Like Luther, Calvin worked hard to hammer out a consistently biblical worldview. He wanted all of his life to be submitted to the rulership of Jesus Christ and yet he did not want to miss some grace or provision of God because of flawed theology or religious excess. He and Luther had seen too much of that in their pre-Protestant lives. “The use of gifts of God cannot be wrong, if they are directed to the same purpose for which the Creator himself has created and destined them,” he insisted.
