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<blockquote>...setelah dia [Servetus] dikenali, saya pikir dia harus ditahan. Teman saya [[Nicholas de la Fontaine|Nicolas]] memanggilnya dengan tuduhan utama, menawarkan dirinya sebagai jaminan sesuai dengan ''[[lex talionis]]''. Pada hari berikutnya, dia mengajukan empat puluh tuduhan tertulis terhadapnya. Pada awalnya dia berusaha mengelak. Oleh karena itu kami dipanggil. Dengan kurang ajar ia mencaci maki saya, seolah-olah dia menganggap saya menjengkelkan baginya. Saya menjawabnya sebagaimana dia pantas mendapatkannya... tentang kekonyolan pria itu saya tidak akan mengatakan apa-apa; tetapi demikianlah kegilaannya sehingga dia tidak ragu-ragu untuk mengatakan bahwa setan-setan memiliki keilahian; ya, bahwa ada banyak ilah di dalam individu setan, karena ilah secara substansial dikomunikasikan kepada mereka yang sama dengan kayu dan batu. Saya berharap bahwa hukuman mati setidaknya akan dijatuhkan padanya; tetapi saya ingin agar beratnya hukuman diringankan.<ref name = "Calvin">Calvin kepada [[William Farel]], 20 Agustus 1553, [https://archive.org/details/encyclopedialiv00encygoog/page/n33 <!-- pg=22 quote="bonnet jules ". --> Bonnet, Jules (1820–1892)] ''Letters of John Calvin'', Carlisle, Penn: [[Banner of Truth Trust]], 1980, hlm. 158–159. {{ISBN|0-85151-323-9}}.</ref></blockquote>
AsKarena Servetus wasbukan notwarga anegara citizenJenewa, ofdan Geneva,secara andhukum legallypaling couldburuk atia worstdapat be banisheddiusir, thepemerintah governmentdalam inupaya anmencari attemptalasan toyang findmasuk someakal plausibleuntuk excusemengabaikan tokenyataan disregardhukum thisini legaltelah realityberkonsultasi had consulted thedengan [[CantonsKanton-kanton ofdi SwitzerlandSwiss|SwissKanton-kanton Reformed cantonsSwiss]] of [[ZürichZurich]], [[Bern]], [[Basel]], anddan [[Schaffhausen]]. TheyMereka universallysemuanya favouredmendukung hispengutukan condemnationdan andpengekangan theterhadap suppressiondoktrinnya, of his doctrine,tetapi buttanpa withoutmengatakan sayingbagaimana howkedua eitherhal shoulditu beharus accomplisheddilakukan.<ref>Schaff, Philip: ''History of the Christian Church, Vol. VIII: Modern Christianity: The Swiss Reformation'', William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1910, phlm. 780.</ref> [[Martin Luther]] hadjuga alsomengutuk condemnedtulisan-tulisannya hisdengan writings in strong termskeras.<ref>Schaff, Philip: ''History of the Christian Church, Vol. VIII: Modern Christianity: The Swiss Reformation'', William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1910, phlm. 706.</ref> Servetus anddan [[Philip Melanchthon]] hadmemiliki stronglypandangan hostileyang viewssangat ofbermusuhan satu eachsama otherlain. The party called the "[[Libertines]]", who were generally opposed to anything and everything that Calvin supported, were in this case strongly in favour of the execution of Servetus at the stake, while Calvin urged that he be beheaded. In fact, the council that condemned Servetus was presided over by [[Ami Perrin]] (a Libertine) who ultimately on 24 October sentenced Servetus to [[execution by burning|death by burning]] for denying the [[Trinity]] and [[paedobaptism|infant baptism]].<ref>Dr. Vollmer, Philip: 'John Calvin: Man of the Millennium,' Vision Forum, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, 2008, p. 87</ref> Calvin and other ministers asked that he be beheaded instead of burned, knowing that burning at the stake was the only legal recourse.<ref>Verdict and Sentence for Michael Servetus (1533) in A Reformation Reader eds. Denis R. Janz; 268–270</ref> This plea was refused, and on 27 October, Servetus was burnt alive atop a pyre of his own books at the Plateau of [[Champel]] at the edge of Geneva.<ref>{{Cite book | last = McGrath | first =Alister E. | author-link =Alister McGrath | title =A Life of John Calvin | publisher=[[Basil Blackwell]] | year =1990 | place = Oxford| isbn = 978-0-631-16398-5 |pages=118–120}}; {{Cite book | last = Cottret | first =Bernard | trans-title =Calvin: A Biography | publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans | year =2000 | place = Grand Rapids, Michigan| isbn = 978-0-8028-3159-0|title=Calvin: Biographie|orig-year=1995|language=fr|others=Translated by M. Wallace McDonald |pages=222–225}}; {{Cite book | last = Parker | first =T. H. L. | title =John Calvin: A Biography | publisher=Lion Hudson plc | year =2006 | place = Oxford| isbn = 978-0-7459-5228-4|url=https://archive.org/details/johncalvinbiogra00park |pages=150–152}}</ref> Historians record his [[last words]] as: "Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me."<ref>[http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/11/12/goldstone/index.html "Out of the Flames" by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone –Salon.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014215521/http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/11/12/goldstone/index.html |date=14 October 2007 }}</ref>
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