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CHAPTER THE
SIXTEENTH: NOTICES OF ANCIENT AUTHORITIES
THE following
extraordinary work--which is so rare and so valuable (see below) in its
original edition, that we have reason to believe the Authors of the 'Rosicrucians'
can congratulate themselves in being the possessors, in all probability,
of the only copy in existence -- was suppressed, wherever found, on its
appearance. The author, in reality, was never known. It is considered
probable that this book had a paramount effect in bringing about, and in
compassing the success of, the Reformation.
Disputatio Nova contra Mulieres; qua Probatur eas Homines non esse. Anno
MDXCV. Theses de Mulieribus quod Homines non sint. Cum in Samaria, ut in
campo omnis licentiæ, liberum sit credere et do cere, Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei Salvatorem et Redeptorem animarum nostrarum, una cum Spiritu
Sancto non esse Deum, licebit opinor etiam mihi credere, quod multo
minus est, mulieres scilicet non esse Homines--et quod rode
sequitur--Christum ergo pro its non esse passum, nec eas salvari. Si
enim non solum in hoc regno tolerantur, sed etiam a magnatibus præmiis
afficiuntur, qui blasphemant Creatorem, cur ego exilium aut supplicium
timere debeo, qui simpliciter convicior creaturam? præsertim cum eo modo
ex Sacris literis probare possim, mulierem non esse hominem, quo illi
probant Christum non esse Deum.
Admonitio Theologicæ Facultatis in Academia Witebergensi, ad
scholasticam juventutem, de libello famoso
et blasphemo recens sparso, cujus titulus est: Disputatio Nova contra
Mulieres, qua ostenditur, cas hommes non esse. Witenbergæ. Excudebat
Vidua Matthæi Welaci, Anno MDXCV (1595).
Defensio Sexus Muliebris, Opposita futilissimæ Disputationi recens editæ,
qua suppresso Authores et Typographi nomine blaspheme contendïtur.
Mulieres Hommes non Esse. Simon Gediccus S.S. Theol. Doct., etc. Lipsiæ,
Apud Henricum Samuelem Scipionem, Anno MDCCVIII (1708).
Auctor hujus Dissert. rarissima credit: valeat Acidalius. Vide, inter
alios, Freytagii Analecta--de libris rarioribus, p. 5.
(Very ancient
handwriting in the copy itself) 'Acidalius died, aged 28 years only,
1595.' Hallam's Lit. Hist. p. 14. This is only surmise. The authorship
of the book is unknown. It was rigorously suppressed.
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