Treasuring the Prayer Book, treasuring Calvin

And we most humbly beseech thee, O heavenly Father, so to assist us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship, and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

The Order for the Ministration of the Holy Communion, 1662.

O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed ...

The Second Collect at Evening Prayer.

She [the Christian] understands herself to be enrolled in God's great school of sanctification, and so understands that her primary task, precisely as a discipline, is to learn.  Accordingly, she is active and vigorous, awake and striving, but her basic, underlying mode of being is not acquisitional, not trying to obtain God's gifts by her own good works, but rather receptive, making the most of what God provides, living with confidence into a destiny already appointed and prepared.  In other words, precisely because her ultimate destination is established and understood, her governing task as she moves along is rather to live in and alongside God in Christ and the Holy Spirit, and so to be continually formed and reformed, strengthened and corrected, renewed and sanctified at every turn ... 

Seen in this light, a disciple's entire life may be recast not as an act of achieving and acquiring over against God, but rather as a hospitable act of receiving from God, responding with God, and so living in God.  And in the end, for John Calvin, this means living a doxological life.

Matthew Myer Boulton, Life in God: John Calvin, Practical Formation, and the Future of Protestant Theology (2011), p.145.

RW: And coming back to that theologian we both rather treasure, John Calvin ...

Rowan Williams interviewing Marilynne Robinson for The Living Church.