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Jeremias Felbinger
From SOCINIANISM IN POLAND, 1932 by Stanislas Kot
Even in their exile [1660 from Poland of
the Socinians], discussions about war and the magistrate did not quiet
down. They disputed about them the more warmly as they sought for the
causes of the hostility of public opinion towards the brethren, which had
led to their banishment from a most tolerant State. A trace of this
discussion has come down to us in a letter to the brethren sent in 1666
from Kreuzburg by Jeremias Felbinger, a Silesian
from Brieg, formerly a minister assisting
Ruar at Straszyn near Danzig. Among the chief errors of Socinus, which
had a fatal effect on the fortunes of the brethren, he reckoned the
prohibition of holding office and engaging in
war.19 At the same time, on Dutch soil, one publication after
another bore witness to the vitality of this question in sectarian
circles.
19Ad
Christianos . . . epistola, in qua Socini et ejus discipulorum errores
graviores . . . succincte refutantur (Kreuzburg
: Feb. 21-22 1666), printed in 1672, and again at Rotterdam in 1681. In
an earlier work, entitled Politicae Christianae compendium
(Breslau : 1648 ; a Dutch translation by Antonius Van Koppend, Amsterdam :
1660), Felbinger had already taken a stand
opposed to the doctrine of Socinus, and in the spirit of Przypkowski he wrote, "If any
believe that Christians are entirely apart from the government of the
State, I do not condemn nor hate them for their views ; indeed, it is
well for States if they have as many citizens as possible who hold aloof
from public offices ; but I warn them as a friend not to backbite
secretly those who differ from them in their understanding of the Gospel
ls and not to bring them into hatred by cunning tricks." (Etc.)
SOCINIANISM in Poland :
The Social and Political Ideas
of the Polish Antitrinitarians in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries.
( Ideologia polityczna i spoleczna Braci Polskich zwanych Arjanami, Warszawa : 1932. )
Translated from the Polish by Earl Morse Wilbur.
Beacon Hill Boston : Starr King Press 1957, p. 205.
From A HISTORY OF UNITARIANISM, SOCINIANISM, etc., 1945 by Earl Morse Wilbur
Another witness of changing thought among
the Socinians in Holland was Jeremias
Felbinger, born in Silesia as a Lutheran, who after teachings for years in
Germany adopted the Socinian faith, became an ardent opponent of
Trinitarian views, and suffered much for his boldness in attacking them. He at
length came to Amsterdam, where he published several religious works, and
translated into German a Socinianizing version of the new Testament by
Courcelles, professor at the Remonstrant seminary. But he had become an
eclectic in theology, inclined to Aranism, and therefore was denied a
pension (etc).8
8 cf. van Slee,
Socinianisme, pp. 216-219 ; Bock, [Antitrinitar.], i, 340-355.
A HISTORY OF UNITARIANISM,
Socinianism and its Antecedents.
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press 1945, p. 573.
From SOCINIANISM IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, 1951 by John McLachlan
... a work of Jeremias
Felbinger entitled Doctrina syllogistica published in
1646.4
4 Sand, Bibliotheca
anti-trinitariorum, p. 157 ; a rare work not in the British Museum or
the Bodleian.
page 183
* * *
... Evidently Bidle's fame had spread as far afield as
Danzig, for on 24 August 1654 an eclectic Socinian scholar, Jeremias Felbinger (1616-post 1687), wrote thence,
expressing his delight . . . 'Parvenit ad aures meas', he writes, 'fama de tua in rebus
fidei Christianae sinceritate et
constantia,'4 He is delighted that whilst he and others are fighting 'in
oris
Sarmaticis pro Dei et Christi gloria', God is stirring up faithful men
in far distant parts. Let Bidle use all the means at his disposal to
disseminate his opinions not only in England but also in America : 'Perge
sic, Clarissime Vir, non Angliae solum et finitimis provinciis, sed
etiam novo orbi (quem Angli frequentes adeunt),
pandere. . . . Felbinger inquires about the state of the 'truly
Christian religion in England' ('statum Religionis vere
Christianae') . . and closes with the intimation that Bidle may learn the
most recent news of the Danzig Socinian congregation from Andreas
Sanderland, the bearer of the letter.
