REPLY1850
Socinian Boast
By R. PRICE. (Cheam)
The following lines "De Ruinâ Babylonis" occur in the works of a Socinian writer, one Samuelis Przipcovius, who died in 1670, and evidently have reference to those quoted by Dr. Pusey:— "Quid per Luterum, Calvinum, perque Socinum, Funditus eversam jam Babylona putas? Perstat adhuc *Babylon*, et toto regnat in orbe Sub vario primum nomine robur habens. Ostentat *muros*, jactat sublimia *tecta* De *fundamento* quis metus esse potest? Ni Deus hanc igitur molem disjecerit ipse Humano nunquam Marte vel arte ruet." Przipcovius was a Polish knight, and cotempory the author of *Hudibras*. In a tract e…
Topics: Socinianism, Religious Satire, Spiritual Quixotism