A brief account of Calvin's burning of Servetus for an heretic : formerly published in four of the papers called, The old Whig, or, Consistent Protestant / by George Benson.

  • Benson, George, 1923-2007
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1743
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Credit: A brief account of Calvin's burning of Servetus for an heretic : formerly published in four of the papers called, The old Whig, or, Consistent Protestant / by George Benson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be feen in Father Paul’s Hiftory of the Council V 1 rent> P<*g- 38 7- with whofe Words I (hall con- elude. One Hundred Seventy-fix Perfons of Quality <c were burned that Year for Religion, [that is, “ m England, under the Popifio Queen Mary,] befides many of the common People.—Many were alfo at the fame Time burned in France, for Religion \ cc not without the Indignation of honed Men ; who knew that the Diligence ufed againd thofe 44 poor People was not for Piety, or Religion, but to fatisfy the Covetoufnefle of Diana Valentina, the King s Millreffe, to whom he had given all the <c Confifcation of Goods, made in the Kingdom, for 44 the Caufe of Herefy. It was wondered alfo, that cc thofe or the New Reformation fhould meddle with 44 Blood, for the Caufe of Religion. For Michael 44 Servetus, of Terragona, made a Divine of a Phyft- 44 cian, renewing the old Opinion of Paulus Samo- Menus, and Marcellus Anciranus, [that the Word of God was not a Thing fubfiding, and therefore 44 that Chrifi was a pure Man,] was put to Death ioi it in Geneva, by Counfel of the Miniders of Zuric, Berne, and Schaffhaujjen: And John Calvin, 44 who was blamed for it by many, wrote a Book, 44 defending that the Magiftrate may punifh Heretics with Lofe of Life: Which Doctrine, being drawn to divers Senfes, as it is underdood more dndtly, 44 or more largely, or as the Name of Heretic is 44 taken diverfly, may fometime do hurt to him, 44 whom* another Time it has helped.” I am Tour affectionate, humble Servant, CH ARISTES.
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