condemns Posseâ—â—nes Bibliotheca as maimed because out of his envy and pretended hatred against heresie he passeth by many excellent Authors Joannes Bodinus homo multiplici eruditione notus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 94. Olim Protestantium doctrinae addictus nec ab ea multum unquam postea alienus Some commend his Theatrum Naturae for a choice piece a Book full of natural curiosities Tycho Brahe l. 1. De nova Stella c. 10. chargeth him with grosse errours in matters of History Sir Thomas Bodlie a great Scholar and prudent Statist His Parents were rather good then great What liberal Education they bestowed on him he shews in his own Life written in English by himself which is put into Latine by D r Hackwell and is in Oxford Library He living in the troublesome times of Queen Mary his Parents took him beyond Sea At Genevaâ— he heard Beroâ—ldus for Greek Cevallerius for Hebrew in Divinity Calvin and Beza He was very skilfull in the Oriental Tongues Linguarum Orientalium callentissimus vir Thomas Bodlaeus Drus. Not. in Tetragram He was the great Founder of our famous Oxford Library which is therefore called Bibliotheca Bodleiana He gave many Hebrew Books to the Library and was imployed in many honourable Embassies to the Kings of France and Denmark the Lantgrave of Hesse the Duke of Brunswick the States of Holland He gave for his Arms three Crowns with this Inscription Quarta perennis erit Bâ—etius Severinus Anno Dom. 520. Thevet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 6. mentions the several names given to him and the reasons of them He was called Severinus to shew his Cato like severity and integrity He was very famous in his dayes being Consul a long time at Rome and a man of rare giftâ— and abilities Some say in prose he gave not place to Tully and had none that exceeded him for Poetry a great Philosopher Musician Mathematician He was put to death by King Theodoricus King of the Gothes He was a most excellent Peripatetick after he was slain Peripatetick Philosophy decayed and almost all Learning in Italy Barbarism wholly invaded it and expelled good Arts and Philosophy out of its borders saith Heereboord Epist. Dedicat. ad Disputat ex Philos. select Albertus Magnus and Aquinas have commented upon him Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius vir dignitate opulentia virtute eruditione longe maximus Aristotelicam Philosophiam Romae docuit Coring de Antiq. Acad. Disser 3. Quis Boetio vel in dialecticis acutior vel subtilior in Mathematicis vel in Philosophia locupletior vel in Theologia sublimior Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. cap. 1. Iohn Bois both a good Grecian and Divine He hath published some Notes upon Chrysostome which are in the eighth Volume upon Chrysostome put out by Sir Henry Savill who cals him Ingeniosissimum doctissimum Boisium and styles his Notes Doctissimas ejus Observationes He saith thus to Sir Henry Savill in his Notes upon Chrysostoms Homilies upon Genesis Emendationes enim omnes quas affero meae sunt conjecturae fortasse multis in locis parùm probabiles nec satis scitè confictae Sed ut non omnes dignas existimo quae eruditorum calculis approhentur ita nonnullas tamet si paucissimâ— eae sunt meliore sidere natas credo quas ne emunctissimae quidem naris Critici sint prorsus aspernaturi Daniel Bombergus a famous Printer who alone almost hitherto hath printed at Venice great and large Volumes in Hebrew with invaluable expences Those Hebrew Books which he printed at Venice are conveyed into all the parts of the world where the Jews are into Africk Ethiopia India Aegypt and other places He printed 1. The Hebrew and Chaldee Bible with Commentaries of divers Rabbies upon all the Books of the Old Testament in royal paper 2. The Talmud an immense and stupendious work divided into some Volumes 3. The Volumes of Rabbi Moses which contain both his own Expositions and also those of other Rabbins upon the Talmud with other Hebrew Books Bonaventure first a Monk and then a Cardinal He was called Doctor Seraphicus a Seraphical Doctor His Works are in seven Tomes His Notes on Lombard are good Gerson commends his Opuscula for devotion He joyned together so much sanctity of life and integrity of manners with his great knowledge of Scholastical Divinity and Philosophy that Alexander of Hales his master was often accustomed to say of him That Adam seem'd to him not to have sinned in Bonaventure Sixt. Senens Bibliothec. Sanct. l. 4. Anno 1265. About this time flourished Thomas of Aquine Reader at Paris among the Dominick Friers and Bonaventure among the Franciscan Friers Foxes Act. and Monum Tom. 1. p. 433. Thomas Aquinas coming to him to salute him and finding him writing the life of S t Francis as the Papists term him he called him a Saint though living saying Sinamus Sanctum pro Sancto laborare Let us suffer a Saint to labour for a Saint Ang Roch. Biblioth Vatic He was canonized by Pope Sixtus the 4 th anno 1482. for a Saint in the Kalendar Franciscus Bonamicus There are some of his Works published De alimento De motu Lazarus Bonamicus A most famous Professour of Eloquence and the Greek Tongue at Padua He hath put out some learned Orations and Poems It is reported of him that when he once asked the Devil in a possessed woman what verse in Virgil he judged to be best he answered Discite justitiam moniti non temnere divos Cardin. Borromaeus He was of Millain he had Francis Alciate a most famous Lawyer his Master Pope Paulus Quintus made him a Saint He escaped a great danger from some loose Friers as Thuanus relates Hist. Tom. 2. l. 38. p. 627. He hath put out a Tract De Concionatorum Pastorumque Instructione cum aliis Opusculis There are also Epistolae cum ejus vita Franciscus Bosquetus a learned Lawyer He hath written a History of the Popes of Rome which were Frenchmen thus entituled Pontificum Romanorum qui à Gallia oriundi sunt historia Arnold Boot Doctor of Physick a Dutchman lately dead He hath written a learned Book entituled Animadversiones Sacrae ad Textum Hebraicum Veteris-Testamenti He wrote also two Tracts against Ludovicus Capellus his Sacra Critica I received this passage from a learned Friend of mine whom I informed of his death in a Letter The losse of that man is great for he was well furnished with that kinde of learning and besides very judicious very industrious very zealous He wrote â—â—â—â— in a more general way but so as he hath indeed cut the sinews of that Sacra Critica Henricus Bracton a learned Lawyer Henry de Bracton a Judge of the Court of Commonpleas in the Reign of K. H. 3. and a writer of the Laws Iohn Bradford As holy a man as any lived in his time and learned also as
learned Philosopher of Bononia Many famous Scholars came from his School Francis Piccolominie and others Iulius Caesar Scaliger in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his Subtilties names him his Master Osorius in his learned Book De Gloria saith he diligently heard him He published Commentaries upon Aristotles first Book of Physicks and other Books of his Io. Buckeridge Bishop of Rochester Guil. Budaeus William Budey born at Paris in France Anno 1467. He was Secretary of Francis the first King of France and Keeper of his Library and after his Counsellor and Master of Requests His Commentaries upon the Greek Tongue his Epistles Philology his excellent work De Asse his Commentaries upon the Pandects and others shew his great knowledge in the Greek and Latine Tongue In those things which he wrote before the preaching of Luther he doth roughly and largely accuse the Pope Bishops and Priests especially in his Book De Asse which was published Anno 1513. Illyr Catal. Test. verit l. 19. Vide Montacut Analect Exercit. 5. Sect. 4. Et Pauli Iov Elog. Doctorum virorum meam Epist. Dedicat. ad Crit. Sac. Nov. Test. He was a man of great learning and worthy to be had in perpetual memory for this cause only that he and Cardinal Bellay Bishop of Paris did counsel and perswade Francis the first the French King to do a most noble act that is to appoint great stipends for the Readers of Tongues and good Arts at Paris Buchanan hath this Distich of him Gallia quod Graeca est quod Graecia barbara non est Utraque Buâ—aeo debet utrumque suo Buch. l. 2 Epig. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Et Latiae nobis debent Graiaeque Camaenae Laudem utram quaeras magnus utraque fui He died at Paris Anno 1539. Io. Bugenhagius Pomeranus nascitur Anno 1485. Moderate ingenio eruditione rara excultus Thuanus Hist. 1. Tom. l. 21. He died at Wittenberg in the 73 year of his age Lutherus ut in Schola suum Melancthonem sic in Ecclesia suum sibi Bugenhagium adjunctum habuiâ— Verheid Prastant aliq Theol. qui Rom. Antich praecip oppugn essig His Works are mentioned by Boissard Henry Bullenger born Anno 1504. Some much commend his Book de Origine Erroris Henry Bunting Teacher of the Word of God in Saxony in the Dukedom of Brunswicke Neander much commends his Chronicon Ecclesiasticum and his Itinerarium Ecclesiasticum Aegidius Burdinus a learned Lawyer and an excellent Grecian Vid. Scaev. Sam. Gallorum Elog. Francis Burgersdicius famous for his Logick Ethicks and Metaphysicks Paulus Burgensis was by birth and institution a Jew and excellently versed in all the learning of the Rabbines but by faith and conversion a Christian and a Bishop When he was a Jew he was called Salomo Levita Walter Burlie a great light of Europe and ornament of Oxford The Learned Master of King Edward the 3 d and Scholar of Merton Colledge He hath written divers Works upon Aristotle Io. Buridanus He hath written on the ten Books of Aristotles Ethicks Burgundius He interpreted the Gospel of Iohn This is part of his Epitaph Decessit senio propria Burgundius urbe Cui similis vivens vix fuit est vel erit Omne quod est natum terris sub sole locatum Hic plene scivit scibile quicquid erat Optimus Interpres Graecorum fonte refectus Plurima Romano contulit eloquio Commentor primus Chrysostomus ille secundus Claruit expositâ—r scripsit innotuit Rob. Burhill He hath written contra Mart. Becani controversiam Anglicanam de Britann and a manuscript in verse De Britanniae rebus Scholasticis Anna Burgius Anne du Burg a most learned Lawyer and holy Senatour was burnt at Paris for the true Religion not so much by the inclination of the Judges as by the resolution of the Queen provoked against him because the Lutherans did divulge in many Writings and Libels spread abroad that the King had been wounded in the eye by the providence of God for a punishment for his words used against du Bonrg that he would see him burnt But the death and constancy of a man so conspicuous did make many curious to know what Religion that was for which he had so couragiously indured punishment and made the number increase Hist. of the Counc of Trent l. 5. p. 418. Augerius Busbequius a great Embassadour and a Learned man skilfull in the Civil Law and all Philosophy He hath written most elegant Latine Epistles and most pleasant to reade concerning the Turks Besides the Greek and Latine tongue he was so exactly skilled in the Italian Spanish French German and Illyrick tongue that any of them might seem to him vernacula Ioannes Busaeus a most Learned Papist Iohn Buxtorf the Father and Sonne The Learned works of the Father discover his great abilities and â—kill in the Hebrew Tongue and give great light to many places of Scripture Epistolarum decas cum notis Tiberias sive Comment Masorethicus Biblia Sac. Hebr. Chald. cum Masora Lexicon Chaldaicum Syriacam Synagoga Iudaica Concordantiae Bibliorum Hebr. De Abbreviaturis Hebraicis Thesaurus Grammaticus Linguae Sanctae and other Learned Works of the same nature Daniel Tossanus Orat. de Vita obitu Johannis Buxtorfii mentions Commentarium Chaldaicum notas Criticas accuratissimas in paraphrasin Chaldaicam Bibliorum Hebraeorum continentem which I hope his Learned Sonne will shortly publish I having seen or heard at least something in a letter from him lately to that purpose Young Buxtorf is Paternae eruditionis ex asse haeres as his Dissertations and Answers to Capellus shew CHAP. IX C THomas de Vio Cajetanus an Italian and a Cardinall A man very well read in Divinity having studied it even from a childe who for the happiness of 〈…〉 wit and for his laborious diligence became the prime Divine of that and many more ages unto whom there was no Prelate or person in the Councell who would not yield in Learning or thought himself too good to learn of him This Cardinall going Legate to Germany in the year 1523. studying exactly how those that erred might be reduced to the Church and the Arch-heretiques convinced found out the true remedy which was the literall meaning of the text of the Scripture in the Originall Tongue in which it was written and all the residue of his life which was 11 years he gave himself to the study of the Scripture expounding not the Latine Translation but the Hebrew Roots of the Old and the Greek of the New Testament In which Tongues having no knowledge himself he imployed men of understanding who made construction of the Text unto him word by word as his Works upon the holy Texts do shew That good Cardinall was wont to say that to understand the Latine text was not to understand the infallible Word of God but the word of
the Arts and three principal Languages first in Oxford in Magdalen Colledge He wrote elegantly in Latine as appears by what he added to D r Haddon against Osorius and one part of his Acts and Monuments Medit. in Apoc. De Christo Crucifixo Concio De Christo gratis Iustificante Disputatio contra Iesuitas contra inherentem justitiam His English Works His Acts and Monuments A Treatise of Gods Election Sermons Translation of Urbanius Regius of Faith and Hope and others mentioned by Maunsell Sebastian Fox a most elegant and learned Spanish Philosopher Thuanus in his History often makes honourable mention of Paul Fox and once of Francis Fox Of which last saith Scaevola Sammarthanus in his Elogies of learned Frenchmen Iure igitur tanto alumno superba laetatur Gallia hoc abundè per te consecuta ut Italiae suos Mirandulas invidere jam desinat Hieronimus Fracastorius a most famous Philosopher He is called by many Divinus Fracastorius Vir consummatissimae doctrinae Medicus enim Poeta Astrologus Philosophus fuit sua aetate doctissimus Ejus Poemata tanti fiunt apud omnes literatos ut illa conferaâ—t cum Vergilianis Boissardi Icones He died at Padua Anno Christianae salutis 1553. His Works are mentioned by Boissard Franciscus Monachus an Italian Frier an ignorant man for Learning but witty and the more for that his wit was shrouded under the shadow of great simplicity He was the Founder of the Franciscans Bonaventure hath written his life Francis the first King of France Anno 1515. The several courses he took for the restoring of Learning in France Antoine du Verdier mentions in his learned Preface to his Bibliotheque and in his Book he saith He was deservedly called the father of Learning because he planted in his Kingdom both Hebrew Greek and Latine and gave great salaries to the choice men of all Europe in all Learning to reade publickly in the University of Paris See more there To one that desired pardon for another that had used ill speeches of his Majesty this King said Let him for whom thou art a Sutor learn to speak little and I will learn to pardon much Thevet and Postellus travelled into the East to procure him rare Books for his Library The death of King Francis chanced unfortunately for Students and learned men For he loved all Liberal Sciences no man better not shewed more liberality to advance the same Through long use and custom he had gotten much knowledge For dining and supping his talk was commonly of Learning and that most earnestly using many years for the same purpose Iames Coline a learned man and in the vulgar tongue most eloquent And after him Peter Castellan Of these two had he learned whatsoever was written in the books of Poets Historiographers and Cosmographers Moreover he knew perfectly whatsoever Aristotle Theophrastus Pliny and such other like have written of the nature of Plants Herbs Beasts Metals and precious Stones and by daily use and hearing did remember them He was wont also to conferre much of the Mathematical Sciences and to reason oft of the Scriptures In his own Tongue he was alwayes accounted right eloquent and grave Throughout Greece and Italy he had those that sought and copied out for him the Works of old Writers and he made a great Library The Keeper whereof was Castellane Sleid. Comment l. 19. p. 283. Evangelium in Gallia perumpit sub Francisco 2 o. Kings might soon be learned who might learn the holy Word of both Testaments in two moneths and the Concent of Scripture in an hour and might command that every Sermon should either abridge the whole Bible as S t Paul doth to the revolting Hebrews or tell the afflictions of our Lords Family as Daniel doth seven times over or weaknesse of Salomens Kings or how Aarons twelve stones tell the Tribes story or the golden chain of Chronicle and Jubilees or the Mysteries of Moses Ceremonies or Collations of Prophecies with event or like Revolutions to shew Gods facility in teaching Christ or some whole book in one Sermon Brought of the Revelat. in c. 12. Marquardus Freherus He was born Anno Christiano 1565. a great Antiquary His Works are mentioned by Melch. Ad. in his life Ioh. Tho. Freigius a very learned man Anno Christi 1564. He was famous for his knowledge in Philosophy Philology Law Peter Ramus his Scholar and diligent follower all his life time He writ his Life and this Epigram on him being dead Invictus Rame es nam bis duo pectore gestas Socratis Euclidiâ— Tullii Aristotelis Arte es Aristoteles methodo Plato Tullius ore Ingenio Euclides Rame quid ulterius Melchior Adam mentions his works Nicolaus Frischlinus a learned man Iohn Frith a learned Divine and Martyr Io. Froissardus a French Historian Libertus Fromondus He hath written well of Meteors Lucas Fruterius Lipsiâ—s mentions him among the prime wits of the Low-Countreyes There are published three Books of his verisimilium There are also Epistolae Philologicae of his Leonardus Fuchsius Anno Salutis humanae 1501. He rightly called his Book Compendinm medicinae but not Methodum medicinae as Caius de libris propriis shews These Works of his are published Compendiara ac succiucta admodum in medendi artem introductio Liber sextus Epidemiorum Hippocratis è Graeco in Latinum translatus cum Commentariis luculentissimis Paradoxorum medicinae libri tres in quibus multa à nemine hactenus prodita Arabum aetatisque nostrae medicorum errata confutantur And others mentioned by Melchior Adam B. Fulgentius Ruspensis Episcopus Fulgentissimum Ecclesiae sidus Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 1. c. 21. In the time of his sicknesse this was his familiar speech Da Deus mi hic patientiam post indulgentiaâ— Here ô God give me patience and then pardon and mercy Fulgentius Ferraâ—dus 530. Baptista Fulgosius William Fulk Doctor of Divinity and Master of Pembrook Hall in Cambridge That profound ready and resolute Doctor the hammer of Hereticks the Champion of Truth D. Hall first Decad. of Epist. Epist. 7. His English Works are fully mentioned by Maunsel in his Catalogue of English printed Books His Latine are Our anomachia Resp. ad Ep. Stanislai Hosii de expresso Dei verbo De successione Ecclesiastica contra Stapletonum Praelectiones in Apocalypsiâ— Nic. Fuller He is styled Doctissimus vir by Constantiâ—e L'Empereur not is in Benjaminâ—m and by Buxtorf Dissertat de Nomin Heb. His Miscellanies and his Exposition of Rabbi Mardochie Nathans Hebrew roots with Notes upon it in a Manuscript kept in Archivis in Oxford Library shew his excellent skill in the Hebrew and in other Philologicall Learning Per multa sunt difficilia obscura in Opere illo utilissimo concordantiarum Hebraicarum à R. Mardochâ—o Nathane constructo Quae partim in ipsa versionâ— nostra partim in notis eidem insertis pro
virili parte expedivimus atque illustravimus Fulleri Miscel. c. 4. l. 6. c. 19. Inter harum literarum studiosos meritò primas tenet Nicolaus Fullerus Pocock Not. Miscel. In Portam Mosis He intended to put forth a Lexicon Sicuti in Lexico nostro apertius ostendamus sigillatim modo vita supersit aâ— studiis conâ—tibusque nostris propitius adsit calestis Pater Deus noster in secula benedictus Fulleri Miscel. l. 3. c. 10. and c. 20. of the same book he saith Quemadmodum in Lexico nostro dilucidè docuimus Vide Praefat. ejus ad l. 4. Miscel. l. 4. c. 7. The End of the third Book THE FOVRTH BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION Or in any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. G IO Gagneius He hath written upon all the New Testament Rob. Gagwin He wrote the French History Erasmus his intimate friend cals him a most discreet Historiographer He compares him to Salust and Livy for purity of speech and composition of his History He was sent Embassadour by the King of France into Italy England and Germany He put out some Poems Petrus Galatinus He takes all from Raimundus or Porchetus Galeacins Caraccielus an Italian Marquesse He renounced Popeâ—y and became a good Protestant Beza hath written his Life Galen a Learned Physitian of Pergamus the chiefest Physitian next Hyppocrates He coming to a shop and finding a Book under his name which he knew not of nor never saw before he wrote a Book de libris propriis The like hath Cardane and Caius of Cambridge done that their genuine writings might be known they having published many Works Some say he lived sevenscore years Galenus homo Graecus summi judicii aâ— doctrinae vir ut si quis alius sui aut insequentis temporis Caius de Pronunciat Graec. Lat. Ling. His Philosophicall and Physicall Books were printed in Greek by Aldus Manutius at Venice being distinguished into Tomes with the most copious Prefaces of Camerarius Gemaseus and Fuchsius most famous men They were Printed at Basil in a great Folio Petrus Gallandius Turnebus in the 2 d Book of his Adversaria c. 1. much commends him Inter primos liberales disciplinas in Gallia jacentes politioris doctrinae luce illustravit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Many of the famous learned men of France were his Scholars amongst which Adrian Turnebus was one as he ingenuously confesseth in his Adversaria Gulilaeus Galilaeus of Florence a famous Philosopher and Mathematician He hath published many things in the Hetrurian and Latine Language Henricus Gandavensis He was born at Gaunt in the Low-Countries and was a Doctor of Sâ—rbonne and explained the Scriptures many years at Paris He wrote besides Learned Commentaries upon Aristotles Physicks and Metaphysicks a Theologicall summe and a great Volume of Quodlibeticall Questions as they called them Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester a Scholar good enough as his Works shew but a great enemy to the Protestants in Q. Maries daies He died miserably as M r Fox and others bear witness He hath written a Book De vera Obedientia and other Works in English Petrus Gassendus Professor of the Mathematicks at Paris the greatest Astronomer now living Thomas Gataker of the Gatakers of Gataker in Shropshire a solid judicious and pious Divine as his divers learned Latine and English Treatises shew For the Hebrew he acknowledged himself much beholding to Lively in the 9 th Ch. of the 2 d Book of his Cinnus and for the Greek to Iohn Boyse c. 9. of the first Book See his Life He was my worthy Friend and receiving a kinde Letter from him not long before his death he thus concluded it Thus with hearty salutation of your self and yours recommending your pious indeavours and indefatigable labours to the Lords gracious protection I rest Yours assured in him T. G. Lucas Gauricus He flourished at Venice Anno Christi 1550. He was made Bishop for his Learning He wrote many things His Works are in two Tomes Pomponius Gauricus a Learned man also was his brother He hath written De Sculptura Theodorus Gaza Omnium sui temporis hominum doctissimus habitus est Boiss Icon. He was born in Greece and brought up in Italy Vir graecus ut doctis etiam videtur eruditissimus Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. He did so happily translate Tullies Book de Senectute into Greek that he hath excellently there represented the Majesty of Tullies eloquence When he presented to Sixtus Quartus the Pope of Rome Aristotles Books de Animalibus translated out of Greek which could not be done but by one most learned in both Languages and the Book was adorned with golden plates The Pope asked what the adorning of it cost his servant telling him fourty pieces of gold he commanded so many to be given him and no more Alsted Encyclop Many of his Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Geber a Learned Arabian a great Chymist and a most acute Writer but very obscure The Alchimists have on set purpose saith Theuet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 2. obscured their manner of teaching not only thereby to make their Science more wonderfull but also to hinder the most part of men from attaining it He saith there that William Postell his good Friend and companion of his Travels in the East Greece and Asia had the Almagest of Geber which is an excellent Work in the Arabick Tongue containing the Explanation of the state of the years and Ceremonies according to the Feasts and Solemnities of the Israelites Nestorians Persians and Syrians which he had got from a Jew There is in Sion Colledge Alchimia De Metallorum Investigatione Perfectione De Fornacibus construendis Explicatio librorum Gebri Raym. Lullii Gelasius primus Papa Gelasius the first of that name Pope published five Books of the two Natures of Christ against Eutiches Nestorius Two Books against Arius Sigism Gelenius He hath written Observat. Emendat in Tit. Livium Aulus Gellius In the year of our Lord 98. Ludovicus Vives censures him somewhat harshly but Stephanus defends him in his Notes upon him His Book more pleaseth with its variety then its order Agellius potius quà m Gellius dictus videtur scriptor noctium Atticarum Voss. De Anal. l. 1. c. 6. Aulus Gellius huic legiturque Agellius illi Nominibus priscis heu malè tutâ— fides Steph. Paschas Icones Some dislike the title of his Book because it shews the time when he wrote it rather then the subject of the book Geminus Sir Henry Savill terms him Elegantissimum and acutissimum Georgius Gemistius Pletho a Grecian and great Scholar He put out a defence of Plato he was Professour in Greece and taught only those of his own Nation amongst whom Bessario was one many of whose Epistles to him are extant Volat. Anthropol l. 21. Gemma Frisius a great
