The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Major Reformed Confessions and Catechisms of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Yuzo Adhinarta

Author:Yuzo Adhinarta
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Pentecostalism, Catechisms, Doctrine
ISBN: 9781907713286
Publisher: Langham Monographs
Published: 2012-04-15T13:10:48+00:00

In the same way, the Reformed confessions also teach that God ordains the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper to preserve the church’s unity through the agency of the Holy Spirit. In CC37 Calvin maintains that the Lord’s Supper “exhorts us to embrace each other mutually by such a unity as that which binds among themselves and conjoins together the members of one same body.” Calvin then argues that there is no stronger reason to incite among believers a mutual love than when Christ “invites us not only by his example to give ourselves and to expose ourselves mutually one for the other, but inasmuch as he makes himself common to all, he makes us also all one in himself.”[573] Even though no reference to the Holy Spirit can be found in the aforementioned articles of Calvin’s catechism, it should be noted that underlying this teaching on the sacraments is Calvin’s firm conviction that “the sacraments profit not a whit without the power of the Holy Spirit.” Calvin states clearly in his Institutes that sacraments are “empty and trifling, apart from the action of the Spirit, but charged with great effect when the Spirit works within and manifests his power.”[574]

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