was not exposed at Geneva, and which would contribute to form the great theologian. Embracing at a glance the whole extent of the kingdom of God, he would become familiar with its various provinces. Winds blowing from so many and adverse regions would bring to him new reports. There would doubtless be sometimes stormy blasts, powerful enough to overthrow the strongest, but often also a pure and life-giving air fitted to sanctify his Christian energy. The theological and Christian circle which he entered at Strasburg was in more than one way in sympathy with him. He was convinced, as the doctors of this town were, that it was necessary not to stick at trifling differences, but to consider Christianity in its great facts, its great doctrines, the new life which it creates, in the great whole on which all the reformers were agreed. All those who took their stand on the same rock, Jesus Christ, no matter whether a little higher up or a little lower down, ought in his view to join hand in hand. Calvin and the theologians of Strasburg were disgusted with the theological subtilties and the scholastic nomenclature beneath which the living doctrine of the Gospel, especially as to the supper, was stifled. ‘Can I in very deed believe that I receive in the holy supper the body and the blood of the Lord, _substantialiter_, _essentialiter_, _realiter_, _naturaliter_, _præsentialiter_, _localiter_, _corporaliter_, _quantitative_, _qualitative_, _ubiqualiter_, _carnaliter_? The devil has brought us all these terms from the abyss of hell. Christ said simply, _This is my body_. If all these fantastic expressions had been necessary, he would certainly have employed them.’ Calvin, like Zell, the author of the above passage, found in that heap of qualifying terms a mass of rubbish and confusion. There was, however, one difference between the doctors of Strasburg and the doctor of Geneva. Bucer and Capito were willing to bring union by the way of accommodation, perhaps by the use of phrases in a double sense. The eagle of Geneva, soaring in the higher regions, called on Christians to have but one thought in contemplating one and the same sun, and in attaching themselves to one and the same truth.[749] [Sidenote: HIS SPIRITUAL JOYS.]