Bush says listen to John Calvin not the Pope

SolaGratia · #1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 06:28 PM

Not Really! But here is John Calvin on the Pope. "SOLI DEO GLORIA"

BOOK IV CHAPTER 18 SECTION 1
THE ROMANIST DOCTRINE
By these and similar inventions, Satan has attempted to adulterate and
envelop the sacred Supper of Christ as with thick darkness, that its
purity might not be preserved in the Church. But the head of this horrid
abomination was, when he raised a sign by which it was not only obscured
and perverted, but altogether obliterated and abolished, vanished away
and disappeared from the memory of man; namely, when, with most
pestilential error, he blinded almost the whole world into the belief
that the Mass was a sacrifice and oblation for obtaining the remission
of sins. I say nothing as to the way in which the sounder schoolmen at
first received this dogma. I leave them with their puzzling subtleties
which, however they may be defended by cavilling, are to be repudiated
by all good men, because all they do is to envelop the brightness of the
Supper in great darkness. Bidding adieu to them, therefore, let my
readers understand that I am here combating that opinion with which the
Roman Antichrist and his prophets have imbued the whole world, viz.,
that the mass is a work by which the priest who offers Christ, and the
others who in the oblation receive him, gain merit with God, or that it
is an expiatory victim by which they regain the favour of God. And this
is not merely the common opinion of the vulgar, but the very act has
been so arranged as to be a kind of propitiation, by which satisfaction
is made to God for the living and the dead. This is also expressed by
the words employed, and the same thing may be inferred from daily
practice. I am aware how deeply this plague has struck its roots; under
what a semblance of good it conceals its true character, bearing the
name of Christ before it, and making many believe that under the single
name of Mass is comprehended the whole sum of faith. _But when it shall
have been most clearly proved by the word of God, that this mass,
however glossed and splendid, offers the greatest insult to Christ,
suppresses and buries his cross, consigns his death to oblivion, takes
away the benefit which it was designed to convey, enervates and
dissipates the sacrament, by which the remembrance of his death was
retained, will its roots be so deep that this most powerful axe, the
word of God, will not cut it down and destroy it?_ Will any semblance be
so specious that this light will not expose the lurking evil?

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