[247] Seidemann, Thomas Münzer, p. 35.

[248] Schenkel, iii. 381.

[249] Heinrich Grosbeck's Bericht, ed. Cornelius, 19.

[250] Herzog, Encyclopädie für protestantische Theologie, ii. 418.

[251] Bussierre, Establissement du Protestantisme en Alsace, p. 429.

[252] Baum, Capito und Butzer, p. 489.

[253] Baum, p. 492; Erbkam, Protestantische Sekten, p. 581.

[254] Ursinus writes to Bullinger: "Liberavit nos Deus ab idolatria: succedit licentia infinita et horribilis divini nominis, ecclesiae doctrinae purioris et sacramentorum prophanatio et sub pedibus porcorum et canum, conniventibus atque utinam non defendentibus iis qui prohibere suo loco debebant, conculcatio" (Sudhoff, Olevianus und Ursinus, p. 340).

[255] "Adserere audemus, neminem magistratum recte gerere ne posse quidem, nisi Christianus sit" (Zuingli, Opera, iii. 296). "If they shall proceed in an unbrotherly way, and against the ordinance of Christ, then let them be deposed, in God's name" (Schenkel, iii. 362).

[256] Christoffel, Huldreich Zwingli, p. 251.