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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Michael Servetus, a physician, who among them called himself Villaneuve. At the same time with the above, Calvin sent through Trie, the first sheet of the book of Servetus, which contained the title page, and the table of contents. This execrable letter, in which the reformer allied himself with papists for the destruction of a protestant, did not at once produce its intended effect. Arney carried it, with the sheet that had been sent, to an inquisitor, by the name of Ory; but the latter did not think that there appeared sufficient ground for the arrest of Servetus, and directed Arney to write for further information. Another letter was then received in the name of Trie, accompanied with more than twenty letters which Calvin had received from Servetus, which were sent for the purpose of affording clearer proof of the heresy of the latter. Shortly after a third letter was sent to urge on the prosecution. It was at last commenced., Of the infamy of this transaction, Calvin was afterwards anxious to clear himself, and his apologists have laboured to prove him innocent. In his own defence he blusters, and equivocates, and says nothing. He treads on the borders of direct falsehood, and returns without daring to make an explicit denial of his agency. They say, says he, that it was by my exertions, that he was arrested at Vienne in the province of Lyons. But how came I suddenly to have so much familiarity with a satellite of the pope? how came I to have so much favor with him? As if it were credible, that letters should be flying backward and forward between those, who are not less opposed to each other than Christ to Belial. Wherefore it is to no purpose to refute so idle a calumny; which, overthrown by a mere denial, falls to the ground. He then proceeds to talk about ano...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217445979 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217445977 |
| Weight | 1.03 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $23.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 316 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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