And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations:
Ver. 12. This is the token of the covenant, &c.] See here the antiquity of confirming men's faith, by outward signs, as by the two trees in Paradise: and here the word and sacrament go together. And as God, in Noah, made a covenant with his posterity also, and confirmed it with a sign, so doth he in Christ with the Church, and ratified it with the sacraments; besides, witnesses we have three in heaven, and three in earth, &c. 1Jn 5:7-8