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complains , that that heretic did not cease , from that tihi ^ to utter imprecations against him . This charge is probably 11 nfounded ; but if not so , surely he ought not to murder the poor heretic for his imprecations . Servetus sent a MS . to
Calvin , to have his judgment upon It , six years ' before he was apprehended at Geneva ; and though that piece was never printed , it was produced against him at his trial . Such unfair methods do inquisitors and persecutors commonly take , while they pretend to be actuated by the love of Christ ! Caivii *
was so incensed against Servetus , that he could not forbear reviling him in his Commentaries on the Bible ; for he there calls him & profligate fellow , full of pride ^ the proudest knave of the Spanish nation , and a dog . In his notes on Gen . i . 3 . he charges him with blasphemy , and says , this ohseene dag barks
so and so . Varilla says there is at Paris an original letter of £ alvin ' s to Farel , written in 1 54 r 6 , in which he suggests Sei > Tetus had written such intolerable th ' rags , £ flat if ever he came to Geneva ( as he , in his letters ^ had proposed to do ) , he would xise his power with the magistrates that he should not escape with his life . Bolsec and Grotiua , likewise , both saw an original letter of Calvin ' s , in which he declares , Ci that if ever thia heretic should fall into his hands , he would order it so , that it should cost faim his life /* Unfortunately he xlid fall into his
Stands , and he took special care to verify or fulfil his hloody threatening ; and ever after fee gloried ^ it seems , in having done so . Voltaire speaks of a letter in Calvin ' s hand-writing , which is still preserved in the Castle of Bastie Roland , near
Montelimar . " It is directed , ' * says fee ., ** to the Marquis de Poet , high chamberlain to the King of Navarre , and datedi Sept . 13 , 1561 / ' and contains these xeaiarkabla words : Honour , glory , and riches shall be the reward-of your pains ; but , above all , do not fail to rid the country of those zealous
scoundrels who stir up the people to revolt agamst us ^ Such mon * - s . ters should be exterminated , as I have exterminated Michael Servetus the Spaniard / ' Such was the man in wfao&e name so many myriads of our dear countrymen « tUI glory I
Servetus , notwithstanding the ill treatment he met with , continued In his foraier opinion , and resalved to publish a third fcook against tire Trinity and some other doctrines . That book , for which he was burnt at Geneva , came out at Vienne in the beginning of 1553 , with the title of Christianismi / fe-r
stbtittio , or the Revival , or Restoration of Christianity . This is the famous book in which he , the first of all the physicians , mentioned the Circulation of the Blood ! He printed a thousand copies : most of them were burnt , either at Vienne , with the author ' s effigy , or at Frankfort , which is the reason , why h
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# S 4 Brief Account of Se )* vetii $ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/6/
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