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ft good man * , and finishes with asserting , that Servetus was wiU . ling to retract , where he was in . error , so that he rather deserved pity and forgiveness . * What corroborates this , is , that the clergy of Basil do not , In their letter , 18 th Oct . 1553 , to those of Geneva , mention one Single word about this expulsion ^ which they would not have omitted , if it had actually taken place .
It further appears from this correspondence , that Servetus communicated his writings to CEcolampadius , and that he , as he presumptuously engaged to perform before he left Basil , wrote afterwards some kind of apology , which looked like a recantation , printed at the head of his first treatise . It deserves a remark , that Servetus said , u that he did $ o , not because he believed his opinions false , but rather considered these as imperfectly written from a youth as yet too little instructed /' f
It deserves notice in this place , that , though Servetus communicated freely his sentiments to the learned , he carefully abstained from divulging them in public . Thus he appealed with confidence in his apology to the senate of Geneva , that as , whilst he had been in Germany , he never spoke about them to others ., as with CEcolampadius , Bucerus , and Capito , so neither did he speak a word on the subject in France . } : So that the contrary assertion cannot be entitled to any credit , that he did so
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in France from the year 1545 , when only fourteen years old . He delivered at Basil his book , de Trinitatis Erroribusy to a bookseller , Con . Rouss , for publicacation , who sent it to Haguenau , in Alsace , where it was printed and published , . 1531 , byJohnSeccer , under the inspection of Servetus , who , for this purpose , had moved to Strasbure .
New as the subject was , roughly as it was brought forward , harsh as were the expressions , you cannot wonder , Sir , fhat this , in many respects , insignificant book made a great sensation in Germany , among the learned and unlearned ; especially when you recollect , that many ef the first
class were long since highly disgusted by the crude manner and scholastic subtleties , in which the doctrine of the Trinity was taught . The name itself was odious to Calvin and Lutber , of whom the first called it a popish God or idol , a mere human invention a barbarous , insipid , and profane word .
Servetus published , to soften the unfavourable impression , and still the threatening storm , in 1532 , two Dialogues , on the doctrine of the Trinity , in which he studied tq mollify his harsh expressions , and explain and defend his opinions . The natural consequence of it was , that many were more exasperated against him , while a few adopted his notions and spread them abroad . CEcolampad ius requested Bu-
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166 Sketch of the Life of Serttfus —Letter 2 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/6/
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