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521 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… to Calvin—Its Doctrine Pantheism—Servetus Condemned to Death at Vienne—Escapes—Comes to Geneva—Is Imprisoned—His Indictment drawn by Calvin— Haughtiness …
522 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 320.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin excepted, but which, on the contrary, was pronounced by the best and most enlightened men then living to be just and necessary, awakens our abhorrence …
523 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 320.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… as Calvin, 1509. Nature had endowed him with a lively but fantastic genius, an active but illogical mind, an inordinate ambition, and a defective judgment. He …
524 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 321.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin’s to Viret to the same effect, but its authenticity is doubtful.
525 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 321.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , in Calvin’s position, most probably have written them. Again we must repeat, they caused no horror to the age in which they were written; nay, they were the verdict …
526 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 321.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to Calvin in 1546. It bore the title of Restitutio Christianismi, or “Christianity Restored.” This led to his apprehension by the authorities of Vienne, where …
527 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 321.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ,” exclaimed Calvin in astonishment, “except that he must have been seized with a fatal madness to precipitate himself upon destruction.” He arrived in the middle …
528 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 322.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by Calvin, and presented next day to the tribunal.“One of the syndics, at my instigation, committed him to prison.” (To Sultzer, 9th September, 1553.) Spon, in his History …
529 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 322.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… appear. Calvin now at length stood face to face with his adversary. The Reformer’s severe logic soon unmasked the real opinions of the man, and forced him to …
530 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 322.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin’s reply had been a dignified silence, was more than the Reformer could bear, and he became heated in his turn and, as he himself said to Farel, “answered …
531 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 322.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… asses?” Calvin truly divined the deeper error beneath these-the denial of a personal God-that is, of God. “His frenzy was such,” says the Reformer, writing to Farel …
532 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 322.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… against Calvin. As the battle went with Calvin, as the Libertines seemed now to prevail against him, and now to fall before him, Servetus was contemptuous and …
533 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 324 (James Aitken Wylie)
Chapter 20 : Calvin’s Victory over the Libertines
534 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Servetus—Calvin Fighting Two Battles at the Same Time—Communion Sunday—Consistory’s Remonstrance with the Council—The Council Changes Nothing in its …
535 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Calvin and Servetus before the Council.
536 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 324.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin. The pastors had been expelled front the Council-General-the assembly of the whole people. There followed a more direct attack upon the ecclesiastical …
537 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 325.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… passed, Calvin hurried to the prison, where he and his colleagues were to be confronted with Servetus. This day (lst September, 1553) it was resolved by the Council …
538 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 326.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Council, Calvin was ordered to draw up anew articles of indictment from the works of Servetus, in the form of plain statements, without any reasoning for or …
539 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 326.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… way Calvin might turn he would, they were sure, encounter defeat. If he should obey the edict of the Council, he would be disgraced before the people; if he should …
540 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 326.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… hear Calvin pathetically exclaim, where now are Cranmer, and Ridley, and John a Lasco, and the hundreds of others in England which the Reformation numbered …