of the work for which he was condemned still exists; and I, thinking
that others may feel the interest I have tried to sketch in its
existence, will now state the facts of the case, and lay my authorities
before your readers.
"We condemn you, said the council, Michael Servetus, to be bound
and led to Champel, where you are to be fastened to a stake, and
burnt alive together with your book, as well the printed as the
MS."
"About midday he was led to the stake. An iron chain encompassed
his body; on his head was placed a crown of plaited straw and
leaves strewed with sulphur, to assist in suffocating him. At
his girdle were suspended his printed books; and the MS. he had
sent to Calvin."
This MS. had been completed in 1546, and sent
to Geneva for his opinion. Calvin, in a letter to
Farel says:
"Servetus wrote to me lately, and accompanied his letter with a
long volume _of his insanities_."
This long volume was the MS. of the "Restitutio Christianismi," now
ready for the press.
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