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    and what was the reason of this sonship ? 2 * If the kingdom of God was in man , when one entered into it , and when such a one was regen e * rated ?

    S . If the baptism instituted by Christ was to be done with faith , as in the ( Lord ' s ) Supper , and with what view they were instituted iu the New Covenant ?

    It is wondrous strange , Sir , that Calvin did not preserve , or did not produce the first letter of Serveius , which might have spread some more light upon their contest . Servetus sent , after a while > a MS . to Calvin , in which he made

    many free strictures on Calvin ' s book of Institutions , This treatise is not published , but its . sun ** mary ingredients have , as it seems , been inserted in his Restitutio Christianismi . This , we may

    conclude from the conclusion of the second letter :. I pray God that you may condescend to read again the 4 th book on Baptism , as it seems you have not perused it . God liave pity upon us . Amen . 'V From this correspondence originated chiefly their animosities , which since that period were manifested in all Calvin ' s writings , aven in his comment upon the Scriptures . *

    Among the early proofs of Calvin ' s rancour against Servetus , is adduced a letter to Viret and another to Farejl , both in 1546 . ic I hear that Servetus intends to come hither to converse with me ; but , if I have any influence with

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    the magistrate ^ I shal l effect that he never return alive / ' This fact is not denred by Sennebier , bin totally misrepresented , as if Cal - vin concluded that such would be the fatal consequence , from the

    spirit of the laws and the govern - ment of Geneva ^ and from the ideas of all sects at that time ; whereas Calvin bore Servetus a

    perfect goodwill , as long as there was any hope of his recovery . A similar explanation corroborates the facts , to which no man of Sennebier ' s talents would have recurred , could he have proved it false . Although this answer leaves

    no room to reply for Sennebier , it-deserves , however , our candid

    examination * Bolzec , Calvin ' s bitter antago * nist , and Varillas assert , that these letters are genuine ; but Bolzec and Varillas deserve little credit , whenever the facts attested cannot

    be verified from morepurasources , although it deserves some consideration , that Solzec declared that the letter to Viret had actually been delivered to the magistrate of Bern * But , Sir , Sam . Sorberius . f EL Grotius . t and

    Vitenbogaerd ? || men of consummate talents , undisputed veracity and piety , not excelled in their age .

    have vindicated with many arguments the authenticity of these letters , and which in the event have been verified . I know , Sir , it ought in a critical discussion of this kind not to be lost out of

    sight , that Grotius and Vitenbogaerdj though men of the highest respectability in the republic of

    * See Calvin's Comm . ad Act . xx » 4 B * where ho calls Servetus a Spanish dog and Comm . ad Jo . i . pul > l . first 1563 , where he used the same opprobiotis epithet f Sorberiana , p . 4 $ , 1694 * \ In voto pro pace ficcks . prop . 1 I Hist . Ecclet , Rott . 16473 in fol , torn . ii « P , 769 7 .

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    $ 80 Sketch of the Life of Servetus ^ -Letter 4 *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/8/