Protestantism in Switzerland - James Aitken Wylie

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obligations. They dealt in the same way with the Bible. They had a light within which sufficed for their guidance, and made them independent of the Word without. Some of them threw the book into the fire saying, "The letter killeth." "Infant baptism," said they, "is a horrible abomination, a flagrant impiety, invented by the evil spirit and Pope Nicholas of Rome."[5] The freaks and excesses in which they began to indulge were very extraordinary, and resembled those of men whose wits are disordered. They would form themselves in a ring on the street, dance, sing songs, and tumble each other about in the dust. At other times, putting on sackcloth, and strewing ashes on their heads, they would rush through the streets, bearing lighted torches, and uttering dismal cries, "Woe! woe! yet forty days and Zurich shall be destroyed."[6] Others professed to have received revelations from the Holy Spirit. Others interrupted the public worship by standing up in the midst of the congregation and proclaiming aloud, "I am the door; by me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved." They held from 36
time to time nocturnal revels, at which psalms and jovial ballads were sung alternately, and this they called "setting up the Lord's table." Fourteen of their number were apprehended by the magistrates, contrary to Zwingli's advice, shut up in the Heretics' Tower, and fed on bread and water. On the fourteenth day "an angel opened their prison door and led them forth."[7] Contrary to what happened in Peter's case, with which they compared their deliverance, the angel found it necessary to remove certain planks before he could effect their liberation. The magistrates, alarmed for the public peace, ordered Zwingli to hold a disputation with them. The conference took place on the 17th January, 1525. Zwingli's victory was complete, and the magistrates followed it up by an edict, ordering all infants to be baptized within eight days.[8] The fanatics no more gave obedience to the command of the magistrates than submission to the arguments of Zwingli. They neither brought their children to be baptized nor abjured their opinions. 37
Page 1 and 2: PROTESTANTISM IN SWITZERLAND FROM I
Page 3 and 4: een heard in Switzerland; not from
Page 5 and 6: abominations had their rise, and th
Page 7 and 8: Republic, and his voice sounded in
Page 9 and 10: e our second stage in the Swiss Ref
Page 11 and 12: to hold captive the mind. Luther, w
Page 13 and 14: standpoint of the Lutherans, if so
Page 15 and 16: human side. We turn to the Divine s
Page 17 and 18: Chapter 2 Disputation at Baden and
Page 19 and 20: emembered how often Zwingli had thu
Page 21 and 22: This being settled, the cantons loo
Page 23 and 24: pastor to go to the conference. Whi
Page 25 and 26: When the appointed day came the dep
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Page 29 and 30: less a penalty than death. Yet, des
Page 31 and 32: Thus we behold, at nearly the same
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Page 39 and 40: people, and banish this sect from t
Page 41 and 42: him to this fate they took account,
Page 43 and 44: threatened fatal disaster at the ou
Page 45 and 46: 2. Ruchat. tom. 1, pp. 231,232. Chr
Page 47 and 48: movement it was meant to crush. The
Page 49 and 50: four Bishops of Lausanne, Basle, Co
Page 51 and 52: settlement of the religious questio
Page 53 and 54: Burgomaster of Zurich, Roist. By hi
Page 55 and 56: persons -- priests, pastors, schola
Page 57 and 58: the spot. Stripping off his priestl
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Page 61 and 62: were those who witnessed these proc
Page 63 and 64: Following in the steps of Zurich, t
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Page 67 and 68: fountains of their soul, their love
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Page 71 and 72: The great mountains in the center o
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Page 75 and 76: advised both parties to retire to t
Page 77 and 78: found the means of restoring calm t
Page 79 and 80: This fresh outbreak quickened the z
Page 81 and 82: No eyes were to be closed that nigh
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should be admitted to deliberate wi
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vacated, but new professors, yet mo
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18. Gerdesius, tom. 2, p. 372. Ruch
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immersed in darkness, but destined
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free salvation, and who, under the
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Finding Austria at their back, the
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eventually divide Switzerland into
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threw a touch of humor into their i
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gallows; underneath which were the
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animated by a chivalrous and high-m
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this crisis, he continued to labor
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are not trusting but tempting God,
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Footnotes: 1. Ruchat, tom. 2, p. 10
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those valleys of Unterwalden, whose
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his steed uphill, and coming toward
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chatted together, ate together, and
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the men of Zurich were encamped on
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dainties of his manhood. Living in
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or walking in the open air. At two
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knowledge of Divine truth. But a hi
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Chapter 8 Proposed Christian Republ
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crisis. We are approaching the cata
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preachers and professors of the Pro
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in Germany and France. Through them
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emperor was nearing Germany, to hol
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the following years would have been
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6. Christoffel, p. 407. 7. Zwingli,
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A General Diet of the Swiss Confede
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Strasburg assembled in Zwingli's ho
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said, the innocent with the guilty;
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Five Cantons - that is to say, the
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Zwingli took his departure while it
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wonder, prognosticating calamity, a
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Chapter 10 Death of Zwingli IN the
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crossed the frontier, and seized up
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These were without uniform, and ins
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The battle swept with a roar like t
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now prowling over the field of batt
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crept back to their empty cells. Lu
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