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goes further than the evidence warrants, in positively asserting that
Trie’s letter was written at Calvin’s dictation, and in calling it Calvin’s
letter in the name of Trie. It is just possible that Trie may have written
the letter without Calvin’s knowledge, and the latter is therefore
entitled to the benefit of the doubt. He cannot absolutely be proved to
have taken the first step in delivering Servetus into the fangs of the
Roman Catholic inquisition; but what we shall now have to relate will
show that he at least aided and abetted it.” Principal Cunningham (The
Reformers, pp. 323 sqq.) goes into an elaborate argument to vindicate
Calvin from the charge of complicity, in opposition to Principal
Tulloch, who denounces the conduct of Calvin, if it could be proven
(he leaves it undecided), as “one of the blackest pictures of treachery.”
An evident rhetorical exaggeration.
ft1157 “Sub sigillo secreti et comme fraternelles [sic] corrections.” He
himself, however, published in the Restitutio, as we have seen, thirty
letters of his to Calvin without Calvin’s permission.
ft1158 “Estre bruslétout vif àpetit-feu, tellement que son corps soit mis en
cendre.” The whole sentence of the tribunal is printed in Calvin’s
Opera, VIII. 784-787. It was communicated to the Council of Geneva,
as a ground for demanding the prisoner.
ft1159 See Montgiron’s letter to the Council of Geneva in Opera, VIII. 791,
and in Rilliet-Tweedie, p. 156.
ft1160 Calvin’s Opera, VIII. 851-856 (copied from d’Artigny, II. 123, and
Mosheim, Neue Nachrichten, etc., p. 100 sq.). Villanovanus is therein
condemned as “maximus haereticus,” and his scripta as “erronea,
nefanda, impia, sacrilega, et plusquam haeretica.”
ft1161 “Nescio quid dicam, nisi fatali vesania fuisse correptum ut se
praecipitem jaceret.” Calvin. See Henry, III. 151.
ft1162 Willis (p. 284) thinks that the enemies of Calvin detained him with the
view to make political capital out of him. He infers this from the fact
that the windows of his room were nailed up. As if he could not have
passed out through the door! Moreover, it was not the windows of his
room in the tavern, as Willis says, but the windows of the prison that
were nailed up, as Servetus stated at the trial, to prove that he had no
intercourse with outsiders. See Rilliet-Tweedie, p. 154.
ft1163 “On trouve bien assez de femmes sans se marrier.” Comp. Trechsel,
I. 306.