Graser Conrad is classed by Sandius among Antitrinitarians: yet that author says, "I know not whether this be the same as he, concerning whom Konig writes, in his 'Bibliotheca Vetus et Nova,'—'Conrad Graser, a Frank, was born in the year 1557, and died in the year 1613. He presided over the Church and Gymnasium at Thorn. He composed a Commentary on Daniel, and the Apocalypse of John, in 4to. He is said also to have translated Rabbi Joseph Albo's' Sepher Hikkarim from Hebrew into Latin.'" There seems no reason to doubt, that the Conrad Graser mentioned by Sandius is the one, of whom Konig gives the above description. This plainly appears from a passage found in his Commentary on the 9th Chapter of Daniel, p. 159, and prefixed to the Theological Treatises of Przipcovius, in which he says, "that the Israelitish Church, in its better times, had more correct views of the mystery of the Trinity, than the Gentile Church ever had;" that "ancient Israel was never so curious and rash as publicly to dispute concerning the essence of God;" and that "if its practice had ever been observed, or were still observed in the Catholic Church, we should have a much simpler Theology in the present day, and there would be less of ambitious contention, and fewer scandalous controversies."
Bock doubts, however, whether Conrad Graser has been rightly placed by Sandius among Antitrinitarians ; and remarks, that, in the life of him by Melchior Adam, there is nothing, which could bring upon him the suspicion of Neo-Photinianism. Yet there are circumstances mentioned by Melchior Adam, which, though, in the absence of the fact, that Sandius has represented him as an Antitrinitarian, they might not have led us to doubt the orthodoxy of his creed, yet tend, with that fact before us, to impart to the representation of Sandius a high degree of probability. "When in the visitation of the sick," says his biographer, "and in the preparation for a happy departure out of this life, he found, that those theological controversies, which beget a knowledge that puffeth up, but do not quiet uneasy consciences, and which, in the present day, are agitated with great contention of minds, and excite great tumults in the state, are of no use whatever, nay rather bewilder the consciences of common people, just as human inventions did in Catholic times, he began to refrain from them with his whole mind, and in his public discourses to set forth those things only, which tend to produce a saving faith in Christ, to promote true piety according to the word of God, and to administer consolation in life and death." In another place his biographer says, "there exists a writing entitled ' The last "Words of Conrad Graser,' in which he shews that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and of the Virgin Mary, is the true Messiah, who was promised, and is now come, and has performed his duty, by dying for the life of the world." This is tantamount to a denial of the eternal sonship of Jesus Christ, or of his generation before all worlds, and is therefore a virtual abandonment of the doctrine of the Trinity.
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