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aceoant of the library of Raymond de Krafft , in which tha titles and dates of no less than eight of Ochino s publications are given * This leads very naturally to the suspicion , that he was the author of the Dialpgue between Calvin and VaticaniJs , Which first saw the light in the year 1554 , at the
very time that he * wad at Basil , employed * as we are told , in writing for the press . Some have attributed this celebrated work to Lselius Socinus , and others hare attempted to father it upon Castalio y but who more likely to have given birth to stich an offspring , than the acute and discriminating author of the Dialogues On the Trinity ?
In 1555 , after two years spent at Basil , Ochino succeeded John Bee * caria as preacher to a congregation of Italians , who had recently been driven by * persecution from Locarno , and compelled to take refuge in the territory of Zurich . The members of this little community came in a body to Zurich , at the beginning of the year , in quest of an asylum ; and being
ignorant of the German language , the magistrate of that city appointed Beccaria to be their minister , whose sufferings in the cause of Protestantism had already procured for him the title of Apostle of the L , oearnians When Beccaria had exercised the functions of pastor among them for a few months , he was superseded by Ochino , who was installed in his office ,
at tile earnest entreaties of the whole congregation , in the month of June , 1555 . Towards the ck > se of this year , Ochino sent into the world a Dialogue on the subject of Purgatory , which he dedicated to Francis Lismaninus , one of the earliest patfohs of Umtarianism in Poland : but hitherto his own mind appears to have received no peculiar bias in favoUT of the Unitarian
doctrine . In the year 1559 , however * he visited Lismaninus , and seems to have imbibed a partiality for that doctrine , in the course of some private conferences , held upbn the subject , at Pincso w * This fact , which is overlooked by his biographers , throws great light upon the history of his opinions , and enables us to account for the liberal tendency of his subsequent writings . For the knowledge of it we are indebted to " the Will of George Schomann , " who says , ** Wheto I was present at Pincaow * in the year 15 & 9 , I lived tipdn familiar terms with Peter Statorius , John Thenaud , Francis Lifcmatiinus , George Blaiwirata , and Bernard OoMno and became clearly convinced that the doctrine of a perfect equality in the persons of the Trinity is founded in error , and forims ne part of the Christian faith ; but that there is one God the Father * one Son of God , and one Holy Spirit $
although there were still many things relating to this eubjec * which we did ttoi yet understand . " About twb years after the occurrence to which this memorandum delates , Ochino published a Catechism of th £ Christian Religion , wWch he inscribed to ttoe mettibera < of Ihis congregation at Zurich . This Catechism was just soch as might have been escpieoted after the conferences alluded to by Gteorge Scbomann . The eetotiments taught in it were , for the most part , of an orthodox complexion , tout were occasionally
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746 Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental UnitariahL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/22/
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