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67 force. However, the rule of Christ is perfect,

A Christian cannot rule for God is the only ruler. A secular ruler is bound, by virtue of his sovereignty, to use violence and other non-Christian methods. If he should, perchance, become a Christian, his only means of ruling would then be persuasion, that is, preaching:

In this teaching, Chelc̄icky̍ comes very close to the Gelasian doctrine of the two powers. Furthermore, says he, sovereignty goes always hand in hand with aggressiveness and imperialism. It is in the nature of all rulers to use un-Christian means for their ends of aggrandizement:

, I, chap.XLVI, p.183*

Chap.XXXIV, p.153*.

Chap.XXX,.

Chap.XXIX, p.137*.

Chap.XXXVI, p.159*

. p.160*, n.2, and p.142*, n.7.