tofore, to proclaim the Holy Gospel and the real Sacred Scripture,
according to the Spirit of God and his ability. Also, all the other
priests of the people, pastors and preachers, in our city, canton and
dependencies, shall not do otherwise, nor preach, except what they may
be able to prove by the Holy Scripture. Likewise, they shall not
henceforth call each other hard names, nor use other words of reproach.
For they who act personally in this, we will deal with in such a
manner, that they shall see and find that they have done wrong."

"God be praised!"--said Zwingli--"He will have his Word rule in heaven
and on earth, and to you, my Lords of Zurich, he will doubtless grant
strength and power to establish his truth in your canton."

Once more the Vicar General essayed to speak. Now, for the first time,
it became possible for him to read the articles of Zwingli, and of
course he had to find several that were not sustained by the Holy
Scriptures. "Well then--prove it, Sir Vicar General," said Zwingli. It
can be seen in works on church-history, how Faber, with no little
adroitness and a blinding flow of words, endeavored to point out a
contradiction between several of the syllogisms and some points of Holy
Scripture. Perhaps, too, this would have succeeded before hearers less
instructed; but with the greatest ease his superior antagonist shewed
to the assembly, where in one place he tore words from their
connection, in another distorted the plain sense, sought to give the
later expressions of the Fathers a scriptural sound, and even employed
the arts of a lawyer, in which he himself was evidently conscious of
deceit. "You knew"--said Zwingli--"Sir Vicar General, that we,
formerly, at the university, practised in common such dazzling tricks
of logic, and that I am skilled in them as well as you; but it truly
grieves me, that you as a serious man come still armed with such
sophistries."

Anger began to appear in the assembly. The speeches of the opposing
parties became shorter and more bitter. In order to keep them from
degenerating into abuse, the Councils rose. The assembly dissolved, and
the burgomaster Roist took leave of the by-standers with a smile,
saying: "The sword, with which the pastor of Fislispach was stabbed,
would not come out of its sheath to-day."

Faber by his behavior had fallen low in the estimation of the
Zurichers. The monks alone, whose courage again revived, since the
close of the battle, tried