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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91323	The life of that incomparable man, Faustus Socinus Senensis, described by a Polonian knight. Whereunto is added an excellent discourse, which the same author would have had premised to the works of Socinus; together with a catalogue of those works.; Vita Fausti Socini Senensis. English	Przypkowski, Samuel, 1592-1670.; Biddle, John, 1615-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing P4136; Thomason E1489_1; ESTC R203303	35,107	77

ignorant thereof which the very Observers of the Mosaick Law could only sometimes sent-out by a very slender ghess but never openly detect and which finally having been discovered by Christ and the Apostles but shortly after covered with the thorns of errors springing-up and hidden with a dismal vail of darkness is now again detected and restored by the mercy of God who hath cut down the thorny brake of fables and caused the light of the truth to arise For the assenting unto which truth so bright and shining the whole Christian world had need only to behold it once without prejudice but ere it will be brought thereunto it must unless I be mistaken in the temper of the present age be rouzed up with the blood of the innocent and with new Martyrdomes FINIS AN ELOGY Of the Writings of SOCINUS Out of BODECHERUS THe truth is to be acknowledged everywhere For neither doth she receive her value from any person but give it to him Nor can we in this place forbear to give this testimony unto Socinus where he agreeth with the Orthodox let the Christian world hear if it please He disputeth with the thrust granteth to the adversary whatsoever he may without prejudice to the truth and his cause where the adversary is to be pressed there he maketh a stand and argueth the conscience contendeth rather with Scriptures then with suppositions and with reasons not with prejudices as the School of Calvin is for the most part wont to do he sheltereth not himself amidst certain nice captions he seeketh not starting-holes but hits the very throat of the cause ● In him Atheists Jews Gentiles Papists find matter of employment otherwise then in the writings of the Calvinists A CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF SOCINUS AN Explication of the former part of the first Chapter of John Touching the state of the first man before the fall a Disputation against Franciscus Puccius Touching the Saviour a disputation against Jacobus Covetus Touching the Invocation of Christ a Disputation against Franciscus Davidis Touching the Adoration of Christ a Disputation against Chrstianus Franken together with the Fragments of a larger Answer which Socinus did provide against Franciscus Davidis Touching the Existence of the onely-begotten Son of God a Disputation against Erasmus Joannis Touching the Nature or Essence of Jesus Christ the Son of God and also touching the Expiation of sins by him a Disputation against Andreas Volanus Touching the Divinity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit an Answer to Wuiekus Animadversions on the Assertions of the Posnanian Colledge touching the Trinune God against the new Samosatenians A Defense of those Animadversions against Gabriel Eutropius An Answer to a book of Jacobus Palaeologus entituled A Defense of the true Opinion concerning the Civil Magistrate Sacred Lectures wherein the authority of the Holy Scriptures especially of the New Covenant is asserted Theological Prelections An Explication of the seventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans A Defence of that Explication An Exposition of Christ's Sermon in the fifth sixth and seventh of Matthew Touching the errors of the Gospellers or Calvinists Touching Justification The Fragments of two writings touching the Nature of Christ and the Trinity Epistles written to sundry friends Epistles written to Andreas Dudidithius Sophistical Elenchs A brief Discourse touching the Cause of Faith Touching the Lord's Supper Touching Water-baptism whether a Christian may be without it Touching the Church An Institution of Christian Religion Certain brief Treatises touching divers subjects pertaining to the Christian Religion FINIS In Paules Church Yard Att The ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Richard ☽

judgment of the most acute philosopher He did what he was able and drew the lineaments of happness how great soever might heretofore be hoped-for in this life What is he to blame if it be not attainable by every ones industry If there be something in it which you suppose to be neither firm nor stable In short if it do not satiate the greediness of mans mind For whatsoever that felicity was which might be hoped for in this life it laboured with great and manifold defect For first in that there was no passage to it but by vertue and it had not a certain reward and such as was worthy of it those complexions that were unhappily disposed by nature were quite excluded therefrom And for the same cause even nobler dispositions could not aspire to the highest pitch of vertue Again if any man had by a more happy genius arrived through much difficulty to some praise of vertue Good Fortune which was no less a deaf then blind Goddess was to be entreated that she would either become or remain propitious without whose most uncertain help none could by meer vertue maintain the state of his happiness Finally though some man were so highly favoured both by Vertue and Fortune that they conspired together to make him happy