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later times to Lausanne , or kept at home , that they might not be infected by the doctrines of modern Geneva . I am confident of making it appear to you , upon discriminating
the materials which I shall bring forward , that all the historians , apologists , as well as antagonists of the great reformer , do pretty well agree in all the p rincipal facts ; so that the only remaining difference between them seems , in how far the main fact may be extenuated with fairness , or aggravated with truth .
I shall endeavour to write nothing but naked truth , without anxiously examining if the unadorned facts shall acquit Calvin or bring a verdict against him ; and in this discussion truth will
compel me to bring forward a proof , not only that Servetus was deeply tinctured with the same virulent spirit , but chat he actually defended the lawfulness of persecution r so that had the situation of Calvin and Servetus been reversed ,
the first would , perhaps , not have found more indulgence from the
latter , than he was inclined to bestow upon this unfortunate sufferer . Both were not averse to the opinion adopted by Austin , * and patronized by Francis Tum tin , f that the church only persecuted heretics , but with moderation- as
nuisances to society . All the reformers , nearly , were tainted with
* Porro illud Hieronymi quo Ecclesia negatur aliquem persequi , non ita esi intelligendum , ut generaliter Ecclesia nullum persequatur , sed quod nulium injuste persequatur . " Non enim omnfs persecutio oulpabilis est , sed rationabiliter hereticos persequitur , sicut Cbrhtus persecutes est eosy quosde templo expulit . " Lib , iu adv . Munich \ Concludimus , Magistratum Christianutu posse pccna ca pi tali in similes pestes et hominum monstra animadvertere , sed ita ut extremis ^ tantum maiis ex treme fcmcdia adhibeantur—et in his moderatio , &c « Quxst xxxiv , § u
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this leaven of Popery : moderation towards errors was criminal in their sight , I To conclude this letter , I shall communicate the principal authors , from which I borrowed the ingredients of the sketches : to copy with faithTulness and exactness is my only pretension . Th * Beza vita Jo . Calvinn Ad . Selhajius - ' — - And . Rivet , de Grotii li . bro pro
pace Ecclesise . Drelincourt apos . de Calvin . Hottinger Hist . Eccles . Helvct * Tom . iii . page 544 * J o * Angl . JVerdenhagen apos . Serveti in Synopsi libr * Jo . Bodini de Republican Amst , apud Jansonium 9 1650 . M . dc la Roche , who perused all the authentic acts of this
unhappy event . Bibl . AngL T . ii Art . vii . p . 76 . Jac . G , Chaufepie Diet . Hist et-Crit , Tom . iv p . 219—245 7
compared with i . Bayle ^ DicU Hist , et Crit . Tom . i . p . 421 . Tom . ii . p . ii-L 517 . 564 . Tom ^ iv . p . 640 . Mosheim * Chancellor of the
University of Gottingen , who made use of all the subsidies of La Rochey besides several MS documents ^ in his History of Servetus 9 published 1727 ., who had been opposed hy Arm and delaChapelle , in Calvin ' s defence , Bihl . raison . p- ii . and iii . hi which apology , Armand has been deemed by many
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/3/
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