Bodies c. 20. Learned Peireskius was wont to lament that when he was in England he was not acquainted with this William Gilbert the Author of the Book de Magnete nor Thomas Lydiat the famous Mathematician Gassend de Vita Peiresk l. 2. Gassendus l. 4. de vita Peiresk makes honourable mention of his Book de Magnete p. 378. We had not any certain or satisfactory knowledge of Magneticall properties untill such time as it pleased God to raise up one of our Countrymen D r Gilbert who to his evelasting praise hath troden out a new path to Philosophy and on the Loadstone erected a large Trophy to commend him to posterity Carpent Geog. first Book chap. 3. See more there Pet. Gillius a most Learned man Aquitanus Duo magna hujus saeculi lumina Petrus Gillius Gulielmus Philander Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 82. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 16. Sylvester Giraldus a man elegantly Learned for those times Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis a Britain by birth though by descent rather an Englishman or a Norman as he makes himself but a very Learned man for those times There is published of his Itinerarium Cambriae cum Annotat. Descriptio ejusdem De rebus Hybernicis Victor Giselinus Besides divers Poems he wrote Learned Notes upon Prudentius the Christian Poet Noteâ— and a Chronology upon the Works of Sulpitius Severus Ranulphus Glanvile de Glanvilla Chief Justice in the reign of King Henry the 2 d wrote Learnedly and profoundly of part of the Laws of England He wrote a Book De Legibus consuetndinibus Regni Angliâ— Henricus Glareanus an excellent Mathematician He hath written well of Musick upon Livy Salust and divers other Works Salomon Glassius a Learned Lutheran and the great ornament of Germany for sacred Philology His Christologia Mosaica Philologia Sacra and other Works are very Usefull Rodolphus Goclenius He hath written Learnedly of divers subjects in Humanity Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Conradus Goclenius He was first Professor of the Latine tongue at Lovain Annos ipsos XX. quibus publicè professus est auditoribus suis adeo gratus fuit ut eos nec assiduitate satiarit unquam nec diuturnitate lassarit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Fr. Godwin Bishop of Landaff His Rerum Anglicarum Annales and his Tract De Praesulibus Angliae shew his Learning Thomas Godwin His Roman and Jewish Antiquities are very usefull Dâ—mianus A Goes Lusitanus It happened to him as to Homer heretofore for the excellency of his wit severall Cities strove for his birth as those of Paris would have Christophorus Longolius to be theirs the Romans challenged him for theirs those of the Low-Countries for theirs because of his great Eloquence Iacobus Golius well skilled in the Orientall Tongues Admirabilis ille Arabizantium Phoenix Hotting Analect Histor. Theol. Cl. V. Iacobus Golius in praestantissimo illo linguae Arab. Thesauro Pocock Not. Miscel. in Portam Mosis c. 7. Vir summus in linguis orientalibus Mathesi Jacobus Golius Salmas de Annis Climactericis Whom the States of Holland for his excellent skill in the Arabick and Mathematicks have substituted to two famous Professors of the University Thomas Erpenius and Willebrord Snellius He travelled into the East and observed the condition and state of the Eastern people and got thereby knowledge of the Orientall Languages and affairs and brought divers Orientall Books thence which are now at Leyden He hath put out lately an excellent Arabick Lexicon Hubertus Golthzius a great Antiquary Dilher cals his Book De re Antiquaria libellum Aureolum Franciscus Gomarus a Learned and Judicious Divine All his Works Exegeticall and Polemicall are published together in one Volume in Folio Christopher Goodman a Learned Scotch Divine and according to his name good and holy Abraham Gorlay He had more then four thousand exquisite Medals of Gold more then ten thousand of Silver and more then fifteen thousand of Brasse all choice ones Ios. Scal. Lettre au Sieur De Bagar There is a Book of his styled Dactyliotheca published Io. Goropius Becanus A Physitian Philosopher and Historian He obtained an exact knowledge of the Hebrew Greek and Latine Divino planè vir ingenio qualem vix singulae aetates ferant seu Philosophiam seu Philologiam in utraque enim ad miraculum usque excelluit tractaret ut seculi sui Varra nominari meritò potuerit Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica Castellani Vitae Medic. Illust. Dionysius Gothofredus an excellent Lawyer He hath written short Notes upon all the Civil Law and all Tullies Works He hath written also upon Seneca and Notes ad Varronem Festum Nonnium Iacobus Gothofredus his sonne He wrote first de Ecclesiis Suburbicariis He set out some Orations of Libanius with Notes and his Oratio de Iuliane William Gouge Doctor of Divinity a Learned and Pious Divine He was counted whilst he lived the Father of the London Ministers A good Text-man as his Whole Armour Exposition of the Hebr. Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other Learned Works shew him to be and he is often Honourably mentioned by Voetins Streso and other outlandish Divines He was eminent for three graces his Humility Patience and Faith He would begin his prayer very audibly and distinctly which was the more commendable because of his great Congregation at Blackefriers Sim. Goulartius a Learned and godly French Minister There is his Morum Philosophia Historica and Histoires admirables de nostre temps and other Tracts mentioned in the Appendix of Oxford Catalogue Ioannes Goverus sive Gouerus a Learned English Knight and Poet Laureate Hic nomen suum extulit partim iis quae Gallicè eleganter Anglicè elaboravit Sane is Gualterus Chaucerus primi Anglicam linguam expolire caeperunt Vossius de Histor Lat. l. 3. c. 3. Io. Grammaticus He hath written upon divers books of Aristotle and de Differentiis Linguarum and other Works Saxo Grammaticus He was called Grammaticus for his elegancy in the Latine Tongue He hath written the History of the Danes in very elegant Latine for those times Lud. Granatensis His Works are in three Tomes He hath written De ratione Concionandi De frequenti Communione Sylva locorum Communium Dux peccatorum De Officio Pastorali Catechismus sive Introductionis ad Symbolum Fidei libri quatuor and other Works D r Edward Grant He was one of the Learned Schoolmasters of Westminster Camden was his Usher He hath put out a Greek Grammer styled Graecae Linguae spicilegium which Camden hath contracted He hath also published Aschams Epistles and Poems with his Life and Death Conradus Graserus He went some miles to the Jews to understand some Hebrew words Vide ejus ultima verba p. 31. in Praef. Exquisitissimus ille ac divinitus aetate nostra excitatus antichristo-mastix juxta doctrinae Christianae propugnator Conradus Graserus Francus
many Philologicall Works Heliodorus a most eloquent and sweet Greek Writer whose ten Books of the Ethiopick History in Greek being snatcht out of the fire of the Library of Buda Buda being burnt by Soliman were Printed at Basill Christ. Helvicus His Chronology of the last edition is much commended as most compleat and very usefull for any sacred or prophane Story There are also other Works of his De Chaldaicis Bibliorum Paraphrasibus Lexicon Heb. diaacticum Vindicatio locorum V. Testamenti à corruptelis Pontificiorum Tr. Historicus Theologicus De Chaldaicis Bibliorum phrasibus De Carminibus atque Dialectis Graecorum Hieronymus Henninges a godly and Learned Divine He hath put out Theatrum Genealogicum in 4 Volumes Which Work Neander styles Opus rarum egregium spissum atque stupendum and shews the heads of every Tome Henry the first of that Name for his knowledge and science in the seven liberall Arts was sirnamed Clerk or Bâ—â—â— Clerk Henry the 8 th He set forth a book entitled A necessary Doctrine and erudition for any Christian man See a commendation of his Learning and Severity Eras. Epist. l. 6. Epist. 12. to him Of his Learning also in Epistola Thomâ— Mori ad Academ Oxon. Amongst the most famous Contradictors which the Doctrine of Luther found was Henry the 8 th King of England who not being born the Kings eldest son had been destinate by his Father to be Archbishop of Canterbury and therefore in his youth was made to study But the eldest being dead and after him the father also he succeeded in the Kingdom Esteeming it a great honour to imploy himself in so famous a Controversie of Learning he wrote a Book of the seven Sacraments defending also the Popedom and oppugning the Doctrine of Luther a thing so gratefull to the Pope that having received the Kings book he honoured him with the title of Defender of the Faith But Martin suffered not himself to be scared with that most illustrious glittering name of a King but answered his Majesty with as much acrimony vehemency and as small respect as he had answered the petty Doctors The Hist of the Councell of Trent l. 1. p. 16. He drew many Learned men into England Desiderius Heraldus a Learned Frenchman He hath written a Comment on Martiall Animadvers in Salmas Observat ad Ius Atticum Romanum and other Learned Works Herbert Lord of Cherbury He hath published a Book De Veritate Causis Errorum and hath written the Life of K. Henry the 8 th in English Hermes Trismegistus the most ancient Doctor of the Egyptians He hath written De Lapidis Philosophici secreto and other Miscellanies Conradus Herebachius Anno 1â—08 a Learned Papist He was a compleat Scholar skilfull in many Languages the Latine Greak Hebrew Italian French Dutch His friends were the Learned men of that time Erasmus Sturmius and others He hath written a most Learned Commentary on the Psalmes de re Rustica He put out two Books De institutione principis deque Republica Christiana administranda Lexicon Graeco Latinum locupletavit Hermannus Contractus a Germane Anno 1032. 1058 say some He was descended of a Noble Count of Swedland and was crooked and lame from his infancy which gave him the surname of Contractus He spake Latine Greek and Hebrew as his naturall Language He published all his Works with his contracted and paralytick hands Membris planè erat contractis unde Contracti nomâ—n accepit fortasse ea propter monachus factus fuit Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 2. c. 44. He was the inventer of the Astroâ—abe Hermogenes He was of Tarsus in Asia minor Being scarce 18 years old he wrote the Art of Rhetorick in six books but when he was old he forgat Learning Thence they spake of him jestingly that he was old in his childhood and a childe in his old age Heâ—edian an eloquent and faithfull yet free Historian He wrote 8 books of Histories Stylus Photio teste est elegans perspicuus ac talis planè ut vix historicorum ulli ulla virtute cedat Veritati etiam studuit nisi quod fides ejus mutat in Alexandro Maximino Voss. de Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 15. Herodotus Although he relates stories that may seem fabulous yet the whole body of his History is composed with singular fidelity and a diligent desire of truth but he often prefaceth concerning other narrations that he rehearseth them not because he thinks them to be true but as he hath received them from others Hic pater historiae mendacia plurima finxit Quippe suam Musis dedicat historiâ—m Steph. Paschas Icon. Hesiod 37 annis Hesiodus artis suae specimina publicè edidit ante Homerum Seldem Marm. Arund It is an ancient aud famous question of the age of Homer and Hesiod and whether was ancienter Accius the Poet and Ephorus the Historian make Hesiod the first Vide Agellium l. 3. c. 11. Iohn Hessels he hath put out severall Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue William Landgrave of Hessen was the first Protestant Prince in Germany He died of a burning Fever 1637. Many of the Landgraves of Hessen were Learned men Helius Ebanus Hessus He was born in the year 1488. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Hesychius Grammaticus Anno Dom. 400. The most Learned Glossary but corruptly printed He was a Christian though some seem to question it as Casaubone on Athenaeus Henry Stevens and D r Price shew Learned D r Langbane in his Notes on Longinus styles Eustathius Hesychius and Pollux Literaturae Graecae Triumviri Ioannes Heurnius He was intimately familiar with the most famous men of that age Ianus Dousa Franciscus Iunius Lucas Trelcatius Hugo Donellus Everard Brâ—hâ—rst Ioseph Scaliger Iustus Lipsius Francis Raphelengius and others His Works either published by himself or his son are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life CHAP. V. HIeronymus Anno Aerae Christi 375. Helv. Chron. 390. say others He matched any of his time in Learning in the Tongues skill of humanity and knowledge in holy Scripture yet was that time so plentifull of Learned men as almost no time since Linguarum Historiarum locorum situs peritissimus vir Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 8. Vide c. 11. 15. He was mainly taken with Origen so that he called him by way of praising him Suum his own His Epistles are approved of in Italy France Spain all Germany and Africk he was honoured and sought to farre and near by Bishops by Noble Matrons by great Rulers many great personages came farre having seen his Works to see the Author He had excellent skill in the Hebrew which he got of a Jew Barhanin-aâ— as Erasmus relates in his Life Vir perfecto omnium doctrinarum genere praeditus Hebraeam praeterea linguam Syram Chaldaicam Graecam Latinam callens Ang. Roch. Bibl. Vatic He
been in the Church within this thousand years B. Down Defence of his Serm. l. 3. c. 4. He hath learnedly interpreted almost all the Old and New Testament He hath written twenty Books of Etymologies wherein he hath not only shewed himself a Grammarian but a compleat Artist Isidorus Pelufiota floruit anno 482. Bell. de Script Eccles. For his famous sanctity he was called by a peculiar name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is carrying God in him Isocrates He was very bashfull and never spake in publick but once Tully cals him the father of eloquence Dilher that Attick Syren Isocrates quidem suavitatem habuit vim Demosthenes Notae Dounaei in 36. Hom. Chrysost. in Epist. prim ad Corinth Henricus Isselburgius Professor and Pastor of Brema Doctor in Divinity There is a Book of his published styled Digeries praecipuarum quarundam Controversiarum Theol. Iohn Iuel Bishop of Salisbury exile in Queen Maries time for the Profession of the Gospel He was born in Devonshire Iohn comes from the grace of God Iuel is the same in our Language with Gemma in Latine as lately a learned Writer was called Gemma Frisius The Jewel of Bishops the worthiest Divine that Christendom hath bred for some hundreds of years saith incomparable Hooker Doctor Hackwell Apol. lib. 5. Hardly is there any Controversie of importance handled at this day of which in his Works is not to be found some learned and probable resolution His Apology was esteemed not only by the Tigurines but by all Protestants It was translated into the Germane French Italian Spanish Tongue and into the English by the Lady Anne Bacon wife to the Lord Chancellour Bacon The first part of it is an illustration of the true Doctrine and a certain paraphrastical Exposition of the twelve Articles of our Christian faith The second a succinct and solid Refutation of Objections He had at hand a great paper-book as it were a rich treasury of Sciences in which he wrote his divine and humane collections out of Poets Philosophers and Divines We call it a Common-place book Doctor Rainolds in his Letter to his friend concerning his advice for the study of Divinity saith thus Touching noting you know I do not like the common custom of Common-place Books The best in my judgement is to note in the Margent or in some paper-book for that purpose the Summe and Method of that which you reade In other little Books which he carried about with him an Ephemerides or Diary he diligently wrote all the Apophthegmes and witty speeches or jests which he heard from others or observed any way by which means he much increased his knowledge yearly He was very affable and courteous amiable in his whole life in speech witty and pleasant in his writings he is solid and yet facetious He fled in Q. Maries dayes and returned when Q. Elizabeth ruled Iulian the Emperour a Learned Prince but an Apostate Quo tetrius magisque Deo simul hominibus exosum animal orbis vix vidit Crak De Provid Dei He was given to Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia to be instructed of whom also he learned the Doctrine of the Church and was made a Reader in the Church of Nicomedia But he was a hearer secretly of Libanius the Rhetorician and was familiarly acquainted with the most famous Philosophers of that time He was drawn back by these by degrees to the Heathenish Religion He wrote Books against the Christians and reproved their Doctrine especially the prohibitions of revenge delivered which though they properly belong to private revenge yet he wrested them for publick revenge and he said by these Magistrates punishments lawfull warres were taken away and all the sinews of retaining humane Societies Ammianus Marcellinus commends his Temperance in meat and drink and his continual watching and the partition of the night into private publick and divine offices He took away the great Gifts and holy Vessels which Constantine the Great had given to the Churches use and Ministers maintenance with this scoff See in what goodly vessels this Nâ—zarite is served It was one of his scoffs when he robbed the Churches and the Christians He did it that the Galileans so he contumeliously called the Christians might go more readily to heaven He not onely killed the Christians but scoffed at Christ himself and the Scriptures He had scarce raigned two years when warring against the Persians he was struck and mortally wounded with a Spear in that warre as Nazianzene Theodoret Socrates Sozomen and others uno ere docent and filling his hand with bloud casting it into the air he cried out Vicisti Galilaeâ— Ita simul victoriam confessus est blasphemiam evomit saith Theodoret. Franciscus Iunius The glory of Leyden the oracle of Textual and School-Divinity rich in Languages subtil in distinguishing and in Argument invincible D r Halls Dec. of Epist. Epist. 7. He saith in his own Life written by himself that he being once in the times of trouble very hungry came by accident into the house of a Countreyman and desiring some food he entertained him most courteously Hic ô sapientiam Dei admirabilem saith he optimam scholam Christianitatis Dominus meus mihi paraverat There they discoursing together about the troubles for Religion Sic effecit Deus admirabiliter saith Iunius ut bonus rusticus sanctissimum Zelum quem habebâ—t operante Domino mihi quasi instiâ—â—arâ—â— ego verò malus Christianus siquidem Christianus ei scientia praelucerem Una eadem hora suam gratiam in utroque explicavit ostendit Deus à me scientiam rustico ab illo Zeli semina quâ—dam mihi ingenerans And so being each of us some way bettered by the other we departed saith Iunius He is censured by Doctor Twisse as too obscure but by Thuanus over-harshly Vir desultorio ingenio qui multa conatuâ— an adsecutus sit quod moliebatur doctorum erit judicium Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 79. from whom he is vindicated by Vossius His Works are in two Volumes in Folio Migravit ad Christum anno 1602. His Son Francis Iunius whom I know well hath written a learned Book De Pictura veterum Hadrianus Iunius a Physician One of the great Lights of Holland as Erasmus also was Vir eruditissimus variaeque lectionis Ful. Miscel. l. 4. c. 5. Fuit Medicus Criticus Poeta Historicus exactissima antiquitatis cognitione egregiè clarus linguarum plurium peritus Melch. Ad. vit Germ med Many Monuments of his wit full of Learning witnesse his great ability His Nomenclator six Books of Animadversions Copiae Cornu and other Works Ptricius Iunius Patrick Young a Scotchman a great Grecian There is his Catena Pat. Graec. in Iob Gr. Lat. Clementis ad Corinthios Epistola cum ejus notis Fr. Iuretus He hath put out Notes on Seneca Christ. Iustellus a learned Protestant He hath published these two excellent Works Codex Canonum Ecclesiae
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
se castravit Novum vetus Testamentum memoriter novit Iam senex Hebraicam didicit linguam Wolfii Lect. memor Centen 3. He wrote exceeding much yet there remaineth now little in comparison of that he wrote and that so corrupted that it nothing answereth the famous report of Learning which he had in the Church in his time All his Works now extant revised by Erasmus were printed at Basil by Frobenius 1536. He was in his Age a mirrour of gravity integrity constancy zeal piety learning of all sorts both divine and humane of so happy a memory that he had the Bible without book of such admirable eloquence that not words but honey seemed to drop from his lips of so indefatigable industry that he was called Adamantius and was said by some to have written six thousand books Dr. Crakanth Vigilius Dâ—rmitans Est certè hic scriptor adeò omnibus modis impurus sive ita ipse scripsit sive depravata postea fuerunt ejus scripta ut nullam in Ecclesia authoritatem in rebus controversis mereatur Bezae Epist. 29. He often reproves him also in his Annotat. on the New Testament Orontius Fineus Professour of the Mathematicks at Paris under Francis the first He was born at Brianson a Town in Dauphinè the year of our Lord 1494. He composed five Books De Arithmetica practica Two Books De Geometria practica Five Books De mundi Sphaera Commentaries upon the six first Books of the Elements of Geometry by Euclide And divers other Works mentioned by Thevet Vies Des hommes illustres l. 6. Paulus Orosius He was Austens Scholar Nobilissimus ille rerum Christianarum Historicus Montac Exercit. 11. Orpheus a very ancient Poet long before Homer There is little of his extant Abraham Ortelius He was born in Antwerp that famous Mart of the world He was given to Geography from his youth and spared no cost or pains to perfect his knowledge therein travelling far and often for that purpose Cosmographus ad miraculum usque politissimus laboriosissimus Chyt Scol in Paraph. Ps. Buchanani His Thesaurus Geographicus is an excellent Work instar omnium and his Theatrum Lipsius Gesner and others much magnifie it Edito pulcherrimo orbis terrarum Theatro renovatâ antiquorum locorum per tabulas propriâ industria eleganter depictas memoriâ Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. Quo in opere saith Melchior Adam in his Life ita omnibus suam probavit industriam ut à Philippo II. illo Principe Principum Geographi Regii insignibus sit orornatus Scripsit Thesaurum Geographicum in quo omnium totius terrae regionum montium promontoriorum collium silvarum insularum portuum populorum urbium oppidorum pagorum item Oceani marium fretorum fluviorum ejusmodi nomina appellationes veteres additis magna ex parte etiam recentioribus opus eruditum lectuque jucundum Andreas Osiander Anno Christi 1498. the Epitomizer of the Centuriators skilfull in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Beza Epist. 59. cals him Phanaticum impurissimum Ecclesiarum turbatorem He held that the righteousnesse of Christ by which we are justified was his essential righteousnesse as God But 1. That is incommunicable to us 2. If that had been required to our Justification Christ needed not to have been incarnate Paul saith Rom. 5 19. We are made righteous by the obedience of one man Hier. Osorius An eloquent man and too precise a follower of Tully In his Book against Luther and Doctor Haddon he dares not name the words of Justification or Predestination And I wonder saith Mr. Fox that he dares insert the name of Christ in his Books since it is not found in Tully Nec Iustificationis aut praedestinationis vocabula ipsa vel nominare audes Ac miror equidem quod Christi nomen quod apud Ciceronem nunquam legitur non dubites libellis tuis inspergere His Book De gloria is most esteemed Arnald Ossat a French Cardinal His and Cardinal Perrons French Letters are esteemed usefull both for the understanding of Ecclesiastical and State-affairs He was Scholar to Petrus Ramus Otto the second Sonne to Otto the first He being overcome at a Sea fight by the Grecians and carried away by Pyrates being unknown by reason of his skill in the Greek tongue he escaped safe into Sicilie and afterward he punished them William Oughtred a very learned Mathematician He hath published Clavis Mathematica He hath put out these Works in English The Circle of Proportion The Horrizontal Instrument The Artificial gauging Line or Rod. Ovid. He had a natural genius to Poetry Quicquid conabar dicere versus erat Nascitur Poeta fit Orator Lactantius cals his Metamorphosis Opus praeclarissimum As Tibullus and he were born in one day so he and Livie died on another that his birth and death might be nobly accompanied Sands in the Life of Ovid. CHAP. III. P RIchard Pacie Dean of Pauls He was Secretary for the Latine Tongue to King Henry the eighth He was of great ripenesse of wit learning and eloquence also expert in forraign Languages He was sent in the Kings affairs Embassadour to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians for his dexterity of wit and specially for the singular promptnesse in the Italian Tongue For opinion and same of Learning he was accepted not onely here in England with Linacro Grocinus More and others but also known and reported abroad in such sort that in all the great heap of Erasmus his Epistles he wrote almost to none so many as to him Foxes Acts and Monum Vol. 2. p. 247. c. 1. He was after distracted but he prettily well came to his wits and began to study the Hebrew Tongue with Wakefield He hath written upon Ecclesiastes He begins his Book De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur thus Ric. Pac. Ad Scient Profes Epist. Librum doctissimi viri non adeo brevem unius spatio mensis scriptum mirabimini He saith further that it was composed Constantiae in publico hypocaâ—sto Fabius Pacius His several Works are mentioned by Tomasinus in his Elogia virorum Literis Sapientia Illustrium Iulius Pacius his younger brother An. M. D. L. in lucem editus ingenium politiorum literarum studiis pari cum fratre contentione excoluit eoque profectu Ut juvenis nondum exacto tertio decimo atatis anno Arithmeticae libellum magnâ facilitate conscripserit Thomas Elog. He was an excellent Grecian he illustrated Aristotles Organ with most copious Notes and published many learned Commentaries upon many of his books of Philosophy and elucidated many books of the Civil-Law with Commentaries or Notes Besides his knowledge of the Civil and Canon-Law he was skilled with knowledge of all Learning the Mathematicks History Poetry much given to the reading of the ancient Fathers and
