[43] Ibid. iii. A, p. 146.
[44] Schriften, ii. p. 785.
[45] Ibid. ii. p. 783.
[46] Ibid. iii. A, p. 74.
[47] Franck's Chronica (1531), p. ccccli.
[48] Rutherford, A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist (1648), chap. v.
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CHAPTER VI
SEBASTIAN CASTELLIO: A FORGOTTEN PROPHET[1]
Reformation history has been far too closely confined to a few main highways of thought, and few persons therefore realize how rich in ideas and how complex in typical religious conceptions this spiritual upheaval really was. The types that prevailed and won their way to wide favour have naturally compelled attention and are adequately known. There were, however, very serious and impressive attempts made to give the Reformation a totally different course from the one it finally took in history, and these attempts, defeated by the sweep of the main current, became submerged, and their dedicated and heroic leaders became forgotten. Many of these spiritual ventures which for the moment failed and were submerged are in striking parallelism with currents of thought to-day, and our generation can perhaps appreciate at their real worth these solitary souls who were destined to see their cause defeated, to hear their names defamed, and to live in jeopardy among the very people whom they most longed to help.