Christ

did not come only to “the lost sheep of the House of Israel”; and his kingdom was “ not of this world” (or ‘“‘age”): they themselves therefore must rule in this present world, and a good organisation must be established to that end. The extravagances of early leaders must be controlled, and the supernatural character of the faith must be jealously maintained. So in time all who rejected the God-Christ were denounced as atheists, and burned here as they would also be burned by Christ hereafter. There was no room, in such an age, for skepticism which admitted the goodne of Jesus, and his “ perfect example.” Calvin equally with the Pope believed that the fires of persecution must be kept alight. The Jews it seems were right, and Paul was wrong. He spoke of “the God of Christ”; but Jewish priests said that Jesus made himself equal with God.