Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

all the facts. Now that M. Rilliet de Candolle
has published the whole process, the following
propositions are undeniable:--
a. That Calvin wished for a capital sentence:
he had intimated this as early as 1546 in his
letter to Farel.
b. That when the time came the Council of
Geneva had taken both the ecclesiastical
and civil power into their own hands.
c. That the part Calvin acted was simply his
statutory duty.
d. That he had no power either to condemn or
save Servetus.
e. That the only party in Christendom that
wished an acquittal were the Libertines.
f. That their object was the overthrow of the
Reformation in Geneva.
g. That the sentence of the Council was
grounded mainly on the political and social
consequences of Servetus' teaching.
h. That Calvin labored to substitute
decapitation for burning.
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