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conceal his heterodoxy ; &od even of having so artfully disguised his Ian * guage , as to give it an apparently orthodox sense . * We have not the means of verifying this accusation by a collation of the work itself , which is exceedingly scarce , and of which there is probably not a single copy to be found in England ; but we can easily imagine , that the ingenious Curio , surrounded as he was by such men as Calvin and Beza , would express himself in precisely the terms attributed to him . He had a general
character for liberality , and was , on this account , an object of great suspicion to Calvin , who would not have hesitated to immolate him upon the altar of persecution , had he been as unguarded in his expressions , and as confiding in his conduct , as the ill-fated Servetus . But the long series of indignities and sufferings to which he had been exposed during his residence in Italy , had taught him a lesson of prudence , and put him upon his guard against the wily Reformer . * Of the prudent course which Curio found it necessary to steer , in the
* L ' auteur a menage * ses expressions , ensorte qu ' elles peuvent avoir un seus orthodoxe , et laisser cependant quelques doutes sur sou orthodoxie . —Biblioth . Hist , et Crit . Tom . VTH . p . 377 . f The author of the celebrated" Dialogue between Calvin and Vaticanus , " includes Curio in a long list of authors , quoted by Minns Celsus , in his treatise , " De Haereticis , an sint persequeudi ; " and adds , " qui onines coutra Calvinum pugnant , quos omnes nnnc Calvinus uno iu fasce colligatos conjecit una secum in
cineres Serveti . " ( Calv . 22 . ) The above Dialogue was originally published A . D . 1554 , with the following title , * ' Coutra Li bell urn Calvini , in quo ostendere conatur , Haereticos jure gladii coSrcendos esae . —Notite ante tempns quicquam judicare , donee veniat Dominus , qui Ulustraturus est occulta tenebrarum 9 et patefadet concilia cordhim . 1 Cor . iv . 5 . " A second edition of this Dialogue was published by the Arminians , A . D . 1612 , with an Appendix , containing some remarks on the history of Servetus , and two vindicatory epistles by Castalio , one of which is addressed to
our Edward VI ., and the other to the Council and Senate of Basil . We happen to be in possession of two copies of this edition . To one of these the original titlepage is prefixed . The other is called , " Dissertatio qua disputatur , quo jure , quove fructu Haeretici suut coercendi gladio vel tgne ; " and instead of the original motto , from 1 Cor . iv ., the following is subjoined froin Deut . xiii ., evidently by way of bait to the Calvinists : " Si / rater tuus incitaverit te , dicens , Eamus et
serviamu 8 Diis alienis , non parcet et oculus tuus ut occultes eum , quin pottus occides eum , et mantis tuaprima sit ut ilium interficiat" In the remarks on the history of Servetus , subjoined to this edition , Curio is mentioned as one of those whom Calvin would not have scrupled to persecute unto death , if he had happened to possess the power . " Qnisquis Calvioo displicet , sciat « ibi pereundam esse , nisi desint Calvino vires .
Sed illud pessimum est , quod Calvinus mendaciis facile credit , nee null urn diluendis locum det ? Qui eum offeodit , is impius , is A the us , is Epicureus appellatur . Qui ab eo ulla in re dissidet , is Haereticus est , et ita denigratur , ut si quis cum eo collaquatur , Christian us non sit . Qui illuc confluunt , Galli imprimis doccntur abhorrere ab Haereticis , hoc est , inimfcia Calvini : enjusmodi sunt Faleaius , Hiero nituus Medicos , Andreas Zebedeus , Marandus , Marcolfus , Castalio , C / elius , ct CKteri . Cum bit homiuibus oolloqttt peccatHm est morlale . "
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64 ^ Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarians .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/66/
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