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No . V . In the inquiry upon which we now propose to enter , we shall endeavour to make it appear , that the religious views of Curio have been represented to the world through a false medium by Schelhorn ; and that many important circumstances have been overlooked by him , which tend to shew that the suspicions thrown out by Lampe , Jaenichi , De la Roche , and Allwoerden , are worthy of more attention than it has hitherto been their lot to receive . Schelhorn mainly rests his defence of Curio's orthodoxy , respecting the Trinity , upon three passages , taken from his "Opuscula , " an octavo volume published at Basil , A . D . 1544 . These Opuscula are small detached pieces , or tracts , written upon different subjects , and at different periods of the author ' s life ; and exhibiting those shades of opinion , which it is natural to expect in the intellectual history of a man like Curio . Most of them appear to have been written before the views of their author became confirmed , and therefore assume a character more or less orthodox ; but a
Paraphrase on the Exordium of John's Gospel , which occupies the last place in the volume , and may therefore be regarded as containing the author ' s mature thoughts , is of a heterodox complexion , and has been adduced for the purpose of proving that Curio had ceased to be a believer in the doctrine of the Trinity , at the period of its composition .
The first piece to which our attention will be directed , is an Essay " on the Providence of God , " called by its author "Araneus . " * In Schelhorn ' s first extract , which is taken from this Essay , ( p . 81 , ) Curio speaks of •* Jesus "Christ as the Eternal Wisdom of the Father ; as redeeming us from the curse of the law $ and as becoming a victim , as well as sin and a curse for us . " In his second extract , which is taken from a letter " On the Pious
Education of Children , " ( p . 132 , ) addressed to Fulvio Pellegrino Morato , the father of Olympia Fulvia Morato , Curio rises in his orthodoxy , and says that " God made all things by his Word , whom the sacred oracles designate by the terms Jesus Christ and Son of God ; and that he sent his Son , Jesus
Christ , who was at once true God and true man , begotten of the Holy Ghost , and born of the Virgin Mary . " Judging from these passages , without reference to the probably early date of their composition , or without taking
* T / te Cobweb . This Essay gives to the whole collection the name of Araneus , ( a quo omn ' is ilia Opusculoruin farrago uomeri obtinet , ) a most appropriate designation for a volume , contrived , as this appears to have been , to guard its author against the attacks of the buzzing and noisoine insects by which he was surrounded .
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N * BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT CONTINENTAL UNITARIANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/60/
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