ABSTRACT
This did not mean that Protestants had no feeling for greatness, or that they could not express admiration for impressive personalities from history, but it had been inculcated in them that 'even the holiest men, while in this life, have only a small beginning of this obedience'.2 From the choice of words it is obvious that Protestants too had their ranks and classes. Apparently, some were regarded as 'the holiest men'. But it is believed that even they could not progress very far on the road to sanctification. However high Lutherans might regard their Luther, however little criticism of their Calvin hard-core Calvinists could bear, they would never present them as St Luther or St Calvin.
