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    least in your-confutation inscribed to the Emperor . We kno ^ fr not how that beast came to creep in among us ; he wrests all passages of Scripture , to prove that the Son is not co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father , and that the vian Christ

    js the Son of God" This very curious letter was dated Aug . 59 1531 . Two letters were ? also written by the same person to Servetus about that time , in which he endeavoured in a civil man - * ner to confute what he had advanced in his book , and intreated him to renounce his errors . The next year Servetus published at

    Haguenau another book against the Trinity . After that he resolved to return to France , because he was poor , and did not understand the German language , which were the reasons he alleged for it at his trial . Melancthon , whose original or proper name was Schwartzerd , wrote a letter to Joachim

    Camera-Tius , with his thoughts of Servetus and his books . He represents him as a subtle and cunning man , whose thoughts were confused , for want of having sufficiently meditated upon the things he treated of , and whose notion of justification was very

    extravagant , &c . ; and he adds , You know that I was always afraid that these disputes about the Trinity would break out some time or other . Good God ! what tragedies will this question produce among posterity , Whether the Logos be a , subsistence or a person ? Whether the spirit be a subsistence

    or a person ? I have recourse to those words of Scripture which command me to worship Christ , i . e . to ascribe the honour of divinity to him , which is full of consolation . But it is by no means expedient accurately to examine into the ideas of sub ^ sistences , or persons , and of their difference . "

    Servetus , having remained two or three years at Lyons , went to Paris , and applied himself to the study of the medical art He was admitted to the degree of A . M . and soon after to that of M . D . in that University . Beza says that Calvin knew him then at Paris , and opposed his doctrine ; and also that they had agreed to engage in a disputation , but that Servetus afterwards declined it , or dared not to meet him ; which , if true ^ may be accounted for from the spirit of persecution which then

    violently raged in-that city . While Servetus was at Paris , his book l ) e Trinitatis Erroribus was dispersed in Italy , and very much approved by many who were inclined to forsake the Church of Rome . Melanc- » thon , beincr informed of it , wrote in 1539 to the Popish Senate

    of Venice , signifying that a book of Servetus ^ who had revived the error of Paul of Samosata , was handed about in their country . He besought them , x therefore , to use their utmost ejideavoufs that the impious errors of that man might bq avoided ; , rejected , and . abhorred . [ Be it observed tfrat this

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    452 Brief Account of Sewetus *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/4/