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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

Hear the Apostle It is with me a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgment He that judgeth me is the Lord Therefore judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the heart And then shall every man have praise of God Art thou so assured of what shall happen to thy self as to know for certain that thou thy self shalt not be tormented with more bitter pain and dolour And yet 't was not his right eye that was amiss neither was it blindness but only a dimness and his arm was not dried up but swelled His tongue truly even to the last moment of his life readily discharged its office Thus things above things below things on the right hand things on the left things divine things humane wait together on these wretched Hierophants Expounders of divine mysteries to serve them when they will There were somes who playing on his name devised Vani orbis amicus i. e. A friend of the vain world as if impiety was not sometime bold to do the same on the sacred name of Christ Go your wayes for beetles the unprofitable things of the world What will ye not attempt to do on the servant who have not spared God himself and the Lord of life But I return to that which I made digression from He although tired with all these evils yet notwithstanding kept a stedfast courage and quiet mind He therefore never abated any thing of the pleasantness and comely gracefulness and accustomed cheerfulness of his countenance and candor of heart his most ardent prayers ascending to God for himself and the concord of the church How frequent how fervent in his sickness were his ejaculations to Jesus Christ What joyes did he promise himself With what perseverance of faith did he expect his last day in the world If the brethren did compose themselves to prayers and he himself was hindred by pain he now and then desired them to stay till he should come to himself that he might together with them perform this brotherly office These few forms of prayers among many more were noted OH great Shepheard of the sheep who by the blood of the everlasting covenant wast brought again from the dead Oh! Lord and Saviour Jesus be present with me thy weak and afflicted sheep Oh Lord Jesus the faithfull and mercifull High priest who wast willing to be tempted in all things like unto us but without sin that thou learning by experience it self how hard it is to obey God in sufferings mightest have compassion on us in our infirmities have pity on me and succour me thy servant who am sick an pressed with many afflictions Oh God of my salvation make my soul fit for thine heavenly kingdom my body for the resurrection Now when upon the increasing of his disease he was admonished by the Physicians that by reason of the doubtfullness of his life he would set his house in order and that if any thing were to be given in charge by his last will and testament he would take care to do it he then composed himself for death with such great quietness of mind that friends standing by who had observed the whole manner of his life admired at his so great and so heroick moderation in the last act and they took from him the last example of dying blessedly of whom long before they had learned many things for the well ordering of their lives He then perceiving that the time of his dissolution was at hand and not being ignorant of the Devils stratagems took speciall care when he made his will to give a brief Account of his designs and of his life This because it contains the duty of a faithfull Teacher I shall recite for an Example and for a Testimony Out of his will or Testament BEfore all things I commend my soul when it shall depart out of its body into the hands of God its Creator and faithfull Saviour before whom I witness that I have with a good conscience singly and sincerely walked in my charge and calling taking heed with much solicitousness and carefulness not to propose or teach any thing which I had not found by a diligent search out of the holy Scriptures to agree exactly with the same Scriptures and that I have taught those things which might conduce to the propagation and amplification of the truth the Christian religion the true worship of God common piety and holy conversation among men Lastly to tranquility agreeing to the Christian profession and peace according to the word of God excluding from among these Papacy with which no verity of faith no bond of piety and Christian peace can be kept These things being thus finished some days were spent in the invocation of Christ and in thanksgiving and the meditation of a better life In which time Mr. Jo. Vtenbogardus and Mr. Hadrian Borrius did more frequently visit him then others did Both of them were his old and most faithfull friends But Mr. Borrius was even always present in the daily performance of prayer with his sick friend Now at length on the 19th of October about noon this faithfull servant of God being discharged of his warfare having finished his course fought the good fight kept the faith did render his soul now weary of cares now glutted with the miseries of this world now desiring deliverance now having a fore-tast of the joys of the Saints now seeing Christ his God and redeemer did I say with his eyes lifted up to heaven render quietly among the holy prayers of them that were present his soul to God the Father his creator to the Son his redeemer to the Holy Ghost his sanctifier all crying out Let me dye the death of the righteous Thus even this our Sun did set thus that just man dyed of whom this world was not worthy thus the father of so many prophets was taken away thus James Arminius by the charet of Israel and horsemen thereof was carryed from us into heaven and now is free and delivered from miseryes hath the crown sought for by so many labours by so great holiness and enjoys the heavenly Jerusalem in the great assembly of many thousands of Angels and the Church of the first-born that are written in heaven and he sees the Judge of all and the Spirit of just men made perfect and Jesus the mediator of the new Testament and the blood of sprinkling speaking better then that of Abel But he expecteth 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

