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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT CONTINENTAL UNITARIANS.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . LIV .
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No . III . Soon after Servetus began to practise as a physician , he met with his former pupil and friend , Peter Palmier , Archbishop of Vienne , who strongly urged him to settle in that city , and offered him an apartment in his own house . This offer Servetus was induced to accept ; and here he continued to live , in good practice , and upon the most friendly terms with his Right
Reverend Patron , till his repose was destroyed by the machinations of his arch enemy . It was not till after a period of thirteen years , spent in the greatest harmony , in the society and under the roof of a Catholic Prelate , that Calvin was able to mature the plan which he had formed for the destruction of Servetus . ** Calvin , " says Daniel Chamier , of Dauphiny , not only professed a belief in the doctrine of the Trinity , but defended it with the greatest constancy , while the Papists were slumbering , among whom , as
long as Servetus lived , he lived in safety : but at length he was made by Calvin to feel the force of truth , and when he came to Geneva , was visited with a holy severity by the pious magistrates of that city . " Bolsec informs us , that as much as seven years before the death of Servetus , Calvin declared , in a letter to Peter Viret , that if he should ever come to Geneva , he would not allow him to return from it alive . The following has been assigned as
the cause of this unchristian determination . In the year 1546 Servetus sent to Calvin a manuscript copy of a certain work , in which he freely canvassed his opinions , and ventured to point out some of his errors . Servetus at the same time requested Calvin ' s opinion concerning this work , which is supposed , with good reason , to have been the original draught of the " Restitutio Christiamsmi . " But Calvin was so much incensed at the freedom which
Servetus had taken in animadverting upon his views of the Christian scheme , that he ever after invei g hed against him with the greatest bitterness , and came , as we have seen above , to the deliberate determination of plotting his destruction . This determination could not be carried into effect at once ;
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JUNE , 1831 .
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VOL . V * 2 D
Biographical Notices Of Eminent Continental Unitarians.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT CONTINENTAL UNITARIANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/1/
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