"We must therefore take care that, if we depart from the opinions of those who went before us, we do not do so because excited by the itch after novelty, nor driven by fondness for deriding others, nor goaded by animosity, nor tickled by ambition, but only because compelled by pure necessity and with no other aim than to be of service."
-- John Calvin from a dedicatory epistle to Simon Grynaeus, 8 October 1539 quoted in B. A. Gerrish, The Old Protestantism and the New, 48.