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Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531AD)
Engraved by H. Robinson from an oil portrait by Hans Asper, 1531AD.
ZWINGLI;
OR,
THE RISE OF THE REFORMATION IN SWITZERLAND.
A LIFE
OF THE REFORMER,
WITH SOME
NOTICES OF HIS TIME AND CONTEMPORARIES,
BY
R. CHRISTOFFEL,
PASTOR OF THE REFORMED CHURCH,
WINTERSINGEN,
SWITZERLAND.
TRANSLATED
FROM THE GERMAN,
BY
JOHN COCHRAN,
Esq.
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EDINBURGH:
T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET.
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO. DUBLIN: JOHN ROBERTSON.
PHILADELPHIA: SMITH, ENGLISH, & CO.
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MDCCCLVIII.
PREFACE.
The
object of the present work is to set Zwingli before us as he lived,
and as he wrought. The Author has adopted the plan likely to be most
successful in conveying an accurate impression of his subject;—he
has made his work, as far as the materials at his command would
admit of, autobiographical. We have extracts from the Reformer’s
correspondence—we are introduced to the circle of his friends—we are
thrown into the arena of his mighty contests—we are conducted
through the vineyard in which he laboured—we are admitted to view
the interior of his domestic life. But in the communication of this
information it is chiefly the hero himself who speaks, and tells us
the story of his life. The portraiture of the Reformer thus drawn
may be accepted as faithful; it can hardly be otherwise; the plan
taken by the Author is certainly that best adapted for producing
what may be called a
photographic delineation of character. But it is not only the
Reformer himself who is here sketched to the life, much light is
thrown upon his coadjutors in the work of Reformation, upon the rise
and history of the great movement itself, and upon the manners and
modes of thinking of the times in which it took place. We believe
the work will be generally acceptable to the English public, as a
faithful record of the doings and sayings of one of the noblest
characters of an eventful epoch.
THE
TRANSLATOR. April, 1858.
CONTENTS. 1.
Huldreich Zwingli’s Boyhood and School-Time. 2.
Zwingli, Parson in Glabus and Einbiedeln.—1506-1518. 3.
Zwingli’s Entrance on his Official Duties at Zurich—Style of
Preaching—His Difficulties and Conflicts—His Joys and Sorrows—His
Studies and Friends—From 1619-1523, or Till the First Disputation on
Religion. 4.
The Reformation Effected by Zwingli.—1523-1526. 5.
Zwingli’s Labours for the Extension and Support of the
Reformation which Emanated from him, in the other Cantons of
Switzerland, as well as in Germany, France, and Italy. 6.
Reactionary Measures of the Papal Party for Checking and
Suppressing the Reformation. 7.
Obstacles to the Progress of the Reformation, Arising from
Differences of Opinion upon the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's
Supper. 8.
Zwingli in his Private Life. 9.
Zwingli's Last Labours—He Dies the Death of the Christian Hero at Cappel,
11th October 1531
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