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put our trust in him , and to pay him divine honour . " " Is not the first commandment of the Decalogue altogether changed by this addition ; that we are bound to acknowledge Christ as God , in the stated sense , and to approach him with divine worship ? That commandment is in no respect changed ; for it only requires that we have no other Gods before God . But Christ is not another God , since God has communicated to him of his
divine and celestial majesty , and has so far made him one and the same with himself . The command , therefore , to have and worship but one God only , remains in force ; the mode alone of worshiping him is changed , in so far as that the only God was formerly worshiped without Christ , but is now worshiped through Christ * 91 ( The Racovian Catechism , with
Notes and Illustrations , translated from the Latin , by Dr . Thomas Rees . Sect . v . chap , i . pp . 189 , 194 . ) This is but an echo of the sentiment quoted with an air of triumph by Schelhorn from Curio , as an evidence of the belief of the latter in the Trinitarian faith ; an 4 yet the authors and editors of the Racovian Catechism , and the members of the churches for
whose instruction that Catechism was originally drawn up , are to this day reckoned among the warmest and ablest advocates of the Unitarian doctrine . But the conduct of Schelhorn , in this instance , only adds one to the many proofs already before the world , of the misrepresentations to which the tenets of Unitarian Christians are liable , and of the unreflecting manner in which the wisest and best of men contribute to give currency to those misrepresentations .
From a letter addressed by Curio to Olympia Fulvia Morata , and probably written soon after the publication of his Paraphrase , it appears that he fell under a suspicion of heresy : and when urged to publish a reply to the calumnies circulated against him , he says that he deems it " a sufficient reply if his life corresponds with his profession ; " and alludes to his published writings as vindicating him from the charge of heresy , and proving
that he " worships one God in one Jesus Christ . * Here he obviously refers to the language employed by him in the exhortation from which Schelhorn ' s third extract is taken ; and that language , as we have seen above , is in perfect accordance with the principles advocated by the Polish Socinians . But if Curio still retained the sentiments expressed in his letter to Olympia d s father , why did he not repeat the stronger terms which he had there used ? Let those who claim him as an orthodox believer
consider this ; and say whether they , as Trinitarians , would have contented themselves with asserting , that they were worshipers of " one God in one Jesus Christ , ' if their faith had laboured under a similar imputation . The circumstance of Curio ' s publishing the Paraphrase , which seems first to have brought him under the suspicion of heresy , in the same volume with other writings of a more orthodox cast , is one which will excite the surprise of no person who is acquainted with the history of the period in which he lived . Incredible are the artifices to which men of liberal principles were
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Biographical Notices ofEminent Continental Unitarians . 639
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 639, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/63/
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