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Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Distinguished Antitrinitarians
Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Distinguished Antitrinitarians Author:Robert Wallace General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Original Publisher: E.T. Whitfield Subjects: Unitarians Unitarianism Religion / Christianity / Denominations Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing te... more »xt. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The ancestors of Joachim Rupnovius had distinguished themselves during the reign of Boleslav I., surnamed the Great, who ascended the thrqne of Poland, A. D. 999; and the illustrious families of Lutomirski, and Stadnicki, sprang from the same stock. But Rupnovius gloried more in his Christian principles, than in the splendour of his family, or the deeds of his ancestors; preferring, as the author of the Life of Andrew Wissowatius says, the sacred office of the Christian Ministry to all the honours of the present world. He is described by his contemporaries as a man of universal information; and left behind him manuscripts on various subjects, but published nothing. The Synodical Acts of the Unitarians in Poland and Transylvania, from 1628 to 1641, were written by him; and Sandius mentions a remarkable dream, which he had in 1630. He is said to have dreamt of all the calamities, which afterwards befel the Unitarians of Racow, not only as regarded their being deprived of the free exercise of their religion, but the destruction of their Church, College, and Printing-Office; and of this dream he committed to writing an account in the Polish language. Vidend. Sandii B. A. pp. 122,123. Bock, Hist. Ant. T. I. pp. 1. 736, 737. Anon. Epist. de Vit. And. Wissowatii, p. 238. 207. John Coq, (Lot. Coquus or Coquius,) was a Frenchman, of the city of Rouen, whom Smalcius describes, in his Diary, as " Homo levior, quam religiosior." He visited the Polish Socinians in 1612...« less