f true religion shine victoriously above that worship of self
which springs only from vain conceit.--May the following work produce
the same conviction in the mind of the reader!

Preface.

The volume, here translated, was published in Zurich in the year 1842,
and may be regarded as the fullest and most reliable history of Zwingli
and his times that has yet appeared; for, in addition to the numerous
works, in Latin and German, which relate to this particular period, the
author has had free access to an immense mass of important and
necessary state-papers, long buried in the archives of the Canton.

Contents.

CHAPTER FIRST. _Page._

Zwingli's youth. His labors in Glarus and Einsiedeln, 7

CHAPTER SECOND.

Zwingli in Zurich. Beginning of the Reformation. Political
and ecclesiastical affairs up to the first Religious
Conference, 53

CHAPTER THIRD.

Religious Conference in Zurich. The government takes the
place of the Bishop for the protection and superintendence
of the National Church, 106

CHAPTER FOURTH.

Danger of the Reformation and Zwingli's battle against them, 164

CHAPTER FIFTH.

Defence of the Old Order. Rise of the New, 203

CHAPTER SIXTH.

Organization of the parties. Breach of the general peace, 258

CHAPTER SEVENTH.

First Campaign. Zwingli and Luther, 283

CHAPTER EIGHTH.

Internal condition of Switzerland after the first campaign.
The Abbot of St. Gall. Political results of the Marburg
Conference, 322

CHAPTER NINTH.

Vain attempts at reconciliation. Exportation of corn
prohibited. Outbreak of War. Battle of Cappel. Zwingli's
death, 370

CHAPTER FIRST

ZWINGLI'S YOUTH. HIS LABORS IN GLARUS AND EINSIEDELN.

Near the source of the river Thur, in Wildhaus, a mountain-village of
the Toggenburg, lived the bailiff Ulric