I. Christianity claims to be a way of life for men: whose nature and life involve two elements; which are usually distinguished as bodily and spiritual 408-409 The distinction of these two elements real; their union essential 409-411 It is to be inquired whether this complexity of man's nature is recognised and provided for in the Church of Christ 411 II. Grounds for anticipating that it would be so:-- (1) In the very fact of the Incarnation; and more particularly 411-413 (2) In the character of the preparatory system whose forecasts it met 413-414 (3) And in certain conspicuous features of Christ's ministry 414-415 The work of Sacraments to be linked with this anticipation 415 III. The prominence of the Sacramental principle in Christ's teaching: to be estimated with reference to the previous convictions of those whom He taught 415-416 There is thus found:-- (1) Abundant evidence that the general principle of Sacraments is accepted, to be a characteristic of Christianity 416-417 (2) The authoritative appointment of particular expressions for this general principle:-- Expressions foreshown in preparatory history: anticipated in preliminary discourses: appointed with great solemnity and emphasis 417-418 [These expressions such as may be seen to be intrinsically appropriate, ethically helpful and instructive, and safeguards against individualism.] 418-420 (3) An immediate recognition in the Apostolic Church of the force of this teaching, and of the necessary prominence of Sacraments 420-421 IV. The correspondence between the ministry of Sacraments and the complex nature of man appears in three ways: since:-- (1) The dignity and the spiritual capacity of the material order is thus vindicated and maintained: so that unreal and negative spirituality is precluded, and provision is made for the hallowing of stage after stage in a human life 422-426 (2) The claim of Christianity to penetrate the bodily life is kept in its due prominence by the very nature of Sacraments: the redemption of the body is foreshown; and perhaps begun 426-429