sacraments of the Church,30 that is to say on those ceremonies specifically ordained by Christ.31 Certainly he then limits his discussion to baptism and the Lord’s Supper, concluding that these two ceremonies alone are properly termed sacraments (though see further discussion of this in subsequent chapters of this book).32 But none of this gainsays the essentially dynamic definition of sacramentality with which Calvin begins his discussion. To summarise, what we have then, at the root of both
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