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It is alfo applied to the head of the teazle plant, which does 

 not become ripe and run until the third year, fuch heads 

 being called vores. 



VOREDA, in Ancient Geography, a Roman ftation, 

 marked in the fecond Iter of Antonine between Lugvallium 

 (Carhfle) and Brovonacis ( Kirbythure), lituated at Old 

 Penrith. This, without doubt, was the place where this 

 ftation was fituated, at the N.W. end of Plumpton wall, 

 about 4 miles to the N. of the prefent town of Penrith, on 

 a noble military way, which is there in the higheft pre- 

 fervation . 



VOREPPE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Ifere ; 8 miles N.N.W. of Grenoble* 



VORGANIUM, in Ancient Geography, the capital of 

 the Ofifmii, who occupied the weftern part of Brittany, 

 through its whole extent. 



VORINGEN, or Stadt Voringen, in Geography, a town 

 of Germany, in the principality of Hohen Zollern, on the 

 Lauchart, formerly the chief place of a county, now ex- 

 tinft; lo miles S.E. of Hohen Zollern. N. kt. 48° 11'. 

 E. long. 9' 15'. 



VORMS, called Vormfijaari, and in modern charts 

 Ormfon, an ifland of the Baltic, 14 verRs in length, in 

 breadth rather more than 9 vertts, and of a nearly quadran- 

 gular fliape. 



VOROCHITA, in Ancient Geography, an idand of the 

 Perfian gulf, upon the coaft of Carmania. Ptolemy. 



VORONEZ, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, and ca- 

 pital of a government, called " Voronezflcoi," fituated at the 

 conflux of a fmall river, called by the fame name, with the 

 Don ; and furrounded with wooden walls. The citadel is 

 on the oppofite fide of the Voronez river, furnifhed with 

 150 pieces of cannon, and a large garrifon. Here are docks 

 for building veflels, large and fmall, good warehoufes for 

 naval ftores, &c. It is the fee of a bifhop, and a place of 

 confiderable trade. The number of inhabitants is about 

 12,000; 256 miles S. of Mofcow. N. lat. 51° 36'. E. 

 long. 39°. 



Voronez, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Don at 

 Voronez. 



VORONEZSKOI, a government of Ruffia, bounded 

 on the north-eaft by Tambovlkoe, on the fouth and fouth- 

 eaft by the country of the Coffacks, on the north-weft by 

 Orlovflioe, on the weft by Kurfljoe and Charkovlltoe ; 

 about 260 miies in length, and 104 in its mean breadth. 

 N. lat. 48° 50' to 53° 16'. E. long. 37° to 42°. 



VORRACH, a town of Bavaria, in the territory of 

 Nuremberg ; 4 miles N. of Nuremberg. 



VORRAGE, in Agriculture, a term applied to the earth 

 or mould which is coUefted and provided for " milling" or 

 mixing with lime, in the making of compofts. 



VORSE, in Geography, a river of France, which runs 

 into the Oife, near Noyon. 



VORSKLA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 

 Dnieper, 20 miles E. of Kreumengug. 



VORST, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg ; 6 miles 

 E. of Schweinfnrt. 



VORSTIUS, Conrad, (Von Dem Vorst,) in Bio- 

 graphy, an eminent Arminian divine, was born at Cologne 

 in 1569, and iininied his claftical inftruftion at Duffeldorp. 

 Having been entered at the college of St. Lawrence in 

 Cologne in 1587, he left it without taking a degree, be- 

 caufe his confcience would not allow his fwearing adherence 

 to the decrees of the council of Trent. At this time the 

 circumftances of his family rendered it expedient for him to 

 turn his attention to trade, for which he qualified himfelf by 

 5t 



learning arithmetic, and the French and Italian languages. 

