Annotatio III §.I close: Luther calls Zwinglians heretics; Zwingli weeps for Wittenberg unity; spiritual presence offered — stop before §.II Bucer/Wittenberg
Worse: Luther called the Zwinglians heretics — Epistle 103 in Buddeus’s Supplement, p. 105, to Jakob Probst, Licentiate of Theology: they were treated most unfairly in being denied the name of brothers and forced to leave as heretics, yet so that peace might hold for a time by mutual writings, if God should open their heart.
On that footing Luther became the first author of the Protestant schism — and the more out of season, the more carefully the other side had sought Concord, as Luther himself admits in Epistles 98 and 123 in Buddeus.
He records that Zwingli, weeping openly before the Landgrave and the Estates, begged and cried out: there are no people on earth with whom I would rather be one than with the Wittenbergers (p. 105).
And again: the Zwinglians had promised they would say with the Lutherans that Christ’s body is truly present in the Supper, but only spiritually — if only they might be called brothers. Same place.
Latin
Quin Haereticos Zwinglianos appellavit, in Epistola 103. Buddei Supplementi pag. 105. scribens Jacobo Probstio Theologiae Licentiato, his inter cetera, verbis: Indignissimè affecti sunt Zwingliani, quod Fratrum nomen non potuerunt obtinere, sed pro haereticis discedere cogerentur, tamen sic, ut pacem interim haberemus mutuis scriptis, si fortè Deus illis aperuerit Cor. Hôc pacto Schismatis Protestantici primus Autor, Lutherus; tantò intempestivè magis, quantò studiosius altera pars concordiam quaesivit, ipso fatente Luthero, Epist. 98. & 123. apud Buddeum, quando scribit: Zwinglium palam lacrymantem coram Landgravio & Ordinibus rogasse inque haec verba erupisse: Es seynd keine Leut auff Erden / mit denen ich lieber wolte Eines seyn / dann mit den Wittenbergern pag. 105. Iterumque: Zwinglianos promisisse, se velle cum Lutheranis dicere, Christi Corpus veraciter esse in Coena praesens, sed spiritualiter tantum, ut eos fratres dignaremur appellare. Ibidem.