I Morin, Pierre, a French scholar, was born at Par- is in Dcccnibcr. \W.\\. He was a man of great attain- I ments in languages, belles-lettres, and ecclesiastic an- 1 ti(piity. From France passing into Italy, he stopped ! at Venice, where Paulus ^lanucius secured him for his ])rinting estal)lishmont. He lectured as professor of (Jreek and cosmography at Vicenza and Ferrara. By recommendatinn of .San Carlo Borromeo he went to Rome in 1575, and there popes Gregory XHl and Sixtus I V employed him on the editions of the Septuagint (1.587 ), the Vulgate (1.590. fiil.), the Bible translated from rlic Septuagint into Latin (Rome, l.J91,3 vols. foL), the Decretals till (Jri'gory VH (Rome, 1591, 3 vols. fob), and on the collection of the general councils (Rome. 1608, 4 vols.). He died before the completion of this his last work, some lime in lOt'H. He bears the reputation of a pious, modest, and learned man. Besides the works enumerated, we possess of him, Traite du bon Usage des Sciences, published with some others of his I writings by Quetif in 1675; a Latin translation from
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St. Basil's discourses on the forty martjTS, and of a dozen selected sermons of St. Chrysostom. — Hoefer, A'o«/c. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Morin, Simon, a celebrated French religious vis- ionary and fanatic of the 17th century, was born at Riche- mont, near Aumale. He was a very illiterate person, yet notwithstanding the want of all educational facilities he entered the field of authorship, and gave the world his extreme views on religion and philosophy. He med- dled much in spiritual matters, and fell into great er- rors. His first book, which he caused to be privately printed in 16-17, under the title of Pensees de Morin de- diecs au roy, is a medley of conceit and ignorance, and contains the most remarkable errors, which were aft- erwards condemned in the Quietists; but Morin car- ries them to a greater length than any one else had done, for he aflirms that '• the most enormous sins do not remove a sinner from the state of grace, but ser%-e, on the contrary, to humble the pride of man." He says " that in aU sects and nations God has a number of the elect, true members of the Church ; that there would soon be a general reformation, all nations being just about to be converted to the true faith ; and that this great reformation was to be effected by the second com- ing of Jesus Christ, and Morin incorporated with him." About the middle of the 17th century Morin was civ- illy prosecuted and for a time incarcerated, but he was finally set at liberty as a visionary, and suffered to con- tinue so till 1661, when Des Marets de St. Sorlin,who, though a fanatic and visionary himself, with intent to injure, entered, under pretence of accepting all the views of IVIorin, into his whole scheme, only to have him taken up. Marets, in bis treachery and dissimula- tion, went so far as to acknowledge Morin as " the Son of Man risen again," and thereby so pleased Morin that he conferred upon him as a particular grace the office of being his harbinger, calling him "a real John the Baptist revived." Then Des Marets impeached him and became his accuser, and florin, after due trial, was condemned to be burned alive at Paris, Jlarch 14, 16G3. He was burned, together with his book entitled Pensees de Morin, as also all his own papers and those of the trial. His ashes were thrown into the air, as a punish- ment for his having assumed the title of the " Son of God." His accomplices were obliged to assist at his execution, and then to serve in the galleys for life, after having been whipped and branded by the hangman. Morin in his last hours gave out that he would rise again the third day, which made many of the mob gather together at the place where he was burned. It is said that when De Lamoignon asked him whether it was written in any part of the Scriptures that the great prophet or new Messiah should pass through fire, he cited this text by way of answer, " Igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas" (Thou hast tried me in the fire, and no wickedness has been found in me). See Niceron, Memoires, vol. xxvii ; Bayle, Bisf. Diet. s. V, ; General Biog. Diet. s. v. ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Ge- nerale, s.y. (J.H.W.)
Morison, John, D.D., a Scottish Presbyterian di- vine of some distinction, was born in Aberdeenshire in 1791. But little is known of his personal history. He was for many years pastor of the Independent Chapel at Brompton, and in 1816 removed to London as pastor of Tower Chapel. In 1824 he was appointed editor of the Evangelical Magazine, and held this position for thirty-two years. He died in 1859. He wrote an Ex- position of the Psalms (1819, 8vo), of which Home speaks favorably, though it is far from being an inde- pendent and thorough work. His other works, which are mainly in the department of Practical Religion, are too numerous to be mentioned here. But noteworthy among his different publications are an Exposition of Part of the Epistle to the Colossians (1829, 8vo) :— Lectures on the Reciprocal Obligations of Life (1822, 12mo), of a practical and useful character -.—Protestant