Truly astonishing
John Calvin
“But I am unwilling to pledge my word for [Servetus'] safety, for if he shall come [to Geneva], I shall never permit him to depart alive, provided my authority be of any avail.”
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him. 1 John 3:15
Charles Spurgeon
“Among all those who have been born of women, there has not risen a greater than John Calvin; no age, before him ever produced his equal, and no age afterwards has seen his rival. In theology, he stands alone, shining like a bright fixed star, while other leaders and teachers can only circle round him, at a great distance — as comets go streaming through space — with nothing like his glory or his permanence” . . . “the longer I live the clearer does it appear that John Calvin’s system is the nearest to perfection.”