But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
Ver. 4. But Peter rehearsed] With singular modesty he seeks to satisfy them (if reason will do it), and to quench their wild fire by casting milk upon it. Zuinglius and Oecolampadius endeavoured to do the like by Luther and his disciples, but could never effect it. In the year 1533, he wrote a very bitter epistle to the Senate of Frankfort, Qua Zuinglianos Archi-diabolos appellat, e suggestu repellendos, ditione eieciendos, wherein he calleth the Zuinglians arch-devils; and judgeth that they ought to be kept out of the pulpit, driven out of the country. a In the year 1567, at Antwerp the Lutherans joined themselves to the Papists against the Calvinists. b Still Satan is thus busy, and Christians are thus malicious, that, as if they wanted enemies, they fly in one another's faces; yea, cut one another's throats: as the English and Scots do at this day, to the inconceivable grief of all the godly on both sides. Deus meliora.
a Scultet. Annal.
b Bucholcer, Chronol.