works performed with faith must themselves be justified before they are truly acceptable; never are they meritorious. Nonetheless, Calvin’s refusal to bend the straightforward meaning of “goodness” like a wax nose is a signal that the antirealist charge was more worrisome to him than it was to Luther. The way in which Calvin’s simul speaks to the antirealist complaint is that it pictures a temporal sanctification being worked out within a justification that is complete and unassailable coram Deo.