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ger to inform Luther , u that Servetus ' s book was published in another place , without their knowledge : " * so alarmed were the clergy in Swisserland , lest it should be supposed that they
supported heresy . But Melanchton ' s singular judgment deserves your particular regard , Sir , in more than one respect . I shall exert myself to give you his own words , as near as it is in my power . ic You ask me what I think about
Servetus ? I see well , that he does neither want- acuteness or cunntng ^ f in dispu ting , but I cannot allow him any energy *\ He has ,
moreover , as it appears to me , confused imaginations ; neither is sufficiently able to explain his thoughts with precision * He unquestionably speaks as a madman about justification : about the
trinity tfepi rfs rpixSof , you know , that I have always been apprehensive , that similar tkings , sooner or lcter ^ % would break out . Good God ! what tragedies will this question excite among posterity h l ^ i y vitosroco'i ^ o Xoyof ^ ii If iv vtforO'O'i s to itv&i ^ oL —( if the word be an hypostasis , if the spirit be an hypostasis ) I hold fast to those words of S . S . which
command the invocation of Christ , which is , to crown him with the honour of divinity , and is full of consolation roc ; Se 1 § ea $ fvbv ittosrd * 3 wv , kcc ) § iot < pop < x $ a . Kpifiu > s £ rjtuv—ov 7 ta , vv cv ^ e ^ si—but to inquire more accurately into the
• • CEcoL ct Zuing . Lett . iv . B . p . 8 ox . Basil , % S 9 ** + Pa / rum * f Gravitatcm . § AliquandQ . \ ty . ad Camerariumy an . 1533 , lib * iv , Ep . 140 , compared with Melanchton ' i 4-ett . to Brcntius , 0 x 1 . 1 533 of July , in Epp . Mejapcht . p . 377 . t Bockius , Tom . iil ch . iL p . 337 . Sunas comin . sui temp . p . a 88 . •* Mosheim , § lxiv , ft BibL HaU , Tom . iv . p . ia 8 . \\ fiwJofcu * Tqm . n . « b . ih p . | 3 * . $ S Zdtncr ccntwr . dar ^ « 4 Hxccfc p . 499 *
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identity and differences of the hypostases , is not very usefully This book of Servetus was suppressed at Ratisboi ^ th rough th « zeal of Jo . Cochlaeus , in 1532 . V
It was sold at * a high price at Paris , at the auction of the library of Du Fay , for 450 livres of France ; at the auction of Godfr , Jungst , at Bremen , for 25 d . ** till another edition was
procured by Georg . Serpillus ^ super-intendant at Ratisbon , ft and a Dutch translation , ih l 620 by Regnerm Vitellius . Jt During his residence at Lydns > Servetus maintained himself by
correcting the press , which , as you will recollect . Sir , was , at at that period , generally performed by men of abilities . ^ Fro m Lyons he went to Paris , and , leaving the study of law , he devoted hinu self to physic , under the celebrated Sylvius and FarnelJ , to which change he might have been induced by his delicate bodily constitution . In this noble art he
exerted hiinself with so much success , that he was decorated with the . degree of doctor , as he before had obtained that of master of arts in philosophy .
Invested with these honours , he delivered public lectures in geography and mathematics , while he followed his profession as 3 physician . Informed that Calvin was
arrived in that city , he requested a conference with him , which he
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Sketch of the Life o / Servetus . — Letter % 167
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/7/
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