had Dedicated unto him De varietate Rerum did contain Cardan made answer and the King wittily replied severall times as M r Fox in his 2 d Book of Acts and Monum p. 65. relates He restored holy Scriptures to the mother Tongue he abolished Masses such as were in banishment for the danger of the truth were again received to their Country During the time of the six years of this King there was much tranquility to the whole Church of England Egesippus a Writer of the Ecclesiasticall History from Christs Passion to his time as witnesseth Hierom and Eusebius l. 4. c. 8. 22. He lived in the time next after the Apostles and is the ancientest Writer of Ecclesiasticall History next to Luke Eginhardus Anno Dom. 80. Elias Levita a most Learned Grammarian of the Jews He or his son as some say gave his name to Christ before his death bringing with him thirty other Jews to be baptized He excelled all the Rabbins in the explication and curious handling of all the Masoreth in his Book entitled Masoreth hammasoreth from which book Buxtorf received much light in his Tiberias sive Commentarius Masorethicus Doctissimus Iudaeus Elias Levita Germanus cui gratiam non mediocrem debent Christiani propter sincerum in linguae Sanctae cognitione ipsos adjuvandi studium in Lexico suâ— Rabbinico quod Thisbitem inscripsit Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 3. Sir Thomas Elyot He hath written a book called The Governour his Castle of health For his Learning in all kinde of knowledge he brought much honour to all the nobility of England He told me he had a work in hand which he nameth De rebus memorabilibus Angliae which I trust we shall see in Print shortly and for the accomplishment of that Book he had read and perused over many old Monuments of England Aschams Toxophilus p. 28. Queen Elizabeth a Learned Queen and our English Deborah She Translated out of Greek into Latine Isocrates his Oration to Nicocles his first Book de regno his second Oration in one Book She translated also the Meditations of the Queen of Navarr out of French into English Baleus Fuit ingenio dâ—cili scientiarum Cupido Latine sciebat commode loquebatur Germanice quod vernacula lingua ab illa derivaretur bene Gallice saepius sed absona voce Italice per eleganter Musica poetica summopere delectabatur Thuan. Hist. tom 5. part 2. l. 129. p. 1051 1052 1053. Vide plura ibid. Ubbo Emmius a very Learned man Professor of History and Greek at Groning Suffridus Petri vir benè doctus sed qui in Frisiae rebus atque omni literaturae laude longè cedat Emmio Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 2. c. 40. Vide vit Profess Groningae He is much commended by Ianus Dousa Hollandiae Annal. in two Books for a most faithfull Historian Constant. l' Empereur the famous Professor of Hebrew at Leyden in Holland Vir de literis Hebraeis praeclarè merons Vossius de Philol. cap. 11. Vide Voss. in Maimon de Idol c. 6. His Works Talmudis Babylonici Codex Middoth Notae in Benjaminem De legibus Ebraeorum forensibus and Clavis Talmudica shew his great Abilities Quintus Ennius He made these verses Nemo me lacrymis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit cur vâ—lito vivus per ora virum Virgill is reported to have said when he read Ennius Se aurum in sterquilinio colligere that he gathered gold in a dunghill Habent Enniani versus aliquid quod prodesse delectare possit orationem etiam quod minimè quis existimaret ex colere Turneb Advers l. 27. c. 11. Ephraem or Ephraim Syrus a Father that lived in S t Basils time Anno Aerae Christi 378. Calvis Chron. 361. Helv. Chron. Ephraem Antiochenus 527. Epictetus the Philosopher He entitled his Book Euchiridion because ad manum semper habere oportet Sermo in eo omnino efficax est atque energiae plenus in quo mira sit ad permovendum vis Stylus autem qualem res postularet concisus est dilucidus quique omnem respuat ornatum Polit. In Epict. Enchirid. Epiphanius 390. Bishop of Salamina in Cyprus who was famous all over the world in the doctrine of the Catholick faith saith Austen He was famous for Learning and for his skill in five Tongues called by Ierom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 famous for his holiness and miracles a most sharp enemy to Heretiques against whom also he published a famous Work Sixt. Senens Biblioth Sanct. l. 4. Vide Augustini praefat ad lib. de Hares Apud Graecos inter magnos habitus à multis in Catholicae fidei sanitate laudatus Aug. de Haeres p. 230. Epiphaenius the Deacon 787. Epistles They are Amicorum Collequia absentium saith Tully 2. Phil. The reading of Epistles as also of Lives is both pleasant and profitable No other kinde of conveyance is better for knowledge or love Baronius in his Annals commends Historiam Epistolarem Ierom is most eloquent in his Epistles especially in that to Heliodorus Isidore Pelusiota hath excellently handled the greatest part of the mysteries of our Faith and the controversies agitated both against the Jews and Hereticks and yet he entitleth his Book Epistles Saint Basil the Great Gregory Nazianzene Synesius Bishop of a City in Cyrene Cyril of Alexandria S t Cyprian S t Austin Gregory the Pope S t Bernard and other Fathers of the Eastern and Western Churches do not speak more powerfully any where then in their Epistles What treasure of moral knowledge are in Seneca's Letters to only one Lucilius How much of the Story of the time is in Cicero's Letters especially those ad Atticum Ciceronis Epistolis ad Latinae Orationis elegantiam informamur ex his primus eloquentiae quasi succus qui qualis initio fuerit per magni interest bibitur Manut. Praefat. in Epist. Cicer. Fam. Politian was a most polite Authour See the first Epistle of his first Book of Epist. Manutius his Epistles Wowerus and Coelius Secundus Curios are good Erasmus and Lipsius his Epistles are elegant and usefull Bembus and Sadoletus pure Latinists Longolius is termed by Ludovicus Vives Homo Ciceronianissimus there is elegant Latine though little matter in Baudius his Epistles Scaliger saith of him Solus Baudius Latinè loquitur For the Fathers Ieroms excell for Latine Austens for variety of Learning Cyprians for the state of those times in the first three hundred years For modern Writers those of Calvin Beza Luther Melancthon Oecolampadius Peter Martyr and Zanchius are very profitable also Casaubones and Scaligers For English our Hall is styled by some the English Seneca and M r Bain is excellent for pious admonitions and instructions There are Epistolae clarorum virorum Epistolae obscurâ—rum virorum a facetious Book thought to â—e done by Erasmus Hebrew Epistles by Buxtorf and Greek by Budaeus Epistolae Laconicae Epistolae
the Translator subject and obnoxious unto errour Hist. of the Counc of Trent l. 2. p. 155. Cajetane is commended for an incomparable Divine by Sixtus Senensis Bibl. 4. Tit. Thomas and for the most Learned man of his time by Pererus the Jesuite Comment in illa verba Gen. Creavit Deus c. Vide Leand. Albert. Descript. tot Ital. Gerh. l. 2. Cathol Confess Art 1. c. 1. P. Victor Cajetanus Palma He hath put out Paradigmata de quatuor Linguis Orientalibus Praecipuis Ioannes Caius a Learned Doctor of Physick of Cambridge He hath written a Book de Libris propriis and besides Commentaries or Annotations upon divers Physick Books and other Books Translated or Corrected by him He mentions these De Medendi Mothode Two books De Ephemera Britannica Three books De Antiquitate Cantabrig Academiae Two books De Historia Cantabrig Academiae Two books De Rariorum animalium atque stirpium Historia One book De Symphonia vocum Britannicarum One book De Thermis Britannicis One book De Antiquis Britanniae urbibus One book De Libris propriis One book De Pronunciatione Graeca Latinae Linguae cum scriptione nova One book De Annalibus Collegii One book De Annalibus Collegii Gonevilli Caii One book Compendium Erasm. lib. de vera Theologia One book Iulius Casar a great Conquerer and as great a Scholar He hath published his own Acts both truly and purely His Commentaries shew his great Eloquence Gest a not asse opus est ingens gessisse notanda Majus opus princeps Caesar utrunquefacit Manutius in his Preface on Caesars Commentaries much commends Caesar and his Commentaries Huic ipsi Caesari atque iterum Terentio ob proprietatem ac nativam Romani sermonis elegantiam proximum post Tullium damus locum Voss. Institut Orat. l. 4. c. 1. Sect. 9. In procinctu ac pene in acie quoque ipsa rerum suarum Commentarios it a diligenter conficiebat ut nihil a quo quam tam putetur accurate prescriptum quod non illorum purissima elegantia superetur Polit. Epist. l. 10. Epist. 1. Domitius Calderinus Veronensis He was a good Grammarian He hath published three books of Observations a Comment on Martiall and Notes on Ovids Epistles Vir fuit acris ingenii multaeque in literis industriae Latinae linguae diligentissimus Graecae non incuriosus non prosam condere absurdus non carmen Nimium sui tamen quod opera ipsius testantur admirator ac pro sententiae cui semel adhaeserat etiam contra verum contumax refractarins Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. c. 9. Vide plura ibid. Epist. l. 3. Epist. 19. Ambr. Calepinus There is his Dictionarium Latino Graecum cum addit Pauli Manutii Dictionarium 10 Linguarum Georgius Calixtus a most learned man Professor Theologus Helmstadiensis Theologorum Germaniae nostrae bodie princeps sine pari Georgius Calixtus amicus olim Collega noster non è multis Meibomii Maecenas c. 24. He hath written an Harmony styled Concordia quatuor Evangelicorum Scriptorum and Tractatus de arte nova Iohn Calvin One of the soundest Divines and of deepest judgement in matters of Religion both of Doctrine and of Discipline that God gave to his Church this 1000 years M r Travers Steven Pasquier a French Writer and a Papist doth much extoll his Piety Wit and Learning in his Recherches de la France l. 8. ch 55. Estoit-il homme bien escrivant tant en Latin que Francois anquel nostre langue Francoise est grande ment redeuable pour l'avoir enrichie d' vne infinite des beaux traicts et à la mieme volanté que c'eust estè au meilleur subiet An demeurant homme merueilleusement versé et nourry aux liures de la saincte escriture et tel que s'il cast tournè son esprit à la bonne voye il pouuoit estre mis an parangon de plus signalez Docteurs de l' Eglise He was a good Writer both in Latine and French and one to whom our French Language is exceedingly obliged for having enriched it with many good Treatises and I would they had been upon a better subject He was marvellously versed and skilled in the books of the holy Scripture and such a one that if he had turned his spirit the good way he might have been set for a Paragon of the most famous Doctors of the Church This and more he hath there of him I willingly acknowledge him to have been an excellent instrument in the Church of God and a man of a deep judgement specially in the Exposition of holy Scripture which I think none condemn more then those who have read him least yet withall I freely confess he had his errours D r Hackw Apol. l. 5. Suos naevos haebuit quanquam in doctrina sua nihil penitus mutavit quod rarum est in eo presertim qui tam multa scripserit Mori Calvinus Vide plura ibid. His Works have been so profitable to the Church of God that they have been in France Germany Italy Spain Transylvania Polonia England Scotland His Institutions and Commentaries upon almost all the Scripture are generally well esteemed One writes thus of his Institutions Praeter Apostolicas post Christi tempora chartas Huic peperere libro secula nulla parem His French Works are mentioned by Antoine Du Verdier in his Bibliotheque None hath more solidly refuted the Libertines then he Sethus Calvisius Cantor a Learned Chronologer Giraldus Cambrensis There is Rerum Hibernicarum appendix eum Ric. Stanhurst William Camden our British Pausanias He that is studious of the British History let him in the first place reade Camdens Britain where besides a most accurate description of the whole Island he may learn the name of Britany the manners of the Britains and the History of the Romans in Britain and many other things most worthy to be known gathered summarily out of the incorrupt Monuments of ancient Antiquity His Annals also of the English and Irish affairs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth are excellent He was Schoolmaster of Westminster School and his Monument is in Westminster Abbie He lost a Scholars place in Oxford in Queen Maries daies because of his Religion Pope Urbane the 8 th who had the Pictures of divers Learned men in his Gallery had only the Pictures of two English men Sir Thomas Moore and Master Camden The first Learned man which Peireskius met with in England was William Camden ille de sua Britannia bene meritus Gassend De Vita Peireskii l. 2. Ioach. Camerarius He was the great honour of Germany He was exquisitely skilled in the Greek Tongue a godly and wise man Adhane autem in omnibus bonis disciplinis eruditionem accesserat pietas singularis prudentia longo rerum usu confirmata Bez. Icon. Vir. Illust. Ioachimus plus habere videtur curae quam naturae Eras. Epist. l.
