I thought it would come to that. Yes, the Church too—that is to be destroyed. Once men fought with their desires and their fears, with all that they call their sins, unhelped, and their souls became hard and strong. When we have brought back the clean earth and destroyed the law and the Church all life will become like a flame of fire, like a burning eye . . . Oh, how to find words for it all . . . all that is not life will pass away.
JOHNNY.
It is Luther’s Church he means, and the humpbacked discourse of Seaghan Calvin’s Bible. So we will break it, and make an end of it.
MARTIN.
We will go out against the world and break it and unmake it. [Rising.] We are the army of the Unicorn from the Stars! We will trample it to pieces.—We will consume the world, we will burn it away—Father John said the world has yet to be consumed by fire. Bring me fire.
ANDREW [to Beggars].
Here is Thomas. Hide—let you hide.
[All except MARTIN hurry into next room. THOMAS comes in.
THOMAS.
Come with me, Martin. There is terrible work going on in the town! There is mischief gone abroad. Very strange things are happening!