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$ ity oF Thoulouse , to study the civil law ; but that keems rathe * - doubtful . It has been thought most probable that his childhood was spent at Txidelle , his native place , C 4 There / * saya one of his biographers , " Jews , Moors 3 and Christians lived at ease ; and there , most likely , he received bis education , and
his notidns of civil and religious liberty , as well as his knowledge of physic , and his peculiar sentiments of religion * He was a student in his earliest youth , and understood Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and , in some degree , philosophy and mathematics , before he was fifteen . His residence at the said
XJniversity , if he ever did reside there , was most probably subhsequent to that period . At what time he first imbibed his antU trinitarian and Baptist principles does not appear ; but they seem to have been among his most early religious sentiaients , and he soon became very fond of them . "— " After he had bee& two or three years at Thoulouse , " says another of his biogra * iC
phers , he resolved to retire into Germany , and set up for a reformer . He went to Basil , by way of Lyons and Geneva ; and , having had some conference at Basil with Oecolampadius , he set out for Strasburg , being extremely desirous to converse with Bucer and Capito , two celebrated reformers of that city . At his departure from Basil , he left a MS . against the
Trinity in the hands of Conrad Rouss , a bookseller , who sent it afterwards to Haguenaiu Thither Servetus went in 1531 , to get it printed : that piece was published at Strasburg and Frankfort before the month of August that same year . When brought into Switzerland , several Protestant divines were much
displeased at it . Oecolampadius , writing , on the occasion , to Bucer , says , I saw this week our friends at Berne , who send their salutations to yovi and Capito . They are very niuch offended with a book entitled De Trinitatis Erroribus * whicU
some of them have seen . I desire you would acquaint Luther ,, that this book was printed out of this country , and without our knowledge : for , to mention but one article , it is on impudent thing to affirm / as the author does , that the Lutherans , do not understand the doctrine of justification . But that man * whether he be a Photinian , or of any other sect , thinks he knows more than every body else . Our churches will be very ill spoken of , unless our divines make it their business to cry
him down * . I beseech you , in particular , to keep a watchful eye over it , au , d to make an apology for our churches , at * This notable device 3 of crying a wan down , when he presumes to e $ f $ mjne for himself and exercise the right of private judgment , or deviates from the . nonpar , creedand orthodox faith , is still in the htgfhest reputation among mtfsfcdijlie religious people of this country , as the most effectual antidote againdt ^ fcfc ' poiloilor comagion of . heterodoxy or heresy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/3/
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