Calvin, being admitted as a preacher and divinity reader, saw how dangerous it was that the whole estate of the church should hang on so slender a thread as an ignorant multitude with the power to do whatever it wanted to do. Even though the other ministers were against it, Calvin and two other ministers persuaded the people to swear never again to admit the papacy among themselves and to live in obedience to an order of religion and ecclesiastical government established by true and faithful ministers of God’s word in accordance with Scripture.
