God's remnant (such as the Waldensians) always at the center of the history of redemption

“While writing the Seneca Commentary [Calvin's first book written prior to his conversion] Calvin lived in the house of a cloth merchant, Etienne de la Forge, a devout Waldensian from Piedmont. This man was an ardent reader of Luther and a fearless propagandist of Protestantism. He made a practice of distributing to the poor packages accompanied by tracts and passages of Scripture, and he kept open house for religious refugees from the Netherlands. Calvin must have observed these evidences of incautious zeal, for which de la Forge would later pay the penalty of death by fire. Who can say what influence Calvin’s host ultimately had upon his religious attitudes?”

From The History and Character of Calvinism by John T. McNeill

Where does the Received Text that underlies the Authorized King James Version come from? It comes from God's remnant who shepherded it and defended it through time and persecution and still today defend it. The Roman Beast Church lied about the Bible-believing Christians they massacred just as they lied about the Reformers. The Cathars, the Waldensians were all God's remnant. The Godly. Cathar and Puritan are synonyms. Calvin himself referred over and over to Protestants in his letters as 'the Godly'. This goes over the heads of the seminary boys who eat Jesuit influence without knowing what they're allowing to go down their gullet.

The trail of blood led to Geneva. Waldensians were both paedo and credo regarding the so-called sacrament of baptism because the Word of God is intentionally not dogmatic and clear on that subject other than to teach that regeneration is effected, when it is effected, by the Word and the Spirit, not man and ritual. Calvin held the exact same position as Zwingli on the subject of the sacraments (they are for the dumb and the weak who need a visual of what is effected by the Word and the Spirit). Both were fighting off Satan-influenced 'anabaptists' who had nothing to do with the historical trail of blood and who had nothing to do with fighting and defeating the Roman Beast tyranny; they were only annoying the men and women of God who were doing that hard work. Modern day self-identified Calvinists though now are default Romanists (they are more comfortable in the company of Romanists than in the company of born again Christians, you see this over and over with them); and they are certainly more comfortable in the presence of the Vatican's Alexandrian 'bibles' than the received Word of God God's remnant has handed down to Bible-believing born again Christians ('bibles' with man's authority in them are much more comfortable than the very Word of God with the very authority of God Himself within it). Their shallowness and man-fearing and ultimately their mocking and disdain for anything higher than their vanity, worldly pride, and rebellious self-will convict them and will garner them their well-earned reward.