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berg , and ranked deservedly high among the Protestants of his day . He believed that God is the fountain of all created existences , and that the Spirit or Power of God ranks next to God in the scale of being ; and after the Spirit he placed the Word , which he believed to be begotten of God by the Spirit . This doctrine bears a strong resemblance to that of Irenaeus ,
and the other Greek fathers of the second century . Hetzer carried his views much further than Denk , maintaining that the Father alone is the true God ; that Christ is not equal to God the Father , but vastly inferior to him , and of a different essence ; that there are not three persons in one God , for that God is altogether ineffable , being neither person nor essence . His opinions on this subject are said to be embodied in the following verses , of which he is himself reputed to have been the author :
Ipse ego , qui propria cuncta haec viitute creabam . Quaeris quot simns ? Frustra : ego solus erain . Hie non ties numero , verum sum solus , at isti Haud numero tres sunt , nam qui ego , solus eram . Nescio personam , solus sum rivus ego , et fons ; Qui me nescit , eum nescio : solus ero .
Hetzer was a native of Bavaria , a man of great learning , and deeply versed in the original languages of the Scriptures . He is said , like Cellarius , to have joined the Anabaptist party in the first instance , and to have been upon terms of great intimacy with Storck and Muntzer ; but differing from them on some points , and particularly as regarded their levelling principles , he . seceded from them , and retired to Zurich , in 1523 . In the year following he openly impugned the doctrine of the Trinity ; but the freedom of his opinions being at variance with the narrow and bigoted spirit of the age ,
he was thrown into prison , and ultimately condemned to death , by the magistrates of Constance , on a charge of blasphemy . This cruel sentence was carried into execution in the month of February , 1529 . Historians , however , are not agreed as to the nature of his punishment , Sandius and others affirming that he was beheaded , whereas Seckendorff informs us that he was burnt at the stake . Plauter says of him , ' * that he very honestly and unblameably bade farewell to his disciples , and with most devout prayers commended himself to God , even to the astonishment of the beholders . " Some writers have asserted that he was a man of licentious
principles and conduct ; but this view of his character , though adopted by Mosheim , appears to be entitled to little credit . The probability is that this charge was a fabrication of his enemies ; the most excellent characters , in those days , being exposed to the grossest misrepresentations , if they happened to hold opinions at variance with the orthodox creed-
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Who has not known some bright , calm , summer day , When thoughts all teem'd with bliss—all deeds with love ? When no dark cloud obscur'd the solar ray , When all below appear ed like all above ?
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A IYihute to the Memvry of the late Rev . John Hincks . 233
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A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV JOHN HINCKS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/17/
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