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the creation of pastoral family life, with its innumerable happy homes.i
In Zwingli's beautiful copy of the Greek Bible (from the press of Aldus in Venice, 1518), which is still preserved and called " Zwingli's Bible," he entered with his own hand a domestic chronicle, which records the names, birthdays, and sponsors of his four children, as follows : " Regula Zwingli, born July 13, 1521 ; ^ Wilhelm Zwingli, born January 29, 1526 ; 3 Huldreich Zwingli, born Jan. 6, 1528;^ Anna Zwingli, born May 4, 1530." ^ His last male descendant was his grandson, Ulrich, professor of theology, born 1556, died 1601. The last female descendant was his great-granddaughter, Anna Zwingli, who presented his MS. copy of the Greek Epistles of Paul to the city library of Zurich in 1634.
Zwingli lived in great simplicity, and left no property. His little study (the " Zwingli-Stiibli "), in the official dwelling of the deacon of the Great Minster, is carefully preserved in its original condition.
§ 16. Zwhigli and Lambert of Avignon.
In July, 1522, there appeared in Zurich a Franciscan monk, Lambert of Avignon, in his monastic dress, riding on a donkey. He had left his convent in the south of France, and was in search of evangelical religion. Haller of Berne recommended him to Zwingli. Lambert preached some Latin sermons against the abuses of the Roman Church, but still advocated the worship of saints and of the Virgin Mary.
1 Comp. vol. VI. § 79, p. 473 sqq.
2 She married Rudolf Gwalter, Bullinger's adopted son and successor, and first editor of Zwingli's collected works.
3 He studied at Strassburg with Capito, and died with him of the pestilence, 1541.
* He became pastor of the Prediger-Kirche, and married Bullinger's oldest daughter, Anna.
5 Anna died very young, and her death is recorded in the same book.
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Zwingli interrupted him with the remark, " You err," and convinced him of his error in a disputation.
The Franciscan thanked God and proceeded to Wittenberg, where Luther received him kindly. At the Synod of Homberg (1526) he advocated a scheme of Presbyterian church government, and at the conference at Marburg he professed to be converted to Zwingli's view of the Lord's Supper.^
§ 17. The Sixty-seven Conclusions .
On the Sixty-seven Conclusions and the Three Disputations see Zwingli : Werke, I. A. 105 sqq. ; Bl'llinger: I. 97 sqq. ; Egli : 111, 114, 173 sqq. ; MoRiKOFER : I. 138 sqq., 191 sqq. The text of the Sixty-seven Articles in Swiss-German, Werke, I. A. 153-157 ; in modern German and Latin, in ScHAFF : Creeds of Christendom, III. 197-207.
Zwingli's views, in connection with the Lutheran Reformation in Germany, created a great commotion, not only in the city and canton of Zurich, but in all Switzerland. At his suggestion, the government — that is, the burgomaster and the small and large Council (called The Two Hundred) — ordered a public disputation which should settle the controversy on the sole basis of the Scriptures.
For this purpose Zwingli published Sixty-seven Articles or Conclusions (^Sclilussrederi). They are the first public statement of the Reformed faith, but they never attained symbolical authority, and were superseded by maturer confessions. They resemble the Ninety-five Theses of Luther against indulgences, which six years before had opened the drama of the German Reformation ; but they mark a great advance in Protestant sentiment, and cover a larger number of topics. They are full of Christ as the only Saviour and Mediator, and clearly teach the supremacy of the Word of God as the only rule of faith; they reject and attack the primacy of the Pope, the j\Iass, the invocation of saints,
1 See vol. VI. 582 sqq., 586 sq., 649. Comp. Bullinger, I. 76 sqq. ; Haller's letter to Zwingli, July 8, 1522 {Opera, VII. 206 sq.).