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27.2

Of the Sacraments

There is in every sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified: whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects …

27.3

Of the Sacraments

The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments rightly used, is not conferred by any power in them; neither doth the efficacy …

27.1

Of the Sacraments

Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, …

27.4

Of the Sacraments

There are only two sacraments ordained by Christ our Lord in the Gospel; that is to say, Baptism and …

27.5

Of the Sacraments

The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard to the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, …

28.1

Of Baptism

Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church; but also, …

29.4

Of the Lord’s Supper

Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest or any other alone; as likewise, the denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the elements, the lifting …

29.5

Of the Lord’s Supper

The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to Him crucified, as that, truly, yet sacramentally only, they …

7.6

Of God’s Covenant with Man

… covenant is dispensed are the preaching of the Word, and the administration of the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper: which, though fewer in number, and administered with …

14.1

Of Saving Faith

… the ministry of the Word: by which also, and by the administration of the sacraments, and prayer, it is increased and strengthened.

21.5

Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day

… grace in the heart; as also, the due administration and worthy receiving of the sacraments instituted by Christ; are all parts of the ordinary religious worship of God: beside …

23.3

Of the Civil Magistrate

The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven: yet he hath …

28.2

Of Baptism

The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, …

28.7

Of Baptism

The sacrament of Baptism is but once to be administered unto any person.

29.1

Of the Lord’s Supper

Our 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 Church, …

29.2

Of the Lord’s Supper

In this sacrament, Christ is not offered up to His Father; nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sins of the quick or dead; but …

29.6

Of the Lord’s Supper

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 …

29.7

Of the Lord’s Supper

Worthy receivers outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also, inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive …

29.8

Of the Lord’s Supper

Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament: yet they receive not the thing signified thereby, but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty …

30.4

Of Church Censures

For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper for a season; …