They  promised  Zwingli  to  raise  his  pension  from  fifty  to  a  hundred  gulden,
on  condition  that  he  desisted  from  preaching  against  the  pope.  Zwingli,
though  in  want  of  this  addition  to  his  income,  rejected  the  offer.  They
then  made  him  the  same  offer  without  annexing  any  condition  ;  but  even
this  Zwingli  would  not  accept.3  The  nuncios,  however,  were  more
interested  in  recruiting  the  army,  with  which  they  hoped  to  conquer
Milan,  than  in  any  theological  question  whatsoever.  Although  the  city
was  already  thoroughly  infected  with  the  spirit  of  defection  from  the
church,  they  entered  into  an  alliance  with  it.     "  We  are  not  reproached

1  Antwurt  Zwingli  an  Val.  Compar.  Werke  ii.  1,  p.  7  ;  further  on,  the  answer
to  Faber,  April  30,  1526.
2  "  That  they  all  and  generally  preach  in  freedom  (as  is  also  granted  by  the
papal  laws)  the  holy  Gospels  and  Epistles  of  the  Apostles,  conformably  with  the
word  of  God,  and  the  true  divine  scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament,
and  that  they  teach  that  which  they  receive  and  hold  from  the  said  scriptures,
and  say  nothing  of  other  accidental  innovations  and  rules."  Answers  which  a
Biirgermeister,  council  and  the  grand  council  of  the  city  of  Zurich  gave  to  their
confederates.     Fussli  Beitrage,  ii.,  p.  237.     See  Bullinger,  i.,  p.  20.
3  Uslegung  und  Griinde  der  Schhissreden,  p.  359.
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