Views During The Time of the Reformation (42): Views on the Church: The Protestant View

The Protestant view of the Church is certainly expressed in that article of the Apostles' Creed which reads: "I believe an holy catholic church." Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian' Religion, writing on the "Church," and specifically setting forth the meaning of the article: "I believe an holy catholic church," writes as follows (Book IV, Chapter I, paragraph II, and we quote: "That article of the Creed, in which we profess to, believe THE CHURCH, refers not only to the visible Church...