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    Nuncio , incensed at these animadversions of OchiaQ , immediately inter- * dieted his preaching , and sent an account of the affair to the Pope : but the Venetians , who were great admirers of Ochino ' s eloquence , prevailed upon the Nuncio , at the expiration of three day ? , to wUhclv&w his interdict $ and Ochino , whose conduct was narrowly watched during the remainder pf his stay at Venice , avoided all further use of irritating and offensive language .

    When the term of his mission at Venice had expired , he proceeded to Verona , whither he summoned certain brethren of the Capuchin order , wl > Q were intended for the ministry , with a view to their preparjation for the sa-s cred office . In pursuance of this design , be expounded to them the epistles of Paul , but allowed himself unusual liberty in the course of his expositions ^

    The Pope , who had hitherto been his friend , and who , it was supposed , had intended to raise him to the dignity of Cardinal , was now greatly incensed at his conduct , and issued pin order for his appearance at Rome . He im * mediately set out on his way thither , but when he had proceeded as far a $ Bologna , he called upon his friend , Cardinal Contarini , who had recently returned from the Council of Ratisbon ; and found him just upon the point

    of death . The Cardinal unbosomed himself freely to Ochino , and informed him that , although he had strenuously resisted the Protestants qn othes points , he secretly agreed with them on the subject of justification through Chrisfv While Ochino was at this place be abandoned his intention of pro ** seeding to Rome , and hastened to Florence , to consult with hi $ friend , Peter

    Martyr , whose advice he was anxious to procure in this emergency . This interview led to a determination , on the part of both , to leave Italy without delay 5 a determination which was hastened by a report , that Ochino ' js arrival at Rome was to be the signal for his destruction , six Cardinals having been appointed to sit in judgment upon him . Nor was this report a ground- * less one . for he afterwards learned that a body of armed men was sent to .

    Sienna and Florence , to seize and detain him . The immediate cause of Ocbino ' s abrupt departure from Italy has \> ee& variously related by different writers . Some have said that , in a sermon delivered before the Pope 011 Palm Sunday , he alluded , in warm terms , to the pride of the chief pontiff , ajnd contrasted it with the humility displayed in the conduct of Jesus Cfcrist : and that , at the close of the discourse , one

    of the Cardinals informed him that he bad incurred the displeasure of his holiness , a « d advised him instantly to seek safety by flight . We are also informed that , in discoursing 00 the subject of the Trinity , he stated the arguments against that doctrine , but , under a pretext that tjbe time was then too far advanced for him to proceed , delayed the refutation of them till a

    future opportunity ; and , in the mean time , took his departure from Italy . Some Catholic writers , moreover , inform us , that he went over to the Protestant party in -consequence of having been disappointed in his expectation of obtaining a mi * re or a Cardinal ' s hat . J * ut ajl these rumours are utterly unworthy of credit ; and the last , in particular , is altogether at variance

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    Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarians . 743

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 743, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/19/