The Life of Michael Servetus: The Spanish Physician, Who, for the Alleged Crime of Heresy, was Entrapped, Imprisoned, and Burned by John Calvin the Reformer, in the City of Geneva, October 27, 1553The Life of Michael Servetus by William Drummond Hamilton, first published in 1848, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Page 148 - A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject ; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Page 192 - ... world : — that you would confine your talents and industry to those sciences in which real and useful improvements can be made. Remember the end of your predecessor Servetus, not of his life, (the Calvins of our days are restrained from the use of the same fiery arguments,) but, I mean, the end of his reputation. .His theological writings are lost in oblivion; and if his book on the Trinity be still preserved, it is only, because it contains the first rudiments of the discovery of the circulation...
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Page 192 - — for the other reformers, such as Luther, Calvin, and their followers, understood so little in what true Christian charity consisted, that they carried with them into the reformed churches, THAT VERY SPIRIT OF PERSECUTION WHICH HAD DRIVEN THEM FROM THE CHURCH OP ROME.
Page 164 - The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood : but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.