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CJ:h~order of the caufes Gods ordinance , a cmaine fignificatiano~A . grace,and feeling rherof•greeth to the figne. The·thing ofthe Sacrament, iseither Chrifi 3nd his graces which concerne our faluation, or the atlion conuerfanr about Chrill. · .I fay fitfi Chrifl, and then his grace, be– ~aufe no man receiued ~race from ChrlA:, Yl1· lcif<.h< • dy ani. ' re>pe . he hat Th· either · The, or the the f•\ The defircJ in thC:: ThL dewr."1 ' Tll· accon of the the rh m:dvr caufe porri nail,: onso that · incur cerea Chri tbh~· T i tal re fpee• ,whe1. anot I. Ioh. dow ifucj jlejh Co' !.C. one , I u~r the ,g for 1 git: nll Tej. uti. L the figne is attributed. to -thc.thin~ fignified. DtLlt.I o. t 6, Circ:1mci{t theforesl:i_lffle ofJOHr heorts loh.'·SJ• Yni•J!iyu•tethe flrjhof the Sonnt •f man, •nddrin~e hi< ilood,yeJh•/1 h••• m/l{titt)OII. The end why a Sacrament was ordained. is, x.for the better confirmationOf en faith: for by ir,as bycertait\e pledgos giuen,God of his great mercy, doth as it wtre, binde him felfe vnto vs.Now a Sacrament doth confi1 me our faith,uot by any inherent or J'I"P<t po– wer it r.ath in ic fclfe,as hach .:t foueraiRnt: me– dicine receiu..:d bya patient.· the wblch, whe- '. •' God oft~r the whole S:1cramenr VN O them, ~---· . ----n--r yet rhcy recciue the fignes alone without the rhings figni fiedby rhc ligns:bec~mfe th.efigne \ without the right vf~ thereof, is not aSa era~ ment ro the receiuerofit So Pm~t faith,Ro'm. l.l5-CircMmcijiOVO>'iry Mprofitable if thou f<!rp the

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