Paruta Nicholas

Paruta Nicholas

 
Paruta Nicholas was a member of the society of Vicence. His family was much celebrated for its patriotic deeds in the republic of Lucca. Paul Paruta, about the year 1317, left that republic, and went to Venice, on account of the war between the Emperor and the Pope. He had three sons, Ambrose, John and Bartholomew. The last of these had seven sons, some of whom attained to high distinction in literature. There was a Nicholas Paruta, of patrician rank, in the republic of Venice, who was celebrated as a diplomatist: but he was a different person from the subject of the present article, of whose history little is known, beyond the simple facts, that, when he left Italy, he went first to Switzerland, and then to Poland, and finally settled in Moravia. All the writers, who mention his name, intimate that he dwelt some years in Moravia: but he seems to have led a retired life, and to have been less active in the dissemination of his religious opinions, than most of his Antitrinitarian contemporaries.

His exact sentiments are unknown: but he is thought to have held opinions, similar to those, for which Servet suffered at Geneva. Some "Theses concerning the Triune God" have been attributed to him, which others have claimed for Lelio Socin. They are supposed to have been the same with those, which were published at the end of Blandrata's "Brief Account of a Disputation held at Weissenburg, March 8th, 1568." (Vide Art. 38, No. 15.

In 1574, Paruta addressed a letter to Stanislaus Lutomirscius, Superintendent of the Churches of Little Poland, in which he treated of the rite of Baptism, and contended that those who were admitted into the Church should be baptized, for the sake of avoiding any evil consequences, which might arise from the omission of the ceremony, and without any reference to the question, whether re-baptism is necessary to salvation.

Rabbi Isaac Ben Abraham, in "Chissuk Emuna," (p. 119,) and several Christian writers, mention a treatise by Paruta, entitled, "Sober and orthodox Disputations concerning the One true God, Jehovah." This book, which is not mentioned by Sandius, was printed by John Cartzanski at Losk, in Lithuania, A.D. 1578.

(Vidend. Sandii B.A. pp. 25, 26. 29. Bock, Hist. Ant. T. I. pp. 588, 589; T. II. pp. 481, 482. Lubieniecii Hist. Ref. Pol. L. ii. C. i. p. 40. Wolfii Bibl. Hebr. T. I. p. 642.)

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