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[1]The pastors of the church at Basil, in their letter to the syndics and senate of Geneva, express their joy for the apprehension of Servetus, and advise them first to "Use all endeavours to recover him; but that if he persisted in his perverseness, they should punish him according to their office, and the power they had received from God, to prevent his giving any disturbance to the church, and lest the latter end should be worse than the first." [2]The ministers of the church of Bern were of the same opinion; and in their letter to the magistrates of Geneva say, "We pray the Lord that he would give you the spirit of prudence, counsel and strength, to remove this plague from the churches, both your own and others," and advise them "to neglect nothing that may be judged unworthy a Christian magistrate to omit." [3]The ministers of Zurich give much the same advice, and thought that there was need of a great deal of diligence in the affair; "especially as the reformed churches were evil thought of, amongst other reasons for this, as being themselves heretical, and favourers of heretics. But that, as the Providence of God had given them an opportunity of wiping off so evil a suspicion, and preventing the farther spreading of so contagious a poison, they did not doubt but their excellencies would be careful to improve it." [4]Those of Scaffhusen subscribed to the judg-* [Footnote 1: Ibid.] [Footnote 2: Ibid.] [Footnote 3: Ibid.] [Footnote 4: Ibid.]

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