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LIBRARY

OF THE ANTI-TRINITARIANS.

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WOLFGANG FABRICIUS CAPITO, minister of the church at Strasbourg original: "Argentinensis"; Latin name for Strasbourg; born in the year 1481. Died in 1541. Concerning him, the Ministers and elders of Transylvania, in their book On the Divinity of the Mediator, the Man Jesus Christ original: "de Mediatoris hominis Jesu Christi divinitate", write the following: Fabricius Capito, a man distinguished for his piety and learning, after praising the excellent spiritual gifts of his companion Cellarius and the utility of his booklet [specifically, "On the Works of God"], lists several articles of religion about which he had privately discussed with Cellarius; namely, concerning the knowledge of the one God and of Christ, concerning the Holy Spirit, etc. His works are these:

A preliminary letter, or brief preface, written in Strasbourg original: "Argentinæ" on July 12, 1527, and prefixed to Master Martin Cellarius’s writing On the Works of God original: "de Operibus Dei", published by the aforementioned Ministers of Transylvania at Alba Julia A city in modern-day Romania, then a center of the Transylvanian Reformation in 1568, in quarto format.

Hebrew Institutions original: "Institutiones Hebraicæ"; a textbook on Hebrew grammar.

Commentaries on several prophets.

The author himself, in the preface just mentioned, has this to say regarding his own works: Indeed, this work of Cellarius on the works of God (however excellent) and Bucer’s Referring to Martin Bucer, the primary Reformer of Strasbourg Matthew, which soberly teaches many things beyond common judgment; likewise Hosea, Malachi, and our Jonah, in which we pursued what belongs to God and truth according to our modest ability, in a style not too different from Cellarius’s phraseology—I say, our works together with their authors, which is to say with us, as is the human condition, will all fall and [perish...] The text cuts off here due to the page break; the catchword "interi-" suggests the Latin "interibunt," meaning "will perish."