1503. a very Learned Protestant Vir doctus literarum humaniorum apud Basilienses Professor Zanch. Epist. He hath put out Miscellanies a Book De amplitudine regni Dei De utilitate legendae Historiae and other Works Vide Boissard Icones His sonne also Caelius Aug. Curio hath published Hieroglyphicks and other Works Quintus Curtius writes pure Latine He flourished under the Emperour Vespasian Petrus Curtius He hath published a Work De Civitate Castellana Faliscorum Nic. de Cusa or Cusanus a Germane by Nation Doctor of Divinity and afterward Cardinall He is commended by Trithemius for the most skilfull in the Scriptures of all the Divines of his time D. Cypriauus Anno Dom. 250. 244 saith Helvicus 240 Illyricus He was Bishop of Carthage and Crowned with Martyrdom He wrote a famous Treatise of Mortality to comfort men against death in the time of a great plague His Book de Unitate Ecclesiae is most cited and commended Eruditissimus Cyprianus tam vitae sanctitate quam facundia clarus Pier. Valer. Herog l. 22. c. 4. His Deacon Pontianus wrote the story of his Life and Sufferings Cyrillus Alexandrinus Cyrill Bishop of Alexandria 430. He is styled Fortis Athleta by Photius that valiant Champion of the Church nay he is styled Beatus Cyrillus twice for condemning the Nestorian Heresie Lives of the Primitive Fath. He wrote ten Books against Iulian the Apostate which being joyned to his other works are full of Learning Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus Cyrill Bishop of Ierusalem Anno Dom. 370. His Cateshism is yet extant Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople There is his Confessio Fidei CHAP. XV. D JOhn Daillè a Learned French Divine My Lord Falkland and M r Chillingworth made very much use of him in all their Writings against the Romanists The Lord Falkland was wont to say it was worth a voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him he cals him our Protestant Perron He hath written severall Books in French and Latine One Of the Right use of the Fathers translated into English and highly esteemed Against Milletier A most accurate Commentary De Imaginibus An Apology for the French Churches A most accurate Demonstration of Faith out of the Scriptures De Satisfactionibus Poenis De Pseudepigraphis De Iejuniis Quadragesima an elegant Piece Iohn Damascene 740. He was born in Damascus See Act. 9. 2. One that laid the Foundation of School Divinity amongst the Greeks as Peter Lombard afterward did among the Latines He was the first amongst the Greeks which hath handled Divinity in Philosophicall terms and who wrote for the adoration of Images therefore they put him among their Saints Nicolaus Damascenus Vastissimae eruditionis vir nec sine laude nominandus Vossius de Rat. Stud. Pet. Damianus There are his Epistolae cum aliis opusculis De Institut Ecclesiast and other Works Damasus the first Pope a Spaniard He had an elegant wit in composing verses as Ierom and Suidas say He appointed the Psalms to be sung alternis vicibus in the Church and in the end of them these words were added Gloria patri filio spiritui sancto Matth. Westm. alii He first gave authority to Ieroms Writings when before the Writings of the Septuagint were only esteemed Platina Lambertus Danaeus a French Divine of Orleance Petrus Danesius He was most skilfull in the Greek tongue and Professor of it in the reign of Francis the first King of France Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 64 He was at the Councell of Trent and a Doctor of Divinity of Paris there making an Oration against the abuse of Benefices at Rome another mocking said to his fellows Gallus cantat the Frenchman sings or the Cock crows to whom Petrus Danesius wittily replied Utinam Gallicinio Petrus ad resipiscentiam fletum excitetur Olim Francisci 11. praeceptor ob id Vaurensi Episcopatu donatus homo doctissimus quanquam nullis editis scriptis meruit ut inter doctrina literis politioribus praestantes hujus aevi viros numeretur Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63. Vide Scaev. Samarth Elog. Gall. Dante 's Aligherius Poeta sui saeculi nulli secundus Italus natione patria Florentinus Boissard Icon. His Life is written by Paprius Massonus Dante 's the first Italian Poet of note being a great and wealthy man in Florence He lived in the time of Ludovicus the Emperour about the year of our Lord 1300. and took part with Marsilius Patavinus against three sorts of men which he said were enemies to the truth that is the Pope Secondly the order of Religious men Thirdly the Doctors of Decrees and Decretals His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Dante 's quidam Aligherius quintus ut aiebat à Dante Florentino poeta Polit Miscel. Câ—nt 1. c. 19. Vide Pier. Valer. De Literatorum infelicitate l. 1. Claudius Dausqueius He hath put out these Works S. Pauli Apostoli sanctitudo in utero extra in solo incaelo Conciliabuli Dordraceni ascia Antiqui novique Lat. Orthographica Iohn Davenant Bishop of Salisbury a Learned and Judicious Divine as his Exposition of the Colossians his Praelectiones de duobus in Theologia Controversis capitibus de Iudice Controversiorum de Iustitia habltuali actuali his Determinations and other Works both in Latine and English shew Philippus Decius The most famous Lawyer of Italy in his time He died Anno salutis Christianae M. D. XXXV His Works are mentioned by Boissard and many of them in the Oxford Catalogue Pontificem Iulium secundum defendit Gerh. Confess Cath. l. 1. General part 2. c. 3. Iohn Dee a Learned Englishman There are severall Works of his published De praestantioribus naturae viribus Monas Hieroglyphica Propaedeumata Aphoristica Mathematicall Preface to Euclides Elements Parallaticae Commentationis praxeosque nucleus quidam Eruditus is tractatulus sanè appriméque ingeniosus nec parùm ad Paralaxium differentias enucleandas atque ab invicem discernendas conducens Tych. Brah. De nova Stella c. 9. His generall and rare Memorials Martinus Antonius Delrio is much commended by Philippus Alegambe in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Iesu as a great Linguist and generall Scholar but Ioseph Scaliger in his Elench Trihaeres Serar as much slights him He hath published divers Works many of which are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Demosthenes his force in pleading is commended Qui populum flectit de mulcet mitigat urget Nominat hunc tellus Attica vim populi Paschasii Icones His Book de Corona is most esteemed He wrote out Thucidides eight times that he might better imitate him in his Orations See in Plutarks Lives a witty reply of his to the thief Chalcus Thomas Dempster a Learned Scotchman Multisciae lectionis eruditionis vir Dilher Disput. Acad. Eruditus Scotus beneque de literis meritus Voss. de vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 10. He
His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his life His Alvearium Romanum Romish Beehive it is translated into English and Table of the differences of Religion are very well liked Gruterus wrote these verses of him being dead Orbis delities amorque Marnix Quo digno poteris tegi sepulcro Defunctis aliis satis sepulâ—ro est Pars terrae brevis orbis ipse dignum Vix totus fuerit tibi sepulcrum Orbis delities amorque Marnix Clâ—m Marot a French Poet. Poëte de Princes Prince de Poëtes de son aage Antoin Verd. Biblioth In the Vulgar tongue he surmounted far all Poets that either were before his daies or that lived also in his time He turned 50 of Davids Psalms into French Meeter which are read with admiration of his excellent wit He set them forth at Genevah for he might not safely longer abide in France for suspition of Lutheranism See Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 7. c. 5. Marguerite Queen of Navarre Sister to Francis the first There are her Memoires In the Epistle to the Reader are these words Que Rome vante tant qu' il luy plaira les Commentaires de son premier Empereur La France a maintenant les memoires d' une grande Roine qui ne leur cedent en rien Her Poeticall Works are joyned together Marsilius de Sancta Sophia He was the sonne of Nicolas Sancta Sophia He wrote many things most worthy to be known of healing sicknesses His Opera varia are in Oxford Catalogue M. Valâ—rius Martialis a witty Poet but too obscene Scriverius hath many Elogies of him in his Comment Matthias Martinius Professor of Divinity and Rector of Brema Some much prize Theologos Bremenses Salmurienses His Lexicon Philologicum is very well esteemed of Petrus Martinius He hath put out an Hebrew and Chaldee Grammer which is englished by Iohn Udall with Observations upon it Peter Martyr a Learned Italian He was born at Florence the most flourishing City not onely of Hetruria but of all Italy Of whom I cannot speak without great reverence B. Iewels Def. of his Apol. At Padua he first obtained a full knowledge of the Greek tongue and of Philosophy afterward at Bonâ—nia he diligently studied the Hebrew tongue and Divinity He was at first a Monk and was counted the chief of his order but when he more seriously punished their loose lives he got thereby much envy He hath written Common-places a large Book in defence of Bishop Cranmer against Gardiner of the Eucharist and excellently expounded divers books of Scripture Genesis Iudges Kings Samuell the Epistle to the Romans the first Epistle to the Corinthians and hath published other Treatises He was Canon of christ-Christ-Church in Oxford as is said in his life and as he himself affirms in his Epistles Andreas Masius a great Linguist He hath written Learnedly on Ioshua and assisted Arias Montanus in the edition of the King of Spains Bible and first of all illustrated the Syriack Idiome with Grammaticall Precepts and a Lexicon There was a great familiarity between him and Laevinus Torrentius and Augerius Busbequius and at Rome he was intimate with Antonius Augustinus and other Learned men He saith in his Preface to his Grammer of the Syriack tongue that Moses Mardenus was his Master Ipsum Romae privatim interdum audiebam doctorom Masorites They observed not only how many words but also how many syllables all the Books of Scripture contained Christianus Massaeus He hath written Chronicorum l. 20. Papyrius Massonius Such a Writer of the French Chronicle as Camden of the English Papyrii Massoni Annalium libri quatuor Quibus res gestae Francorâ—â— explicantur Antonius Matthaeus a Learned Lawyer His father was Conradus Matthaeus Professor at the University of Marpurg He had three brothers famous for Learning and four sonnes Professors in four Universities Vide vitas Profes Groningae There his Works are mentioned Petrus Matthaeus a famous Historian Pierre Matthieu in French He hath written opus Historicum politicum and divers historicall things in French Petrus Andreas Matthiolus a great Herbalist He hath written Learned Commentaries on Dioscorides his six Books de medicâ— materia Maximilian the Emperour was learned himself he imitating the example of Iulius Caesar did write in Latine his own Acts and Feats done and that very exactly He was also a singular Patron and advancer of Learned Students as may well appear by the erecting and setting up of the University of Wittenberg Barthol Mayerus a very Learned man as his Philologia Sacra shews CHAP. XII JOseph Mede a Learned Divine of our own There is his Clavis Apocalyptica and many English Works De Medicis The House de Medicis in Florence hath been and still is a great favourer of Learning and Learned men See Les Vies Des Hommes Illustres du nom de Medicis by Le Brillant They give three Pills still for their Arms. Cosmi de Medicis was a lover and preferrer of Learned men for he brought unto Florence Argyropylus a Grecian born and in that time of singular Learning that the youth of Florence might be by him instructed in the Greek tongue and other good Learning He intertained in his house Marsilius Ficinus a second Father of the Philosophy of Plato and entirely loved him Machiav Hist. of Florence l. 7. His Sepulchre in the Church of Laurence in Florence is of Marble with this inscription Decreto Publico Pater Patriae Vide Leand. Alb Descript. Ital. in Thuscia Laurentius de Medicis his grandchilde was a lover of Learning Papyrius Massonus hath written his life well He greatly esteemed men that excelled in any Art He marvellously delighted in Musick Architecture and Poetry as many of his own verses and Commentaries yet extant do testifie He erected an University in Pisa whither he brought the most excellent men of all Italy Laurentius Medicis maxima hac tempestate studiorum patronus qui missis per universum terrarum orbem nunciis in omni disciplinarum genere libros summa ope conquirit Polit. Epist. l. 2. Epist. 6. Vide etiam l. 3. Epist. 6. l. 4. Ep. 2. l. 8 Epist. 1. l. 11. Epist. 25. Pope Leo the tenth was his Great Grandchild Petrus Medices Non minus jam sua quam familiae gloria scilicet in quo patris ingenium patrui virtus patrui magni humanitas avi probitas proavi prudentia pietas abavi reviviscit omnium vero majorum suorum liberalitas omniumque animus Petrus Medices Laurentii filius vir Graecis Latinis litteris optimè quod omnes fâ—teâ—mini peritus Nam hoc scripta ejus indicant quaedam ex Plutarcho de Amore conjugali quae vidimus traducta ab eo locupletissimè testantur Pier. Valer. De Litteratorum infelicitate l. 2. Vide plura ibid. Io. de Medina There were three famous Medina's Iohn Michael
Rome was corrupt and needed Reformation and some that were his contemporaries and also after him did the like One saith the Papists Liturgies are full of Idolatry and blasphemies their Legends full of lies their Ceremonies of superstition Cardinall Mattheo Langî Archbishop of Salzburg told every one that the reformation of the Mass was honest the liberty of meats convenient and the demand just to be disburthened of so many Commandments of men but that a poor Monk should reform all was not to be endured And Cornelius Scoperus the Emperours Secretary said that if the Protestant Preachers had money they would easily buy of the Italians what Religion pleased them best but without gold it was impossible to make theirs shine in the world Hist. of the Counc of Trent l. 1. pag. 55. The Pope in the beginning of the Councell of Trent being desired to make a Reformation to please the Lutherans No saith he it is in vain a whole Reformation will undo the Church and a half Reformation will not gratifie the Lutherans therefore it is better to imbitter both the parties In the vacancies of the Sea of Rome the Cardinals use to compose certain capitulations to reform the Papall Government which all swear to perform if they shall be assumed to the Popedom though it appear by all precedent examples that every one sweareth with a minde not to keep them in case he shall be Pope For so soon as he is elected he saith he could not bind himself and that he is at liberty by gaining the Papacy History of the Councel of Trent l. 1. p. 71. The Cardinals chosen by Pope Paul the third to consider of the State of the Church made report that there were many corruptions in it 31 abuses especially in the manners of Bishops and Clergymen That the Bishops were idle did not instruct the people nor feed the Flock nor look to the Lords Vineyard that they lived in Princes Courts and kept not home That the Cardinals had sometimes three sometimes four Bishops in Commendam not without great prejudice to the Church for that those Offices are not compatible or to be held together That the Covents ought to be clean banished out of the Church B. Iewels Epistle concerning the Councell of Trenâ—t In the midst of Popery God had his people which holding the foundation rejected their errours and out of Babylonish darkness he brought many to the sight of the truth as Waldo Wickliff Luther Zuinglius God stirred up in severall ages some publick and constant Confessors of the Faith which publickly set themselves against Popery some of which resisting it even unto blood had the Crown of Martyrdom Those Confessors may be distributed into three Classes or ranks The first comprehends the whole Churches the Waldenses and the Greek Church The other comprehends the Emperours and Kings which opposed themselves to the Papall Tyranny The third the Doctors and Martyrs which taxed the errours and abuses brought into the Church Bellarmine Bozius Cocceius Costerus and others have written many things of the Marks or Signes of a Church Costerus reckons three Cocceius five Bellarmine fifteen Bozius a hundred Some assign more some fewer Marks but all greatly glory of the holiness of the Roman Church as a speciall and infallible note If the question be of the Roman Church they answer It is One Holy Catholicall Apostolicall If of the Papall Sea The Holy Apostolicall Sea If of the Pope of Rome The most Holy Father If they speak to him Your Holiness Oh quam sancta omnia But whether we understand of holiness of Doctrine or holiness of Life how little holiness is to be found amongst them What holiness of Doctrine is there in that Tenet to hold that Priests may not marry See Heb. 13. 4. What holiness of life there is amongst them their Stews and their dissolute courses shew The nine choice persons elected by Paul the third to reform their Church complain of the Stews Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Cum leno aut meretrix Scurra Cinaedus ero Vivere qui sancte cupitis discedite Româ Omnia cùm liceant non licet esse pium Mantuan How dissolute and prodigiously wicked many of the Popes have been the Popish Writers themselves mention How unclean and Sodomiticall many of their Cardinals were we have evident Testimony See the Scarlet Gown or the History of all the present Cardinals at Rome How desperate the life and death of many Jesuites hath been who have against their own consciences opposed the truth Elias Hasenmullerus in his Historia ordinis Iesuitici reports who relates many examples to that purpose seen and heard by himself See Chap. 4 5. of their publick and private life Chap. 11. of their death Of their filthy Monks and Votaries Bale hath written two parts For their worshipping of Reliques what a fond thing is that When many of their Saints are but supposed and their Reliques also To worship the supposed Relique of a supposed Saint Calvin an eye-witness testifieth that when Genevah received the Doctrine of the Gospel the Reliques were visited by the authority of the Magistrate and it was found that what they had adored till then as if it had been the brain of Peter was a Pumice stone and what they had beleeved to be S t Anthony's arm was the sinew of a Hart or Stag. The parts and parcels of wood kept in Europe which they say are parts of the Cross whereon Christ died are so many that if they were all gathered together they would load a ship and yet it was no greater then a man may bear The milk of the Virgin Mary is so plentifull in many places that seven of the best Kine in Holland are not able to give so much milk in ten years saith One. They shew Iudas his Lanthorn at S t Denis in France At Rome there is kept in S t Iohns Church in Lateran the circumcised foreskin of Christ and the Altar at which Iohn did say Divine Service in the Wilderness See D r Willet on Exod. 16. Confer 5. and D r Halls no Peace with Rome p. 661. For the holy Scripture though Bellarmine brags Romanenses pluris facere Scripturam quam Lutheranos yet Gerhard in the first Generall book of his Catholick Confession part 2. c. 4. shews that the Papists weaken the Divine Majesty and authority of the Scriptures twelve waies besides the severall reproaches cast upon it by divers of them which he there also mentions Petrus Fragius Doctor of Divinity made an Oration to the Fathers of the Councell of Trent to assert the authority of the Pope of Rome He told them God had prayed for Peter who being after converted confirmed his brethren in the faith Si igitur said he Dominus pro Petro precatus est cur jam pro Iulio non precabitur What is Christ more weak or cruell now then he was and is Iulius inferiour in
