Ecclesiastical Empire
THE REFORMATION IN SWITZERLAND
31. With the Reformed, the Swiss, it was the same. Zwingle, who gave the cast to the Reformation in Switzerland, sanctioned, if he did not really create there, the union of Church and State. His view was that the State is Christian. “The Reformer deserting the paths of the apostles, allowed himself to be led astray by the perverse example of popery.” He himself “resolved to be at one and the same time the man of the State and of the Church, ...at once the head of the State and general of the army—this double, this triple, part of the Reformer was the ruin of the Reformation and of himself.” For when war came on in Switzerland, Zwingle girded on his sword, and went with the troops to battle. “Zwingle played two parts at once—he was a reformer and a magistrate. But these are two characters that ought no more to be united than those of a minister and of a soldier. We will not altogether blame the soldiers and the magistrates in forming leagues and drawing the sword, even for the sake of religion; they act according to their point of view, although it is not the same as ours; but we must decidedly blame the Christian minister who becomes a diplomatist or a general.”
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32. He who took the sword, perished by the sword. In the first battle that was fought—Oct. 11, A. D. 1531—twenty-five of the Swiss reform preachers were slain, the chief of whom was Zwingle, who fell stricken with many blows. “If the German Reformer had been able to approach Zwingle at this solemn moment and pronounce those oft repeated words, ‘Christians fight not with sword and arquebuse, but with sufferings and with the cross,’ Zwingle would have stretched out his dying hand and said, ‘Amen.’”—D’Aubigne.
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THE ANGLES AND SAXONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0009_eng_m_chapter_vii_the_angles_and_saxons_in_the_middle_ages_988_256.mp3#duration=6627&size=66285920"},{"para_id":"988.408","title":"CHAPTER VIII - PAGAN PHILOSOPHY THE STRENGTH OF THE PAPACY","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0011_eng_m_chapter_viii_pagan_philosophy_the_strength_of_the_papacy_988_408.mp3#duration=3860&size=38612297"},{"para_id":"988.503","title":"CHAPTER IX - THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY\u2014COUNCIL OF EPHESUS","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0012_eng_m_chapter_ix_theological_controversy_council_of_ephesus_988_503.mp3#duration=3701&size=37022227"},{"para_id":"988.613","title":"CHAPTER X - THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY\u2014SECOND COUNCIL OF EPHESUS","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0013_eng_m_chapter_x_theological_controversy_second_council_of_ephesus_988_613.mp3#duration=2416&size=24169498"},{"para_id":"988.721","title":"CHAPTER XI - THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY\u2014COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0014_eng_m_chapter_xi_theological_controversy_council_of_chalcedon_988_721.mp3#duration=5167&size=51687065"},{"para_id":"988.935","title":"CHAPTER XII - THE PAPAL TEMPORAL POWER ESTABLISHED","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0020_eng_m_chapter_xii_the_papal_temporal_power_established_988_935.mp3#duration=4080&size=40813178"},{"para_id":"988.1054","title":"CHAPTER XIII - RESTORATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0021_eng_m_chapter_xiii_restoration_of_the_western_empire_988_1054.mp3#duration=7464&size=74651064"},{"para_id":"988.1251","title":"CHAPTER XIV - THE PAPACY AND THE BARBARIANS","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0022_eng_m_chapter_xiv_the_papacy_and_the_barbarians_988_1251.mp3#duration=3024&size=30250576"},{"para_id":"988.1328","title":"CHAPTER XV - THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0023_eng_m_chapter_xv_the_holy_roman_empire_988_1328.mp3#duration=10876&size=108777974"},{"para_id":"988.1669","title":"CHAPTER XVI - THE PAPAL SUPREMACY\u2014GREGORY VII TO CALIXTUS II","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0024_eng_m_chapter_xvi_the_papal_supremacy_gregory_vii_to_calixtus_ii_988_1669.mp3#duration=10454&size=104556843"},{"para_id":"988.1983","title":"CHAPTER XVII - THE PAPAL SUPREMACY\u2014INNOCENT III TO BONIFACE VIII","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0025_eng_m_chapter_xvii_the_papal_supremacy_innocent_iii_to_boniface_viii_988_1983.mp3#duration=4636&size=46372003"},{"para_id":"988.2099","title":"CHAPTER XVIII - THE PAPAL EMPIRE","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0026_eng_m_chapter_xviii_the_papal_empire_988_2099.mp3#duration=5781&size=57817058"},{"para_id":"988.2236","title":"CHAPTER XIX - \u201cTHAT WOMAN JEZEBEL\u201d","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0027_eng_m_chapter_xix_that_woman_jezebel_988_2236.mp3#duration=9211&size=92121763"},{"para_id":"988.2452","title":"CHAPTER XX - THE ANARCHY OF THE PAPACY","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0028_eng_m_chapter_xx_the_anarchy_of_the_papacy_988_2452.mp3#duration=10002&size=100036176"},{"para_id":"988.2719","title":"CHAPTER XXI - THE SPIRIT OF THE PAPACY","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0029_eng_m_chapter_xxi_the_spirit_of_the_papacy_988_2719.mp3#duration=6916&size=69172392"},{"para_id":"988.2915","title":"CHAPTER XXII - THE REFORMATION\u2014ENGLAND","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0030_eng_m_chapter_xxii_the_reformation_england_988_2915.mp3#duration=4414&size=44153016"},{"para_id":"988.3025","title":"CHAPTER XXIII - THE REFORMATION\u2014BOHEMIA","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0031_eng_m_chapter_xxiii_the_reformation_bohemia_988_3025.mp3#duration=14149&size=141504337"},{"para_id":"988.3355","title":"CHAPTER XXIV - THE REFORMATION\u2014GERMANY","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0032_eng_m_chapter_xxiv_the_reformation_germany_988_3355.mp3#duration=11748&size=117501040"},{"para_id":"988.3753","title":"CHAPTER XXV - PROTESTANTISM\u2014TRUE AND FALSE","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0033_eng_m_chapter_xxv_protestantism_true_and_false_988_3753.mp3#duration=5332&size=53336999"},{"para_id":"988.3924","title":"CHAPTER XXVI - THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE TRIUMPHANT","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0040_eng_m_chapter_xxvi_the_christian_principle_triumphant_988_3924.mp3#duration=5625&size=56265908"},{"para_id":"988.4073","title":"CHAPTER XXVII - NATIONAL APOSTASY","mp3":"\/mp3\/988\/0041_eng_m_chapter_xxvii_national_apostasy_988_4073.mp3#duration=7193&size=71944564"}]