Subjective and Objective Balance
Calvin attempts to strike...what Reformed orthodoxy would find to be an increasingly difficult balance between the subjective and inward certainty resting on the Spirit and on faith alone and an external objective certainty resting on evidence.
Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 259.