From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

The task that Calvin now set for himself was
sublime, but onerous. He would make it plain to all
that the, faith which was being branded as heresy,
and for professing which men were being burned
alive, was no cunningly devised system of man, but
the Old Gospel; and that so far from being an
enemy of kings, and a subverter of law and order,
which it was accused of being, it was the very salt
of society -- a bulwark to the throne and a
protection to law; and being drawn from the Bible,
it opened to man the gates of a moral purification
in this life, and of a perfect and endless felicity in
the next. This was what Calvin accomplished in his
Christianae Religionus Institutio.
Footnotes:
1. Sleidan, bk. 9, p. 179.
2. Bulletin de la Societe de la Histoire du
Protestantisme, Francois L, p. 828 --
D'Aubigne, vol. 3, p. 167.
3. Sismondi, Hist. des Francois, 16, p. 455.
4. "Ut in obscuro aliquo angulo abditus quiete
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