Nothing could be more fair and above-board.
There was an inchoate plan for a new Order.

That failed; and Knox, with others, consulted Calvin, giving him a sketch of the nature of the English service.

They drew his attention to the surplice; the Litany, "devised by Pope Gregory," whereby "we use a certain conjuring of God"; the kneeling at the Communion; the use of the cross in baptism, and of the ring in marriage, clearly a thing of human, if not of diabolical invention, and the "imposition of hands" in confirmation.

The churching of women, they said, is both Pagan and Jewish.

"Other things not so much shame itself as a certain kind of pity compelleth us to keep close." "The tone of the letter throughout was expressly calculated to prejudice Calvin on the point submitted to him," says Professor Hume Brown.