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“Servetus lately wrote to me, and coupled with his letter a long volume of his delirious fancies, with the Thrasonic boast, that I should see something astonishing and unheard of. He offers to come hither, if it be agreeable to me. But I am unwilling to pledge my word for his safety, FOR IF HE SHALL COME, I SHALL NEVER PERMIT HIM TO DEPART ALIVE, PROVIDED MY AUTHORITY BE OF ANY AVAIL”

2. Calvin justifying the use of the SWORD BY THE CHURCH.  Harmony of the Gospels; commentary on Matthew 13:39 – written in 1555
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom32.ii.xx.html

“This passage has been most improperly abused by the Anabaptists, and by others like them, to take from the Church the power of the sword. But it is easy to refute them; for since they approve of excommunication, which cuts off, at least for a time, the bad and reprobate, why may not godly magistrates, when necessity calls for it, use the sword against wicked men? They reply that, when the punishment is not capital, there is room allowed for repentance; as if the thief on the cross (Luke 23:42) did not find the means of salvation. I shall satisfy myself with replying, that Christ does not now speak of the office of pastors or of magistrates, but removes the offense which is apt to disturb weak minds, when they perceive that the Church is composed not only of the elect, but of the polluted dregs of society. ”

3. Letter to the Marquis du Poet, Grand Chamberlain of the Queen of Navarre, 30 September 1561
http://www.archive.org/stream/lettersofjohncal04calvuoft/lettersofjohncal04calvuoft_djvu.txt

Honour, glory, and riches will be the reward of your pains. Above all do not fail to rid the country of all those zealous scoundrels that stir up the people to make head against us. Such monsters should be smothered, as I have done here by Michel Servetus the Spaniard.

(; in Letters of John Calvin, Vol. IV, edited by Jules Bonnet; translated by Marcus Robert Gilchrist, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1858, p. 434)  http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Letters-of-John-Calvin-Volume-4/712120/440

4. Preface to Commentary on the Psalms, Vol. 1, 22 July 1557
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom08.vi.html   Visit to read the entire commentary. Once again describing the type of man that John Calvin is and this is from CALVIN UNIVERSITY…

“And at length matters had come to such a state, that an end could be put to their machinations in NO OTHER WAY THAN CUTTING THEM OFF BY AN IGNOMINIOUS DEATH; WHICH WAS INDEED A PAINFUL AND PITIABLE SPECTACLE TO ME. THEY NO DOUBT DESERVED THE SEVEREST PUNISHMENT.”

5.  Wow did John Calvin love to use the SWORD to kill anyone who was against his doctrine.  Here he is once again instigating more deaths.  Are these fake too? You would think that the Calvin family remaining alive would be able to sue all of these people including John Calvin UNIVERSITY itself.  In this case, the link of a reformed website.

Letter to the Protector [Duke] Somerset, Regent of England, 22 October 1548
http://www.reformed.org/ethics/index.html?mainframe=/ethics/calvin_to_somerset.html

“From what I am given to understand, Monseigneur, there are two kinds of rebels who have risen up against the King and the Estates of the Kingdom. (1) The one, a fantastical sort of persons, who, under color of the Gospel, would put all into confusion. (2) The others are persons who persist in the superstitions of the Roman Antichrist. BOTH ALIKE DESERVE TO BE REPRESSED BY THE SWORD WHICH IS COMMITTED TO YOU, since they not only attack the King, but strive with God, who has placed him upon a royal throne, and has committed to you the protection as well of his person as of his majesty.”