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changes in worship and discipline provisionally ordered, subject to fuller
light from the Word of God. The parishes of the city and canton were
separately consulted by delegates sent to them Feb. 13 and afterwards, and
the great majority adopted the reformation by popular vote, except in the
highlands where the movement was delayed.
After the catastrophe of Cappel the reformation was consolidated by the
so-called “Berner Synodus,” which met Jan. 9–14, 1532. All the ministers
of the canton, two hundred and twenty in all, were invited to attend.
Capito, the reformer of Strassburg, exerted a strong influence by his
addresses. The Synod adopted a book of church polity and discipline; the
Great Council confirmed it, and ordered annual synods. Hundeshagen
pronounces this constitution a “true masterpiece even for our times,” and
Trechsel characterizes it as excelling in apostolic unction, warmth,
simplicity and practical wisdom. f168
Since that time Berne has remained faithful to the Reformed Church. In
1828 the Canton by order of the government celebrated the third centenary
of the Reformation.
§ 32. THE REFORMATION IN BASEL. OECOLAMPADIUS.
I. The sources are chiefly in the Bibliotheca Antistitii and the
University Library of Basel, and in the City Library of Zürich; letters of
OECOLAMPADIUS to Zwingli, in Bibliander’s Epistola Joh.
Oecolampadii et Huldr. Zwinglii (Basel, 1536, fol.); in Zwingli’s
Opera, vols. VII. and VIII.; and in HERMINJARD, Correspondance des
Réformateurs, passim. Several letters of ERASMUS, and his Consilium
Senatui Basiliensi in negotio Lutherano anno 1525 exhibitum.
Antiquitates Gernlerianae, Tom. I. and II. An important collection of
letters and documents prepared by direction of Antistes LUKAS
GERNLER of Basel (1625–1676), who took part in the Helvetic
Consensus Formula. The Athenae Rauricae sive Catalogus
Professorum Academics Basiliensis, by Herzog, Basel, 1778. The
Basler Chroniken, publ. by the Hist. Soc. of Basel, ed. with comments
by W. VISCHER (son), Leipz. 1872.
II. Pet. Ochs: Geschichte der Stadt und Landschaft Basel. Berlin and
Leipzig, 1786–1822. 8 vols. The Reformation is treated in vols. V. and
VI., but without sympathy. JAK. BURCKHARDT: Kurze Geschichte der