This was all that concerned him.

It was not for him to consider whether what was enjoined was, or was not, contrary to the will of God.

That was a matter for his feudal superior and God to settle between them.
Referring to the doctrines of the revolutionary sects, Butzer urges the authorities to extirpate all those professing a false religion.
Such men, he says, deserve a heavier punishment than thieves, robbers, and murderers.

Even their wives and innocent children and cattle should be destroyed (_ap.

Janssen_, vol.i.p.