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rightfulness of the punishment of heretics by the civil magistrate
(1555).
ft1025 Commonefactio de Thammero, vol. IX. 133: “Dedit vero et
Genevensis Reipublicae Magistratas ante annos quatuor punitae
insanabilis blasphemiae adversus Filium Dei, sublato Serveto
Arragone pium et memorabile ad omnem posteritatem exemplum.”
ft1026 He wrote to Melanchthon, March 5, 1555: “Your letter, most
reverend sir, was grateful to me, not only because whatever comes
from you is dear to me, and because it has assured me that the
affection, which you entertained for me in the commencement of our
intercourse, still remains unaltered; but above all because in it I find a
magnificent eulogy, in which you commend my zeal in crushing the
impiety of Servetus. Whence also I conjecture that you have not been
offended with the honest freedom of my admonitions.” He referred to
Melanchthon again in his reply to the Reproaches of Baudouin, 1562.
See above, § 137.
ft1027 So he wrote to Ambrosius Blaurer, Dec. 29, 1531: “Pestilentissimum
illum de Trinitate librum novi, proh dolor, et hic in publicis
praelectionibus nostris confutavi.”
ft1028 Dignum esse, qui avulsis visceribus discerperetur.” So reports Calvin
Sept. 8, 1553. This is confirmed by a letter of Professor Frecht of
Tübingen to Capito, dated Nov. 25, 1538. See Tollin, Michael Servet
und Martin Butzer, in the “Magazin für die Lit. des Auslandes,” Berlin,
1876, and Servet und die oberlaendischen Reformatoren, Bd. I.
(Michael Servet und Martin Butzer), Berlin, 1880, pp. 232 sqq. Tollin
thinks that Bucer meant the book, not the person of Servetus; but
books have no viscera.
ft1029 See above, § 26, pp. 87 sqq.
ft1030 The judgments of the magistrates and ministers of Zürich,
Schaffhausen, Basel, and Bern are printed in Calvin’s Opera, VIII.
808-823 (in German and Latin). The judgment of the pastors of Zürich,
dated Oct. 2, 1553, is also inserted in Calvin’s Defensio, ibid. fol. 555-
558.
ft1031 See Nippold, Ueber Leben, Lehre und Sekte des David Joris, in the
Zeitschrift für historische Theologie,” 1863, No. I., and 1864, No. IV.
ft1032 See above, § 131, p. 658.