Daniel Zwicker

Daniel Zwicker , the chief of the sect of the conciliators or tolerant, had been born in 1612 with Dantzig, of a honourable family.

Having completed its humanities, it made a course of medicine and accepted the rank of doctor. Less occupied of the practice of its art than of the examination of the religious opinions which held divided all the spirits then, he embraced initially the Socinianisme; but having come to remain in Holland, it approached the Arminien S or showing again. Allured by the ideas of peace and conciliation that he noticed in their doctrines, and touched to see Christians divided between them for dogmas of which he did not appreciate all the importance, Zwicker thought that it was not impossible to join together them, and consequently worked to carry out this project. To this end, it put at the day one entitled book Irenicon Irenicorum, seu Réconcilia toris christianorum normalized plywood: sanatorium omnium hominum ratio, Scriptura crowned and traditiones , Amsterdam, 1658, in-8. This work, which had, according to the ideas of the author, to operate a bringing together between all the communions Christian women, raised against him the principal Protestant theologists, inter alia Jean Arnos Gomenius and Hoornbeck. It defended its system and explained it in a second work Irenicomastix victus and constriclus, seu duplex Hefutaiio Coménii, HoornbeMi, and aliorum àdversariorum, per ipsum Irenici Irenicorum auctorem , Amsterdam, 1661, in-8.

The adversaries of Zwicker, which laughs were looked at as not overcome, refuted its new arguments, and he retorted to them in the third volume, rarer than the two precedents, heading Irenicqmastix iterato victus and constrictus, imo obmutescens . This volume, though printed in 1662, only in 1667 appeared; it is the date which one reads on the frontispiece. These three works of Zwicker form the complete body of the doctrines of the conciliators or tolerant. One finds of it description detailed in the Bibliographie of Debure, n°747, theology. They were formerly sought, but as from the 19th century they are completely forsaken.

The experiment had had to make lose in Zwicker the hope to bring closer the men. It was during the remainder of its life foreigner to all the communions, and died in Amsterdam the November 10th 1678.

If you ask, says Osiander, which animal is Zwicker and which is its religion, it will answer you itself that he is neither Lutheran, neither calvinist, neither Christian Greek, neither roman catholic, neither Showing again, nor Memnonite, etc; but that, though it does not have anything commun run with any sect, it does not wish less with heat which they all reform according to the divine truth of which it declares the interpreter. As in the reign of nature one looks at as monster all that moves away from the established order, in the same way in the reign of the grace one must look at Zwicker like a singular, irregular and astonishing monster. (see Freytag, Analecia litterar. , p. 1115).

Zwicker is author of a very great number of works he published some twenty-nine in Latin, in German and in Flemish, and it left twenty and one of them manuscripts. One will find the titles of them, with a short note on the author, in the Biblioth. antitrinilariorum of Christian Sand, p. 151-156. Those which are the most of interest are:

a Latin translation of the work of Minos Celse, under the title of Henoticum christianorum , Amsterdam, 1662, in-8. It had given the Flemish summary of it.
Compelleintram, seu Of conlradiclione ecctesiis ostensa, easque will reformatura , 1666, in-4;
Epistolœ AD Martin. Ruarum of fratribus morqvis; deque cum iis concordia and quid illi desiderent , in the first centurie Lettres of Ruar, Amsterdam, 1677, in-8.

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