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B22558	The Popish labyrinth wherein is made manifest, that the Papists are entangled in the fundamental article of their faith, that the church cannot erre / written in Dutch by ... Dr. Simon Episcopius, unto which is added, The life and death of the author ; as also, The life and death of James Arminius, both of them famous defenders of God	Episcopius, Simon, 1583-1643.; Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629. Oratio in obitum reverendi & clarissimi viri D. Jacobi Arminii. English.; Chardon de Courcelles, Etienne, 1705-1775? Short and compendious history of Simon Episcopius.	1673 (1673)	Wing E3163	56,195	122

An Apology of the Remonstrants confession An Answer to the Essay of the Leyden Professors with other Books In Dutch he wrote a Treatise of true Antiquity against the Papists Three Treatises against James Triglandius then Preacher at Amsterdam since Professor of Divinity at Leyden with other books In the second year after his return he entred into a Matrimonial state there being then hope of a more peaceable time marrying at Rotterdam that most choice and vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Pesser the widow of Mr. Henry Niellius a Preacher of that City and the younger brother of Mr. Charles Niellius above-mentioned They lived together but without issue most piously peaceably and comfortably to the end of the years 1641 at which time she finished her course But before this in the year 1634 He went to Amsterdam to be President in the Remonstrants Scholastick Nursery or Colledge which was erected there to be as an University for the instructing of Youth in Divinity that were intended for Ministers of the Church How faithfully and diligently he exercised himself here we have an illustrious testimony from his copious learned and most usefull Theological Institutions and the Answer of 64 Questions proposed to him by his Disciples also from his learned and eloquent Sermons to the people also his true Remonstrant Divine and his Answer to the 10 Dilemma's of a certain Popish Doctor and other works of his Whilest he was thus labouring some occasions forced him to Rotterdam where Anno 1639 he fell dangerously sick and for some moneths kept his bed and so far was he gone that there was little hope of his recovery But at length God restored him to health and so strengthened him that he returned to his charge at Amsterdam and as diligently laboured among them as before After his return it seemed good to the Remonstrants to publish a plain Catechism for the instructing of the more ignorant sort Then Abraham Heydan at that time a Preacher at Leyden afterwards Professor of Divinity there published an Examination of this Catechism the defence of which our Episcopius undertook and finished in a considerable large Volume which came not forth till after his death For in the beginning of the year 1643 when he was well nigh 60 years old he fell mortally sick His disease is called Ischuria a dangerous suppression of the Vrine which was so pertinacious and obstinate that for eleven days he could not make one drop of water although some skilfull Physicians used the utmost of their art to master or at least somewhat to mitigate this his mercyless and stubborn enemy This Excrement of which he afterward avoided but little mixing it self with the blood of the whole body so corrupted the Crassis and temperature thereof that he could not possibly long subsist He lay sick two moneths and above and for some weeks before his death was deprived of sight Which loss whilest there was any hope of his recovery had been exceeding grievous unto him had not his deep and almost continual sleeping lessened the same For sometimes he complained of it to his friends that did frequently visit him saying that he should not be able any more to serve the Church of Christ At length on the 4th of April about the 8th hour in the morning at which time the moon was in the Eclipse he peaceably fell asleep in the Lord. And the 4th day after was carryed forth a great multitude of all sorts of persons following the herse unto the West-Church and was there interred by his wife His death many much lamented and many Epicedium's or funeral Verses of his praise and commendation were published both in Dutch and Latin Caspar Barlaeus the most renowned Poet of that time and who lived not full two years after him published a most excellent Latin Epicaedium in his commendation which is prefixed to the first Volume of Episcopius his works Thus we have taken a short view of Episcopius from his birth to his death His life was unblameable and illustrious for zeal to the glory of God and mans salvation His Love to the Churches peace and concord added much to his commendation He was indeed much conversant in Controversies not of choyce but through necessity He was often wont to complain of his constraint to this kind of exercise His patient bearing of jnjuries and readiness to forgive after the example of his Master Christ contributed not a little to his praise In alms-deeds he was to his power ready and cheerfull And such was his modesty and humble temper that his rare endowments and great Atchievments he esteemed as nothing On his sick-bed his Speeches were gracious full of piety towards God charity towards men and confidence in Christ His name now and memory is blessed with them especially that without prejudice peruse his works that in two considerable Volumes are now publick in the Latin tongue which I could wish that all men well understood were it but to read Episcopius I doubt not but there are many who have much improved themselves by his writings Our famous Hales is not doubtless without companions of whom this is reported by Mr. Anthony Farindon his familiar friend that he