through Christ, and that Christ has been given to us as righteousness, sanctification, and life. By this knowledge, I say, not by submission of our feeling, do we obtain entry into the Kingdom of Heaven.1 For Calvin, faith did not consist in a “pious ignorance,” or in an “ignorance tempered by humility,” or in a “submission of our feeling[s].” Faith, for Calvin, consisted in knowledge—a personal knowledge of God, of Christ, and of the Word.2 Almost 100 years later, Samuel Rutherford, the prominent