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author was sentenced to be expelled from the State of Zurich . Being thus driven from Zurich , he went to Basle , and applied to the ministers and professors to intercede for him with the magistrates to allow him to remain in that city . But no
intreaties could prevail , not even to obtain for himself and his children an asylum through the winter . The magistrates having taken the opinion of the doctors respecting his work ,
ordered him instantly to quit their territory . He yielded to the mandate , and went with his children to Mulhausen , though he was then seventy-six years of age , and the roads were every where covered with snow and ice . The
celebrated Dudithius , in a letter to Beza , animadverts with just severity upon this transaction , as highly disgraceful to the Protestants . To this letter Beza replied , but with a levity and a forced attempt at wit , which reflected no credit upon himself , and were little likely to satisfy his amiable correspondent . * Beza relates in the same
* Beza thus writes to Duditfiius : " Ochinum preterea narras indict a causa , hyeme acri , decursa jam aetate , seueuj cuin uxore et liberis , Tiguro cjectuin . Deus l ? one ! quae est ejusmodi calumniatoruni audacia , qui hsec tibiinsusurrarunt ? Sceleratus hypocrita , Ariauorum
clandestinus fautor , Polygamiae defensor , omnium Christianae religionis dogmatum irrisor , quum eo tandem audaciae erupisset , ut sua portenta in publicum ederet ( juato san £ Dei judicio ne latere diuti&s tan turn malum posset ) delatus ad magistratum , pro eo quod severam pcenam pro tantis
sceleribus merebatur , non sane indicta causa ( quod qui dicunt , magnam justo et pio magistratui injuriam facimat ) sed non ad vivum resectis omnibus , ut cum illo quam clementisslme ageretur , jussus est e Tigurinortini agro facet-sere . Magnam cert £ crudelitatetn ! At senex erat : tan to
nocentiorveterator . At hyems erat : nempe longa fuit non unius integri diei via . At uxorem et liberos habebat : de uxore iaUum est , quod ex bono Alciato , sive quo vis alio cognovisti . Fregerat enim collum horrendo Dei judicio donii impium
senem persequente , priusquam foras productum esset ipsius scelus . Basileam igitur venit , ubi quum itidem suos errores damnatos videret , tandem ad suos sive Tritheitas , sive Arianos , sive Samosatenianos contulit . " Dudithius ' s reply to this unfeeling ascription of the accidental death of
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letter , not as t * report merely , but as matter of authentic history , that when Ochin was at Schaffhausen , on his way from Basle into Germany , he met Cardinal Lotharingus , and proposed to him to leave the Reformers and return to the Church of Rome , but that the
Cardinal treated the offer with contempt . But notwithstanding . Beza ' s attestation of the truth of this account , the internal e ^ dence against it will , with every reasonable mind , outweigh all his protestations . Ochin was a man whose great talents and
celebrity rendered it little likely that the Church of Rome , in the existing state of her contest with the Reformers , would spurn him from her threshhold when he applied to be received back into her communion . It cannot be
doubted that such a proposal would instantly and gladly have been acceded to * and the return of such a penitent held out with great ostentation as an example for others of her apostate children to follow . But it is idle to
Ochin ' s wife to the judgments of God upon her husband ' s house is admirable , and may be recommended to the perusal of some priestly divines of our age , who deem themselves authorized to direct the avenging thunderbolts of Heaven . " Cum Ochini larvluctaris" he writes
a , , pcenas etiam ab uxore sumtas divinitus afllrmas , quasi ex Coelo , atque ex Dei senatu delapsus hunc nobis nuntium adfeYs . Vobis hoc in more positum est video , ut simtdac aliquis paulo miserabiliore morte obeatt , statim hoc justo Dei judk ? io factum esse clametis . Non est human urn mortuis inde
sultare , neque & mortis ^ eaere pietate judicium , ferri debet : alioqui quid Josiam et alios fuisse dicetis ? Quid de Christ ; o et Apostolis , atque infinitid Martyribus , qui omnes ignominlosa et horrenda morte extincti sant , sentietis ?
Quid denique de vestro Zuingho respondebitis ? Frseclarus ille verbi Dei prceco , Christ ! scilicet discipitl «« , magistri himirum et Apostolorum exeroplo , in prim a acie caesu 8 esse dicitur ; quod genus mortis neque Christiauo doctore dignuiu , neque non mi&er&bile tamen fuit . Qua re desine
it a cum vutgo sent ire , ut statim impnvm esse cetiseas , si quis . non leni ac placida morte moriafur . " The copies of the Epistles of Beza and Dudithius , from which I have transcribed these extracts , are appended to the second edition Of the work of Minus Celsus , De Hseretlcis Capital * Supplido non afficiendis .
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662 Italian Reformation .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/6/
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