[90] The letter of the Council of Geneva and the reply of the authorities of Vienne are published in the new ed. of Calvin by Cünitz and Reuss, vol. xiv.
[91] Conf. De Trin. Error. fol. 93.
[92] First under Calvin with Nicolas de la Fontaine as his agent; then under Colladon engaged by Calvin; next under Rigot as public prosecutor and now under Calvin and the Swiss Churches.
[93] Here is what Servetus says on this subject, in connection with the Sabellian or Patripassian heresy, in his earlier work: As the proper passion of the flesh is to be born, so is it the proper passion of the flesh to suffer, to be scourged, to be crucified, to die. But all this does not touch the spirit, for it is not the soul that suffers or that dies, but the body. Who so profane as to imagine that the angel in me dies although I die? (De Trinitatis Erroribus, f. 76, b.)
[94] From Mosheim’s Neue Nachrichten, Beilagen, S. 102, copied from the archives of the Church of Zürich.
[95] Bullinger’s letter bears date from Zürich, Sep. 14, 1553, and is printed in Calvin’s correspondence by Cünitz and Reuss.
[96] The letter is given at length in the Thes. Epist. Calvini a Cünitz et Reuss, v. 591.
[97] Calvin to Bullinger, April 21, 1555, in Epist. Calvini, 8vo. Hanov. 1597.
[98] Vue le sommaire du procés de Michel Servet, prisonnier, le rapport de ceux, esquel on a consultez, et considéré les grands erreurs et blasfémes—Est este arreté: Il soyt condamné à estre mené a Champel, et la brulez tout vivfz, et soyt exequeté a demain, et ses livres bruslés.
[99] Defensio Orthodoxæ Fidei, &c.