Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: name of the Unitarian Brethren. Such preachers as are in the hahit of vilifying Socinians and their doctrines would do themselves a service by consulting their writings, and not, in sheer ignorance of their history and their works, misrepresent and malign them. The Scriptures were the genuine sources of their antitrinitarian notions?these are the perennial fountains of all the Unitarian heresies. No doubt the opinions and the example of such a man as Servetus would have some influence; and it must have been gratifying to the Italians to find that they were not singular?but that other men, of other countries, in the independent exercise of their own judgment, came to the same conclusions. CHAPTER II, Serretus publishes a work on the Trinity. ?Letters and opinions of (EeOr lampadius.?The Reformers alarmed.?Melancthon's fears.?Warns the senate of Venice.?Servetus in a second edition of his work retracts some expressions which he had used in the first.? Censured and justified. ? Goes to Paris. ? Proposed conference with Calvin. ? Declined.?Persecutions in France and Italy. ? Publishes his -Ratio Syruporum.?ObtalHS the degree of Doctor of Medicine.?Disputes with the Parisian doctors. ? Goes to Lyons, thence to Avignon, Charlieu, and Vienne in Dauphiny. Servetus, at his departure from Basil, left a manuscript on the doctrine of the Trinity in the hands of Conrad Rouss, a bookseller of that city, who, fearing to be known as its publisher, sent it to Haguenau in Alsatia, where it was printed and published by John Secer, under the superintendance of Servetus, who for that purpose had removed to StrasburgX It was entitled De Trinitatis Erroribus Libri Septem, per Michaelem Servetum, alias Reves ab Arragonia Hispandm, anno 1531. The place where it was printed is not mentioned in...