[878] Quam beatus hic venter incanduit! quot minarum plaustra! Solent tales belluæ, &c. (Neuchatel MS.)
[879] Ne in digitos, manus, pedes, oculos, nares, aures, brachia, cor quod unum est discindatur, et quæ in rebus est varietas, principium non faciat multiplex. (Ibid.)
[880] An allusion to the controversies on anabaptism and the real presence. Non tanta erit super aqua et pane contentio, nec super gramine, solutaque obsidione. (Neuchatel MS.) The sense of these latter words is obscure.
[881] Charitas fortissimus aries. (Farel to Bucer, 10th May, 1529.)
[882] Deut. xxxii. 14.
[883] Hundeshagen, Conflikte der Bernischen Kirche, p. 19.
[884] Quum nudus-tertius Murneri Calendarium legissem, partim ridendo hominis stultissimam impudentiam. (Œcolamp. to Zwingle, Febr. 1527, Epp. ii. p. 26.)
[885] Mullinen e Senatoria dignitate protrusus est. Lapides quoque. (Haller to Zwingle, April 25, 1527. Ibid. p. 49.)
[886] Aculeos ac hamos, sic in mortalium pectora dimitte, ut etiam si velint, non possint. (Zw. Epp. ii. p. 10.)
[887] Ne plebem dehortentur ab auditione concionum nostrarum ob idolorum præsentiam. (Zw. Epp. ii. p. 49.)