Views During The Time of the Reformation (59): Views on the Church: The Protestant View

We now continue with our quotation from the Second Helvetic Confession on the subject of the sacraments of the church of Christ. "And as in the old Church the sacraments consisted of the word, the sign and the thing signified; so even at this day they are composed, as it were of the same parts. For the Word of God makes them sacraments, which before were none: for they are consecrated by the Word, and declared to be sanctified by him who first ordained them. To sanctify or consecrate a thing...