Ulric Zwingle (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...in all things vouchsafed us the victory." He then urged the Counsellors of Zurich to destroy their images. "This," said Zwingle, as the people were departing, "has been child's play. A weightier matter lies before us." He referred to the disputation on the Mass, which had to be adjourned to the next day. On Tuesday, therefore, October 27th, they again assembled at the great hall of Zurich to discuss the Mass. This Eome places in a position of paramount importance. It is the great border fortress behind which she shields all her errors. If the Mass be accepted, it is no difficult matter to believe all Rome's other doctrines. If the Romanist can break his way through the doctrine of the Mass, he will soon get into the clear sunlight of spiritual truth. Zwingle had been carefully leading the people of Zurich onward, step by step, into the light; he now assailed this great error of the Mass, employing, as he had done all through the conflict, "the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." He assailed the blasphemous doctrine of transubstantiation, declaring that there could be no deception or falsehood in the body and blood of Christ. He exposed the error contained in the teaching that in the Eucharist the body and blood of Christ were again offered up as a sacrifice for the.living and the dead. He strongly denounced the idolatrous practice of the elevation and adoration of the Host. One asked the question whether all their fathers had been damned as having walked in error? Zwingle replied that they had doubtless walked in error, but that their salvation or otherwise rested with God, the Judge of all the earth, who would surely do right, and that His judgment should not be anticipated. Twice the President, Dr. Vadian, as...