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    sus , Son of God ! who , given us from heaven , raanifestest visibly in thyself the revealed Deity ; discover thyself to thy servant , that such a grand manifestation may be truly known . Give me , I

    pray thee , thy good spirit and efficacious word ; control my mind and my pen , that I may express the glory of thy divinity , and declare the ( rue faith about thee . It

    is thy cause , when I explain thy glory from the Father , with that of thy spirit ^ which it has been given me to explain by a divine impulse , when I was anxious about

    thy truth * Once I made a beginning to treat this subject ; now again I feel myself impelled to the task , as the time is actually fulfilled , which I shall show to all

    the pious , from the manifest signs of the times , Thou hast instructed us that we may not abscond our light , so that I must pronounce a woe upon me , if I do not preach the gospel . It is the common cause of all Christians , which to maintain they all are obliged /' *

    " Enable thy servant , thy soldier , that he , through thy power , may be enabled to fight manfully against the dragon , the serpent , the devil , who had given power to the beast , i . e . Pope * "f To

    which may be joined that he , seeing the danger to which he had exposed himself , expressed himself in a letter to Pepin , one of the ministers of Geneva : cc I know ,

    certainlyt I must die for that cause , but , therefore , I do not become spirited , that I , as a disciple , may resemble my master / ' And this his apprehension was not vain ,

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    as he knew that the book , upon whose publication he was firmly resolved * must be a stumhlincr

    block to the Protestants as well as Roman Catholics ^ all whom he branded with idolatry ; while he could have no prospect of

    remaining concealed , although it did not bear his name , as he v&ls known by his other works , and had even declared his name in this singular manner : ( € See— -there he is— -it is Servetus , whom I searched for : here ! here ! what does he speak with you i"t

    This was Servetus , who , when at Lyons , entered into an unfortunate correspondence with Calvin , then a minister at Geneva , which correspondence had since between these learned men been

    long continued ; through which ^ however , they were rather exasperated against one another than reconciled . From Lyons and Dauphine , Servetus wrote thirty letters to Calvin upon this and other important subjects , afterwards inserted in Restit .

    Christianismi , p . 577 * from which letters it appears , that many of them are answers to letters of John Calvin ; and further , that Servetus did notj so incessantly , slander Calvin in these as he had been accused , while Calvin ' s subsequent behaviour makes it more than

    doubtful , if Jie bore Servetus ' s obloquy with such modesty and meekness as he pretended . il Servetus addressed first three

    questions to Calvin , to which he answered , viz . 1 . If the man Jesus , who was crucified , was the Son of God ,

    • Pref . Restit . Chrfstian . f Lib . i . p . 3 . { Diss . i . dc Trifl . p . 66 . || Calvin ' s Fidelia Expos . Errorum Serveti Op . p , 696 . cd . Geneva , in foL XS 97 * and Calvin ' s Answers , from p . 697—^ 7 04 .

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    Sketch of the Life of Servetus . —Letter 4 ; £ 7 M

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/7/