The Reckoning and Declaration of the Faith

Name: The Reckoning and Declaration of the Faith
Author: Huldrych Zwingli

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.

Huldrych Zwingli 1484–1531printed by Richard wire, 1548printed by Richarde wyer, 1548

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In the .xii. I believe that feigned loud •ye of ⟨image 29⟩Purgatory fire to be a thing so contumelious and injurious unto the free redemption given through Christ, as it hath ben lucrose and profitable to authors and inuentor• thereof. For if it be necessary that our since must needs be purged with such fiery torments, then were Christ dead in vain, then were grace and favour void. Which what can be invented more pernicious in all christen religion? either what christ have they which will be called christen & yet fear they this fire, yea smoke rather then fire / but hell wherewith Ixion and Tantalus, the unfaithful rebels and sturdy adversaries to god are punished for ever / I do not only believe but I know it also.¹ For the verity, when he speaketh of the universal judgement he affirmeth that after that judgement some shall go into fire everlasting. Wherefore after the general judgment there shall be fire perpetual. By which saying, the Catabaptistes may the feebler pretext & cloak their error with this their Perpetuum (whereby they teach,² ³that their perpetuum dure no longer then unto domes day. For here speaketh christ of the perpetual fire to burn after that judgment to torment the devil with his aū gels with the ungodly that contemn god,

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The Reckoning and Declaration of the Faith

¶ The .xii article.

¶The complaining Prayers of the pore persecuted married priests with their wives and children chased out of England into sundry places of Germany: crying unto God in their hard desolate exile and grievous affliction thus.

¶The complaynynge Prayers of the pore persecuted maried priestes with theyr wyues and chyldren chased out of Englande into sondry places of Germanie: cryinge vnto God in theyr harde desolate exyle and greuous affliction thus.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

¶ The .xii article.

¶The complaining Prayers of the pore persecuted married priests with their wives and children chased out of England into sundry places of Germany: crying unto God in their hard desolate exile and grievous affliction thus.

¶The complaynynge Prayers of the pore persecuted maried priestes with theyr wyues and chyldren chased out of Englande into sondry places of Germanie: cryinge vnto God in theyr harde desolate exyle and greuous affliction thus.

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