views and the Arminian views. However, the Arminian representatives
were detained and were not allowed to sit on the synod. Thus the
judges were comprised entirely of individuals who had already rejected
the Arminian view. As one has observed, the Remonstrants were
predestined to fail"
http://www.1timothy4-13.com/files/bible/calvin.html
"From 1541 to 1546, John Calvin caused 58 people to be executed and
seventy six were exiled. His victims ranged in age from 16 to 80. The
most common capital offense was the opposition to infant baptism.
Today, baptism only for accountable believers, is a Baptist
distinctive. In Calvin's time it was punished either by drowning, a
drawn out and slow burning at the stake, or beheading. All this was
done in public, with city residents compelled to watch the butchery.
The executions were spaced out so as to exert a continuing policy of
fear and terror. Others were killed for advocating local church
autonomy; opposing the tie-in of church and state: and preaching that
Christ died for all sinners (unlimited atonement). Press censorship
continued in Geneva until the eighteenth century."
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
