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720<br />

fully in his tract, De peccato originali ad Urbanum Rhegium, 1526<br />

(Opera, III. 627-645), and in his Confession to Charles V.<br />

ft155 § 27, p. 85 sq.; vol. VI. 620 sqq., and Creeds <strong>of</strong> Christendom, I. 372-<br />

377.<br />

ft156 He <strong>of</strong>ten speaks on this subject in his epistles, commentaries, <strong>the</strong> tract<br />

on Providence, and most confidently at <strong>the</strong> close <strong>of</strong> his Exposition <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>Christian</strong> Faith, addressed to <strong>the</strong> king <strong>of</strong> France. See <strong>the</strong> passages in<br />

<strong>Schaff</strong>, Creeds <strong>of</strong> Christendom, I, 382, and A. Baur, l.c. II. 772.<br />

Comp. also Zeller, l.c. p. 163; Alex. Schweizer, Die Prot.<br />

Centraldogmen, I. 94 sqq., and Reform. Glaubenslehre, II. 10 sq.;<br />

Dorner, Gesch. der protestTheol., p. 284 (who with his usual fairness<br />

vindicates Zwingli against misrepresentations).<br />

ft157 Chapter X. 3.”Elect” infants, however, implies, in <strong>the</strong> strict Calvinistic<br />

system, “reprobate” infants who are lost. This negative feature has died<br />

out. See on this subject <strong>Schaff</strong>, Creeds <strong>of</strong> Christendom, I. 378-384,<br />

and his Creed Revision in <strong>the</strong> Presbyterian <strong>Church</strong>es, New York,<br />

1890, p. 17 sqq.<br />

ft158 This serious error is corrected in <strong>the</strong> Revised English Version <strong>of</strong> 1881.<br />

It is an anachronism when a scholar <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nineteenth century denies<br />

<strong>the</strong> distinction between Hades or Sheol (i.e. <strong>the</strong> spirit-world or realm <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> dead) and Gehenna (i.e. hell, or <strong>the</strong> place and state <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lost).<br />

ft159 “Jetzst geht’s über die Geistlichen, dann kommt es an die Junker.”<br />

ft160 Comp. vol. VI. § 37, p. 178 sqq.<br />

ft161 Never<strong>the</strong>less, two young friends <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Reformation published reports<br />

from memory.<br />

ft162 In Eck’s und Faber’s Badenfahrt:<br />

“Eck zappelt mit Füssen und Händen,<br />

Fing an zu schelten und schänden.<br />

Er sprach: Ich blib by dem Verstand,<br />

Den Papst, Cardinal, und Bish<strong>of</strong> hand.”<br />

ft163 “Nicht überdisputirt, aber überschrieen ist er.”<br />

ft164 In ano<strong>the</strong>r witty poem, quoted by Bullinger (I. 357 sq.), <strong>the</strong> two<br />

disputants are thus contrasted:—

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