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A13839	A synopsis or compendium of the fathers, or of the most famous and ancient doctors of the Church, as also of the schoolmen Wherein is clearely shewed how much is to be attributed to them, in what severall times they lived, with what caution they are to be read, and which were their perfections, which their errors. A treatise most necessary, and profitable to young divines, and delightfull to all such whose studies in humanity take from them the leisure, though not the desire of reading the fathers; whose curiosity this briefe surveigh of antiquity will in part satisfie. Written in Latin by that reverend and renowned divine, Daniel Tossanus, chiefe Professor of Divinity in the University of Heidelberge, and faithfully Englished by A.S. Gent.; Synopsis de patribus. English	Tossanus, Daniel, 1541-1602.; Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 24145; ESTC S118496	31,571	108

Emperors and when he was Proconsul in Liguria in the time of Valentinianus he was called to the Bishopricke of Millan with the full consent of the people It is reported that he baptized Saint Austine Hee was endued with great zeale as appeares in the Ecclesiasticall story and by his demeanour in his Bishopricke The writings of Saint Ambrose extant are divided into foure Tomes and are partly morall as the three bookes of the offices of a Christian an institution and exhortation to Virgins of Widowes of Repentance of the worlds volubility of the good wee receive by death Also they are partly Doctrinall Tom. 2. of the vocation of the Gentiles of faith to Gratianus of the holy Ghost to the same of Faith against the Arians of the Sacrament of the Dominicall Incarnation But it is to bee observed that the more learned have judged Saint Ambrose not to bee the Author of the Treatise of the calling of the Gentiles 1. Because he speaks no where so purely of the Predestination of God 2. By reason there is mention made of Pelagius who lived after Saint Ambrose 3. In that Saint Augustine who cites many things out of Saint Ambrose against Boniface the Pelagian mentions not this b●●ke which inveighes most of all against the Pelagians 4. The dissimilitude of phrase But it is certaine the Author of that booke to have beene a learned man and well exercised in the Scriptures which makes Erasmus not unaptly wish that many such were mixed with the workes of Saint Ambrose Amongst many excellent sayings contained in those books these golden words are extant making directly against the Papists lib. 1. cap. 5. where hee disputes the reason why to one man grace is given to another denyed Quid Calumniamur inquit iustitiam occultam qui gratias debemus misericordiae manifestae Laudemus et veneremur quod agitur quia tutum est nescire quod tegitur Hic nec praeterita nec futura merita censeri possunt vilesceret Redemptio Christi neo misericordiae Dei humanarum operum praerogativa succumberet si iustificatio quae fit per gratiam meritis praecedentibus deberetur ut non munus largientis sed merces esset operantis Why doe we calumniate saith hee the hidden Justice who owe thankes for the manifested Mercy Let us prayse and adore what is done because it is safe not to know what is hid Here neither past nor future merits are to bee reckoned The Redemption of Christ would be abased neither would the prerogative of humane workes give place to the mercy of God if Iustification which is by grace were due to precedent merits so that it should not be the gift of the distributer but the reward of the worker The Writings of Saint Ambrose are partly also Homileticall as Tom. 3. Orations Epistles Sermons partly againe Expository as Tom. 4. lib. Hexaemeron and a Treatise of the Patriarchs which belong to Genesis He wrote also copiously on the 119. Psalme and of the Sacraments of the Church also a glosse upon Saint Luke and Commentaries upon the Epistles of Saint Paul Where againe it is to be noted against the Papists that S. Ambrose upon the fourth Chapter to the Romans useth the particle onely when he averreth Gratiam Dei solam fidem poscere ad salutem The grace of God doth require faith onely to salvation Saint Augustine quotes his Commentaries upon Esay and the 48. Psalme but they are not extant By reason of his ignorance in the Greeke and Latine Tongues he erred often in his Expositions which is common to him together with Saint Austin and some others But although he be over-vehement in the commendations of Virginity yet is that memorable against the Papists which he writes in his first booke of Virgins Non debere imperari virginitatem nec necessitatem imponendam nec castam esse quae metu cogitur Virginity saith he ought not to be commanded neither of necessity to bee imposed nor is shee chaste who is compelled by feare In his bookes of the Sacraments there are some things ambiguous othersome superstitious as of Unction in Baptisme which notwithstanding was not done altogether without cause by those of riper yeares also of water to bee mixed with the Wine in the Cup at the Lords Table Yet is it remarkeable against the Papists that in his booke of Sacraments hee onely acknowledgeth two Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. And when lib. 6. he disputes how the bread is made the body of the Lord hee speaketh nothing at all of Transubstantiation but hee confesseth that there seemeth to be a similitude onely not true flesh and blood and that wee must beleeve the operatory word of Christ that is the efficacious that the Sacrament is taken outwardly Grace and Vertue inwardly Hee plainely distinguisheth bread from Grace Tu inquit qui accipis panem in illa alimento Divinae participas Substantiae quia idem Christus est particeps corporis et Divinitatis Thou saith hee who takest bread in that nourishment participatest of the Divine Substance because the same Christ is partaker of a body and Divinity which is as much to say wee communicate the whole Christ and communicating his flesh have communion also with God Neither did the Greeke Churches want excellent Doctors for in those times namely under Valentinian Basilius Magnus of Caesaria Cappadocia and Gregory Bishop of Nazianzena were famous of whom as yet some worthy monuments are extant Wee linke them together because they were companions in Studies and most intimate friends Yet Gregory lived longest even to the yeare 400. and wrote a Monody or Funerall Oration which containes the life of S. Basil There are extant of this S. Gregory eloquent Orations and Epistles as also Greeke Poems which are in the hands of all men There lived also in those times Gregorius Nissenus brother of Basilius who wrote eight bookes of Man There is a learned Epistle extant written to him by S. Basil of the difference betweene the Essence and Subsistence Moreover S. Basil as hee himselfe somewhere writeth was diligently instructed in the Christian Religion from a child He was indued with so much Eloquence that Erasmus doubts not to call him the Christian Demosthenes Amongst others that saying which is extant in his Sermon of Humility is eminent and is often cited by our Divines against the Papists Haec est perfecta et integra gloriatio quando non propter iustitiam suam aliquis ●ffertur sed agnoscit sibi deesse veram iustitiam fide autem sola in Christum iustificari This is saith he perfect and entire glory when a man is not puffed up with his owne Iustice but acknowledgeth himselfe to want true Iustice and that Iustification is onely by faith in Iesus Christ Also in his Epistle of the sacred Scripture to Eustathius the Physician Non consuetudinem sed sacras Scripturas nermam debere esse The sacred Scriptures and not Custome ought to