An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie / [By Sir Benjamin Hodges?].

  • Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553.
Date:
1724
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Credit: An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie / [By Sir Benjamin Hodges?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ tutes there is no exception to be taken. Foi* ‘c by this mean it came topafs, that one church (e could not but accufe and condemn another <c of difobedience to the will of Christ, iii “ thofe things where manifeft difference was cc between them : Whereas the felf-fame or- cc ders allowed, but yet eftablilhed in more wary and fufpenfe manner, as being to <c hand in force till God fhould give the op- <c portunity of fome general conference, what “ might be belt for every of them afterwards “ to do; this, I fay, had both prevented all tc occalion of juft diflike, which others might cc take, andreferved a greater liberty unto the iC authors themfelves, of entering into farther “ confutation afterwards; which, though never <c fo necelfary, they could not eafily now ad- c< mit, without fome fear of derogation from <c their credit ,• and therefore that which once *e they had done, they became for ever after <c refolute to maintain. Calvin therefor^, <c and the other two his affociates, ftifRy refuting cc to adminifter the holy communion to fuch “ who would not quietly, without contra- €C didion and murmur, fubmit themfelves un- iC to the orders, which their folemn oath had <f bound them to obey, were, in that quarrel, “ banilhed the town. A few years after (fuch <c was the levity of that people) the places of <c one or two of their minifters being fallen <£ void, they were not before fo willing to be <c rid of their learned pallor, as now impor- <c tunate to obtain him again from them who <c had given him entertainment, and which <c were loath to part with him, had not unre- cc liftable earneftnefs been ufed. One of the “ town minifters, that faw in what manner “ the