even unto envy nevertheless he could not be void of trepidation whilst an inevitable necessity of dying hung over his head Which was so far from being mitigated with the solace of the felicity which he enjoyed that the more happily a man lived the more unwilling was he to depart from his happiness and in the greater affluence of good things he had the juster cause of fear and sorrow How hard therefore was the condition of mortality which though advanced to so rare a state as few could wish-for was notwithstanding unsecure from so great sorrow and anxiety To finde an issue of these evils and miseries and so tend directly towards sincere happiness did as we before hinted exceed the power of man That glory was reserved for the bounty of the Most high God who only by his Son discovered that Secret of Eternity that there was a reward worthy of vertue besides it self He first by exceeding-great promises erected the desires of men to true Happiness and gave not only the pleasing overture of so incredible a wish but the undoubted pledges of the hope it self We have the Son for an hostage of the Father's faithfulness the purity and holiness of whose Doctrine doth sufficiently plead for it self without Advocates and Patronage whose innocency of life confirms his Doctrine whose stupendious miracles assert not only his Doctrine but his innocency also Whose death as undergone for the testimony of his Doctrine argueth his sincerity as overcome sheweth the truth of his undoubted testimony Whose resurrection from death setteth before our eyes a pattern of his sublime promise whose exaltation and empire shew the certitude thereof In a word are the things which he performed by the Apostles and the admirable operations of the Holy Spirit who without arms subdued the armed world and without blandishments allured so many nations to the hardship of vertue to be esteemed slight proofs both of his Divine Empire and our hope Is it credible that any men would heretofore in this world have undergone a huge deal of pains not only without any reward but with apparent ruine had they not been emboldened with a hope of something after this life Could even a strong faith whilest the memory of things was yet fresh afford so great a proof of it self had there been any solid or just ground of distrust Wherefore the first attempt was to draw the whole world to the belief of those things which a few very simple men had in the beginning seen with their eyes So many cities and empires so many nations and peoples so many Iles and utmost borders of the earth although in other things for the most part at variance amongst themselves do yet agree in the belief of those things which the Christian Religion holdeth forth How happy was mankind which having been before drowned in profound darkness was suddenly environed with so great a light How blessed was the condition of men to whom the way of heaven and immortality was not only shewn in a friendly manner but levelled and prepared for them This is that true felicity which lyeth open unto every one that seriously desires it and cannot be taken away from a man against his will Neither fortune nor the fabulous necessity of fate nor the silly distaff of the destinies hath any power over it As for the right which God himself had over it he hath resigned the same up to those who believe his promises in Christ and remember the covenant which he hath made with us whom he bought with the precious blood of his Son In the last place whatsoever things did heretofore disturb or delay the prosperity of men in this life are removed far away from this happiness So great rewards are in it proposed unto vertue that all men have an access to the top thereof so great helps and supports are added that neither an untoward disposition nor bad education nor dulness of wit nor ignorance of learning nor weakness of sex nor meanness of birth nor poverty nor employment of life nor any other thing but voluntary wickedness can hinder a man from enjoying it After that the Christian Religion had drenched so many nations in heavenly cares no longer was vertue suppliant unto fortune that she would not disturb her course with sad disasters nor interrupt her solid joyes with humane terrors and lamentations Then did she begin to despise that blind Goddess without pride and provoke her without rashness being as secure of her own safety as of victory For God would not suffer fortune to have greater power over vertue in this present life then suited with the indulgence of a kind father towards his children And though her threatened blows be not disappointed yet i● it serviceable to our glory and the encrease of our happiness when having surmounted all difficulties we enjoy the glad and glorious memory of our labours In short that very invincible necessity of dying which waiting on the rear of our life did blast its accumulated joyes afar off with terror and neer at hand with sad destruction hath long since submitted her conquered neck to vertue and faith Nor is it an impeachment hereunto that this enemy seemeth not as yet to have cast away his weapons for his chiefest blade is dulled in that death was long since weakened by the resurrection of Christ O happy and more then Saturnian age wherein so pleasing a glance did first shine-forth to the world It was an easie thing for mankind in so saving a light to pass roundly on to immortality but I know not by what injury of vicissitude they could not long sincerely enjoy so great a happiness Whether it were some malignant Spirit or the very world