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
never heard him dispute of the controverted points of Religion or that he knew was he accustomed to write to others about them Neque vero saith he nisi provocatus de iis nec nisi invitissimus disserebat and concludes thus Quasi vero extra Religionis caussam non multa praeclara supra captum quantum ad literas humanum in ea admiranda essent quae bonus quisque ab eo cognoscere doceri merito cuperet propter tam raras in eum à Deo cumulatas dotes non ipse observari ac praecipua veneratione à bonis quibusque mereretur Desiderius Heraldus seems to question his Book De re nummaria cum libellus post ejus obitum editus sit nec ab eo ante recognitus Animadvers in Salmas Observat. ad Ius Att. Rom. l. 2. c. 20. Eusebii Chronica castigavit notisque illustravit quibus nihil hic sol videt eruditius Voss. De Hist. Graec. l. 2. c. 17. Chr. Scheiblerus He wrote Opus Logicum compendium Philosophia Metaphysica cum additionibus T. Barlow Will. Schickardus a great Linguist There are his Horologium Hebraeum Bechinath Happeruschim Institutiones Hebraeae Ius Regium Hebraeorum Epitome Bibliorum seu Eclogae sacrae and his Tarich Regum Persic Valentine Schindler singularly skilled in the Hebrew and the Oriental Tongues He wrote Lexicon Pentaglotton Martinus Schoockius He is Professor of Logick and Physick in Groning He hath published these Works De bonis Ecclesiasticis Accurata de reip Belgicae faederata descriptio With several other Works Caspar Schoppius He and Andrew Schoppius are good at railing He hath written sharply against Ioseph Scaliger styling his Book Scaliger Hyperbolimeus He hath published also other Works Cornelius Schonaeus a Poet of a most elegant wit His holy Comaedies entituled Terentius Christianus which are commonly used shew that And. Schottus a most learned and candid Jesuite He hath written Notes upon Seneca and several other Works Io. Duns Scotus a learned Englishman and the wittiest of all the Schoolmen An. Dom. 1300. He wrote at Oxford in Merton Colledge upon the four Books of the Sentences whence his Work is called Scriptum Oxoniense If I must ake any thing in this part of Philosophy on trust I confesse Scotus his credit will go as farre with me as any man that ever writ not guided by an unerring infallible spirit M r Baxters Friendly Accomod He being sick of an Apoplexy was buried before he was dead Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue An ancient Poet composed these two Verses of him Doctor subtilis nomen subtilia donant Quem vestis vilis pes nudus corda coronant Iohannes Scotus Erigena an Irishman for Ireland is called by the Inhabitants Erin Balaeus saith he was King Alphreds Master An. Dom. 850. He was many years before Duns Scotus Vide Voss. De vitiis Sermonis lib. 3. cap. 8. Iohannes Scotus a famous Countreyman of ours wrote a Book of the same Argument and to the same effect that Bertram had done viz. of the Sacrament This man for his extraordinary Learning was in England where he lived in great account with King Alfred surnamed Iohn the Wise and had very lately room in the Martyrology of the Church of Rome though now he be ejected thence B. Ush. Answ. to the Jes. Challenge He is described to be of a sharp wit of great eloquence and well expert in the Greek Tongue pleasant and merry of nature and conditions as appeareth by divers his doings and answers First He coming to France out of his own Countrey of Scotland so saith M r Fox by reason of great tumults of warre was there worthily entertained and for his Learning had in great estimation of Carolus Calvus the French King whom he commonly and familiarly used to have about him both at Table and in Chamber Upon a time the King sitting at meat and seeing something belike in this Iohn Scot which seemed not very courtly cast forth a merry word asking of him What difference there was betwixt a Scot and a Sot Whereunto the Scot sitting over against the King somewhat lower replied again suddenly rather then advisedly yet merrily saying Mensa tantúm that is the Table onely importing thereby himself to be the Scot and so calling the King a Sot by craft Another time the same King being at Dinner was served with a certain dish of fish wherein were two great fishes and a little one After the King had taken thereof his repast setteth down to Iohannes Scotus the foresaid fish to distribute unto the other two Clerks sitting there with him which were two tall and mighty persons he himself being but a little man Iohannes taketh the fish of the which the two great he taketh and carveth to himself the little fish he reacheth to the other two The King perceiving his division thus made reprehended the same Then Iohannes whose manner ever was to finde out some honest matter to delight the King answered to him again proving his division to stand just and equal For here saith he be two great and a little pointing to the two great fishes and himself and likewise here again is a little one and two great pointing to the little fish and two great persons I pray you saith he what distribution can be more equal Whereat the King with his Nobles being much delighted laughed merrily He was impiously murthered and slain by his Scholars with their pen-knives at Malmesbury D r William Sclater a learned School Divine There are several Works of his published Utriusque Epistolae ad Corinthios Explicatio An Exposition with Notes upon the second Epistle to the Thessalonians On two Chapters of the Romans Of Tithes Sermons and other Tracts Carolus Scribanius a Jesuite under the name of Clarus Bonarscius which is an An agram to his name made four Latine Books which he entitleth Amphitheatrum honoris horroris he might have said That he was the Author of that Book appears both by an Epistle of Andreas Schottus the Jesuite whose Antograph is yet kept and also by the Catalogue of the Writers of that Society published by Ribadeneira at Antwerp in which it is expresly mentioned that Carolus Scribanius was the Authour of the four Books of the Amphitheater of honour He saith there That all those who adhere not to their holy Society are no better then Calvinists Sed omittamus Amphitheatralem istum sciptorem melioris omnis doctrinae pus atque venenum I◠Casaub. ad Front Duc. Epist. Pet. Scriverius He hath written learnedly on Martial Tot ac tanta sunt quae tu in eo praestitisti ut praedicationem meam longè supergressa sunt Equidem Belgii nostri fortunae gratulor penes quos servati Martialis gloria est J. Rutgersius Scriverio Anna Maria à Schurman a very learned and also pious woman whom Spanhem cals Ultimum naturae in hoc sexu conatum decimam Musam
Foelix Consortium OR A FIT CONJUNCTURE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING In one entire Volume consisting of six Books The first Treating of RELIGION IN GENERAL The FALSE RELIGIONS and the TRUE And several Questions also discussed concerning that ARGUMENT The Second Of LEARNING the Excellency and Usefulness of it The Liberal Arts the Chiefest Languages the Universities and Publick Schools of several Nations The Third Fourth Fifth and Sixth Books Particularizing the Men Eminent for Religion or Learning Divine or Humane among the Jews Christians Ancient or Modern Writers Protestants or Papists Characterizing their Persons and giving Judgment of their Works In an Alphabetical Order By EDWARD LEIGH Master of Arts of Magdalen-Hall in Oxford LONDON Printed for Charles Adams at the Sign of the Talbot near S t. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1663. TO THE Right Reverend JAMES USHER Arch-Bishop of Armagh HONOURED SIR BOth the Subject I handle and my own special Obligation are a just Apologie for my Dedication of this Treatise unto you I treat of Religion and Learning a noble Argument and were it answerably handled well-worthy of so noble a Patronage Learning is the great Ornament of a man and true Religion which is an honouring of God suitably to his Excellency is the great Ornament of a Christian. Where there is a happy conjunction of a learned Head and a sincere and truly religious Heart there is a Person every way accomplisht Bishop Juell is frequently for this reason styled The Jewell of Bishops and of D r Raynolds it is said Incertum est fuerit doctior an melior D r Rivet and Peter du Moulin two French Divines are famous for their eminent Piety learned Writings and fifty years preaching Your Name is also precious in all the Reformed Churches witness the Dedication of divers learned Treatises to you and the honourable mention which many learned men frequently make of you One thing I shall desire to specifie which I look upon as one of your great Accomplishments your humble and affable Disposition both in a free admission of the very meanest and also in a ready communicating of your self unto them which noble quality being in you when you were at the highest as I have heard is therefore the more commendable Your sending to Samaria for several Copies of the Samaritane Pentateuch bringing them first into Europe and dispersing them many wayes and also your purchasing at a dear rate the Syriack-Bible and many other Syriack-Books from Syria and your free imparting them to such Schollers as were skilfull in that Language is deservedly celebrated by M r Selden in his Preface ad Marmora Arundeliana De Dieu in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Acts and D r Boot in his Index Autorum before his Animadversiones Sacrae Your Liberality to such as are in a necessitous condition is also well known It is a usual Maxim or Proverb That the greatest Schollers are not the best Preachers and Queen Elizabeth was wont to say That she had made a Bishop and marr'd a Preacher You have really confuted both these by your plaâ—n and powerfull Preaching and by your constant labouring for above fifty years in that sacred Function even after the time that through â— naturall decay you were unable to reade your Text. Therein well fullfilling your Motto both in 〈…〉 Episcopall and Archiepiscopall Seal Vae mihâ—â—â— non Evangelizavero Could your leisure have permitted you to have heard me reade this whole Work to you as you did vouchsafe me the favour to hear part of it it might have been more exact in it self and so more worthy your Countenance You were pleased to commend to me some of the Authouâ—s I made use of and to supply me also with some choice Books out of your well-furnisht Library some of the Observations also I was beholding to you for to you I say who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a breathing Library and walking Study This with what I before alleadged may justifie this honouring of my Book with your Name the Dedication of it to you being as proper as that of Tullies Book De senectute ad senem or that of Hermannus Hugo De origine foribendi ad Scribanium The Argument also is seasonable for these timâ—s wherein Learning hath other enemies besides the ignorant if a Governour of a Colledge in the University may not goe for an Ignaro also and wherein the vitals of Religion are in so much danger partly by Scepticisme of the one side and questioning almost all the great Articles of Christian Faith and by Libertinisme on the other side as if the Primitive Christians Martyrs and old Puritans had been more precise then wise It is your honour therefore in such a declining Age when others dispute away Truths and Duties to stand for Orthodox Truths and practise holy Duties Psal. 119. 126 127. Old-age saith Salomon is a Crown when it is found in the way of Righteousness As God hath inriched you with large Abilities so lay them out still for the good of the Church that so you may prove a happy instrument whilst you live of Gods Glory which is the desire of SIR Your most Affectionate Friend and Servant EDWARD LEIGH To the Judicious and Candid READER READER WHen I first pitcht my thoughts upon this Subject I intended only to give some brief Character of some Humanists and some of the chief reformed Writers but in the prosecution of my Design meeting with divers Elogies and apt descriptions of some of the chief Popish Writers I thought it not amiss to make the Work more general A learned Divine inquired of me when my Body of Divinity was coming forth Whether I treated there of Religion seeming to wonder that many who published Systemes of Divinity said nothing of so usefull a Subject whereabout also many Questions might be raised and discussed I thereupon bethinking with my self that I might conveniently treat of it in this Book accordingly made Religion and Learning the Argument of the two first Books and those that were eminently Religious or Learned are mentioned according to the order of the Alphabet in the four following Books But I take liberty therein by reason of the Alphabetical order and because I could not so properly refer them to the second Book to speak of several Bibles Councels Confessions Proverbs and the Talmud in the letter of the Alphabet whereto they belong the knowledge thereof being helpfull to Schollers Besides where I speak of Charles the Great and the fifth I also mention Charles the ninth both because I met with an excellent Character of him in Thuanus and also because he was a special instance of Gods retaliating Justice for shedding the bloud of Protestants in the Parisian Massacre I may perhaps also mention an Heretick that was not famous either for Learning or Piety I thought good to advertise the Reader hereof lest he should wonder else when he meets with these particulars The first Book is concerning Religion that it is
dignity and office to Peter himself Minime verò vel ipsis crepantibus Antichristis But thou wilt say that none was strengthened in the faith by Iulius But dost not thou see a remedy prepared viz. an Oecumenicall Councell Hic nobis adest Cardinalis Crescens qui ut Ecclesiae dignitas crescat recuperetur efficiet Gentilet Exam. Concil Trid. l. 3. Sess. 12. For the Lords Supper and the Mass Peter du Moulin in his Anatomy de la Messe l. 1. chap. 2. reckons up thirty four contrarieties between them How the Papists transgress against both Law and Gospel breaking every Commandement and violating every article of the Creed and both the Sacraments The Papists have used both violent and fraudulent means to propagate their Religion 1. Violent as the Spanish Inquisition the Irish Immanity the Gunpowder plot in England shew They teach that hereticks are to be extirpated with fire and sword Thuanus Hist. tom 5. parte secunda p. 135. fully relates the Gunpowder Treason and begins thus Nunc horrendam ab omnibus aeque damnatam conjurationem contra magnae Britanniae Regem vitam continua narratione exequemur They use fraudulent means they make use of spurious writings defend equivocation they shelter themselves with false Miracles Legends Relicks That Massacre of Paris was very cruel but ushered in with pretences of great love and friendship There are three maxims saith Peter du Moulin which are the pillars of Popery The first of which is That the Church of Rome cannot erre The second That the Pope and the Church of Rome are not subject to the holy Scripture but have more Authority then it The third That the Pope and Church of Rome have power to change the Commandments of God and to make new Articles of Faith D r Ereston as I remember reduceth all to these two heads 1. That the true Church cannot erre 2. That the Church of Rome is that true Church Peter du Moulin in his Anatomie De La messe l. 4. Chap. 5. shews when England received the Orders of Rome Chap. 7. when Popery was brought into France and Chap. 8. when it was brought into Spain What opinion was there heretofore of Monkery What esteem have the Papists of it still This is one of the Prerogatives of the Order of S t Francis and S t Dominick that the habit of S t Francis or S t Dominick is worthy a second Baptism and that by this habit all the former sins are blotted out Whence it came that many Princes and Persons of quality in mortal diseases have put on the habit of S t Francis that they might blot out all their sins Learned Rudolphus Agrîcola dying at Heidelberg was buried in a Fraciscans habit by the Minorites as he commanded Campians brag in his third reason Ad Patres si quando licebit accedere confectum est praelium tam sunt nostri quam Gregorius ipse Decimus tertius filiorum Ecclesiae Pater amantissimus is succinctly and pithily answered by our learned Whitaker Quem nos filiorum Ecclesiae hostem capitalem furiosum esse novimus eum tu Patrem vocas amantissimum quam hoc verum est tam illud esse verum concludis Fateor ambo quam illud utrumque enim falsissimum CHAP. VI. Of the Reformed Religion THe people of God which are called and come out of Babylon need not a new plantation of a Church but a Reformation only In which respect the term of the Reformed Churches is very fit and godly and the proceeding accordingly Whereas the course of the Anabaptists and all such as either begin all anew or averre such Assertions as do necessarily imply it is not only preposterous but exceeding sinfull and erroneous Iohnsons Christian Plea pag. 137. Gerhard in his Catholick Confession lib. 1. General part 1. cap. 4. saith That Luther in his work of Reformation Non fuisse novi alicujus dogmatis inventorem sed antiquae fidei assertorem nec fuisse novae Ecclesiae autorem sed pristinae repurgatorem Junius noster dicere solebat Papistas ita in fundamentis errare ut à fundamentis non aberrarent cui ego plane assentioâ—â— Walaei Epistolae Antonio Walaeo Hugo Grotio Gerhard in his first General Book of his Catholick Confession chap. 6. speaks of Luther the instrument of Reformation and chap. 7. of the occasion of Reformation the immoderate extolling of the Popes indulgences and the excessive gain of those that vented them The Prophet Zachary saith The man whose name is the Branch he shall build the Temple of the Lord Because 1. The Temple is Christs house Matth. 16. 18. Heb. 3. 6. 2. Christ hath undertaken this work This appears in the work of Reformation because they which were the chief Reformers did not communicate their counsels to one another and likewise if we consider the instruments by Luther a Monk and other mean men in Germany and by Edward the 6 th a childe in England and by a woman Q. Elizabeth that such a glorious work should be effected Also if we observe how our cause from the beginning against the will of Emperours and many Kings maugre the malice of Popes hath taken increase and by little and little spread into all Countreys Quibus armis obsecro vos intra annos 58. plus minus expugâ—atum ferè est Antichristi regnum in tota prope Europa Regnum verâ— Christi longè lateque propagatum per homines imbecilles atque inermes per Lutherum cum suis in Germania per Zuinglium in Helvetia per Calvinum in Galliis perque alios aliis in locis nisi vi verbi Spiritus Sanctus qui in ipsis locutus est suasque exeruit vires adversus omnem mundi Satanae potestatem Zanch. Orat. The Church of Rome was so unsound in Doctrine and corrupt in worship that it was no schism but a duty then to separate from it The means taken by the first Reformers for promoting the work of Reformation of Religion 1. They searched diligently into the Word of God and so discovered the errours of Popery Their care was after to translate the Bible into vulgar languages and to interpret it to the people and illustrate it with ample Comments 2. They were carefull to educate children in the Principles of Christian Religion and Piety It is a piece of Luthers counsel if ever you would have a good Reformation look to the Reformation of children 3. They were ready to dispute with their Adversaries in all places and speedily to reply to their writings Nonne tot disputationes Witembergenses Ratisbonienses Augustanae Spirenses Wormatienses Bernenses Posliacenae Londinenses Cantabrigienses Oxonienses testes esse possunt locupletissimae quo animo qua doctrina qua veritate causam Religionis nostrae propugnaverimus Whitakeri ad Rat. primam Camp Respons Chamier hath answered the Papists generally in his learned Panstratia Catholica Bellarmine is well answered by Iunius Ames Whitaker The
of which there is no salvation and cannot nor will not bear these which differ Hence it is a common speech amongst them there is no other way to agreement then by the receiving and approving of the Councel of Trent Many of those which professe to follow Luther are of that opinion also refusing to joyn with those which they reproachfully call Calvinists unlesse they will receive the Augustane Confession as it is wont to be explained by them and the book of Concord The third opinion is of them who go the middle way between these extreams and affirm That there may be an agreement among those that differ in some Controversies but not in others These are the Orthodox Teachers of the Reformed Churches A universal conjunction is impossible the rule of consent about Religion is only the word of God The enemies of Christian Religion are twofold Open or Close Those openly oppose the Doctrine of Christ and persecute his Church viz. the Heathens Mahometans and Iews these treacherously and under the name of Christ as Hereticks but especially Arminians Pelagians and Papists Altingius and others hold an agreement with both these unlawfull To endeavour to soder different Religions and persons holding to their principles will make up but a medly and patcht Religion As some in the Apostles time mingled Circumcision with Baptism and the Sacrifices with the death of Christ. This was the way which the great Emperour Charles the fifth took to reunite the two Religions in Germany by the Tract called the Interim which was composed by an Apostate Minister named Islebius But it was opposed by the faithfull Ministers and although out of fear it was admitted by some Princes and Commonwealths yet it was soon abolisht Circa idem tempus monstrosus partus toti Germaniae pestilens in lucem infelici sidere prodiit quem Interim seu inter Religionem Augustanam nominarunt cum edicto Caesaris quo promulgata est certa quaedam Religionis formula interim servanda donec universali Concilio coacto Religionis controversiae cognoscantur tollantur Melchior Adam in vita Joan. Wigand Vide plura ibid. Et in vita Joan. Iâ—lebii Brentii Castam Christi Sponsam decet casta concordia said Doctor Sibbes in a Clerum in Doctrine as well as Worship Malefida semper fuit Religionum ferruminatio publicis calamitatibus praevia said the same Reverend Divine in that Latine Sermon The Samaritans with their patcht Religion retarded Christs work Some distinguish between Consent and Concord others make a difference between Consent Concord and Peace Consent we call Unity in judgment Concord Unity of will and desire peace quiet and calme conversation a life void of janglings and free from tumults There may be Consent without Concord Concord without Consent and Peace without both Men may agree in their opinion and yet differ in their desires they may differ in opinion and desires yet live in peace That there should be a mutual amity and forbearance amongst those who differ in matters of Church-Government or the like but agree in the Fundamentals is most reasonable It is a Question An Ecclesia Protestantiúm conciliari possit cum Pontificiis Whether the Church of the Protestants may be reconciled with the Papists Roma irreconciliabilis was D r Hall's tenet Franciscus de Sancta Clara Cassander the Archbishop of Spalato and Millitier and other Conciliators there have been but all in vain Gentilettus in his Preface to his Apologia pro Christianis Gallis Religionis Reformatae saith well Imprimis hoc verissimum esse statuo inter Catholicos Romanos Evangelicos Religionis Reformatae in multi dogmatum Articulis quidem praecipuis magnam esse contrarietatem Nihilominus tamen in hoc omnes conveniunt ut agnoscant profiteantur veritatem personae Iesu Christi in duabus naturis non confusis nec non sanctam Trinitatem Patris Filii Spiritus sancti amplectanturque omnes sanctam Scripturam Veteris Novi Testamenti Though the Papists and we agree in these things that we both acknowledge the Unity of the Person of Christ in two Natures not confounded and the Trinity of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost and all the holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament yet in many Articles of Religion we much differ and chiefly in the Doctrine of Justification Vide Whitak dâ— notis Eccles. Some make the great difference between the Papists and us to be about the corporal presence of Christ in the Sacrament and the Infallibility of the Pope It is a Question An cura Religionis ad Magistratum Civilem pertineat Whether any thing of Religion come under the Magistrates Cognizance or belong to his care That it doth appears First From the Nature of Christianity it goes through his whole conversation 1 Pet. 1. 15. and reacheth to all his relations A Heathen Magistrate or Parent is as truly a Magistrate and Parent as a Christian Magistrate or Parent Christianity gives no farther power but a higher Law The name of Christianity lies in exercising it in all our relations Secondly The Gospel is given for Nations and is their great priviledge that receive it Magistrates ought to take care of all National priviledges Rev. 11. 15. Thirdly That which God hath promised to his people as a mercy Magistrates should labour to be and fulfill in duty Isa. 49. 22. Psal. 2. 11. It is a great Question An Magistratus plures Religiones in una republica tolerare debeat Whether it be lawfull for a Magistrate to tolerate many Religions in one Commonwealth Some give this distinction in the Doctrine of Toleration They put a difference inter Tolerationem approbationem a Magistrate must discountenance all corrupt Doctrines and before hand Dissensum suum publicè declarare debet Religio non potest cogi Religion cannot be constrained and yet blasphephemies must be restrained See Revel 2. 20. Hereticks should sure not be advanced to high places Toleration intolerable Toleration is the great Diana much cried up in these times Some think there is no love among men unlesse they allow an universal Toleration of all blasphemies and heresies We must distinguish between loving of mens persons and their errours Ephes. 4. 15. 2 Ioh. v. 1 3. We should joyn grace and truth and charity together Some give these Cautions First If they be such Religions as do not overthrow the foundation Secondly Nor such as disturb the Government established in the State or Kingdom Thirdly If the Professors thereof be not factious ambitious or pertinacious but honest simple tractable obedient to their Superiours Some say Take heed of two destroying extreams First That of the Libertines that all should be tolerated without limitation Secondly Others who would have liberty for none but themselves and men of their own opinion For the Papists They are not tolerated in Holland The Jews are not only tolerated but have the publick
