contrary vnto the mynde of paul / set vp ceremonies in the new testamente / partely borowynge them of Moses and partely imageninge like / as ye now se / and called them sacramentes: that is to saye / sygnes (as yt ys playne in the storyes) the sacrament of holy water / of holy fyre / holy bred / holy salt and so forth. And they gaue them significacions. As holy water signifyed the sprinclinge of christes bloude for our redempcyon. Which sacrament or sygne (though yt seme superfluous / in as moch as the sacrament of christes body and bloud signifieth the same dayly) yet as longe as the significacion bode / it hurted not. And the kyssynge of the pax was sett vpp to signifie / that the peace of christ shuld be euer amonge vs one to loue an other after hys ensample as the word yt selfe well declareth. For pax ys as moch to saye as peace.

And as for confirmacion / it is no doute / but that it came this wise vp and that thys was the vse / which the word it selfe well declareth. We reade in the stories / that they wich were conuerted vnto the faith of the age of discrecion / were ful taught in the law of god (as right is) and in the fayth of oure sauiour Iesus / yer they were baptised / and vppon the profession or promisinge to kepe that law and fayth / were baptised. And then for the socure and helpe of younge childern / baptised before the age of discrecion / to know the law of god and faith of christe / was confirmacion institute that they shuld not be all waye ignoraunt and faithlesse / but be taught the professyon of theyr baptim. And thys / no doute / was the maner / as we maye wel gather by probable coniectures and euident tokens. When the childern were of