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ZUINGLIANS

Volume 3 · 104 words · 1771 Edition

a branch of the ancient Christian reform- ers, or protestants; so called from their author Huldric Zuinglius, a divine of Switzerland, who soon after Luther had declared against the church of Rome; and being then minister of the church at Zurich, fell in with him, and preached openly against indulgences, the mass, the cel- ebracy of the clergy, &c. What he differed from Luther in, concerned the charitable: for interpreting hoc est cor- pus meum, by hoc figurativum corpus meum, he maintained that the bread and wine were only significations of the bod- y and blood of Jesus Christ; whereas Luther held a confutation.