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tould converse on every subject with ease , propriety and even masterly skill . His pulpit compositions were rational , ilervous , and pathetic ; his delivery was manly , animated , and affecting .
Strongly impressed himself with the divine truths of religion , and the sacred obligations of morality , he enforced them on the minds of his audience with an energy irresistibly persuasive- An assemblage of virtues constituted his character . His heart was tenderness and humanity itself ; his friendship warm , steady , and disinterested ; his benevolence universal ; and his integrity inviolate . Nor were these
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SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SERVETUS , IN LETTERS TO THE RET . JEDED 1 AH MORSE , D . D . LETTER VII .
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Jan . 3 , 1808 . Rev . and respected Sir , This singular and terrible event occasioned very different
judgments among p rotes tan ts as well as Roman catholics . They who opposed the Reformation , did recur ; as often as they were charged with their spirit of persecution , with the institution of that
horrible tribunal of Inquisition , to the burning of Servetus , by way of retaliation . v The Arminians in later days used the pencil of Salvator Rosa , to draw this transaction after life ; while the deistical writers of our age dwell with a diabolical
pleasure on this catastrophe . I wave , Sir , what the friends and apologists of Servetus have ad * duced , to exculpate him and aggravate Calvin ; - —we may with safety trust his cause to Calvin ' s friends—to Calvin , and upon their , upon his own words we may await
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the untried virtues of retirement 5 for he was early engaged in the active scent * of life , and assaulted with difficulties which required the utmost fortitude to surmount . He was not deficient in those exterior accomplishments , which add charms to virtue , and make goodness
shine with superior lustre . His manners j were polished , his address was easy and engaging " , and his conversation sprightly , entertaining and instructive . As a gentleman , a scholar , a preacher , a companion and a friend , he was almost without an equal . " ( To be concluded in our ntxt . )
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an issue . Some eminent protestants have approved the execution of ServetUs . So did Bullinger . * So did Melanchton : f but even Melanchton w&s more timorous than moek ; his conduct towards Osian . der ' s followers , recorded in
Conci-His suis Theologicis , and towards that man , Explicate Evangel , p . iv . his advice to punish the German baptists with death are proofs of dm assertion : and with FarelTs and Bewmtm
W m *^* ™^ ^ » ^^ - ^ m « " *• » » ¦ W V mt * ^ m . -g — A ^^ «¦ Mt 1 M ^ m 9 k M WV M mm * za ' s opinion , Xvith the sentiments of Chamier , Sellasius and Bishop Hall you are fully acquainted . Among the Jast who espoused
with warmth Calvin ' s cause , was the learned Armand de Chapelle « £ But the majority of the protestant worthies , equal to tl ^ e former in piety and learning , have abhorred the feet , and condemned Calvin ' s
zeal . This induced Calvin to defend himself , and , what is more , what is worse you will say ,
main-Ep . ad Polon . Cent , i Epist . Reform , ficcl . Helv . ed . Fuislini ? p . $% > " »<>» inique capitis supplicio affectum . ^ Id . in praefat . ad Jos . Scmleri L iv . de seterno X > cx F 1 I 10 . - , ¦ ¦ f Jc cons , et jud . Thcol . cd . Pezelii . Id . in Ep . ad BulUngcrum ; in Ep . Jo , CaU wipsiff . I 74 ; iin Ep . ct Resp . Calv , Part a . pag . ai 6 . £ B& 1 . Raison , Tom , i , p . ii . » rt . wi . pag . 360 .
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430 Sketch of the Life of Seryetus , —Letter' 7 . . - - » ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/6/
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