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did not touch the rock of faith, which Catholics and Protestants professed
alike, and that he deemed it his duty to enjoin on his flock the advice of
Paul to the Romans 14, to exercise mutual forbearance, since each stands
or falls to the same Lord. The unity of the Spirit is the best guide. He
feared that by extreme measures, more harm was done than good, and that
the liberty gained may degenerate into license, impiety, and contempt of
authority. He begs Zwingli to use his influence for the restoration of order
and peace, and signs himself, forever yours” (semper futurus tuus). The
same spirit of moderation characterizes his Chronicle of the Reformation
period, and it is difficult to find out from this colorless and unimportant
narrative, to which of the two parties he belonged.
It is a remarkable fact that the influence of Tschudi’s example is felt to this
day in the peaceful joint occupation of the church at Glarus, where the
sacrifice of the mass is offered by a priest at the altar, and a sermon
preached from the pulpit by a Reformed pastor in the same morning. f189
Another distinguished man of Glarus and friend of Zwingli in the earlier
part of his career, is Heinrich Loriti, or Loreti, better known as Glareanus,
after the humanistic fashion of that age. f190 He was born at Mollis, a small
village of that canton, in 1488, studied at Cologne and Basel, sided with
Reuchlin in the quarrel with the Dominican obscurantists, f191 travelled
extensively, was crowned as poet-laureate by the Emperor Maximilian
(1512), taught school and lectured successively at Basel (1514), Paris
(1517), again at Basel (1522), and Freiburg (since 1529). He acquired
great fame as a philologist, poet, geographer, mathematician, musician, and
successful teacher. Erasmus called him, in a letter to Zwingli (1514), f192 the
prince and champion of the Swiss humanists, and in other letters he praised
him as a man pure and chaste in morals, amiable in society, well versed in
history, mathematics, and music, less in Greek, averse to the subtleties of
the schoolmen, bent upon learning Christ from the fountain, and of
extraordinary working power. He was full of wit and quaint humor, but
conceited, sanguine, irritable, suspicious, and sarcastic. Glarean became
acquainted with Zwingli in 1510, and continued to correspond with him till
1523. f193 He bought books for him at Basel (e.g. the Aldine editions of
Lactantius and Tertullian) and sought a place as canon in Zürich. In his last
letter to him he called him, the truly Christian theologian, the bishop of the
Church of Zürich, his very great friend.” f194 He read Luther’s book on the
Babylonian Captivity three times with enthusiasm. But when Erasmus