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of the last page in extremely small figures—1790 (not 1791, as Trechsel,
Staehelin, Willis, and others, say). The reprint was made from the original
copy in the Vienna Library by direction of Chr. Th. Murr, M. D. (See his
Adnotationes ad Bibliothecas Hallerianas, cum variis ad scripta
Michaelis Serveti pertinentibus, Erlangen, 1805, quoted by Willis.) The
edition must have been small, for copies are rare. My friend, the Rev.
Samuel M. Jackson, is in possession of a copy which I have used, and of
which two pages, the first and the last, are given in facsimile.
A German translation of the Restitutio by Dr. BERNHARD SPIESS:
Michael Servets Wiederherstellung des Christenthums zum ersten
Mal übersetzt. Erster Bd., Wiesbaden (Limbarth), 1892 (323 pp.).
The second vol. has not yet appeared. He says in the preface: “An
Begeisterung für Christus und an biblischem Purismus ist Servet
den meisten Theologen unserer Tage weit überlegen [?]; von
eigentlichen Laesterungen ist nichts bei ihm zu entdecken.” Dr.
Spiess, like Dr. Tollin, is both a defender of Servetus and an
admirer of Calvin. He translated the first ed. of his Institutes (1536)
into German (Wiesbaden, 1887).
The geographical and medical works of Servetus will be noticed in the next
sections.
II. Calvinistic Sources.
Calvin: Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra trinitate contra
prodigiosos errores Michaelis Serveti Hispani, ubi ostenditur
haereticos jure gladii coercendos esse, etc., written in 1554, in Opera,
VIII. (Brunsw., 1870), 453–644. The same volume contains thirty
letters of Servetus to Calvin, 645–720, and the Actes du procès de
Mich. Servet., 721–872. See also the correspondence of Calvin from
the year 1553 in vol. XIV. 68 sqq. (The Defensio is in the Amsterdam
ed., vol. IX. 510–567.) Calvin refers to Servetus after his death several
times in the last ed. of the Institutes (I. III. § 10, 22; II. IX. § 3, 10; IV.
XVI. 29, 81), in his Responsio ad Balduini Convitia (1562), Opera,
IX. 575, and in his Commentary on John 1:1 (written in 1554):
“Servetus, superbissimus ex gente Hispanica nebulo.”
Beza gives a brief account in his Calvini Vita, ad a. 1553 and 1554,
where he says that “Servetus was justly punished at Geneva, not as a
sectary, but as a monster made up of nothing but impiety and horrid