They delighted to write songs of pleasure of which sort was Pindar Anacreon and Callimachus with others among the Greeks Horace and Catullus among the Latines 3. Elegiack who wrote in a certain pitious verse called Elegy such among the Latines were Ovid Tibullus and Propertius 4. There were Comicall Poets who wrote Enterludes to recreate the people with matters of disport of whom among the Greeks Menander and Aristophanes were most excellent with the Latines Terence and Plautus and also Tragicall who set forth the dolefull fals of unfortunate and afflicted Princes such were Aeschyius Euripides and Sophocles with the Greeks Seneca among the Latines Satyricall who taxed the vices of the people in bitter speeches such were Lucilius Iuvenall and Persius among the Latines Others were given wholly to scoffing at undecent things and in short Poems uttered pretty merry conceits and these were called Epigrammatists as Martiall Poets are drawn with a desire of glory and are greedy of praise Nec petitur sacris nisi tantum fama Poetis There are Deliciae Poetarum where the famous Italian French German and Scotch Poets are mentioned Chytraeus hath this Epigram In tres Petros Poetas Carmine quid possint Itali cum Teutone Galli Scire cupis ternos aspice quaeso Petros Italiae Angelium Ronsardum Gallia suave Lorichii ingenium Teâ—tonis â—ra tulit Of Painting Painting is silent Poetry and Poetry a speaking Picture Of the first Inventer of it See Polyd. Verg. de Invent. Rerum l. 2. c. 24. Zeuxis Appelles Lysippus Parrhasius Praxiteles Phidias were famous Painters Two Artificers contended for the mastery in their Art and faculty the first drawing Grapes so lively that he couzened the birds the other a Vail so exquisitely that he couzened the Artificer himself Of Navigation This Art is much perfected since Salomons time Prima dedit nautis usum magnetis Amalphis Iohn Tapp hath written of the Art of Navigation and S t Thomas Rives hath written Historiam Navalem in two parts The vertue of the Loadstone is certainly wonderfull unknown to Aristotle and Plâ—ny and all the Ancients which vertue thus now being known and understood Navigation through and about the whole world was made easie and happy Sir Francis Bacon in his first book of the Advancement of Learning lib. 1 cap. 4. saith The Sciences which hold more of the Fancy and of Belief then of Reason and Demonstration are chiefly three Astrology naturall Magick and Alchimy I. For Astrology Though the Ancients generally confounded Astronomy and Astrology yet they are to be distinguished as the very Greek words shew The Scripture Psal. 19. commending the Sunne and the Starry Heavens for all its proper uses and ends that we should make of them saith not the least word of Judiciall Astrology or foretelling future events in the world by them whereas if that were true which is said that God by the Heavens as by a Book hath revealed what he would do it would have commended the study of the Heavens for this end to all for if God have manifested his will by it then certainly he would have commanded us to search for it there as he doth command us to finde out his will in the Scripture But the Scripture is so farre from commending such a study that it expresly forbids it as a grievous sinne Deut. 18. 10 14. Isa. 2. 6. 41. 23. 44. 25. 47. â—2 Iâ—â— 10. 2. Eccles. 10. 14. And that Judiciall Astrology is a vanity appeareth by this reason They undertake to foretell contingencies for the most part from the position of the seven Planets Now there being so vast a number of fixed Stars which have influence in earthly things in some proportion as well as the Planets how is it possible that they should foretell any certain truth One in Basill by his calculation noted a certain day which he mistrusted should be fatall unto him by some thing which should at that time befall him Whereupon he determined with himself all that day to keep him sure and safe within his chamber where he reaching up his hand to take down a Book the Book falling down upon his head gave him his deaths wound and shortly after he died upon the same Tycho Brahe in his Oration de Disciplinis Mathematicis doth plead somewhat for Astrology But Gassendus de Doctrina Epicuri hath a Diatribe against Judiciall Astrology and cals it ridiculous Sixtus ab Hemminga wrote a Book against those which profess Astrology which he entitled Astrologia ratione experientia refutata liber He shews there that all the promises which Astronomers make of future events are vain and that evidently in the genitures of thirty famous persons which Suffridus Petrus de Scriptoribus Frisiae reckons up Another kinde of Divination is Physiognomy If I say a sanguineous man is prone to lust that is a true judgement this is properly Physiognomy but if thou saiest he is actually lustfull that is a rash judgement for by reason or the grace of God he may restrain that as the story of Socrates is known A certain kind of Physiognomy is called Chiromancy or Palmestry which is a divination by inspection of the lines in the hand Frontemque manumque praebebit vati Juv. Sat. 1. Aristotle in his singular book of Physiognomy hath made no mention of Chiromancy yet I beleeve the Egyptians who were addicted to those abstruse and mysticall sciences had a knowledge therein to which those vagabond and counterfeit Egyptians did after pretend and perhaps retained a few corrupted principles which sometimes might verifie their prognosticks D r Brown Religio Medici See of them Camerar Histor. Meditat. l. 1. c. 17. II. Of Natural Magick Some distinguish between Natural Artificial and Diabolical though others dislike them all Zoroaster is said first to invent this Art of Magick Vide Aug. De Civ Dei l. 21. c. 14. Polyd. Verg. De Invent. Rerum l. 1. c. 22. Magick flourished especially among the Persians One saith Magia est ars impetrandi à Diabolo quicquid ipsi praescripseris Magick is an Art of obtaining of the Devil whatsoever thou shalt command him As Christianity is an Art of obtaining from God what is profitable so Magick is an Art of obtaining from the Devil what thou shalt command him For the Devil is the Author and worker of those things which the Magicians work though one saith The Art is but Naturalis Philosophiae absoluta consummatio the absolute perfection of natural Philosophy Plinie speaketh of Moses his Myracles though he do ill in calling him a Magician for 1. what likenesse is there between the illusions of a Magician which vanish away in the twinkling of an eye and the leading of a mighty great Nation through the Sea and which is more the maintaining of them from hunger and thirst so long a time There is no Law in the world
the shape of tongues Quid autem linguâ— dissectae aliud saith one quam variarum linguarum cognitionem portenderunt Bibliander saith There are seventy seven Languages commonly reckoned De ratione communi omnium Linguarum c. 1. The Hebrew Language was the first and most ancient and the onely Language before the building of the Tower of Babel Austen saith It is better to be in the company of a known dog then in a mans society whose speech is unknown to us The Hebrew tongue kept its purity and remained uncorrupted though other tongues were added to it and derived from it It is reported of Mithridates that he spake two and twenty Languages Gesner therefore writing a Book of divers Languages styles it Mithridates Gesneri Vide R. Episc. Uss. Annal. partem posteriorem p. 142. Et Theodorum Bibliandrum De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum c. 1. Benedictus Arias Montanus in his Preface to the King of Spains Bible professeth that he understood ten Languages Godeschalcus Praetorius a man of great wit and vast memory and famous in all kinde of Learning once a singular ornament of the University of Francford in Germany understood fourteen Tongues saith Nâ—ander in the first part of his Geography Postell shews that he was skilfull in fifteen Languages Schindler and De Dieu were Polyglottists Ioseph Scaliger and our Bishop Andrews had also knowledge in severall Languages Theodorus Bibliander De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum cap. 1. saith thus of himself Equidem ut de uberiori aliqua perfusione divini spiritus gloriari non possum nec debeo ita beneficia Christi servatoris minimè vel modestum vel religiosum est dissimulare Fateâ—rque me non tam labore diligentia ingenii quodam acumine singulari quam ex merito gratia doâ—o principis nostri opt max. Iesu Christi consecutum esse facultatem aliquam scribendi loquendi aut certè judicandi de iu linguis quae totum orbem terrarum longè lateque possident Vide plura ibid. The common use of all Languages is twofold One That others may discover their minde to us Another That we likewise may reveal our mimde to them As the confusion of tongues at Babel had caused the casting off of the Gentiles by severing them from the participation of the true Religion which was onely professed and known in the Hebrew tongue so was the gift of tongues to be a needfull means to bring them into Religion again when every one may hear of the things of God in his own Language The Languages may be divided into Oriental and Occidental 1. Oriental Hebrew Chaldee Samaritan Syriack Arabick Aethiopick Persian Armenian Coptick 2. Occidental Greek Latine Spanish French Italian German English and Sclavonick which is spoken very generally The Oriental tongues are written and read from the right hand to the left except the Aethiopick and Armenian The Grecians at first did write forward and backward whence that phrase Literas exarare and lineae are called versus and thence that was a most profitable and grave Decree of the Councel of Vienna celebrated under Clement the 5 th That there should be in Universities publick professours of the Hebrew Chaldee and Arabick tongues which should teach them and translate books out of them into Latine for the propagation of the Faith and more easie conversion of the Infidels Sigismundus Gelenius hath written Lexicum Symphonum Quo quatuor Linguarum Europae familiarium Graecae scilicet Latinae Germanicae ac Sclavinica concordia judicatur Bibliander De ratione communi omnium linguarum layes down an easie method of learning a Language Qui enim dictiunculas principales themata singulis diebus discat aliquid tribuat regulis derivandi flectendi câ—â—poâ—eâ—di utque ordinem constructionis leges cognoscat centesimo die per otium linguam perdidicit He saith there That there are a thousand original words of the Latine tongue and themata bis mille linguae Hebraeae two thousand roots of the Hebrew tongue There are three principal or learned Languages the Hebrew Greek and Latine I. Of the Hebrew Of Languages the Hebrew as it is the first and most ancient of all so it alone seems to be pure and sincere all the rest almost are mixt for there is none of them which hath not certain words derived and corrupted from the Hebrew So the Latines have not onely borrowed many words of Art from the Grecians but also of things which they found in their books So the Latine tongue was corrupted by the Gothes in Italy France and Spain Some think that the English Language is most mixt and corrupt of all Munster in the second Book of his universal Cosmography saith The English tongue is compounded of many Languages In times past he saith it was pure Germane as one may know by Beda who was born in England The Mysteries of God and our salvation were delivered by God and received by the holy Fathers and Prophets in the Hebrew tongue The Hebrew tongue excels all others in dignity pleasure profit and necessity The antiquity of it demonstrates its dignity the simplicity and grace of it its pleasure It is the fountain of all other Languages of the Indian Persian Babylonian Armenian Syriack Arabick the Egyptian Aethiopick and therefore profitable Beckman shews that many Greek words are derived from it By it we are instructed in the knowledge of God and the Church and our selves therefore it is very necessary The Punique tongue was the Canaanitish or old Hebrew Language that which was vulgarly spoken among the Jews before the Captivity Amongst Christians for more then a thousand years from Christ none scarce did adorn the Hebrew Language unlesse very few The Jews were in such hatred that their very Language was vilified Origen of Alexandria learned it of a Jew called Hill not without trouble and the publick upbraiding of Celsus Ierom also of Stridona a Monk and Presbyter learned this Language at Bethlehem especially in the night time of a Jew fearing his Countreymen whose name was Barhanina whence Ruffinus becoming his enemy objected to him that leaving Christ he followed Barabbas He neglecting that calumny went on stoutly and taught many religious Virgins this Language that they might sing Hebrew Psalms After Ierom who flourished in the year of Christ 385. followed Iohn Damascene who lived in the year of Christ 730. Nicholas Lyra was converted from Judaism in the year of Christ 320. Afterward Paulus Burgensis was converted from Judaism And this was the lot of that holy Language even unto the year of Christ 1440. when Printing was invented and the studies of Languages and Learning began to flourish Here among the Christian restorers of the holy tongue Reuclin was the first He learned the Greek tongue of Greek exiles amongst whom was Chalcondylas and the Hebrew of the Jews and he illustrated both The ice being broken by
in this University a Student The famous Didacus Covarruvias professed the Canon Law here Franciscus à Victoria was Professour of Divinity here Dominicus à Soâ—o l. 1. de Iustitia jure cals it his University Saragossa In this ancient City the Kings of Arragon are usually accustomed to be Crowned By Pope Iohn the 22 d the priviledges of this University were restored and ratified Signenca Little is said in Authors concerning the Foundation of this University or donation of priviledges thereto Lerida In this City flourisheth an Academy of great Antiquity wherein Pope Calixtus the 3 d before he obtained the Papacy proceeded Doctor of either Law who afterward became a publick Professor of the Civil Law in the same place Also Vincent a Dominican Frier was there made Doctor of Divinity Huesca Osca or Isca It is a goodly City of Arragon containing an University of great Antiquity which is said to have been erected before the coming of Christ as a Nursery for the Institution of Noble mens children Lisbone It is the Metropolis of Portugall A most renowned University was by the bounty of their Kings erected in this City where even untill this day the liberall Sciences are prosessed with great profoundness to the incredible benefit of Christendom Conimbra It is a most pleasant and goodly City in Portugall An University was therein Founded in these later daies by Iohn the 2 d King of Portugall Iacobus Payva Andradius studied in this University There is Collegium Conimbricense upon a good part of Aristotle his Logick and Physicks Evora It is another famous City of Portugall An University was herein lately erected by Henry Cardinall of Portugall who was Bishop of that place He was a man endued with abundant wealth and exceedingly affected to the Muses Majorica In this City is an ancient priviledged and authorized University where the Arts generally are publikely with great Learning professed Among the Students of this Academy the memory of Raymundus Lullius is with great admiration retained because he received therein his birth and education in so much that even untill this present time a Learned man is there with liberall exhibition entertained to maintain and teach the doctrine professed by Lullius in times past CHAP. XIII Of the Universities of England BRittain which comprehends England and Scotland is the greatest Isleland of Europe it was in times past called Albion say some ab albis montibus primùm ad eam navigantibus apparentibus See Bish. Usher De Britan. Eccles. primord Some of the chief things for which England is famous are comprehended in this verse Mons Fons Pons Ecclesia Famina Lana England is termed by some the Paradise of women the Purgatory of servants the Hell of horses England hath been famous for Learned men and for her Seminaries of Learning as well as other things Renowned Scholars amongst us Alcuinus one of the Founders of the University of Paris Beda styled Venerabilis Anselm and Bradwardine Archbishops of Canterbury Alexander of Hales Tutor to Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure Iohn Wiclef Since the times of the Reformation Iohn Iewell Bishop of Salisbury D r Iohn Reynolds and M r Richard Hooker D r Whitaker Bishop Bilson and Andrews both Bishops of Winchester Bishop Mountague of Norwich D r Iohn Whitgift Papists D r Harding Nicholas Sanders and D r Thomas Stapleton Campian and Parsons and William Rainolds For other studies Lindwood the Canonist Cosins and Cowell eminent in the study of the Civil Laws Bracton and Briton of old times Dier and Cooke of late daies expert in the Laws of England Iohannes de Sacro Bosco the Author of the book of the Sphere Roger Bacon a famous Mathematician Sir Francis Bacon an excellent Philosopher Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor a witty and Learned man Sir Henry Savill a great Grecian Sir Henry Spelman a Learned Antiquary Camden the Pausanias of the British Islands Sir Thomas Bodlie Sir Isaac Wake M r Selden Matthew Paris Matthew of Westminster Roger Hoveden Henry of Huntingdon William of Malmesbury and Thomas of Walsingham all known Historians For Poetry Gower Chaucer Spencer Sir Philip Sidnie Daniel and Draiton Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Iohnson As the messenger of Pyrrhus long since called Italy a Conntry of Kings and Egypt was wont to be called the Country of Physitians so may this blessed Island of ours justly merit the title of The Region of Divines D r Hals Preface to the married Clergy Stupor mundi Clerus Britannieus whence many outlandish men have learned English that they might reade those Books of our Divines which were printed in our Language Ioseph Scaliger findes fault with our English men for speaking Latine Some think they pronounce the a too little and the i too big and broad Caius in his Book De pronuntiatione Graecae Latinae linguae saith that he learned by experience that variety of pronuncing did hinder mutuall commerce mens society and understanding of things He saith that a Greek Patriarck being at London in the Reign of Edward the 6 th did not understand Sir Thomas Cheeke nor Sir Thomas him the Knight using the new kinde of pronouncing the other the old he addes pleading for the old and barbarous pronunciation Quo omnes Graeci ad huc utebantur cum ego essem Venetiis tum è Cathedra Graecas literas profitendo tum in templis sacra celebrando Audiebam enim data opera saepius At si ego tacerem norit Oxoniensis schola quemadmodum ipsa Graecia pronunciarit ex Matthaeo Calphurnio Graeco quem ex Graecia Oxonium Graecarum literarum gratia produxerat Thomas Wolsaeus de bonis literis optimè meritus Cardinalis cum non alia ratione pronunciarit ille quà m qua nos jam profitemur Id si ita sit nos Britanni docebimus ipsos Graecos in ipsa Graecia oriundos sua verba sonare suas voces atquè literas pronuâ—tiare plus in aliena lingua sapiens quà m ipsa gens atquè natio cui lingua Graeca familiaris atque etiam vulgaris est successione temporum continuata tanquam per manus esse tradita Nam privata haec pronunciatio paucorum hominum in Britania est eorum juvenum alibi minimè recepta gentium There are in England many triviall Schooles in Towns and Cities Amongst which the most famous are That of Eaton and Westminster founded by Henry the 6 th Edward the 4 th and Q. Elizabeth and of Winchester Schola certè Augusta ante 200 ampliùs annos erecta ut adolescentes suavioribus disciplinis imbuti ad artes Academicâ—s meliori genio animum intendant Europaei orbis Academiae There are also in London that of Pauls and Merchant Taylors The two Universities of England may equall many beyond Sea Ubi tot Academiae quot Collegia Scultetus de curriculo vitae Magnae in Collegiis Angliae opes vectigalia verbo vobis dicam unum Oxoniense
Fleming Bishop of Lincoln in the eighth year of the reign of King Henry the 5 th founded this Colledge by the name of Lincoln Colledge which was afterward in Richard the thirds time in the year of our Lord 1479. by Thomas Rotheram Bishop of the same Sea and Secretary to four Kings much augmented and increased D r Kilbie a learned Hebrician was Head of this Colledge and that learned School-Divine D r Sanderson was Fellow of this House All-Souls Colledge 1437. Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury layed in Oxford the foundation of two goodly Colledges this and that of S t Iohns Colledge the last being reedified by S r Thomas White Lord Maior of London There is Vita Henrici Chichele Descripta ab Arthuro Dâ—â—k Magdalen Colledge Founded 1459. William Wainflet Bishop of Winshester founded first Magdalen Hall after that this Colledge dedicating the same to the honour of S. Mary Magdalen He builded also a great part of Eaton Colledge before begun by King Henry the sixt Prince Henry was of this Colledge Claimund and Doctor Bond were Presidents of it Brazeâ—-Nose Colledge Founded 1515. William Smith Bishop of Lincoln during the reign of King Henry the 7 th laid the foundation of this Colledge After whose death Richard Sutton Esquire took upon him to perfect the same which he accomplished Alexander Nowel was of this house M r Bolton and I think M r Iohn Ball. Corpus Christi Colledge Founded 1516. Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester and Godfather to King Henry the 8 th founded this Colledge It nourished Iewel Rainolds Wâ—tton Hooker Cardinal Pool who was chosen Pope D r Featley and other learned men Christ-Church Colledge Founded 1546. Thomas Wolsey Cardinal Archbishop of York and Lord high Chancellour of England laid the foundation of a most ample and spacious Colledge but he falling his design failed with the Founder Henry the eight enriched the same with many goodly revenues annexing thereunto Canterbury Colledge It hath a spatious Court or quadrangle nay divers and a Hall both spatious and splendid wherein is a most beautifull glasse Lanthorn there is also a very fair Kitchin which only was finished by the Cardinal and gave oceasion to that scoff of an outlandish man Egregium opus saith he Cardinalis Collegium incepit popinam absolvit Sanna vix è coquina deprompta adeo sale caret saith Sir Isaac Wake in his Rex Platonicus Peter Martyr was once Prebend of this Colledge as his own Epistles shew He writes thus Amico cuidam in Anglia Ego cum essem Oxonii vestibus illis albis in Choro nunquam uti volui quamvis essem Canonicus mei facti ratio mihi constabat Toby Matthew Archbishop of York was of this House and M r Burton who wrote of Melancholy upon whose Tomb there is this witty Epitaph Paucis notus paucioribus ignotus Hic jacet Democritus Iunior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit Melancholia Trinity Colledge Founded 1556. Sir Thomas Pope Knight founded this Colledge in the fourth year of the Reign of King Philip and Qu. Mary dedicating the same to the Trinity S t Iohns Colledge Founded 1557. Henry Chichley Doctor of the Civil-Law Archbishop of Canterbury among other building laid the foundation of this Fabrick it was enlarged by William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Iesus Colledge Founded 1572. Hugh Prise Doctor of the Civil Law founded this Colledge it was perfected by Queen Elizabeth it hath had many other Benefactors Wadham Colledge Founded 1613. Nicholas Wadham Esquire in the seventh year of the raign of King Iames founded it Pembrok Colledge Founded 1620. It was first Broadgate-Hall but was called Pembroke Colledge from William Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Visitor of that Hall There are also in this University seven Hals in which there are many Students living at their own charge viz. Glocester-Hall Which being first built for Monks was after converted to a House for Scholars by Sir Thomas White Knight Edmund Hall It was builded by S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury Albon Hall It was builded by the Abbot of S t Albons for their Monks to study in Hart Hall It was built by Walter Stapleton Bishop of Excester M r Selden was of this House New Inne Heretofore it was called Turlocks Inne S t Mary Hall It was founded by King Edward the second Sir Thomas More Chancellour of England was of this Hall Cardinal Allen was principal of it about the same time Magdalen Hall It was founded by William Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester and D r Budden who writes his life and death cals it Aulam Magdaelene parentem Collegii and a little book which mentions the several Colledges in Oxford and Cambridge makes the Hall a eleven years elder then the Colledge Cambridge THis is the other University and eye of England a most famous Storehouse of good Literature and Godlinesse it standeth upon the River Cam which divideth it into two parts and hath a Bridge over it whence arose the name Cambridge There is not wanting any thing here which a man may require in a most flourishing University were it not that the air is somewhat unhealthfull arising as it doth out of a Fenny-ground hard by That Cantaber a Spainard 3751. years before Christs Nativity first began and founded this University is affirmed by Caius but Leland the great Antiquary and Camden also confute that conceit and M r Camden saith It was a seat of learning about the time of King of Henry the first and that under the reign of Edward the first some think it should be the second Grantbridge of a School was made an University such as Oxford is by the Court of Rome Hugh Balsham Bishop of Ely in the year 1284. built the first Colledge called Peter House and endowed it with lands whose example the other Founders did imitate and follow saith the same Camden That which some relate also That a publick Academy was erected at Cambridge by King Sigebert Anno Christi 630. Id vero dubia annalium fide nititur Cantabrigiensium quoque aemuli Oxonienses pernegant fortiter Et ut quaedam fuerit instituta procul dubio rudis fuit nec in longum tempus Caeterum nono seculo majori verisimilitudine laus illa competit Coring De Antiq. Academ Dissertat 3. Vide plura ibid. p. 73. See Petrus Blesensis at the end of Ingulphus That which some urge for the honour of Cambridge of Bedes reading there is a fable well confuted by Sir Isaac Wake in his Rex Platonicus in his Acts of the fourth day Bedam vero ipsum unquam Cantabrigiae fuisse quis nisi cerebri laesi putat Quum ipse dissertissimis scriptis suis asserat se nunquam extra monasterium suum operam literis dedisse ac ne inde unquam ferè egressum à pueritia Cantabrigiam verò sua aetate adeò Academiam celebrem non fuisse ut fuisse planè
