After the death of Dr. George T. Jackson, which occurred in New York City on Monday, January 3, 1916, the undersigned continued negotiations with the surviving executor. Through the kind offices of George C. Sprague, Esq.,- a personal friend of the late Samuel Macauley Jackson, an agreement was drawn up between Frederick W, Jackson, Esq., as surviving executor and the American Society of Church History, Inc. This was ratified at a special meeting of the Council of the Society, held in New York City on the 16t.h of February, 1918 ; by the 17th of April it had received the requisite signature.^

’ Papers of the American Society of Church History, second series, vol. IV (1914), p. ix. This action was taken on the day when the Society devoted an entire session to addresses in memory of Dr. Jackson, who had been its Secretary from its foundation in 1888 till shortly before his death {Ibid.,Y)p. 1-20).

‘At its annual nioeting in 191!) the Society gave ^Ir. Sprague a vote of thanks.

‘Papers, second series, vol. VI, 1921, p. xxxiv.

This agreement transferred to the American Society of Church History all the printed copies of the first volume of the set together with the copyright thereof; also the unpublished manuscripts and the working library^ used in connection therewith and the right to reprint any article from Dr. Jackson’s ”Selections from Zwingli,” to which he held the copyright. The Society, on its part, agreed to “publish the remainder of the said Works of Huldreich Zwingli, or such parts thereof as in its discretion it shall consider advisable, at as early a date as is reasonably practicable, in view of the demand therefor.” The Society agreed to continue the publications along the general lines contemplated by the late Dr. S. M. Jackson and to cause his name to appear on the cover and title page of each succeeding volume; and to pay to the estate of Dr. Jackson fifty per cent, of the gross amount of all sales of the first volume of the set. Previous to the signing of the agreement with the surviving executor, the American Society of Church History had entered into negotiations with the Rev. Rufus W. Miller, D.D., Secretary of the Publication and Sunday School Board of the Reformed Church in the United States. In 1917-18 arrangements were completed whereby the publication will be continued by this organization under its trade name of the Heidelberg Press, without involving the American Society of Church History in financial responsibility.

This happy solution of the problem would never have been reached had it not been for the interest taken by the officials of the Heidelberg Press and by the Rev. President George W. Richards, D.D., of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at Lancaster, Pa., and above all, by the Rev. Prof. James I. Good, D.D., of Philadelphia, who as chairman of the special committee of the General Synod of the Reformed Church, had most effectively co-operated with the American Society of Church History to make the publication of the theological works of Zwingli possible. At the meeting of the General Synod of the Reformed Church, held in 1917, at Dayton, Ohio, Dr. Good reported that sufficient money and pledges had

• Twenty or thirty volumes bearing on Zwingli, consisting chiefly of copies of texts which Dr. Jackson had been in the habit of loaning to translators.

VI PREFACE been secured from private individuals to warrant the publication of Zwingli’s largest and most important work ”Of True and False Religion.”^ He had also enlisted the interest and financial support of the Western Section of the “Alliance of the Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System.” As a result, each of the constituent denominations of that Alliance contributed its share financially for another volume of this series. The latter volume is the one now issued and the following denominations had part in making its publication possible : The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern), the United Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Reformed Church in America and the Reformed Church in the United States. The generous assistance of all these churches is hereby gratefully acknowledged.

These appropriations are simply to help pay the cost of publication ; the very modest honorarium of the editors will be met by funds privately raised by Dr. Good. If it should seem desirable to prepare new translations of the German Works, and to revise the inadequate manuscript version of the Correspondence, additional money will be required.

The scope of the translation was stated by Dr. Jackson in his circular of March 29, 1921, as follows: ‘To bring out a series comprising, in not less than six volumes of about 100,000 words each, printed in royal octavo, all the Latin treatises and also the more important of the German treatises of Zwingli, and in addition the complete Zwingli correspondence.”

Careful computations made by the undersigned after Dr. Jackson’s death, at the request of his executors, showed that the series would be considerably longer and much more expensive than Dr. Jackson had estimated. It was decided, therefore, to revert to Dr. Jackson’s original plan of presenting the Latin treatises of Zwingli, and to postpone the revision and printing of the Correspondence, and the translation of additional German tracts, until funds should be available for those purposes.

The delay in the publication of the critical edition of Zwingli’s Works by Egli and Finsler has raised an interesting

’ Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the U. 8., 1917, p. 30.

PREFACE VII methodical problem for the editors of the present volume. Dr. S. M. Jackson desired that it should represent the latest critical text and held back those tracts already translated on the basis of Schuler and Schulthess, for ten years, in order to benefit by the labors of Egli and Finsler.^

Of the Tracts included in the present volume none have as yet appeared in the critical edition ; all are based on Schuler and Schulthess. As early as 1916 the present writer, foreseeing this eventuality, consulted Professor Finsler, who wrote a letter from Basel on the 27th of February, 1916, saying (in German) : ”In my opinion you may use for the purpose of your translation in those cases where Tracts have not yet appeared in our edition of Zwingli, either the original prints or the edition of Schuler and Schulthess. About the individual prints my Zwingli-Bibliographie (Zurich, 1897), gives you exact information.”

