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CECOLAMPADIUS, called in his own country 
HavkscuEIn, Joun, i in Biography, one of the moft learned 
German r reformers in the 16th higewnhe ~was born at Win- 
fperg, a village in Franconia, in the y 1482. He was 
educated with a view to fome learned * profellion, and was, 
when he had made confiderable a Si in grammar-learn- 
ing, fent to the univerfity of Heidelberg, where he was 
admitted to the rich of bachelor of philofophy when only 
fourteen years of a s foon as he nee et the centre 
f M. n Italy, with a 
tol under the nad poli 
av univerfity was in high re- 
onths he returned to Heidel- 
berg, where he gav Ane cont s of ftudying the law as 
a profeffion, and applied itl to theology. His objeé& 
was very different from the ufual courfe purfued at that 
period ; inftead Of aimin at the 
of the court, relinquifhed his charge, and refumed with 
frefh ardour his theological ftudies aving fini the 
ufual academical ftudies, he qui the paveanes? and 
at Wn received prieft?s orders, he entered upon a living 
He had not officiated many weeks, when a 
diffi lence in his own talents and qualifications led him to 
obtain leave to 
perfected himfelf in the Greek and Hebrew languages. 
After this he returned to his benefice, and was diftinguifhed 
by reat zeal and diligence with which he performed 
CE 
fhort time, was invited to fettle at Aug 
preached in the great church, but finding a ftrong leaning 
towards the principles of the reformation, and not g 
tate to rifk the confequences of fuc nge in his 
oe he entered the monaftery of Alton, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Augfburg, to avoid being queftioned on the 
a te ay Friends ied difapproved of this ftep, urged 
him t d a regard to his private 
his enemies. ng arrived in fafety at 
Bafil in 1 he he applied himfelf to oe ieee 
Latin of St. Chryfoftom’s « Comm 
of Genefi, % He was almoft ene te A capone tis 
ie 
f ceremonies, the 
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feflor of seed by the fenate, and in the foliowing hie 
was nominated minifter of 
se be which he introduced, under the fanétion of public 
authority, was that of adopting the vulgar tongue at the 
bapti{m of infants. faa the facrifice of the mafs 
was abolifhed, and the facrament of the Lord’s Supper was 
erdered to be adminiftered in both kinds. Our reformer 
went {till further, and held up to contempt, as fuperttitious 
ufe of holy water, confecrated palms, tapers, 
&c. While the reformation was taking deep root at Bafii, 
the difpute took place between Luther and Zuingle con- 
the manner of Chrift’s prefence in the Eucharift : 
ingenuity, that even the elect were in danger of being 
feduced by it. In the year 1527, the reformers having 
been challenged by the naa to a ee ifpute at 
aden, 
on the fubjeGts. of eenaih ideation, &e. the reformer 
declaring that he would not fubmit to have the oints at 
at- 
fufficiens dence 3 hele whic 
om 
the Pialms, and upon the cio ieels, alfo on 
everal aces of the New Te a He tranflated into 
Latin various pieces of the fathers ; wrote numerous contro- 
verfial treatifes ; and after his sea an interefting volume of 
“ Letters” between him and Zuingle was publifhed at 
Bafilin 1536. Moreri. Bayle. MS. Life of Luther. 
CECONOMICS, CEconomics, that part of moral phi- 
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