The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously…The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously…

6 But seeing there are two things wherewith they are wont to defend this their rightness, that is to say, the examples of the Apostles,¹ & custom of antiquity: As touching the first, the example of the Apostles set down, he proveth that it hath no similitude with their wrongful imitation.

6 But séeing there are two thinges wherewith they are wont to defende this their rightnesse, that is to say, the examples of the Apostles,¹ & custome of antiquitie: As touching the first, the example of the Apostles set downe, hee proueth that it hath no similitude with their wrongfull imitation.

1. 1Acts. 8.15 John. 7.37Acts. 8.15 Iohn. 7.37

7 He setteth out the same more plainly by the like example of Christ, & more briefly urgeth it: because beside the example ⟨p. 258⟩of the Apostles which they cite, they add not only oil,¹ but also name it with a Sacrilegious title, while they call it, The Oil of salvation. As the breathing of Christ upon his disciples was but for a time, for he did it but once: so also the manner of the Apostles laying on of hand, was but for a time,²