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Brethren In Christ
BY ALAN EYRE


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The Condemnation Of Valentino Gentilis

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By The City and Canton of Geneva 1558
by order of the senators, ministers and presbyters
under the direction of John Calvin.

He shall be stripped close to his shirt, then barefoot and bareheaded shall carry in his hand a lighted torch, and beg God and the court's pardon on his knees, by confessing himself maliciously and wickedly to have spread abroad a false and heretical doctrine; but that he does now from his heart detest

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and abhor those abominable, lying and blasphemous books he has composed in his defence; in testimony of which he is to cast them, with his own hands, into the flames, there to be burnt to ashes. And for more ample satisfaction, it is injoined that he be led through all the streets of Geneva, at the sound of the trumpet, in his penitential clothing, and strictly not to depart from the city without permission.

By the Senate of the Canton of Bern 1566

Since he dissented from us, and all the orthodox, in the doctrine of the Trinity,

And since his writings contain many impious blasphemies concerning the Trinity,

And because he continues obstinate in his opinions, notwithstanding the endeavours of the divines to convert him, he is condemned for his blasphemies against the Son of God, and the glorious mystery of the Trinity, to be beheaded.

The sentence was carried out September 1566 in Bern, Switzerland.59

 


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