himself often told him that at the well pressing of Jo. 3 16. by Episcopius he bade Jo. Calvine Good-night It would be in vain for me here to inlarge who am speaking to those that through unacquaintance with Latin ● are uncapable to see the great knowledge and eloquence of our Episcopius as for those who converse honestly with his Writings they need not me But I would not that any should think of me that I take all his sayings for gospel No I believe that his Writings as well as other mens must be read with judgment for I nothing doubt but that Errata's may be found in his works not only such that are justly imputable to the Transcriber and Printer but such also that are the Authors who was subject to erre though much more free from errors than many FINIS Books Printed for Francis Smith at the Elophant and Castle without Temple-bar BAptism before or after Faith and Repentance largely discussed not onely in publick Disputations Managed by many Ministers before Thousands of people but also Mr. Baxter Dr. Holmes Dr. Featly Mr. Marshall Mr. Blake Mr. Cook Mr. Cotton Their arguments for and against truly controverted being a subject very useful in these inquiring times for general satisfaction in this point so much controverted in folio 10 s. 6. d. Hooles Latin and English Grammer fitted not onely for the use of all Schools but very usefull for any person desirous to Learn the Latin tongue being a more plain and speedy help then any yet extant Sixth Edition 8o. price bound 2 s. A Caution to Christians against Mistakes in their Faith opening the nature and difference of effectual faith that will not and of the Dead faith that will at last deceive men in their hopes of Justification by it shewing also that holiness in men as well as the happiness of men is Gods aim in Contriving the tearms of their Salvation in 4o 2 s. 6 d. bound One thing needfull or a serious meditation on the 4 last things Death Judgment Heaven and Hell unto which is now added Eball and Gerizzim or the Blessing and the Curse third Edition 12o. 6. d. bound The Young Scholars pocket Book containing the first Rudiments in Arithmetick with the Rule of 3. also the way to find the Content of Board Glass Land Timber Stone Globes third Edition 12o. 8. d. bound Youths Tragedy a Poem drawn up by way of Dialogue between Youth the Devil Wisdom the Nuncius Time Death the Soul for Caution and Direction of the younger sort third Edition 4o 4. d bound Symptomes of growth and decay to Godliness in 80 Signs of a living and dying Christian with the causes of decay and remedies for recoveries in Large 8o. third Edition at 1. s. 6. d. bound A new and usefull Concordance to the Holy Bible whereunto is added beyond any extant the chief acceptations and various significations of words contained in the Old and new Testament with marks to distinguish the Commands promises and Threatnings also a collection of those Scripture prophesies which relate to the Call of the Jews and the Glory that shall be in the Latter Days in 8º at 2. s. 6. d. bound in 120. at 2. s. bound where it is also to be had printed on a fine page and bound with the Bible in 80. or 12o. 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that day in which God will make his dead body which we have laid in the earth to be conformable to the glorious body of his Son according to the power whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself But we so long as it pleases God shall be tossed with these waves till he having at sometime compassion on us also shall call us every one in his own order out of this miry clay into heavenly joys keeping in the mean while in the church of the saints the blessed memory of Mr. James Arminius with this Elogy That he was a Hollander whom they that knew him could not sufficiently esteem Whom they that esteemed him not did never sufficiently know Finally most worthy Au●itors being desirous to exhort you to the Churches amiable concord I shall use no other than the words of the Apostle John Beloved let us love one another because love is of God And whosoever l●veth his brother is born of God and knoweth God He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love FINIS A short and Compendious History of Simon Episcopius Professor of Divinity in the University of LEYDEN in HOLLAND Candid Reader THat in a very great part which learned Bertius in the preceding Oration hath justly premised touching the difficulty of his task and Province who was to describe so excellent a man as Reverend Arminius may be as justly to say no more taken up by him that undertakes a descriptio nof Episcopius a man well nigh incomparabl i● all things commendable in a man in a Christian in a Minister of the Gospel of Christ It 's one of Amsterdams chiefest Ornaments and deserves to be recorded with letters of Gold in the memorials of that famous City that Simon Episcopiue in the year 1583. was born there His Parents Egbert and Gertrude are worthy remembrance not only for their pious Offspring I mean their eldest son Rembert also John but especially the youngest our Simon for their other children four sons and three daughters all died in their youth or infancy but also for their own piety being then zealous professors of the truth when extream dangers closely attended on every side those that followed her Simon Episcopius that renowned Person of whom we are now to speak brought with him into the world many rare natural Endowments which aftterwards by good education and much industry were greatly improved and were in his conversation choicely imployed to the end of his days Rembert his e●dest brother soon espying in him grounds of hope as to his usefulness in the best of imployments did earnestly solicite his Parents to denote him wholly to learning His Parents notwithstanding their Estate