There is in every Sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects of the one, are attributed to the other.
Changes from Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 27.2
There is in every Sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects of the one, are attributed to the other.
There is in every Sacrament a spiritual relation, or Sacramental union, between the Sign and the Thing signified: whence it comes to pass, that the Names, and effects of the one, are attributed to the other.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 27.2
There is in every Sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects of the one, are attributed to the other.
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