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  jRpe / afce to , his edition of the Ptolemy , as has heen already observed , but in bis # ( Restitutio Christiamsmi / ' where he says that he had seen with his own eyes * in the streets of Rome , the Pope treading upon the necks of prices , and receiving homage from all the people upon their bended knees . " According to Galvia , this journey into Italy did not take place till the year of Servetus ' s death . But this is evidently a gross mistake * Others have
  p laced it in 1535 . The most probable opinion is , that it occurred about the Dceiftning of 1530 , when , in the dress of a Dominican Friar , he is said to nave witnessed the coronation of the Emperor Charles the Fifth . In 1537 be gave to the world his > first medical treatise , entitled " Ratio Syruporum , " under the name of Michael Villanovanus . Of this treatise Anthony Van der jLioden , the author of a work " De Scriptis Medicis , " speaks in the highest
  terms , styling its . author ** Galeni mterpres doctissimus , et mtdicus excellentissimus . " At this time no notice whatever had been taken by Luther of bis writings against the doctrine of the Trinity . Even when professedly -treating on that subject he maintained the most profound silence respecting Servetus ; nor did he make the most distant allusion to him in his
  Commentary on the Proem of John's Gospel , where he has spared neither heresies nor heretics . At length , however , he made mention of him A . D . 1539 , and classed him , together with Campanus , among the enemies of the Gospel . Different reasons have been suggested to account for Luther ' s silence on a subject which appeared at least to call for some incidental notice . His own mind , it has been supposed , was still wavering . His silence has also been attributed to a feeling of contempt for the man . " Forte contemsit Lutherus hcmiinem , ut Seb . Francum et alios . " But the most natural solution of the
  difficulty appears to be , that Luther was restrained from intermeddling with so delicate a subjeet , by the advice of his friend Melancthon , lest it should be a means of hastening on that great controversy which the latter so much dreaded to encounter , and which he expected would be the occasion of so much persecution and bloodshed . The die , however , was cast . Servetus ' s
  controversial writings were already disseminated far and wide ; and that prudence which had before dictated silence , now seemed to call for active interference . The very same year that witnessed Luther ' s attack up On Campanus and Servetus , produced a similar attack from the pen of Melancthon , wJsk > wrote to the Senate of Venice a letter of complaint on the subject of Servetus's work ** De Trinitatis Erroribus , " which was widely circulated in
  that part of Italy , and which he denounced as a most heretical and dangerous book . From the study of this book it is not improbable that Lselius Socinus , the Father of the Italian Unitarians , received his first impressions of the erroneousness of the doctrine of the Trinity . Of this , however , we shall perhaps have occasion to say more hereafter . In the year 1540 , Servetus was practising as a physician at Charlieu , a town about twelve miles distant from Lyons ; and two or three years later we find him at Vienna , superintending
  the publication of an edition of Pagnini ' s Bible . From his Preface to this work it appears that he supposed all the prophecies of the Old Testament which are usually thought to relate to Christ , to have had a literal fulfilment in some other person , and to be applied to him only in a figurative or spiritual sense . His annotations are principally confined to the Psalms and the boolus of the Prophets . Of the second Psalm he says , that it treats of David ' s liberation from his enemies . He explains the twenty-second of David ' s flight over racks and precipices , in which his hands and feet were pierced : aod the fortywfifth he refers to Solomon . The prophecy in the seventh chapter of Isaiah he applies to the birth of Hezekiaji ; and that in the fifty-third
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  330 Biographical Notices of Emment Continental Unitarians .
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  Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1831, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2597/page/42/