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AND THEIR REFUTATION.
only true This is, Religion.
then, according to Burnet,
Work of which smooths the
Light," way to heaven. What blind
ness, or, rather, what !
impiety The Reformation smooths the way
to heaven, by allowing ev.ery one to live as he pleases, without
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" The
law or Sacraments, and with no restraint. A foreign Protestant
" The English, by the Re
author even ridicules Burnet s boast :
formation," he says,
" have
become so totally independent, that
every one takes whatever road to heaven that pleases himself."
Thus the English Reformation refutes itself.
ARTICLE II.
THE ANTITRINITARIANS AND SOCINIANS.
MICHAEL SERVETUS.
32.-Character of Servetus; his studies, travels, and false doctrine. 33.-He goes
to Geneva ; disputes with Calvin, who has him burned to death.
32. Michael Servetus, the chief of the Antitrinitarians, was
a Spaniard, a native of Saragossa, in Catalonia. He was a man
of genius (1), but light-headed, and held such a presumptions
opinion of himself, that, even before he was twenty-five years
old, he thought himself the most learned man in the world. He
went to Paris to study medicine, and there met some German
Lutheran professors, employed by Francis I. to teach in that
University, as he wished to have, at all risks, the best professors
in Europe. He learned from these doctors, not only Latin,
Greek, and Hebrew, but at the same time imbibed their errors.
He went to Dauphiny, and, as he commenced disseminating the
errors he had learned (2), he was accused of Lutheranism, but
cleared himself, and denounced all Lutheran doctrine. He next
(1) Jovet, Hist, delle Relig. t. 2, p. (2; Varil. loc. cit.
287 Varil. t. ; 1, /. 8, p. 370 ; Nat,
Alex. s. 19 ; Gotti, Ver. Rel. I. 2, c.
*. 16, p. 325.
115; Van Ranst,