FTP, identify this word that includes baptism, confession, the Eucharist, confirmation, holy orders, matrimony, and extreme unction.
It was originally a military oath taken by Roman soldiers not to desert their standard, turn back their enemy, or abandon their general. The early Christians used it to signify a "holy mystery" and applied it to any number of church practices. St. Augustine defined it as "the visible form of an invisible grace." Most Reformed and Protestant churches recognize only two of them while Roman Catholics have seven. FTP, identify this word that includes baptism, confession, the Eucharist, confirmation, holy orders, matrimony, and extreme unction.
It was originally a military oath taken by Roman soldiers not to desert their standard, turn back their enemy, or abandon their general.
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