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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

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 London Printed for Richard Moone at the seven Stars in Pauls Church yard neer the great North-doore 1653. TO THE READER THe Life of Socinus is here exposed to thy view that by the perusal ther of thou maist receive certain information concerning the man whom Ministers others traduce by custome having for the most part never heard any thing of his conversation nor seen any of his works or if they have they were either unable or unwilling to make a thorow scrutiny into them and so no marvel if they speak evil of him To say any thing of him here by way Elogy as that he was one of the most pregnant wits that the world hath produced that none since the Apostles hath deserved better of our Religion in that the Lord Christ hath chiefly made use of his Ministry to retrive so many precious truths of the Gospel which had a long time been hidden from the eyes of men by the artifice of Satan that he shewed the world a more accurate way to discuss controversies in Religion and to fetch out the very marrow of the Holy Scripture so that a man may more availe himself by reading his works then perhaps by perusing all the Fathers together with the writings of more modern Authors that the vertues of his will were not inferior unto those of his understanding he being every way furnished to the work of the Lord that he opened the right way to bring Christians to the unity of the faith and acknowledgement of the Son of God that he took the same course to propagate the Gospel that Christ and the Apostles had done before him forsaking his estate and his nearest relations and undergoing all manner of labours and hazards to draw men to the knowledge of the truth that he had no other end of all his undertakings then the Glory of God and Christ and the salvation of himself and others it being impossible for Calumny it self with any colour to asperse him with the least suspicion of worldly interest that he of all Interpreters explaineth the precepts of Christ in the strictest maner and windeth up the lives of men to the highest strain of holiness to say these and other the like things though in themselves true and certain would notwithstanding here be impertinent in that it would forestall what the Polonian Knight hath written on this subject To him therefore I refer thee desiring thee to read his words without prejudice and then the works of Socinus himself and though thou beest not thereby convinced that all which Socinus taught is true for neither am I my self of that belief as having discovered that in some lesser things Socinus as a man went awry however in the main he hit the truth yet for so much of Christ as thou must needs confess appeareth in him begin to have more favourable thoughts of him and his Followers I. 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THE LIFE OF Faustus Socinus Senensis TO pursue the Life of Faustus Socinus in a brief and perfunctory manner would be below the dignity of so great a man but to do it fully and elaborately would perhaps be above our strength For to relate the praises of renowned men by snatches and in a negligent fashion is an injury to vertue and if there was ever any certainly this is the man who deserveth to be described not only with care but also with wit Yet since it is better that excellent endowments should be commended below their merit then wholly passed-over in silence it is unreasonable either that the meanness of the Relators should prove prejudicial to famous men or the greatness of those who are celebrated be any prejudice to the wit of the Writers But as for my self pardon is due to me upon another account being cumbred with many cares and hurrying my discourse within the limits prefixed to a pittance of time Socinus was born in Sene a most famous City of Tuscany The Nobility of his stock was ancient and the splendor of his Alliances exceeding the condition of a private man His father besides the honors of his own Family was on his mothers side further ennobled by the Salvetti Which family sometimes flourished with so great power amongst the Florentines that Pandulphus Petruccius being expelled out of Sene was chiefly beholding to the assistance and wealth of Paulus Salvettus for the restitution of his Country and shortly after of his Princedome By which benefit being obliged he conferred on him the freedom of the City and perswaded him to leave his countrey and dwell at Sene. This Paulus was father to Camilla who being marryed to Marianus the yonger was mother to Alexander and Laelius Socinus and grandmother to Faustus His mother born to the hope of more then a private fortune was daughter to Burgesius Petruccius sometimes Prince of the Commonwealth of Sene and to Victoria Piccolominea who being the daughter of Andreas Piccolomineus Lord of Castilio and Piscaria and Niece to Pope Pius the second and third of that name and either Sister or Kinswoman to Cardinal John Piccolomineus to the Dukes of the Amalphitani to the Marquisses of Capistranum to the Earles of Calanum and many other Italian Princes marryed into the house of the Petruccii which then held the Fortune of the Princedome of Sene. But Burgesius succeeding his father Pandulphus and not long after by a fatal change expelled out of his countrey did not long survive his dignity Nevertheless Cardinal Raphael Petruccius was his successor in the Government of his countrey and held for a while the helm of that Commonwealth But Victoria being left a widow suffered not her mind which in the splendor of her former height she had never lifted-up to be quailed with so disastrous a vicissitude of things So that for the space of fifty six yeers wherein she survived the life and common fortune of her husband she did with singular modesty and approved integrity and chastity endure the solitary condition of widowhood Her daughter Agnes whom according to the dignity of so great a family she had trained up in most holy manners she gave in marriage to Alexander Socinus a young man of noble extraction but private condition He was the Father of our Faustus and born in such a family as had for a long time not by Arms and Power but by wit and Scholarship seemed to hold a kind of Princedome in one sort of learning For this very Alexander was called the master of subtilties and his Father Marianus the younger the Prince of Lawyers and Bartholmew the Un●kle of Marianus the younger was by Angelus Politianus stiled the Papinian of his age finally Marianus the elder Bartholmews father a most grave Lawyer is by Aeneas Sylvius so highly extolled that that the