[Footnote 259: _Ibid._, _Leo Judae_, p. 50.] [Footnote 260: Pestalozzi, _Heinrich Bullinger_, p. 146.] [Footnote 261: _Ibid._ p. 149.] [Footnote 262: _Ibid._ p. 270.] [Footnote 263: Pestalozzi, _Heinrich Bullinger_, p. 426.] [Footnote 264: In the year 1555 he writes to Socinus: "I too am of opinion that heretical men must be cut off with the spiritual sword.... The Lutherans at first did not understand that sectaries must be restrained and punished, but after the fall of Muenster, when thousands of poor misguided men, many of them orthodox, had perished, they were compelled to admit that it is wiser and better for the Government not only to restrain wrong-headed men, but also, by putting to death a few that deserve it, to protect thousands of inhabitants" (_Ibid._ p. 428).] [Footnote 265: Herzog, _Leben Oekolampads_, ii 197.] [Footnote 266: _Ibid._ p. 189.] [Footnote 267: _Ibid._ p. 206.] [Footnote 268: Herzog, _Leben Oekolampads_, ii. 195. Herzog finds an excuse for the harsh treatment of the Lutherans at Basel in the still greater severity of the Lutheran Churches against the followers of the Swiss reformation (_Ibid._ 213).] [Footnote 269: Hundeshagen, _Conflikte des Zwinglianismus und Calvinismus_, 41.] [Footnote 270: "Huc spectat (politia) ... ne idololatria, ne in Dei nomen sacrilegia, ne adversus ejus veritatem blasphemiae aliaeque religionis offensiones publice emergant ac in populum spargantur.... Politicam ordinationem probo, quae in hoc incumbit, ne vera religio, quae Dei lege continetur, palam, publicisque sacrilegiis impune violetur" (_Institutio Christianae Religionis_, ed. Tholuck, ii. 477). "Hoc ergo summopere requiritur a regibus, ut gladio quo praediti sunt utuntur ad cultum Dei asserendum" (_Praelectiones in Prophetas, Opera_, v. 233, ed. 1667).] [Footnote 271: "Huic etiam colligere promptum est, quam stulta fuerit imaginatio eorum qui volebant usum gladii tollere e mundo, Evangelii praetextu. Scimus Anabaptistas fuisse tumultuatos, quasi totus ordo politicus repugnaret Christi regno, quia regnum Christi continetur sola doctrina; deinde nulla futura sit vis. Hoc quidem verum esset, si essemus in hoc mundo angeli: sed quemadmodum jam dixi, exiguus est piorum numerus: ideo necesse est reliquam turbam cohiberi violento freno: quia permixti sunt filii Dei vel saevis belluis, vel vulpibus et fraudulentis hominibus" (_Pr. in Michaeam_, v. 310). "In quo non suam modo inscitiam, sed diabolicum fastum produnt, dum perfectionem sibi arrogant; cujus ne centesima quidem pars in illis conspicitur" (_Institutio_, ii. 478).] [Footnote 272: "Tota igitur excellentia, tota dignitas, tota potentia Ecclesiae debet huc referri, ut omnia subjaceant Deo, et quicquid erit in gentibus hoc totum sit sacrum, ut scilicet cultus Dei tam apud victores quam apud victos vigeat" (_Pr. in Michaeam_, v. 317).]