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a Grace Notes course History of the Christian Church VOLUME 8 Modern Christianity, The Swiss Reformation By Philip Schaff CH806 Chapter 6: The Period of Consolidation History of the Christian Church Volume 8 Modern Christianity, The Swiss Reformation CH806 Table of Contents Chapter 6. The Period of Consolidation ........................................................................................2 8.53. Literature ................................................................................................................................... 2 8.54. Heinrich Bullinger. 1504–1575 .................................................................................................. 3 8.55. Antistes Breitinger (1575–1645)................................................................................................ 8 8.56. Oswald Myconius, Antistes of Basel .......................................................................................... 8 8.57. The Helvetic Confessions of Faith .............................................................................................. 9 the City Library in 1792. It has often been used, Chapter 6. The Period of and, though partly depreciated by more recent Consolidation discoveries, is still a treasure-house of information. The Bullinger correspondence is 8.53. Literature found in the volumes from A.D. 1531–1575.— I. Manuscript sources preserved in the City ACTA ECCLESIASTICA intermixtis politicis et Library of Zurich, which was founded 1629, politico-ecclesiasticis MANUSCRIPTA ex ipsis and contains c. 132,000 printed vols. and 3,500 fontibus hausta in variis fol. Tomis MSS. See Salomon Voegelin: Geschichte der chronologice pro administratione ANTISTITII Wasserkirche und der Stadtbibliothek in TURICENSIS in ordinem redacta. 33 vols. fol. Zurich. Zurich, 1848 (pp. 110 and 123). The Beautifully written. Comes down to the Wasserkirche (capella aquatica) is traced back administration of Antistes Joh. Jak. Hess to Charles the Great. It contains also the (1795–1798). Tom I. extends from 1519–1531; remains of the lake dwellings. The bronze tom. II. contains a biography of Bullinger, with statue of Zwingli stands in front of it. The his likeness, and the acts during his THESAURUS HOTTINGERIANUS, a collection of administration.—The State Archives of the City correspondence made by the theologian, J. H. and Canton Zurich. Hottinger, 55 vols., embraces the whole II. Printed works. JOH. CONR. FUESSLIN: Bullinger correspondence, which has been Beytraege zur Erlaeuterung der much used, but never published in full.—The KirchenReformationsgeschichten des SIMLER COLLECTION of 196 vols. fol., with double Schweitzerlandes. Zurich, 1741–1753. 5 Parts. index of 62 vols. fol., contains correspondence, Contains important documents relating to the proclamations, pamphlets, official mandates, Reformation in Züerich and the Anabaptists, and other documents, chronologically the disputation at Ilanz, etc.—SIMLER’s arranged, very legible, on good paper. Johann Sammlung alter und neuer Urkunden. Zurich, Jacob Simler (1716–1788), professor and 1760. 2 vols.—JOH. JAK. HOTTINGER (Prof. of inspector of the theological college, spent the Theol. and Canon of the Great Minster): leisure hours of his whole life in the collection Helvetische Kirchengeschichten vorstellend of papers and documents relating to the der Helvetiern ehemaliges Heidenthum, und history of Switzerland, especially of the durch die Gnade Gottes gefolgtes Reformation. This unique collection was Christenthum, etc. Zurich, 1698–1729. 4 Theile acquired by the government, and presented to 4°. 2d ed. 1737. A work of immense industry, History of the Christian Church, Philip Schaff 3 CH806: Volume 8, Chapter 6 a Grace Notes course in opposition to a Roman Catholic work of letters (mostly Latin) in the “Thesaurus Caspar Lang (Einsiedeln, 1692). The third Hottingerianus” and the “Simler Collection” of volume goes from 1616 to 1700, the fourth to the City Library at Zurich.—The second 1728. Superseded by Wirz.—LUDWIG WIRZ: volume of the Acta Ecclesiastica, quoted in Helvetische Kirchengeschichte. Aus Joh. Jak. 8.53.—The Züerich Letters or the Hottingers aelterem Werke und anderen Correspondence of several English Bishops Quellen neu bearbeitet. Zurich, 1808–1819. 6 and others with some of the Helvetian vols. The fifth volume is by MELCHIOR Reformers, chiefly from the Archives Of Zurich, KIRCHHOFER, who gives the later history of translated and edited for the “Parker Society” Zwingli from 1625, and the Reformation in the by Dr. Robinson, Cambridge (University Press), other Cantons.—JOH. JAK. HOTTINGER: 2d ed. 1846 (pp. 576). Geschichte der Eidgenossen waehrend der II. SALOMON HESS: Leben Bullinger’s. Zurich, Zeiten der Kirchentrennung. Zurich, 1825 and 1828–’29, 2 vols. Not very accurate.