OS 1 
uihcent 
N. lat. 44 
own of Dalmatia, ea of the 
above ifland, ‘the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of 
Os , or ASFAN, a pubs of Arabia, in ae province 
of ep ce ; +35 miles N.N. ecc 
OSIA R, Ayprew, i in PBaeaily y, Was a native of 
Bavaria, ond born i in 1498. He ftudied at Wittemburg and 
did he ftop here, but moft zealoufly fupported the reformer 
an his attacks on the power and jurifdiGion of the Roman 
pontiff, and in his efforts to eftablifh a faith and difcipline 
more confona bin the diag a = precepts of the gofpel 
than aE of Rom From this 
fhare in the sontreretlics sad cont tence, which were held on 
the fubjeét of religion. He took an ative part at the ccn- 
ference of Marpurg in 1529, between Luther and the Swifs 
divines, on which occafion, however, he fhewed that he 
thought and atted for himfelf; he fpoke, after Luther, 
upon the fubjeGt of Juttification, and eee ued doétrines 
very diffimilar from his. He was appointed minifter and pro- 
feffor at Konigfberg, where he became diftinguifhed for his 
peculiar notions on the fubje& of Juftification, which he 
i d with our fouls. 
e deterred 
y, and juftified hi felt with ine ci 
nefs, and powerful talents, and his fentiments were fupporte 
by hg et confiderable weight. He drew a a yay 
of faith, was printed by order of the du n- 
denburg, a highly difapproved by the Lutheran divines 
affembled at Au ugiburg. 
tain his do&trines, and to crufh his o was ate 
soaninis with an ee diforder, ahieh terminated his life 
e wrote ‘¢ monia Evangelica ;”’ ‘* Epiftola 
a Zoiaglion de Evchariftia ; 37 «6 Diflertationes duz, de 
Lege et Evangelio et Juftificatione ;’ 
Dei, quid fit.” He had 
minifter, and wrote an inftitution of the Chriftian religion, 
and other works, and who died at Tubingen in 1604; 
and there was another perfon named Luke Ofiander, who 
was chancellor of Tubingen, who died in 1628, and w 
left behind him a treatife ‘On the Omniprefence of Chrift 
as Man 
OsitanpDER, ANDREW, grandfon of the Andrew above- 
ce was born at Blauberen, in the duchy of Wirtem- 
burg, in 1562, and became a Lutheran minifter as 
diftinguifhed for his early genius, and attachment to letters, 
pafling through the different courfes of academical ftudy, 
with the In 
church of Aurach ; 
in 15 was made paftor of the 
ahieeh of Gigligen. Afterwards he was appointed preacher 
e he had a confiderable 
OSI 
and counfellor to prince Lewis of Wittemburg, and in 
1592 he received the degree of doctor of divinity in the new 
ducal univerfity of Tubingen. In the year 1598, prince 
Frederic nominated him abbot of oe and fuperin- 
tendant of the churches in that diftri@. In 1605 he became 
paftor of the church of Tubingen, and was initalled chan- 
cellor of the univerfity in that place. He died in 1617. He 
was the editor of ‘* Biblia Sacra, Latin’ vulgata, cum Emen- 
rough ap editio ons 
He s likewife satis: of feveral theological 
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5.8 
Oss: Joux Apam, a Lutheran divine and pro- 
feflor, was a native of Vayingen, in the duc chy of Wirtem- 
urg, and was a provott of i univerfity of Tubingen, where 
he died in the year 1697. He is known nas the author of 
‘¢ Commentarius in Pentateuchum,’’ in five: volumes, folio 3 ; 
alfo of Commentaries on Jofhua, the book of Judges, Ruth, 
and the two books of Samuel; of “.Difputationes Aca- 
demice in precipua et maxime controverfa Novi Teftamenti 
Loca,”’ and other learned works. 
OSIANDRIANS, in Ecclefigftical Hiflory, a fe& among 
the Lutherans - called from Andrew Ofiander, a celebrated 
German divin 
Their difinguithing doGtrine was, that a man is juftified 
formally, not by the faith and apprehenfion of the juflice of 
Jefus Chrift, or the imputation of our Saviour’s jultice, ac- 
cording to the ae of Luther and Calvin; but by the 
effential Limba = God 
» Sem ere fuch among the Ofiandrians, 
as held oe pe of ihe and Calvin with regard to 
this life ; and that of Ofiander, with regard to the other 5, 
afferting, that man is juftified here ets imputation ; and here- 
after by the effential ju‘tice of 
O » in Geography, a eee of Poland, in the pala- 
tinate of Sandomirz ; eight miles . W. of Lucko. 
O R, in Botany. See SAL 
OsiER, in n Planting, a sta oe foxe of willow which is 
often planted in n oift oggy fituations on the borders of 
rivers, for the ufe of the fhoots in bafket-making and other 
ur 
: The fo following are the names and ufes of the {pecies slip 
are employed in the vicinity of Brentford, as ftated in 
aries Report : 
. The falix vital, or yellow willow, which is culti- 
ae ‘chiefly by tk urferymen, an ough 
yielding nature, is aed fee binding packages of trees and 
fhrubs in the drawing feafon, and for tying up the branches 
of wall efpalier trees. 
he falix amygdalina, or almond- leaved willow, 
which is a fe of which there are at varieties, one . 
which is called by the planters «the {mall re willow, 
‘binding rod ;’ it being chiefly ufed for binding the produce 
of garden-grounds. Another kind of this willow is at 
eige known ad the loofe appellation of the ‘new kind ;’ 
tis of large wth, and produces a great crop ; is ufed 
both by the ey eines tn ad the corn fieve-makers, and is 
fit for any work which requires a firm as well as a tough 
rod. 
“3, The falix viminalis, © or ofver — Of this ipecies 
“© Thefe 
