il, Dionysius, and
other Catholic fathers, do we call figures, signs, marks or badges,
prints, copies, forms, seals, signets, similitudes, patterns,
representations, remembrances and memories. And we make no doubt,
together with the same doctors, to say, that these be certain visible
words, seals of righteousness, tokens of grace: and do expressly
pronounce, that in the Lord's Supper there is truly given unto the
believing the body and blood of the Lord, the flesh of the Son of God,
which quickeneth our souls, the meat that cometh from above, the food of
immortality, grace, truth, and life, and the Supper to be the communion
of the body and blood of Christ; by the partaking whereof we be revived,
we be strengthened, and be fed unto immortality; and whereby we are
joined, united, and incorporate unto Christ, that we may abide in Him,
and He in us.

Besides, we acknowledge there be two Sacraments, which, we judge,
properly ought to be called by this name; that is to say, Baptism and the
Sacrament of thanksgiving. For thus many we say were delivered and
sanctified by Christ, and well allowed of the old fathers, Ambrose and
Augustine.

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We say that Baptism is a Sacrament of the remission of sins, and of that
washing, which we have in the blood of Christ; and that no person which
will profess Christ's Name ought to be restrained or kept back therefrom;
no, not the very babes of Christians; forsomuch as they be born in sin,
and do pertain unto the people of God.

We say, that Eucharistia, that is to say the Supper of the Lord, is a
Sacrament; that is to wit, an evident token of the body and blood of
Christ, wherein is set, as it were, before our eyes, the death of Christ
and His resurrection, and what act soever He did whilst He was in His
mortal body: to the end we may give Him thanks for His death, and for our
deliverance: and that, by the often receiving of this Sacrament, we may
daily renew the remembrance of that matter, to the intent we, being fed
with the [true] body and blood of Christ, may be brought into the hope of
the resurrection and of everlasting life, and may most assuredly believe
that the body and blood of Christ doth in like manner feed our souls, as
bread and wine doth feed our bodies. To this banquet we think the people
of God ought to be earnestly bidden, that they may all communicate among
themselves, and openly declare and testify both the godly society which
is among them, and also t