Excerpt from The Sacraments: A Series of Short Instructions By an outward sign ls meant some thing Which we can perce1ve by one or other of our senses, and which makes known to us something else which we do not perceive. Thus if we see footprints we know that someone has passed; or if we see smoke coming out of a chimney we are certain that there is a fire in the house. In like manner the pouring of water or the outward washing in baptism is a sign of the inward cleansing of the soul from original sin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.