God and the treasures of his kindness and without whose light our mind is so blinded that it can see nothing, so dull that it can sense nothing of spiritual things” (Inst. IV.14.8). The third idea that is fundamental to Calvin’s understanding of the sacraments is that they find their meaning in Christ. For “Christ is the matter [materiam] or (if you prefer) the substance [substantiam] of all the sacraments; for in him they have all their firmness [soliditatem], and they do not promise anything apart
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