Budzinius Stanislaus

Budzinius Stanislas, (Polon. Budzynski,)  was amanuensis to John a Lasco and Francis Lismaninus, and afterwards assistant to Jerome Philipovius, Vice-palatine of Cracow. He contended, with Simon Budnaeus and Francis Davidis, that prayer to Christ was not sanctioned by Scripture. For his opinion on this subject he was excommunicated ; but in the year 1588, after an exclusion of twelve years from the communion of his Church, he was reconciled to the Brethren.

It was the fate of all Budzinius's writings to remain in manuscript, although a copious use has been made by Sandius, Lubieniecius, Wengerscius and others, of his "Ecclesiastical History of Poland and the neighbouring Countries, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Year 1593." This work was written in the Polish language. Erasmus Otvinovius testifies, that a part of it perished in the hands of a certain unbeliever, whom however he does not name. Of the principal facts recorded in it Budzinius himself was an eye-witness.

Besides the above History, Budzinius wrote

1. A Letter to the Synod of Racow, in 1574 ; in which he exhorted the Brethren to concord, and defended the use of arms, and the magisterial office. Polon.

2. A Letter to Gregory Pauli, in which he also defended the opinion, that it is lawful for a Christian man to act as a Magistrate, and to bear arms: andg

3. A Treatise on the Millennium, composed about the year 1589 or 1590, of which Faust Socin wrote a refutation. Polon.

Bock thinks, too, that Budzinius was the author of a work, preserved in the Zaluscian Library at Warsaw, and containing the lives of sixty-two Archbishops of Gnezno. The author is called Stanislaus Buzenski; and the argument of the work is given in the "Bibliotheca Warsaviensis," P. iii. and iv.

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