Professor Finsler went on to say that the “Account of the Faith of Zwingli” would be presented in volume V, number 163 ; that the “Exposition of the Christian Faith” would be in volume VI, number 181 ; and that the ”Letter to the Illustrious Princes of Germany Assembled at Augsburg” would be in volume VI, number 167 ; and these would be ready in about five, seven and six years respectively. He continued: “For these three items there are good original prints; and these are also reprinted in such a way in the two complete editions and in Schuler and Schulthess that you may, in my opinion, calmly base your translation on the said editions. I regret that our own edition cannot be of service to you yet.”

As all but one of these Tracts were printed in Zwingli’s lifetime and thus received Zwingli’s own imprimatur, their printed text is superior to any possible divergent manuscript

‘The death of Professor Egli in 1908, followed in 1920 by that of Professor Finsler has thrown the burden of continuing the labors chiefly upon Professor Walther Koehler of Zurich; and post-war conditions have temporarily arrested publication. In his valuable report on “Die Zwingliliteratur der Jahre 1913-1920,” (Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte, XXXIX (Neue Folge II), p. 167, Lie. Ernst Stahelin points out that the Tracts have been printed as far as Bd. IV, Lfg. 6, Suhsidium sive coronis de eucharistia, dated Aug. 17, 1525; whereas the Correspondence has progressed to the sixth installment of its third volume, ending with a letter of May 17, 1528. It is greatly to be hoped that publication may be resumed, in which case American subscriptions would be most appropriate.

VIII PREFACE evidence, which would be of service merely as correcting misprints overlooked by Zwingli or by his proofreader.

In continuing the publication of the Latin Tracts we have rehictantly decided to abandon the chronological order ; instead we present Zwingli’s Latin Works in topical groups. As will be seen from its Table of Contents, the present volume (II) contains in the sequence of their dates certain comprehensive Statements of Zwingli’s beliefs, such as An Account of the Faith of Huldrelch Zwingli presented to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. The inclusion of John Eck’s refutation thereof presents material indispensable in judging Zwingli’s divergence from Roman Catholicism as seen by contemporaries. To prevent this attack on Zwingli from being carelessly mistaken for one of his own productions it is printed in smaller type.

The translations in the present volume were made (with one exception) by Mr. Henry Preble, formerly an assistant professor of Latin in Harvard University. They have been carefully revised and annotated by Professor William J. Hinke, Ph.D., D.D., of the Auburn Theological Seminary, a wellknown writer on the history of the Reformed Church in the United States.

The third volume will contain Zwingli’s longest systematic treatise, Of True and False Religion (1525). This deserves a place in the history of Protestant theology between Melanchthon’s Loci of 1521 and Calvin’s Institutio of 1536. In this volume there will also be presented in translation: Adversus Hieronymwm Ejuserum, canonis missae adsertorem, Huldrychi Zuinglii antibolon} Though belonging by topic to the Writings on the Eucharist, which Professor Robert Hastings Nichols, Ph.D., of the Auburn Theological Seminary will edit as the fourth volume of this series, the Antiholon is quoted so frequently and at such length in Of True and False Religion that it seems best to us to transfer it to the third volume, thus incidentally relieving the great pressure on the space of the fourth.

The third volume will present translations by Mr. Preble, revised during 1917-1921 by Rev. Charles Tupper Baillie, B.D., formerly professor in the Canadian Presbyterian Theological

’ Egli and Finsler. Ill, 230-287.

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College in Trinidad, B.W.I., and now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Plattsburg, New York. The Latin texts translated for the third volume have appeared in the edition of Egli and Finsler ; and the introduction and notes, to be prepared by the undersigned, will make free use of the material of that edition, as authorized by the late Dr. Finsler in a letter published in facsimile in the prefatory matter of the first volume of the present work.

William Walker Rockwell.

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, August 1st, 1921.

PREFACE … iii

Declaration Op Huldreich Zwingli Regarding Original Sin, Addressed to Urbanus Rhegius. August 15, 1526 I

An Account of the Faith of Huldreich Zwingli, Submitted to the German Emperor Charles V, at the Diet of Augsburg. July 3, I53o • • • 33

REFUTATION OF THE ARTICLES OF ZWINGLI PRESENTED TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, MADE BY JOHN ECK UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE MOST HONORABLE PRINCE, LORD ERHARD, S. R. E., CARDINAL BISHOP OF LIEGE. JULY 17, 1530 62

Letter of Huldreich Zwingli to the Illustrious Princes of Germany Assembled at Augsburg, Regarding the Insults of Eck. August 27, I53o . Io5

Reproduction from Memory of a Sermon on the Providence of God, Dedicated to His Highness, Philip of Hesse. August 20, I53o … I28

A SHORT AND CLEAR EXPOSITION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH PREACHED BY HULDREICH ZWINGLI, WRITTEN BY ZWINGLI HIMSELF SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH TO A CHRISTIAN KING. THUS FAR NOT PRINTED BY ANYONE AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED TO THE WORLD. WRITTEN JULY, I53I … 235

Additional Notes

The Works of Huldreich Zwingli

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