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undivided supremacy of the Father ; and , judging from a variety of well known and incontestible facts , there appears to be ample ground for the conclusion , that he was , what numbers besides have been , who have lived and died with a fair reputation for orthodoxy , a Crypto-Unitarian . It is said , indeed , and no statement can be more true , that Sandius has not inserted Curio in his " Bibliotheca Antitrinitariorum . " But Sandius , it should
be recollected , died before he had completed that work , and left it in so unfinished a state , that Benedict Wissowatius , on whom the labour of editorship devolved , inserted nearly seventy additional biographical notices ; and , after all , by no means held it up to view as a finished production . In his prefatory remarks , he requests the reader to correct any errors which may have crept into the work , and particularly desires that , if he should detect any omissions , or acquire any additional information , he will not scruple to
imitate the example of Sandius and himself , in communicating the result of his inquiries to the literary world . The indefatigable Fred . Sam . Bock , acting upon this principle , has made considerable additions to the list of Antitrinitarians contained in the •* Bibliotheca" of Sandius . Yet , fully conscious of the almost insuperable difficulties attendant upon his Herculean undertaking , he sent his elaborate history into the world , not as a perfect work , but only as an improvement upon what Sandius and others had done
before him ; and there can be little doubt that future inquiries will enable us still further to extend the catalogue . Unless , therefore , more substantial reasons than the above can be assigned for rejecting Curio from among the number of Unitarians , there is little probability of his name being ultimately lost to the cause , particularly as many writers among the Trinitarians have not been backward in laying his character under a suspicion of heresy , and excluding him from the ranks of orthodoxy . This has been done by Lampe ,
in his Ecclesiastical History ; by Pet . Jaenichi , in his Animadversions upon a Catechism published by Samuel Crellius ; by Mich , de la Roche , in his Memoirs of the Literature of Great Britain ; and by Allwoerden , in his History of Servetus . We learn from the last of these writers , that a copy of the " Christianismi Restitutio , " in its original shape , written out by Servetus himself , once belonged to our Curio ; and that it afterwards passed into the hands of M . Du Fay , at the sale of whose library , in the year 1725 ,
it was purchased by the Count De Hoym , the Polish Ambassador at the French Court . This celebrated manuscript appears , from the account given of it by Allwoerden , to have had the name of Ccelius Horatius Curio written in the title-page . It differed in many respects from the edition published by Servetus in 1553 ; and Allwoerden adopts M . Du Fay's conjecture , that it was the embryo of Servetus ' s larger work , and written out by himself . The same writer intimates that Coelius Secundus Curio , the father of Horatius , was
once the possessor of this book ; and pledges himself , on some future occasion , to prove that the elder Curio was a friend and follower of Servetus . This pledge was given in the year 1728 ; and that it was not given without due consideration , all will be ( disposed to admit , who have read the elaborate treatise on the life of Servetus . Whether the author of that work lived to
redeem his promise , we have not the means of ascertaining . Schelhorn , in 1730 , attempted to prove that Curio lived and died a firm believer in the Trinitarian faith ; and by Bock and others his arguments have been deemed unanswerable . In our opinion they are far from satisfactory ; and of their inconclusiveness we hope to produce substantial proofs in a future number .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/17/
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