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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. B. 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

undertook to repell with his wit the incursion of divers Adversaryes who then infested those Churches And first of all he received the charge of Andreas Volanus by refelling his Paraenesis and upon the same occasion at the request of Niemojevius the seventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans was explained Afterwards it pleased him to assail Jacobus Palaeologus whose reputation and Authority did at that time cherish the relicks of pernicious errors in men otherwise well-minded Him being somewhat roughly handled not out of hatred but advice he alwayes excused A little after when Volanus had renewed the fight he was again encountred and withall an Answer made to the Positions of the College of Ponsa Whilest Socinus undergoeth so much fighting and hatred for the patronage of the truth amongst so many enemies there wanted not some Calumniators Stephanus was then King of Poland A Pickthank blows his ears with the report of a book written against the Magistrate adding that it would be a very dishonorable thing to suffer a wandring Italian exile to escape scotfree with so bold an enterprise He hinted at the book against Palaeologus Which though it required no other testimony of its innocency then the reading yet did he think good to decline the danger Whereupon he departed from Cracovia where he had now lived four yeers to a Noble man named Christophorus Morstinus Lord of Pawlicovia in which place he defended his innocency not so much by skulking as by the Privilege of Nobility in our Nation For that suburb-farm is a few miles distant from Cracovia It seemed a wiser course to cleer himself from the crimes laid to his charge rather out of that place then out of prison Nor was he entertained in that hospitable house for that nick of time onely but there cherished for above three yeers And to the end that the curtesie shewed to an exile and stranger might be more abundant a little while after the daughter of the family a noble Virgin was at his suit given him in marriage so that being of a stranger become a son-in-law he seemed to have established his security in those places by affinities and friendships Whilest he lived in the countrey he wrote many notable pieces and chiefly that against Eutropius constantly defending the fame and cause of that Church which had with most unjust prejudice condemned him and caused him though innocent continually to suffer many indignityes His daughter Agnes was born to him in the yeer of our Lord 1587 and forty eighth of his age of whom being after her fathers death marryed to Stanislaus Wiszowatius a Polonian Knight there are as yet remaining nephews and nieces In September the same yeer he lost his wife Elizabeth which sad and disastrous chance was followed with a grievour fit of bodily sickness so obstinate that for certain moneths it caused the use of his studyes to cease And that no kind of calamity might be wanting almost about the same time by the death of Franciscus the Grand Duke of Tuscany the revenues of his estate which he received yeerly out of Italy were quite taken away from him Indeed a little before by the bitterness of Accusers and threats of Popes his estate came into danger But by the strenuous endeavour of Isabella Medicea the Grand Dukes sister who was marryed to the aforesaid Paulus Jordanus Vrsinus whilest she lived and afterwards by the favour of Franciscus the Grand Duke it came to pass that during his life Socinus received the yeerly income of his estate For indeed his old deserts were still so fresh in memory that those Princes though long since forsaken and oftentimes rejected did yet in a most difficult matter gratifie the letters and prayers of a condemned and exiled person Yea letters full of curtesie were sent unto him and he bidden to be of good chear for the future as long as they lived so that in setting forth books he suffered not his name to appear But those Princes were then taken away by a destiny disastrous to Socinus And that all things might seem to have conspired to the perplexity of the man being a widower sick and stripped of all his fortunes he was molested with the very times of our Commonwealth which were then exceeding turbulent because divers did contend who should be the King of Poland so that the adversaryes thereupon took greater license to themselves Socinus was now returned to Cracovia and sought solace in the midst of so many evils from the employment which God had imposed on him to purge the Church of such errors as were then rife in her Wherefore although he had been formerly accustomed to frequent Ecclesiastical Assemblies yet in the yeer 1588 in the Synod of Breste which is a Town on the borders of Lituania he disputed with greater earnestness and fruit then before touching the death and Sacrifice of Christ touching our Justification touching the Corrupted Nature of Man and finally with the Davidians and Budneists touching the Invocation of Jesus Christ This was the yeer wherein the care and charge of the Church at Luclavicia was committed to Petrus Sto●nius son to Petrus Statoriu● of Tho●●ville whose family having heretofore been naturalised into the Nobili-of our Nation hath even at this day some men surviving who have been invested with great Honors in our countrey He being no less sharp in judgement then ready in speech being once admitted into the friendship of Socinus yielded willingly to his Opinion A little before also he had privately drawn many of the chief ones into his Opinion and there was daily an accession made of such men as complyed with them Nevertheless certain men of very great authority still stood off as Niemojevius and Czechovicius together with the greatest part of the ancient Ministers The report is that Securinius was the first that adventured openly to maintain the Tenets of Socinus to which he had assented Not long after others followed Which party was exceedingly strengthened by the accession of the three Lubjenecii Andreas Stanislaus and Christophorus who being brethren of noble descent and born to very great hopes and brought up partly in the Kings Court partly in the society of the greatest Peers were by a sacred instinct transported from the midst of the allurements of this life to the care of Religion These men as they had by a most enflamed zeal trodden under foot all the impediments of piety so with an equal candor and greatness of mind they subscribed to the known Truth And now others of the pastors came-in a vye to the party especially the juniors who were less retarded with the prejudice of inveterate opinion and authority and that by reason of an accident very notable for the newness thereof which gave a memorable proof how great the force of the Truth is Amidst a great jarring of Opinions this was a laudable agreement of that Church that those men contended only with arguments and not with hatred And though they detested one anothers