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…

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 wherein it pleased the Lord that the visible graces of the holy Ghost should be distributed at their prayers, not that they which came after, should pray like, and without the thing in deed, counterfeit an empty cold sign, as these apes do. As for their Oil,³ Paul hath taught to beware of such beggarly trash, & they that call it the oil of salvation, forswear the salvation which is in Christ, they deny Christ, and have no part of his kingdom. In the sacraments two things are to be looked for: the substance of the bodily thing which is set before us, and the form that is by the word of GOD printed in it, wherein lieth the whole strength in respect therefore that the bread, wine, & water, that are the sacraments offered to our sight, do keep their own substance, ⟨image 269⟩this saying of Paul is always true, Meat for the belly, and belly for the meat, ⁴GOD, shall destroy them both, for they pass and vanish away with the fashion of this world. But in respect that they are sanctified by the word of God that they may be Sacraments they do not hold us in the flesh, but do truly and spiritually teach us.

7 He setteth out the same more plainly by the like example of Christ, & more briefly vrgeth it: because beside the example ⟨p. 258⟩of the Apostles which they cite, they adde not only oile,