in the hearing of some of our Bishops Before God and Christ Jesus my Redeemer I will acknowledge from my heart and professe openly That the Church of England is a true and orthodoxal Church of Christ. His shiftings in Religion The Papists urge two things much against the Reformed Religion 1. Our divisions and differences amongst our selves as Fitz Simons in his Britannomachia ministrorum in plerisque Fidei fundamentis Articulis dissidentium Secondly The Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther To the first I might answer with Zanchy That this is rather an Argument that we are the true Churches of Christ. For there are saith he three kindes of Churches 1. Where God onely reigns without contradiction This is the Triumphant Church in Heaven 2. Where Satan only reigns This is the Church of the wicked and Idolaters such are the Turkish Jewish Popish Churches 3. Where God truly reigns but not without the snares and assaults of Satan This is the true Church of Christ which is called Militant This alwayes fights with the flesh the world Hereticks and the Devil The Confessions of Faith of the Churches professing the Gospel having been long ago exhibited to the several Princes of the Countreys States and Kingdoms where these Churches are are now of late very profitably published to the conviction of all such as slander the Reformed Churches to be variably distracted and rent in sunder with infinite differences of Faith Travers answer to a Popish Treatise written to the LL. of the Councel Amyraldus de Secessione ab Ecclesia Romana pag. 67. saith The chief controversies inter Evangelicos may be reduced to four heads 1. Concerning the Nature of the Sacraments 2. About the Person of Christ and the Properies of both Natures in it 3. How the Doctrine of Predestination is to be explained 4. What is to be held concerning the Providence of God especially as it is conversant about the ill actions of the reasonable creature and shews there also how far yet they agree in all these D r Hall in his Peace of Rome shews That Bellarmine acknowledgeth and numbers up above three hundred differences of opinions maintained in the Popish Church and that Navarre confesseth near threescore differences amongst their own Doctors in one only point of their Religion There are many Sects risen since the Gospel was first published but none are so guilty of division as the Papists though they extoll their own Church for Unity They unchurch all the Churches of Christ through the world besides themselves the Greek Church and divers others What a State were all former ages in before the Popes Supremacy was acknowledged The pure and primitive times The reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is condemned amongst them as a capital crime in Spain and Italy but allowed in England and France Albertus Pighius dissents from Cajetane Thomas from Lombard Scotus from Thomas Occam from Scotus Alliacensis from Occam Their nominals disagree from their reals What difference is there between the Franciscans and Dominicans concerning original sinne in the blessed Virgin What difference among the Jesuites and other Papists concerning Councels being above the Pope The Jesuites hold that the Pope is above a Councel Bellarmine confesseth lib. 2. de Concil cap. 17. parag 1. that Proposition That the Pope is absolutely above a Councel is not simply de fide and those are not Hereticks properly who hold the contrary The Pope in two Councels those of Constance and Basil was declared to be inferiour to a Councel 2. For the other Objection of the Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther I answer there are books written to refute this calumny The Waldenses for divers hundred years before Luther successively opposed Popery professed the truth of the Gospel and sealed it with their bloud Campian in his third reason cals them Majores nostros Vide Gerhard Epist. Ded. ad Confess Cathol Illyricus in his Catalogus Testium veritatis and Wolfius in his Lectiones Memorabiles Reconditae And Gerhard in his Confessio Catholica sufficiently refute this Objection Errours often lie hid under the venerable Cloak of ancient custom Matth. 5. 21 27 31 33 38 43. But on the contrary sound and orthodox Doctrine is undeservedly taxed with the crime of novelty Mark 1. 27. Act. 17. 19. therefore judgement is to be made of both by Scripture Act 17. 11. Secondly We may retort this Question on them Where was your Religion before the Councel of Trent Cardinal Contarenus holding the same with us for substance in point of Justification and many of those learned and modest men which are reckoned for Papists groaning under the corruptions of their Church and desiring a Reformation of many abuses as well as we Bishop Iewels challenge of the Papists is commonly known with which Peter du Moulin also accords There is rather a conspiracy amongst the Papists then true union as on the contrary the difference amongst us is rather a diversity then a division in circumstances or things of lesse moment and among persons rather then generally We are reproached beyond Sea for our unsettlement in matters of Religion and for the diversity of opinions and sects now in the Land Some amongst our selves also will be ready to object That there are so many religions and opinions that they know not which course to take 1. Such should therefore take the Scripture onely for the rule of their faith and life 2. They should study faithfully to know the plain meaning of the Scripture they should reade it diligently seek Gods direction come to it not with forestalled conceits but with love of the truth 3. They should resolve to obey what they shall finde upon such diligent inquiry to be the plain minde of God beyond dispute They should practice what all Christian Sects agree in they all confesse that God is above the creature and to be preferred before it that the pleasures and profits of this world are far short of the glory to come CHAP. VII Of the Syncretisme of Religion or of a friendly Reconciliation of the different parties amongst themselves THey are Christians which professe Christian Religion therefore those which either know not Christ as the Pagans or deny him to be the Saviour of the world as the Mahometans or that contemn and blaspheme him as the Iews are excluded There are several opinions about this matter The first is of those who hold That whosoever they be who differ about Religion so they be Christians they may and ought to be reconciled and agree together in an Ecclesiastical Syncretism so the Socinians Libertines Polititians Machivillians The second opinion is of those which denieth that Christians differing in Religion can or ought to be so reconciled So the Papists especially the Jesuites think and teach requiring a full consent with the Church of Rome as that which cannot erre and out
opposeth tongues and the Spirit Subordinata non pugnant If he will so rely on the Spirit as utterly to exclude tongues Why doth he make use at least of his mother-tongue for the understanding of the Scriptures He saith there He that understands the original tongues in which the Text was written conceives no more of the minde of God thereby than he that only can reade or hear read the Translation in the mother-tongue Yes because the minde of God is primarily in the Original and but secondarily in the Translation in that the Translation is out of the Original and doth no further contain in it the Word of God then it doth agree with the Original He addes yet further What difference is there between him that relies upon his Teachers skill and he that relies upon the skill of a Translator are they not both alike since they are but both Testimonia humana full of errours mistakes and fallacies It is much that he cannot perceive a difference between these two He that relies upon the skill of a Translator relies upon it for that particular Translation which he doth make use of but he that relies upon the skill of his Teacher onely relies upon it for his general knowledge of the language which is taught him besides no man hath need so wholly to rely on his Teachers skill having many other means to know whether his Teacher rightly instruct him or no as some have to rely on the skill of a Translator p. 7. But he proceeds The errours and mistakes that still remain and are daily discovered in all Translations do sufficiently witnesse mens negligence and ignorance that in the space of sixteen hundred years have not arrived at so much perfection as to compleat one Translation This very reason which he alleadgeth against the knowledge of Tongues doth shew the necessity of it For if errours and mistakes do still remain and are daily discovered in all Translations Is there not the more need of skill in the Originals that so we may not be carried away with those errours and mistakes And how should those errours in Translations be discovered but by skill in the Originals But suppose that no mans skill in the Originals is so great as to free him from errours and mistakes in translating is therefore all his skill to no purpose By the same reason all M r Websters preaching should be in vain because he is not infallible but sometimes may mistake the meaning of the Scripture which he citeth I suppose it therefore very profitable for a Divine which I think was Reverend M r Wheatleys usual practice to reade daily a Chapter in the Old Testament in Hebrew and in the New Testament in Greek Illud enim volo Theologiae studiosâ— verbi Dei ministro tantum semper debere esse à rebus aliis otii ut quotidiè caput aliquod in utriusque Testam Originali Textu legat quidem cum brevi sucâ—inctoque Commentario vel Junii vel Bezae vel Piscat vel Vatabli Sixt. Amam Consilium de studio Ebraico feliciter instituendo Secondly The Knowledge of the Arts is also very requisite for a Divine Therefore Licinius and Iulian envying such a good to the Church of Christ used their endeavours to deprive the Christians of the studies of them most vain sports being set up in their room Christ at first to shew the glory of his greatnesse took and imployed Fishermen such as had no bringing up in Schools But it was not long after but learned men came in apace Learned men of all sorts Zenas in Law Tit. 3. 13. Luke in Physick 1 Tim. 4. 11. Apollo with his Eloquence Act. 18. 24. Dionyse with his Philosophy Act. 17. 34. Paul with his much learning Act. 26. 24. which he had at Tharsus as famous an University for Asia as Athens was for Greece See 1 Cor. 14. 18. Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Aegyptians Act. 7. 22. which Nation was one of the most ancient Schools of the world Salomon passed all the children of the East in their own learning 1 King 4. 30. Daniel was brought up and well seen in the cunning of the Chaldeans Dan. 1. 4. First All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in the Scripture of natural and moral Philosophy of the Politicks of Poetry of History of Mathematicks Metaphysicks and many of them in that one Book of Iob. How shall a Minister be able without some skill in Logick to analyze his Text The whole Scripture abounds with Arguments the strength of which one cannot perceive but from Logick and how shall he be able to discover or confute the sophistry and false reasoning of Hereticks without it Cham. Corp. Theol. lib. 2. cap. 18. Of the use of Logick in Divinity See M r Gataker against Saltmarsh Shadows without Substance p. 20. He may draw likewise excellent sentences famous examples profitable precepts from History and Philosophy The Scripture is full of Metaphors and figurative speeches which have profit as well as ornament A great part of the whole 6 th of Iohn is framed of such speeches how shall one understand the meaning of such places without some skill in Rhetorick Secondly The knowledge of the Arts is requisite for a Divine to refute errors The Socinians begin in Philosophical principles and the Papists begin in Logick about accidents when they would establish their Transubstantiation Zanch. de Tribus Elohim parte altera cap. 1. reckons up this as one cause of heresie viz. the ignorance of true and solid Philosophy and Logick and the Liberal Arts. How many Chronological difficulties are there in the Scripture which will not be resolved without some skill in Chronology Compare 1 King 6. 1. with Acts 13. 20. 2 Kings 24. 10. with 2 Chron. 36. 9. 2 Chron. 22. 2. with 21. 20. Some say the holy Ghost did obscure some things in Chronology to sharpen mens wits Object Colos. 2. 8. Beware least any man spoil you through Phylosophy and vain deceit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. through the vain deceit of Philosophy for either it did promise eternal life or did not shew the true and certain way which led thither So Grotius Some think he bids them beware of Plato's Philosophy not of Philosophy in general Neque Apostolus ad Colossenses veram naturalem Philosophiam sed inanem duntaxat deceptricem damnavit Zanch ad Arianum Respons The learning of the Magi who were skilled in the Stars and Bodies Celestial hindred them not in their coming to Christ. The gold and spoils of Egypt did the Tabernacle no hurt which was hung all over with them Humane Learning may be lawfully used in a divine exercise four conditions being observed The first concerns the end the confirmation of faith not vain glory Secondly If the prophanenesse or Ethnicisme in them be castrated as Deut. 21. Thirdly That we alway 〈…〉 use humane learning as we give the
himself as if all things were agreeable to numbers The Phenicians write as all the Eastern Nations from the right hand to the left the reason why the outermost figure to the right hand in Arithmetique stands in the first place they also being the inventers of that Science George Sandys upon the 3 d Book of Ovids Metam Some learned men speak much of the Algebra as a famous invention in Arithmetique II. Geometry is an Art of measuring well The measures of things are taken from the parts of man his finger palm foot cubit A barly corn is the least measure the finger is the breadth of four barly corns the palm four fingers the foot four palms A cubit from the elbow to the end of the longest finger is a foot and an half From those measures ariseth the measure of a journey a pace a furlong a mile a geometrical pace is five foot a furlong 125 paces a mile a thousand paces eight furlongs Quatuor ex granis digitus componitur unus Est quater in palmo digitus quater in pede palmus Quinque pedes passum faciunt passus quoque centum Viginti quinque stadium daâ—t sed miliare Octo dabunt stadia duplatum dat tibi Leuca The Romans used a foot for their measure as the Jews did a cubit Plato wrote in the door of his study 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let no man ignorant of Geometry enter in here Sir Henry Savill in his ninth Lecture upon Euclyde saith Ars est omnium sine controversia certissima it is without controversie the most certain Art of all Tyc Brahe in his Oration De Disciplinis Mathematicis shews That divers Arts flow from Geometry Astronomy Opticks that of dialing Geography Architecture and the Mechanicks All with one consent ascribe the invention of Geometry to the Egyptians For when the limits of their possessions were confounded by reason of the annual overflowing of Nilus to restore these the reason and way of measuring fields was invented and so Geometry may seem to have drawn its first original from the Husbandmens measuring their grounds Thales first brought Geometry out of Egypt into Greece Pythagoras amplified it To whom many succeeded Euclide hath brought the Art to that perfection that he hath cut off hope from all his posterity of enlarging it The great difficulty among Geometricians is about the quadrature of a circle which some say is not faisible III. Musick This is either Vocal or Instrumental Some preferre the Vocall Mercer on the 4 th of Genesis ver 21. saith Iubal was the inventer of Instrumental Musick Pythagoras Musicae theoricam ex Fabri malleis adinvenit Blancani Chronologia Clarorum Mathemat Pythagoras invented the Art of Musick from the Smiths hammers One seeing another playing excellently upon the Lute said He thought his soul was in his fingers Leur espritâ—s ' ensuit au bout des doigts saith Du Bartas 1. Sept. Pythagoras Aristoxenus Nicomachus Philolaus Alypius Ptolomaus handled Musick professedly Boetius Martianus Capella and venerable Bede and Mersennus have written also of Musick IV. Astronomy The word signifies a Doctrine of the Laws or Rules of the measure and motion of the Stars The Subject of this Science is the Heavens with the Stars Diodorus Pliny and others say that Atlas was therefore thought to sustain heaven with his shoulders because he made a Sphere in which the whole heaven was represented It exceeds not only Arithmetique and Geometry but all other Arts in this kinde Nam antiquitate nobilitate ac cognitionis sublimitaâ—e prae reliquis omnibus maximam sibi vendicat laudem Tych. Brah Orat. De Discip. Mathem Peter Ramus in proaem Mathem complained because we have not now Astronomy free from Hypotheses and therefore easie as the Egyptians and Babylonians had But saith Gassendus Praefat. In Tychonis Brahaei vitam though some Hypotheses be more simple and so more easie then others yet Astronomy cannot consist without some Quod autem celeberrimus ille nostri aevi Philosophus Petrus Ramus existimarit sine Hypothesibus per Logicas rationes Astronomiam constitui posse caret fundamento c. Tycho Brahe Epist. Astronom lib. 1. Christoph. Rothman Vide plura ibid. Thales Milesius was the first who studied the Stars Gassendus in the Preface before-quoted and their lives mentions Eudoxus Hipparchus Theon Pappus Alphraganus Alphonsus King of Castile Tycho Brahe Copernicus Peurbachius and Regio-Montanus for famous Astronomers Blanchinus and Ptolomy to which Gassendus himself the Professour of Astronomy now at Paris may deservedly be added V. Opticks This is a Greek word It is called Perspectivè in Latine a barbarous but significant word Optica est ars bene videndi The Opticks is an Art of seeing well Light and colour are visible by themselves so it is said Light indeed is but colours will not be visible in the dark We should examine and weigh the writings of the chief Astronomers by this Lesbian Rule Luceus was the first Inventer of the metal-Mines and hence arose the common fable that he also saw those things which were under the earth Pisanus was the Author of the common Perspective Alhazeus and Vitellio and Pena on Euclide and Peckam Archbishop of Canterbury have done best on the Opticks Galen skilfull in the Opticks as well as Physicks gives this demonstration why one and the same appears one to two eyes Eadem est basis pyramidum sub radiis ab oculo missis comprehensarum There are perfect demonstrations in the Opticks as why a hollow glasse burns because the Sun-beams reflected are there gathered together why a staff appears broken in the water because it is seen by lines refracted through a double medium of air and water CHAP. V. Of the Civil and Canon-Law THere are three main things in the Civil-Law The Pandects the Code and the Novellae Constitutiones 1. The Pandects or Digests containing Responsa prudentum or the sayings of Lawyers to which the Decree of Gratian in the Canon-Law composed out of the sentencâ—s of the Councels and Fathers answers 2. Codex the Code consisting only of the Decrees of the Emperours to which the five Books of the Decretals answer in the Canon-Law consisting of the Constitutions onely of the Pope of Rome Malè actum est cum rebus humanis cum ad Decreta accesserunt alâ— 3. Novellae Constitutiones viz. Imperatoria put out after the Code to which in the Canon-Law the sixth of the Decretals the Clementines and Extravagants answer See D. Duck of the Authority of the Civil-Law l. 1. c. 4. First One should diligently reade the elements of the Civil-Law comprehended in the four Books of Iustinians Institutions Calvins Lexicon of the Law should be perused Then we may go on to the Pandects and Code on which there are many Commentaries Cuiacius is an excellent Author It is called the Canon-Law by reason of the matter because it contains Ecclesiastical Constitutions which they
