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    BRI £ F ACCOUNT OF SERVETUS , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sm , % c A LL things whatsoever ye would that men should do tti JljL you , do ye even so to them , * has been laid down by our Lord Jesus Christ , as a first principle of his religion , and an invariable rule of conduct for his followers . Had all who have borfae his name been always careful to act accordingl y ^ a bitter and bloody spirit would never have been found among them ; nor could they ever have been the advocates or abettors of

    intolerance and persecution . Calvin , in that case , would never liave imbrued his hands in the innocent blood of Michael Servetus ; nor would his followers at this day ever attempt to justify or palliate his murderous conduct . In short , they would think and speak with horror of that most black and bloody deed , and earnestly warn and dissuade one another against every thing that may lead in the remotest degree to the imitation of that part of Calvin ' s character or behaviour . That , however , does not seem to be yet the case among them . An undue attachment to that unfeeling demagogue , and a disposition and readiness to vindicate or extenuate his very worst ac *» tions , are still as visible as ever . In a very popular periodical publication belonging to that party , the Evangelical Magazine ,

    of which no less than 18 , 000 copies are said to be circulated every month , instances frequently occur , w hich but too plainly evince that modern Calvinism is by no means free from the antichristian spirit of its founder . In some late numbers of that work ( those for March and May ) attempts have been made , at to

    ar not directly or absolutely to justify ^ yet least palliate and excuse the part which that reformer acted in the abov ^ memorable and . detestable tragedy . But it no more admit * of excuse or palliation than c ? Qes the part the Jews acted against Christ and his apostles , or that which the inquisitors and other

    modern persecutors have acted against their hapless victims . ; if , indeed , so much 4 for Calvin ought to have ; known better 5

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    THE * MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/1/