For the rest the Anabaptist's standpoint was: ( I ) thatthe unbaptized world was under the curse, for which reason he withdrewfrom all civil institutions; and (2) that the circle of baptized believers'with Rome the Church, but with him the kingdom of God'was in dutybound to take all civil life under its guardianship and to remodel it; andso John of Leyden violently established his shameless power at Munsteras King of the New Zion, and his devotees ran naked through the streetsof Amsterdam.11 Hence, on the same grounds on which Calvinismrejected Rome's theory concerning the world, it rejected the theory of theAnabaptist, and proclaimed that the Church must withdraw again withinits spiritual domain, and that in the world we should realize the potenciesof God's common grace.
Abraham Kuyper — Lectures on Calvinism (Stone Lectures, 1898)
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