Calvin believed the church can be edified only by “the preaching of the gospel which is inwardly replete with a kind of solid majesty.”27 Biblical preaching is that necessary and that noble. According to the Genevan Ordinances of 1542, which Calvin himself penned, the primary duty of pastors, elders, and ministers is to announce the Word of God for instruction, admonition, exhortation, and reproof,28 and no figure in church history exemplified that statement better than Calvin himself. He declared,