Views During The Time of the Reformation (57): Views on the Church: The Protestant View

We concluded our preceding article with a few quotations from the Canons and Dogmatic Decrees of the Council of Trent, even as these articles set forth the Roman Catholic position on the nature and significance of the sacraments. In these canons which we quoted it is evident that the Roman Catholic conception of the sacraments is that the sacraments contain the grace which they signify, that the grace of God is inseparably connected with the outward sign of the sacrament, and that such grace is...