striving to thrust others from their offices, and other disorders. Thence I went forth from here to behold those who are called reformed.
(These others endeavour vainly to unite.)
16. And I hear and see that some of these chapels (two or three that were near to each other) deliberated as to how they could become one;[1] but they could find no compromise. Everyone maintained that which was in his own head, and endeavoured to persuade the others to agree to it. Some foolish ones took up at random any doctrine that came in their way; others more cunningly entered or left the divers chapels according to what appeared to them advantageous; and at last I was displeased by the confusion and wavering among these dear Christians.
(The true Christians.[2]The Pilgrim recognises them not.)
17. Among these men there were some who said they had no concern with this strife; they walked
- ↑ In Germany, and in Bohemia up to the suppression of all Protestant sects, the Lutherans, Calvinists, and brethren of the Unity (Komensky's own church) frequently endeavoured to formulate a joint profession of faith. This attempt met with little success. In Bohemia such a profession, the "Confessio Bohemica," was actually drawn up. (See my "Bohemia: an Historical Sketch," pp. 274-287, and elsewhere.)
- ↑ Komensky here gives under this name a perhaps slightly idealised description of the community to which he himself belonged; he has dealt with the same motif somewhat
