In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

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monks, and in particular to the Mendicants. "I must record," says the historian Ruchat, "a fact to the honor of the Council of Moudon. Not a little displeased at seeing that the cure of the town was a dumb pastor, who left his parishioners without instruction, the Council, in November, 1535, ordered him to explain, at least to the common people, the Ten Commandments of the Law of God, every Sabbath, after the celebration of the office of the mass." Whether the cure's theological acquirements enabled him to fulfill the Council's injunction we do not know. He might have pleaded, as a set-off to his own indolence, a yet more scandalous neglect of duty to be witnessed not far off. At Neufchatel, so pleasantly situated at the foot of the Jura Alps, with its lake reflecting on its tranquil bosom the image of the vine-clad heights that environ it, was a college of canons. These ecclesiastics lived in grand style, for the foundation was rich, the air pleasant, and the wine good. But, says Ruchat, "it looked as if they were paid to keep silence, for, though they were many, there was not one of them all that could preach." 28
In those enlightened days, the ballad-singers and play-wrights supplemented the deficiencies of the preachers. The Church held it dangerous to put into the hands of the people the vernacular Gospel, lest they should read in their own tongue of the wondrous birth at Bethlehem, and the not less wondrous death on Calvary, with all that lay between. But the Passion, and other Biblical events, were turned into comedies and dramas, and acted in public–with how much edification to the spectators, one may guess! In the year 1531, the Council of Moudon gave ten florins of Savoy to a company of tragedians, who played the "Passion" on Palm Sunday, and the "Resurrection" on Easter Monday. "If Luther had not come," said a German abbe, calling to mind this and similar occurrences– "If Luther had not come, the Pope by this time would have persuaded men to feed themselves on dust." A raging greed, like a burning thirst, tormented the clergy, from their head downwards. Each several order became the scourge of the one 29
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Page 5 and 6: monk's hammer on the door of the ca
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Page 13 and 14: which we find it-the horrible night
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Page 17 and 18: common saying in those days, "The m
Page 19 and 20: learning, to which the sons of prin
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Page 23 and 24: prostrating one's self before an im
Page 25 and 26: flourish. Finding they could not su
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Page 33 and 34: him against all consequences before
Page 35 and 36: led worse lives than the laymen, an
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Page 41 and 42: This is but a partial lifting of th
Page 43 and 44: Then He who is mighty came down to
Page 45 and 46: third stood up, and like Alpine pea
Page 47 and 48: Tockenburg. Then the peasants assem
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Page 51 and 52: him to the cradle at Bethlehem, to
Page 53 and 54: the wisdom of God which reveals its
Page 55 and 56: enclose the lovely waters of Zurich
Page 57 and 58: able to learn but, Where shall we f
Page 59 and 60: career had buried himself in the ce
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Page 63 and 64: of Arts. This title he accepted mor
Page 65 and 66: first: he was the son of a priest o
Page 67 and 68: for he says of it that it was nothi
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Page 71 and 72: having heard of the repute of the s
Page 73 and 74: arrival amongst them. An unwonted r
Page 75 and 76: distasteful to the unrenewed heart,
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myself wholly up to the Holy Script
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side of self-righteousness man was
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is to make reason despicable under
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the brave mountaineers hastened acr
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discountenanced the superstitious u
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that they had come this long journe
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these words in the case of many. Th
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canons, spending their time in idle
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1519. It was a singular coincidence
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corrupting the simplicity of ancien
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Chapter 8 The Pardon-monger and the
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and a third tore the keys from the
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canton of Uri. A few days sufficing
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neighborhood. The small town of Aar
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Bishop of Constance, in whose dioce
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forgive," said the preacher, with a
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Shield me, O Lord, My strength and
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Chapter 9 Extension of the Reformat
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does not annihilate evangelical vir
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Zwingli labored with all his might
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food, and anxiously longed for it."
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Hedio took it up, and beginning whe
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opportunities of introducing a high
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Lucerne had rejected. Its citizens
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Hailer had his zeal and perseveranc
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whose pen was ever ready to ministe
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Abbot of St. Gall and the Bishop of
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of Luther, began in 1522 to preach
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humiliating confession of his inabi
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was won. "Christ waxed strong every
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set up there, after the model of Zu
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truth. He felt how sweetly it works
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their blood; but the higher liberty
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solicitations of the Cardinal-Archb
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war party:-"Many think that to eat
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Church out of which there was no sa
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he had drawn upon himself. "I gave
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Badin. To it the Bishop of Constanc
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their original fountains in the Sac
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from one day to another the friends
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Chapter 12 Public Disputation at Zu
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Scriptures. Why then did he submit
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plainly to understand, that we comm
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many venerable and dignified visito
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eceived power from God to put malef
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has anything to say against the doc
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A long pause followed Zwingli's add
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Zwingli in the work of the Gospel.
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It was not difficult for Zwingli to
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Constance." "With all my heart," re
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Chapter 13 Dissolution of Conventua
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lose sight of his grand object, whi
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which the council passed into a law
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days where they had spent their liv
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It was feared that the monks would
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In short, the entire amount realise
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magistrates prepared to put into th
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But all men had not the patience of
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discussion of the question of worsh
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or evangelist ever offered to Him."
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esolved to institute another disput
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professing their faith in the Lord
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That matter was the mass. Truly was
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prepared to impugn from Scripture t
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those who wished it in that form. I
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places, and astound the iconoclasts
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One night Jean Oexlin, the pastor o
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of all believers, and with Him we s
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intensely occupied during the day,
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sermon, the pastor and deacons took
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doctrine of "holy celibacy," and by
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esults were speedily apparent. "Und
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