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granted to his accuser , might now be - allowed him , viz . the advice of an expert lawyer ; and , lastly , he prayed and entreated his judges , and even appealed , if he was entitled to da it , to bring his cause and petition to the council of two hundred .
AH that Servetus obtained was , that , at the intercession of some of the judges , he was treated with less severity . It is evident from this remonstrance , that many favoured secretly Servetus , and advised him to weather the storm .
How could he else have known what Calvin had remarked upon his first petition in the senate , if it had not been communicated to him by one of its members ? How else would he have claimed that
his cause might be brought before the council of two hundred , invested with the power of pardoning ?* All which is less surprising , if you consider , that Calvin had
many and potent enemies at Geneva , both in church and in state . * It was already resolved secretly in the senate at Geneva , that Servetus should be punished with death , which was approved by
destroyed by vermin ; whereas the money which he brought with him might have been deemed sufficient to screen him at least from these horrors . He observed further , that , where he had built in his former petition on the sacred Scriptures , Calvin had called to his aid Justinian , to refute his posit ions . He renewed his former request , that , what had been
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Calvin ; though , as he asserted , u he did not wish such a cruel death ; he hoped , however , that the final judgment would be capital / 'f As it was , nevertheless , a subject of the highest consequence to the reformed cause , and Servetus had appealed to the judgment of other divines , the
Helvetic churches of Zurich , Bat * sil , Bern and Sch ^ tp hausen were consulted about the end of September ; all the necessary documents sent to them , with the earnest request , to declare their sen * timents piously and candidly ,
what , according to the divine laws , was to be done with him , if they considered the fact of his obstinate heresy proved ; while they asked the magistrates what punishment the civil statutes in this case inflicted .
Meanwhile , had there interceded in favour of Servetus , by the senate of Geneva , and the Helvetic cities , the famous David Georget ( David Jons , ) from Basil ,
by a letter of th $ 1 Oct . in which , with various arguments ^ he tried to awaken ( he dormant compassion of the judges in feeha . ] f of Servetus ;|| but neither did this
wellwritten letter avail in any way the unfortunate sufferer . The answer of the Helvetic t J V churches arrived at length . They
all agreed in the answer , that Servetus ' s errors ought tp be detested , and that there ought io be taken care that the infection did
not spread further , and that the man ought to be rtstrained ^ h
r * I . SponHist . de Geneva , lib . iii . an . 1553 . G . L . cti Istor . di Geneva , b . iip . iii . p . 94 . ^ f " Spero capltale saltern fore supplkium , poense vero atrociutcm rctnitti cupio . Ej > . 15 a ad Farellum ., i Of this singular man , see Vcnema JBL Eccl . t . viu p . 448—461 * I Christ . Epist , i . cL iv . p . p . 14 , § Cw ^ nm ,
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992 Sketch of the Life of Servetus . — -Letter 6 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/6/
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