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to comply with his desire , and told him the Senate had forbid them to circumcise any body that was not born a Jew . Anthoine ,
longing to receive the seal of the Jewish covenant , went quickly to Padua , in hopes that the Jews of that place w « uld be more favourable to him ; but they gave him the same answer . The Jews of
that city , and those of Venice , told him , rhiit he might be saved , without making an outward profession of Judaism , provided he remained faithful to God in his heart . This made him resolve to return to
Geneva , where he had more acquaintances than any where else . M , Diodati , minister and professor of that cify , took him into his house , to be tutor to his children . He pretended to go on with his theological studies , and was for some time teacher of the first class .
Afterwards he disputed for the chair of philosophy , but without any success * All that time he lived outwardly like a true Chris , tian ; for he confessed at his trial , that he had constantly received the communion ; but , in private
he lived and performed his devotions , like a Jew . At last , being poor , and weary of the condition he was in , and wanting a settle * ment , he desired a testimonial of the church of Geneva , which was granted him , and went to the Synod of Burgundy , held at Gex , in order to be admitted into the
ministry . He was admitted according to custom , promising to follow the doctrine of ttie Old and
New Testament , the discipline ahd confession of faith , of ' the reformed churches of fVanbe , &c . and was appointed minister of tlie church of Divonne , in the country dttm- ¦
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He had not been long there , when the lord of thai place perceived he never mentioned Jesus Christ in his prayers and sermons ;
that he took his text only out of the Old Testament , and ' applied to some other persons all the pas - sages of the Old Testament , which the Christians understand of Jesus
Christ . This raised great suspicions against him . When he came to hear of it , he was very much perplexed ; and being naturally of a melancholy temper , he fell into a fit of madness , in the month of
February , 1632 , which was looked upon as a manifest judgment of God , because it happened the very next day after he had expounded the secohd Psalni , without applying it to our Saviour . He grew so distracted , that he moved upon his hands and feet in his chamber .
publicly exclaimed against the Christian religion , and particularly in the presence of some ministers of Geneva , who went to see liim . He horribly inveighed against the person of Christ , calling him an idol , &c . and saying that the New Testament was a mere fable *
He called for a chaffing-dish full of burning coals , and told the divines , who were in his chamber , that he would put his hand into the fire , to maintain 'his doctrine , bidding them do the like for their Christ . His madness increased to
such a degree , that he fan a Way in the night from those tinder whose custody he was , As far as the gates 6 f Geneva , vtfhere lie was found the next morning , half
naked and lying in the dirt ; and having pulled off his shoes in the name ; of the &iie Gbd of IsraeJ , he worshipped him . bii * efo 6 ted , prostrated on the WroUniL and bla ^ erting gainst Christ . m- : L »
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4 lO The Life and Trial of Nicholas Anthoine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/2/
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