Ad omnes Germaniae ecclesias reformatas, piorum, qui sub Zvingliani et Calviniani nominis invidia, vim & iniuriam patiuntur, apologia

...and we fear the judgments of each person sitting in the Church—so that you may recognize more closely both our innocence and the unworthy and iniquitous ways in which we are being treated.

They are neither Zwinglians nor Calvinists. IN THE FIRST PLACE, we constantly deny that we are Zwinglians or Calvinists. This is not because we are ashamed of Zwingli or Calvin, whom no one who has known their labors, doctrine, and piety in purging and restoring the Church can deny were exceptional servants of JESUS CHRIST. Rather, it is because we have learned from them that we must avoid factional names, which superstitiously ambitious men—not without insult to Christ—arrogate to themselves out of excessive and preposterous admiration for their own teachers. Let others boast, if they wish, of the names of Luther or anyone else. We desire to be called and to be Christians, and we are not ignorant of that of the Apostle: Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Paul? Who, then, is Paul? Who is Apollos? They are but ministers through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each. We recognize Zwingli and Calvin as such—men who (such was their piety and modesty) knew that they were men in all other respects, and that if they brought forth anything without the Scriptures, they could be mistaken and err. Therefore, we protest that we are nothing other than Christians, because that faith and doctrine...