, &c., of Synesius, Jerome, Hilary, and Lactantius and others involve the same conception.
Ib.
c.27. p.140.
The seventh is the heresy of Sabellius, which he saith was revived by Servetus. So it was indeed, that Servetus revived in our time the damnable heresy of Sabellius, long since condemned in the first ages of the Church. But what is that to us? How little approbation he found amongst us, the just and honourable proceeding against him at Geneva will witness to all posterity.
as this act must and ought to be to all Christians at present; yet this passage and a hundred still stronger from divines and Church letters contemporary with Calvin, prove Servetus' death not to be Calvin's guilt especially, but the common
opprobrium
of all European Christendom, — of the Romanists whose laws the Senate of Geneva followed, and from fear of whose reproaches (as if Protestants favoured heresy) they executed them, — and of the Protestant churches who applauded the act and returned thanks to Calvin and the Senate for it.
Ib.