Ulrich Zwingli (Zwingle, Or Zuingli; Lat. Zwinglius Or Zuinglius)
Ulrich Zwingli (Zwingle, Or Zuingli; Lat. Zwinglius Or Zuinglius) [1]
He counseled energetic measures for the promotion of the Reform in his native land, but was defeated by the policy of hesitation, which prevailed in. Berne. He also entered into bold political combinations with Philip of Hesse for the triumph of the Protestant cause in Germany, and addressed the emperor of Germany and the king of France with a confession of his faith. Zwingli was a bold Reformer, an able scholar, in eloquent preacher, a patriotic republican, and farsighted statesman. He lacked the genius and depth of Luther and Calvin, the learning of Melancthon and AEcolampadius; but he was their equal in honesty of purpose integrity of characters heroic courage, and devotion to the cause of Reformation, and surpassed them in liberality is prominent intellectual trait was clear, strong common-sense. Zwingli's principal works are a Commentary on the True and False Religion (1525): — sermon on Providence (preached at Marburg, 1529): — his Confession of Faith, addressed to Charles V of Germany (1530): — a similar Exposition of Faith, addressed to Francis I of France (July, 1531, three months before his death). This last document is clear, bold, spirited, and full of hope for the triumph of the truth; warns the king against the slanderous misrepresentations of Protestant doctrines, and entreats him to give free course to the, Gospel, and to forgive the boldness with which he dared to approach his majesty. A few years afterwards (1536) Calvin dedicated, in a most eloquent preface, his famous, Christian Institutes to the same monarch, but with equal want of direct: success. Zwingli represents only the first stage the history of the Reformed Church. His work was completed after his death by ‘ his' successor, Bullinger, at Zurich, and still more by Calvin at Geneva. See I. Zwingli Opera, edit. Schuler and Schulthess. (Zurich, 1828-42, 8 vols); a popular edition of; his Works by Christoffel, (ibid. 1843 sq. 15 vols.); Biographies of Zwingli, by Myconius (1536), Nuscheler (1776); Hess -(1811; transl. by Aikini; Lond. 1812), Schuler (1819), Hottinger (1843; transl. by Themas. C. Porter, Harrisburg, 1856) Robins. (in Bibliotheca. Sacra for 1851), Roder (1855), Christoffel (1857; transl. by. John Cochran, Edinburgh, 1858) Gilder (in Herzog Real- Encyklop. 1864), and especially Morikoferi (Ulrich Zwinglinach den Quellen. [Leipsic, 1867-69 2 vols.]), On the theological system of Zwingli see Zeletr, as theol. System Zwingli's (1583); Siegwart, Ulrich Zwingli der. Charakterseiner Theologie (1855); — Sparri, Zwingli-Studien (1866). Compare also D'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, vol. 4; Hagenbach, Geschichte, der Reformation (1870), p. 183 sq.; and Fisher, The Reformation (1873), p. 137 sq.
