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John Calvin’s Definition of Sacrament (February 16, 2015)
John Calvin provides the following definition of sacrament in the Institutes of the Christian Religion (IV.xiv.1-2) using the vernacular of "sign and seal" that is a staple of conservative Reformed sacramentology, and appears in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the other Reformed confessions.
Calvin's definition is ecumenical, as he desires the unity between the […]