ants, whom he was bound to maintain, out of his own salary,
without the pension of the Pope; nevertheless, in order to gain perfect
freedom of speech, instead of accepting the doubling of the Romish
allowance just then promised, he declined receiving from the legate
what had hitherto been paid. Under these circumstances his friend Henry
Engelhart came to his assistance, since, he having also a benefice in
the church of Notre Dame (Frauen-Muenster), resigned his post in the
cathedral, in Zwingli's favor.

Footnote 3: To avoid repetition in the answers, we will hereafter give
those only, which contain something new, or characteristic.

Footnote 4: Only the first and shorter part of Zwingli's Latin letter
is here translated; the second and larger, which, based on numerous
passages of Scripture, contains Zwingli's vindication and belongs more
to theology than history, will be quoted again merely in its leading
features.

Footnote 5: Thus, for example, after some cutting expressions, he uses
the words:

"Very learned Father,
Full and plump,
Open the swollen syllogism.
Or the foul hoof
Must give way."

Footnote 6: Obscure teachers of a former age.

CHAPTER THIRD

RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE IN ZURICH. THE GOVERNMENT TAKES THE
PLACE OF THE BISHOP FOR THE PROTECTION AND SUPERINTENDENCE
OF THE NATIONAL CHURCH.

The breach, between the government of Zurich and those, who, up to this
time, stood at the head of ecclesiastical affairs, was as yet by no
means so decided as in the case of Zwingli. He doubtless wished it
might become so. Public conferences on religious subjects had already
taken place in Germany, and Zwingli himself had conducted such an one,
held between him and Francis Lambert, a Franciscan monk, to a
triumphant issue, though only before a narrow circle and in the Latin
language. But now he determined to venture battle with his enemies
before all the clergy and theologians, and compel them to an open
acknowledgement that his doctrine was in conformity with Scripture.
With this idea he first of all made his hearers familiar in several
sermons. Then, sure of the approval of his design by the majority, he
turned to the Great Council with the prayer, that, in the deliberate
and entire neglect to act on the part of the Bishop, they would appoint
such a public convocation. This gave r