Which Are the Sacraments of the New Testament?

Answ. The sacraments of the New Testament are, baptism, and the Lord’s supper.

Q. How do these differ from the sacraments of the Old Testament? A. The sacraments of the Old Testament more darkly represented Christ as to come ‘, but those of the New clearly represent him as already come.

Q. Do baptism, and the Lord’s supper, succeed in ths place of circumcision and the passover?

A. Yes *, baptism is come in place of circumcision, and the Lord’s supper in place of the passover.

O. Are there no more sacraments under the New Testament, than baptism and the Lord’s supper?

A. No more of divine institution: but the Papists have added five bastard sacraments, viz. marriage, ordination, confirmation, penance, and extreme unction.

p. What is the Popish confirmation?

A. The pretending to confer the Holy Ghost on such as have been baptized, when they come to the years of discretion, by the laying on of the bishop’s hands.

O. What is their penance? A. Their confessing

of their sins to the priest, and receiving a pardon from him. on condition of suffering some punishment for sin.

Q. What is their extreme unction?

A. The anointing dying persons with oil, to confer the Holy Ghost on them, and make- them fit for heaven.

Q. How prove you that marriage and ordination., though of divine institution forolher ends, are-no sacraments?

A.. Neither of them are appointed by God for seals of his covenant, nor signify the spiritual benefits of it: marriage is common to all men, and ordination is confined to a small part of professed saints.

Q. How prove you that confirmation, penance, and extreme unction, are no sacraments? A. None of

them, as used by Papists, have any warrant in scripture.

(1 In what do baptism and the Lord’s supper agree?

A. God is the Author, and Christ the matter of both •, equal preparation is necessary for both 5 both -ought .to be

publicly and solemnly dispensed by gospel ministers only both are seals of the same covenant, and both contain engagements to the same duties.

O. Why ought baptism and the Lord’s supper to be publicly administered? A. Because they are public

badges of the members of the visible church, and of our communion with Christ, and with ere another,

Q. Wherein lieth the evil of the prevailing practice of private baptism?

A. It clandestinely obtrudes members into the visible church, occasions the contempt and irreverent administration of baptism, separates the ordinance of teaching from it, confirms the ignorant in the Popish doctrine of its absolute necessity, robs Christians of a solemn opportunity to renew their vows, and deprives the parent and child of the benefit of the joint prayers of the Lord’s people, and is a breach of our national vows.

Q. How is equal preparation necessary for both sacraments, when children” in Baptism cannot be required to examine themselves? A. In baptism the parent and child are considered as one; and though the trial and actual exercise of grace, are not required in the child, they are as necessary to the parent, as in the Lord’s supper.

Q. If baptism be so solemn, is it not very sinful in professors to attend carefully on sermons, or the Lord’s supper, and carelessly go off when baptism is administered, as if it were less solemn r* A. Yes, Mai. ii. 9.

Qj In what do baptism and the Lord’s supper differ?

A. Baptism seals an entrance in o the church and covenant of grace, is administered but once, and to infants as well as others; but the Lord’s -upper is a seal of spiritual nourishment, is to be frequently received, and by such only as can examine them selves.

Qj How long are baptism and the Lord’s supper to ccn-^ tinue in the church? A. Till Christ’s second coming,