ingli's entire love
to him as a youth, richly endowed by nature, had not yet sunk so far,
that it did not show some clear sparks, and sometimes even break out
into a momentary blaze.

But when he saw that Zwingli penetrated his inmost soul, understood,
pitied and then despised him, he conceived the most intense bitterness
against him, which at last deepened into hatred--hatred that stopped at
no means to secure revenge. Gathering all his strength, nerving all his
powers to their highest pitch, his self-confidence increased; the
various modes of interpretation, which isolated passages of the Holy
Scriptures admit, made it possible for him to maintain, with a
tolerable appearance of truth and certainty, dogmas at variance with
those of Zwingli. The support, which he found from those of like mind,
the followers who adhered to him, awakened in the head of this fanatic
the delusion that he had received a call to be a prophet, and pictured
to him a final victory over Zwingli, or at least placed in view the
crown of martyrdom, in which latter, one and another of them, perhaps,
saw, not without an inward satisfaction, an atonement for the conscious
guilt of their former lives. Here again, the simple presentation of the
facts will furnish proof for this opinion.

"May God and our Lord Jesus Christ grant it!" wrote Martin Luther, in
the beginning of the year 1525, "since a new storm is brewing. I had
almost settled down to rest, thinking the battle over, when all at once
this rises up, and it happens to me as the wise man says: If a man
leave off, then he must begin again. Doctor Andrew Carlstadt has
deserted us and become our bitterest enemy." This defection of
Carlstadt, who wished to proceed in the work of reformation more
thoroughly than Luther, demanding the destruction of images, and
setting very little value on external worship, was spoken of with
praise everywhere, and especially at Waldshut, by Thomas Muenzer,
during his visit to the borders of Switzerland, about the middle of the
year 1524. Muenzer likewise professed these same principles, yea, was
ready, for his part, to go still further than Carlstadt himself. Just
at this time, the fanatical proceedings in Zollikon, before described,
the breaking of the images there and the removal of the baptismal font,
took place. That Grebel and Manz were privy to this, and made frequent
journeys to and from Zollikon, appears with entire certainty from
reports afterward received