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sacraments

n. (plural of sacrament English)

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First of all, from desire of receiving the sacrament itself, and thus are said to be baptized, and to eat spiritually, and not sacramentally, they who desire to receive these sacraments since they have been instituted.

Since, therefore, the justification of the ungodly is effected by the power that Christ has in the sacraments, it seems that He could not communicate that power to ministers.

For, as God, He works in the sacraments by authority: but, as man, His operation conduces to the inward sacramental effects meritoriously and efficiently, but instrumentally.

It cannot be said that the sacraments of the Old Law conferred sanctifying grace of themselves, i.

What is common to all the sacraments is attributed antonomastically to this one on account of its excellence.

Further, every consecration employed in the sacraments is ordained to the bestowal of grace.

Wherefore those sacraments by which a man is perfected in himself, are placed before the sacrament of order, in which a man is made a perfecter of others.

Further, sacraments of the New Law, as having matter, are perfected by the use of the matter, as Baptism is by ablution, and Confirmation by signing with chrism.

Therefore in the state of innocence man needed no sacraments, whether as remedies against sin or as means of perfecting the soul.

But, in a sacrament, grace has a passing and incomplete mode of being: and consequently it is not unfitting to say that the sacraments contain grace.

Consequently, it is thus that Christ works in the sacraments, both by wicked men as lifeless instruments, and by good men as living instruments.

As to the priests of the New Law, they may be called mediators of God and men, inasmuch as they are the ministers of the true Mediator by administering, in His stead, the saving sacraments to men.

Nevertheless in the Old Law, certain words were used in things pertaining to the worship of God, both by the priests, who were the ministers of those sacraments, according to Num.

And therefore whoever hears their mass or receives the sacraments from them, commits sin.

But the fathers of the Old Testament in their day served unto these sacraments, according to Heb.