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    vetus , who flattered himself yet 5 against all appearances , that he should experience more clemency from Protestants than from bigotted Catholic ; . He repented and bewailed , so as to soften his

    inexorable judges that he , driven by fear , had heard mass at Vienne , and sinned it , Alas ! he was dis . appointed : the law of punishing

    heretics with death , " says Venema , 4 C was not yet abolished among the reformed , and Ariti- * Christianism was not yet entirely rooted out in this part , " * In the third examination , a

    lawyer , Germain Colladon , was joined to his informer . " At this period / ' observes Venema > + < c all modesty was laid aside by both parties . ' Calvin writes to Farel , u He scolded me with petulance : I answered him as he deserved . ! ' *

    The 18 th of Aug . the examination was renewed . The accusation of his slandering Calvin the hinge upon which the prosecution seemed to turn , was again brought forward , after a desultory discus *

    sion on the Trinity , his edition of Ptolemaeus , Pagnini ' s Bible , and his violent attacks on infant baptism . || This last was then pretty generally considered as a capital crime , and its inculpation equal to that of rebellion or high tueason .

    Servetus protested again in vain that he had been provoked by Calvin ., that Calvin was the aggressor ^ that his letters to Pepin , his criticisms upon Calvin ' s Institutions , ntfver had been published ; but renewed hia > confession , that the

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    Restitutio Qhristianismi was hi * work * His judges concluded > nevertheless , that there were proofs enough of his guilt , and that now the process might be instituted in conformity with the laws of the

    city . The examination was renewed the 21 st of Aug . in which the opinions of the ancient fathers , to whom Servetus appealed with re * gard to the doctrine of the Tri - nity , were examined .

    " Here , " says Calving c * was Servetus entirely worsted , and co » vered with shame and confusion * Here was exhibited a sportful and ridiculous proof with regard to

    Justin Martyr . * ' This was the meek , composed language of & Christian teacher , in respect to a man who pleaded for bis life ! " He could no more read the

    Greek than an alphabetic boy . " That this was not so is evident to everyone , who has examined curso - rily the writings of Servetus—who has deemed it worthy to investigate how many places in Ptolemasus and Galen Servetus has corrected

    and happily restored frpm ancient MSS . —how many original pas * sages he has adduced from the jlxx and N . T . and interpreted the same successfully , without treading in the steps of more ancient

    commentators . It appears , even from his .. Restitutio Christianismu that he was tolerably versed in the Hebrew language * It was decreed by the judgef , either from their own motives , or

    * H . E . t . to . p . 47 % » f H . E . t . vii . p . 97 * . f Protcrvc mihi conviciatus est— -ega , ut dignus erat , cum execpi . I Rcstitut . Christ , lib . iv , cap . 3 , § Rcfutat . Err . Serveti p . 703 . Huju ^ rei jocosum et risu dlgnum specimen in Ju stino Martyrc exhibitum fuit , ' Atqui Gr » cum acrmoncm nihilo m * % h legcre « nam pucr alphabctkus potwru

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    38 ( T Sketch of the Life of Servetus . —Letter 6 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/4/