J. Hampton Keathley III summarizes Charles Bell by saying, “John Calvin emphatically warned against looking to ourselves, that is, to our works or to the fruit of the Spirit, for assurance of our salvation. He taught that we should look to Christ as the objective basis for assurance. Looking at ourselves produces doubts and distracts from the saving work of Christ. He rejected the exhortation to self-examination as a dangerous dogma.” Calvin finds his security only in the Scriptures and not in any results or experiences of