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H u l d r e i c h Zw i n g l i T ran sl at ed fo r th e l a te Sam u el M a ca uley Ja ckso n a nd Publi shed u nd er the A u spi cee of the Am erican So ciety of Church History V olum e Three

Edi ted , wi th N o tes , b y Clarence N evin H eller Wi th In troducti on s by Geo rge Warren Richard s and a Prefa c e by William Walker Rockwell Phil adelphi a T he H eidelb erg Pres s

PREFACE HE earliest truly comprehensive treatise on Protestant theology is here presented in English for the ﬁrst time .

To be sure, Melanchthon 's famous L oci Theologi ci of 1 521 ante dates by four years Zwingli 's D e Vera cl Falsa R elig i on e, but it does not deal with the full -orbed Protestant faith , emphasizing rather special points then in controversy .

A venerated teacher of mine , the late Professor Wilhelm Herrmann of Marburg , once declared that he could predict most of the arguments that would be employed in a new book on systematic divinity by merely analyzing the sequence of topics in its table of contents .

By this test, Melanchthon is seen to have been inﬂuenced by the sequence used by St . Paul in the Epistle to the Romans ;

whereas Zwingli presents an original and far more compreh en sive plan of arrangement 2 and , therefore, justiﬁes the claim that among Protestant system

-builders he is the pioneer .

Zwingli 's reply to his critic, Jerome Emser, which is called for short the An ti bolon also ﬁnds a place in this pres ent volume , for Zwingli quotes it frequently and at length in his Tr ue and False R elig i on .

The Latin text here followed is that of the third volume of the critical edi tion : Hu ldrez che We s S iimtlz ch Zwi ng lz '

'rke u n te fr M i twi rku ng des Zwing li -Verez ' ns i n Zii ri ch herausg eg eben von Emi l Eg li , Georg Fi nsler fwnd Walth er Kohler ( Leipzig, Since the Great War the publication of this series h as been resumed by the ﬁrm of Hei nsi us in Leipzig .

Translations of both these treatises were prepared nearly a generation ago for the late Professor Samuel M acaul ay Jackson ,

'See Philippi M el anth oni s Op era quae Supersunt Omni a, ed .

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Bi ndseil , v ol . XXI ( B run sviga e, 1 854 ) p . 82, al so p . 74 .

'Egl i , Fi n sl er and Kohl er, III , 9 12 .

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D .D . , LL .D . ,

of New York University .

The Tru e and False Relig i on was translated by Henry Preble , Esq . , of New York , a classical philologian .

To make his version conform more closely to the dialect of theologians, it was later reviewed by the Reverend Charles Tupper Baillie, B .D . , n ow pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church , Bloomington , Illinois .

The Reply to Emser was translated by Professor George William Gilmore, M .A . , of New York .

Both translations have now been carefully revised and annotated by Clarence Nevin Heller,

Litt.D . , Librarian of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States at Lancaster, Pennsylvania .

At the suggestion of several members of the American Society of Church History, each tract is preceded by an his tori cal , analytical , and interpretative introduction prepared by the Reverend George W . Richards , D .D . , LL .D . , D .Th . ,

President and Professor of Church History in the Seminary at Lancaster .

Dr . Richards has used certain material from the German prefaces in the Egli and Pinsler edition , as specifically authorized in a letter of its editors printed in facsimile in the ﬁrst volume of the present series .

It is hoped that these intro ducti ons will enable students to un derstand Zwi ngli more read ily and will win fresh appreciation of his importance in the evolution of Protestant thought .

The present volume is the third of a series of ﬁve or six projected by Dr . Jackson , author of the well

-kn own biography of Zwingli In a circular signed on March 29 , 1 91 2 , a few months before his death , Dr . Jackson directed that "in case his own editorial labors shoul d be interfered with by inva lidism or death , the work will be brought to completion under the supervision of the American Society of Church History and under the immediate direction of the Secretary of this Society, the Rev . Professor William Walker Rockwell .

The Society duly accepted this project, but had no money to appropriate for the purpose .

As stated in the Preface to Volume II , the Reverend James I . Good, D .D . , was for many years most active in making ﬁnancial preparations to insure publication .

Since Dr . Good ' s death , which occurred at Philadelphia on January 21 , 1 924, there has been reprinted from the Papers of the Am eri can S oci

PREFACE ety of Church His tory (second series , volume V III , 1 928) the memorial address by Dr . Richards, which appraises his services to the cause of church history in the United States .

Dr . Good was chairman of a committee appointed by the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States on the publication of the Latin works of Zwingli in translation .

The ﬁrst volume appeared in 1 91 2 ; the second in 1 922 .

Some of the funds which make possible the publication of the present volume were procured from private individuals and some by appropriations of denominations belonging to the Western

Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches holding the Pres byteri an System (see volume II , page vi)

After Dr . Good 's death , Dr . George W . Richards , of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United

States at Lancaster, Pennsylvania , served as chairman of the committee . The funds held by Dr . Good were paid to him by the administrator of the estate .

To supplement that money , the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States , meeting at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, in 1 926 , appropriated si x hundred dollars for the publication of the present volume .

The projected fourth volum e will contain Zwingli 's writ ings on the Eucharist, to be edited by Professor Robert Hast ings Nichols , Ph

.D . , D .D . ,

of the Auburn Theological Semin ary .

In the Opinion of the undersigned, it is not fair to Dr .

Nichols to ask him actually to begin the arduous labor of revis ing and editing M r . Preble 's translations unti l money is raised to guarantee their publication As Eucharistic doctrines held a central place in sixteenth century discussions , the fourth vol ume —an important aid to understanding the Protestant B efor mation— will be a large on e.

To complete the publication of the Lati n Works will require a ﬁfth volume .

The slow progress of the critical edi tion of Egli , Fi nsler and Kohler makes it difﬁcul t to give as yet a list of all that it shoul d include .

Many parts of it are on hand in Mr . Preble 's translations .

The extensive and valuable correspondence of Zwingli has also been translated on the basis of the old edi tion of Schuler and Schulthess . This should be revised in accordance with the critical text of Egli , Pinsler, and Kohler and printed, probably

vi PREFACE as a sixth and concluding volume .

May the public-spirited labors of Drs . Jackson , Good , and Richards be rewarded before long by the completion of the project of making available in English , the language spoken by the largest lingui stic group of Protestants , the Latin works of a valiant Protestant pioneer .

WILLIAM WALKER R OCKW ELL .

New York, April 27, 1 929 .