rance in himself that he is without
sin."--"And will _you_ belong to it?" asked Zwingli with a stern look.
Manz was silent; but from that time forth, he and his associates began
to calumniate the Reformer everywhere and throw obstacles into his
path.

But the actual outbreak of disturbances was occasioned by Br[oe]dlein.
A year before, whilst pastor at Quarten, in the bailiwick of Sargan, he
had made himself conspicuous. With R[oe]ubli he was among the first of
the clergy, who violated the rules of fasting and the vow of celibacy.
He had done both in the assurance of evangelical right and Christian
liberty; and when the _landvogt_ spoke to him about it, he made answer
not in the most courtly terms: The _landvogt_ ought to punish the lewd
and adulterous persons who swarm in his neighborhood, instead of him
and his virtuous wife. He was bound rather to protect him, and compel
the other clergy to marry. The special sanctity of the priesthood was
at an end. If one steals, then you should hang him, even though he
would anoint his whole body with oil. The tale-bearers had lied about
him like rogues. "Still"--he concluded in a tone somewhat more
moderate--"I build my hopes not on men of this world. That much you
ought to know of me. God has numbered all the hairs of my head, and not
a sparrow falls to the ground without His will, so neither can any one
injure me or my wife, if it be not His will, and therefore, dear
_landvogt_, you need send neither thirty nor a hundred men to fetch
her. If she has sinned against God, then send the smallest child, and
she must come. But if you wish to take, or cause her to be taken from
me by force, then know, that you act against God, divine righteousness
and the Gospel. Yet I will not repel force by force. I once indeed
thought it necessary to do this; but God has commanded me otherwise,
and hence I may not teach it to my brethren."

In fact, the _landvogt_, at the requisition of the ruling cantons,
threw him into prison. How he escaped is not known. After the Religious
Conferences in Zurich we find him as assistant at Zollikon, and here he
seems to have been the first to introduce into Switzerland the
doctrines of the Anabaptists, which elsewhere had caused so much
dissension. Of all, who sought by means of these doctrines to create
discord, to make a show or found a party, we can say, that, without
exception, they were men of narrow minds, or, in worse cases,
hypocrites with dishonorable