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Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

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the likeness <strong>of</strong> flesh," but flesh in the likeness<br />

<strong>of</strong> God.<br />

16. Allwoerden, p. 123.<br />

17. See extract from Farel's letter to Hottinger--<br />

Ruch<strong>at</strong>, tom. 6, pp. 51, 52. Calvini Opp.--<br />

Refut. Error. Serveti.<br />

18. Allwoerden, p. 124.<br />

19. Ibid., p. 123.<br />

20. Ibid.<br />

21. "Everywhere else but in a Reformed city," says<br />

Rilliet, "he [Servetus] might have perished<br />

without his memory recalling anything but a<br />

funeral pile <strong>and</strong> a victim" (p. 223). And we<br />

may add th<strong>at</strong>, but for the "fierce light th<strong>at</strong><br />

burns" on Calvin, <strong>and</strong> the fact th<strong>at</strong> his <strong>of</strong>ficial<br />

duty connected him with the trial, his name<br />

would have been scarcely more associ<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

with the de<strong>at</strong>h <strong>of</strong> Servetus than is th<strong>at</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Melancthon or Viret, or any other Reformer<br />

who was then alive, <strong>and</strong> who shared the<br />

responsibility <strong>of</strong> the affair equally with him.<br />

22. Bolsec, the bitterest <strong>of</strong> all Calvin's enemies,<br />

speaking <strong>of</strong> Servetus, says th<strong>at</strong> he experienced<br />

"no regret <strong>at</strong> the de<strong>at</strong>h <strong>of</strong> so monstrous a<br />

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