desolatam civitatulam asserat Caius the Physician styled himself Londinensem when he wrote De Antiq. Cantab. Acad. though he was of Cambridge and only a Londoner by birth ne si Cantabrigiensis videretur affectum quoque suum in scribendo prodidisse videretur That passage of Caius's De Antiqu. Cantab. Acad. lib. 1. therefore might well have been spared Caeterum ad has discordias rumpendas atque finiâ—ndas sanctamque pacem componendam atque statuendam cum neque Oxâ—niensis Cantabrigiensem nec Cantabrigiensis ferat Oxoniensem in controversia judicem quòd pro sua cujusque affectione rem tractatam iri uterque indicet ex libidine magis quà m ex vero celebratam aut obscuratam existimet res suasit commiseratio jussit ut ego homo Londinensis medio loco inter utrumque positus eodem animo in utrumque affectus cui longa triginta annorum absentia à gymnasiis nisi subinde invisendi gratia charitatis studio omnem affectum juvenilem in Gymnasia sustulit hanc controversiam ut inutilem imo verò rem damnosam alioqui tanquam communis amicus definirem ac componerem Vide librum ejus de libris propriis My worthy friend Sir Simonds D'Ewers in his Speech touching the Antiquity of Cambridge saith If I should lose time to reckon up the vain allegations produced for the Antiquity of Oxford by Twyne and of Cambridge by Caius I should but repeat deliria senum At the present Cambridge consists of sixteen Colledges and Hals for there is little difference there between them erected and maintained with the Lands and Revenues of their several Founders Kings Colledge Chappel being founded by Henry the sixth is all of free-stone a very curious structure and from its form called the University Cradle Trinity Colledge founded by King Henry the eighth one of the compleatest Colledges in Europe A Colledge for stately greatnesse for uniform building and beauty of rooms scarce inferiour to any other in Christendom saith Camden Next to it is S t Iohns Colledge S t Peters Colledge or House Founded 1280. Hugh Basham Bishop of Ely began the foundation of this Colledge about Anno 1257. He setled not the endowment till anno 1284. Clare-Hall Founded 1280. Richard Badew Chancellour of the University first founded this Hall by the name of the University-House or Hall Afterwards the first foundation was resigned into the hands of Elizabeth Countesse of Clare widow which Lady by the licence of King Edward the 3 d established and finished the same and changing the name thereof willed that for ever after it should in memory of her family from whence she was descended be called Clare-Hall D r Butler the famous Physician was sometimes Fellow and President of this House Pembroke Hall Founded 1343. Mary de S. Paul Countesse of Pembroke daughter to Guido Chastillion Earl of S t Paul in France procured Licence from King Edward the 3 d to found this House by the name of the Colledge of Mary Valence after called Pembroke Hall Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester Edmond Grindall and Iohn Whitgift Archbishops of Canterbury William Fulk Doctor of Divinity were all Masters of this House and have by gifts of Lands Money Plate Books augmented the same and Lancelot Andrews Doctor of Divinity late Master and Bishop of Winchester hath given a thousand pounds with three hundred seventy four folio Books well bound M r Bradford Martyr was Fellow of Pembroke Hall and first lived in Katherine Hall and the Masters of those Colledges strove which should have him as himself relates in one of his Letters not to boast of himself but to shew Gods goodness towards him Bishop Ridley was also of Pembroke Hall and there in the Orchard learned without Book almost all Pauls Epistles yea and all the Canonical Epistles save only the Apocalypse So he saith of himself Corpus Christi Colledge Founded 1351. Henry of Monmouth sirnamed Torto Collo ordained this Colledge It hath been since much inlarged Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were of this House and great Benefactors to it Trinity Hall Founded 1353. William Bateman Bishop of Norwich founded this Hall Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and Chancellour of this University was of this House Gonvill and Caius Colledge Founded 1353. Edmond Gonvill Parson of Terrington in Norfolk obtained License of King Edward the 3 d to erect this Colledge Afterward Iohn Caius Doctor of Physick Anno 1557. was made a Co-founder by Letters Patents who caused it to be called Gonvill and Caius Colledge King Iames being in Caius Colledge presented with Caius his Antiquitates Cantabrigiensis Academiae he said What should I do with the Antiquities of Cambridge Give me Caius de Canibus Kings Colledge Founded 1441. King Henry the sixth in the nineteenth year of his Reign began this royal Foundation In which Colledge at this present is standing one of the fairest Chappels in the world which only he finished but intended to have made the Colledge conformable thereunto D Goade was of this House Queens Colledge Founded 1448. Queen Margaret wife to Henry the sixth laid the Foundation of this Colledge but leaving the same imperfect Queen Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth obtained Licence to finish the same which she accomplished Bishop Davenant was Master of this Colledge Sir Thomas Smith principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth was Fellow of this Colledge Katherine Hall Founded 1475. Robert Woodlork Chancellour of Cambridge founded this Hall it hath been since inlarged by many other Benefactors D. Sibbes and Gouge were of this House Iesus Colledge Founded 1496. Iohn Alcock Bishop of Ely and Lord Chancellour of England procured Licence of King Henry the 7 th to found this Colledge Christs Colledge Founded 1505. It was first begun by King Henry the sixth and after his decease brought to perfection by the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond and mother of King Henry the 7 th This is called by D. Willet Collegium Theologorum the Colledge of Divines M. Perkins M. Bains and D. Ames were all Fellows of this Colledge S t Iohns Colledge Founded 1508. The Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond founded this Collenge which hath been much inlarged since by other Benefactors D. Whitaker was Master of this Colledge There is a fair Library in it founded by Bishop Williams Magdalen Colledge Founded 1519. Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham founded this Colledge it is since much inlarged by divers Benefactors Trinity Hall Founded 1546. It was founded and erected by King Henry the eight it is since much inlarged by divers Benefactors Emanuel Colledge Founded 1584. Sir Walter Mildmay Privy Councellor to Queen Elizabeth obtained Licence of the said Queen to found and erect this Colledge It hath since been much augmented by the liberality of divers Benefactors Doctor Preston was first Fellow of Queens Colledge and the Master of Emanuel Sidney Sussex Colledge Founded 1598. Frances Sidney Countesse
Book De viris Illustribus ordinis Praedicatorum shew his great abilities Leo Bapt. Albertus he was a Learned man of the same family Gabriel Albaspinaeus Bishop of Orleance He published a Book de Eucharistiae Mysterio and two Books De veteribus Ecclesiae ritibus cum notis in Concilium Eliberitanum aliquot Tertulliani libros M r Selden and M r Gillespie cite his observations on Tertullian and speak of him as a great Antiquary This was his Epitaph Clauditur hoc tumulo spinâ cui nomen ab Albâ Successor patriae fidei successor honoris Regis deliciae procerumque plebis amores Dives opum bene partarum sed ditior usu Munificus facilisque aditu studiisque politus Ingenuis rectique tenax simplice lingua Egregium decus oris erat maturius annis Consilium cani juvenili in corpore mores Denique florebat summae spes proxima laudi Cùm brevis humanis semper virtutibus aetas Ter denâ—s juvenem vetuit numerare Decembres Tot bona quam parvo rapuerunt tempore fata Edmundus Albertinus a Learned French Protestant Divine of Paris There is a Learned Book of his de Sacramento Encharistiae lately published with a Preface of Blondels to it Andreas Alciatus was the first that wrote Learned notes on the Civil Law after him Budeus and Cujacius and many others Erasmus stiles him Unicum hujus aetatis miraeulum ac studiorum delicium the only miracle of this age and the darling of the Muses By Lilius Gyraldus he is intitled Iurisperitorum eloquentissimus eloquentium juris peritissimus polyhistor bonusque poeta His Emblems are much commended by Iulius Scaliger Arias Montanus made these verses of him Eloquio jus Romanum lucebat arte Turba obscurarunt barbara legulei Andreas prisco reddit sua jura nitori Consultosque facit doctius inde loqui Our age saith Learned Pasquier Recherch de la France l. 9. ch 30. brought forth four great persons in the same time Erasmus a Dutchman Budeus a Frenchman Alciate an Italian Vives a Spaniard and yet we have with us saith he Adrian Turnebus and Peter Ramus which last hath made many Books full of learning and knowledge and for Turnebus his Adversaria consisting in Humanity it is a work unimitable in variety of knowledge In his 29. ch of that Book he speaks of the Lawyers in the year 1500 which joyned the study of the Law with humane learning where he makes honourable mention of also Budeus Alciate Cujacius and divers others Stephanus Paschafius likewise in his Icones hath these verses of Erasmus Budaus and Alciate Qui leget hos leget ille sui tria lumina secli Lumina non ullo non celebranda die Hic Italus Gallusque alius Germanus alter Quos triplex uno tempore fama tulit Flaccus Albinus or Alcuinus vir illis temporibus longè eruditissimus a learned English man for those times Schoolmaster of Charles the Great one of the Founders of the University of Paris He lived 800 years after Christ saith Helvicus in his Chronol Camden in his Britane in Yorkeshire makes honourable mention of him So doth Caius Histor. Cantabr Academ l. 1. p. 37. That which many Writers observe of his being Bedes Scholar will not be made good Ulysses Aldrovandus percelebris ille de animalibus scriptor so he is styled by Gassendus in vita-Peireskii l. 1. His Books de Animalibus printed at Bononia are commended Hieronymus Aleander Cardinall was Learned in Latine Greek and Hebrew ad stuporem usque whose labour Leo the Pope used against Luther He was of so great a memory that though he greedily read over many Volumes yet he remembred all and would rehearse it long after Neand. Geog. parte â— a. Alexander the Great He was tam Marti quam Mercurio a great Scholar and Souldier both He was bred and taught under Aristotle who Dedicated divers Books of Philosophy unto him He was attended with Calisthenes and divers other learned persons that followed him in Camp and were his perpetuall Associates in all his travailes and conquests He expostulates with Aristotle for publishing the mysteries of Phylosophy and gave him to understand That himself esteemed it more to excell others in Learning and Knowledge then in Power and Empire Alexander de Hales He was an English man and Princeps Scholasticorum one of the chief Schoolmen He was first called Fons vitae then Doctor irrifragabilis the Master of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure He flourished in the year of Christ 1245. He wrote by the Commandment of Pope Innocent the 4 th an excellent and most copious summe of Divinity which is generally known Bellarm. de Script Eccles. He wrote other things also as Gesner shews in his Bibliotheca Camden in his Britain in Glocestershire mentions Hales a Monastery there whence this our Country man came Alexander Alesius a Scotchman of later times magni inter suos nominis Theologus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2 do l. 36. Anno Dom. 1551. Alexander ab Alexandro a Neapolitane He hath written a book styled Genialium dierum which it were good to reade with Tiraquellus his Annotations because he shews what Authours he was beholding to for those things he hath Iuris consultus Neapolitanus reliquit Genialium dierum libros sex verè promptuarium antiquitatis veterisque historiae etsi nec pauca in â—o sint ad verborum proprietatem aliaque studia pertinentia Unum autem hoe meritò in hisce praeclaris Commentariis improbari solet quòd eorum unde profecisset dissimularet autores Sed huic vitio medicinam fecit doctissimus Tiraquellus qui digitum ad fontes intendens unde quaeque hausta essent judicavit Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 3. c. 8. Alhazen Tycho Brahe cals Vitellio ejus imitatorem Inter Optices scriptores praecipui sunt Alhazen Vitellio Tych. Brah. De Nova Stella c. 1. Leo Allatius a Learned Scholer a naturall Grecian He hath put out a Book entitled Apes Urbanae of all the famous men which were at Rome in the years 1630 1631 1632 and have published Books Muhamedes Alfraganus a great Astronomer He is translated out of Hebrew by Iacobus Christmannus and put out in Arabick and Latine by Golius There are his Chronol Astron. Elementa Alfred King of England He divided the day and night into three parts if he were not let by Warres and other great business eight hours he spent in Study and Learning other eight hours he spent in Prayer and Almes-deeds and other eight hours he spent in his naturall rest sustenance of his body and the affairs of his Kingdom He was not only very Learned himself but also a worthy maintainer of the same through all his Dominions Thomas Allen he hath put out Notes on Chrysostem and Sir Henry Savill often styles him Doctissimum he was skilled both in Greek and Divinity Peter de Alliaco Bishop of Camray in France and
Cardinall of the Church of Rome 1400. He was a famous Mathematician and Divine a Germane He observing many superstitions and errours in the Church wrote a Book De Reformatione Ecclesiae and in the year 1414 he left it with the Councell of Constance to judge of it Alphonsus King of Arragon He much favoured the wits of his age and therefore he honourably maintained at his Court Bartholomaeus Facius Georgius Trapezuntius a Grecian Laurentius Valla Antonius Panormitanus and other Learned men in great number His vertues are most amply celebrated by Blondus Sabellicus Bernardinus Corius Antonius Panormitanus Simoneta and other Learned Writers A most excellent Philosopher and Astronomer as any of his time a great lover and advancer of Learning He was wont to say Se malle privatim vivere quam eruditione carere he had rather live privately then want learning and that an unlearned King was but a Crowned Asse When he was sick of a great disease and his Physitians applied many medicines in vain he began to reade the history of Curtius concerning Alexander and was so much delighted with it that being restored to health he is reported to have said Valeant Avicenna Hippocrates medici caeteri Vivat Curtius sospitator meus Anton. Panorm lib. de rebus gestis Alphonsi Petrus Alphonsus a Jew and first called Moses he left Judaism and was converted to the Christian Faith and was by Baptism ingraffed into Christ in the year of our Lord 1106 on Peters day when he was 44 years old whence he had the name of Peter given him and because Alfonsus the King of Spain was his Surety in Baptism he was called Alfonsus Illyr Catal. Test. Verit. l. 14. Iohn Henry Alstid an industrious Writer but a great Collectour Henricus Alting He and Conradus Vorstius were Piscators Scholars Piscator was wont to call Alting Theologum optimum Vorstins Pessimum Spinola invading the Palatinate and the place taken where he remained a bloudy fellow used these words to him with a Poleax in his hand I have killed with these hands ten men to day to which D. Alting shall be speedily added if I knew where he did lie hid but who art thou he answered I was the Schoolmaster in the Colledge of Wisdom and so escaped His works are these Scripta Theologica Heidebergensia tribus Tomis Exegesis Augustanae confessionis unà cum Syllabo controversiaram Lutharanarum Methodus Theologiae Didacticae Catecheticae Henry Alting his sonne who wrote Hebraeorum Respublica Scholastica Didatus Alvarez a famous Spanish Divine and for the most part orthodox in the controversies concerning Predestination as likewise Dominicus Bannes and the Dominicans generally are who follow Thomas as the Franciscaens do Scotus Sixtinus Amama a Dutchman both learned and modest His Antibarbarus Biblicus and Censura are usefull One that had a natural genius to enlighten the Text of Scripture and to finde the notion of the sacred Language Ambrose Bishop of Milane He hindred Theodosius the Emperour from entring into the Church for a murther committed at Thessalonica To whom when the Emperour said That David the King was also an adulterer and manslayer Ambrose answered Qui secutus es errantem sequere poenitentem Thou that hast followed him sinning follow him repenting Hence the Emperour underwent a publick penance imposed upon him by the Bishop He stoutly defending the Catholick Faith and Ecclesiastical Discipline converted many Arians and other hereticks to the truth of the Faith It is reported of him that when he was an Infant a swarm of Bees setled on his face as be lay in his Cradle and flew away without hurting of him whereupon his Father said If this childe live he will be some great man He flourished anno Christi 361. Helv. Chron. Cardinal Baronius at the commandment of Pope Sixtus wrote S t Ambrose his life with all diligence Before he was Bishop he was a secular Judge and no Divine nay no Christian at all but his Christianity and Divinity began both together after he was chosen Bishop of Milane For he was fain to be Christened before he could be consecrated Bish. Andrews Answ. to the 20 th Ch. of Cardinal Perrons Reply CHAP. III. VVIlliam Ames Doctor of Divinity a judicious and solid English Divine witnesse his Medulla Sacrae Theologiae his five Books De Conscientia ejus jure vel casibus His Bellarminus Enervatus his Corronis ad collationem Hagiensem and his other works Amiraldus a learned French Divine He hath written divers learned Tracts both in Latine and French De libero arbitrio de gratia contra Spanhemium de secessione ab Ecclesia Romana Gulielmus de Sancto Amore a Master of Paris and chief Ruler then of that University He was a worthy and valiant Champion of Christ and adversary of Antichrist He wrote against the Friers and their hypocrisie but especially against the begging Friers In his dayes there was a most detestable and blasphemous book set forth by the Friers which they called Evangelium aeternum or Evangelium Spiritus Sancti The Everlasting Gospel or The Gospel of the holy Ghost it said The Gospel of Christ was not to be compared with that Gospel no more then darknesse to light That the Gospel of Christ should be preached but fifty years and then this Everlasting Gospel should rule the Church He mightily impugned this pestiferous Book Foxes Act. and Monum Tom. 1. p. 410. to 416. Ammonius Alexandrinus an eloquent man and great Philosopher Amphilochius He flourished about the year 380. Anacreon The learned and noble Poet Anacreon was born in Perche in France His Poem concerning Gems and precious Stones deserves the Laurelwreath Anastasius the Popes Library-keeper he hath written faithfully the lives of 109 Popes of Rome Anastasius Synaita In the year of our Lord 640. He is by some called Nicenus by others Sinaita and Antiochenus Petrus Ancharanus sive Ancoranus Bononiensis He was of the illustrious Family of the Farnesii He wrote in both the Laws He wrote five Books upon the Decretals one Book on six of the Decretals one Book on the Clementines one Book concerning the Rules of the Law and others Bishop Andrews De cujus alta doctrina in omni genere disciplinarum quicquid dixero minus erit Casaub. ad Front Duc. Epist. Some learned men much commend his Tortura Torti Exactissimae fidei diligentia scriptum Casaub. ubi supra Vulgarem secutus sermonem vir longè doctissimus qui pro Iuramento Fidelitatis in Anglia Matthaeo Torto respondens opus suum Torturam Torti inscripsit Vossius De vitiis Sermonis l. 3. c. 53. Anselme There were two Anselmes ours Archbishop of Canterbury and the other of Laon in France Anselmus Laudanensis the Author of the interlineary glosse who lived anno Christi 1110. I shall speak of the first who was an Italian This Anselme though he was learned and
his darling as I remember His learned writings shew his great parts Peireskius often lamented that he went not to him when he was at Paris Gassend de vita Peireskii l. 6. Iohn Baconthorpe Trithemius and others call him Bacon Iudocus Badius Ascensius the most famous Philosopher Rhetorician and Poet of his time Erasmus in his Ciceronian Dialogue compares him with Budaeus the ornament of France He hath commented upon Tullies Offices and Epistles and Boâ—thius de Consolat Philos. Paul Bain a judicious Divine as his Exposition on Eph. 1. and other works shew Rod. Bainus a Learned Englishman Professour at Paris Io Bale Bishop of Ossory in Ireland in King Edward the sixths time and one of the first English Preachers of Protestantism in time of King Henry Dr. Humfrie in his Prophesie of Rome hath these verses Plurima Luterus patefecit Platina multa Quaedam Vergerius cuncta Balâ—us habet He hath written fourteen Centuries of the Englishmen that were famous in Learning and vertue An Apology against a rank Papist and a brief Exposition upon the 30 th Chapter of the Book of Numbers Notes on Bonners Articles and of Popish Votaries Franciscus Balduinus He was a Lawyer at Genevah but fell off from the Protestant Religion to Popery Calvin and Beza wrote against him and he against them Balduinus nunquam gustavit de brodio juris nisi primoribus labris unde meritò juris dolor non doctor habebatur Quinimo multis vicibus appellatus est Doctor necessitatis hoc est sine legibus quia necessitas non habet legem Strigilis Papirii Masson Paschasius hath this Epitaph of him Franciscus jacet ille Balduinus Mirum quà m varius sub hoc sepulchro Nam quicquid tibi proferebat aetas Quicquid pagina sacra vel profana Pulchrè calluit unus inter omneis Consultissimus utriusque juris Anceps ut patria haesitarit illum Baldum diceret anne Balduinum He hath published divers books One De Historiae cum jurisprudentia cognatione Another De Legibus 12 Tab. Com. ad Leges de famosis libellis de Calumniatoribus with others Baldus Perusinus a famous Lawyer he was the hearer and Scholer of Bartholus and Master to Gregory the 11 th before he was Pope His brother Angelus Perusinus almost equalled him both in Learning and Writings in the same Faculty He flourished in the year of our Lord 1346. He wrote Commentaries upon the whole body of the Civil Law and after that he professing the Civil Law for 47 years got a great fame Bernardinus Baldus Urbinas a great Artist and Linguist Vir undecunque doctissimus cujus utinam omnia lucem vidissent Gerard. Ioan. Vos Ars Histor. c. 9. Vide Iani Nicii Erythraei Picanothecam Iohn Ball a holy and learned Divine who lived by faith having but a small maintenance He was of Brasen-nose in Oxford His Books of Living by Faith of the Covenant and those against Cam and others shew his great Abilities Balsac an eloquent Frenchman Theodore Balsamon Patriarch of Antiech He and Zonaras were the chief of the Greek Canonists Dominious Bannes a famous Dominican Gulielmus Barâ—laius William Barelay He published these books De potestate Papae in Principes Christianos Contra Monarchomachos Com. in Tit. Pandectarum de rebus credit is de jure juraâ—do Oâ—glisseâ—ii Iudicium de examine cum Buchanano Ioannes Barclaius a Learned French man There is his Paraenesis ad Sectariâ—s and his Pietas His Argenis and Euphâ—rmiâ— Franciscus Barbarus Venetus Utraque lingua eruditns scripsit de re uxoria libellum orationes quoque Epistolas nonnullas Volatter Anthropol l. 21. Hermolaus Barbarus Francisci ex fratre nepos a Venetian by Nation one of the great restorers of Learning Gloria erat nobilitatis Venetae sui saculi splendor Boissard Barbariae suo tempore victor solidam sibi apud erudito gloriam peperit victurum omni aevo nomen Salmas Praefat. ad Plinian Exercitat Ardeo cupiditate juvandi recta studia Nullus est tam magnus labor nullum munus in literis tam sordidum quod defugiam Polit. Epist. l. 1. Epist. Hermolaus Barbarus Angelo Politiano Vide Miscel. Cent. 19. c. 10. Etenim summo loco natus amplis opibus innutritus egregiis honoribus perfunctus fastigium disciplinarum prope omnium tenes professores ac studiosos artium bonarum quamvis humili fortuna plerunque sumus ita complecteris amas ut aeque cunctis tuae quasi majestatis fasces ac vexilla submittas Polit. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 12. Politianus Hermâ—lao Barbaro Homo â—â— mihi quidem videtur unus ex reliquiis aurâ—i seculi quamvis ipse longè doctior non illi sanctiores Polit. Epist. l. 2. Epist. 8. Vide l. 9. Ep. 4. Vide l. 5. Epist. 1. Petrus Angelus Bargaeus There are these of his works published Syrias Com. de obelisco Votinum Carmen in D. Catharinam Petrus Baro. Martinius in his Preface to his Hebrew Grammer makes honourable mention of him In primis verò haec excipiet Cantabrigiensis Academia lumen Augliae cum aliis nominibus mihi chara tùm quòd Petrum Baronem habet Theologia professorem mihi jam inde ab adolescentia conjunctissimum Hadrianus Barlandus a Learned Dutchman who hath written severall Works Casparus Barlaeus Dubium poeâ—a meliâ—r an Philosophus Voâ—â—ius de Arte Grammat l. 1. c. 3. There are Poems published of his Athenaeum Dissertatio de bâ—nâ— Principe Caesar Baronius was born in Naples he was the Popes Confessor He hath made a long and learned Collection of Ecclesiasticall story and digested it into a good method and will be usefull for a distinct comprehension of Ecclesiasticall story But he was no Grecian and is not much to be trusted for 1. He makes use sometimes of spurious authours and gives them for faithfull witnesses 2. He indeavours by all means to advance the Popes Supremacy He is the Papists great Champion for Ecclesiasticall history as Bellarmine is for Controversies they esteemed him the Father of Church-story Alsted cals Baronius his Annals the Tower of Babel and Bellarmines books of Controversie Goliahs sword Illustrissimus Cardinalis Baronius cui intima totius vetustatis penetralia tam erant cognita familiaria quam est mihi domus mea Montacut Appaerat Vide ejus praefat ad Apparat. Annales suos amplius quadraginta annorum studio elucubravit Rainold Vide Whear Meth. Leg. Hist. parte 2 da Sect. 44. Spondanus hath epitomized that Voluminous work he follows Baronius too superfluously in asserting the Popes omnipotency else it is well done Iustus Baronius Calvins name is so odious to the Papists that he ran from Mentz to Rome to change his native name of Calvinus into the adoptive of Baronius Bâ— Mâ—rt Epist. Dedicat. to his Appeal Robertus Baronius a Learned Scotchman as his Works shew Arthur Iohnston hath these verses
