The fruits of forcing consciences are: if they die rather than recant, you are murderers; if they recant, they lie and their soul perishes.
¶ Advice to a Desolate France (1562)
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Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563) Savoyard teacher, theologian, preacher [Sebastien Châtaillon]
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
¶ Contra Libellum Calvini (1554)
on John Calvin's role in execution of Servetus
Why is our age still in darkness? Instead of working toward the golden age, we dispute, spilling the blood of the weakest. What is more absurd, we do it in Christ's name who said to turn the other cheek, return good for evil and leave the weeds in the wheat field until the harvest.
¶ Latin Bible, Preface (1551)
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