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restraint , or * deliverhim over to his enemies ; and his fears seem not to have been wholly groundless , for Charles , on his arrival , commanded the city to give him up . Ochin had , however , anticipated the order , and made good his retreat to Basle . From
Basle he removed to Strasbttrg , to Peter Martyr , with whom he shortly after went to England at the invitation of Cranmer , who wished to engage their services to aid the Reformation , under Edward VI . Martyr was appointed Public Professor of Divinity at Oxford , whilst Ochin remained in London .
and preached to the Italian Protestants who had there obtained an asylum . In England he wrote a work against the Pope ' s supremacy , which was translated into English by Dr . John Ponet , and published under the
following title—* A Tragedy , or Dialogue of the unjust usurped Primacy of the Bishop of Rome , and of all the just abolishing of the same . " It was printed in quarto , and dedicated to the King : it was reprinted in octavo in 1724 .
The stop put to the Reformation by the premature death of Edward and the accession of Mary , rendered it unsafe for Ochin to remain longer in England , where he had purposed to terminate his days . The Queen , who considered him as the inveterate enemy
of the Papists , threatened him with the severest penalties , and compelled him , for security , to quit the kingdom in 1553 . He first went to Strasburg , from whence , after a short stay , he proceeded to Geneva , where he arrived on the 28 th of October , the day after the inhuman murder of Servetus .
Here , whilst flying from the fires of Catholic persecution , he learnt that Protestants had not discarded the spirit of Popery , and could , when it suited their purpose to silence those whom they failed to convince , enforce their arguments by the faggot and the torch .
It is to Ochin ' s credit , that when , on his arrival at Geneva , he was informed of the fate of Servetus , he openly expressed his disapprobation of the proceeding , and thus exposed himself
to the displeasure of the actors . This circumstance hastened his departure for Basle . During his stay at Geneva at this time , he married . The only 'accounts we h ^ ve of his . wife arethose of his enemies and slanderers , and arc
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therefore to be received with cantiort She jis stated to have been of a very humble or mean condition of life , and without property . Some represent her as having gained her livelihood by
washing , and as having , on this account , been designated Madame d'Ochino la ling-idre , ' * Madame Ochin the laundress . " * The date of Gchfc's
marriage is a circumstance of some consequence , as furnishing a sufficient refutation of the calumnious charge already noticed , of his having on his first arrival at Geneva married a concubine whom he had brought from Italy .
After a residence of two years at Basle , he removed to Zurich , upon an invitation to take the charge of a Church of Italian Protestants who had retired to that city . They consisted of some of the inhabitants of
Locarno , one of the cantons possessed by the Swiss in Italy , who being prevented the public exercise of their religion , by the Catholic cantons , had obtained leave to settle at Zurich . They adopted the articles of faith and , the discipline of the Church of Zurich , to which Ochin at this time
did not scruple to conform . He discharged the duties of his office here with great acceptance till the year 1563 , when the publication of his celebrated Dialogues raised against him a host of enemies , and at length caused his expulsion from
Switzerland . The Dialogues were originally written in Italian , and afterwards translated , from the manuscript , into Latin , by Castalio , and printed at Basle in 1563 . The first offence charged upon Ochin was the printing of these
Dialogues without the approbation and consent of the magistrates of Zurich ; and the second , that they contained tenets , especially on the subjects of Polygamy and the Trinity , which were at variance with the
orthodox faith . After the work had been examined by Bullinger and others , by order of the Senate , the According to the writer who favours us with this among other ridiculous fables , Raemundus , O ^ hin was himself ? o great a lover of poverty , that he pronounced riches to be a part of the Devil , and maintained that a Christian should have no other property besides his wife . Bock , ut supra * u . 5 Q 0 %
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Italian Keformfttion . 681
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 661, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/5/
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