...be studied at the University of Oxford (along with Bullinger's Catechism], he reserved his position. 'I reverence M. Calvin as a singular man and worthy instrument in Christ's church', Whitgift wrote, 'but I am not so wholly addicted unto him that I will condemn other men's judgements...

...Regarding a citation by Cartwright of Calvin to support an interpretation of scripture, Whitgift writes: I reverence M. Calvin as a singular man, and worthy...true meaning and sense of it in those points than he doth.42 Thus Whitgift is perfectly willing to oppose the authority of scripture rightly understood...

...that although he thought of Calvin as an authority, that authority was not unique or infallible. ' I reverence M. Calvin as a singular man, and worthy...addicted unto him, that I will contemn other men's judgements that in divers points agree not fully with him, especially in the interpretation of some...