The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments

by E. E. Holmes

[[4]] Article XXV.

[[5]] The answer is borrowed from Peter Lombard (a pupil of Abelard and Professor of Theology, and for a short time Bishop of Paris), who defines a Sacrament as a "visible sign of an invisible grace," probably himself borrowing the thought from St. Augustine.

[[6]] Dr. Illingworth calls "the material order another aspect of the spiritual, which is gradually revealing itself through material concealment, in the greater and lesser Christian Sacraments, which radiate from the Incarnation" ("Sermons Preached in a College Chapel," p. 173).

[[7]] God is _Spirit_, St. John iv. 24.

[[8]] The Word was made _Flesh_, St. John i. 14.