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    wise printed , at the same place , two distinct volumes of sermons , for the use and instruction of his countrymen in Italy . Calvin seems , at this time , to have extended his favour and protection to Ochino ; and even at a much later period , to have held his character in high estimation . In a letter ad * dressed to Melancthon , Feb . 14 , 1543 , he writes thus : " We have among

    us Bernard of Sienna , a great and illustrious man , whose departure from Italy has excited no small degree of com motion in that country . " Some writers , nevertheless , affirm that Calvin caused this " great and illustrious man" to be expelled from the city of Geneva ; but in justice to the memory of the stern reformer , let us add , that the report appears to be entirely destitute of foundation .

    Ochino visited Castalio at Basil , in the year 1545 , and proceeded , in the course of the same year , to Augsburg . Here he preached , in his native language , to a congregation consisting principally of Italians . His sermons , which were a series of expositions , founded on the epistles of Paul , displayed all his usual eloquence , and attracted universal admiration ; and the substance of them was published , soon after their delivery , in the Latin and

    German languages . In 1547 , however , the unsettled state of affairs , at Augsburg , compelled him to leave the comfortable asylum which he had found there , and return to Basil . But his stay at Basil was short ; for in the same year , he proceeded to Strasburg , where his friend , Peter Martyr , then residingand in the of the autumnth both visited

    was ; course , ey England , at the pressing solicitation of Cranmer , Archbishop of Canterbury . Peter Martyr was immediately appointed to a vacant divinity professorship at Oxford $ and Ochino , who brought with him letters of recommendation from his friend Curio , found employment as preacher to a congregation of Italian Protestants in London . The intention of the latter was to have spent the remainder of his life in England , but that intention was frustrated by the unlooked-for death of Edward the Sixth ; and the

    melancholy change which took place on the accession of Mary drove him , together with many other Italian exiles , from the kingdom . Ochino now returned , by way of Strasburg , to Geneva , where he arrived on the 28 th of October , 1553 , the day after the martyrdom of Servetus * During his stay at Geneva , on this occasion , he married ; but his residence in that city was short : for when he was informed of the cruel fate of Servetus , he expressed himself in such terms respecting it , as left no room to doubt that it met with his just abhorrence . It was probably this circum .-

    stance which induced him , very shortly , to quit Geneva for Basil , where some of his old friends were still residing ; and where , we are told , he supported himself by following the profession of an author . It is somewhat singular , however , that Bock , upon whose authority this statement is made , and who must have been at great pains in collecting information on the subject , has not mentioned a single work of Ochino's published at this time ; nor do we find the title of any such work in Schelhorn ' s interesting

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    Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarians . f 45

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/21/