with Baldus, Erasmus with the men of the Sorbonne, Ramus and Campanella with the peripatetics, Theophrastus with Galenus, Hus, Luther and others with the Pope and the Jesuits, Brentius[1] with Beza, Bodinus[2] with Wier,[3] Sleidanus[4] with Surius,[5] Schmidlin[6] with the Calvinists, Gomarus with Arminius, the Rosicrucians with philosophasters,[7] and countless others. When the mediators ordered them to bring forward their accusations and complaints in writing, and compressed into as few words as possible, they laid down such piles of books that six thousand years would not have been sufficient to examine them; and they asked that this summary of their views should for the time be accepted, but that each one should have full liberty, later, when the necessity showed itself, to more fully explain and expound his views. And they began to look at these books, and as soon as a man began to look at one of them he became, as it were,
- ↑ John Brentius or Brenz, was one of the German Church Reformers of the sixteenth century.
- ↑ John Bodinus, a French writer of the sixteenth century.
- ↑ Josef Wier, born 1515, was a celebrated physician and writer, noted for his controversies with Bodin.
- ↑ John Sleidanus, whose real name was Philipson, was an historian of the sixteenth century.
- ↑ Lawrence Surius, born at Lubeck in 1522, of Protestant parents, became a Roman Catholic, and was the author of theological works that were celebrated at the time Komensky wrote.
- ↑ Jacob Schmidlin, born 1528 at Weiblingen, was a noteworthy Protestant theologian.
- ↑ I.e., false philosophers.
