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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

especially Gomarus who are able to set it on fire unless they be lookt to Thus far he I shall say nothing of the generality of the Provincial or Dutch Divines how they were at the devotion of those that were chief Actors in the Contra-remonsttatical Tragedy We are come now to the Execution of the Synodical Sentence against the Remonstrants They being thus discharged other Pastors were put and substituted in their places how unwilling soever the Chuches were to receive them In some places these new Pastors were brought in by force of arms Now lest the ejected Remonstrants should teach privately therefore the States-General propose to them a certain ingagement to abstain in the future both directly and indirectly from all even private exercise of their Ministry To which when some could not in conscience subscribe they were condemned to perpetual banishment Alas who could expect such cruelly amongst Protestants that had condemned Papists for the like unchristian practices He that takes a view of our Episcopius and some others of the Remonstrants in their deportment when this dismal Cloud appeared will see cause to admire their faith and fortitude For so dear was the truth unto them and their zeal for it so great that a promise of the same wages or stipend which they formerly enjoyed could not induce them though some of them had but a very mean Estate to oblige and bind themselves unto silence which was commanded them Moreover these Generous spirits did with much boldness after the pronouncing of the of sentence of Banishment defend openly to the States-General their own and their associates Innocency appealing to God the avenger of them that are unjustly oppressed who would at the last day take cognisance of their Cause and judge without respect of person as well their Judges as them Hereupon these Stout Champions for truth were so hastily carryed away by the States Officers out of the limits of the Vnited Provinces that they after their detaining eight moneths at Dort whether they were called as they thought to a free Synod had not granted to them so much as one day in which to bid their families farewell and to set in order their domestick affairs notwithstanding they petitioned for it Episcopius therefore and the rest betook themselves to Brabant and inhabited at Antwerp during the peace between the King of Spain and the States This place these Exiles made choice of for their abode not to joyn with the enemies of their Country in a conspiracy against it nor to endeavour any thing detremental to the Reformed religion as some malevolent persons were bold enough to suggest slaunderously against them but because that place was near and from which they might more commodiously than from any place remote take care of their beloved Churches and Families How faithfully those imployed their talent received of God I shall here pass over in Silence being now to speak onely of Episcopius whose disputations with Peter Wadingus a Jesuit of Antwerp and his Antidote against the Canons of the Synod of Dort do abundanly testify his great care and diligence And also the Confession of faith which he with the other Remonstrant Pastors there did compose and publish that they might stop the mouths of them who calumniously gave forth that the Remonstrants cherisht in their breast monstrous and strange opinions which they durst not expose to publick view When the war was renewed between the King of Spain and the States our Episcopius seeing he could no longer with safety remain in Brabant departed thence into France and inhabited sometime at Rhoan sometime at Paris If thou inquire how in these parts his time was spent those Writings of his there compiled will give thee a worthy Account in case thou art able to peruse his Paraphrase and Observations on the 8 9 10 and 11 Chapters of St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans also his Bodecherus ineptiens his Examen Thesium Jacobi Capelli his answer to to the Defence of Jo. Cameron his Treatise of Christian Magistracy and that of free-will with other works of his laboured there He that with these considers his sollicitous Care for the Churches of his own Countrey which in this time of persecution being destitute of their ordinary Pastors he by diverse Writings and Epistles instructed comforted and incouraged to presevere in the Faith also the many conferences he had with learned men concerning Religion by which he endeavoured to bring them to a more accurate search and inquiry after the truth he I say that considers these things will be so far from thinking that he had many wast hours that he will greatly wonder where time was found for so many and great Atchievments Here Stephen Cureelleus got with him his first Acquaintance and professes that he heard him discourse of some hard points of religion and learned so many things of him that he always afterwards esteemed it a singular happpiness to him that he had acquaintance with so worthy a man Here also Episcopius contracted such a friendship with that most cordial man and eminent Mathematician Mr. Edmund Mercer which afterwards no distance of place or length of time could dissolve or weaken This was he that published this Book by which Camerons opinion of Grace and free-will is examined and intituled it Epistola viri docti and he that was so familiar a friend with Hugo Grotius that Grotius when he last left France committed to him the most precious Treasures he had his Elaborate Manuscripts that by him they might be communicated to others At length Episcopius being desirous to have a perfect Survay of France who as yet knew little more than the Northern part of it went from Paris to Lyons After that he visited Mar. seille Nismes Mompelier Tholouse Afterwards Burdeaux Rochella Poictiers Angiers Tours Orleance and other places And when he had finished his perambulation he returned to Paris and Rhoan where when he had remained a while and had heard that the fervour of the persecution raised in his own Countrey against the Remonstrants was some what alayed he purposed to return thither Leaving therefore France in the year of our Lord 1626 and in the eighth year of his banishment he came to Rotterdam that he might with other brethren lay out his abilities for the gathering of that very numerous Church which is there out of the dispersed Remonstrants And that afterwards he might take care for other Churches in the Vnited Provinces In the mean while by his Writings both in Latin and Dutch he strenuously defended the truth He published in Latin 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