the Hebrew Text the second and third answer to the Greek Text and Chaldee Paraphrase In the fifth Volume the New Testament is contained in Greek and Syriack with a double Latine Interpretation one of which is the vulgar the other expresseth the propriety of the Syriack Text being written by Guido Fabricius Boderianus one very skilfull in the Syriack In the sixth seventh and eight Tomes is the Apparatus Sacer. In the sixth the Old Testament in Hebrew with the Latine Interpretation of Pagnine and Arias Montanus and the New in Greek with the vulgar Latine Interpretation and the other of Arias Montanus In the seventh Tome the Grammatical precepts of the Languages and the Dictionaries of them Hebrew Syriack Chaldee and Greek are contained In the eighth and last Tome there are singular Books of Arias Montanus his and the Variae Lectiones gathered by the most learned with greatest study with two Indexes Since that came out Iay the Advocates Bible in France who hath been at great charge in printing the Bible in Hebrew and in other oriental Languages wherein there are two Volumes supernumerary which have the Samaritane Pentateuch and a Translation of it a Syriack Translation of the Old Testament and an Arabick Translation of the whole Bible with Latine Translations to each of them but it hath not the Interlineary nor any Apparatus It is very corruptly printed Now there is here printing in England a Bible which will exceed the French Bible because it sets forth all uno conspectu whereas that is in several Volumes and hath the best Editions of each the vulgar Latine of Clement the 8 th and the LXX of Sixtus Quintus their authentick Editions and it hath the variety of readings of the Alexandrian Copy on the LXX in the Margent the Chaldee Paraphrase of Buxtorfs Edition It hath also the Interlineary Translation of the Hebrew Bible and the Ethiopick Translation of the New Testament Some emendations of the Latine Translation of the Samaritane Pentateuch and in the Apparatus the variety of readings of all the Texts There are Biblia Hebraica with the Targum and divers Commentaries of the Rabbies There are Biblia Tigâ—rina begun by Leo Iudae and finished by other Reformed Divines published by Robert Steven with Notes annexed There are Biblia Latina à Sixto Edita There is the Latine Bible translated by Immanuel Tremellius and Francis Iunius with their Notes There is the Latine Bible with the ordinary Glosse of Strabus Fuldensis the brother of Beda the Postils of Nich. de â—yra and the additions of Paulus Burgensis There is the French Bible reviewed by the Professours of Genevah There is the Italian Bible by Diodate Scaliger saith he makes use of it stil at his study There is the Spanish Bible of Cypriano Valera well approved of Theodorus Bibliander was a good Linguist Vir multijugae eruditionis Thuanus Besides many other learned Works which he hath written he hath also published a Commentary De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum Literarum Gab. Biel. 1480. Nicolaus Biesius a learned Dutchman He published an Oration Pro Studiis Literarum two Books De dicendi Arte two Books De Universate five Books De Natura and four De Republica a little Book De Opinionum varietate Commentaries in Galeni Artem the Method and Theory of Physick Hieron Bignonius Who may be called the Varro of this Age. Eberardus Bilichius He died at Trent coming thither to the Councel Iacobus Billius Primaeus a very learned man He was famous for his exact knowledg in the Greek Tongue which he specially exercised in illustrating the Greek Fathers He translated Nazianzene into Latine and illustrated it with Scholia There are also Sacrae Observationes and Sacra Anthalogia of his with divers French works mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Thomas Bilney a learned and godly Martyr I have spoken of him elswhere Thomas Bilnius Concionator vehemens litterarum virtutis existimatione celebris Camp Narrat Divâ—rt Henrici octavi Thomas Bilson His rising was meerly by his Learning He hath written Survey of Christs Sufferings De perpetua Ecclesiae Christi Gubernatione Answer to the Apology Lâ—lius Bisciola an Italian His Hâ—rae subcesivae are commended by Alegambe containing excellent things in all kinde of Philology Bilibaldus Birkheimerus He was born at Norimberg Anno 1501. A great Mathematician and most familiar with Erasmus for his great learning He wrote a Description of Germany and divers other works mentioned by Boissard Peter Blesensis 1160. a worthy learned man he spared not at times sharply to reprehend the enormities of the Clergy Divers of his Epistles are yet to be seen wherein he rebuketh the arrogancy of Thomas Becket Archbishop first in England then at Roane David Blondell In antiquitate Ecclesiastica versatissimus Rivetus Grot. discript dialys Sect. 10. He is very well versed in Ecclesiastical Antiquities Bochart speaking of Church-Government saith Blondellus vir piissimus supra fidem in hisce doctus Bocharti Epist. He hath published many learned Works in Latine and French Pseudo Isidorus Turianus Vapulantes Modeste Delaration De La Sinceritè Veritè Des Eglises Reformees de France An Answer to Cardinal Perâ—on and other Works Flavius Blondus a famous Historian and Secretary to many Popes deserves well of Antiquity for the age in which he lived He died poor at Rome Ut Philosophum decuit as it became a Philosopher saith Boxhornius He wrote three Decads De gestis Romanorum a Book of Epistles and another of Orations and divers others He died Anno salutis Christianae 1363. Ludovicus Blosius Abbas Laetiensis Ioannes Bocatius a famous Poet of Hetruria as Petrarch also but too obscene Petrarch was his Master His Life is written by Papirius Massonus He put forth a Book De Genealogia Deorum which contains fourteen Tomes and many others mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He died in the â—3 year of his age Trajanns â— Boccalinus Sir Isaac Wake called his Collections of Pernassus the first Satyre in prose and Master Selden said he would rather lose any humane Book in his study then that Samuel Bochart an able French Divine Pastor of the Church of Canâ— who hath written a learned Treatise De Geographia Sacra M r Pocock in his learned Miscellaneous Notes in Portam Mosis c. 3. styles him Virum longe doctissimum and quoting that Book saith In illo diffusae eruditionis opere Peter du Moulin dedicates his Antibar barian to him and styles him his Nephew CHAP. VIII JOhn Bodin a Papist but an ingenuous and judicious Writer of great and good note as well among Protestants as Papists Scriptis ad posteritatem victuris satis clarus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63. Possevine dislikes his Methodus Historica because he makes such honourable mention of the Protestants there Voetius in his Biblioth l. 2. Sect. prior c. 1.
M r Fox shews in his Book of Martyrs He wrote two Sermons one of Repentance on Mat. 4. 17. the 2 d of the L. Supper I finde also in the Oxford Catalogue mentioned His holy Meditations upon the Lords Prayer Belief and ten Commandments A Dialogue of Predestination and Free-will Two Letters for men afflicted in Conscience William Bradshew He hath written well of Justification M r Gataker cals it Aureum quantivis pretiâ— libellum There are also Meditations of his upon the Psalms Thâ— Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury King Edward the thirds Confessor A man reputed so pious in those dayes that the Kings prosperous successe then was chiefly imputed unto his piety who followed him in his warres in France as Preacher in the Camp Above three hundred years ago he valiantly defended the truth against the Arminian Doctrine Gratiâ— Dei streâ—uissimus assertor D r Ward in Phil. 2. 12. Henricus Brandius a learned and Pious Divine He hath written a Book entituled Examen Consulationis Lessianae religionis capessendâ— And Analysis in Catechesin religionis Christianae Quae in Ecclesiis Scholis tum Belgii tum Palatinatus traditur Tycho Brahe a Dane and a Knight a great Astronomer Stellae describuntur à Ptolomaeo Alphonso Tychone Brahe triumviris reipub Astronomicae Alsted Eucyclop l. 7. part 1. c. 15. There are divers of his Works published Astronomiae illustratae Progymnasnatum Liber 1. Mechanica Oratio dâ— Disciplinis Mathematicis De munâ—s Aetherei recentioribus Phaenomenes liber secundus Epistolâ— Astronomicae Edw. Brerewood He was the first Astronomy Lecturer in Gresham Colledge He hath written Enquiries touching the Diversities of Languages and Religioâ—s through the chief parts of the world an excellent piece De ponderibus pret vet nummorum â—leâ—â—nta Logicae Treatises of the Sabbath Iohn Brentius He was born Anno 1499. A Divine of great name amongst the Protestants saith Thuanus Vir est gravis modestus doctus sed desiderari in eo nonnihil potest Zanch. Epist. l. 2. ad Bezam His Works are printed in several Tomes in Folio Gâ—ido de Bres He hath written against the Anabaptists in French Of the Authority of the Magistrate and Immortality of the soul. Henry Brigges a famous Mathematician and a pious man His Works are Arithmetica Logarithmica Triganometria Britannica Thomas Brightman a learned and godly man Bishop Andrews in his Answer to Bellarmines Apol. ad cap. 9. is too sharp and bitter towards him I have heard that M r Thomas Cartwright counted him a bright Star in the Church of God He hath put out a Comment in Latine on the Canticles and Revelation And Disputatio de Antichristo Refâ—tatio de Bellarmini Antichristo Io. Brinsley A learned man He hath published Ludus Literarius or The Grammar-School The posing of the Accidens The true Watch and Rule of Life in four parts The Calender Reformation Barnabas Brissonius the learned Chief Justice of France whom one calleth Varro Galliae Ios. Scaliger l. 1. Epist. Epist. 8. 9. speaks somewhat against his book De Regno Persarum and de formulis c. but that De formulis is an excellent work Stephanus Paschasius in the second Book of his Epigrams hath these Verses to him Mirantur eunctis animum te intendere caussis Cùm tot pervoluas noctè dieque libros Queis ego sic Balbus nihil est mirabile factu Plurima nam dicit plurima qui didicit Iohn Briton Bishop of Hereford of profound judgement in the Common-Law He composed a learned Work of the Law and published it in 5. E. 1. by the commandment of Edward the first our Justinian Erasmus Brockman a learned Lutheran He hath put out Theologiae universâ— Systema vol. 3. De speculo veritatis Pontificiae Controversiarum sacrarum qua in salutari Religionis negotio intercedunt orthodoxis cum schola Pontificia partes duae Ioan. Brodaeus a man of stupendious and wonderfull reading of incredible memory and industry Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 34. He hath written divers Miscellanies and learned Commentaries upon Euripides his Tragedies and Xenophon Sir Robert Brook Chief-Justice of the Court of Commonpleas His Abridgement was first published in Anno 16. Reg. Eliz. long after his decase a worthy and painfull work an excellent Table for the year Books of the Law Hugh Broughton well skilled in Hebrew and Greck if he had been as judicious and humble He hath put forth several works his Concentus Sacrae Scripturae is best liked He said it was portended by his Arms that he should be a Grecian for he gave the fowl of Athens for his Arms. Christoph. Browerus a learned man He hath written Fuldensium Antiquitatum l. 4. and other works Henricus Brucaeus Fr. Lucas Brugensis a famous Divine He hath written Notationes in sacra Biblia and Commentarios in quatuor Iesu Christi Evangelia and other works Petrus Brunellus There are Epistles of his published Guil. Bucanus D r Prideaux was wont to say sive Buchanus sive Buchananus they being both ours These are his Works Institutiones Theologicae In Orat. Dominicam Meditationes Aphorismi de controversiis de Religione determinandis Georgius Buchananus A most famous Poet and good Historian for the Scottish affairs Namque ad supremum perducta Poetica culmen In te stat nec quo progrediatur habet Imperii fuerit Romani Scotia limes Romani eloquii Scotia finis erit Jos. Scalig. in Epitaphio Buchanani Vir ingenii felicitate scribendi facultate quod ejus scripta ad omnem aeternitatem victura vel fatente invidia testantur nostra aetate incomparabilis Thuanus Hist. Tom. 3. l. 76. There he commends his History also Ego Psalmorum tuorum lectione incredibiliter delector qui tales sunt quales à te uno proficisci potuerunt Beza in Epist. Carolus Utenhovius saith thus of his Translation of the Psalms Tres Italos Galli senos vicere sed unum Vincère Scotigenam non potuere virum The six Italians were Michael Hospitalis Adrianus Turnebus Ioannes Auratus The three French A. Sannazarius H. Fracastorius A. Flaminius H. Vidas A. Naugerius P. Bembus Martin Bucer born Anno 149. a great instrument of God as well as Martin Luther both Germains and Monks formerly The two judicious Commentators Bucer and Martyr Quam multiplicem in Bucero jacturam fecerit Dei Ecclesia quoties in mentem venit cor mâ—â—m propè lacerari sentio Calvin in an Epistle to Viretus After the Assembly of Regenspurge when Iohn Gropper Embassadour to the Archbishop of Collen was returned home he commended Bucer exceedingly and said he was meetest of all others to take in hand the Reformation of Religion for he was both well learned a lover of peace and of pure life Sleid. Comment l. 14. p. 187. Abraham Bucoltzer Opere Chronologico magnam gloriam adeptus Thuanus Ludovicus Buccaferrens a
Writer There is his Book Contra Socinum and others Carolus Clusius a great Linguist Lipsius thus sported on him Omnia Naturae dum Clusi arcana recludis Clusius haud ultra sis sed Aperta mihi His Works are mentioned by Boissard Pet. Cluniacensis In the year 1150. He was called Venerabilis Petrus His Works are in one Volume Philippus Clunerius His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Vir stupendae lectionis curae Dilher Disput. Acad. Princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus Voss. de Histor. Graec. Magnum Germaniae ornamentum doctissimus Cluuerius noster Voss. Hist. Pelag. Iohn à Coch or Cocceius Amama in an Epistle to Martinius before that book of his entituled Duo tituli Thalmudici Sanhedrin Maccoth gives this Elogy of him Excitatum eum divinitus esse statuo ad provehenda altius linguarum Orientalium studia reseranda nobis Iudaeorum sacraria Nullus equidem Christianorum tantum in thalmudicis publice unquam praestitit quantum ille eruditissimo hoc de quo non nisi eruditissimi judicabunt scripto His Exposition of Iob the small Prophets and his Book De foedere are well esteemed Christ. Columbus an Italian a most skilfull Cosmographer He found out America called the New world Anno 1492. Columbus by his glorious discoveries more justly deserved a place for a Ship among the Southern constellations then ever the Argonantes did for their so celebrated Argo M r George Sandys Commentary upon the 13 th Book of Ovids Metamorphosis To him most truly agrees Plus ultrá Realdus Columbus Anatomicorum post Vesalium princeps Neand. Pet. Comestor He and Peter Lombard and Gratian were brethren born in adultery as some hold but Bellarmine thinks that opinion is without ground seeing they were of several Countreyes Philip de Commines Knight was born at Commines a Town in Flanders In his youth he served Charles Duke of Bâ—rgnudy and afterward Lewis the 11 th of that name King of France who imployed him in his weightiest and secretest affairs The French Tongue he spake perfectly and eloquently the Italian Dutch and Spanish reasonably well He hath written the History of France under Lewis the 11 th and Charles the 8 th his Sonne He was the Spectator and actor of his History Nothing more grieved him then that in his youth he was not trained up in the Latine Tongue which his misfortune he often bewailed The Emperour Charles the fifth and Francis the first King of France made so great account of this History that the Emperour carried it continually about with him and the King was much displeased with the publishing thereof Philippus Cominius rerum gerendarum usu clarissimus senator Bod. de Repub. lib. 3. cap. 7. He in his History dived so farre into and writ so plainly of the greatest affairs of State that Queen Catharine de Medices used to say that he had made as many hereticks in State-policy as Luther had done in Religion Stephanus Paschasius hath this Epitaph of him Gallorum nostrae laus una gloria gentis Hic Cominaee jaces si modo fortè jaces Historiae vitam potuisti reddere vivus Extincto vitam reddidit Historia Hier Commelinus Annas Comnenas Empresse of the East a learned woman She hath written eight books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De rebus à Patre gestis Gr. CHAP. XIII COncilia Councels There were six Oecumenical Councels orthodox and almost received by all Bishop Andrews in his Sermon on Numb 10. v. 1 2. reckons up seven See that Sermon The first Nicene Councel called by the Emperour Constantine the Great against Arius who denied the Deity of Christ. This was held in the year of our Lord 325. at Nice in Bithinia It consisted of 318 Bishops The Fathers of that Councel did publish a Creed against the Arians The greatest of all Councels next to the Apostles Councel the great Councel of Nice of 318 Bishops Urbs Nicaea clara à Synodo Nicaena quo coacti à Magno Constantino primo Christiano Imperatore convenorunt contra Arium Alexandrinum in Aegypto Diaconum 318 Episcopi quorum plerique Constantia tempore persecutionis dono miraculorum clari fuere teste Eusebio probatissimo Graeco scriptore Neand. Geog. parte 2 da. Vide Aug. Roch. Biblioth Vatic p. 58. to 75. of all these Councels The first Constantinopolitan Councel called by the Emperour Theodosius the elder against Macedonius who denied the Deity of the holy Ghost in the year of the Lord 383 or 384. The first Ephesine Councel called by Theodosius the younger against Nestorius who held That there were two persons in Christ in the year 430 or 434. 4. The Chalcedonian Councel called by the Emperour Martian against Eutyches which affirmed That there was onely one Nature in Christ after the Incarnation in the year of the Lord 451 or as some 452 and others 454. To these two other Councels are added the fifth the second Constantinopolitan in the year 548 or as others reckon it 553. called by Iustinian against the Arians Nestoriaens Eutychians The sixth is the third Constantinopolitan Councel against the Monothelites in the year 681 called by Constantinus Pognatus or Barbarus For the Councel of Trent Calvin wrote against it whilst it sate and Chemnitius and Gentilettus since Vide ejus Exam. Conc. Trid. l. 3. Sess. 12. Because nothing was resolved by the Fathers at the Councel of Trent but all in Rome a blasphemous Proverb was generally used That The Synod of Trent was guided by the holy Ghost sent thither from time to time in a Cloak-bag from Rome In this mock-Councel the Pope which was the principal party accused of Heresie was the onely Judge and disposer of all things passed therein against all good Examples Laws Equity and Reason Though the Councel of Trent hath been sufficiently answered by the Protestant Divines yet that excellent History of the Councel of Trent was never answered by the Papists In the Councel of Constance Communion under both kindes and Wickliffs opinions were condemned Iohn Hus and Ierom of Prague were burned against faith given and safe conduct granted by the Emperour Then that wicked maxim was established Haereticiâ— fides non est seruanda which is against Nature Scripture and the Law of Nations There is Summa Conciliorum Pontificum à Petro usque ad Concilium Tridenti num per Bartholomaeum Caranzam Ord. praedicat The National Synod of Dort began in the year 1618. To which were sent from England France Germany and other Reformed Churches many Learned and Orthodox Divines to discusse and unfold those unhappy Arminian Controversies with which the Low-countreys was then molested Confessiones variae 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 â—ate very profitably published to the just conviction of all such
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
hath published Antiquitatum Rom. corpus absolutissimum Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam Scotorum Scriptorum nomenclatura De Iuramento l. 3. and other Works Iohn Deodate an eminent Divine as his Annotations on the Bible in Italian and French shew Videlius Rational Theol. l. ◠c. 6. cals them Aureas Annotationes He was sent from Genevah to the Synod of Dort Vir Reverendus jampridem optimè de Ecclesia mereus D. Ioannes Deodatus doctissima versione Gallica notis Cocc Praefat. ad Iob. Edward Dering a solid Divine He defended Bishop Iewell against Harding And hath published some Sermons and Lectures on some of the first Chapters of the Hebrews Io Despauterius the Prince of the Grammarians of his age so Vossius de Arte Grammatico l. 1. c. 3. He had but one eye Hic jacet unoculus visu praestantior Argo Nomen Ioannes cui Ninivita fuit Ioannes Ninivita sine malis Despauterius Nec enim vir bene adeò de literatura pro illo quidem tempore meritus indignus est vulgatiore nomine chartis nostris signari etsi aliter Grande quid spirantibus videatur Nobilis ille Grammaticus Vossius De vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 6. Antonius Deusingius a Learned Physitian Burgersdicius was his Master in Physick and Logick Golius for the Mathematicks and Arabick He was intimate with Constantine L'Empereur Ludovicus de Dieu and Elichmannus who were skilfull in many of the Orientall Languages His Works are mentioned Vit. Profes Groningae Paulus Diaconus These Works of his are published Hist. Miscellae auctae à Landulpho Sagaci illustratae ab Hen. Canisio Ab Ant. Augustino Epitome De gestis Romanorum David Dickson a good Scottish Expositour He hath written Notes on all Pauls Epistles in Latine on the Psalms Matthew and the Hebrews in English Didymus Caecus Anno Dom. 360. Ieroms Master he was much regarded by the ancient Fathers He was an Ecclesiasticall Writer and an excellent Mathematician He much troubled the Arians whilst he constantly defended the doctrine of the Councell of Nice Antony that great Monk of Egypt coming to Alexandria thus spake to him Non grave tibi nec molestum debet esse Didyme illis carere oculis quorum lacertae mures alia minuta abjectaque animalia participia sunt sed beatum jucundum potiùs quod oculos habes similes Angelorum quibus verè Deum contemplaris Sozom. l. 3. c. 14. Aubertus Miraeus in the 7 th Decade of his Elogia Belgica mentions Carolus Fernandus Parsevaldas Belligenius and Nicasius Vordanus for Learned though blinde men Ludovicus de Dieu a French Minister well skil'd in the Orientall tongues and who hath Commented well on the Evangelists and Acts and also a pious man Ille Phoenix sacrae Philologiae Dilh. Disput. Acad. Tom. 1. He hath translated a Persian book written by Xaverius into Latine and hath published it together with the Persian Originall and Notes Sir Iames Dier a Reverend Father of the Common-Law and Chief Justice of the Common-pleas His Book entitled Un Abridgement de tous les cases was printed after his decease in Anno 25. reg Eliz. Everard Digby He hath published these Works Admonitioni Fran. Mildappetti de unica Pet. Rami methodo retinenda responsio De duplici methodo lib. 2. Theor. Anal. De arte Natandi Sir Kenelm Digby is an ingenious Learned Gentleman and an ornament of this Nation as his Book of Bodies shews Leonard Digges There are these Works of his Prognostication everlasting a Mathematicall Discourse of Geometricall Solids Thomas Digges his sonne There is a Book of his named Stratioticos Another styled Pantometria lib. 3. Nova Corpora Regularia And another styled Alae seu scalae Mathematicae Of which Work Tyche Brahe l. 1. De Nova Stella c. 9. gives this censure Etsi verò admodum eruditum ingeniosum sit hoc scriptum atque Mathematum excellentem peritiam prae se ferat tamen si liceat id quod res est dicere in recessu intimo quod primo accessu tam magnifico speciosoque titulo spondet quà m minimum prastat Nam ne Stellae quidem novae eujus principaliter ratio habenda fuit Phoenomena prout decuit commodè explicata nedum ut Planetarum omnium itinera inaccessa novo modo expediat Vide plura ibid. Iohn Michael Dilher Gerhards Scholar Publick Professor at Iena a Learned Critick as his Electa Eclogae his Disputationes Academicae shew Diodorus Siculus He searched out the Antiquities of Nations with greatest diligence A most famous Writer and to whom for the knowledge of Antiquity Greece hath scarce his equall He saith he bestowed thirty years about his History Paulus Aemilius spent thirty yeares about his French History Paulus Iovius thirty seven in his History Diogenes Laertius He hath written well the Lives of the ancient Philosophers Dio Cassius Anno aerae Christianae 218. Helv. Chron. An ancient grave Historian a Consull himself Vir doctrinâ prudentiâ nobilitate insignis Nam viro Consulari natus ipse bis consulatum gessit Praetor Africae Dalmatiae ac Pannoniae praefectus est Crakanth de Providentia Dei It is one of the Laws of History to relate only things memorable this Law he diligently observed Nusquam ad minutias dilabitur vel si quid quod levius videatur minimè praeterire volet excusatione utitur ut facilè liqueat neutiquam imprudentiâ vel inscitia peccare Ger. Joan. Vos Ars Histor. c. 11. Dion Chrysostomus He was sirnamed Chrysostom for his Eloquence whose 80 Greek Orations were long since published at Venice Amongst other of his Orations that Oration is of all most copious de Ilie à Graecis nunquam Capto CHAP. XVI DIonysius Areopagita Dionysius falsly called the Areopagite whom neither Eusebius nor Hieronymus nor Gennadius gatherers of all Ecclesiasticall Writers before their time did know Fulke Answ. to Sand. Cavils on the L. Supper One of that name was born at Athens the most famous City of all Greece the mother of all Arts and Sciences He and his wife Damaris were converted by S t Paul to the true faith Act. 17. 34. There are his Greek Works cum Scholiis Maximi Paraphrasi Gregorii Paychymeri and his Latine Works per Ioach. Perionium cum Scholiis His Epistles and Greek Liturgy and other things go under his name but our Divines generally hold them to be supposititious and so some of the Learned Papists hold Utrum libri qui ejus nomine circumferuntur genuini sint controvertitur Nam quam vis illorum Author pro Dionysio Areopagita haberi velit nihilominus ex Adversariis ipsis viri quidam Doctissimi id incertum esse aiunt Rhodiginus Rhenanus Roffensis Cajetanus alii simpliciter nobiscum negant Faventius Gaza Valla Erasmus apud Erasmum Grocinus Cassander novissimè Hubertus ac licet
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
Lud. Croc. in Ficin De Relig. Christ. c. 27. Aurei Commentarii eruditissimi Graseri in Apocalypsin Danielem Id. ibid. Franc. Gratianus 1170. A Monk of Bononia he compiled the book called The Popes Decrees or The Canon Law Also his brother Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris which is called The Master of the Sentences compiled his 4 Books of the Sentences These two brethren were the greatest doers in finding out and establishing the blinde opinion of the Sacrament that the only similitude of Bread and Wine remained but not the substance of them and this they call the Spirituall understanding of the Mystery Gâ—ilhelmus Gratarolus an excellent Philosopher and Physitian Et verè pius bene doctus peritusque medicus In Patria ea sua honoratus erat dives sola pietas illum reddidit pauperem Zanch. Epist. lib. 2. Iusto Vultâ—io There are severall of his Works published mentioned by Boissard One de Conservanda Valetudine Literatorum Gratius the Faliscian An antient Latine Poet contemporary with Virgill and Ovid who bore an high esteem in that pure age when the greatest Wits flourished and Poetry underwent the severest Judges His style is every where concise chast and florid His Book De Venatione is now Englished by M r Wase Ovid speaks of him Aptaque venanti Gratius arma daret Iohannes Gravius a Learned Oxonian Elementa Linguae Perficae Anonymus Persa de Siglis Arabum Persarum Astronomicis Epochae Arabum Celebriores and his other Works shew his Abilities The Lady Iane Gray She was both Learned and Religious Ascham in his Epist. and Schoolmaster and divers others commend her for her Learning He saith when he came to her once whilst others were hunting and following their pleasures he found her reading Platos Phaedon and that she understood it so that he admired her No marvell if she were well skilled in the Greek Miraris Janam Graio sermone valere Quo primum natae est tempore Graia fuit Ingenium Graiis dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui Horat. Richard Greenham an eminent and experienced Divine His Works are in one Volume CHAP. III. GRegorius M. Gregory sirnamed the Great the first Bishop of Rome of that name Anno Dom. 1600. He was an humble devout and holy Bishop and had many pious Martyrs his Predecessors as Popes or Fathers in that See of Rome he deserved the title of Gregory the Great for abhorring the name of Universall Bishop Bede cals him Apostolum nostrum our Apostle and he gives this reason for it quod nostram id est Anglorum gentem de potestate Satanae ad fidem Christi sua industria convertit because he converted our Nation by his own industry from the power of Satan to the faith of Christ. He sent Austen the Monk and other Legates hither See Pet. du Moulins Antibarbarian ch 13. He first wrote Servus Servorum Dei putting the Roman Bishops in remembrance thereby both of their humblenesse and also of their duty in the Church of Christ. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of Gregory the first Leo the first and Nicholas the first Pontifices quot Roma tulit celeberrima sanctos Majores nullos Nicolao Gregorioque Sive Leone habuit re sunt ut nomine primi Gregory Thaumaturgus Episcopus fuit Neocaesariensis He was called Thaumaturgus from the greatnesse of his miracles Basil saith he was called by the enemies of the truth another Moses Ierom styles him Virum Apostoliâ—orum signorum virtutum When he was Bishop of Neocesarea in Pontus he blessed God that when he came first to his charge he found not above seventeen Christians and when he departed from them he left not in all his Diocesse so many unbaptized or unbelievers He was present at the Synod of Antioâ—h celebrated against Samosatenus Anno 266. He wrote a Metaphrase upon Ecclesiastes An Exposition of Faith M r Gregory of Oxford His two Books shew him to be a good Linguist Gregorias Turonensis He hath put out these Works Hist. Francorum De gloria Martyrum De gloria Confessorum De vitis quorundam Patrum Iac. Gretzerus a Learned Jesuite a good Grecian He hath commandment from Claudius de Aqua viva Generall Governour of the society of the Jesuites to second Bellarmine in all his attempts and observeth in his own Writings these two qualities temere dicere astute reticere He is unreasonably bitter against those which are both Learned and Modest. The defender of Bellarmine the most scurrile Writer that this or the former age hath seen D r Crakanth in a Serm. on 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7 8 9. He was chosen for the Papists Champion in the famous Disputation holden at Regensperg 1600 whom Possevine the Jesuite cals the very hammer of the Heretiks Grindall a Learned Divine Iohannes Groperus of Collen was offered the Cardinalship by Paul the 4 th but he was then old and thinking to honour his memory much more by refusing a Dignity desired even by great Princes then by keeping it a few daies he sent the Pope many thanks together with his excuse and refusing the Ornaments would neither have the Name nor Title Hist. of the Counc of Trent lib. 5. p. 396 397. This was after a sort commendable but his forsaking the Gospel mentioned by Sleidan in his 15 Book of Commentaries was most wicked Hugo Grotius He was born at Delph in the Low-Countries in the year of our Lord 1583. He hath written upon all the Old and New Testament His Books De Veritate Religionis Christianae and De Satisfactione Christi are well esteemed Piscator sent these verses to him when he published Martianus Capella Magnus es ingenio doctrina magnus es idem Nomini magni Magna cupido tibi est Non temere ergo tibi sed cum ratione locuta Cognomen Grotî Belgica lingua dedit He was a very Learned Lawyer but fell off much from soundness and Orthodoxy in the true Religion in his later daies Voetius in his 2 d part of Select Theolog. Disputat De Conversione Iudaeorum reckons him among the men dubiae ant variatae Religionis Some Learned and Orthodox French Divines as Rivet Maresius and others also have written solidly against him Therefore his diligent Translatour might perhaps have been better imployed then in turning into English his Vow for the Churches Peace a book so empty and Heterodox and so well refuted by the Learned Rivet in his Apoligeticus pro vera Pace Ecclesiae Ianus Gruterus a famous Critick He wrote Thesaurus Critiâ—us and Criticall Notes on Seneca's Tragedies Statius his Poems on Martiall Titus Livius Tacitus Velleius Paterculus and others a great and large Volume of the Inscriptions of the ancient Romans and divers other Works Simon Grynaeus born Anno 1493. Incomparabiliâ— vir Simon Grynaeus in quo pietatem Christianam virtutes omnes musas atque
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
Maecen c. 3. He put out Variarum lectionum libri when he was scarce 19 years old he cals it ingenii sui tyrocinium Some much commend his Politicks others think he is much beholding to others for it Cest Juste Lipse qui n'a rien mis du sien dans ses Politiques que des adverbes des conjâ—nctions Apologie Pour M. De Balzak Thompson in his Vindex veritatis adversus Iustum Lipsium saith thus of his Diva virgo Aspricollis Hic tuus truncus non magis est Diva non magis est Virgo quam tu Iustus etsi illi Divae Virginis nomen dedisti tibi Justi arrogasti Habeat ergo uterque suum sit illa truncus tu Iodocus What pity is it that so high a wit should in the last act be subject to dotage All the masculine brood of that brain we cherished and if need were admired but these his silly Virgins the feeble issue of distempered age who can abide D r Hals Dec. Epist. 5. When he lay a dying he prayed thus ô mater Dei adsis famulo tuo cum tota aeternitate decertanti nec me deseras in ista hora à qua pendes aeternae animae meae salus Miraeus Drexellius Melch. Ad. and he cried out Domine Iesu da mihi patientiam Christianam Henry Stevens hath written a Book De Lipsii Latinitate He reckons up there tres seculi nostri Ciceromastiges Angelus Politianus Desiderius Erasmus and Lipsius To Lipsius that is objected saith he Quod Ciceronis stylum non satis aptum Scribendis Epistolis dixerit Praeterea laudantur ab ipso Epistolae Politiani qui primus inter Ciceromastiges collocatur His accedit quòd Ciceronianistas qui vulgo Ciceroniani vocantur ac nominatim Petrum Bembum alicubi insectatur Some entitle his Book de Constantia liber plant aureas yet others say he was very inconstant himself Literae variae Letters or Epistles Una quidem Epistola est quae literarum nomine signatur sed ea verè multis constat literis Voss. De Anal. l. 1. c. 38. There are certain most godly fruitfull and comfortable Letters of such true Saints and holy Martyrs of God as in this Realm gave their lives for the defence of Christs holy Gospell written in the time of their affliction and cruell imprisonment Thomas Littleton a grave and Learned Judge of the Court of Common-pleas sometimes of the Inner Temple His Tenures is a Book of sound and exquisite Learning comprehending much of the Marrow of the Common Law I affirm and will maintain it against all opposites whatsoeâ—â—â— that Liâ—tletons Tenures is a Work of as absolute perfection in his kinde and as free from errour as any Book that I have known to be written of any humane Learning Edw. Lively the Professour of Hebrew in Cambridge and very skilfull in that Language He hath written an Exposition on five of the small Prophets and a little book of Chronology in English But there is a large Latine Chronology also of his which Casaubone commends as worthy to be published This Book B. Usher hath and he quotes it in his Book De Macedonum Asianorum Anno Solari c. 3. in Chronologiâ nondum editâ vir doctissimâ—â— Edovardus Liveleius Titus Livius Petrus Crinitus â— 7. De Honesta Disciplina c. 12. saith his History was divided by him into Books not Decades Neque partitiones decadum ab ipso Livio sunt quod professorem Humanitatis ignorare non decebat antiqui enim Grammatici non Decades sed libros agnoscunt Pignor. Symb. Epist. Ep. 44. Benius criminatur Livianam phrasiâ— facere operae precium quod neque Ciceroniâ— sit neque Terentiana at num ideo minus Latina affirmet cui cornea fibra est Ego utique non affirmabo qui sciam linguam Latinam debere uni Livio magnam copiam genuinae elocutionis quam apud Ciceronem Terentium frustra quaerimus Ut â—â—re vocaverit novitius Livii editor omnis latinitatis refertissimum Id. ibid. Vide plura ibid. CHAP. X. A Loysius Lollinus Episcopus Bellunensis There are his Episcopalium curarum characteres Peter Lombard Anno Dom. 1140. the Father of the Schoolmen He was sirnamed Master of the Sentences because of the four books of Sentences composed by him and collected out of the Fathers He died in the year 1164. The Commentary which Thomas Aquinas made on Lombards Book of the Sentences was so well liked that he was after Commented upon by fourscore Divines whose names and lift are to be found within the laborious Book of Gesners Bibliotheca Quamvis in eo opere Papatum confirmet pro virili multa tamen exciderunt quae Pontificio errores oppugnant Illyr Catal. Test. Ver. l. 15. Lombardus inter omnes Papistas optimus doctissimus Apol. Rog. Aschani pro Caena Domini Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Quid non Lombardo Parasina Academia debet Qui sanctae reserat limina prima Scholae Dionysius Longinus a very great Master of Rhetorick He hath written a small Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de grandi sive sublimi genere orationis Christ. Longomontanus a great Mathematician He hath put out these Works Astronomia Danica Cyclometria verè absolutè in ipsa natura Circuli cum rectilineo inventa Christopher Longoly born at Machlinia a famous Town in Germany buried at Padua a man excellently Learned and a great Ciceronian omnium Ciceronianissimus Lud. Viv. de Caus. Corrupt art l 4. Longolius l. 4. Epist. Nic. Draconi commends Tully much He hath written three Orations four Books of Epistles He died when he was scarce 34 years old Exilis est in sententiis non luculentus in verbis ut tamen de eo si vitae contigisset usura diutur nior bene censeam sperandum fuisset Sed ut nunc est mea quidem sententia nullus est quid enim affert exquisitum quid singulare quid non vulgatum non ex quotidiana consuetudine usuque sumptum Paul Manut. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 4. Vide plura ibid. Eum ut in sententiis exilem in verbis minimè luculentum aspernantur Itali homines qui parem in hoc laudis genere nullum ferre possunt Scaev. Samarth Gallorum doctrina illust Elog. Vide Boxhorn Theat Holland p. 299. Petrus Lorichius Abbas He hath put out Poems Io. Lorinus a French man He was Professor of Divinity at Paris Millain Rome He hath written upon a great part of the Scripture Lucanus His life was written by Suetonius Lucanus ardens concitatus sententiis clarissimus ut dicam quod sentio magis oratoribus quam poetis annumerandus Quintill Instit. Orat. l. 10. c. 1. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Carmina mellistui non ambio docta Maronis Sunt sua Lucano sunt sua Virgilio Lucian the Atheist he doth promiscuously scoff at all Religion he
Hebraeos celebratissimus Merc. praefat in lib. Iob. Celeberrimus inter Iudaeâ—s Maimonides Constant. L'Empereur praefat ad Itin. Benjam Diligentissimus Rabinorum Mosche ben Maymon Schickardi Ius Regium Hebraeorum c. 1. Io. Major Scotus Johannes Major qui in studio Theologiae magnum nomen me puero habuit Buchan Rer. Scot. Hist. l. 7. He hath written Historiam Majoris Britanniae and on four Books of the Sentences Cum scateat nugis solo cognomine Major Nec sit in immenso pagina sana libro Non mirum titulis quod se veracibus ornat Nec semper mendax fingere Creta solet Buchan Epig. lib. 1. This was much in Buchanan Major being his Master M. Ant. Majoragius He hath written upon Aristotles Rhetorick upon some of Tullies Works and Orations of his own Maldonate a Spaniard and a Jesuite Whose skill in expounding Scriptures save only where doting love unto their Church hath made him blinde none of theirs few of our Church hath surpassed D r Iackson upon the Apost Creed first Vol. l. 3. c. 13. The most judicious Expositor among the Jesuites Id. ibid. c. 15. Some think him very arrogant and bitter Vide Scalig. Elench Trihaeres Serar cap. 11. Others say that he read Lectures in Paris by way of preface before his Exposition of the Evangelists of the Scriptures and said that there was more Divinity in one Chapter of S t Pauls Epistles then in all Aquinas his Summes Many Protestants frequented his Lectures and he was suspected to be too favourable to them Ne ipsi quidem Calvinistae Calvinistarum ministri ipsius praelectionibus abstinerent Alegambe Biblioth Script Soc. Ies. Vide plura ibid. Gulielmus Malmesbùriensis a famous Historiographer of our own Anno Dom. 1130. Io. Manaraus a famous Physitian who wrote 20 Books Epistolarum Medicinalium M. Manilius sive Manlius He was a Poet at Rome in the time of Augustus the Emperour to whom he dedicated his five Books of Astronomy made in Hexameter verses Baptista Faustus Mantuanus a Monk born at Mantua as Virgill also was Poeta fuit doctus pius Bellarm. de Script Eccles. He was a Learned and pious Poet. Of that fame that he was made equall by some to the more ancient Poets even under Augustus Amougst other verses of his wisely written also those are wont often to be used and rehearsed Ambitiosus honos opes foeda voluptas Haec tria pro trino numine mundus habet Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Mantua foelicem genuit foecunda Maronem Haec eadem faustis me tulit auspiciis His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He often grievously accuseth the Church of Rome Thâ—uet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 6. confesseth he was Satyricall and discovered the abuses of Rome and then saith he was a bastard and gives many examples of famous men that were bastards Aldus Manutius Senior He collected and published two famous Volumes one which Henry Stevens lately reprinted at Genevah Another which in 2 Tomes gives 700 Epistles 40 Volumes of Greek Authours rare and yet full of Learning Wisdom and Eloquence He first also published a Volume of Greek Grammers Paulus Manutius his sonne homo diligentissimus doctissimus Turneb Advers l. 8. c. 24. Besides many other Learned Writings as his Epistles he also published ten Books of the Roman Antiquities Aldus Manutius minor Vir quidem eruditus in Antiquorum monumentis indagandis accuratissimus Ang. Roccha Aâ—gelus Roccha in his Appendix Bibl. Vatican De Bibliothecis quae adhuc extant mentions three Manutii Aldus and his sonne Paulus and Pauls sonne Aldus Aldus senior publicae consuluit utilitati dum impressoriam artem miro exercuit studio ut Latinam linguam Graecam quas optime callebat in pristinum splendorem Ioanne Baptista Alberto Nicolao Peroto Episcopo Sipontino Francisco Philelpho Io. Iucundo Theodoro Gaza Trapezumtio Lascare Chrysolora Musuro Urbano Bessarione ad eandem rem praestandam inscribendo ad laborantibus typis perpulchris restituere Paulus autem Aldi filius Paulus Aldi filius alter Cicero in Latine scribendo Romanam linguam collabentem in pristinum nitorem studuit revocare dum Latinorum monumenta diligenter scrutatus est Aldus denique junior Aldi nepos Pauli filius dum Avum Patrem typis ac scriptis imitatur utriusque linguae non ignarus Avum Patrem imitatione repraesentat Gualt Mapes Archdeacon of Oxford a man of an excellent wit who in his verses points forth in lively colours the life of the Popes and he describes also the exactions rapines of the Court of Rome the riot and pride of the Prelates in a book of his entitled Diversa Poemata de corrupto Ecclesiae statu Samuel Maresius a Learned French Divine Professor of Groning His books are mentioned Vit. Profes Groningae Ammianus Marcellinas In the year of our Lord 361. He writes a military and rough style as himself confesseth He wrote 30 Books beginning from the rule and dominion of Nerva even to the death of Valens in whose Court he flourished but 13 of these are lost Scriptor suae aetatis fide judicio probatissimus Riviâ— Justin. Defens adversus Alemannum Io. Mariana a Learned Jesuite He hath written Scholia upon the Old and New Testament Maximus Margunus Cytherorum Episcopus Sir Henry Sâ—vill in his notes on Chrysostoms Psalmes cals him Graecorum Neotericorum longè doctissimum and publisheth there an Epistle of his sent to David Haeschelius Psalterium B. Mariae our Ladies Psalter Bonaventure the authour thereof to shew himself a devout servant to his Lady hath taken every Psalm of Davids Psalter which he peculiarly made and referred to Almighty God and hath in divers of the said Psalms and verses put out the Name of the Lord and placed in the name of our Lady This being done through the whole Psalms and every one of them it is now called our Ladies Psalter used to be sung and said in the praise and service of our Lady Alsted in his Encyclopaed l. 35. saith this book is falsly ascribed to Bonaventure for he on Lombard saith Cavendum est ne dum matris excellentia ampliatur filii gloria minuatur Marianus Scotus He hath put out Chronicorum lib. 3. Augustine Marlorat one of the Ministers of the Reformed Church at Roan in France A man excellently Learned and of an unblameable life who had the testimony even of the Papists themselves that in his Sermons he never uttered ought that tended to sedition or rebellion He hath written upon Genesis Esaey and the Psalmes and an Ecclesiasticall Exposition upon the New Testament which last is generally well esteemed of and D r Willet somewhere wisheth that the like had been done by some on all the Old Testament Enchiridion locorum Communium Philippus Marnixius Anno Christi 1538. a Learned and famous Writer
Monum vol. 2. p. 353. And my L. Herbert of Henry the 8 th out of Fox He was so given to jesting and scoffing that he continued it unto his death One of the Officers at the Tower demanding his upper garment for his Fee meaning his Gown he answered that he should have it and gave him his Cap saying it was the uppermost garment he had Coming to the Tower-gate a poor woman called unto him and besought him to declare that he had certain evidences of hers in the time that he was in Office which after he was apprehended he could not come by and that he would intreat that she might have them again or else she was undone He answered Good woman have patience a little while for the King is so good to me that even within this half hour he will discharge me of all businesses and help thee himself Also when he went up the stair of the Scaffold he desired one of the Sheriffs Officers to give him his hand to help him up he said When I come down again let me shift for my self so well as I can Also the hang-man kneeled down to him asking him forgivenesse of his death as the manner is To whom he answered I forgive thee but I promise thee that thou shalt never have honour of the striking off my head my neck is so short Also even when he should lay down his neck on the block he having a great gray beard stroaked out his beard and said to the hang-man I pray you let me lay my beard over the block leaâ—t you should cut it others relate it thus that he said it never committed treason thus with a moâ—k he ended his life His English Works are mentioned by Maunsel in his Catalogue Ioh Morinus a Learned Papist There are his Exercitationes Biblica de Hebraeo Graecoque Textâ— Exercit. Ecclesiasticae Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis His Work concerning the truth of Christian Religion was written in French against Atheists Epicures Paynims Jews Mahumetists and other Infidels began to be translated by Sir Phil. Sidney and at his request finished by Arthur Golding His other Works translated into English are mentioned by Maâ—â—sel Thom. Morton Bishop He hath written learnedly against the Papists confuting them from their own Authors There is his Apologia Catholica Causa Regia Catholick Appeal other Works Thomas Morton He hath written a learned Commentary in Latine upon the first Epistle of Pâ—ul to the Corinthians And some English Tracts Simeon Muis an excellent Hebrician He hath written well on all the Psalms and also learnedly asserted the Hebrew truth against Morinus Sebastian Munster a Germane a learned Hebrician and Mathematician He was born Anno 1489. Marcus Antonius Muretus a very eloquent and diligent Writer What Latine Author hath he passed by either Historian Oratour or Poet which he hath not explained amended and restored to his purity either with his Commentaries Scholia or Notes Terence Petronius Tibuâ—â—us Catullus Propertiâ—s Tully Seneca Salust Tacitus and how learned he was his book of divers readings sheweth His excellent Orations shew his great eloquence Quis humilia subtilius ampla sublimius mediocria temperatius potuit dicere quibus virtutibus perfecti oratoris laus continetur Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca Vide plura ibid. Gesner mentions his Latine works and Antoine Du Verdier his French Musaeus He wrote the loves of Leander and Herûs he lived saith Vossius De Poetis Grâ—cis c. 9. sub Augustis quidem post quartum seculum Wolfangus Musculus a judicious and solid Divine Anno 1497. He hath written Commentaries In Genes In Psalmos Fol. In Isaiam Fol. In Matthaeum Fol. In Iohannem Fol. In Ep. ad Rom. Corinth In Epist. ad Gal. Ephes. In Ep. ad Phil. Colos. Thess. ad Tim. And Loci Communes Theologi Ioachimus Mynsingerus Anno Christ. 1514. His Commentary upon Iustinians Institutions is well liked He hath written other Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue The End of the fourth Book THE FIFTH BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION Or in any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. N CN Naevius A famous ancient Poet. Naevius in manibus non est mentibus haeret Poene recens adeo sanctum est vetus omne Poema Horat. l. 2. Ep. 1. Petrus Nannius a general Scholar thought worthy to succeed Conradus Goclenius in Collegio trilingui at Lovain He died there Anno 1557. he hath written much His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Franciseâ—s Nansius Vossius in his Book De Constructione c. 62. cals him Doctissimum praeceptorem suum and quotes his Notes on Nonnus Iohn Napier a Scot. L. of Marcheston younger He was the inventer of the Logarithmes He hath written well upon the Revelation Natalis Comes Venetus a most learned Writer He composed thirty Books of History in a learned and grave style and wrote ten Books of Mythology a learned and laborious Work in which he demonstrates that almost all the opinions of Natural Philosophy was contained under the fables of the Ancients R. Mardochai Nathan Inscriptis Talmudicis versatissimus L'Empereur Talmud Babyl Cod. mid cap. 4. Sect. 1. There is His Hebrew Concordance of the Bible Gabriel Naudaeus a learned Frenchman He wrote Advis pour dresser une Bibliotheque De Studio Liberali Syntagma Ioannes Nauclerus nobilis Suevus fuit filius Ioannis Vergae vulgo Vergenhaus quod nantam notat unde Nauclerus Graeca appellatione vocatus Voss. De Hist. Lat. l. 3. p. 581. Ioannes Reuclinus was his Scholar Andreas Navagerius A most compleat Poet Orator and Historian He hath written a History De rebus Venetis Two most elaborate Orations and divers Poems Annotations upon all Ovids works Gregory Nazianzene Anno Dom. 370. 361. Helv. Chron. He was famous for his piety and learning zeal and patience He was Ieroms Master It is generally received that he was Bishop of Nazianzum by Ierome himself in Catal. Bellarm. De Script Eccles. Camerarius Yet by Gregorius who wrote Nazianzens Life and indeed by Nazianzen himself in his Epistles it appears that he was there an assistant to his Father being old and weak and thereupon it is commonly thought that he himself enjoyed the place That Gregory which bears the name of the place where his Father was Bishop though he never enjoyed the Bishoprick it self M r Gatak 2 d Answ. to Lilie Constantinopolitanam sedem ab Arianis Episcopis purgavit Geneb Chronol lib. 3. Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis There is a Dictionary of his Nicander A Physician and most excellent Poet. There are his Theriaca Alexipharmaca Poemata Gr. Lat. Nicephorus Callistus He hath written an Ecclesiastical History in two Tomes consisting of eighteen Books Nicephorus Gregoras Anno Dom. 1340. There are these Works of his Hist. Gr. Lat. Hist. Byzantinae Niceâ—es Choâ—â—ates Anno Dom. 1210.
