Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

howl like one out of his senses. In brief, he had all
the appearance of a demoniac. At last his outcry
was so great that he without intermission
exclaimed in Spanish, striking his breast, 'Mercy!
mercy!'" A terrible picture! and one cannot but
wish that, with its graphic touches, there had
mingled a little more of that pity which it needs
must awaken for the sufferer in the heart of every
one who reads it. When his first paroxysm had
subsided, Farel, addressing Servetus, besought him
"to repent of his sins, and confess the God who had
thrice revealed himself."[7] This appeal but
rekindled the polemical pride of the unhappy man.
Turning to the aged evangelist, he asked him to
produce a single passage from Scripture where
Christ was called the Son of God previous to his
coming in the flesh. Farel quoted several such
passages; but Servetus, though he had nothing to
reply, remained unconvinced, and continued to
mingle cries for mercy, and appeals to Christ as his
Savior, with his disputation with Farel, in which he
maintained that Christ was not eternal, nor
otherwise the Son of God except as regards his
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