of the first order—to theological advance, it is quite true—and it is a truth deserving the strongest emphasis—that the system of doctrine which Calvin taught, and by his powerful commendation of which his greatest work for the world was wrought, was not peculiar to himself, was in no sense new,—was, in point of fact, just “the Gospel” common to him and all the Reformers, on the ground of which they spoke of themselves as “Evangelicals,” and by the recovery of which was wrought out the revolution