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    address or application was made by one of the chief of the Reformers to a corporation of violent Papists ! seemingl y afraid that they would not be ready enough to proceed to extremities with such heretics as Servetus . This was the man who is

    cornmonly called the mild Melancthon !] It is not improbable * that Lselius Socinus , Faustus ' s uncle , and several other Itali ans ^ took their antitrinitarian notions from Servetus ' s book . The latter having finished his studies at Paris , left that city to go and practise physic elsewhere ; which he did for two or three years at Charlieu and Lyons , and then at Vienne in Dauphins for twelve or thirteen years - He went to settle there at the

    instance , or by the advice and invitation or its then archbishop , * Peter Palmier , who was his very good friend , and generously offered him apartments in his palace . There he lived for years safe and happv , always employed in the duties of his profession

    or in some literary occupation . He also made frequent jonrnies to Lyons , where he one time revised a new edition of Pagnin ' s Latin Bible ^ in folio , printed by Hugo de la Part ? , to which he prefixed a preface , and added marginal notes . Calvin called the latter impertinent and impious ; but it has been observed , that wiser m ^ n than he thought otherwise , and even the direct contrary . Servetus had given a literal exposition of

    several of the prophecies ; and Calvin pretended that was an affront to Jesus ChrisU Of some doubts Servetus had expressed concerning the extreme fertility of Palestine , Calvin said , it was judging like a blockhead and a beasty and when the ~ villainvus dog" he adds , * ' was told it was blasphemy , he onfy wiped his mouth and said , Let us pass over this , there is no harm in it / * Calvin , however , seems to have kept a pretty long

    epistolary correspondence with him , and endeavoured , as he says , by the space of sixteen years , to reclaim , him from his errors . Each of them , it seems , would fain reclaim the other . One of the letters Servetus sent him from Lyons contained the following questions , which he desired him to answer : — ** 1 . Whether the man Jesus that was crucified was the Son of

    God ; and what was the reason of his filiation ? 2 . Whether the kingdom of God be in man—when may a man enter into it—and when is he regenerated ? 3 * Whether Christian baptism ought to be performed in faith , like the Lord ' s Supper , and to what end these things were instituted in the new cove -

    * i ant ? Calvin answered these queries ; but Servetus , far from beinor satisfied with his explications , wrote him a second letter , containing a confutation of his answers . With this Calvin was highly displeased , and made a sharp reply , as he himself owns ; whereupon Servetus , who was no less fiery than hia ^ iitsgomst , grew in frig turn very angry with him . C * lviu

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/5/