Peyn A Augustin

Peyn A Augustin, Jun., studied in the University of Wittenberg, about the years 1619 and 1620 ; but afterwards, having abandoned the orthodox doctrines concerning the Trinity, and the Person of Christ, at Amsterdam, he went over to the Unitarians, who were traversing Holland, and who made him instrumental in propagating their opinions, though he was unwilling to have it appear, that he had deserted the Evangelical Church. The Divines of Wittenberg, and the Pastors of the Consistory of Amsterdam, made strenuous efforts to convince him of his errors, but without success. In the mean time, he requested that he might be received as one "weak in the faith," adducing, as his rule of belief, the declarations of the Apostles, interpreted by the principles of reason. Much is said concerning him in the letters addressed to him, and to the Clergy and Evangelical Consistory of Amsterdam, by the Theological Faculty of the University of Wittenberg, in the years 1621 and 1622. From these letters, it is evident, that considerable pains were taken by the Divines of Wittenberg and Holland, to bring him back into what they regarded as the path of revealed truth. Whether he published anything on the subject of the Trinity is not known: but we learn, from one of the letters in the above-mentioned correspondence, dated September 15^th, 1621, that he was labouring at that time to defend, by conversation, though not by his pen, the opinions which he had newly embraced.

(Vidend. Bock, Hist. Ant. T. I. pp 629, 630.)

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