was insufficient by reason of their numerous offspring to yield him at his studies a competent maintenance yet having assistance freely and privately offered by Cornelius Benning a man of Consular dignity were perswaded to dedicate their Simon to the study of learning He therefore was committed as soon as possible to the care and discipline of Peter Vekeman a Schoolmaster at that time famous under whose manuduction he in so little time made so great a progress in Latin and Greek that he was commended by diverse great men to the honourable Senate of Amsterdam which took and received him into the number of their Scholars when his parents by the advice of Mr. John Kuchlinus and Mr. James Arminius and by their perswasion gave their consent for at the first they were somewhat averse thereto When he had at Amsterdam run out his course there in the Grammar school the Curatours of the School did in the year 1600 declare him by Solemn sentence meet and worthy to be promoted to the University that he might there apply himself to more high and manly studies He was therefore sent away to the University of Leyden into the Colledge of the illustrious States of Holland and West-friezland in which Colledge was then President that most learned man John Kuchlinus who when he was minister at Amsterdam had contracted a firm and intimate friendship with the father of our Episcopius This hopeful Plant had not been long in the Academical nursery but he lost his most loving and beloved Parents for Anno 1602 his father dyed in the next year his Mother He though much afflicted with this adversity yet being thoughtfull and desirous of his transplanting into some place of usefulness to the Church of God neglects not the present opportunity of furnishing himself with things convenient and necessary thereunto Wherefore having sukt in as much knowledge as was needfull of the liberal Artts he extends his endeavours for getting acquaintance with the secrets of Philoosophy In which having spent about three years he applyed himself most seriously to the studys of Divinity and with much diligence laboured therein yet so as to have now and then a recourse to Phylosophy At length the Statutes of his Colledge and his own privte affairs requiring it hesought the title of a Mr. of Arts and was being after a severe examination judged worthy adorned therewith publickly in the year 1606 by Dr. Rodolphus Snellius that most renowned Professor of the Mathematicks there After this he purposeth and resolves to give himself wholy to the study of Divinity onely in which he had already made a considerable progress And seeing he could not accomplish his earnest desire of visiting forreign Universities he continued yet two years and above at Leyden where he was a diligent heare of the Divinity Professors namely Francis Gomarus Luke Trelcatius James Arminius and was so diligent and industrious in disputations and exercitatory Sermons that he left far behind him most of his equals for age and standing and was thought worthy to be called to the Ministry But seeing afterwards especially after the death of Dr. Trelcatius that unhappy discension about Predestination which afterwards gave a disturbance to all Holland did not onely secretly glow between the two remaining Professors but also at length break forth openly and seeing our Episcopius shewed himself more addicted to the opinion of Arminius he found therefore the Pastors who were of the other party to be so disaffected towards him that they when the honourable Consuls of Amsterdam who had knowledge of his singular learning and good conversation were desirous of promoting him to the office of a preacher did by delays and other their subtle devices srustrate and elude the good design of the Consuls Episcopius therefore in the year 1609 in which year Arminius dyed left Leyden and went to Franeker the Friezlanders University whither he was drawn especially by the fame of Jo. Drusius Professor there of the Hebrew tongue Here Sibrandus Lubbertus the Professor of this University took great offence at our Episcopius who was somewhat too hot and fervent in Theological disputations as young men of prompt and ready wits are wont to be He therefore a few moneths after departed thence and went into France where in a short time he got

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 time there has been always between us a very great intimacy familiarity and friendship But I will not speak of the passages of that time This one thing I will say that our young Scholars endeavour in learning and in the study of wisdom was so great their reverence towards their Teachers so great their zeal and earnest affection in Religion so great that greater could hardly be But in our rank Arminius was one that excel'd the rest if any thing was to be written if any thing to be spoken Arminius was sought for If then arose any debate in learning that required a Pal●mon Arminius was consulted with I remember when Dr. Lambert Danaeus our Professor did commend him publickly for his natural endowments and for his proficiency and for his vertue and did excite us to enter on the study of Divinity with cheerfulfulness after his example Why should I make mention here of his study in Poetry in which he excel'd Why should I speak of his study in the Mathematicks and in the other parts of Philosophie He toucht nothing of these which he did not penetrate he set upon nothing which he did not happily finish Thus we are come to the year 1582. in which year the honourable Senate of Amsterdam sent him away to Geneva for his more abundant proficiency in learning Whither when he was come he heard that reverend old man and of blessed memory Mr. Theodore Beza expounding the Epistle to the Rom●●s with the great admiration of all men for there was in ●eza