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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

by his own sharp wit partly by the instruction of his Unkle Laelius especially when upon the rising of a sudden tempest he as we before hinted betook himself into France Although Laelius confiding in the wit of his Nephew did intimate more to his guess then deliver to his understanding concealing also some things from the yong man for the tryal of his judgement and openly presaging amongst his friends that these things should more fully and happily by Faustus be discovered to the world But when after the death of Laelius he was returned into Italy in that unsteddy age of his life his youth floating like a ship without a Pilot and carryed away with I know not what winds almost grew old amongst the Sirens of the Court. For being admitted into the Palace of Francis the grand Duk of Tuscany and very much endeared to him by honourable employments whilest he there flourished in highest favour and dignity he spent whole twelve yeers in the Court of Florence Then did he lose as he with perpetual grones complained the most flourishing part of his life if at least that time is to be accounted lost wherein his sublime judgement was formed not with the shadowy precepts of Learning but with the substantial experiments of Life wherein also that youthful heat of his evaporated which for the most part hurryeth great wits to great falls And indeed were we not otherwise assured of it yet from the very force of his wit we might conjecture with how vehement motions that nature of his was sometimes agitated About the close of that time his heart was touched with a serious deliberation concerning the choice of good things which he performed with such greatness of minde that he determined for the hope of heavenly things to trample under foot all the commodityes of earthly wishes wherefore without delay despairing to obtain from the extreamly unwilling Princes leave to depart he of his own accord forsook his countrey friends hopes and riches that he might the more freely employ himself about his own and other mens salvation That his service had not been ungrateful to the Grand Duke the longing after him being now absent and in exile shewed For sundry times by letters and messengers chiefly at the motion of Paulus Jordanus Vrsinus a noble man who had marryed the Grand Dukes sister he sollicited Socinus to return which he with usual modesty but resolute mind did refuse It was the yeer of our Lord 1574 and the five and thirtieth of his age when he retired out of Italy into Germany At his coming he was entertained by Basile that courteous receiver of Christ's exiles which had long since learned to cherish in her lap endangered Innocency Where he studyed Divinity full three yeers and upwards being chiefly intent upon the Sacred Scriptures to the sincere understanding whereof whilest he aspired with daily vows and prayers he was much helped with a very few writings of his Unkle Laelius and sundry scattered notes left by him Which thing though it was in his power to suppress it yet did he alwayes ingenuously own and profess As he lived at Basile untill the yeer 1575 he detained not within the closet of his private breast the truth that had been deposited with him And therefore whilest he endeavoureth to propagate unto others the light that was risen to himself he proceeded by degrees from reasoning with his friends to discourse with strangers and having begun his disputation concerning Jesus Christ the Saviour by word of mouth he afterwards comprised it in writing Which ere he could finish being first excluded by sickness from his studyes then by the pestilence from his books left at Basile he in the mean time dispatched at Zurich in the beginning of the yeer 1578 another Disputation with Franciscus Puccius and afterwards in the same yeer being returned to Basile he put the last hand to his book concerning the Saviour At that time the Transyivanian Churches were extremely infested with the opinion of Franciscus Davidis and others touching the Honour and Power of Christ To remedy which mischief Georgius Bl●ndra●a a man very powerful in those Churche● and with the Bath●rrea● Princes who then ruled the Nation in that very yeer of the Lord invited Socinus from Basile to the end he might draw the Ringleader of the Faction Franciscus Davidis from so gross and pernicious an error Which that it might the more commodiously be effected having at a great rate hired a lodging for Socinus with Franciscus Davidis he would have them both for above the space of four moneths to use the same house and table But the said Franciscus took far greater care how to retain his credit amongst those of his party then how to seek after the truth Whereupon adventuring not only to spread his error in private but publikely to proclaim it in the Pulpit lie drew present danger on himself being soon cast into prison by the command of the Prince of Transylvania where he shortly after ended his life Of whose death though Socinus was altogether guiltless yet did he not escape blame As if he were not able to vanquish the said Franciscus with other weapons when notwithstanding the disputations of both are published or that Magistrate was so addicted to the cause of Socinus as to employ the weapons of his authority for him or any one of his party But if perhaps some person who savored the cause of Socinus did incite the Prince to deal roughly with the said Franciscus whereof nevertheless I am not certain yet let not Socinus be blamed for him inasmuch as he could neither know his counsel nor approve his deed For to omit sundry other considerations there could not happen any thing more contrary to the mind of Socinus then that such a doctrine as could not be defended with the words and wit of the said Franciscus whilest he lived should seem to be confirmed by the mute but efficacious testimony of his death especially because carrying the face of a Martyrdome it presently turned the eyes of all men to it The Disputation of Secinus with him though written whilest the said Franciscus was alive could notwithstanding hardly come to light fifteen yeers after When this Disputation was finished in May anno 1579 and presented to the Transylvanian Churches Socinus could not long tarry there by reason of a Disease then raging which they commonly call the Colick Wherefore in the same yeer being now forty yeers old he travelled into Poland where he made suit publikely to be united to the Polonian Churches which acknowledge none but the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ to be the most High God but not concealing his dissent in certain doctrines here suffered a repulse very roughly and for a long time Nevertheless he being composed unto patience not so much by his natural inclination as by the resolution of his mind was no whit enraged with this disgrace nor ever gave any signes of a disaffected mind But rather