very day his holy calling In a word he hath shewed himself such both in his holy Office and in his manner of life towards all as becomes a true servant of Christ that we give to him very great and immortal thanks for his benevolence and humanity towards us by which he hath embrac'd every one of us We therefore intreat all and every one of what order soever they be to have acknowledge embrace and favour the foresaid Mr. Dr. James Arminius as such a one as we have said Also to affect him with such honour as he for his eminent and singular gifts shining in him is worthy of and according to their ability to help forward his holy endeavours for the Glory of Gods name and the Edification of the School and Church Unto which end we all his Collegues and fellow-servants do heartily desire for him the manifold grace of the Holy Ghost At Amsterdam from our Classical meeting on the Calends of September 1603. John Halsbergius President of the Classis John Hallius Preacher at Amsterdam Scribe of the Classis in the name of the Classis Have the Brethren honourably and laudably enough testified of Arminius thus then he came into the University From this time all his Collegues have had experience of him as a most Faithful friend The Schools as a Senator Professor Rector all the Students as a most gentle Father Suddenly after his entrance into the University he found that the Students of sacred Theology did entangle themselves in the thickets of questions and did follow Thorny Theormes and Problemes the Scriptures being neglected This evil after the matter had been communicated to his Collegues he studied to amend and did in a great measure effect it for he brought back the antient and masculine and mighty kind of studying and drew back as much as in him lay the wandring youth to the Fountains of Salvation those pure and slimeless Fountains that out of them Religion might be sought for not that Religion which being satisfied with wrangling debates or bare speculation is gotten to feed the phantasie but that which breaths out charity and follows the truth which is after godliness by which youth learn to fly youthful lusts and having subdued fleshly allurements to shun the pollutions of the world and to do and suffer those things that make a distinction between a Christian and an Heathen That saying of our Saviour Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharises ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven he did repeat often to fix the same upon their memories In the mean while the consideration of Christians so miserably divided and driven asunder one from another troubled him he seldom spake of it without tears never without deep and hearty sighs He declared that he wished all the scattered members of Christ might grow together in one body according to the Lords Commandment He rightly judged that the Papal Court sought not the things which are of Christ but the pleasures the honours the lucre the pomp of this present world and Tyranny over the souls as well as the bodies of men And therefore that no man could or ought to consult with that Harlot about matters of Salvation and the establishing of a common peace He judged that a great part of others were conscienciously and piously affected and were not divided not so much through an evil intent and purpose as through doubtfull ambages or obscurities in which many were driven from peace and concord by ignorance many by the authority of their Ancestours many through pertinacy or stiffness in those opinions which either themselves had devised or long defended many through shame of revoking and retracting their writings lastly many through prejudice and an ill opinion of their brethren All which he thought might be remedyed not by killing one another but by prayers and by peaceable and friendly instruction and by the example of an holy conversation He therefore both exhorted all to piety and especially took care of this that when thornie questions and the huge luggage of vain and empty assertions were removed and taken away with which the Schools make an huge confused noise those things might be fetcht only out of the Scriptures which might be usefull to bring them to the belief of necessary things and to lead a good and blessed Christian life Which endeaur of his Satan going about to elude and frustrate endeavoured to perswade the inconsiderate that these things were done by him to get honour to shew the strength of his wit to cause innovations to maintain contention and wrangling Some thetefore through suspicion that ill counsellour moved again old Camarina or were the cause of mischief to themselves but the Professors themselves and the Colleagues by the prudent advice of the Curators did quell and quash it at its first shooting up for credit to which matter I have thought that this Instrument out of the Acts of the Vnoversity is fit to be produced The Professors of the Theological faculty when it was related to them That the Classis of Dort had laid down among other this Grievance Seeing there is a rumor that some controversies about the doctrine of the reformed Churches have risen in the Church and Vniversity of Leyden the Classis have thought it to be necessary that the Synod deliberate concerning these Controversies and how they may most safely be composed that all Schismes and offences which thence may arist may seasonably be removed and the union of the reformed Churches to preserved against the calumny of the adversaries did when the Lords Curatots and the Consuls asked whether any controversies of this sort were certainly known unto them answer unanimously after the matter had been first privately among themselves examined and weighed That they wished that the Classis of Dort had in this matter acted better and more orderly That they thought that more things were disputed among the Students than it liked them should be but that among themselves that is among the Professors of the Theological faculty there was no difference which may appear to be in the fundamenralls of doctrine Also that they would endeavour that the disputations of this sort which arose among the students might be lessened Acted the 10th of August 1605. James Arminius Rector of the University pro tempore Francis Gomarus Luke Trelcatius Subscribed The very same day when the same thing was also proposed to D. John Kuchlinus Regent of the Theological Colledge he answered That he gave his suffrage to those things that had been said by the Professors Subscribed John Kuchlinus Regent And thus indeed these things passed at that time Afterwards the Senators of the High Court by the will of the illustrious States at the Hague took cognisance of those things that were reported What their opinion of the whole matter was I should now relate but that I think all here present have the knowledge thereof But whilest Christs Champion