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    into account the circumstances attendant upon the publication of the volume of which they form a part , we should find it difficult to arrive at any other conclusion than the one to which it is the object of the learned Schelhorn to lead us ; namely , that the volume in which they occur was the production of a Trinitarian . But when we are told , that , at the end of the

    collection of pieces from which the above extracts are taken , was printed , for the first time , a paraphrase on a much controverted passage of Scripture , expressed in such terms as to lead one orthodox writer ( Jsenichi ) to infer that its author was ** entangled in the errors of Servetus ; " and another , ( Gerdesius , ) to absolve him from the charge of heresy , solely on the ground of his not being " a theologian by profession : " and when we find even Schelhorn himself reluctantly driven to acknowledge that Curio has , in this

    instance , transgressed the legitimate bounds of orthodoxy ; our curiosity is excited to learn what motive could have actuated him in the composition of this paraphrase , and its publication in a volume of tracts containing sentiments and expressions of a decidedly orthodox character . The passages already quoted from the Opuscula , it must be acknowledged , are far from being of a nature to excite suspicion ; and Schelhorn has therefore adduced them as proofs of their author's soundness in the faith , in spite of his own admission as to the Heretical tendency of some expressions introduced by Curio into his paraphrase on the proem " of John ' s Gospel . The same line of argument has been adopted by Gerdesius , who says , " Although we will not deny , that in his brief paraphrase upon the beginning of the Gospel of John , he has laid down some things incautiously , which might bring upon him the suspicion of heresy , yet his remaining

    writings teach and evince , on the contrary , that he acknowledged Jesus Christ to be the true Son of God , and true God . " But what are the " remaining writings" to which allusion is here made ? Evidently those which were composed before the publication of the above-mentioned paraphrase , and which , consequently , have nothing whatever to do with the subject of our present investigation .

    That Curio was a Trinitarian at the time when he first embraced the principles of the Reformation , is a supposition attended with the highest degree of probability ; but that he continued a Trinitarian to the end of his life , there is not a single atom of evidence to prove . Schelhorn , however , would fain persuade us , in spite of his own candid admission respecting the latitude of Curio's interpretations , that expressions at variance with the sentiments of Servetus and the early Unitarians , are to be found in an exhortation subjoined to the paraphrase so often mentioned ; and , in proof of this , he has adduced the following passage , which forms the third and last extract from the Opuscula of Curio : What can be more delightful , or more becoming the character of a Christian man , than a mind which . entertains correct views concerning God and Christ , and is instructed in all kinds of heavenly wisdom ? Jews , philosophers , and Mahometans , can

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    Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarians . 637

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/61/