wrote an Apology for Christi 〈…〉 Athenaâ—s He lived in the time of Marcus Antoninus the Emperour His Works are put out in Greek and Latine by Isaac Casaubone with learned Notes Ioannes Aventinus He was born anno 1466. Beatus Rhenanus gratulates him to his Germany and cals him Eruditissimum Aventinum variarum cognitione disciplinarum prastantem Erasmus styles him Hominem studio indefatigabili ac reconditae lectionis his just Epitaph styles him Rerum antiquarum indagatâ—rem sagacissimum No man in his History can tell his Religion He wrote ten Books of Germany illustrated of which see the heads in Neander his Geog. parte 1 and the Titles in Gesners Bibliotheca Averroes a Physician at Corduba in Spain a Commentator upon Aristotle He flourished in that time when Gratian the Monk Peter Lombard and Peter Comestor flourished Avicenna e stirpe regia he was also a famous Philosopher and Physician of Corduba anno Christi 1002. Averroes and he were two famous Arabians Besides Physicks he wrote a Metaphysick also much esteemed of Augustine Bishop of Hippo. Bishop Andr. in his Opusc. Post. de Decimis cals him Decus Aphricae He was the most accomplished that ever writ since the dayes of the Apostles Kellets Miscel. lib. 1. cap. 8. Dr. Field hath the like of him De Eccles. lib. 3. cap. 32. p. 170. B. Usher also ascribes as much to him Magnum est ejus in Ecclesia nomen Whitak de sacr Script Controv. 16. Quaest. 6. His name is great in the Church of God He is the most Doctrinal among the Ancient Fathers The Doctrine of S t Augustine was approved anciently by the Catholick Church and till this new fangled age generally and commonly allowed and embraced both by the Romanists and by the Protestants B. Dav. Animadvers upon Gods Love to Mankind p. 103. His Works are published in magne folio in ten Tomes purged by Erasmus It is pity that so great a Pillar of the Church was no better skilled in the Originals of the sacred Tongue He was famous for two of his Works especially his b Retractations which are the Confessions of his errours and his Confessions which are the Retractations of his life In Ludovicus Vives his time there was none that had imitated him in such a work of Retractations Bellarmine hath since wrote a Book of Recognitions wherein he makes some things worse Vide Casaub. Epist. ad Front Duc. p. 39. He doth the most accurately of any handle the Controversie de Gratiâ against the Pelagians yea and against the Papists He confutes the Brownists in his Book against the Donatists and the Socinians in that De Utilitate Credendi He defended the truth against whatsoever errour prevailed in his age His Book de Doctrina Christiana is a good Body of Divinity His Books de Civitate Dei are full of humane learning Some most dislike amongst Augustines interpretation of Scripture his Exposition on the Psalms though it be full of excellent matter Nunquam infelicius in Scripturis sanctis versatus quam in Psalmorum enarratione Smeton ad Hamile He died in the 76 year of his Age. Antonius Augustinus very skilfull in all Ecclesiastical Antiquity History and in the ancient Law a great light of Spain Tarraconensis Archiepiscopus vir Romanarum antiquitatum melioris litteraturae peritissimus Merul. Cosmog part 2. l. 2. The History of the Councell of Trent mentions him l. 6. p. 494 495. Antonius Augustinus Bishop of Lerida an Antiquary c. There are several Epistles of Manutius to him Epist. 6 7 8 9 10. wherein he much commends him Divers of his Works are published mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and more fully in the Oration of Andreas Schottus in Funere Ant. Augusti His four Books Emendationum Iuris he published when he was scarce twenty five years old Qui libellus si molem spectes in speciem exiguus sin rerum utilitatem ponderumque momenta sinuosis aliorum voluminibus anteponendus And. Scot. Orat. in fun Ant. August Ioannes Auratus He was much respected by Charles the ninth King of France the Regius Professour for Greek in Paris and the chiefest Poet of his time He was most skilfull in Latine and Greek Ronsard Bayfius and Bellay were his Scholars Some of his Poems are published Auratam nemo te dicat magne Poeta Aurea namque tibi Musa lepósque fuit Papir Masson Decius Ausonius A French Poet of Burdeaux as himself shews Burdegallia est mihi natale solum Ubi mitis est Coeli clementia He wrote this of himself Diligo Burdegalam Roman colo civis in hâc sum Consul in ambabus He was Master to Gratian the Emperour by whom he was made Consul He was very skilfull in Greek and Latine he wrote many things in Prose and Verse His saying was Beatum esse non qui habet quae cupit sed qui non cupit quae non habet He is blessed not which hath the things which he desires but who doth not desire the things which he hath not Therefore the Aquitanes did boast of him Quemadmodum Ausonius neminem sibi proposuit imitandum ita Ausonium nemo nunc potest imitari As Ausonius propounded none to himself to imitate so no man can now imitate him Scis quam non vulgaris eruditio sit in poematis Ausonii Ios. Scalig. N. M. in opusc Azo a Bononian he brought a great light to the Laws O dofredus and Accursius were his Scholars Azorius a learned Jesuite His Institutiones Morales are published in three Volumes He hath gone over the ten Commandments in Case Divinity Mart. ab Azpilzenta who also is commonly called Doctor Navarrus or Navarrus The honour of Navarre Martinus Azpilzenta at ninety years finished the fourth Edition of that his elaborate Manual of Cases of Conscience He was very dear to three of the Popes Pius Quintus Gregorius Decimus tertius and Sixtus Quintus so that they would not use any other Counsellour in iis dijudicandis quibus conscientia constricti tenemur Iani Nicii Erithraei Picanotheca He had many famous Scholars among which Didacus Covarruvias was one CHAP. V. B ROger Bacon was notable and famous in his time and in all respects comparable then with the best He was able to judge of the Latine Greek and Hebrew Tongues as appears by his Book De Idiomate Linguarum B. Iewels Defence of his Apol. part 4. c. 15. Divis. He was a famous Mathematician and most skilfull in other Sciences He was also very skilfull in the Hebrew and Greek as the Greek and Hebrew Volumes yet extant long ago written with his own hand do abundantly witnesse Twine Apol. Acad. Oxon. l. 3. He hath a Manuscript entituled Opus magnum to shew that all Sciences conduce to the understanding of the Scripture Sir Francis Bacon He is called by one the Aristotle of our Nation He cals Philosophy some where
travels he saith thus of him more teasty then subtil and more able to wrangle then satisfie His Enâ—hiridion Controversiarum is most commended Peter Cotton an eloquent French Jesuite Cotonus Rhetoricus jactantiâ—r quam dialecticus acutior Cham. Praefat. ad 2 dam partem Epist. Iesuit A more boasting Orator then acute Logician Sir Robert Cotton So renowned for his great care in collecting and preserving all Antiquity For which he is often honourably mentioned by B. Usher and M r Selden Vir praestantissimus Robertus Cottonus Condus ille ac promus vetustatis longè locupletissimus Seldeni Praefat. ad Marm. Arund Iohn Covel A learned Scholar as his Interpretation of words and his Institutiones Iuris Anglicani shew Miles Coverdale sometimes Bishop of Excester an exile a long time for the profession of the Gospel There are these Works of his His Confutation of a Treatise which Io. Standish made against the Protestation of D. Barns His Translation of the Bible and others mentioned by And. Maunsell in his Catalogue of English Books Didacus a Covarruvias He was most skilfull in the Civil and Canon-Laws and in all Learning Richard Crakanthorp Doctor of Divinity Archbishop Abbot said His Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis injurias was the most exact piece for controversie since the time of Reformation His Defence of Constantine and others of his Works of Logick and Physick are good Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Martyr He was the first Archbishop of Canterbury that cast off Antichrist As Britain was most blessed under Edward the sixths Reign so much by his means That he might settle the Doctrine of the Gospel in both the Universities he sent for the most famous Divines out of forraign Naions and drew them into England Peter Martyr Bucer Fagius Lascus Immanuel Tremellius Bernardus Ochinus All which with their wives and children were liberally maintained by him This way he spent his yearly revenew so that nothing remained to himself He studied the Scriptures diligently and wrote against that grosse opinion of the Papists affirming the carnal presence of Christ in the Sacrament a Book filled with so much learning and plenty of arguments that that controversie seems to be handled by none more accurately against the Papists Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester being prisoner in the Tower by stealth and largely inveighed against this Book in that Book which he named Marcus Constantius This Peter Martyr learnedly refuted Cranmer being dead After the death of King Edward when Cranmer was advised by his friends to flie If I were saith he accused of theft treason parricide or any other wickednesse I could be induced to flie much more easily then in this cause For when the Question is not concerning my faith toward men but toward God and concerning my constancy in the truth of the holy Scripture against Popish errours I would rather in this case lose my life then leave the Kingdom When King Henry purposed to imprison his Daughter Mary being stiffe for the Popish faction only Cranmer interceded and mitigated the Kings anger but the ill will that Queen Mary bore him for having a hand in her Mothers Divorce that inveterate hatred I say toward him blotted out all his friendly Offices to her Io. Crato He was born at Uratislavia the chief City of Silesia anno 1519. a great Philosopher and Physician and excellent Poet. He was Counsellour and chief Physician to the Emperours Ferdinand the first Maximilian the second Rodulphus the second for twenty six years His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones CHAP. XIV CHristophorus Crinesius Professour of Divinity at Altdorph in Norimberg He was well skilled in the Hebrew Chaldee Syriack He died of an Apoplexy These Works of his are published Gymnasium Siriacum Lexicon Syriacum Babel sive discursus De Confusione Linguarum Analysis Novi Testamenti tabulis 27. comprehensa Exercitat Hebraic Pars prior Gymnasii Chaldaici Petrus Crinitus He hath written five Books De Poetis Latinis though he be held inferiour to Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus who hath written also of that Argument De honesta Disciplina peâ—amaena ac copiosa varietate lib. 25. delectabiles posteris reliquit Neand. Geog. part 1. Ludovicus Crociâ—s Doctor in Divinity and Professor at Brema He hath written an excellent instruction De Ratione Studii Theologici His Syntagma Theologiae is very well approved He hath published divers other Works Commentarius in Titum in Ephesios Apologeticus pro Augustana Confessione Assertio Augustanae Confessionis De perseverantia Sanctorum Paraeneticus de Theologia Cryptica Apodixis paeraenâ—tica de Messia ad Iudaos per orbem dispersos Orator Ecclesiasticus in Nahum Prophetam Iohn Croy a Learned French Divine He hath written a Treatise entitled Observationes Sacra Historioae in nâ—vâ—m Testamentum which title though a Learned Writer of our own reprehends and in the book he seems somewhat too sharp against Heinsius yet that book and his Specimen conjecturarum observationum in quadam loca Origenis Irenaei Tertulliani Epiphanii c. and his French book entitled La veritè de la Religion Reformee declare him to be a good Linguist and an able Scholar generally Hannibal Cruceius Gasparus Craciger a Learned Divine He was born Anno 1504. His Works are mentioned by Boissard He was very swift in writing so that of him that of the Epigrammatist might be used Currant verba licet manus est velocior illis Nondum lingua suum dextra peregit opus Therefore when in the year 1540. there was a conference at Wormes amongst those which differed in Religion he was the Notary and received Melancthons and Eccius his words with incredible swiftness and often admonished Melancthon what he had not answered of Eecius his subtilties therefore Granvelbane Caesars Deputy at that Conference said Lutherani scribam habent omnibus Pontificiis doctiorem Melch. Adam in ejus Vita Henry Cuffe a Learned man and of Oxford He hath written a book of the differences of the ages of mans life Iacobus Cujacius a great light of France His Life is written by Papyrius Massonus He is celebrated by Peter Faber whose Master he was and Casaubon and others as the greatest Lawyer of his time Pasquier Recherch de la Frâ—nce saith in many Universities of Germany when those in the Chair alleadge Cujacius and Turnebus they put their hands to their hats for the respect and honour they bear them He cals him the great Cujacins A Protestantium partibus non alienus He was thought to be somewhat inclinable to the Protestant Religion but when any Theologicall question was asked him he was wont to answer Nihil hoc ad edictum Praetoris Petrns Câ—naeus There are his Animadversions in Nonni Dionysiaca Satyra Menippea in castrata D. Iuliani Imperatoris Satyra His three Books De Repub. Hebraorum are much valued Caelius Secundus Curio He was born Anno
non ex professio satis apertè tamen Sirmondus ac Launaeus denique Petavius Reliqui minus in Grâ—cis versati vehementer affirmant Baronius Possevinus Perronius Bellarminus qui tamen vacillat Delrio Alloix alii nonnulli Albertinus de Sacramento Eucharistiae l. 2. c. 1. He proves further there in that Chapter and Chap. 2. by severall Arguments that it is a Pseudonysius Vide Gerhard Patrologiam Dilher Disput. Acad. Tom. 2. De Areopago p. 310. Dionysius Halycarnasseus a famous Historian Scalig. de Emendat Temp. l. 5. cals him a most sweet and diligent Writer Sigonius Diligentem antiquitatum investigatorem Gravis sanè auctor cui non minimum debet Historia Romana Pignor. Symbol Epistol Ep. 44. Vide plura ibid. Dioscorides an ancient Herbalist His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Rembertus Dodonaeus His Herball is commonly known Editis in lucem plantarum historiis magnum sibi nomen comparavit Castellani vita Illust Med. He hath written also other Physick Treatises Steven Dolet a Learned Frenchman He hath written Commentaries of the Latine Tongue as Budaeus hath of the Greek In quibus utique ordo est aliquis talis qui arguat ingenium magnum in istis viris Methodi tamen ordo non est Bibliand de Rat. Com. omnium Ling. His French and Latine Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Aelius Donatus a great Grammarian He hath Commented excellently on Terence Marcellus Donatus Vir caetera doctissimus medicus excellens Meibomii Mecenas c. 23. He hath published In Tacitum dilucidationes in Livium Suetonium alios and severall Physicall Treatises Hieronymus Donatus He was a Poet Orator Philosopher Divine Mathematician yet was so troubled about his houshold affairs and his inferiours so disobedient to his commands that unless he had eased his cares with study he had been a most miserable man Pier. Valer. de Litteratorum infelicitate Hugo Doneâ—â—us a great Lawyer Vera pietate atque eruditione Clarus Zanch. Epist. His Works are mentioned by Boissard He taught the Civil Law some years in Heidelberg the chief University of all Germany and was Rector of that University Tanta saâ—e laude Ius Civile explanavit ut veterum Iuriscensultorum aliquis Paulus Ulpianus aut Papinianus revixisse illorumque animam ex Pythagorae sententia recepisse videretur Lud. Jacob. Declar. Scrip. Cabclon l. 1. Ianus Douza Anno Christi 1545. He was famous for Warlick Valour and Learning both He was one of great reading incredible memory skil'd both in Greek and Latine History Ancient and Modern He would answer well to any questions ex tempore He was employed in many Embassies for his Country Nec ullius ore saepiùs locuta est Batavia quam Dousico Melch. Adam His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his life His son Ianus Douza was also an eminent Scholar and died in his prime Vide Woweri Epist. Cent. 1. Epist. 11. George Downeham A Learned and godly Bishop He hath written excellently upon Ramus his Logick and de Antichristo and many usefull English Treatises of Justification the Covenant and other Subjects Andrew Downes the Regius Professour of Greek in Cambridge He hath published some notes on Chrysostome which are in the 8 th Volume put out by Sir Henry Savill He hath also put out Praelectiones in Philippicam primam Demosthenis Sir Francis Drake He first of all men sailed about the whole world Franciscus Dracus famosissimus ut Hispani vocant pyrata sive ut citra odium dicatur celeberrimus universi orbis lustrator Thuan. Hist. Tome quinto parte prima l. 114. Hier. Drexelius a Learned Jesuite Ioannes Driedo Aubertus Miraeus in his Elogia Belgica commends him for a Learned man His Works are published in 4 Tomes Io. Drusius He was a great Hebrician and well versed in the Rabbins and hath given great light to a large part of the Scripture by his notes upon a great part of it and his Observations Paralells Miscellanies Questions Tract De quaesitis per Epistolam De tribus sectis Iudaeorum and other Philologicall Treatises Fr. Duarenus a Learned Lawyer His Works are in one Volume Fronto Ducaeus a Learned and candid Jesuite Vir doctissimus cui Chrysostomus noster plurimum debet Savil. not in Psalm Chrysost. Guil. Durandus a most famous Bishop Pasquier Recherch de la France l. 9. c. 35. saith there were these remarkable excellencies in him he was a great Poet a great Divine a great Lawyer He put out a Book entitled Speculum Iuris divided into three great Tomes As Lombard among Divines is not quoted by his own name but by that of Master of the Sentences so among the Lawyers he is not quoted by the name of William Durand but he is styled Speculator He delivered this sentence about the Sacrament Verbum audimus modum sentimus modum nescimus praesentiam credimus Durandus à S. Portiano a Schoolman He hath written upon the Sentences Of him those verses were written Durus Durandus jacet hic sub marmore duro An sit salvandus ego nescio nec ego curo Samuel Durant a holy man when he lived and an eloquent Preacher at Paris Tantae eloquentiae ut cum Pericle non tam loqui quam fulgurare fulminare videretur Vit. Profes Grâ—vingae Sam. Mares Ioannes Stephanus Durantus President Senatus Tholosani He hath written a learned Book de Ritibus Ecclesiae of Ecclesiasticall Rites his tumultuating Citizens killed him Claudius Duret a great French Lawyer He hath written Thresor de l' histoire des langues a Treasure of Languages and their Originals Ludovicus Duretus a most Learned Physitian and as Heurnius was wont often to say In medicorum ordine tertius Prisca quod Hippocrati venerando debuit aetas Dureto cur non debeat Hippocrates Ille suâ morbos immaneis arte fugavit Hic à morte sui vendicat Hippocratem Stephanus Paschasius Heurnius heard him diligently three whole years so that he would not miss a Lecture And when Duretus saw him once coming in late he let fall this passage more then once Mi adolescens doâ—eo jam quadam dicta quorum non es particeps a great token of his affection toward Heurnius CHAP. XVII E KIng Edward the 6 th our English Iosiah Hayward hath written his Life well He was admirable by reason of his rare towardness and hope both of Vertue and Learning which in him appeared above the capacity of his years Favour and love of Religion was in him from his childhood Such an instrument given of God to the Church of England he was as England never had better Cardan saith this of him Being but fifteen years of age he asked of me in Latine in which tongue he uttered his minde no lesse readily and eloquently then I could do my self what my Books which I