4 The letter is printed at
the close of the Latin edition of Bidle's Twofold Catechism, Duae
catecheses quarum prior simpliciter vocari potest catechesis scripturalis
posterior brevis catechesis scripturalis pro parvullis (1664), pp.
209-14.
pages 198-9.
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Nathaniel
Stuckey . . a pupil of Bidle in grammar and
logic . . translated his master's Twofold Catechism into
Latin, (etc). The longer Catechism is dated 1664, the shorter has its
own title-page and is dated 1665. To these were added a sixteen-page
essay . . and a Latin letter from Jeremiah
Felbinger to Bidle, (etc).
page 292
Oxford, 1951.
Please see also http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/
Bibliographic
FELBINGER
Das Neue Testament, treulich aus dem Grichischen ins Deutsche übersetzet : eine neue ausfertigung, in welcher fleissiger als imals zuvor in irgend einer dolmetschung di mancherlei lesungen, so wol aus geschribenen alß gedrukten büchern vorgestellet, und di übereintreffenden örter der schrifft angemerket sind / [Jeremias Felbinger]
Amsterdam, 1660. - 14, 714 S.
[ per http://www.oocities.org/de/bibelarchiv_vegelahn/bibel_f.html ]
Author Felbinger, Jeremias, 1616-ca. 1690
Title Christliches Hand-Büchlein, [microform] : darin gehandelt wird I. Von des Menschen Erschaffung, seinem Abfall, und Wieder-Aufrichtung. II. Von Aufnehmung der unmündigen Kinder, in die sichtbare Gemeine des Herrn III. Von der heil. Taufe. IV. Von der Kirchenzucht V. Von dem heil. Fusswaschen. VI. Von dem heil. Abendmahl. VII. Von dem Verbot des Eidschwörens. ... / Von Jeremias Felbinger. ; Rechten und Ordnungen des Hauses Gottes, in Frag und Antwort. Grundforschende Fragen, welche denen neuen Täufern im Witgensteinischen zu beantworten vorgelegt wurden, nebst beygefügten Antworten auf dieselben, von Alexander Mack
Edition Dritte Auflage
Publisher Baltimore: : Gedruckt by Samuel Saur,, 1799
Description [4], 129, [1], 99, [1], 41, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Series Early American imprints.First series ;no. 35475
Note Signatures: pi² A-L⁶ ²B-M⁶ ²N⁴ (²N4 verso blank)
"Kurze und einfältige Vorstellung der äussern, aber doch heiligen Rechten u. Ordnungen des Hauses Gottes, wie es der wahre Haus-Vater Jesus Christus befohlen, und in seinem Testament schriftlich hinterlassen. ... von Alexander Mack ... Dritte Auflage. ..."--99, [1] p., with separate title page
"Eberhard Ludwig Grubers grundforschende Fragen, welche denen neuen Täufern in Witgensteinischen, insonderheit zu beantworten auf dieselben, vormals schriftlich heraus gegeben von einem aufrichtigen Mitglied der Gemeine zu Witgenstein ... Dritte Auflage. ..."--41, [1] p., with separate title page. The "aufrichtiger Mitglied" was Alexander Mack, Sr. (1679-1735)
Language German
( per University of California http://melvyl.cdlib.org )
Author Langennecker, Christian
Title Eine Vertheidigung der Warheit [microform] : den Geboten Gottes und der Heiligen Schrift wie die rechte Taufe von Christus an seine Juenger und Nachfolger befohlen wurde / alles in der kuerze verfasset ; bebst einen kurzen Auszug aus des Jeremias Felbingers Schriften
Publisher [Ephrata, Pa. : s.n.], 1806
Description 79 p
Series Early American imprints.Second series ;no. 10692
Note "Und ist eine Gegenschrift, gegen das Buechlein ... welches handelt von der Taufe, und so weiter."
Language German [apparently reprinted in 1968 (WPT)]
( per University of California http://melvyl.cdlib.org )
Felbinger, Jeremias. Christian handbook. / Rights and ordinances, by A. Mack, Sr. Dayton, Ohio: J. W. Miller, 1975. Pp. 105.
[ per http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/bibliographies/1985.php ]
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