—*CARL 1829. 2 vols. This work forms vols. VI. and VII. PESTALOZZI: Heinrich Bullinger. Leben und of Joh. von Mueller’s and Robert Glutz ausgewaehlte Schriften. Nach Blotzheim’s Geschichten Schweizerischer handschriftlichen und gleichzeitigen Quellen. Eidgenossenschaft. The second volume (p. 446 Elberfeld, 1858. Extracts from his writings, pp. sqq.) treats of the period of Bullinger, and is 505–622. Pestalozzi has faithfully used the drawn in part from the Simler Collection and written and printed sources in the the Archives of Zurich. French translation by L. Stadtbibliothek and Archives of Zurich.—R. VULLIEMIN: Histoire des Suisses à l’époque de la CHRISTOFFEL: H. Bullinger und seine Gattin. Réformation. Paris et Zurich, 1833. 2 vols. G. R. 1875.—JUSTUS HEER: Bullinger, in HERZOG, II. ZIMMERMANN (Pastor of the Fraumuenster and 779–794. A good summary. Decan): Die Zuercher Kirche von der Older biographical sketches by LUDWIG LAVATER Reformation bis zum dritten (1576), JOSIAS SIMLER (1575), W. STUCKI (1575), Reformationsjubilueum (1519–1819) nach der etc. Incidental information about Bullinger in Reihenfolge der Zuercherischen Antistes. Hagenbach and other works on the Swiss Zurich, 1878 (pp. 414). On Bullinger, see pp. Reformation, and in MEYER’S Die Gemeinde von 36–73. Based upon the Acta Ecclesiastica Locarno, 1836, especially I. 198–216. quoted above.—JOH. STRICKLER’S After the productive period of the Zwinglian Actensammlung, previously noticed (p. 13), extends only to 1532. Reformation, which embraced fifteen years, On the Roman Catholic side comp. Archiv fuer from 1516 to 1531, followed the period of die Schweiz. Reformationsgesch., noticed preservation and consolidation under above, p. 13. The first volume (1868) contains difficult circumstances. It required a man of Salat’s Chronik down to 1534; the second firm faith, courage, moderation, patience, and (1872), 135 papal addresses to the Swiss Diet, endurance. Such a man was providentially mostly of the sixteenth century (from Martin V. equipped in the person of Heinrich Bullinger, to Clement VIII.), documents referring to 1531, the pupil, friend, and successor of Zwingli, Roman and Venetian sources on the Swiss and second Antistes of Zurich. He proved that Reformation, etc.; vol. III. (1876), a catalogue of the Reformation was a work of God, and, books on Swiss history (7–98), and a number therefore, survived the apparent defeat at of documents from the Archives of Luzern and other cities, including three letters of King Cappel. Francis I. to the Catholic Cantons, and an He was born July 18, 1504, at Bremgarten in account of the immediate consequences of the Aargau, the youngest of five sons of Dean War of Cappel by Werner Beyel, at that time Bullinger, who lived, like many priests of secretary of the city of Züerich (pp. 641–680). those days, in illegitimate, yet tolerated, 8.54. Heinrich Bullinger. 1504–1575 wedlock. The father resisted the sale of indulgences by Samson in 1518, and I. Sources. BULLINGER’S printed works (stated to be 150 by Scheuchzer in “Bibliotheca confessed, in his advanced age, from the Helvetica,” Zurich, 1733). His manuscript pulpit, the doctrines of the Reformation History of the Christian Church, Philip Schaff 4 CH806: Volume 8, Chapter 6 a Grace Notes course (1529). In consequence of this act he lost his In the first years he preached six or seven place. Young Henry was educated in the times a week; after 1542 only twice, on school of the Brethren of the Common Life at Sundays and Fridays. He followed the plan of Emmerich, and in the University of Cologne. Zwingli in explaining whole books of the He studied scholastic and patristic theology. Scriptures from the pulpit. His sermons were Luther’s writings and Melanchthon’s Loci led simple, clear, and practical, and served as him to the study of the Bible and prepared models for young preachers. him for a change. He was a most devoted pastor, dispensing He returned to Switzerland as Master of Arts, counsel and comfort in every direction, and taught a school in the Cistercian Convent at exposing even his life during the pestilence Cappel from 1523 to 1529, and reformed the which several times visited Zurich. His house convent in agreement with the abbot, was open from morning till night to all who Wolfgang Joner. During that time he became desired his help. He freely dispensed food, acquainted with Zwingli, attended the clothing, and money from his scanty income Conference with the Anabaptists at Zurich, and contributions of friends, to widows and 1525, and the disputation at Bern, 1528. He orphans, to strangers and exiles, not married Anna Adlischweiler, a former nun, in excluding persons of other creeds. He secured 1529, who proved to