_T. H._ Of the sacraments I said no more, than that they are _signs_ or _commemorations_. He finds fault that I add not _seals_, _confirmations_, and that they _confer grace_. First, I would have asked him, if a seal be any thing else besides a sign, whereby to remember somewhat, as that we have promised, accepted, acknowledged, given, undertaken somewhat. Are not other _signs_, though without a _seal_, of force sufficient to convince me or oblige me? A writing obligatory, or release, signed only with a man’s name, is as obligatory as a bond signed and sealed, if it be sufficiently proved, though peradventure it may require a longer process to obtain a sentence; but his Lordship I think knew better than I do the force of bonds and bills; yet I know this, that in the court of heaven there is no such difference between saying, signing, and sealing, as his Lordship seemeth here to pretend. I am baptized for a commemoration that I have enrolled myself. I take the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper to commemorate that Christ’s body was broken, and his blood shed for my redemption. What is there more intimated concerning the nature of these sacraments, either in the Scripture or in the book of Common Prayer? Have bread and wine and water in their own nature, any other quality than they had before the consecration? It is true that the consecration gives these bodies a new relation, as being a giving and dedicating of them to God, that is to say a making of them holy, not a changing of their quality. But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of _command_ and _counsel_, as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations. What Englishman, when he commandeth, says more than, _Do this_; yet he looks to be obeyed, if obedience be due unto him. But when he says, _Do this, and thou shalt have such or such a reward_, he encourages him, or advises him, or bargains with him; but commands him not. Oh, the understanding of a Schoolman!