Quotes from Calvin that the Members of the "New Calvinism" Movement Won't Like

Here comes quote #2 from Calvin's Institutes. Lest readers think I am including these quotes to be spiteful, let me assure them I am not - I deeply respect most of the people involved in the New Calvinism movement.

What I am trying to do, however, is create an awareness of what real Calvinism is actually like - I am giving every one small portions of Calvin so that they will realize that the theology of John Calvin is not limited to five points. Those are only the starting points.

"Our souls are fed by the flesh and blood of Christ in the same way that bread and wine keep and sustain physical life... even though it seems unbelievable that Christ's flesh, separated from us by such great distance, penetrates to us, so that it becomes our food, let us remember how far the secret power of the Holy Spirit towers above all our senses, and how foolish it is to wish to measure his immeasurableness by our measure. What, then, our mind does not comprehend, let faith conceive: that the Spirit truly unites things separated in space.

Now, that partaking of his flesh and blood, by which Christ pours his life into us, as if it penetrated into our bones and marrow, he also testifies and seals in the Supper - not by presenting a vain and empty sign, but by manifesting there the effectiveness of his Spirit to fulfill what he promises. And truly he offers and shows the reality there signified to all who sit at that spiritual banquet, although it is received with benefit by believers alone, who accept such great generosity with true faith and gratefulness of heart." [IV. XVII. 10.]