That the Church is at an end, when there is no faith, because no charity, has been shewn in the small work on The Last Judgment and the Destruction of Babylon, no. 33 to no. 39. And now, since the Churches in Christendom had become distinguished among one another solely by such things as belong to faith, when yet faith is nothing where there is no charity, therefore I wish to premise, before the Doctrine itself, some things concerning the Doctrine of Charity among the Ancients. The expression is used "the Churches in Christendom," and by these are meant the Churches among the Reformed or Evangelical, and not among the Papists, because the Christian Church is not among them: for, where the Church is, there the Lord is worshipped, and the Word is read; it is otherwise among the Papists: there they worship themselves instead of the Lord, and the Word is forbidden to be read by the people, and a decree of the Pope is placed equal with it, yea, above it.