At the same time there appeared a German edition, a little later a French translation at Geneva, and the confession was translated also into Dutch, English, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Rumanian, even into Arabic and Turkish. As the origin of the confession excluded the influence of parties and cliques, it soon found approval without compromises, not only in the Swiss Churches, but in all Reformed Churches. The union of Zwfnglian ism and Calvinism which appears in it was not artificially produced, but was a natural growth. By suppressing many a harsh formula which would have separated the different pardles, Bullinger not merely harmonized the Zurich and Genevan theol ogy, but expressed to the satisfaction of all the peculiarly Reformed conception of Christianity. The doctrine of predestination avoids with the utmost care every speculative offense.
Election finds unmitigated expression without any synergism.
The doctrine of the sacraments is an expansion of the First Helvetic Confession. M. Kirchhofer, Oswald Myconiue, Zurich, 1813. The name of a Swiss Reformed symbol drawn up in 1675 Origin. to guard against doctrines taught at the French academy of Saumur. The famous and flourishing school of Saumur came to be looked upon with increasing mistrust as the seat of heterodoxy, especially by the Swiss, who were in the habit of sending students there. The first impulse to attack the new doctrine came from Geneva.