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Search - In The Footsteps Of Arminius - A Delightsome Pilgrimage

In The Footsteps Of Arminius - A Delightsome Pilgrimage
Author: William Fairfield Warren

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARMINIUS, A DELIGHTSOME PILGRIMAGE - I888 - P R E F A C E - TWO classes of persons, it is hoped, may T fin, , mure an, profit is the peruaai of this little book. The first consists of those who, having read one or more of the biographies of Arminius, have come to feel a keen desire to learn whatever more they may respecting t... more »he places and the personal influences in the midst of which so great a life was nmolded. By such readers each touch of local color in the following pages, each item of antiquarian information, will be accounted precious. The second class is made up of persons who , have as yet read neither the works nor a biography of this eminent thinker, and who, in consequence of inherited oiv otherwise acquired miscooceptions of his place in the history of Christian teaching, feel no decided inclination to enter upon a personal investigation of his life and times. In the case of these it is hoped that the fugitive and partial glimpses here presented may, if in no other way, at least by their provoking inadequacy, prove an effectual incentive tlo the perusal of those larger works in which awakened curiosity may find a fuller satisfactioo. As to myself-and in introducing so small and so personal a book I inust ce tainlyb e permitted to speak with the familiarity and directness of the first person singlllal-it was early in my theological st tdies that I became interested in the nlan wllose yollthf 111 footsteps are here retraced. For a time I had some thought of preparing a new and complete edition of his works, and of writing a more modern and readable portraiture of his life and character than any we now possess. During my first residence in Europe, in the years 1856-58, I accordingly visited Oudewater and the other places associated with his life, examining both in public and private archives the few unpublished manuscripts from his pen of which I could find a trace. I conferred freely with the leading scholars of the Remonstrant or Dutch Arminian body, receiving from them coi rtesies which I can never forget. One of them, the Rev. Dr. H. C. Rogge, . lad x short time before prepared-in Latin, 3s more current in the scholarly world than the Dutch-a new life of Arminius, the manuscript of which he kindly allowed me to bring to America. I also brought certain popular sketches of the pastoral life of Arminius published by the same, then young, historian, which a few months later I translated from the original Dutch, and published in a Ciucinnati magazine. The duties of pastorates quite too heavy for my iuexpe iencedp owers forbade further progress at that period. In the year 1861 I returned to Europe, where I remained until 1866. There exacting duties of a new variety fully occupied my time, and when, at the expiration of the five years, I was recalled it was only to be charged with responsibilities heavier and more multifarious than any previously borne. Thus busy years continually. went by, each bringing such pressing present tasks that literary work of the histolaical and critical orcier becan e in creasingly impracticable. As a natural consequence, the early thought of preparing a new edition of the writings of Arminins never ripened into a definite purpose, still less into un fait acconqdi. In w certain reminiscent mood in the summer of 1880 I penned three journalistic articles on remembered visits to shrines associated with the memory of the great Hollandic theologian, publishing them with notes in TIM Christian Advocate of New York. These articles and notes, corrected and enlarged, constitute the substance of the little volume here presented...

ISBN-13: 9781408624982
ISBN-10: 1408624982
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 56
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