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ON THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL.
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the intention at least of doing what the Church does; let him be anathema.

Canon XII. If any one shall say, that a minister, being in deadly sin, proyided that he observe all the essentials which belong to the performance or conferring of the sacrarment, neither performs nor confers the sacrament; let him be anathema.

Canon xiii. If any one shall say, that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church, wont to be used in the solemn administration of the sacraments, may be condemned, or without sin omitted at pleasure by the ministers, or be changed by any pastor of the churches into other new ones; let him be anathema.

TOUCHING BAPTISM

Canon I. If any one shall say, that the baptism of John had the same force with the baptism of Christ; let him be anathema.

Canon ii. If any one shall say, that true and natural water is not of necessity for baptism, and, on that account, wrests to some sort of metaphor those words of our Lord Jesus Christ; Except a man he horn again of water and the Holy Ghost;[1] Let him be anathema.

Canon iii. If any one shall say, that in the Romish church, which is the mother and mistress of all churches, there is not the true doctrine concerning the sacrament of baptism; let him be anathema.

Canon iv. If any one shall say, that the baptism which is also given by heretics in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, with the intention of doing what the Church doth, is not true baptism; let him be anathema.

Canon v. If any one shall say, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation; let him be anathema.

Canon vi. If any one shall say, that one who has been baptized cannot, even if he wish, lose grace, let him sin ever so much, unless he will not believe; let him be anathema.

Canon vii. If any one shall say, that the baptized are, by A baptism itself, made debtors but to faith only, and not to the observance of the whole law of Christ; let him be anathema.

  1. John iii 5.