Sacramental Efficacy so Called

“IT is impossible to express the pestilence and fatal nature of it, and especially as it has prevailed over a great part of the world, to the great detriment of the Church for many ages past. Indeed, it is evidently diabolical; for, by promising justification without faith, it precipitates souls into destruction; in the nest place, by representing the sacrament as the cause of justification, it envelopes the minds of men, naturally too much inclined to the earth, in gross superstition, leading them to rest in the exhibition of a corporeal object rather than in God himself.”―John Calvin.