A Book for Boys and Girls or Temporal Things Spritualized. By J O H N.B U N Y A N. Licensed and entered according to order. L O N D O N, Printed for, and sold by, R. Tookey, at his Printing House in St. Christopher's Court, in Threadneedle Street, behind the Royal Exchange, 1701. First published thirteen years after John Bunyan's death.

XV.

UPON THE SACRAMENTS.

wo sacraments I do believe there be,
Baptism and the Supper of the Lord;
Both mysteries divine, which do to me,
By God's appointment, benefit afford.
But shall they be my God, or shall I have
Of them so foul and impious a thought,
To think that from the curse they can me save?
Bread, wine, nor water, me no ransom bought.[27]








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[27] What folly, nay, madness, for man to pretend to make
God of a little flour, or to rely for forgiveness of sin on a
wafer, a bit of bread, or a little wine or water. How
degraded is he that pretends to believe such palpable
absurdities.—Ed.