Socinus Faustus

Taken from the Life, written by Przipcovius, Polish gentleman. It is at the beginning of vol. I of the Bibliotheca fratrum polonorum [Library of the Polish Brethren]. 

A German historian has condensed the doctrine of the Socinians into 229 propositions. 

Daniel Hartnaccius, in the continuation of Johann Micraelius s Syntagma historiae ecclesiasticae [Treatise on Church History]. 

Usually those who complain of their sufferings suppress whatever makes their persecution look less painful. And therefore, in order to represent the state of the matter accurately, I shall give a further account of it which is contained in the passage which follows  

He [Maimbourg] gives an account of the oath made by the king in the year 1648. And then he says, 

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Were we to believe Ponciroli, he had thirteen children, of whom only two survived him, Celsus and Philippe. . . Ponciroli should have known that there was a third named Laelius Socinus, the hrst author of the Socinian Sect (B). Alexander Socinus, son of Marianus and father of Faustus Socinus, of whom I shall speak below, died very young but with a reputation as an erudite jurist. 

Vita Fausti Socini [Life of Faustus Socinus], p. 2. 

Hos inter quoque. . . [ Laelius, that remarkable master of speculation about the truth, had sown the seed of his ideas throughout his family. Despite distance, he retained influence over them with such persistence that... he involved in his sect the wives of some of his relatives. ] Vita Fausti Socini [Life of Faustus Socinus]. 

He [Faustus Socinus] condemns subjects taking up arms against their prince and those Protestant theologians who say that it is permissible to resist oppressors of liberty of conscience and with such ardour that perhaps never did partisan of the despotic and arbitrary power of sovereigns seem to speak more vehemently. He writes more as a monk who had sold his pen to arouse hatred for the Reformation than as a fugitive from Italy.. . 

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