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1272 NOTES TO VOLUME 11.
house, and boarded him. Soon after he became pastor in Ensheim,
and afterwards principal of the gymnasium at Lindau, and finally
he was appointed professor of theology in the University of Stras
burg, in the place of Dorschæus. The dignities to which he was
successively advanced were those of doctor of theology, canon, senior
professor of the university, president of the ecclesiastical convention
(
Conventus Ecclesiastici præses), and dean of the chapter of Thomas
(Capituli Thomani præpositus). He now began to make a most
thorough study of the Bible, furnished it with comments and learned
observations from beginning to end, translated it anew into Latin ;
and in addition published many useful writings in German and
Latin."
Schmidt’s biographer gives here the titles of upwards of sixty
different works from his pen. Among these we select the following:
De necessitate bonorum operum (the necessity of good works) ;
Lutherische Frömmigkeit oder Tractat von guten Werken, und
dass aus der lutherischen Lehre ein frommes Leben folge (Lutheran
piety, or a tract on good works, wherein it is shown that from the
Lutheran doctrine a pious life results) ; Rechte Kinderzucht (The
proper training of children) ; De imagine Dei in homine ante lapsum
ex Gen. i, 27 (The image of God in man before the fall, from
Genesis i, 27); Collatio Scripturæ Sacræ et Pontificis Romani
A Comparison of the Sacred Scripture with the Pope of Rome) ;
Dissertationes theologico-philosophica (Dissertations of a theologico
philosophical import); De Deo et ejus attributis (God and His
attributes); De Theologia naturali (Natural Theology) ; De peccato
et libero arbitrio, ex Joh. viii, 36 (On sin and man’s freedom of
choice, according to John viii, 36) ; De phrasi Scripturæ, qua Deus
dicitur indurare, excæcare, seducere" (Concerning the mode of
expression in Scripture, according to which God is said to become
hardened, to strike with blindness, to seduce) ; De angelis malis ex
Joh. viii, 44 (The wicked angels, according to John viii, 44); De
pœnitentia impii ex Ezech. xxxiii, 11 (The repentance of the wicked) ;
De chiliasmo apocalyptico (The millenium in the Revelation); De
conjugio mystico (The mystical marriage) ; De desponsatione fidelium
cum Christo (The marriage of the faithful to Christ) ; De statu
beatorum in vita æterna (The state of the blessed in the eternal life).
"By these and other similar works Sebastian Schmidt became
so celebrated, that he received many calls to other universities. The
King of Sweden invited him by an autograph letter to go to the
University at Dorpat. Yet he remained in Strasburg to the end of
his life. He died January 9, 1696, in the seventy-ninth year of his
age, having filled his office for fifty-three years."
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