A15877:43
The Reckoning and Declaration of the Faith
The reckoning and declaration of the faith and belief of huldrike Zwingli bishop of ziiryk the chief town of Helvetia, sent to Charles .v. that now is Emperor of Rome: holding a parliament or counsel at Ausbrough with the chief lords and learned men of Germany, the year of our Lord M.D.xxx. in the month of July.The rekenynge and declaracion of the fayth and belefe of huldrike zwyngly byshoppe of ziiryk the chefe town of Heluitia, sent to Charles .v. that nowe is Emproure of Rome: holdynge a parlement or counsayll at Ausbrough with the chefe lordes and lerned men of Germanye, the yere of our Lorde M.D.xxx. in the moneth of July.
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And the mind of man wandereth even above the stars and searcheth the deepest of the ⟨image 21⟩earth, while his body is but in one little place Again yet saith christ, yet again I leave the world & I go to the father. Here is this word, LEAVe, as before was this word, HAVE / so that our adversaries can not say and gloss it out adding we have him not visibly. For when he spake a little before of the visible subtraction and withdrawing of his body, he said thus, for a little while ye shall not see me, &c. who would here contend of this saying (ye shall not see me) his body to be present, but yet invisible? verily none, except such as would juggle with his sayings and his presence and absence bodily. Wherefore should he flee mens sight which would be here, and showed himself so oft unto his disciples after his resurrection / But it is expedient (saith he) that I go my way.1 But and if he were here still, it should not be expedient that we should not see him, sith as oft as his disciples doubted of his bodily presence he exhibited and offered himself manifestly that neither sense nor mind should not suffer any lack of him nor he deceived, but fully and certainly assured of his presence, himself saying unto them: feel and touch me, and fear not. For it is I my very self. And unto Mary he said. Touch me not. Albeit ⟨image 21⟩he showed himself to her visibly. And when he was now going hence and should commend his disciples unto his father he said.2 After this time I shall not be in the world. Here is a verb substantive, after this I am not in the world, as well as is in these words. This is my body. So that neither here can our adversaries say, that there can be no trope, which deny that verb substantives may receive any trope. But the thing it self needeth no such evasions, for it followeth But these are in the world, which Antithesis and contraposition teacheth plainly, himself as concerning his manhood, not to be in the world after that his disciples should be in it. And to know when he went his way (not as they rather feign & lye expounding it that he should but make himself invisible) thus saith Luke.3