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at the request of Servetw , " to purchase the fathers , to whom Servetus did appeal , for the money which had been takth from Serve .
tus . " This purchase was actually made , and Servetus permitted to take with him in prison , Irenseus , Tertullian and Ignatius ; in the same time Was granted him the use of ink , pen and paper , to draw petitions , if he was inclined to do so .
He actually seiit to his judges a petition the' 22 d of Aug . in which he asserted , * that it was
against all divine arid human laws to indict a man for his life , for his opinions ' about the Scriptures ; that his imprisonment was yet more unlawful as he never had
Spread his opinions in Geneva , and in Germany only had discoursed of these with GEcolampadius , Bucerus and Capito ; that he condemned the anarchical opinions of the anabaptists , nor had
disturbed "the public peace in any place ; as a foreigner , he begged the asSfstance of a lawyer , as unacquainted with thfc laws of that country , and the manner of their judic ' ratpititieaings . ^ But this
petition wi £ in vairt . * The laws against Jiefetics remained yet in rigour at Geneva ; and , without refearitation 3 Gakin would have never consented to the acquittal of SWWttis .
^ Thft ? further criminal procedures in tfats ^ mous cause were , on the 23 d of Aug . transacted in writing . Galvift had drawn ; at the requisi-
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lion of the judges , ihirty-eight articles of accusation from Servetus * writings , upon which his answer ' was required . All these pieces are inserted in Calvin ' s works :
the accusations with this harsh title ^ 4 fc Sentences or propositions drawn from the book of M .
Servetus , which the ministers of the church © f Geneva have adjudged partly as impious and blasphemous , partly as filled up with
profane errors and nonsease . f To this was given aJfchort reply by Servetus , which again was an * swered at full length by Calvin , with great severity against him ; who , then exasperated , ihveighed most violently against Calvin , in a few cursory remarks , written here and there in the jnarginj which finally , hastened liis ruin , as Calvin was then alUpoweiful in Geneva . Besides that he had
often written , you lie , he called Calvin Simon Magus , an impostor , a sycophant , a villain ^ perfidious and impudent , &c . J No stain , however , during all
these inquisitorial proceedings , if we place any faith in the judicial records of Geneva , had been brought upon the moral character of Servetus , notwithstanding the virulent criminations of his
antagonist . Servetus presented another remonstrance the 15 th of Sept . in which he bitterly complained of the hardships of his imprisonment , having nothing left to defend him * self against the inclemencies of the air , having no linen , being
i ? Bibl . Angl . t . L p . 136 * Mem . de Liter . JLond . i ; i& , vol . i . p . J 78 , Mosheim , sect . 73 . n . % . f Sentential et propositxones excerpt * ex libris M * Scrvcti , quos mini ^ tri ccztcum Gencvensis , partim impias et in Deo blasphemaa , partkn profanis crroribua ct impiis deliriiB refertas c « sc adstruunt * Cal ^ iu ' i Works , p . 704 , «< jL Geiu IJ 97 , R « - tutat . Error . Scrveti , p , 6 o 7 # , t ld . U > . p . yo % 9 3 ,
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Sketch of the Life of Servctus . —Letter 6 * SSI
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/5/
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