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mentioned the work , purporting to be the comp ilation of Martin Belhus , to which Beza ' s treatise is professedly an answer > a work , of which it may be conjectured , from his manner of speaking of him , that Beza kuew the author . * Another work appeared , anonymousl y , about the same period , under the title of " An Answer to Calvin's Book , in vyhich he endeavours to shew that Heretics may be lawfully P to Death . " t The
* « Be Haerelicis , an sint persequendi , fit omnino quo raodo sit cum eis agendunj , doctorum Virorum turn veterum , turn recentiorum Sententise . Liber hoc tarn turbulento tempore pernecessarius , et cum omnibus , turn potissiinum Principibus et Magistral bus utilissimus , ad discendum ,
quodnarci siteorum in retain controversa , tainque pericnlosa officium . " Magdeburgi , 1 & 54 . The contents me , " 1 . Martini Bellii pncfacio , in qua quid sit bsereticus , et quidnam cum eo agendum sit , demonstratur . 2 . Aretii Cathari sententia , in
qua apert £ ostemdtfur haeireticorum punitionem ad magi stratum non pertinere . 3 . Joanujs Wittingti de Anabaptistis , et cseteris qui haeietici habentur sententia , quse idem docet . 4 . Aliorum Autliorum , turn vcterum , turn lecentwrum eadem de re sententise . 5 . Basilii Montfortii refutatio
eorum , quse pro persecutione dici solent Bock ( Hist . Antitiin . Vol . II . p . 639 ) states that Beza , in his Life of Calvin , attributes it to Laelius Socinus ; but on referring- to that work it will be seen that
he expressly ascribes it to Castalio . His words are , " Celuy-ci ( Sebastien Chastillon ) qui auoit tousiours teuu de Ja perfection Anabaptistique mais secreteitient et entre les siens , ne foisant au surplus difflculte de s accommoder a ^
hacun , estant aussi grandement irrite de fa mortde Sertiet , se descouurit ouuertment , premieremeuten vn liure qu'il fit imprimer on Latin et en Francois , sous vn faux nom de Martin Bellie : anx erreurs et
blasphemes duquel ie respondi iors . " " L'Histoire dc la Vie et Mort de feu Mr . Jean ^ alvm , &c . Par Theodore de Beza . A Geneve , 1663 . ^ 12 mo , p . 79 . t c Contra libellum Caiv ^ ini in quo ostendere conatur Haercticos jure GJadii ^ «*« H *< MP « 8 se . " The first edition of this wy scarce work was printed in 1554 . It 7 * wpnnted in Holland in 1612 , accord-1662 ° r ^ J *" ac ^ « ff V o ^> ^ ha « " i i < ll"ere »" ce respecting the date mm probabl y been occasioned by the manwhio 5 !^ 1 < 511 lt is P rinte < l on tlie ^ title page , 2 ;\ :: i * w ° «* - * DUBxui l \ *** this be read 1562 ? Sandius JUi XA
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vi ^ riter \^ plan is first to give C alv in ' s own word { s , dividing bis work into sections , aiid then to answer these sections , seriatim . At the end are appended some smaller pieces relating to the same subject . This Hs a very masterly performance . It has been ascribed severally to Castalio and Laelius Socinus . The internal
evidence appears decisive against the former conjecture : the latter is most probably correct * After this appeared an elaborate and able treatise against the capital punishment of heretics , which has also been
attributed to both Castalio and Lselius Socinus , . but which bears on the title page the name of the real author * Minus Celsus , a native of Sienna , and one of the early Italian Antitrinita ^ rians . f
( Biblio .-Antitrin . p . 20 ) calls this " a dialogue between Calvin and Vaticanns . " But this is not correct . It assumes the dialogue form to the eye , from the extracts from Calvin ' s book , having ius
name prefixed to them , and the answers to them being- headed " Yaticanus . " This work is referred to by Mosheim , in bis Life of Servetus , under the following * tide : " Dissertatio , qua disptitatar quo jure quove fructu Haeretici sunt coerce ndi Gladio vel
Jgne , vel Dialogus inter Calvinam et Vatit canura . " Vog-t ut supra , p . 164 . * , Bock , following Mosheim , declare * himself of opinion that it was written by neither Castalio nov L , Socinus . Hist . Antitrin . Vol . II . p . 639 .
• f In Hsereticiscoercendis qua ten us pro . g-redi liceat : Mini Celsi Senensis Disputatio . Ub \ nonunatim eos ultimo supplicio aflici non debere apert ^ detnotistramt . Christlingse , 1577 . This work afterwards appeared under the following title : Mini Celsi Senensis , de Baereticis Capitali Su ' pT
plicio non arnciendis . Adjunct ^ sunt ejusdein Argumenti Theodori Bezse et Andreae I > uditii Epistolae duse contrariae , &c . 1584 . The extracts from tbis work given in the preceding pages , are transcribed from tbis edition which is the only one tn niy possession . There is a copy of the first edition in the British Museum . On
collating the two editions I perceive that the body op tbe work , as far as the signature hy or p . 224 , is identically the same in both , having the same typographical errata . The only part of the original work that appears to have been actually reprinted is that coinpi ised in pp . 224—230 .. To the second edition are added the letters of IJejca and Duditb , and tbe original preface has been exchanged
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/25/
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