68. Hear how they are witnesses: The
Spirit renews the mind, the water is serviceable for the laver, and the
blood refers to the price. For the Spirit made us children by
adoption, the water of the sacred Font washed us, the blood of the Lord
redeemed us. So we obtain one invisible and one visible testimony
in a spiritual sacrament, for “the Spirit Himself beareth witness
to our spirit.” Rom. viii. 16. Though the
fulness of the sacrament be in each, yet there is a distinction of
office; so where there is distinction of office, there certainly is not
equality of witness.