beyond other mortals a flexanimous and perswasive eloquence a prompt and ready utterance perspicuity of speech pleasantness of voice but excellent doctrine in the judgment of all learned men Him therefore above all others Arminius made choice of to imitate and follow But seeing he could not forth with procure to himself the favour of some Principal men in this School and that to speak the truth only upon the account of Ramus's Philosophy which with earnestness he defended publickly and did also in private teach it to his auditors he was provok'd to go to Basil Where what great honour was confer'd on the young man what were the presages and divinings of men of all ranks concerning his growing vertue they are able to testifie who were his fellow travellers and companions in this his peregrination But he so heard these judgments and acclamations that he never waxt proud and arrogant but shewed in very deed that he was unwilling to endeavour by ambition but was willing by true vertue to come unto that whereto he was designed by the goodness of God At Basile in the harvest Festivals the more learned Students are wont out of the ordinary course for exercise-sake to teach something in the University someties publickly This labour our Arminius willingly undertook for this he was prais'd by that reverend man Mr. James Grinaus who also oft times honoured his lectures by his Presence The same man also in publick disputations if any thing more weighty than ordinary were proposed or an intricate matter worthy a defender did occur was not afraid for honours sake to call our Arminius sitting among a great number of Students and that you may know the candor of Grinaeus to say Let my Hollander answer for me At this time Arminius was in so great favour and renown for his learning that when he was about to depart thence for Geneva the Theological faculty would have conferr'd on him even at the publick charge the title of Doctor which he esteeming it too great a dignity for one of his years did at that time modestly refuse and gave them thanks for their grace and favour When he was come back to Geneva he found the minds of his friends more pacified towards Ramus's Philosophy also he himself thinking it something meet to abate somewhat of his earnestness did so order himself that all might easily perceive that gentleness conjoyn'd with so great a wit brought no small ornament to his age There were at the same time in the City the Sons of the chief of our Nobility most of which now are in eminent and honourable places in our Republick When some of these were gone into Italy others of them called home he seeing himself alone and destitute of all others his companions excepting one a man of very great dignity now in Holland he also purposed to go with speed into Italy being inclin'd thereunto especially through the fame of James Zabarella who then at Padua professed Philosohhy and was greatly followed For his sake especially he stayed at Padua when he instructed in Logick some noble Germans But afterwards he took a cursory view of the rest of Italy on which journey he spent not above eight months and at Rome he was never absent from that companion of his who was to him as another Achates for so it was agreed on before they went from Geneva They ul'd the same lodging the same table the same bed they went in and out together and for the exercise of piety they carried with them the Greek Testament and Hebrew Psalter I remember he was wont often to tell That Italy brought to him many commodities and discommodities Among the commodities he plac'd this especially That he had seen at Rome the mystery of iniquity to be far more filthy and abominable than ever he had conceiv'd it in his mind for he said that the things which are told or read concerning the Roman Court of Anti-christ are Trifles in comparison of the things which he had seen Among the discommodities this That the honourable Senate of Amsterdam was then somewhat offended at him for that his Italian journey some in the mean while augmenting their their displeasure who clearly had done better in suspending their opinions till his return Hence then an occasion being taken it was noys'd among the common people That he had kist the Popes pantos●e whom he had never seen but as other spectators did in a great throng and croud of people And indeed that Beast is not wont to give this honour to any but Kings and Princes Also that he was accustom'd to hear the Jesuites when as he never heard them That he was acquainted with Bellarmin whom he never saw That he had abjur'd the orthodox Religion whereas he was ready to contend for it even to the loss of his life Now let our Youth that are pious and devoted to the Church learn this from anothers harm That it is better never to set foot in Italy than with so great an hazard of their repute to know the mysteries

of Antichrist Not because it is more dangerous for them to see Italy than neighbouring Antwerp or Brussel● or Brug● for in Italy there is much more liberty and in these places more superstition by far And it is safer to travel throughout all Italy than Brabant or Flanders but because it is expedient to take all occasions of evil speaking from the adversary and all occasions of evil-surmising from those that are unadvised and imprudent And it is better to prevent an occasion of offence than to excuse it Being come out of Italy he stayed at Geneva and some months after being called home he returned to Amsterdam to his Patrons and Masters furnished through the grace of Christ with a clear testimony from them of Geneva and with a mind very well fitted to do office if it might please the Lord God to use his ministry for his work in his Church For these are the very words of Mr. Beza's Epistle the original of which I have in remembrance