Deus D r Iacks on the Creed first Vol. l. 1. c. 30. There are his Works in two Volumes mentioned by Melch. Ad. CHAP. IX L LActantius Firmianus Anno Dom. 300. He was Tutor to Constantines Sonne Crispus but that was as Hierom saith in extrema senectute He was so poor that many times he wanted even necessaries Gâ—neb out of Euseb. Chron. Hic est Cicero Christianorum quemadmodum Cyprianus eorundem Caesar. Alsted Encyclop l. 32. c. 7. Institutionum divinarum opus sub Diocletiano aggressus est ut ipse testatur libro quinto capite quarto tempore Constantini magni edidit ad ipsum Constantinum sermone converso Forbes Instruct. histor Theol. l. 7. c. 8. Quem obsecro ad pietatem accendit Lactantius atque nihil â—o nitidius Dicas Christianum Ciceronem loqui quanquam ille non tractat Scripturas sed cum Ethnicis digladiatur Eras. Epist. l. 27. Epist. 38. Inter omnes Patres audit Ciceronianus Ames Bell. Enerv. He was called Firmianus from his Countrey Firmi or Firmii a Town of the Picenes in Italy Lactantius à lacteo eloquentiae flumine solidiorique orationis genere Wolfii Lect. mem Cent. 5. Arnobii discipulus quidem similis fortunae Nam utramque ex Oratoriae artis professione religionis Christianae doctorem evasisse ex Hieronymo constat Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 3. part 1. Thes. 1. Franciscus Lambertus There is his Commentary on the Revelation Dionysius Lambinus A learned man and a Protestant say some though Thuanus make him a Papist He hath commented well on Lucretiâ—s Horace Plautus Turnebus often honourably mentions him in his Adversaria Dionysius Lambinus vir omnibus literis egregiâ— doctus Graecè Latinè imprimis eruditus nunc linguâ— Graecae professione Parisiâ—nse gymnasium ornans Turneb Advers l. 11. c. 26. Carolus Langius Ioannes Langius a learned Physician of Germany Illustrissimi Principis Pulatini Rheni Medicus cujus extant Epistâ—larum medicinalium Tomi duo ab Opâ—riâ—o nostro Basilea impressi opus stupendum eruditum varium Medicum Physicum Phylologicum planéque tale â—t ob rerum in illo opere pulcherrimarum variarum ac scitu dignissimarum copiam non solum medicinae candidatis sed etiam omnibus eruditae ac Philologicae doctrinae studiosis plurimum sit emolumenti allâ—turum Extat etiam ejusdem medicuâ— de Repub. symposium ejusdem planè argumenti cum Epistolis medicinalibus Neand. Geog. part 1. Steph. Langton a learned Englishman Hubertus Languetus Non minus doctrina quam diuturnâ— totius Europae peragratione clarus Bod. Meth. Hist. c. 4. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 74. Thomas Lansius His Consultatio de principatis inter provincias Europae is a learned Work Cornel. à Lapide a Jesuite of Flanders He publickly taught the Hebrew and expounded the Scriptures at Lovaine more then twenty years He hath Commented almost on all the Scripture He was of very low stature as I have heard from one that I think saw him and so I finde him described in Valeri Andrâ—ae Bibliotheca Belgica Pusillus quidem corpore at ingenio magnus fuit Iohannes Lascares Lud. Lavaterus A Learned and diligent Preacher of the Church at Zâ—rick His Book de Spectris hath been often published in Latine High Dutch Low Dutch French Italian He first got himself a name by this Book Perlegi Lavateri Doctissime non sine voluptate fructu eruditissimum libellum tuum de Spectris Placet argumentum sententia tua methodus perspicuitas Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Lavatero He hath Commented upon Ezekiel Ecclesiastes and Esther Ruth Nehemiah Io. Baptista Laurus He hath written two Centuries of Epistles Theatri Rom. orchestra de viris illustribus Iacobus Laurentius a Learned Minister of Holland In his singular Tractate intituled Reverentia Ecclesiae Romanae erga S. Patres veteres subdola D r Featlies Stricturae ad Lyndomastigem He hath Commented upon the Epistle of Iames both the Epistles of Peter hath written in loca difficiliora Epist. Pauli Gaspar Laurentius These Works of his are publiâ—hed Observatio de publicis disput de Religione De natura in Sacramentis cum Christi Iesu Conjunctione Iacobus Latomus Pater â—ive Senior an eloquent and learned man most skilfull in three Languages He wrote two Dialogues de trium Linguarum studii Theologici ratione And divers other Works Iacobus Latomus filius â—ive Iunior He turned some of the Psalms into verse Hugh Latimer sometimes Bishop of Worcester Martyr There is his Conference with Ridley and his Sermons Iohannes Latiâ—s or de Laet. Olaus Wormius in his Museum Wormianum often honourably mentions him He hath put out the work of the severall Commonwealths America seu novi orbis descriptio cum Tabulis Hispania sive de Regis Hispaniae regâ—is oppibus Comment A learned Tractate de Gemmis Lapidibus De Imperio magni Mogolis Novus Orbis seu descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis l. 18. Persia seu Regni Persici status Pierre De Launey a French Gentleman He hath written upon all Pauls Epistles in two Volumes in French in quarto The same man by another name hath written on Daniel and the Revelation Wolfgangus Lazius He hath published Com. Reipub. Rom. De gentium aliquot migrat De Bello Turcico De rebus Graecis Rerum Viennensium lib. 4. with other Tracts Iac. Ledesma He hath written a book De divinis Scripturis in quavis lingua non legendis Legenda It was called Aurea Legenda the golden Legend by the Papists for the excellency that it seemed to have above all other stories It contains a report of the Lives and Miracles of the Saints a book written by a man of a leaden heart for the basenesse of the errours that are without wit or reason and of a brasen forehead for his impudent boldnesse in reporting things so fabulous and incredible Io. Lelandus a famous Antiquary He wrote four books de viris illustribus â—ive de scriptoribus Britannicis It is pity it is not printed That Manuscript is in Oxford Library Hoc opus magna diligentia cura labore congessimus atque adeò jam in temos quatuor digessimus ne Britanniae nostrae fama tot eruditorum elegantium scriptorum deperiret Quotus enim quisque est hac nostra â—tate vel inter eruditos qui rectè norit quos literarum flores Britanniae hortus protulerit Certè ut ingratitudiniâ— notam multi in hac parte â—luant nunquam profectò desidiae maculam abstergent Lelandi Comment In Cygneam Cantionem Civis Londinensis sum nec me patriae paenitet meae Speroque aliquando futurum ut nec illam sui qualiscunque poeniteat alumni Nulli nota magis domus est sua quà m mihi certè Omnia Londini sunt monumenta mei Id. ibid. There are some of his Works published Assertio inclytissimi Arturi Regis
Bartholomew Io. de Medina hath written De Paenitentia restitutione contractibus Michael Medina He hath written De Sacrorum hominum continentia De recta in Deum fide Barth à Medina hath written In primam Secundae In tertiam D. Thomâ— usque ad quaestionem sextam Ioannes Henricus Meibomius He hath published Commentarium in Ius jurandum Hippocratis Maecenatis vitam Marcus Meibomius He hath â—ut out Greek Authours of the Ancient Musick in two Volumes with Notes Balthasar Meisnerus Learned but haughty Adolphus Mekerckus vulgò Meetkercke a Learned searcher of Antiquities He wrote De veteri recta pronunciatione linguâ— Graecae Pomponius Mela a Learned ancient Geographer Philip Melancthon He was a great Mathematician Fuit Philippus vir certè magnus ut totus novit orbis Christiaâ—us singulari pietate summa eruditione non vulgari judicio Cui omnes Scholae Ecclesiae omnesque literati debent plurimum Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Pezelio He was excellently learned not only in Divinity but also in the Tongues and Sciences and generally in all good Learning For what Art or Science was not polished with his Learned hand He fyled the Tongue with his Precepts of Rhetorick He made reason more reasonable by his skilfull rules of Logick He lift up our heads to behold the starres and taught us to look back into the times that are past Travers Answ. to a Popish Treatise David Chytraeus Adhortat Ad Orat. Melancth saith Plus Rerum doctrinâ— ac sapientiae salutaris in una Philippi orationum pagina inesse quà m in Ciceronianis aut Demosthenicis aliquot utcunque verborum splendore copia collocatione concinna praestent There is a Book they say but I cannot meet with it styled Crisis Melanctoniana or Iudicium de legendis Authoribus his judgement of Authors collected out of his Works Melancthon thus wrote down before his death the motives of his willingnesse to leave this world A Sinistris A Dextris Discedes à Peccatis Venias in Lucem Liberaberis ab â—rumnis à Rabie Theologorum Videbis Deum  Intuebiris filium Dei  Disces illa mira arcanâ— quae in hac vita intelligere non potuisti  Cur sic simus conditi  Qualis sit copulatio duarum naturarum in Christo. Fearfulnesse was a stain in all his excellencies Dominus eum fortiore spiritu instruat ne gravem ex ejus timiditate jacturam sentiat posteritas Calvinus Joanni Sleidano Philippus timidus est ita ut saepenumero agat quae non probet Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Bullingero Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these Verses of Melancthon Doctrina volito clarus super aethera quamvis Cognomen dederit terra nigella mihi Andrew Melvin A learned Scotchman an excellent Poet. Some of his Poems are printed He was committed for writing Verses against the Altar in White-Hall and the Lady Arabella was committed for being contracted to the Earl of Hartford thereby having a greater Title to the Crown and so in likelihood of causing Commotions He made these Verses of the Lady Arabella Causa mihi tecum communis Carceris ara Bella tibi causa est Carceris ara mihi Dr. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln made these Verses of him Cor â—ib felle nigrum est aceto lingua redundat Ex melle vino quam male nomen habes Menander an ancient Poet. Menasseh Ben Israel a learned Jew living at Amsterdam He hath put out a Book in Latine entitled Conciliator in which he endeavours to reconcile out of the Writings of the Rabbins Loca Pentateuchi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iacobus Menochius A learned Lawyer of great fame His Works are in nine Volumes in Oxford Stephanus Menochius He hath written a brief and literal Explication of all the Scripture collected out of the best Authors and also a learned Treatise De Republica Hebraeorum Paulus Milissus Schedius a learned Poet. He hath put out Schediasmata Poetica Epigrammata in urbes Italia Gerard Mercator a most famous Mathematician and Cosmographer and the Ptolomy of our age he was born at Rapelmonda in Flanders Io. Mercerus a learned Protestant A man singularly versed in the Hebrew Tongue and Hebrew Writers He succeeded Vatablus in the profession of the Hebrew Tongue at Paris He escaped as I have heard at the great Massacre at Paris being thrown into the River and lived after and put forth his learned Commentary on Genesis Ioannâ—s Mercerus vir totius humanioris literaturae intelligentissimus Regius Hebraeae linguae Professor eruditione solertiae diligentiáque praestantissimui Franc. â—un Orat. Funeb in obitum Lucae Trelcatii Vide Ludovic Elsevir Praefat. ad Lectorem ante Comment Mercer in lib Job Iosias Mercer a Frenchman and Sonne to Iohn Mercer as Thuanus and others say He hath written learnedly upon Tacitus Iosias Mercerus praestantissimi ingenii vir nec doctrina tantùm eruditione sed singulari rerum agendarum solertia clarus Salmasii socer notis suis ad Novium Grammaticum Herald Animadvers In Salmas Observat. Ad Ius Att. Rom. lib. 4. cep 1. Hier. Mercurialus a learned Physician of Padua His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Mercurius Trismegistus A noble and excellent Mathematician called by the Aegyptians Trismegistus because he was a most excellent Philosopher a soveraign Priest and a most vertuous King His Works are in one Volume Marinus Mersennus Leo Allatius in his Apes Urbanae speaks honourably of him and M r Selden often mentions him with respect His Life is lately written in French by a French man where his several Works are mentioned Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesin cum accurata textus explicatione La veritè des sciences L' Harmonie vniverselle contenant la Theorie la Pratique de lae Musique with many others Merlinus He is commonly called Merlin the Prophet though some question whether there were such a one There is in Oxford Catalogue under him Expositio de arcano lapidis and in the Appendix Ses propheties histoires Peter Merlin a godly and learned French Divine who was Bezas Scholar and miraculously preserved when there was a great Masâ—acre of the Protestants at Paris on Bartholomew-day He hath put out an Exposition upon Iob and Esther Georgius Merula There are in Politians sixth Book of Epistles the second and the third and the eighth against him and in his eleventh Book of Epistles Epist. first and second against him to which Merula answers Epist. 5 th and 7 th and Politian replies Ep. 6 th and 10 th Paulus Merula After many voyages he was made Professour of History in his own Countrey in Holland He hath three Books of General Cosmography and four Books of particular Geography D. Methodius a Christian Poet and Martyr Io. Meursius a most learned man Quo vix alius literis minori tractabat ambitione Vossius De vitiis Sermonis l. 2.
Ecclesiastical History skilfull in the Latine Greek and Hebrew Languages Marcus Pacuvius a famous Tragaedian There are some fragments of his remaining Iohn Paget a learned Divine as his Arrow against the Separation of the Brownists shews Santes Pagninus an Italian and a Dominican Frier a man excellently learned in the Hebrew Tongue There is his Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae cum recognit Merceri Fol. Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae And other Works Petrus de Palude vel Paludanus Anno Dom. 1320. He hath written upon the Gospels on the third and fourth Book of the Sennces De Causa immediata Eccles. potestatis De audientia Confessorum Iacobus Pamelius He was born at Bridges in Flanders Anno 1536. He was excellently versed in both prophane and sacred History He hath not only made Cyprian and Tertullian better but also illustrated them with learned Commentaries Guido Pancirolus He hath published Com. in notitiam utramque dignitatum tam Orientis quam Occidentis Thesaurus variarum lectionum utriusque juris And other Works Franciscus Panicarola Three at that time in concionibus dicendi laude florebant Panicarola Tolet Lupus There being three things required of an Orator Ut doceat ut delectet ut moveat it was commonly said then Lupus movet Toletus docet Panicarola delectat Anton. Panormita Privy-Councelour to Alphonsus King of Spain and Naples He hath published his memorable sayings and deeds in four Books A most famous Poet and Oratour Abbas Panormitanus Anno Dom. 1440. The most learned of the Canonists He hath put out In Libros Decretalium tomos 4. Consilia Quaest. Repertorium Iuris Henricus Pantaleon Anno Christi 1522. He wrote Prosopographiae illustrium virorum Germaniae Diarium Historicum And divers other Works mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Paphnutius Famous in Ecclesiastical History Papinianus A famous Lawyer he lived under Septimius Severus Ioannes Pappus a learned Lutherane He was born in the year of Christ 1549. He published many Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue He died in the year which he expressed in this Verse familiar to him in his Inscriptions Ad fine M sI qVis se parat I LLe sapit Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast ab Hohenheim a learned Physician He had divers names He held there were three principles of things Sulphure Salt and Mercury He said Physick was supported by four pillars the first of which is Philosophy or Physick which is a knowledge of earth and water and all things thence begotten the second Astronomy which is a knowledge of the other two Elements and all heavenly bodies Thirdly Alchimy which demonstrates the Compositions and dissolutions of all Bodies The last is Vertue which requires that a Physician should be pious toward God just constant and faithfull toward men and a lover of all good He often censures and reproves the Ancients Hippocrates Galen and Aristotle not excepted Daniel Pareus He hath written Universalis Historiae Profanae Medulla Mellificum Atticum David Pareus his Son a learned Divine of Germany He hath written Commentaries and Adversaria upon all the Books of the Scripture Io. Philip Pareus his Sonne He hath written Thesaurus linguae Latinae Electa Plantina Lexicon Plantinum Musae fugitivae Theatrum Philosophiae Christianae Narratio historica de vita obitu D. Parei patris ejus A Commentary upon Philemon and Iude. And other Works Matthaeus Paris sive Parisius Anno Dom. 1250. A Benedictine Monk of the Monastery of S t Albane here in England a very faithfull and diligent Authour He wrote Historiam Anglicanam the English History from the year of the Lord 1066 even unto the year 1201. Vir omnium citimae aetatis historicorum Anglorum nisi cui placeat Willielmum Malmesburiensem excipere eruditissimus Casaub. ad Front Ducaeum Epist. Gul. Parisiensis His Works are in two Volumes Robert Parker a Reverend Divine There are these Works of his De Descensu Christi De Politia Ecclesiastica Christo Hierarchiae opposita A Scholastical Discourse about the Sign of the Crosse. Iohn Parkins an Utter-barister of the Inner-Temple He put forth a little Treatise in the Reign of King Edward the sixth of certain Titles of the Common-Laws wittily and learnedly composed Rob. Parsons an English Jesuite He was most skilfull in railing and reviling able to put Shimei Rabshakeh and Thersites himself to school See Charles Paget his Book against him and Watsons Quodlibets fourth Answ. to second Artic. and Quodlibet 3 d Answ. to the sixth Artic. There is a Book commonly called Resolutions which goes under his name which the Papists much magnifie as also his Treatise of the three Conversions of England But Doctor Iames somewhere denies the first to be his Protestants have published some Books of Papists as Parsons Resolutions Granadoes Meditations with some altering of the Sentences though if these Books had never come out the scandal had been lesse Doctor Iames his myst of the Ind. Expurgat Carolus Paschalius a learned man He hath written Legatus Ceusura animi ingrati De optimo genere elocutionis CHAP. IV. STeven Pasquier a learned Frenchman He flourished Anno à Christi Nativitate 1546. He hath written an excellent Treatise in French styled La Recherche de la France He hath published also Icones Epigrammes and Epitaphs and several other Works Iohn Passeratiusa a learned Frenchman the Kings Professour of Eloquence in Paris an excellent Orator and Poet. He hath put out Orations and Prefaces a Commentary on Catullus Tibullus and Propertius Varia Opuscula His French Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque George Passor Professor of Divinity and Hebrew at Herborn of Greek at Frankere He hath put out a Lexicon Greek and Latine upon the New Testament Manuale Graecarum vocum N. T. Syllabas vocum N. T. Oratio funebris in obitum Jo. Piscatoris Paedagogus Christianus Matthias Pasor Son to George Pasor a learned Professor at Groning There is his Oratio pro linguae Arabicae professione Marsilius Patavinus Franciscus Patricius Venetus He taught Philosophy at Rome and Padua His learned Works are Paraleli militares Liber male quidem amplus ac magnus sed rerum quae in ea continentur aestimatione ac pondere longe maximus atque gravissimus Jan. Nic. Eryth Pinac Nova de Universis Philosophiae Nova Geometria novaque Rhetorica De scribenda historia tres Dialogi De Arte Poetica tres decades And other Works C. Velleius Paterculus an elegant Historian but he was a great flatterer of Tiberius Patrick the first or second Archbishop of Ireland Anno gratiae 491. Sanctus Patricius secundus Hyberniae Archiepiscopus anno aetatis suae 122. in domino quievit Matth. Westm. Flor. Hist. 93. Vide Rivii Regim Anglic. in Hibern defens adversus Analecten l. 2. p. 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
