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104 "Thorough" could under any circumstances have had his entire approval. And he was able to argue from the Scriptures against the radical position with an exegesis that was ingenious if not correct. He insisted that the tares should be allowed to grow together with the wheat, that the strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and the like.

The question of infant baptism seemed to Zwingli at first open to doubt. He avows that for a time his mind was not at rest on this question, and the like was true of his friend Œcolampadius. But when they saw later the practical bearings of the