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…[Luther] declared that “the doctrine of the gospel should be defended by God alone.... The less man meddled in the work, the more striking would be God’s intervention in its behalf. All the politic precautions suggested were, in his view, attributable to unworthy fear and sinful mistrust.” page 209

Kings and great men were the auditory, crowned princes were the preachers, and the sermon was the royal truth of God. “Since the apostolic age,” says a writer, “there has never been a greater work or a more magnificent confession.”—D’Aubigne. GC 208.1

The Holy Scriptures ought to be explained by other and clearer texts; (page 203)

“[Zwingli],” they said, “is a preacher of the truth. He will be our Moses, to lead us forth from this Egyptian darkness.” page 177