necessity are requisite to the same.

"14. The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardon, worshipping
and adoration as well of images as of relics, and also invocation
of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no
warrant of Scripture, but repugnant to the word of God.

"15. It is a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God, and the
custom of the primitive church, to have public prayer in the
church, or to minister the sacraments, in a tongue not understood
by the people.

"16. Sacraments ordained of Christ are not only badges or tokens
of Christian men's profession, but rather they are certain signs
of grace, and God's good-will towards us, by the which he doth
work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also
strengthen and confirm, our faith in him.

"There are two sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord to the
gospel; that is to say, baptism and the supper of the Lord.

"Those five commonly called _sacraments_--that is to say,
confirmation, penance, orders, matrimony, and extreme unction--are
not to be counted for sacraments of the gospel, being such as have
partly grown out of the _corrupt_ following of the apostles, and
partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures, but yet have
not the like nature of baptism and the Lord's supper, because they
have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

"The sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or
to be carried about, but that we should duly use them. And in such
only as worthily receive the same, they have a wholesome effect or
operation; but they that receive them unworthily, purchase to
themselves condemnation, as St. Paul saith. (1 Cor. 11:29.)

"17. Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of
difference, whereby Christians are distinguished from others that
are not baptized, but it is also a sign of regeneration, or the
new birth. The baptism of young children is to be retained in the
church.

"18. The supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that
Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but
rather is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death;
insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith,
receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the
body of Christ, and likewise the cup of b