Rom. iv, 11. Acts x, 2, 4, 22, 31, 45, 47, o Acts. ix, 13, 23.

VI.

The efficacy of Baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered, p yet notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not only of fered, but really exhibited and conferred by the holy Ghost to such (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will in his appointed time. 4

John iii, 5, 8. 9 Gal. iii, 27. Tit. iii, 5, Eph. v, 25, 26. Acts ii, 38, 41.

VII.

Baptism is but once to be administered to any person. r

Titus iii, 5.

CHAP. XXX.

Of the Lord's Supper.

UR Lord Jesus in the night wherein he

was betrayed, instituted the Sacrament of his body and blood called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in his Churches to the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and shewing forth of the sacrifice of himself in his death, the sealing of all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in and to all duties which they owe unto him, and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him and with each other. a

a I Cor. xi, 23, 24, 25, 26, and x, 16, 17, 21, and xii, 13.

II.

In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, ó but only a memorial of that one offering up of himself upon the Cross, once for all, and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same, c so that the Popish sacrifice of the Mass (as they call it) is most abominably inju rious to Christ's own only sacrifice, the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect. d

c I Cor. xi, 24, 25,

d Heb. vii, 23, 24, 27,

6 H b. ix, 22, 25, 26, 28. 26. Mat. xxvi, 26, 27. and x, 11, 12, 14, 18.

III.

The Lord Jesus hath in this ordinance ap pointed his ministers to declare his word of institution to the people, to pray and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to an holy use, and to take and break the bread, to take the cup, and (they communicating also themselves) to give both to the Communicants, d but to none who are not then present in the congregation. f

e Mat. xxvi, 26, 27, 28. Mark xiv, 22, 23, 24. Luke xxii, 19, 20. I Cor. xi, 23, to 26. ƒ Acts xx, 7. 1 Cor. xi, 20.

IV.

Private Masses, or receiving the Sacrament by a Priest, or any other alone, g as likewise the denial of the cup to the people, h worshipping the elements, the lifting them up or carrying them about for adoration, and reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ. i

g1 Cor. x, 6. h Mark xiv, 23. I Cor.si, 25, to 30. i Mat. xv, 9.

V.

The outward elements in this Sacrament du

ly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly yet sacramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ: kalbeit in substance and nature they still remain truly and only bread and wine as they were before. /

k Mat. xxvi, 26, 27, 28. I Cor. xi, 26, 27, 28. Mat. xxvi, 29.

VI.

That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called transubstantiation) by consecration of a Priest, or by any other way, is repugnant not to the scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason, overthroweth the nature of the sacrament and hath been, and is the cause of manifold superstitions, yea of gross idolatries. m

m Acts iii, 21. I Cor. xi, 24, 25, 26. Luke xxiv, 6, 39.

VII.

Worthy receivers outwardly partaking of the visible elements inthis sacrament n do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death; the body and blood of Christ being

then not corporally or carnally, in, with, or under the bread and wine, yet as really, but spir itually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses. o

n I Cor. xi, 28. 。 I Cor. x 16.

VIII.

All ignorant and ungodly persons as they are unfit to enjoy communion with Christ, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot without great sin against him whilst they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries, f or be admitted thereunto; q yea, whosoever shall receive unworthily, are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, eating and drinking judgment to themselves, r

I Cor. xi, 27, 28, 29. II Cor. vi, 14, 15, 16, I Cor. v, 6, 7, 13. II Thess. iii, 6, 14, 15% Mat. vii, 6. r I Cor. xi, 27, 29.