But when the Ana-baptists tried to give the same argument back to them, that is when they lost their temper. This is, in the last analysis, why the Reformers gave up trying to convert the Ana-baptists. The only way to solve the Ana-baptist problem was to kill them or to drive them away. So, they were drowned, hung, burned or driven out. The truth is, the Ana-baptists caught the Reformers playing a “shell and pea” game and practicing an “eenie, meenie, minee, moe” hermeneutic which goes through the
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