In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

Chapter 13
Dissolution of Conventual and
Monastic Establishments
VICTORY had been gained, but Zwingli was
of opinion that he had won it somewhat too easily.
He would have preferred the assertion of the truth
by a sharp debate to the dumb opposition of the
priests. He set to work, however, and in a few
months produced a treatise on the established
ordinances and ceremonies, in which he showed
how utterly foundation was lacking for them in the
Word of God. The luminous argument and the
"sharp wit" of the volume procured for it an instant
and wide circulation.
Men read it, and asked why these usages should
be longer continued. The public mind was now ripe
for the changes in the worship which Zwingli had
hitherto abstained from making. This is a
dangerous point in all such movements. Not a few
Reformations have been wrecked on this rock. The
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