"Zwingli was ordained and celebrated his first Mass in 1506. Like many other clerics, Zwingli was suspected of offences against celibacy. When his friend Myconius questioned him on this point Zwingli wrote from Einsiedeln that it was not, as had been asserted, a respectable girl, but a common strumpet with whom he had been intimate. Accused by his contemporaries of no slight moral offences, he made no attempt to clear himself of the charges.
Zwingli's turn to relative pacifism and his focus on preaching can be traced to the influence of Erasmus.
In 1519, Zwingli specifically rejected the veneration of saints and called for the need to distinguish between their true and fictional accounts. He cast doubts on hellfire, asserted that unbaptized children were not damned, and questioned the power of excommunication. His attack on the claim that tithing was a divine institution, however, had the greatest theological and social impact.
From 1522 the marriage of priests in Zurich became ever more frequent; Zwingli himself on 2 July, 1524, married Anna Reinhard... A new marriage law of 10 May, 1525, regulated these innovations.
On Maundy Thursday, 13 April 1525, the Mass was abolished; in its place was introduced the memorial service of the Last Supper. Zwingli celebrated communion under his new liturgy. Wooden cups and plates were used to avoid any outward displays of formality. The congregation sat at set tables to emphasize the meal aspect of the sacrament. The sermon was the focal point of the service and there was no organ music or singing. His insolence prevented an agreement with Luther regarding the doctrine of the Lord's supper.
The new doctrines were not introduced without opposition. From the Bible, which Zwingli had placed in peasants' hands, they had deduced the most marvellous doctrines, much more radical than Zwingli's and questioning even the authority of the state. Zwingli persecuted them mercilessly with imprisonment, torture, banishment and death; their leader Felix Manz was drowned.
Zwingli had considered himself first and foremost a soldier of Christ; second a defender of his country, the Confederation; and third a leader of his city, Zurich, where he had lived for the previous twelve years. Ironically, he died at the age of 47, not for Christ nor for the Confederation, but for Zurich."
sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15772a.htm
“There is no scandal greater, more dangerous, more venomous, than a good outward life, manifested by good works and a pious mode of life. That is the grand portal, the highway that leads to damnation.” - Martin Luther
Key Quotes
- HOLY BAPTISM: "Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." - John 3:5
- PENANCE (CONFESSION): "When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." - John 20:22-23
- HOLY COMMUNION: "Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed." - John 6:53-55
- CONFIRMATION: "For he was not as yet come upon any of them; but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost." - Acts 8:14-15
- HOLY MATRIMONY: "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." - Mark 10:7-9
- HOLY ORDERS: 1 Timothy 3-5
- EXTREME UNCTION: "Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him." - James 5:14-15
- CELIBACY, RELIGIOUS LIFE: "For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it." - Matthew 19:12
- AGAINST SOLA FIDE: "So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself...For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead." - James 2:17,26
- AGAINST SOLA FIDE: "Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: BUT HE THAT DOTH the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 7:22
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." - 1 Timothy 3:15
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you." - 1 Corinthians 11:2
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle." - 2 Thessalonians 2:15
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Understanding this first, that no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20
- AGAINST DENOMINATIONS: "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment...Is Christ divided?" - 1 Cor 1:10,13
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them." - Matthew 7:15-16
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you: For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many." - Matthew 24:4-5
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Let no man deceive you by any means..." - 2 Thessalonians 2:3
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them." - Ephesians 5:6-7
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