. The life and times of Ulric Zwingli . onsent preached inmany places, is consistent with himself, and pierces them intheir princely splendor, voluptuous wantonness, and insatiableavarice. Hence they complain. Dear jounkcrs, because youdeal thus with facts and Paul teaches the contrary, what shapewill you take, if we preach St. Peter? He snatches off your LIFK OF ZWINGLI. 105 hoods and sliows as well as St. Paul what hornea cattle youarc. It is easy to see that writings like these must have made thebreach incurable, and we durst suppose, that Zwingli himselfperceived the possibility of it, and
. The life and times of Ulric Zwingli . onsent preached inmany places, is consistent with himself, and pierces them intheir princely splendor, voluptuous wantonness, and insatiableavarice. Hence they complain. Dear jounkcrs, because youdeal thus with facts and Paul teaches the contrary, what shapewill you take, if we preach St. Peter? He snatches off your LIFK OF ZWINGLI. 105 hoods and sliows as well as St. Paul what hornea cattle youarc. It is easy to see that writings like these must have made thebreach incurable, and we durst suppose, that Zwingli himselfperceived the possibility of it, and in such an event was clearin his resolves. The end of the subordinate relation of Zurichto the Bishop, as well as the beginning of a changed order, wasclosely connected with the Archetelcs. For the origin andfounding of this new church-government we pass on to the fol-lowing chapter. CHAPTER THIRD RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE IN ZURICH. THE GOVERNMENT TAKES THE TLACE OF THE BISHOP FOR THE PROTECTION AND SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE NATIONAL HE breach, between the govern-ment of Zurich and those, who, npto this time, stood at the head ofecclesiastical affairs, was as yet byno means so decided as in the caseof Zwingli. He doubtless wishedit might become so. Public con- P^^s--^^ ferences on religious subjects had already taken^ ^^ place in Germany, and Zwingli himself had con-;? . ducted such an one, held between him and Francis Lambert, a Franciscan monk, to a triumphant issue,f i though only before a narrow circle and in the Latin laneruagre. But now he determined to venture^4|j,l^;n?r I battle with his enemiestheologians, and compel them to an open acknowl-ed2;ement that his doctrine was in conformity with ith this idea he first of all made his hearers familiar in sev-eral sermons. Then, sure of the approval of his design by themajority, he turned to the Great Council with the prayer, that,in the deliberate and entire neglect to act on the part of theBishop, they would
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