SACRAMENTS, The, Sylvester Hassell Roman Catholicism has substituted the unscriptural term sacrament for the ordinances of the Christian religion; and, in utter defiance of the New Testament and of the true nature of vital godliness, has defined a sacrament to be an indispensable and efficacious means in the hands, however of popish priests or Bishops who may be the vilest sinners, of conveying Divine Grace and salvation. In the Sentences of Peter Lombard, about the middle of the twelfth century, Rome fixed the number of sacraments at seven, as follows: Baptism, confirmation, the Lord’s Supper, penance, extreme unction, ordination and marriage. Thus to the two beautiful emblematic ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, instituted by Christ, Rome has added three institutions of her own invention— confirmation, penance and extreme unction, and two other institutions—marriage and ordination—which, though of Divine appointment, are nowhere in the Scriptures called church ordinances.” (Hassell)