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for the solution of those with whom he happened to converse . Some have thought it not improbable that B . Ochino , with whom Lselius was also upon terms of great intimacy , was indebted to him for the objections which form the basis of his celebrated " Dialogues on the Trinity . " But however this may be , Lselius seems to have been upon a more friendly footing with Curio than any of the persons with whom he associated after his flight out of Italy , and probably opened his mind more freely , on religious subjects , to him , than to any one else . Hence it has been thought , and not without reason , that though the opinions of these friends might not coincide upon all points , there must yet have been a great similarity in their views and modes of thinking , and that Curio must at least have been acquainted with the
heterodox notions of Lselius on the subject of the Trinity . Of this circumstance Schelhorn professes to make light ; observing , that Melancthon and Bullinger , whose names stood in such high repute among orthodox Protestants , have both spoken in honourable terms concerning Laelius . It should not be forgotten , however , that with these two great men his intercourse was of a far less confidential nature than with Curio , and that , in despite of all his caution , both of them were led to express doubts as to the soundness of his
orthodoxy ; whereas Curio never breathed the most distant hint respecting the heretical tendency of the religious views of Lselius , but on all occasions spoke of him in terms of the greatest endearment and affeetion . The next circumstance to which we shall advert appears still more conclusive as to the fact of Curio ' s heterodoxy on the subject of the Trinity . In the year 1549 , he published a work , entitled , " Christianae Religionis
Institutio ; " and in such a work it might very reasonably be expected , that an orthodox believer would dilate upon the subject of the Trinity , and reprepresent it as a necessary and fundamental article of the Christian faith . But not a syllable of the kind occurs in this treatise . Its author , on the contrary , explains the articles of the Christian religion , without saying one word about the doctrine of three persons in the godhead ; whence it has
been inferred , by M . de la Roche and others , that he was not a believer in that doctrine ; and indeed it would seem in the highest degree improbable , that a believer in the doctrine of the Trinity should have published a work , the express object of which was to unfold the princi p les of the Christian faith , without allowing a single observation of a decidedly Trinitarian
character to escape him . It is not thus that the principles of Christianity are taught by Trinitarians in the present day ; it was not thus that they were set forth by learned divines and theologians in the days of Curio ; nor , it may be presumed , would Curio have laid himself open to the charge of so palpable an omission , ' had he entertained a conscientious persuasion that the doctrine of the Trinity was taught in the books of scripture .
But silence is not the only offence which has been laid to the charge of Curio . M . Dav . Clement , a French writer , has accused him of having purposely had recourse to tortuous modes of expression , with a view to
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Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarian ** * 641
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/65/
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