Institutes of Christian Religion is one of the masterpiece written by John Calvin. This book was written initially to provide a statement of faith regarding the reformed faith. In a few starting pages, this book provides a long prefatory from Calvin addressed to the King of France.
In the prefatory, Calvin declared that it was a very unjust and totally not at the right place all the calumnies from the Roman Catholic at that time that:
1. Reformed faith is novel and not sealed by the miracle fro God.
This statement is not right since reformed faith declared what the holy scripture has taught. Reformed faith drives the people to regain the true understanding of the teaching of the apostles which is of course already supported by the miracle when the apostle preached the gospel.
2. Reformed faith is not rooted from the tradition and against the teaching of the holy fathers of the church.
Calvin stated that actually the one who against the teaching of the holy father is these pious sons but sadly the wrong part they followed but the truth from the bible they corrupted, neglected, differed it; "since their belly is their god" Calvin said.
Even Calvin claimed that actually they who did the perversion of the teaching of the fathers.
Calvin mentioned some statements from the fathers that the Roman Catholic at that time failed to do and even worse they corrupted the teaching.
(for the other statement, better you read it by your self)
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