History of the Ancient Christians Inhabiting the Valleys of the Alps (1847)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RECOMMENDATORY LETTER. . Christ?the fall of our race in and by the first sin of Adam?the entire depravity of human nature?the vicarious nature of the atonement?the sovereign, unconditional election of all who are saved, before the foundation of the world ?justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ?the necessity of regeneration and continued sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit?the perseverance of the saints?and the endless punishment of the finally impenitent, In regard to all these points they adopted what we are accustomed, in later times, to denominate Calvinism, with scarcely a single deviation. But that which attracted most attention in their day, and created most enmity against them in the dominant Church, was their adoption and publication of the following opinions and practices bearing on the system of Romanism. They renounced the Church of Rome as mystical Babylon, abhorred the Pope as the "Man of Sin," and rejected all the traditions of the Papacy as ofvno authority among Christians. They held that there were only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper; that the other five, so named by the Romanists, have no just title to be called sacraments; and that of the five, three, viz. confirmation, penance, and extreme unction, have no foundation whatever in the word of God. That all God-fathers, and God-mothers, in the baptism of infants, are to be rejected, excepting the parents, who alone ought to present their children, if they are living, and of a suitable character. But that if the parents are dead, or destitute of Christian character, then the children ought to be presented by any who are willing to become responsible for their Christian education. That fasts and festival days, and saints' days, have no authority in Scripture, and ought...

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