
• g 1.7

  1 Pet. 3, 21
• * 1.8

  In Psal. 77