Of such wisdom the Gospel knows nothing; it demands fraternal
assistance and love, and does not permit rank without humility,
requiring from those, who stand in the highest places, subordination
under God. Perhaps (for who can fathom the ways of Providence?) the
adherents of the above-named principles will yet again reach out the
hand of friendship to each other. Then will begin the last, severest
battle; but the Gospel must triumph, for the Church of Christ, under
her _one_, _Divine_ Head, perpetually revealing himself in history and
the power of love, is founded upon a rock; then also will all _human_
order be custom refined by science and ennobled by art and nature, a
unity in substance, with endless diversity in form--the adversary of
all revolutions.
FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER SEVENTH:
Footnote 1: Which, according to the Gospel and Zwingli's views
elsewhere unfolded, (see M. Huldr. Zwingli's Schriften im Auszug v.
_Usteri_ und Vœglin, Bd. I. Abth. 2, S. 387,) is one with Love.
Footnote 2: For the German translation of this passage from the Latin
of Zwingli, the author was indebted to the above-mentioned work of
_Usteri Vœglin_.
Footnote 3: All activity of the understanding is in its nature
formal. Hence in order to pass over into reality, if it would become
more than an exercise of the mind, which can be endlessly prolonged, it
needs positive material. As soon as it transcends the positive and
enters the region of so-called pure ideas, the dominion of the
intellect, it runs into nothing, becomes a negation. The natural
consequence of this _dominion_ of the intellect, of which many now
dream, is the popular doctrine: "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we
die." To this the very wisest legislation of all nations has given too
little attention.
Footnote 4: _De Eucharistia_. Zwingli's Works, by Schuler and
Schultheiss, _Latinorum scriptorum pars prima_, p. 341.
Footnote 5: Thursday of Passion-week, 1525.
Footnote 6: Martin Luther's Works, edited by Pfizer, p. 600.
Footnote 7: Equal to 270 English miles.--_Translator_.
Footnote 8: Lingard's History of England, Vol. VIII. Ch. 3 and 6.
CHAPTER EIGHTH.
INTERNAL CONDITION OF SWITZERLAND AFTER THE FIRST CAMPAIGN.
THE ABBOT OF SAINT GALL. POLITICAL RESULTS OF THE
MARBURG CONFERENCE.
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