In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

Hedio took it up, and beginning where Capito had
stopped, went on to expound the Gospel with a
courageous eloquence, to which the citizens
listened, although the monks ceased not to warn
them against believing those who told them that the
sum of all Christian doctrine was to be found in the
Gospel. Scotus, said they, was a greater doctor than
St. Paul. So broke the dawn of the Reformation in
Basle. The number of its disciples in this seat of
learning rapidly increased. Still it had a long and
sore fight before obtaining the mastery. The
aristocracy were powerful: the clergy were not less
so: the University threw its weight into the same
scale. Here was a triple rampart, which it cost the
truth much effort to scale. Hedio, who succeeded
Capito, was himself succeeded by Ecolampadius,
the greatest of the three. Ecolampadius labored
with zeal and waited in hope for six years. At last,
in 1528, Basle, the last of all the Helvetic cantons,
decreed its acceptance of the Reformed faith.
At Lucerne, Myconius endeavored to sow the
good seed of the Gospel; but the soil was unkindly,
and the seed that sprang up soon withered. It was
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