Christ and His Apostles did not persecute; neither does the true church of Christ. The Protestant persecutions of each other, and of Catholics, and of “Anabaptists,” were derived from Rome, and were in direct and horrid contradiction of the Protestant principle of freedom of conscience. Calvin’s condemnation and execution of the almost “Anabaptist” and the AntiTrinitarian, Michael Servetus (1553), though then approved by his brother Protestants, is a sad and ineffaceable blot upon his character — the bloody deed producing only evil, utterly condemned by the entire spirit of the New Testament, and by every person (not a Roman Catholic) of to-day.

--Elder Cushing Biggs Hassell and Sylvester Hassell, History of the Church of God: FROM THE CREATION TO A.D. 1885. p. 529

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[Richard the 7th]

hello - first post here and just found Lumpkin's blog today - and glad I did.
Re brother Calvin, could someone kindly suggest an UNbiased, scholarly single-volume biography of him. I unfortunately find it necessary to educate myself more fully on his life and fruit thereof.