him back
to the passages demanded. Doctor Sebastian Hofmeister also began to
press Faber, and Leo Judae likewise. The latter, for a short time back
people's priest at St. Peter's, was again united with his friend
Zwingli in Zurich. Sorely perplexed, the Vicar cried out: "A Hercules
could not stand against two;" but the simple method of defeating them
all, by a quotation of the passages, was still far from his thoughts.
Then rose up his companion. Doctor Martin Blausch, to secure for him a
retreat, if possible; but he also only dwelt on generalities, the
doctrines of the church, fathers, and the right of decision by
the church. "The good Lord fails to speak; the good Lord has not
rightly looked at the words," and similar gibes fell from Zwingli's
lips--proofs rather of confidence in the truth of his cause and
contempt of his opponents, than of the clemency, which lends to victory
a higher worth. After the silencing of the embassy of Constance, the
burgomaster called once more for other combatants, but in vain. Zwingli
had the last word. The crowd dispersed at noon.

The interval was used by the Council for drawing up its decision, which
was published to the meeting, again called together in the afternoon,
and ran thus: "All ye, who, answering our summons for the purposes
assigned, have appeared before us today, we give to understand. A year
is now gone, since an embassy of our gracious Lord of Constance was
here at our council-house, before the burgomaster and the Small and
Great Councils, on business of a similar kind. Then the request was
preferred by us to our gracious Lord, to call together in his diocese
learned men and preachers for the examination of the prevailing
doctrines; so that a unanimous resolution might be passed, by which
every one might be guided. But since, up to this time, perhaps for
obvious reasons, nothing special has been done by him in the matter,
and the dissension among the clergy and laity continually increases,
the burgomaster. Council and the Great Council of the city of Zurich,
have again taken the case in hand; and since now; after the offer of
Master Ulric Zwingli to render an account, no one has risen up, no one
has dared to refute by the Sacred Scriptures the articles he his
furnished, although he has repeatedly called on those who revile him as
a heretic--we, after mature counsel, have decided, and it is our
earnest opinion, that Master Ulric Zwingli shall go on and continue, as
here