 However, he afterwards, viz. in 1589, refumed his ftudics 

 at Herborn ; and in 1593 he accompanied fome young per- 

 fons of rank as their tutor to Heidelberg. Here he was 

 created a doftor of divinity, and he then vifited the aca- 

 demies of Switzerland and Geneva. At Geneva he read 

 ledlures on theology, and was offered a profelTorfhip ; but 

 declining this, he accepted a fimilar office at Steinfurt in 

 I J96, where he gained fuch reputation as to induce other 

 Proteftant univerfities to invite him to the theological chair. 

 His orthodoxy being fufpedted, he repaired to Heidelberg 

 for a certificate of his foundnefs in the faith, protefting 

 againft the opinions of Socinus, and apologifing for fome 

 expreffions which he had ufed in their favour. In 1610 he 

 removed from Steinfurt, to fucceed Arminius as theological 

 profeffor at Leyden. Here the Gomarifts, or rigorous 

 Calvinifts, appealing to his work, intitled " Tradlatus Theo- 

 logicus de Deo, five de Natura et Attributis Dei," charged 

 him with many herefies ; and not only engaged feveral fo- 

 reign univerfities in their party, but induced our royal pedant, 

 James I., to aid them with his concurrence. The king, 

 acute in difcovering theological errors, and fond of exercifing 

 his authority in fuppreffing them, fent to his refident at the 

 Hague a lift of various herefies, which he had by an hour's 

 reading found in Vorftius's boek ; and notified to the ftates 

 how much he detefted thefe errors, and the perfons who 

 tolerated them. In order to maintain confiftency of con- 

 duft, his majefty ordered feveral copies of Vorftius's book 

 to be committed to the flames at London, Oxford, and 

 Cambridge. He alio wrote to the ftates, vehemently urging 

 them to difmifs the profeffor, whofe blafphemies, if he con- 

 tinued to maintain them, would juftify his being burnt ; and 

 at the fame time menacing, that unlefs they were ardent in 

 extirpating " thefe germs of atheifm, he would publicly fe- 

 parate from fuch falfe and heretical churches ; and, as de- 

 fender of the faith, exhort all other reformed churches to 

 take common council for extinguifliing and fending back to 

 hell thefe abominable herefies ; and would forbid all his own 

 fubjefts to haunt fo infecled a fpot as the univerfity of Ley- 

 den." James alfo wielded his pen againft Vorftius, who 

 refifted the attack by a ftiort and refpeAful reply. The 

 States were not much moved by the threats of the authori- 

 tative and incenfed monarch ; for, though they fufpended 

 the profeffor till he had an opportunity of exculpating him- 

 felf, they appointed a conference at the Hague, in April, 

 161 1, between fix minifters of both of the oppofite parties, 

 in prefence of the curators of the univerfity of Leyden, be- 

 fore whom Vorftius pleaded his own caule, and they de- 

 termined in his favour. The triumph of Vorftius would 

 have been complete, if he had not been implicated in a fuf- 

 picion of herefy, occafioned by the publication, on the part 

 of fome of his difciples, of a fmall trad, intitled " De 

 Officio Chriftiani Hominis,"which contained Anti-Trinitarian 

 doftrines. Vorftius, though he figned a confeffion of faith 

 conformable to the Trinitarian fyftem, found it expedient to 

 rehnquifli his profefforfliip, and to remove from Leyden till 

 the ftorm fubfided. Accordingly he withdrew to Tergou 

 in 161 2, and refided there for feven years, without a fliade 

 on his charafter. In 161 9 a fynod was held at Dordrecht, 

 in which the Anti-Arminian party was predominant. This 

 fynod condemned Vorftius, unheard, as unworthy of the pro- 

 fefforfliip ; and in confeqnence of this judgment, the States 

 deprived him of it, and for ever banifhed him from their 

 territories. He lived two years longer in fecrecy, but not 

 without apprehenfion for the fafety of his Ufe. At length 

 the duke of Holftein coUefted the difperfed relics of the 



Arminians, 



