Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

answer to the question, In what manner is he
present? He is present bodily, said Luther, who
attributed ubiquity or indefinite extension to our
Lord's humanity. So far from a bodily presence,
said Zwingli, the Eucharist is only a memorial and
sign of Christ. No, said Calvin, it is more; it is a
seal as well as a sign.
So stood the matter; and such, in brief, were the
distinctive opinions of the three clusters of
Protestant Churches, when Calvin, rousing himself
from his great sorrow for Idelette, and setting out
with Farel in the fine spring days of 1549, arrived
in Zurich to confer with the ministers there--the
first step toward the rallying of the whole
protestant Church around its one standard, the
Bible; and its centralization in its one Head, even
Christ. A far longer way would the Reformer have
been willing to go, if it could have promoted the
cause on which his heart was so deeply set. "I am
ready to cross ten seas,"hie wrote to Cranmer, "for
the union of the Church."
Between the views of Calvin and those of
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