The abolition of requirements for subscription to confessional statements in the name of toleration opened the door for apostasy from essential Reformed doctrines. A watershed moment took place in Genevan theology when J. A. Turretin successfully abolished the requirement that candidates for the ministry subscribe to confessional standards; they needed merely to pledge fidelity to the Bible. Such vague commitments could not wall out heresy, heterodoxy, and apostasy.

Joel R. Beeke, Debated Issues in Sovereign Predestination: Early Lutheran Predestination, Calvinian Reprobation, and Variations in Genevan Lapsarianism, 222.