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prayer_n	let_v	pray_v	sick_a	2,056	5	9.3427	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12589	A godly and shorte treatise of the sacraments. vvritten by Robert Some..	Some, Robert, 1542-1609.	1582 (1582)	STC 22906; ESTC S1136	31,309	100

Rome translateth it therefore Matrunonie is a Sacrament Answeare If by this word Mistery we vnderstād a Sacramēt 2. Thes chap. 2. ver 7. Ephe chap. 5. ver 32. iniquity shal be a Sacramēt for the Apostle makes mentiō of the Mystery of iniquitie Besides this Mystery pertayneth not to the carnall mariage of man and wife but to the spirituall mariage of Christ and the Church S. Paules wordes doe warrant this this is saith he a great secret but I speake concerning Christ and the Church Obiection for Matrimonie Mariage is a signe of a holy thing therefore it is a Sacrament Answere The argument folowes not for if to bee a signe of a holie thing bee sufficient to make a Sacrament I confesse mariage is a Sacrament because it resembles the coniunction of Christe and his Churche but by this meanes we are like to haue more then seuen sacramentes for then Christes washing of his disciples feete his imbracing of young children in his arme and almost all his actions because they are signes of holy thinges must goe for Sacramentes Obiection for extreeme vnction Is any man sicke among you let him call for the Elders of the Church Iam. chap. 5. verse 14.15 and let thē pray for him anoint him with oyle in the name of the Lorde and the prayer of fayth shall saue the sicke and the Lord shall raise him vp c. The Apostle setteth downe a commaundement in these wordes let him call for the Elders of the Church and the element in these words anoint him with oyle and a promise aunexed to the element in these wordes and the Lord shall rayse him vp therefore extreeme vnction is a Sacrament Answere I graunt there is a comaundement an element and a promise but because that commaundement is not giuen to vs nor that promise belongs to vs annointing with oyle which was vsed in the Primitiue Church must not in that case be vsed of vs and therefore neyther is nor must bee accounted a Sacrament for vs. Circumcision had the worde of institution and a sensible outward element but because che commaundement and promise was giuen to the Israelites and not to vs it was a Sacrament to them but is not so to vs. Secondly the Apostle Iames speaketh of an extraordinary gift of healing by anoynting with oyle as the Euangelist Marke reporteth Mark chap. 6. verse 13. whiche extraordinarie gift of healing being ceased many yeeres past what extreeme folly is it to retayne annoynting with oyle which was a signe of that gift Thirdly the annointing with oyle vsed in the Primitiue Churche is very vnlike the extreme vnctiō of the Popish Church Saint Iames woulde haue all sicke folkes to be anointed his woordes are playne is any sicke c. The Papistes do anoynt them onely which are at deathes dore Saint Iames promiseth recouerie of health to the sicke which were anointed in the Prinitiue Church which promise was accordingly perfourmed his woordes are manifest and the Lorde shall rayse him vp the Papists may promise recouerie to them whō they anoint but they are not in case to performe it for they haue not the gift of healing If they woulde answere they haue it they might bee iustly conuinced of great both vanitie and crueltie vanitie for vaunting of that which all the worlde sees they haue not crueltie for not curing those sicke men and women whom they see to die presently after their anointing Lastly the anointing in S. Iames time and curing of the sick extraordinarily by that meanes and godly praiers did make greatly for the confirmatiō and increase of religion at the first planting of the Gospell Acts. chap. 5. vers 15. Act. chap. 19 verse 12. as Peters shadowe and Paules Napkinnes did The extreme vnction of the Papistes neyther cures sicke men nor increases religion but nourishes superstition and prooues gaynefull to the popish priestes 3 It is not in any mās power to make a Sacrament The Israelites had two Sacraments Gene. cha 17 vers 10.11 Exod. cha 12 verse 3. Mat. cha 21 verse 25. Circumcision and the passeouer God himself was the authour of them both Christ asking the Pharises whether Iohns Baptisme were from heauen doeth giue vs very clearely to vnderstande that it was not to be allowed for a sacrament vnles it had bin commanded of almightie God The Apostle remembring that by one spirite we are all baptised into one body 1. Cor. cha 12 verse 13. doth manifestly teach vs that the Sacramentes are not the worke of any man but of the spirit of God Saint Paule doth not take vpon him to institute the Lordes Supper in the Church of Corinthe 1. Cor. cha 11 verse 23. but for the reformation of such abuses as had crept into that holy Sacrament deliuers that to them which he receiued of the Lorde The name of the Lordes Supper doeth teach vs that Iesus Christe was the authour of it A Sacrament can neuer be without promise of saluation all men of the worlde can not of them selues promise any thing to vs of our saluation Therfore they neither can nor ought of them selues to institute or erect any Sacrament 4 Whether the sacraments of the old and newe Testamēt are all one and how they differ Circumcision was to the Israelites a Sacrament of regeneration Baptisme is so to vs. By Circumcision the Israelites were incorporated into gods visible Church so are we by Baptisme Circumcision was to them a signe of Gods couenant so is Baptisme to vs. The Paschall Lambe was to the Israelites a sacrament of that immaculate Lambe Christe Iesus by whose blood their redemption shoulde bée wrought the bread and wine in the Lords Supper is a Sacrament to vs of Christes body and blood which is giuen and shed for vs. The Israelites did eate the same spirituall meate whiche wee doe 1. Cor. chap. 10. verse 2. because there was one and the selfe same substance of their Sacraments and ours that is to say the partaking of Iesus Christ vnto life euerlasting The Sacramentes of the Israelites touching the external signes do differ from ours but theirs ours are a like if we consider the thinges signified by them For in their Sacramentes was expressed the death of Christ which was then to come in ours is expressed the death of Christ already past The new Sacraments instituted of Christ are plainer and clearer then the Sacramentes vnder the Lawe as the Gospell is playner and clearer then the Lawe but the thinges signified in and by their sacramentes and ours are not contayned more in our Sacramentes then in theirs 5 The Sacramentes must not bee administred at all aduenture to euerie one The Passeouer was one of the Sacraments amongest the Israelites Exod chap. 12. vers 48. It was not lawefull for any that was vncircumcised to eate of it It is not lawfull to giue the precious treasure of Gods worde to them which do contemne it Mat. chap. 7. verse