No organised and armed faction existed to face the Congregation.

When the counter-Reformation set in, many Catholics endured fines and exile with constancy.
The theology of the Confession of Faith is, of course, Calvinistic.

No "works" are, technically, "good" which are not the work of the Spirit of our Lord, dwelling in our hearts by faith.

"Idolaters," and wicked people, not having that spirit, can do no good works.

The blasphemy that "men who live according to equity and justice shall be saved, what religion soever they have professed," is to be abhorred.