still added Semper excipio Platonem Pliny cals him Sapientiae Antistitem Plato ille sublimis apex philosophorum columen Arnob. Adversus Gentes l. 1. He had his name Plato from his broad shoulders His Works are in one Volume Plantus He is called Musarum decima linguae Latinae decus musarum ille Gratiarum hortus He was born at Sarsina an ancient City at the foot of the Appenine in Lombardy Taubman before his excellent Commentary hath many Elogia of Plautus C. Plinius He wrote 37 Books of the History of the world and was Uncle to him who wrote the Epistles as the Epistle 16. l. 6. ad Cornelium Tacitum shews The whole Epistle is about the death of the elder Pliny and begins thus Petis ut tibi avunculi mei exitum scribam c. He sometimes labours more to write much then exactly Plinius ille diligens totius antiquitatis pervestigator qui nullam bibliothecam praetermisse videtur quam non excusserit perlustrarit Onid Fab. In N. T. Syr. Lat. Interpret Praefat. Passeratius hath these verses In Plinii naturalem Historiam Cuncta suo amplexu magnus si continet orbis Plinius totum solus complectitur orbem Quisquis erit magni complexus scripta Secundi Ipso major eris rerum qui maximus orbe C. Plinius Caecilius He wrote six books of Epistles and a Panegyrick to Trajane the Emperour Plinius secundus the purest Writer in mine opinion of all his age I except not Suetonius his two Schoolmasters Quintilian and Tacitus nor his most excellent learned Uncle Stephanus Paschasius hath these verses of him in his Icones Me lege nec Plinium credas legisse secundum Nulli ego dum vixi quippe secundus eram Rursus auctorom tu ne legisse putato En tibi sum larga Bibliotheca penu Edm. Ployden a grave man and singularly well learned in the Law His Commentaries consisting of two parts both of them learnedly and curiously polished and published by himself the one in Anno 13. Reg. Eliz. and the other in the 21 year of the same Queen Works as they well deserve with all the professors of the Law of high account The author was an ancient Apprentice of the Law of the middle Temple of great gravity knowledge and integrity Plutarke was born in the City of Chaeronea Ammonius was his Schoolmaster He was a grave and very learned Authour He lived under Domitian and Nerva but flourished especially under Trajane He was his Schoolmaster and dedicated the Collection of his Apothegmes to him It was said of him if all Authours were lost he alone might supply Ita judico caeterorum scriptorum jacturam vel unius Plutarchi operibus resarciri posse Frischlinus in defensione Aristophanis His Lives and Morals were his best Works His Lives make an abridgement of all the best things contained in the Greek and Latine Histories He was a follower of Plato but an enemy to the Epicures and Stoicks Plutarchus totius antiquitatis rimator indagator tam curiosus libro aureo de sera numinis vindicta Herald Animadvers In Salmas Observat. Ad Ius Att. Rom. l. 4. c. 4. Historiam hic alii mores sophiamque colamus Nullus erit geminum qui tibi praestet opus Hoc Cherronensis studium conjuxit utrunque Historiae mores moribus Historiam Steph. Paschas Icon. Theodorus Gaza a Grecian born of singular learning being once asked by his familiar friends which saw him so greatly affectioned to his study what Authour he would choose amongst many if he could keep but one alone he answered Plutarke because there is none so profitable and delightfull also to reade as he Edward Pocock the worthy Professor of the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues in Oxford He is honourably mentioned by Gerhard on Peter and other outlandish men His learned notes in Specimen hist. Arabum and Miscellaneous Notes in Portam Mosis give good evidence of his abilities and I hope as he in the book last quoted very learnedly and profitably handleth the places of Scripture which he treateth of so he will improve his knowledge in the Orientall Tongues for the illustrating of divers passages in Scripture Ioannes Franciscus Poggius Florentinus a Lawyer and Doctor of Divinity naturally eloquent especially in accusations and invectives He was facetious but too bitter he wrote two books sharply against Laurentius Valla to whom Valla replied as sharply His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He wrote some obscene things worthy to be burnt rather then read He was at the Councell of Constance where he is said to have found Quintilian and Asconius Pedianus Amandus Pâ—lanus the ornament of the University of Basill His Syntagma Theologiae Christianae Commentary upon Daniel Malechy and other learned Works shew his abilities Angelus Politianus so called à Monte Politiano a Town in Hetruria He had not his fellow among all those that flourished in his age as we may see by his Works He was most skilfull in the Greek and Latine tongue a famous Grammarian Oratour and Poet. Huic me puero à multis primae deferebantur Mira ejus omnino eruditio vehemens paratum ingenium jugis frequens lectio sed calore potius quam arte versus scripsisse videtur judicii utique parum cùm in seligendo tum in castigando habuisse visus est Lil. Gyrald De Poet. nost Temp. Dial. 1. In his youth he did first make the Greek Poet Homer to speak in the Latine Tongue Politian in the preface to his Miscel. saith thus Ac non id quaesivimus ut aliquam doctis hominibus veluti labeculam aspergeremus sed id cavimus potius ne sub illorum auctoritate studiosorum fides periclitaretur See a commendation of his Miscellanies l. 3. Epist. 18. 19. l. 6. Epist. 4. l. 7. Epist. 4. His severall Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Iulius Pollux He lived in the time of Commodus the Emperour There is his Onomasticon Gr Lat. Reginaldus Polus Cardinalis He was of a very Noble extraction being near of kinne to King Henry the 8 th both by the Father and Mothers side and a good Scholer In quo sanguinis nobilitas nam proxima cognatione Regem contigebat morum gravitas cum eximia doctrina conjuncta extitit Godw. Rerum Anglic. Annal. l. 2. p. 95. Vide etiam l. 3. p. 133. In Calvins Epistles and Answers Bullinger writes to Calvin that England had returned to the Pope and Popery and that the devil to recover it had used two speciall instruments the Bishop of Winchester within the Kingdom and Cardinall Poole without it who then was made Archbishop of Canterbury And he shews there that Cardinall Poole was received with great solemnity at Pauls Crosse in London and that the Bishop of Winchester in that Assembly revoked the Oration which he had before published under Henry the 8
She hath put out Opuscula Hebraea Graeca Latina Gallica Prosaica Metrica In the third Edition of which Book and the end of it there are divers Elogia of her by many learned men Bartholomaeus Scultetus a great Mathematician Abraham Scultetus a most eloquent Preacher and learned Divine He hath written Medulla Theol. Patrum in four Volumes Exercitationes Evangelicae Deliciae Evangelicae Pragenses In Epistolas Pauli ad Timotheum duas Titum Philemonem Annalium Evangelii Decas 1 a 2 da. De curriculo vitaesive de actionibus Pragensibus cum aliis De Imaginibus Idololat sermo Scultetus Orthodoxus seu responsio ad Theses de Imaginibus CHAP. XIII CAelius Sedulius Scotus Anno Dom. 490. 430. saith Barclay Sedulius Presbyter vir quidem ille doctus in sacris literis interpretandis exercitatus Rivii Reg. Angl. in Hibern defens adversus Analecten l. 2. Vide R. Episc. Usser De Brit. Eccles. primord c. 16. Iohn Selden a learned Lawyer of the Inner-Temple He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law Some like his Marmora Arundeliana some his Books concerning the Jewish Rites and Customes others much commend his Titles of Honour but I must confesse my self to be most taken with that De Diis Syris wherein he opens many places of Scripture Others I believe also are of the same judgement He is honourably mentioned by many outlandish men He wrote in all his Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above all Liberty to shew that he would examine things and not take them upon trust Nicolaus Selneccerus Doctor of Divinity and Professor of the same in the University of Lipsia He wrote this Distick for himself Quid sum Nil Quis sum Nullus sed gratia Christi Quod sim quod vivo quodque labore facit His many Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher was born a little before the death of Augustus Caesar. The divine Moralist he is a great reprover of vices he was the Prince of the Stoicks who were the strictest of the Heathen Philosophers Morum Apelles ille singularis Censor Scriv. Animadv in Mart l. 10. He was Nero's Schoolmaster who was a young Prince of great hope and in youth he shewed himself gentle tractable obeying his Schoolmasters instructions who delighted to manure this plant hoping all the world should have joy of him He had an excellent memory He was too covetous which caused his death Seneca the Tragick Poet. This and the former Seneca and Lucan the Poet were born at Corduba in Spain Duosque Senecas unicumque Lucanum Facunda loquitur Corduba Mart. Epig. l. 1. Ep. 29. Sixtus Senensis He is commended by Bellarmine l. 1. De verbo Dei for a singular Divine and by D r Stapleton Doct. Princ. for one writing most accurately of the Scripture Doctissimus sagacissimus veterum Scriptorum Censor Savil. Not. in Chrysost. Vir doctissimus prodigiosae lectionis industriae Montac Exercit. 5. sect 4. Immensi laboris scriptor diligentiae stupendae lectionis variae eruditionis admirandae Id. Exercit. 5. c. 3. Dan. Sennertus a learned Physician There are his Institutiones Medicinae Io. Genes Sepuluenda Cordubensis A grave learned Historian sometimes Chronicler to Charles the fifth Nic. Serarius a good Hebrician Hebraearum antiquitatum callentissimus vir utinam paulò modestior Montac Exercit 3. sect 2. He hath written a Commentary on Ioshua Iudges Ruth Esther the books of the Kings and Chronicles the Canonical Epistles Opuscula Theologica Prolegomena in universa Biblia Disputatio de loco Paradisi Baronius call'd him Ecclesiae Germaniae jubar Servius a most learned Grammarian He hath commented excellently on Virgil. Sulpitius Severus after Tertullian of the same standing with Augustine Epiphanius and Chrysostom a Writer for skill in the Persian story deserving great commendation and to the true understanding of Ezra and Nehemiah and Daniels Weeks bringeth such light as is not in any ancient Writer that I have read to be found the like Livelies Chronology of the Persian Monarchy Robert Sheringham He hath put out a Thalmudical book of Sacrifices D r Richard Sibbes a grave and solid Divine Famous for his piety learning devotion and politenesse of his two genuine writings The bruised Reed and Souls Conflict Sir Philip Sidney a learned Gentleman and of Oxford He married the sole daughter and heir of that worthy Statesman Sir Francis Walsingham Of whom I may say as Austen did of Homer that he is very sweet and delightfull even in his vanities Yet he was not so fond of his Arcadia as the Bishop Heliedorus of his amorous book for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed Lipsius dedicates to him his Dialogue De Recta Pronunciatione Latinae Linguae and hath this passage in his Epistle O Britanniae tuae clarum sidus cui certatim lucem affundunt virtus Musa Gratia Fortuna Sigebertus Monachus Gemblacensis Natione Gallicus Anno Dom. 1100. 1056. Helv. Chron. Sigebert Monk of Gemblaux wrote his Chronicle and other Histories in the seventh Age. Carolus Sigonius a most accurate Writer Erroribus Livii exhauriendis bonam fidelemque navavit operam vir eruditissimus Carolus Sigonius quem ego antiquitatis peritissimum bonorum scriptorum intelligentissimum eruditissimum nominare merito possum Turneb Advers lib. 11. cap. 18. Silius Italicus Vossius De Poetis Latinis c. 3. gives the reason why he was called Italicus Iacobus Silvius a learned man and great Physician but very covetous Buchanan made these Verses of him Silvius hic situs est gratis qui nil dedit unquam Mortuus gratis quod legis ista dolet Ios Simlerus He expounded the Scriptures with a great commendation in his own Countrey De Republica Helvetiorum praecipuam laudem meretur Melchior Adam Voetius much commends his Epitome Bibliothecae Gesneri cum supplemento usque ad annum 1570 quo studiosi saith he carere non possunt Voet. Biblioth Studiosi Theol. l. 2. There is in Oxford and Sion Library an Edition of Gesners Bibliotheca viz. 1583. wherein there is the Appendix both of Simlerus and Iohannes Iacobus Frisius In the Title are these words Opus non Bibliothecis tantum publicis privatisve instituendis necessarium sed studiosis omnibus cujuscunque artis aut scientiae ad studia melius formanda utilissimum Simonides An ancient Greek Poet. There are his Carmen Gr. Elogia de vanitate vitae Simplicius The Prince of Philosophers in his time These of his Works are published A Commentary on Aristotles Predicaments And on other Books of his And on Epictetus his Enchiridion Gabriel Sionita A great Linguist There is his Geographia Nubiensis ex Arabico in Latinum versa Iacobus Sirmondus a Learned French Jesuite There
is his Eucharisticon pro Adventoria de Regionibus Ecclesiis suburbiciariis Censura conjecturae Anon. Scriptoris de suburbicariis regionibus Ecclesiis Propempticum Cl. Salmasio adversum ejus Eucharisticon And other Works Io. Sleidanus He hath by his Commentary of the state of Religion got himself a great reputation it being translated into divers Languages Germane French and Italian The Latine is very elegant There are Orations 2. De quatuor Imperiis De Capta Buda Henricus Smetius He was learned in many Languages and Arts but especially in Philosophy History and Physick His Prosodia Nova was much liked and printed nine times Hoc opus ejus majore studio quam judicio collectum est Scriv. Animadvers in Mart. l. 6. Erasmus Schmidt There is a Greek Concordance of his published and a little Book De Dialectis Graecorum Miles Smith Bishop of Glocester and one of the Translators of the Bible There are Learned Sermons of his Sir Thomas Smith Secretary to Queen Elizabeth He hath published these Works De recta linguae Gr. pronunciatione De recta linguae Anglicae scriptione De Republica Anglorum Rodolphus Snellus a most excellent Mathematician He was Professour of the Mathematicks in Holland his own Countrey He was most skilfull in Greek and Hebrew His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Willebord Snellius Son to Rodolphus He hath put out Cyclometricus Doctrinae Triangulorum Canonicae lib. 4. Hassiacae observat Coeli Syderum Erhardus Snepsius Anno Christi 1495. His mother being a pious woman consecrated this her eldest Sonne as Hannab Samuel to God and Divinity Theodoricus Snepsius Anno Dom. 1586. His Comentaries upon the Prophet Esay are mole parvi eruditione magni Other Works of his are also published In 44. postremos Psal Davidis CHAP. XIV LAelius Socinus Senensis natus Anno 1525. Calvin in his Epistles writes to one Lelius Sozinus an Italian who seemed to doubt of the Resurrection of the body I suppose it is the same Lalius Socianus He carried the matter with such a cleanly conveyance that he was scarce taken notice of though he received some checks and admonitions yet most men thought charitably of him during his life his black designs were not fully discovered till after his death Faustus Socinus the Nephew of Laelius was born in the year 1529. He had more subtilty then learning He wrote a Book about the Authority of the Scripture in which he doth slily pervert the Scriptures and lay a ground for all his heretical blasphemies Marianus Socinus a learned Lawyer Several Works of his are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Socrates Scholasticus Anno Dom. 440. He wrote from the time of Constantine the Great Emperour unto the Empire of Theodosius the younger a Volume of Ecclesiastical History and an Epitome of the affairs of Rome Socrates Theodoret and Sozomen composed a History Epiphanius Scholasticus translated these three into Latine Aurelius Cassiodore requiring it and called the whole Book from these three Historians The Tripartite History C. qulius Solinus Polyhist Anno Dom. 68. Helv. Julius Solinus Plinii simiolus vel verius Compilator Lud. Viv. de tradend Disc. lib. 4. Georgius Sohnius George Sohn Doctor of Divinity in Heildeberg Sophocles Anno Dom. 3486. How much Virgil esteemed him he shews sufficiently in his Eclogues Solo Sophocleo tua carmina digna Cothurno Tully in his second Book De Divinatione cals him a Divine Poet. Dominicus Soto A Spanish Divine of great fame None of those Divines who were at the Councel of Trent were more learned then those three of Spain Andradius Vega Dominicus à Soto Hermias Sozomen He lived under Theodosius the younger and dedicates his Ecclesiastical History consisting of nine Books to him Frederick Spanheme a learned and pious Divine His Dubia Evangelica Chamierus contractus exercitationes de gratia universali his Epistle to Buchanan of the English Controversies and to Cottierus of the reconciliation of Universal Grace shew his great abilities Aelius Spartianus He lived in the time of Diocletian There is his History of divers Emperours before his time Sir Henry Spelman a learned and painfull Antiquary De prisca literatura bene meritus Olaus Wormius His Book De Conciliis is well-liked and for our English Ecclesiastical Antiquities held the best Edmund Spencer the Prince of Poets in his time His Monument stands in Westminster-Abbey near Chaucers with this Epitaph Hic prope Chaucerum Situs est Spenserius illi Proximus ingenio Proximus ut tumulo Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere Poeta Poetam Conderis versu Quam tumulo propior Anglica te vivo vixit Plausitque Poesis Nunc moritura timet Te moriente mori He wrote many Poems in English which are printed together in one Volume He wrote a Book also of the State of Ireland and a Dialogue in prose between Eudoxus and Irenaeus Ad. Spigelius a learned Physician There are these Works of his De humani corporis fabrica Isagoge in rem herbariam De formato foetu cum figuris arthritide Io. Stadius A great Mathematician Sir William Stamford Sometimes of Grayes-Inne a man excellently learned in the Common-Laws He wrote a Book in the Common-Law of the Pleas of the Crown and the Prerogative of the King Sir Edw. Cooks Pref. to his tenth Rep. Richard Stanihurst a learned Irish Papist bred up in the University of Oxford His Works are these Catena Dialectica in Porphyrianas institutiones which he wrote in Oxford and published when he was eighteen years old De rebus Hibernicis l. 4. A Description of Ireland in English Hebdomada Mariana Hebdomada Eucharistica Virgil in English And Praemonitio pro Concertatione cum Jacobo Usserio He was brother to Bishop Ushers mother Thomas Stapleton a learned Englishman The famous Professor of the University of Lovain He died Anno Dom. 1598. His Relectio Principiorum fidei doctrinalium is much commended Papin Statius a good Poet. Doctor Iosuah Stegman He usually cals the Socinians Photinians and therefore entitles his own book Photinianismus Didacus Stella Iohn Ferus and he were two of the most famous Popish Preachers Aug. Steuchus Eugubinus a good Grecian His Works are in two Volumes in Sion Colledge Catalogue Godeschalcus Stewichius He hath written De particulis Linguae Latinae Henricus Stephanus There were four Stevens Frenchmen Henry the Father and Robert his Sonne thirdly Henry Roberts Son and Paul the Sonne of that Henry all learned and Printers Robert Stevens the Printer at Paris Secundum Aldum Manutium Romanum qui Venetiis Joannem Frobenium qui Basileae eandem artem summâ laude exercuerunt clarissimus quos ille longo spatio supergressus est acri judicio diligentiâ accuratâ artis ipsius elegantiâ cui ob id non solùm Gallia sed universus Christianus orbis plurimum debet Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1.
called Tyrtamus He is the only Greek Writer of Characters Arte an sorte datum Theophrasti sit tibi nomen Nescio divino nomen ab eloquio Steph. Paschas Icon. He was one of Aristotles own Disciples and succeeded him in his School much commended by him an excellent Philosopher certainly by those Works of his not the twentieth part of what he had written that remain to this day D r Casaub. of Enthus c. 3. Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Theophylact Archbishop of Bulgaria Anno Dom. 930. Calvis 912. Helv. Others say 1070 1071. saith Baronius He is the Epitomator of Chrysostom Andrew Thevet the King of Frances Cosmographer He hath written an universal Cosmography in French in two Tomes in Royal-paper it came forth Anno 1575. in which he doth not only rehearse what he learned from the books of others but what he himself had seen by travelling almost over the world and by viewing all the Seas So that some think there is nothing more learned and more orderly disposed published in that kinde Thuanus and Casaubone slight him He hath written also Les Vies des hommes illustres the Lives of illustrious men in French in a great Folio with their Pourtraicts Herbert Thorndike a learned Divine His Works are commonly known Iacobus Augustus Thuanus a most faithfull Historian and the chief of those of this last Age. President of the Parliament at Paris He writes a History of things done throughout the whole world from the year of Christ incarnate 1545 even to the year 1608 in a most elegant style Incomparable Mounsieur De Thou who is a glory to the Romish Synagogue it self and whose History the most exact and excellent that ever was written by a humane pen ought alwayes to be dear to the Christian world Sir Simonds D' Ewes his Primitive practice for preserving Truth Sect. 16. His History and other Works are in four Volumes in Folio Thucidides Historicorum omnium qui in Graecia floruerunt longè clarissimus Naudaeus De Studo militar◠l. 1. A most famous Historian both for his eloquence and faithfulnesse The beginning continuance and end of the Peloponnesian warre is most exactly described by Thucidides an Athenian Gentleman the Penner thereof who flourished in that time and saw the warre with his eyes from the beginning to the end yea was a chief Captain therein a Writer for certain truth of History and perfect reckoning of time most excellent and of such account in the Ages following that even the best followed him and gave credit to him Demosthenes the famous Oratour of Athens took pains to copy out his Books eight times with his own hand as Lucian reporteth Livelies Chronology of the Persian Monarchy Multum fidei si quis alius scriptor hic meretur Nam egregium veritatis in eo studium elucet illa scripsit quibus interfuit Voss. De Hist. Graec. l. 1. c. 4. Vide plura ibid. Tibullus a most elegant Poet. Daniel Tilenus a learned man but inconstant he fell off from us to Arminianism He hath written Notes and Observations upon Bellarmines Disputation De Christo Capite And on his Book De Summo Pontifice and his Book De verbo Dei Parenaesis ad Scotos Amica collatio Tileni Cameronis de Gratia voluntatis humanae concursu Disput. de Antichristo Consideratio sent Jac. Arminii de Praedestinat gratia Dei Libero Arbitrio Syntagma Disputationum in Academia Sedanensi Andreas Tiraquellus He is styled by Conradus Ritterhusius Varro ille Gallicus He hath written well upon Alexander ab Alexandro his Book Genialium dierum what Alexander hath written briefly and without mention of Authours he hath illustrated with his Commentary and shewed to whom he was beholding for what he had Iacobus Tirinus a learned Jesuite he hath commented on all the Scripture CHAP. III. FR. Toletus a learned Cardinal and Jesuite Beza much commended his Commentary on Iohn to Casaubone as Casaubone relates in his Epistle to Fronto Ducaeus and deservedly saith he Nam in ejus scriptis quae legi cum excellente rerum Philosophicarum Theologicarum notitia par erat modestia quae judicio meo tum in alio quovis scriptore tum in Theologo potissimum laus est vel praecipua He hath commented also upon Luke on the Epistle to the Romans And put out several other Works Cardinal D'Ossat in the second Book of his French Letters saith When he perceived himself near death he sent to the Pope then to desire his holy Benediction as it is the custom of people of quality when they finde themselves in such extremity and his Holinesse saith he without an example of the like in our time went from his lodging to give it him in person and stayed with him about half an hour comforting him and weeping bitterly and in the end taking his leave of him he kissed him in the forehead and after his death caused him to be buried with great and publick solemnity Iacobus Philippus Thomasinus There are his Elogia virorum doctorum Italiae And Laurentii Pignorii Bibliotheca Musaeum Georgius Tompsonus George Thompson Vir egregie doctus gente Scoto-britannus mihique obtulit recens à se Londini editum libellum Opus est sane non ineruditum quod arguat scriptorem multae lectionis nisi quod supra modum modestiae effervescit quo nomine etiam serio reprehensus est ab Heroe Scaligero Baud. Epist. Cent. 2. Ep. 56. Vide etiam Epist. 91. That Book is his Vindex veritatis adversus Iustum Lipsium He hath put out another Work entituled La Chasse de la Beste Romaine Cuthbert Tonstall Bishop of Durham famous in those times for Learning and integrity of life He hath written De veritate Corporis Sanguinis Domini in Eucharistia De arte supputandi In Ethica Aristotelis Synopsis Torquatus Tassus a learned Poet. Aug. Torniellus a learned and diligent Italian Historian There are his Annales sacri ab orbe condito ad Christi passionem in 2 Tomes Levinus Torrentius Episcoporum superioris seculi doctissimus Meibomii Maecenas c. 12. He hath published a learned Commentary upon Suetonius his Caesars upon Horace a work De bello Turcico He was a great Poet Efferant Bembos Pontanos Flaminios Itali attollant caeteri suos Nos Torrentium vel ipsorum Italorum judicio Lyrici carminis post Horatium principem laudemus qui perennis perpetuique torrentis instar sacra carmina ad extremam usque aetatem mira ubertate profudit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Ioannes Tortellius He hath written De Orthographia Dan. Tossanus He hath written upon Ieremies Lamentations divers parts of the New Testament and several other Works Synopsis de Patribus quo tempore vixerint quantum eis deferendum qua cautione legendi Paul Tossanus He hath written Index in S. Biblia part 2. De vita
wonder B. Halls 1. Dec. of Epist. Ep. 7. All his Works are in one Volume Ieremy Whitaker my worthy friend a learned and pious Divine of the Assembly lately dead who was a man mighty in the Scriptures of a humble melting Spirit laborious in his ministerial function zealous for Gods glory and wonderfully patient in all the time of his heavy affliction D r Iohn White He hath written the way to the true Church and a Defence of the same which Book is well esteemed Thomas White an English Papist Books written by him Three Dialogues De mundo Institutiones Peripateticae ad mentem Digbaei Institutiones sacrae in 2. Tom. Quaestio Praevia mens Augustini de Gratia De Medio animarum statu Meditationes in Gratiam Sacerdotum Cleri Anglicani Richworths Dialogues or the judgement of common sense in the choise of Religion A Catechism in Religion Meditations in English A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love and A Descant on the Prayer in the Garden Obedience and Government Tabulae Suffragiales by which it appears he wrote a piece called Sonitus Buccinae which was condemned at Rome by the Cardinals Iohn Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury He had an Uncle called Robert Whitgift Abbot of the Monastery of Wellow in Lincolnshire who teaching divers young Gentlemen took like pains also with him In which time as he was pleased often to remember he heard his Uncle the Abbot say That they and their Religion could not long continue because said he I have read the whole Scripture over and over and could never finde therein that our Religion was founded by God And for proof of his opinion the Abbot would alledge that saying of our Saviour Matth. 15. 13. Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out He never preached but he first wrote his Notes in Latine and afterward kept them during his Life There were several writings between him and Thomas Cartwright about the Ceremonies CHAP. VIII IOhn Wicliff a most incomparable Schoolman He followed William Ockam much he is often quoted by him and styled Inceptor Ockam Iohn Hus was his Scholar he brought his Books and Doctrine into Bohemia He being the publick Reader in the University of Oxford was for the rude time wherein he lived famously reputed for a great Clerk and expert in all kinde of Philosophy He flourished about the year of our Lord 1371. Edward the third reigning in England He was called Doctor Evangelicus He was born in the North and to this day some of his name and family do there yet remain to whom I am allied He was brought up in Merton Colledge in Oxford and removed thence to Queens Colledge He was beloved of all good men for his good life and greatly admired of all his adversaries for his Learning and knowledge both in Divinity and humanity He was Doctor in Divinity almost thirty years and for some time Parson of Lutterworth in Leicestershire See Camden there Divers Works of his in written-hand remain in our Oxford-Library He translated the whole Bible into English with Prefaces and Arguments to every book In his Trialogus or Body of Divinity l. 4. c. 7. he saith Ideo si centum essent Papae omnes fratres essent versi in Cardinales non deberet concedi sententiae suae in materia fidei nisi de quanto se fundaverit in Scriptura He also saith Papa est abominatio desolationis in abstracto And Ch. 36. Olim Episcopi nostri dicuntur pseudofratres tanquam Diabolos odivisse cum in tempore Domini Armachani dicuntur ipsum in sumplibus contra hos pseudo ordines defendisse Sed modo facti sunt amici Herodes Pilatus qui prius inter se fuerant inimici There is also his Dialogus and De Veritate Scripturae and divers other Manuscripts of his well worthy the publishing Yet he had his errours lib. 2. of that Book cap. 10. he saith Angelos adoramus See those Scriptures against that opinion Deut. 4. 19. 17. 3. Col. 2. 18. Apoc. 9. 10. 20. 8 9. He grants Purgatory also l. 4. c. 22. of that book Yet he was the first saith Bale who in that dark age brought truth to light and was bold openly to confesse Christ before the whole Synagogue of Satan and to reveal the filthinesse of the great Whore Fuit Wicleffus sectarius plane nostrorum hodie Evangelicorum vervex fuit omnium quae tam longe latéque grassantur haeresion seminarium Harpsf Praefat. ad Histor. Anglic. Eccles. Roger Widdrington a learned School-Divine as his Works both in English and Latine shew His right name was Preston for Widdrington was a plain illiterate man He and Blackwell took the Oath of Allegiance He wrote to the Pope and earnestly beg'd of him that the Papists here might take that just Oath of Allegiance â—o the King and refuted Bellarmine who opposed it with strong reasons This Oath viz. of Allegiance according to every part and parcel of the same may be lawfully taken by any Catholick as have averred both M. Widdrington Sir William Howard and others Widdrington in his New-years-gift hath sufficiently proved that besides the authority of many famous Divines it was the opinion of the chiefest secular Priests in England Doctor Featleys Animadvers on Vert. Rom. Albertus Widmanstadius a famous man and well skilled in the Orientall Tongues He was Chancellor to Ferdinand the wise Prince of the Romans and by his commandment and great liberality was imployed in the Edition of all the New Testament in Syriack in a fair character save the * Apocalypse and four Epistles the 2 d of Peter the 2 d and 3 d of Iohn that of Iude which Work was generally much esteemed by Christians Ioannes Wierus a learned Germane Some commend his Book De praestigiis Daemonum for a most learned and elegant piece Io. Wigandus He was born at Mansfield Anno Christi 1523. Many years before his death he made this Epitaph for himself In Christo vixi morior vivoque Wigandus Do sordes morti caetera Christe tibi The sayings of the Scripture with which he sustained himself against temptations on his death bed were these Ioh. 3. 16. Mat. 11. 29. 1 Ioh. 1. 7. The bloud of Iesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin He left many Works which are mentioned by Melchior Adam Andrew Willet A laborious godly Divine He printed thirty three Books Nigellus Wireker an ancient Poet. He largely toucheth the corrupt living and hypocrisie of his time chiefly in Bishops Priests Abbots Monks Canons and Nuns His Book is all in old Latine Verses and is named Speculum stultorum the glasse of fools that every dissolute Prelate might behold his folly therein Ralph Winterton Greek Professour in Cambridge There are his Observations on Hesiod printed with the minor Greek Poets And he hath translated some others Io. Wolfius Anno Christi 1537. He was born at
Germ. Math. Par. Hist. Ang. Paschasii Icones Recherches de la France Pena De usu Optices Suffridus Petrus De Scriptoribus Frisiae Pezel Mellific Hist. Photii Histor. Biblioth Pignor. Symbol Epist. Platina De vitis Pontificum Romanorum Mounsieur Plessis Memoires Pocock Not. Miscel. in Port. Mos. Deliciae Poetarum Polani Orat. Politiani Epist. opera Miscellanea Possev Apparatus Bibliotheca selecta Q QUintil Institut Orat. R RAmi Scholae Mathem Epist. Orat. Praefat. Laurent Rhod Orat. de Lingua Graeca Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius De ratione studii Angeli Rocchae Bibliotheca vaticana Romae S SAdolet Epist. Scaev. Sammarth Elog. Gall. doct illust Savil. Not. in Chrysost. Lect. in Euclid Anton. Sanderus De Script Fland. De Gandav Burg. Erudit Claris. Julii Josephi Scalig. Epist. Jul. Scal. Hypercritica Jo. Scal. De emendat Temp. Bernardinus Scardeonius De Clar. Med. Philos. Patav. Schickardi Beckinath Happeruschin Scultetus de curriculo vitae Seldenus De Syned vet Ebr. De Diis Syris Syntagma Sixt. Senens Biblioth Sanct. Jodoc Sincer. Itin. Gal. Sleid. Comment Henr. Steph. De Lipsii Latinitate Famiani Stradae Prolus Hist. Franc Swertii Athenae Belgicae T THeatre Des Antiquites du Paris Thevet Vies Des hommes Illustres Thuani Historia Tomasini Illust. vir Elogia Trithem De Script Eccles. Catal. Illust. Vir. Turnebi Adversaria Briani Twyni Antiq. Acad. Oxon. Apol. V JAcobi Vaget Period Reg. Turc Pier Valerianus De Literatorum infoelicitate Valeri Andreae Bibliotheca Belgica Vedel Exercit. in Epist. Ignat. Antoine du Verdier Bibliotheque Polyd. Verg. De invent rerum Jacob. Verheideni Essigies Elog. Theol. qui Antichristum praecipuè oppugnarunt Volat. Comment Urb. Vitae Profes Gron. Ludo Viv. De corrupt Art Trad. Disc. Voet. Biblioth Studios Theol. Ger. Jo. Vossius De Arte Grammatica De Arte Historica De Discip. Mathem De Histor. Graec. Lat. De Orig. Progres Idol De Poetis Graec. Lat. De vitiis Sermonis Usserii Annal. De Britan. Eccles. Primord de Edit LXX Interp. W IS Wake Rex Platon Wakefield Orat. de laude util trium Linguarum Walaei Opera Whear Method Leg. Hist. Wolfii Lect. Memorab Olai Wormii Literaturae Danica Musaeum Wormianum Joan à Wower Epist. de Polymathia Tractatus Z ZAnch De Divinat Epist. FINIS A Postscript to the Reader REader I shall desire thee to consider that there is something in those Books of mine already published of this Argument viz. in my choice Observations of the Romane Emperors The Saints Incouragement in Evil Times where I speak of the Martyrs and Luther and also in my Body of Divinity where I treat of the best Interpreters of Scripture which with this I hope will be usefull for this particular Subject Joseph Scaliger much disliked the trouble of making a Table or Index Nam ego malim multis millibus Inscriptionum edendis operam dare quam vel mediocrem Indicem texere Scal. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 68. Philippus Iacobus Maussacus in Animadvers upon Aristotles History de Animalibus and Julius Scalig. Commentaries near the end hath these words Plura paraveramus quae omittere coacti sumus ob Typographorum supinitatem qui nihil aliud quam errare sciunt taedet pigetque tot mendorum I would there were not cause for me to complain likewise in this kind We have not Plantine nor Stevens amongst us Where one makes use of divers Books besides his own and the faults in printing be numerous it is no easie task to specifie the chiefest Errata I shall mention some things in the general here and particularize the other Errata after Wherever Volatterane is quoted Comment Urban should follow p. 115. and in the Table reade Anacreon a Poet of Greece false interpunctions there are too many as for ae p. 19. m l. 32. p. 20. l. 41. ae for as p. 217. m. l. 12. as for us p. 87. l. 4. 86. l. 18. 106 m. l. 43. p. 108. m. l. 25. 170 m. l. 18. us for as p. 186. l. 11. m. 207. l. 12. the Italique Character not observed p. 21. l. 27. p. 101. l. 13. p. 139. l. 8. m. 16. not in the right Character p. 140. m. l. 30. p. 142. m. l. 31. p. 196 m. l. 8. a letter wanting p. 25. l. 5. p. 31. m. l. 12. p. 75. m. l. 38. p. 88. l. 15. p. 127. l. 30. a letter too much p 35. m. l. 13. p. 38 l. 30. p. 115. l. 5. p. 117. l. 37. p. 149. m. l. penult p. 156. m. l. 13. p. 177. l. 14. p. 189. l. 6. p. 195. m. l. 39. p. 209. l. 2. p. 227. m l. 4. p. 242. l. 7. p. 246. m. l. 7. p. 290. l. 8. a syllable too much p. 67. m. l. 13. p. 98. m. l. 12. p. 211. m. l. 12. one letter for another p. 56. l. 21. p. 65. m. l. 21. p. 68. l. 31. p. 69 m. l. 20. p. 73. l. 11. p. 92. l. 29. p. 103 m. l. ult p. 109. m. l. 9. p. 112. l. 9 18. p. 112. m. l. 16. p. 114. m. l. 30. p. 117. l. 2. 25. p. 139. l. 8. p. 143. l. 18. p. 150. m. l. 26. p. 153. l. 7. p. 155 m. l. 3. p. 157. m l. 17. p. 159. m. l. 11. p. 164. m. l. 32. p. 194. l. 11. p. 201 m. l. 34. p. 220. m. l. 24. p. 261. l. 4. words parted where they should be joyned p. 127. l. 6. m. l. 27. p. 149. l. 9. p. 160. m. l. 55. p. 322. m. l. 29. words joyned which should be severed p. 139. m. l. 7 p. 165. l. 6. p. 220. m. l. 53. words misplaced p. 134. l. 20. p. 140. m. l. 22. Chronological mistakes as p. 69. l. 28. 1346 p. 100. l. 22. 375. p. 191. m. l. 48 49. ante Christum 432. p. 213. l. 36. Anno Dom. 600. p. 61. m. l. 34. p. 213. l. 30. 31. Graiis Ingenium Graiis dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui ERRATA PAg. 2. l. 11. m. relegerent p. 3. l. 36. Ficinâ—â— p. 7. m. l. 54. innixâ—â— p. 15. l. 4. Bishopricks p. 16. l. ult initam p. 18. l. 30. Sancti p. 18. l 25. m. Romani ib. l. 28. religienem l. ult m tollendum p. 19. m. l. 32. Graecae ib. l 33 perui ib. l. 34. Hieronymi p. 21. l. 36. m. canponationem exquisitissimis p. 22. l. 51. m noâ—â—m p. 32. l. 15. eleven ib. l. 48. were p. 33. l. 15. m. Apostolorum p. 34. l. 48 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ib. did not promise p. 37. l. 22. m. videndo p. 38. l. 6. Orthoepia p. 38. l. 30. m. spacio p. 41. l antepen m. etiam inventi p. 42. l. 6. duplicatum Leucam ib. l. 17. fuerit p. 43. l. 14. m. motuum scientiam ib. l. 36. jucundius p 44. l. 36. diametrically ib. l. 38. Arohidiaconâ—s ib. m. l. 22. Ioanâ—iâ— ib.
was over-sharp and vehement in his Epistles with Austen and with others in his Controversall Writings Ut ubique vehemens ita in Eristico contradicendi genere parum interdum attendendus Montac Appar 9. Omnium Traditionum Curiosissimus explorator Id. Hilarius Pictaviensis Antistes Bishop of Poictou in France Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Et nos exhilaras Hilari sanctissime Praesul Et monitis victa est Arria secta tuîs. Hilarius Arelatensis Episcopus He lived in the time of Pope Leo about the year 458. Hildefonsus Toletanae sedis Episcopus There are Opuscula varia of his Arthur Hildersam a Learned and Judicious Divine who quotes Scripture Texts pertinently His Comment on the 51 Psalm and his Lectures on the 4 th of Iohn and other Works are excellent Treatises Hincmarus Anno Dom. 850. There are his Opuscula Epistolae Admonitio de potestate Regia Pontificia Hipparchus a great Astronomer He lived about 125 years before Christ was born Pliny much commends him in the 2 d Book of his Naturall History c. 26. There are his Enarrationes Gr. Lat. Ad Arati Eudoxi Phaenomena Hippocrates He was the first that wrote Methodically the Art of Physick all Greece admiring him because of his knowledge His Works are in Greek and Latine in two Volumes His Aphorisms are much esteemed and quoted by Physitians Hippolytus He hath written some Homilies and De Consummatione mundi de Antichristo secundo adventu Christi David Hoeschelius a very Learned man to whom we owe many good books Rob. Holcot an English man a Learned Dominican Monk He hath written On the Proverbs Questions and Speeches upon the Sentences De imputabilitate peccati quomodo longa Determinations of other Questions Iacobus Hollerius Magni illius Hollerii dignissimus filius Jacobi Augusti Thuani De vita sua l. 1. He hath written De morbis internis Observat. ad Consilia curandi Lucas Holstenius a Learned Papist Franciscus Hottomannus a Learned Lawyer well skilled in History and all Antiquity and a Protestant Divers of his Works published Concerning the Law and other things for the illustration of Antiquity and politer Learning are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Homer Seven Cities contended about his birth Leo Allatius hath written a book de Patria Homeri Homers Poetry is twofold his Iliades and Odysses In the Iliades he represents the strength of his body in his Odysses that of his minde both is described in an Heroick verse the most absolute of all Meeters Amongst all Homers verses his Iliades and Odysses are especially celebrated in which the light of all Philosophy Oratory and Poetry is seen Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Hist. l. 2. Est perfecto regium quid Homeri poesis praesertim Ilias paraemia quidem ait malorum Ilias haec vero omnis boni Ilias Possev Biblioth Select Tomo 2 do l. 17. c. 10. Homer and Virgill the two Poets that have been the admiration of all ages which have afforded men of judgement Philosophers and others ascribed little less then Divine authority to Homer Alexander the Great put Homers Iliades in a curious Casket which he took from Darius and laid it still under his pillow when he slept Homero vati haec est propria peculiarisque tribuenda laus quod neque ipse de patria sua quicquam prodidit pleraeque illum nobilissimae civitates suum quaeque fuisse alumnum contendunt Polit Orat. in Exposit. Hom. Vide plura ibid. Alcibiades the Athenian coming into a School commanded them to bring him Homers book when they answered they had him not he struck the Master and went away counting it an unworthy thing for a Schoolmaster to be without Homer Festus Hommius He was in the Synod of Dort and opposed the Arminians There is his Specimen controver siarum Belgicarum And his Disputationes Theologicae Petrus Cornelius Hoofduis a Learned Dutch Knight Richard Hooker For his solid Writings he was sirnamed the Iudicious and entitled Theologorum Oxonium He hath published a Learned Book Of the Laws of Ecclesiasticall Polity written in Defence of the Government then established against the new desired Discipline Iohn Hooper the Learned and godly Bishop of Glocester and Worcester and Martyr These are his Works His Answer to my L. of Winchesters book entituled A Detection of the devils Sophistry wherewith he robbeth the unlearned people of the true Belief in the Sacrament of the Altar Confession of the Christian Faith Declaration of the 10 Commandments Sermons on Ionas And other Tracts mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue Ioacbimus Hopperus He hath written divers Works Paraphrasis in Psalmos De usu Psalmorum De vera Iurisprudentia Isagoge in Iurisprudentiam De Iuris Arte. Dispositio Lib. Pandectarum More of his Works are mentioned by Suffridus Petrus De Scriptoribus Frifiâ— Horatius Flaccus an ingenious Poet. Qui unus plura Criticorum judiciò quam caeteri omnes innovavit Dilher Disputat Acad. Tom. 1. Robert Horne sometime Bishop of Winchester Et bene sonantem Hornum D r Humph. There is his Answer to Fecknam Conradus Hornaeus Lutheranus Vedelius terms him Virum doctissimum and commends his book De processu disputandi Lambertus Hortensius Divers of his Works are published De Anabaptistis De Bello Germanico Explanationes in Lucanum in Virgilii Aeneida Dissertatio de Trajecto Epistolis Rerum Ultrajectinarum Stanislaus Hosius He was imployed by three Emperours successively Charles the 5 th his Brother Ferdinand and Maximilian the sonne of Ferdinand He was President in the Councell of Trent All his Works are in one Volume Rod. Hospinianus He hath written De Festis Iudaeorum Ethnicorum De Templis De Monachis Michael Hospitalius Unicum aevi nostri decus Grot. Prâ—fat ad Poem Chancellour of France under Charles the 9 th but removed from the Court and made a prisoner as it were only because he opposed those wicked counsels against the Protestants in the Massacre at Paris Beza mentions him in his Icones Virorum illustrium There are these of his Works published Six Books of Epistles in Latine verse De Caleto expugnato Epistola carmen cum aliis In the Preface to his Epistle one saith it appeared by a most ancient Coin that he much resembled Aristotle Summum illum omnium Philosophorum principem Aristotelem sic ore toto retulit ut alterius ex altero imago expressa videri posset Io. Howson Bishop of Oxford a Learned man He hath written De Divortiis and Sermons Rogerius de Hoveden a famous Historian who flourished about the year 1190. He wrote two Books of Annals Robert Hues He hath written well of the Celestiall and Terrestiall Globes and their use Hermannus Hugo He hath written a good Book de Origine scribendi rei literariae antiquitate Hugo
Cardinal a Dominican He hath written learnedly on all the Scripture Antonius Hulsius a learned man He hath put out Theologia Iudaica and Notes on the Psalms in Latine Humbertus Episcopus Whom Leo the 9 th made Cardinal for the rare Learning and vertue which was in him and sent him to Constantinople to suppresse the andaciousnesse of another Leo Bishop of the Bulgarians Laurentius Humphredus Laurence Humfrey Doctor of Divinity and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a learned and pious man He hath written Bishop Iuels life in Latine and Iesuitismus De Interpretatione Linguarum He hath written in English Of Civil and Christian Nobility shewing the Original Nature Duties Right and Christian Institution thereof Also a Treatise by Philo a Jew of the same Argument translated Seven Sermons Iohn Hus a Bohemian born in a Town named Hassenitz He died as a Martyr of Christ at Constance Anno 1415. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He and Ierom of Prague were condemned in the Councel of Constance against the publick faith given them Hus in the year 1415. but Ierâ—m in the year following which Bodin though a Papist disliked De Repub. l. 5. c. 5. The people which were present at the execution of Hus so admired his constancy and pious death that they said What that man taught or did before we know not certainly those things are great evidences of true piety for he prayed most servently to God a little before his death Hulrichus Huttenus a Knight and Poet laureate born Anno 1488. He was Luthers good friend and encouraged him to constancy His Works are mentioned by Boissard In Vallam de donat constant Huttenus captivus Huttenus illustris Satyra nemo De Schismate extinguendâ— Exhortatio in Concil Basil. contra decimas De laude Germanorum De morbo Gallico Arminius Dialogus His Poetical Works are in one Volume There was this Epitaph made of him Hic eques auratus jacet oratorque disertus Huttenus vates carmine ense potens C. Iulius Hyginus Hypatia or Hypathia a most learned woman daughter to Theon the Geometrician she taught publickly at Alexandria many flocking thither to hear her Andreas Gerhardus Hyperius a most learned and diligent Divine Anno 1511. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones CHAP. VI. I Dr THomas Iackson a learned Divine as his Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed and other Works shew Mr. Arthur Iackson a Reverend Divine and good Exposâ—â—or of Scripture He hath commented on the Pentateuch on the Historicall Part and five Poetical Books King Iames a learned and wise Prince His several Works shew his great Learning I finde in the Appendix of the Oxford Catalogue these words Opera Regis Lat manu propria inscripta Acadomiae suae Oxoniensi donâ— data in perpetuam Regiae munificentiae memoriam in Archivis reposita In the Catalogue it self his Poeticall Exercises and other particular Works are enumerated He died in March Non miror regem si Martius abstulit Anglis Pacificis semper Mars inimicus erat Arth. Jonstoni Epig. Iacobus De Voraigne He wrote the golden Legend Richard Iames. M r Selden speaks of him and Patrick Young as his Assistants in his Work of Marmora Arundelliana Sed ut expeditiùs res absolveretur rogo ut in operae societatem adsciscerentur amici communes eruditissimus Patricius Iunius multi jugae doctrinae studiique indefatigabilis vir Richardus Iamesius For this Richard Iames there is this censure of him that he preached three Sermons one without a Text another against his Text and a third besides it D r Thomas Iames. He was a laborious man As His Corruption of Scriptures Councels and Fathers The Downfall of Jesuites Bellum Papale and other Works shew Iamblychus a famous Philosopher and Porphyrius his Scholar He hath written a Book of the mysteries of the Egyptians Chaldeans and Assyrians and three Books of the Sect of Pythagoras with Commentaries of Simplicius the Philosopher Io De Ianduno Cornelius Iansenius He was born at Hilstane in Flanders One of the Papists learnedest and best Expositors of the Gospel He was sent by King Philip the second King of Spain to the Councel of Trent Fuit in hoc viro praestans ingenium exacta linguarum trium Latinae Graecae Hebraicae cognitio singularis prudentia eximius rerum usus inprimis verò summum religionis ac pietatis studium Quantus Theologus fuerit clamant doctissimi in Concordiam suam Evangelicam orbis judicio probatam Commentarii qui aequales aliquot in his Salmeronem Beauxamamum in eadem arena desudantes à suis tunc edendis deterruerunt Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg. He was uncle to the other Iansenius Bishop of Iper who wrote Sanctus Augustinus This Iansenius wrote another Book also against the French and styles it Patricius Armachanus whence Petavius cals the Jansenians Armachani or because Iansenius was so much beholding to the Archbishop of Armaghs Goteschalci Historia for his Book Rabbi Salomon Iarchi a learned French Jew who hath commented on the whole Bible and to whom Lyra is much beholding for what he hath of the Hebrew Iason Maynus His Works are in six Volumes Iesuitae The Jesuites In the fifth year of Pope Urbane the fifth began first the Order of the Jesuites Men of famous industry and excellent reach in all subtill and profound Arts but ignorant and besotted in matters of faith and mysteries of salvation D r Iacks on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 1. Thuanus and Pasquier though Papists speak against the titles of Jesuites as proud and blasphemous Novo atque ut plerisque visum est superbo nomine appellati sunt Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 15. See Thuan. Hist. tom 2. l. 36. at the beginning and Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 3. c. 42 43. against them A Book called the Jesuites Rule discovers what they are See also Monarchia Iesuitica Arcana Societatis Iesu Mysteria Patrum Iesuitarum De studiis Iesuitarum abstrusioribus and the Jesuites Catechism The best Expositors amongst the Papists are Pererius Ribera Tolet Maldonate Estius all which except Estius were Jesuites The ablest for controversies are Bellarmine Stapleton Gregory De Valentia two of which were also Jesuites The best Philologers are Sirmondus Andraeas Schottus Fronto Ducaeus Serarius all Jesuites Some of the Papists are very bitter and malicious as Genebrard Gretzer Scioppius Others more candid and ingenuous Schottos Frontones Acostas Petavios Rosweydos aliquos alios viros eruditos modestos excipio Montac Appar 7. Ignatius Anno Dom. 102. 96. Helv. Chron. He was the Scholar of S t Iohn the Evangelist Bishop of the Church of Antioch a man of great Sanctity and a most ardent lover of our Lord Jesus Christ he was was wont to say of him My love was crucified Bishop Usher and Vedelius shew