In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

evelation. This appears to us the grand distinction
between the German and the Swiss Reformation. It
is a distinction not in substance or in nature, but in
form, and grew out of the state of opinion in
Christendom at the time, and the circumstance that
the prevailing superstition took the monkish form
mainly, though not exclusively, in the one half of
Europe, and the scholastic form in the other. The
type impressed on each–on the German and on the
Swiss Reformation–at this initial stage, each has
continued to wear more or less all along.
Nor did Zwingli think that he was dishonoring
reason by assigning it its true place and office as
respects revelation. If we accept a revelation at all,
reason says we must accept it wholly. To say that
we shall accept the Bible's help only where we do
not need its guidance; that we shall listen to its
teachings in those things that we already know, or
might have known, had we been at pains to search
them out; but that it must be silent on all those
mysteries which our reason has not and could not
have revealed to us, and which, now that they are
revealed, reason cannot fully explain – to act thus
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