{"number":91,"title":"How do the Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation?","part":null,"questions":[91],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"How do the Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation?","answer":"The Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation, not from any vertue in them, or in him that doth administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by Faith receive them.","segments":[{"text":"The Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation, not from any vertue in them, or in him that doth administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by Faith receive them.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"What other special Ordinances hath God appointed as the means of Salvation, besides the Word?","answer":"The Sacraments and Prayer.","segments":[{"text":"The Sacraments and Prayer.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Whence is it that the Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation?","answer":"1. Negatively, not from any vertue in them, or in him that doth administer them.","segments":[{"text":"1. Negatively, not from any vertue in them, or in him that doth administer them.","proofs":["2 Kings 5:12","1 Corinthians 3:5–6","Acts 8:13, 20–21, 23","1 Corinthians 11:27"],"refs":[{"printed":"2 Kings 5:12","osis":["2Kgs.5.12"]},{"printed":"1 Corinthians 3:5–6","osis":["1Cor.3.5-1Cor.3.6"]},{"printed":"Acts 8:13, 20–21, 23","osis":["Acts.8.13","Acts.8.20-Acts.8.21","Acts.8.23"]},{"printed":"1 Corinthians 11:27","osis":["1Cor.11.27"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Do not the Sacraments work upon the Soul by their own nature, or by the work done and the bare receiving of them?","answer":"No.","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Doth not the efficacy of the Sacraments depend upon the goodness, or badness of him that doth administer them?","answer":"No.","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"How then do the Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation?","answer":"2. Positively, by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit.","segments":[{"text":"2. Positively, by the blessing of Christ,","proofs":["Matthew 18:20","28:20","1 Corinthians 3:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Matthew 18:20","osis":["Matt.18.20"]},{"printed":"28:20","osis":["Matt.28.20"]},{"printed":"1 Corinthians 3:7","osis":["1Cor.3.7"]}],"note":null},{"text":"and the working","proofs":["1 Corinthians 12:13"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 12:13","osis":["1Cor.12.13"]}],"note":null},{"text":"of his Spirit.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"In whom doth Christs blessing by the working of his Spirit make the Sacraments effectual to Salvation?","answer":"In them that by Faith receive them, Mark 16. 16.","segments":[{"text":"In them that by Faith receive them, Mark 16. 16.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}],"text":null}