There was not a reformer in Europe so resolute as Calvin to exorcise, tear out, and destroy what was seen to be false so resolute to establish what was true in its place, and to make truth, to the last fibre of it, the rule of practical life.
— Froude
Froude
No reformer in Europe matched Calvins resolve to destroy false doctrine and establish truth as the rule of life.
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