Zwingli and his advisers drew up a remarkably thorough plan of campaign, including a method of securing allies, many military details, and an ample provision for prayer for victory.

War, however, was averted by the mediation of Berne as a friend of Zurich, and the complete religious autonomy of each canton was guaranteed.
The Swiss Reformation had to run the same course of separation from the humanists and radicals, and of schism, as did the German movement.
Though Erasmus was a little closer to the Swiss than he had been to the Saxon Reformers, he was alienated by the outrageous taunts of some of them and by the equally unwarranted attempts of others to show that he agreed {154} with them.

"They falsely call themselves evangelical," he opined, "for they seek only two things: a salary and a wife." Then came the break with Luther, of which the story has already been told.

The division was caused neither by jealousy, nor by the one doctrine--that of the real presence--on which it was nominally fought.
There was in reality a wide difference between the two types of thought.

The Saxon was both mystic and a schoolman; to him religion was all in all and dogma a large part of religion.