A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

made¹ a defensive League with Zurik, Berne, and Basil, Qui & vicini erant, & dogmate magis conveniebant, saith Sleidan, they were not only neighbours, but of the same Faith and Religion, therefore² they made a confederacy with them. About two years after the Elector of Saxony refused to take into confederacy those Helvetians, because although they were powerful, and might be very helpful to him, yet they differing in Religion, concerning the Article of the Lords Supper, he said, he durst not join with them as confederates, lest such sad things might befall him, as the Scripture testifieth to have befallen those who for their help or defence took any assistance they could get.

made¹ a defensive League with Zurik, Berne, and Basil, Qui & vicini erant, & dogmate magis conveniebant, saith Sleidan, they were not onely neighbours, but of the same Faith and Religion, therefore² they made a confederacy with them. About two yeares after the Elector of Saxony refused to take into confederacy those Eelvetians, because although they were powerfull, and might be very helpfull to him, yet they differing in Religion, concerning the Article of the Lords Supper, he said, he durst not joyne with them as confederats, lest such sad things might befal him, as the Scripture testifieth to have befallen those who for their help or defence took any assistance they could get.

1. 1Sleid. come. lib. 7. pag. 106.Sleid. com. lib. 7. pag. 106.
2. 2Ibid: lib: 8 pag. 127, de Helvetiis infoedus recipiendis▪ quod civitates valde cupiebant, Sáxo per Legatos respondet, quoniam de coena Dom. diversum sequantur dogma non sibi licere societatem cum ipsis ullam coire: quanti sit ipsorum conjunctio, propter vires atque potentiam, non se quidem latere, sed eo sibi minime respiciendum esse, ne tristis inde sequatur exitus, quod iis accidisse Scriptura testetur, qui muniendi sui causa, cujusque modi praesidiis usi fuissent. Vide etiam pag. 1 3. Quod si Zuingliani faterentur errorem atque desisterent, comprehendi etiam in hac pace sin minus, tum deserendos, nec auxilii quicquam cis communicandum, neque foedus ullum cum ipsis faciendum esse. Et infra lib. 9. pag. 156. Et recipiendos esse placet in hoc foedus (Smalcaldicum) qui velint atque cupiant modo, Doctrina Augustae propositam in Comitiis profiteantur, & sortem communem subeant.