At Amsterdam he did easily with grave and prudent men clear himself as to his Italian journey but indeed the weak brethren went on inveighing against it and in their assemblings blaming it till he himself began to be heard in the Church in which as soon as he was beheld it cannot be spoken with how much respect men of all ranks flocked together to hear him For there was in him as ye know a certain incredible gravity mixed with gracefull pleasantness His voice indeed was slender but sweet and loud and piercing but he had an admirable perswasive faculty If any thing were to be adorn'd he so did it as not to exceed the truth If he were to teach any thing he did it with clearness and perspicuity If he were to dispute any thing he manag'd the same distinctly Now the Melody and altering of his voice was so fitted to things that it seemed to flow from them And sith he did not use a Rhetorical dress and the Greeks boxes of pleasant ointment it was either because his nature did abhor them or because he judged it unworthy the majesty of Divine things to use curles and borrowed ornaments when as the naked truth is of its self sufficient for its own defence notwithstanding he so efficaciously perswaded by force and weight of arguments and by the pithiness of his sentences and by the authority of Scripture it self that no man ever heard him but confess'd that his discourses much affected him Some therefore at that time called him the polishing life of truth others the whetstone and sharpner of wits others called him the razor shaving off growing errors and nothing in Religion and sacred Theology was thought to savour well that did not relish with Arminius Also the Pastors and Preachers themselves of that City men both learned and eloquent did reverence him for his learning and ingeniously acknowledge themselves to have been daily very much advantaged by his Sermons And thus our Arminius with spread out sayles prosperous gales a full company of rowers and the good wishes of all that knew him was carried towards fame and glory when it pleased God to excrcise his servant even with adversity and to make a tryal of his patience and humbleness by the cross and afflictions Now 't is a thing worth the knowing to understand the beginnings and success hereof There was carried about as it chanced in the hands of some pious men a little Book written by some of the brethren of the Church of Delf against Mr. Beza with this Title An answer to some arguments of Beza and Calvin out of a Treatise concerning predestination on the 9. Chap to the Romans This little book was sent over to our Arminius by Mr. Martin Lidyus of blessed memory who had been formerly a Pastor in the Church of Amsterdam but then was professor in the Friezlanders new Academy and by him Arminius was requested to undertake the defence of Mr. Beza against the brethren of Delf For Arminius was verily thought a man very fit for this business by Mr. Lidyus who partly by report partly by experience knew the quickness of his wit the sharpness of his judgment and what a wonderful force and power he had both in preaching and in disputing Neither was Arminius altogether strange from this design being one that newly coming out of the School of Geneva carryed about with him in his ears the sound of Mr. Beza's lectures and arguments He therefore betakes himself to the work But whilst he endeavours a refutation whilst he weighs the arguments on each side whilst he confers the Scriptures whilst he torments and wearys himself he was overcome by the truth At first indeed he followed that same opinion which he undertook to oppose but he afterwards by the guidance of the holy Ghost was carried over to that doctrin which he constantly asserted even to the end of his life Which was this That Gods eternal Decree in predestination was not to elect or chuse precisely and absolutely some to salvation whom as yet he had not purposed to create which Mr. Beza would have neither was it precisely and absolutely to elect some to salvation after the decree of their creation and the foresight of their fall but without an antecedent consideration of Jesus Christ which the Delfian brethren held Bus it was To elect to salvation them of the created and fallen who in time to come would by true obedience of faith answer to God calling them thereunto Which by learned Melancthon and Nicholaus Hemingius and many more divines besides hath been asserted And although such in times past hath been the liberty of our Churches and even now is in very many places that in this Argument in which no ancient Synod hath ever determined any thing any one of the multitude and a Teacher might always without offence to any one choose this or that for to omit others Dr. Jo. Holmannus Secundus who by the very grave advice of excellent Divines and especially of the Lords Curators was called forth after Mr. Pezelius and Mollenius and others were sollicited in vain taught it out of this very place He imbraced as we know the opinion of Hemingius and sharply defended it Not withstanding there were not those wanting at Amsterdam that in this matter were troublesome to Arminius and that accused him for departing from the common and received opinion in our Churches but their vehemency and fiercness was suddenly repress'd and appeas'd by the authority of the Senate and the equanimity and moderation of the brethren so that he always lived with his Collegues at Amsterdam quietly yea friendly and brotherly without any cloud of displeasure or hatred or envy And also this man of God was not only naturally dispos'd to candor and gentleness but also was moreover so formed and fashioned thereto by the holy precepts and Spirit of Christ that he did quietly bear with him that dissented from him and did not easily despair of any one that