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    wantonly and pertinaciously defended even to his deaths For whatever he had for about twenty-five years , imbibed from aU the schools of the Jews and Turks * whatever also he had collected from the execrable blasphemies of hereticsor from the infernal sinks

    , and sewers , he has transfused into his book , and presented as a Circean , or rather Tartarean , cup to the people and nations . But all laws , as well divine as human , of emperors , princes , states and people in their right mind , command that blasphemies should be punished . This , when the most honourable Senate of Geneva did in

    virtue of its sacred office , it did what it ought . " * From Zurich we proceed to Geneva , —where the conduct of Calvin , in instituting the proceedings against Servetus , and aiding in bringing him to the stake , leaves no room for doubt or hesitation as to his sentiments

    concerning religious liberty . The part which he acted on that occasion he has not blushed to avow , and has vindicated and justified , in an elabo->¦ ,,., * , — ¦ . ¦ - ¦¦ " .,. » ... ,. ..,..,.. ¦ . — . — - ——i— -- ¦« .. * It seems im possible to do justice to the language of the original in a translation . Let the reader , if he so please , make the

    attempt . " Exustus est quidena Generae M . Serretus , sed non citra consiliimi reliqnarutn rerumpnblicarum Helvetica rum Evangelium profitentium , ad amplissimum Genevensis Senatum petitum . Et imilta jam secula non videnint unquam adeo foedas , atroces , prodigiosasque et about inandas in Dei Majestatem fideique veree

    sincentatem blasphemias , atque spurcissitnutn hoc hqminis mo us t rum propudiutnque libro edito in lucem prof ud it , et in mortem usque impie , procaciter et pertiimciter , defendit . Nam quiequid annis plus minus 25 hausit ex omnibus JudiBorum et Turcarum scholia , quiequid item ex omnibus haeretieorum cxecramlis '

    biasphemiis , cen ex sentinis et cloacis infernalibus coHeg-it , hoc totum , transfusum in detestandiim opus typis excusum , ceu poculum Civceum iinmo Tartareum ^ populis et gentibus propinavit . Jubent autem omnes leges divinae pariter et huinante , Imperatoium , Principum , urbiumqueet

    ^ populorum saniorum debiaspbemiissumere supplieium . Quod cum amplissimus Genevepsis Sen ^ tus fecit , pro pio suo ttfficio , quod debuit fecit . ' B « lling : er , in pvaef . ad Jos . Simleri Lib . iv . de irterno JDei Filio , Item . -Apiid Bock , Hist . Antitrin . II . 379 .

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    rate treatise , composed expressl y -vvith this view , * and written in a gpj r ^ congenial with the deed it attempts to defend . It would seem that Calvin * on his first joining the Reformers held more tolerant sentiments to ^ wards those who differed from him

    in their religious tenets , than he avowed in the latter part of his life . This appears from a passage iu the first edition of his Institutes , which was afterwards suppressed oraltered ; f

    * Defensio Orthodox a ; Fidei de Sacra Trinitate , contra prodi ^ iosos ErroresMicbaelis Servcti Hispaui , ubi ostenditur Haeretjcos jure gladii coercendos esse , et nominatim dehomine hoc tarn impie , juste et merito sumptum Generae fuisse siip ^ plicium . Per J . Calvin urn . 8 vo . 1554 .

    j- I record this fact on the authority of the Answer to Calvin ^ book against Servetus , which bears the following title : — - u Contra Libellum Calvini in quo ostendere conatur Hacreticos jure gladii coercendos esse . " 12 m o . 1562 . The first

    edition of the Institutes was published at Basil , in 8 vo . in 1536 . This work was , however , little more than a rough draught of the treatise . The second edition , considerably enlarged , was printed at Strasburgh , in folio , in 1539 . It is disputed

    among Bibliographers , whether the author prefixed his name to this edition . There appears to have been a copy in London bearing his name on the title-page ; but there was a copy of the same date in the Library of the Sorbonne at Paris , with the fictitious name of " Alcuinus" It would

    seem , besides , from the dedication to the London copy , that the name of iMeuinus had been originally prefixed to that also , and that the title-page had been cancelled , in order to insert the name of the author . The dedication begins as follow * : — " Potentissimo , Illustrissimoque Monarchal , Magno

    Fiancorum Kegi , Prineipi ac Domino suo , Alcvinvs . " See Vogtj Catalogue Histo * rico-Criticus Librorum Rarioruni , &c . p * 162 . As these early editions of Calvin ' s Institutes are . of extreme rarity , and as the Answer to his book against Servetus is also scarce , I shall transcribe the paatog ? referred to in the text :

    " Qni vero aut nohiscum non conwntiunt in eandem iidera , aut etiam * i confessionem in labris babent , Deum tameii , quern ore confitentur , op « rib «» abnegant ( ut quoa videmus in omni vita sceltrutos ac perditos , peccaniii roluptate efcrios mahsque ams iudonniente «) hnjVBmeto omnes » m » se hrfttiia produrtt mn esto » rt oms * n * * ctle $ m mttnbr * . In hunt n * w

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    f 7 S 6 The Nonconformist . No . XV ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 736, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/20/