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A27518	The life and death of James Arminius and Simon Episcopius, professors of divinity in the University of Leyden in Holland both of them famous defenders of the doctrine of Gods universal grace, and sufferers for it / now published in the English tongue.; Oratio in obitum reverendi et clarissimi viri D. Jacobi Arminii. English	Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629.; Courcelles, Etienne de, 1586-1659. Short and compendious history of Simon Episcopius.; J. K.	1672 (1672)	Wing B2048; ESTC R833	34,143	72

All which things in a wound so fresh not yet skinn'd over may easily put to a loss the most eloquent and the wisest man whosoever he be To what hath been spoken may be added That he himself whilst he liv'd greatly dislik'd all pompous funeral solemnities for he knew that the first step to the veneration and worshiping of Saints was hence and he deem'd that it unbecomes us to desire and use such Solemnities that had such hazards attending on them But seeing our present condition seems to be such that we need not in the least to be afraid of this for alas hitherto are we come that henceforth it may seem needfull to use diligent care rather to bring in devotion than drive superstition out And sith that it concerns all men that examples of vertue being drawn forth should be proposed for all to look upon I have according to the custom through the request of friends and the Senate willing it undertaken that difficult task which I could not refuse without the violation of Christian charity and the breach of the obligation of that friendship which I have maintain'd with him from my very youth Which things being so I hope there will no reprehender of this my duty be found in this assembly of excellent oratours in which there is no one but is able more gravely and elegantly to perform this charge than my self Notwithstanding I beseech and most humbly intreat you Magnificent Reverend and most learned Auditors to suffer the things I shall speak to be of credit and account with you We have committed to the bosom of the earth the body of that Reverend man Mr. James Arminius or rather the temple of the holy Ghost which has been shaken worn broken with labours watchings conflicts diseases troubles We have committed it I say in certain hope of a blessed resurrection which he himself whilest he liv'd believ'd and unto which he directed all his thoughts and purposes The place of his birth was Oldwater a little Town long since made famous by the interflowing river Isala and the pleasantness with the fruitfulness of the adjacent country and the frugality with the industry of its Inhabitants He in this Town first saw the Sun in the year 1560. in which year the Conference at Possiack in France began in which conference our Deputies pleaded the cause of two thousand one hundred and ninety Churches that did humbly and earnestly desire of the King peace and tranquility and the liberty of professing their faith This year this Oldwater as another Sparta gave Arminius as another Lacon to the world which Town notwithstanding at other times brought forth John de Oldwater Cornelius Valerius and that excellent old man whom ye here behold Mr. Rudolphus Snellius the ornament not onely of his native place but also of this whole University and especially of them who are of the Senatorie rank and quality Arminius whilest an infant lost his father His mother a widow burthened with three children lived all her life long in a mean estate but honestly There was then in that Town a certain Priest a man honest and grave Theodore Aemylius by name whose memory by reason of his singular learning and holiness of life is yet blessed among the living· He when he had got a tast of a better and more pure doctrin in Religion determin'd with himself that he would not once more celebrate the abominable sacrifice of the Mass therefore he oft changed his place of abode and lived sometimes at Paris sometimes at Lovane sometimes at Colon sometimes at Vtrecht He therefore took care that this fatherless child James Arminius so soon as his age was capable of instruction might be furnished with the first rudiments of the Latin and Greek tongue and with the principles of true piety and religion And when he perceiv'd in him some appearances of an excellent disposition to vertue he oft times exhorted him that all considerations of earthly things being layd aside and contemned he would give up himself to follow after God and his conscience He told him that the time of mans life here is but short that there follows a condition after this life which should be estimated not by outward adversity or prosperity but by the Eternity of happiness or death This Exhortation afterwards confirmed by a diligent reading of the holy Scriptures and pious meditations was setled upon his heart And so he through the hope of that life underwent every labour all hazards with a glad and chearful mind But after he had for some years thus liv'd ot Vtrecht an unexpected calamity did oppress him by means of the death of that good old Religious man which the merciful God did suddenly mitigate for presently upon his death Mr. Snellius who long before flying the Spaniards tyranny went to Marpurg came as it hapned out of Hassia into that Countrey He therefore carried away with him into Hassia in the year 1575. this his Country-man Arminius now destitute of all humane help and succour He was scarce set down there when in the Moneth of August the report of his Countreys desolation is brought thither He hears that the Town was taken by the Spaniard that the Garrison were slain that the Townsmen were kill'd and the Town burnt With this report he was so much stricken at the heart and so greatly troubled that he spent 14 whole days in continual weeping and tears Therefore as one impatient he left Hassia and went with speed into Holland being determined either to see the ruines of his Country or to loose his life When he was come thither he found nothing but where the Town stood and the ruines of it and understood that most of its Inhabitants were finally slain together with his Mother his Sisters his Brothers and his Kindred He therefore returned even on foot out of his own Country to Marpurg in Hassia In the mean while this new Academy was erected and opened by the authority of the most Illustrious Prince of Orange which as soon as he understood he prepar'd for a journey home He came therefore to Roterdam to which place were come from Amsterdam many faithfull Exiles and most of Old-waters Inhabitants that had escaped the sword of a cruel enemy At that time my Father Peter Bertius was the Pastor of that Church but Mr. John Taffinus was the Princ's French Preacher and Counsellor both these were wonderfully pleased with the young mans towardliness readiness and wit Now seeing it was long before my Father was acquainted with learning for he was 30. years old before he had any knowledge even of the Latin tongue he upon request of friends took the young man very willingly into his house Now it was the purpose of friends to send him to this new University which occasion my Father thinking not good to neglect calls me out of England when I was then a Student applying my self to learning both of us therefore were sent together into this School from that