Chapter V: Book XVI: Page 361

SWITZERLAND--CATASTROPHE.

1528-1531.

Christian Warfare--Zwingle--Persecutions--Austrian Alliance--Animosity--
Christian Exhortation--Keyser's Martyrdom--Zwingle and
War--Zwingle's Error--Zwingle's Advice--War of Religion--Zwingle
joins the Army--War--The Landamman Æbli--Bernese Interposition--Swiss
Cordiality--The Zurich Camp--A Conference--Peace
Restored--Austrian Treaty Torn--Zwingle's Hymn--Nuns of St.
Catherine--Conquests of Reform--The Priest of Zurzack--The Reform
in Glaris--Italian Bailiwicks--The Monk of Como--The Monk
of Locarno--Letter to the German Church--The Monks of Wettingen--Abbé
of St. Gaul--Kiliankouffi--Soleure--A New Miracle--Popery
Triumphs--The Grisons Invaded--Forebodings to Berne--Mutual
Errors--Failure of the Diet--Political Reformation--Activity
of Zurich--Diet Arau--Blockade of the Waldsleddtes--Indignation--France
Conciliates--Diet at Bremgarten--The Five Cantons Inflexible--Zurich--
Zwingle's False Position--The Great Council--Zwingle
at Bremgarten--The Apparition--Zwingle's Agony--Frightful
Omens--The Comet--Zwingle's Tranquillity--New Mediations--Deceitful
Calm--Fatal Inactivity--Zurich Forewarned--Manifesto
of the Cantons--The Abbot Wolfgang--Infatuation of Zurich--The
War Begins--A Fearful Night--The War--Army of Zurich--Zwingle's
Departure--Anna Zwingle--Army of Zurich--Battle of Cappel--The
March--Ambuscade--The Banner in Danger--The Banner
Saved--Terrible Slaughter--Slaughter of the Pastors--Zwingle's Last
Moments--Barbarity of the Victors--The Furnace of Trial--Distress--Zwingle
is Dead--Funeral Oration--Army of Zurich--Another Reverse--Inactivity
of the Bernese--Joy of the Romanists--End of the
War--Death of Œcolampadius--Conclusion.

HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION.