PRAEFATIO.

without a schism immediately being made in the Church. If their opinion were to prevail, no impiety would exist that could not be approved, since any wicked person could occupy the place of the good. And since it has been declared by the voice of the Apostles that the Antichrist would sit in the sanctuary of God, unless we wish to be defectors, we are compelled not only to depart from him and abjure all the community of impostures which he has introduced, but to seek true pastors, by whom we may be faithfully taught. Meanwhile, we can testify that our meetings are celebrated with such reverence, sobriety, modesty, and honesty, that there is no cause for the name of God to be blasphemed or for our endeavor to be disparaged. Indeed, the rite of the Supper alone, as it is observed by us, is sufficient to