Hieronim Moskorzowski
From SOCINIANISM IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, 1951 by John McLachlan The library of Lazarus Seaman (d. 1675), Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1644-60), a learned Presbyterian, . . contained over five thousand volumes and was the first to be sold by auction in England. It was remarkable for its collection of Socinian and anti-Socinian books. Of the former, Seaman possessed sixteen works by F. Socinus, two by Thomas Pisecius, and one each by Jerome and Peter Moscorovius, J. Völkel and S. Przipcovius, most of them from the Rakow press. There was also a copy of the Racovian Catechism of 1609 and two later catechisms of 1642 and 1651 (Confessio fidei christianae ecclesiarum poloniarum). Seaman also possessed the 1631 (Oxford) edition of Acontius's Strategemata Satanae, Wotton's De reconciliatione peccatoris (1624), Lushington's Commentary upon the Epistle to the Hebrews (1646), Bidle's Twelve Arguments touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit (1647), and his Twofold Catechism (1654). (Etc.) |
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