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# nd burned for witchcraft , especially in Italy , contributed to bring forward , at last , the pure jand unpolluted doctrine of our Lord .
That Servetus was disgusted with the idolatry of the church iof Rome , and actually separated from it , is beyond doubt ; though
he incurred by his exertions the hatred both of the reformers and
papists . This , with his superior talents , with his unsullied characteiy . makes his biography interesting ; which induces me to offer to your criticism a itiore complete Sketchy than has yet appeared in our lapguage , in this
continent . Michael Servetus , born at Villa-nueva , in Arragon , in 150 Q descended from a decent family . His father wtis a . notary public . Educated in the Roman Catholic
religion , instructed bj the Dominicans in the liberal arts , he was sjent to the academy at Toulouse , -where he studied law during three years . He became acquainted # bout this period with the Sacred
Scripture ; spurred , perhaps , in the ardour of his mind , by the great fame obtained by the refbrmers , and Jorig ing to rise from obscurity , he scion discovered jnany errors arid abuses in the church of Rome , and laid then the foundation of his opinion con * cerning the doctrine of the Tri
nity , as no Antitrinitanans did at that time reside in tins city . " What had been insinuated , that he sojourned a while in Africa , and borrowed his opinions from Mahomet ' s f ollowers ^ has long
* Restitut . Christ , p . 4 6 ^ compared w ith his preface tH table ? J # 3 * tolem » us . > i | - Tom . ii . cap , ii , pp . 406—418 .
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since been exploded , a $ a notq * rious calunmy , by Crellius , La Roche , Moslieim , and lately , by Bockius ., Besides , a superficial acquaintance with tlie errors of Servetus , is more than sufficient to refute this suggestion ., In these
is nothing hprxxogeraeous with those of the Arabian impostor j a $ b $ rather acceded to , those of Paul
of Samosata , Photinus , andotliers congenial to item . J& ' . isy nevertheless , no : t i |» , pos » sible , ^ that Servetus was imbued with some of these opinkms ^ iu his journey through Italy ; when he , in the suit of a Dominican
confessor of Charles V . in the be . ginning of 15305 saw the coro ^ nation of the new emperor , though otters have placed this journey a few years later before 1535 : however that may be , it is evident , that Servetus was shocked with
the pomp of the Roman pontiff , and inore yet with that sort of adoration , with which he saw him
received . * Whatever weight is given to the clandestine meetings in the
territories of Venice about thistime which point is more fully discussed by Bockiusf than hitherto was done , so ' iimch is placed beyond dispute , that many learned men in Italy , dignitaries of the church as well 33 laymen , condemned
the reigning superstitions ; and , though they conformed to them in public , discussed these subjects freely in private . Among these worthies claimed a rank
Renibus , Sadolet , and , before them , Pomponattfs , Picus Miranclol ^/ and yet earlier * Matteo Pali-
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J 64 ShetcTi of tie Life of Semetus . ^ &etter 2 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/4/
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