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fcuned " that Servetus might be punished by the sword /** So true is it , Siiy that the progress in sin , as well as in good habits , is
nearly insensible . , It is the first step ? which causes compunction ; and the apology of murder , under the cloak oL religion ., is a more heinous guilt , than even the foul deed .
Permit me now to c ^ tii your attention ! " once more to Servetus , whose fate you will pity , how sin * , cerely youinay with me hold some of his sentiments in abhorrence ; and this too might be lessened , were we inclined to reconsider
and marshal the specious reason - ing employed by Postell , Werdenstageo , and others of his apologists : but it matters not if he more or less erred . I wave , for the
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same reason , the production of all that was brought forward , during the Arminian contest , to white wash Servetus and blacken Calvin ; neither can I discover liberality or meekness in Grotius' sarcastic re « flection , u that the spirit of the Antichrist had not only appeared at the Tiber , but at the" Lake of Geneva ;* ' though he might have pleadvd in mitigation of my censure the cases of Servetus of Valentinus Gentilis , 2 Sept . 1558 , and of John Morelk in 1563 .
Servetus was unquestionably not goHty of those crimes which have been imputed to him by hi * antagonist , and even if he had been so , then you . Sir , will agree with rae , that they who promoted and effected this horrible scene ^ would have acted more in
con-* Defensio orthodox * fidei de S . Trinitate contra , prodigiosos errores IVLvServcti > Hispani ; ubi ostcnditur , " hsereticos gladio coercendos esse , et nominatim de homine noc tarn impio juste et merito sumtum Geneva supplicittm . ' ' Geneva , ex officina Rob . Stephani . 1 JS 4 ^ Bvo . to which was directly answered by Socinus , CaStalfo , or another , in a treatise , with this title : Contra Libellum Calvini , ill quo ostendere conatur , haercticos jure gladii coercendos esse . " Nelite ante tempus quic ~
yuamjudicare , donee nteniat Dominus , gut utustraturus eit occult a tenebrarum , et patefoctet consiita cordium . I Cor . XV . Prov . xiv . Impierum verbaintidiantur sanguini * at proborum oseurn defendit * Ps . ii . Mtnunc reges prudenteragiie + tructimimjudicei terraf XS 5 ^ 8 vo . Reprinted 1612 , 8 vo . to which were joined two letters of Castalio ad Nic . Bladisceiftent et ad Edvard . VI . regem Ang ^ liae , ** dc Ron necandis haereticis ; " de quo libro . Bockius , torn . ii . cap . 3 , pag . 636—^ 639 . Martini Bellti ' forrago de hsereticirf , an sint , persequendi jet omntno , quomodo cum iis sit agendum , multorum turn
veterum turn recentiorum sententise , JLiber ^ hoc tarn turbulento tempore , pemecessariiffi , et cum omnibus turn potissimum principibus et magistratibus utihssimus , ad discendutn quodnam sit eorum in re tarn coritroversa tamquc periculosa ojfficinm Bockius L c . p . 639 , 640 ; to which Beza answered in Tract , de hasreticis a civili magistratu puniend is ad versus novorum academicorum sect am . Apud Rob . Stephanutp , 1554 » 3 ^ o . and Tract , Theod . Bcza , Vol . iii . Page 85—169 . In conformity wi | th which principles Beza tried , though in vain , to irritate the Dutch clergy against one of their brethren , Gellius Snecamra , See Beza ' s Letter to W *» tenbogaerd , by G . Brandt , HiBt . of the Reform . T . i . page 779 . .
Mini Celsi unensi * disputatio in hareticis cocrcendks , quateiius progredi liceat , ubi nominatim eos ultimo aupplicio non affici debere aperto demonstratur . Christ-^ ngse , 1577 , in 2 vo . Second edition de haereticis capitali supplicio non adficiendis ; additis ejusdem argumenti Th . Bezse et Andr Dudithci , epistq ] is duabus contrariia . Ib . X 584 , 8 vo . by Placeius Pseudon , N . 60 * , page 173 . Bockius Hist . Antitrin . t . a , p a , and c . iii . P . 64 x . Shclhornii amoen . Tom . vii . p . 68 . To give you all Sir , that seems interesting upon thi * subject , Caslallo wrote a
treatise , Quinquc impedimen tor um , quse laenteBhominum , etoculosa yefi in divmis cognitione abducunt , succiota enumeratio n cum pia admonit ione ne quie alterum oh divcrsam in religione aentcutiiuu odio AUt vi ijU ^^^ tur , Fr ^ ncofwrti , 1603 , 4 to . Bockius u « i . p . 643- —64 6 .
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; Sketch of the Life of Servetus . —Letter 7 . 431
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/7/
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