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blasphemies, with which, by his speeches and writings, for the space of
thirty years, he had infected both heaven and earth.” He thinks that
Servetus uttered a satanic prediction on the title-page of his book:
“Great war took place in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with
[not against] the dragon.” He also wrote an elaborate defence of the
death-penalty for heresy in his tract De haereticis a civili magistratu
puniendis, adversus Martini Bellii [pseudonym] farraginem et
novorum academicorum sectam. Geneva (Oliva Rob. Stephani), 1554;
second ed. 1592; French translation, 1560. See Heppe’s Beza, p. 38 sq.
III. Anti-Calvinistic.
Bolsec, in his Histoire de la vie ... de Jean Calvin (1577), chs. III.
and IV., discusses the trial of Servetus in a spirit hostile alike to
Calvin and Servetus. He represents the Roman Catholic view. He
calls Servetus “a very arrogant and insolent man,” and a
“monstrous heretic,” who deserved to be exterminated.
“Desireroy,” he says, p. 25, “que tous semblables fussent
exterminez: et l’église de nostre Seigneur fut bien purgée de telle
vermine.” His more tolerant editor, L. F. CHASTEL, protests
against this wish by an appeal to Luke 9:55.
IV. Documentary Sources.
The Acts of the process of Servetus at Vienne were published by the
Abbé D’ARTIGNY, Paris, 1749 (Tom. II. des Nouveaux
Memoires).—The Acts of the process at Geneva, first published by
J. H. ALBERT RILLIET: Relation du procés criminel intenté a
Genève en 1553 contre Michel Servet, rédigée d’après les
documents originaux. Genève, 1844. Reprinted in Opera, vol.
VIII.—English translation, with notes and additions, by W. K.
TWEEDIE: Calvin and Servetus. Edinburgh, 1846. German
translation by BRUNNEMANN (see below).
V. Modern Works.
*L. Mosheim, the famous Lutheran Church historian (1694–1755),
made the first impartial investigation of the Servetus controversy, and
marks a reaction of judgment in favor of Servetus, in two monographs,
Geschichte des berühmten Spanischen Arztes Michael Serveto,
Helmstaedt, 1748, 4° (second vol. of his Ketzergeschichte); and Neue