_f_. The assigning of regeneration and remission of sins to _outward_ baptism gives immediate occasion to many other errors: but to one in particular, of a very lamentable character. I mean the deplorable, and all but hopeless condition of those, who sin away their regeneration, and their plenary remission received in baptism; as innumerable multitudes are held to do. “The great majority,” say the Anglo-catholics, “die under the bond of their sins;” yet so far “under GOD’S favour,” that if they pray, and fast, and give alms, and confess, mourn, and judge, humble, afflict, and abhor themselves, they may peradventure obtain pardon somewhere, plenary pardon; though it cannot be granted them any more in this life! {27a} And that somewhere, is Purgatory, plainly avowed! {27b} All this ministers strongly to the authority of a priesthood, in confessions, partial absolutions, and penances; {27c} but our Church (Art. 22) seems to us to say that it is plainly repugnant to the word of GOD: and so we believe. Certainly, therefore, the HOLY GHOST is not with _one_ portion of us in this matter. We know of no condition, except that of blaspheming against the HOLY GHOST, in which, “if we confess our sins, GOD is” not “faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness;” and, “if _any_ man sin, we have an advocate with the FATHER, JESUS CHRIST the righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins.” _g_. I shall not go over the same ground again, with reference to the sacrament of the holy Communion, as I have done with respect to Baptism, but state little more than that the way, in which the Anglo-catholics treat it, is precisely similar. Spiritual communion in the body and blood of CHRIST, which we hold that believers _always may enjoy by faith_ in the living _words of CHRIST_, the Anglo-catholics bind inseparably to the sign or sacrament thereof; namely to the bread and wine, and the sacred ceremonial. _Their_ body and blood of CHRIST is the bread and wine _made so_ by their priests, and given only by their means to the people. “The sacraments,” to the exclusion of other ordinances, “are (with them) the sources of divine grace.” {28a} One is the very and only womb of regeneration itself; the other the only breast that nurses the child of GOD with the very body and blood of CHRIST. These _forms_ their clergy can handle and talk about, and they reservedly hint at the work of the SPIRIT of GOD in them: howbeit of spiritual life and spiritual communion, as things distinct from them, and much more large, and of other times and places, and means also, they profess to believe nothing. They hold the SPIRIT of GOD mostly within their own sources; and the body and blood of CHRIST quite at their own disposal. {28b}