He who felt a call pictured himself as playing the part of the Hebrew prophet.

He gathered together a small congregation of followers, who felt themselves as the children of God in the midst of a heathen world.

Did not the fall of the old Church mean that the day was at hand when the elect should govern the world?
It was not so much positive doctrines as an attitude of mind that was the ruling spirit in Anabaptism and like movements.

Similarly, it was undoubtedly such a sensitive impressionism rather than any positive dogma that dominated the first generation of the Christian Church itself.

How this acted in the case of the earlier Anabaptists we shall presently see.
The new Zuerich sect, by one of those seemingly inscrutable chances in similar cases of which history is full, not only prospered greatly but went forth conquering and to conquer.