Du Serenissime Roy De La Grand Bretagne Les Diverses Oevres c. Du Sainct Sacrement De L'Eucharistie Les Ambassades Negotiations My Lord Faulkland cals him the great eloquent and judicious Cardinall Perron and prefers him before Bellarmine and Baronius and saith of his Book against K. Iames that he was the Architect of the most glorious building which ever in his opinion was erected to the honour of the Church of Rome Peter du Moulin in his Preface to his Answer to Cardinal Perron or his Nouueauâ—è Du Papisme saith of Perrons Answer to K. Iames le ne trouue point entre les adversaires d'ouurage tant elaborè I finde not so elaborate a work amongst our enemies Mais son peu desçavoir en la langue Grecqué és lettres humaines le fait souuent broncher But his little knowledge in the Greek tongue and in humane Learning makes him often stumble His book is well answered by Rivet Peter du Moulin and Blondell Nicolaus Perottus Cornucopia Correctio Plinii Epist. ad Titum Aulus Persius Flaccus Ierom cals him the most eloquent of Satyrists Barten Holyday consulted with above a dozen Expositors yet in the Preface to his translation of Persius hath these words I may without ambition say it is a new thing Persius understood To have committed no faults in my Translation saith he according to his elegant way of writing had been to Translate my self and put off man CHAP. V. DIonysius Petavius a learned Jesuite He wrote against Scaliger and Salmasius That Scaligero mastix Greg. de Aeris Epochis Qui ad omnia non solum falsa aut inania verùm etiam vera certa omnium consensu approbata vellicanda carpenda natus esse videtur Croii Observat. in N. T. c. 9. Samuel Petitus a very learned man There are these Works of his Miscellaneorum lib. 9. Variarum lectionum lib. quatuor Eclogae Chronologicae Com. in leges Atticas Francis Petrarke an Italian a witty and sententious Orator and Poet. One of the great restorers of Learning Vir omnium saeculorum memoria dignissimus Pignor. Symbol Epist. Ep. 14. He was born in the year 1304 and died in the year 1374. having lived 70 years wanting but a day There is in his Latine Works a neat expression a spirit sinewy and sententious a style short and concise He was another Seneca He calleth Rome the Whore of Babylon the School and mother of errour the Temple of heresie the nest of treachery and seemeth plainly to affirm that the Pope was Antichrist declaring that no greater evil could happen to any man then to be made Pope His life is written by Papirius Massonus There was great flocking after him from France and all Italy Sacras literas ut humiles incomptas humanioribus impares nimio illarum amore contemptu harum opinione de se falsa atque impotenti inventa diù tumidus adolescens fugit Verùm liber confessionum divi Augustini aditus ei postremò fuit ad omnes sacras literas sibique librum illum praedicat autorem fuisse ut adolescentiae vitia dimitteret Papir Masson ib. He wrote De vita solitaria De remediis utriusque fortunae De Communi mundi contemptu De vita sapientis Bucolica Eclogae alia venustissima Poemata quae scripsit lingua Hetrusca and other Works mentioned by Boissard in his Icones His Ancestors were Florentines and lived in exile but he returned home and died in his own Country of an Apoplexy He was buried at Arquato Montanere a village belonging unto Padita where in honour of him a Sepulchre of Marble was built and an Epitaph of his own making inscribed part whereof is as followeth Frigida Francisci lapis hic regit ossa Fessusque in terris caeli requiescit in arce Petronius Arbiter an obscene Writer yet his Latine is pure and elegant Elmenhorstius in the life of Iohn Wower cals Petronius Impurissimùm scriptorem purissimae latinitatis Suffridus Petrus He was a Frisian and wrote the history of Frisia and of the Writers of Frisia Gasper Peucer a learned Physitian well skilled in Philosophy and the Mathematicks He hath written a singular book of his own imprisonment and freedom Christ. Pezelius a learned Writer Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue He died Anno Dom. 1606. Demetrius Phalereus He hath written De Elocutione De Interpretatione Praecepta Rhetorica Philo Indaeus He lived in Christs time and was born at Alexandria a famous Town in Aegypt Though he was a Jew yet he was altogether unskilfull in the Hebrew as the Jews of Alexandria and almost all the Hellenists were Homo Graecè tantum loquens Hebraismi autem adeo imperitus ut dubitem an etiam legere sciret Hebraicè Scalig. Elench Trihaeres Serar c. 18. The Greek tongue was so common at Alexandria that the Bishops as Athanasius Cyrill Theophilus c. there preached to the people in Greek The Apostle therefore writing to the Hebrews alleadgeth to them the Scripture according to their translation Pet. du Moulins Antibarb c. 10. Il fut tellement versè en toute bonne literature que non seulement envers câ—ux de sa secte mais aussi envers les Chrestiens Philosophes prophanes il estoit en grand credit estinâ—e Theuet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 2. Philo natione sapientia Iudaeus Graecanicae verò facundiae leniter fluens amnis aut in alâ—eo scripturarum potius dulcè canens cygnus Ovid. Fabrit In N. T. Syr. Lat. Interpret praefat The book of Wisdom was written by him living after Christs passion resurrection and ascention yet he never beleeved in Christ. Doctor Twisse against Ford. He was Iudaorum dâ—sertissimus Ierom. A great imitator of Plato so that it was said of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He wrote among other things of the life of Moses His allegorizing so much is disliked Iâ— Philoponus Anno Dom. 602. He wrote 7 books on the first Chapter of Genesis concerning the creation of the world Iohn Philpot. He and Bishop Ridly were the most learned of our English Martyrs in Q. Maries dayes Fl. Philostratus Franciscus Philelphus Gul. Philander a very learned man There is his Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolae de mensuris ac ponderibus libros Photinus He was learned but a great Heretique He denied the Deity of the Sonne and Holy Ghost Whence the Photinians There are two main parts of the Socinian Religion The first concerning the Person of Christ Photinianism The other the Grace of Christ Pelagianism Photius Patriark of Constantinople he flourished in the 9 th age Anno Dom. 860. the learnedst man of his time Casaubone in his Epistles much commends his Bibliotheca Acerrimo vir ingenio perspicacissimóque in omni genere doctrinarum praestantissimus Scriptor Photius Patriarcha Constantinopolitanus Fulleri Miscel. lib. 2. cap. 3.
th de Obedientia and that Cardinall Poole when he spake to Queen Mary blasphemously used the words of the Angell Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum He died the same day that Queen Mary died CHAP. VII POlyander à Kerckoven Doctor of Divinity in Leyden He hath put out Concertatio Anti-Sociniana Polybius A learned Historian Polycarpus a Tree that bare much fruit according to his name He lived in the time of Ignatius and drew the doctriue of the Gospel from the mouth of the Apostles as a most pure fountain Irenaeus saith of him Hic docuit semper quae ab Apostolis didicerat Ecclesiae tradidit quae sola sunt vera Arnoldus Pontacus Vossius terms him doctissimum diligentissimum and l. 2. De vitiis Sermonis c. 3. Arnoldus Pontacus in iis quae ad B. Hieronymi Chronicon magnâ industriâ nec doctrina minore annotavit Io Isaacius Pontanus the King of Denmarks Historiographer a learned Historian Vossius honourably mentions him lib. De constructione c. 63. Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus Nulli sui saeculi Poetae aut Oratori scribendo vel docendo cessit Boissardi Bibliotheca His Works are mentioned by Boissard Lud. de Ponte Romanus Ludovicus Pontanus commonly sirnamed Romanus because among all the Doctors of the Law he chose his dwelling within Rome He had so happy a memory that he never alleadged the Law and he alleaged it often but he presently rehearsed its text all along without book Ausonius Popma Suffridus Petrus mentions three of his brethren as learned Cyprianus a Popma Sixtus a Popma and Titus a Popma His book De differentiis verborum is of good use Porchetus Some say Galatinus took all out of him Porchetus and he both out of Martinus Raymundus his Pugio There is his Victoria adversus Hebraeos a book well esteemed of Porphyrius He was Plotinus his Scholer and Iamblichus his Master he wrote fourteen books against the Christians which he deadly hated He was a wicked and ungodly Jew of the kindred and sect of the Sadduces an enemy of Christ a hater of God and his Word He wrote many books in Philosophy Rhetorick Grammer and commented upon some of Aristotles books Ejus adeo exosum execrabile nomen ut in edictis Imperatorum profligatissimi quique haeretîci Porphyriani dicerentur Crakanth De providentia Dei Gilbertus Porretanus Anno Dom. 114. There are his 6 Principia In quatuor Lib. Boethii de Trinitate Io. Baptista Porta He discovers many rare and exquisite things He hath published severall Works De miraculis naturae De Furtivis literarum notis Magia naturalis De hum Physiognomia De Distillationibus and other Works Ioan. Vincentius Porta Ioannes Posselius a pious and learned man Hesiodus Analyticus Syntaxis Graecae linguae Colloquia Apophthegmata Graecae linguae Calligrophia Oratoria linguae Graecae a book most profitable to get the propriety elegancy and plenty of the Greek language Liber hic certe magno labore studio ex variis acctoribus Graecis est collectus continetque tum phrases ac formas loquendi elegantiores tum vocabula simplicia synonima item particularum usum additis ubique tabulis probatorum auctorum illustribus exemplis dignus qui ab omnibus serio Graecari Graece ac Latine scribendi exercitium conjungere volentibus nocturna diurnaque manu versetur Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Ant. Possevinus an Italian of Mantua Some dislike him he hath put all Campians reasons into his book D r Raynolds therefore styles him Campiani haeres ex asse and was wont to say of him that he had need of a broom Ioannes Posthius a learned Physitian and Poet. He wrote excellent Poems intitled Parerga poetica Some Anotomicall Observations and other things belonging to Physick Gul. Postellus a good Linguist but he was mad he held that Adams soul was in him and other gross opinions He was the first of Christians which published the rudiments of the Arabick Grammer There are these Works of his De Linguarum 12 differentium Alphab Clavis absconditorum aeternae veritatis De Phaenicum Lit. De Orbis Terrae concordia De Etruriae Origine Gabriel Powel There is his Disput. de Antichristo De adiaphoris His resolved Christian. His Positions of Usury in two Volumes in 8 o and other Works Godeschalcus Praetorius A noble Poet made this Verse upon him Bis septem linguas sophiam omnem calluit unus Regnerus Praedinius the learned Rector of the School at Groning His Works are published in one Volume Hieronymus Pragensis a Bohemish Divine who was truly worthy of a holy name a Martyr also of Christ as Iohn Hus was and was burned at Constance Anno 1416. D r Iohn Preston a learned and profound Divine His Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes and his Sermons upon the Sacraments with other Works are of great use Iohn Prideaux Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Worcester the Learned Professor of Divinity heretofore in Oxford His Lectures and Orations in Latine and other Works have made him famous both here and beyond sea Sylvester de Prierio He hath written Case-Divinity called Summa Sylvestriana and severall books against Luther for which the Pope sent him a golden Rose Gilbert Primerose A learned Scotchman who was a French Preacher at Bourdeaux and after one of the Preachers in the French Church at London He hath put out severall French books La Trompette de Syon Le Voeu de Iacob opposè aux voeux des Moynes La defense de la Religion reformee par passages de l' Escripture Many of his Works are translated into English David Primerose his son was Preacher at Roane in France He put out Theses Theologicae De Peccato in genere specie De Necessitate satisfactionis pro peccato per Christum De Divina praedestinatione annexis articulis A Treatise against the morality of the Sabbath Priscianus a famous Grammarian Priscus nomine fide Grammaticus Voss. l. 1. De Analog c. 19. We call incongrnous Latine the breaking of Priscians head as if to speak and write well by a speciall right belonged to him Proclus Casaubone faith he had the best memory of any that he ever saw or read of He was a great Mathematician and famous Platonick Philosopher Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Procopius Gazeus Anno Dom. 530. a most grave Historian of the Romans who lived in the times of the Gothes and Vandals and was well skilled in the Originall and Manners of both Nations Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Propertius He was excellent and singular saith Pliny in Elegies Propertium qui non amat eum profecto Musae non amant Lipsius l. 2. antiq lect cap. 10. Umbria parva tibi tantum debere fatetur Quantum Callimacho Graecia magna suo Steph. Pasch. Icones
He hath written De 5 a Essentia De remed genere De Confectione veri lapidis Philosophorum Lib. lucis Ianus Rutgersius He is called Ianus Rutgarius in the Appendix to Oxford Catalogue CHAP. XI S EManuel Sa. One of the most famous Fathers of the Society of the Jesuites Doctor in Divinity who vaunts in his Aphorismes of Confession that he was fourty whole years in making that holy Work which he esteems certain in its Propositions since he cals them Aphorisms which he hath framed after the order of the Alphabet Pasquier des Recherches de la France l. 3. Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus His several Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Raymundus de Sabunde He hath written an excellent Book called Theologia naturalis sive Liber Creaturarum Io. de Sacro bosco a famous Philosopher and Mathematician He flourished Anno 1230. His Book of the Sphere is well liked Pantaleon makes him a Germane Dempster a Scotchman Hist. Eccles. Scot. l. 17. Stanihurst an Irishman Descript. Hib. but Leland and others say he was an Englishman Antonius Sadeel Antonius Burbon King of Navarre loved him well and was wont to hear him preach His friends in France were especially Beza Hottoman Goulartius Faius and others Elsewhere Grynaeus Tossanus Stuckius Fontanus Bovius L'Estraeus Iac. Sadoletus a Learned Cardinal He was thought to be poisoned Peter Bembus in the fifth Book of his familiar Epistles writing to Cardinal Pool of Sadoletus his Book concerning Philosophy saith he read it over often and then gives this approbation of it Equidem ab illis Augusti temporibus quae profecto maxime omnium summis ingeniis praestantibus scriptoribus claruerunt nullum legi librum scriptum ut mihi quidem videtur appositius splendidius nullum melius nullum Ciceroniano mori stilo facundiae denique vicinius Vide etiam l. 6. Epist. Fam. Paulo Sadoleto p. 327 328. Iac. Salianus There are his Annales Ecclesiastici Vet. Testamenti in divers Tomes Cl. Salmasius a learned French Critick De omni hujus ludi scil calculorum sive tesserarum ratione accuratius à nemine scriptum quà m maximo Salmasio nunquam satis laudatis ad Historiae Augustae scriptores notis Vossius De vitiis sermonis l. 3. c. 52. He hath written Notes upon Tertullian de pallio De Transubstantiatione contra Grotium De primatu Papae vel de ordine Ecclesiastico De Episcopis Presbyteris with divers Philological and other Works Accuratè de hisce annulis Salmasius eruditâ Epistolâ vel libro potiùs de Caesarie ac coma mulierum Voss. De vitiis sermonis l. 3. c. 51. Two or three years plus minus before he made his Books entituled De usuris deque usurarum modo Samuel Petitus published the Attick Laws with a Commentary He though learned was unfurnished with helps to compleat such a Work Salmasius therefore then reading of him or coming newly from him took many things from him and without a diligent search inserted them into his Books Hinc ex parte tot errores imo tot monstra quae in libris illis incubant ubi his de rebus agitur Herald Animadvers in Salmas Observ. ad jus Att. Rom. l. 2. c. 12. Salmasius librum inscripsit de usuris quae inscriptio tractatum juris premittebat In eo libro verborum proprietates origines tractavit feliciter multas infeliciter plurimas atque ea in re pars maxima ejus laboris consumpta est Et sic liber quem juridicum volebat efficere in grammaticum abiit sive exiit Id. ib. l. 2. c. 4. Alph. Salmeron Com. in Script Novi Test. Tom. 16. His Work upon the Parables is well liked Rabbi Salomo a learned Jewish Expositor Unus ex praecipuis Iudaeorum Commentatoribus Paul Fag Annot. in Chald. Par. in Gen. 49 10. Salvianus Anno Dom. 460. 480 alii A learned Father His Book of Gods Providence is well liked Salustius Crispus Salust is a wise and worthy Writer but he requireth a learned reader and a right considerer of him Aschams Schoolmaster 2 d part Crispus Romana primus in Historia Mart. l. 14. Epig. 191. Scaevola Samarthanus a learned French Poet. He hath published Poems and Elogies of the learned Frenchmen Stephanus Paschasius in the 4 th Book of his Epigrams hath these Verses to him Seu Latios scribas seu Gallos Scaevola versus Nil Latia aut majus Gallica terra tulit Roma suum jactet miretur Gallia nostrum Cur ita pro patria vovit uterque manum Rob. Sanderson A Learned School-Divine of our own He hath put out divers English Sermons and a learned Treatise De Iuramento Gaspar Sanctius A Learned Spaniard He hath put out Commentaries In Ruth Ezram Neh. Esther In quatuor libros Regum In librum Job In Prophetam Isaiam In Jeremiam In Ezech. Dan. In Prophetas minores In Zachariam Antonius Sanderus He hath written Elogia Cardinalium Sanctitate Doctrina Armis illustrium De Scriptoribus Flandriae Hagiologium Flandriae De Gandavensibus Eruditionis fama claris l. 3. Gandavum sive de Antiquitatibus De Burgensibus eruditionis Fama claris l. 2. De Claris sanctitate eruditione Antoniis l. 3. Nic. Sanderus There are divers Works of his De visibili Monarchia De Clave De Iustificat contra Colloquium Altenburg De honoraria adorat Imaginum De schismate Anglicano And several English Books Hugo Sanfordus He hath written a learned Book De descensu Christi ad inferos Iacobus Sannazarius or Accius Sincerus a Learned Poet. Inter poetas primum locum obtinuit vir eximius Cujus ingenium monumenta non vetusta non oblivio delebit ulla ut ex tot Regum triumphis haud paullo clarior quam ex unius hominis doctrina atque ingenio Parthenope sit futura Manut. Praefat. in Sannaz He put out a famous Poeme De partu virginis in quo de perfectione poëseos videtur cum antiquis decertare Boissardi Bibliotheca He was Virgilii aemulus There is this Epigramme of Cardinal Bembus upon his Sepulchre at Naples Da sacro cineri flores hic ille Maroni Syncerus musâ proximus ut tumulo Sappho Lesbia a woman so called from the place of her birth viz. the Isle of Lesbos She lived 515. years before the birth of Christ one of the first which practised the science of Poetry The Romans erected a Statue of Porphiry richly wrought in memory of her She was very expert in the composition of Lyrick Verses She invented also a sort of Verses called Sapphick from her name Alex. Sardus He hath written a Book De moribus ritibus gentium Erasmus Sarcerius a learned Divine He was born Anno 1500. His several Works are mentioned by Boissard and many of them in Oxford Catalogue Io. Sarisburiensis There is his Metalogiâ—us Polycraticus sive de nugis Curialium
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.
and form of them Philippus Beroaldus Tacitum typis excusum primus Orbi dedit Chistetii Anastasis Childerici Reg. c. 19. His History and Annals are translated into English by S r Henry Savill Some preferre his History before his Annals Tadaeus seu Thadaeus Florentinus He taught Physick at Bononia amplissimo honorario and with such an opinion of all men that he was extolled in those times for a second Galen His Works are mentioned by Castellanus de vitis Medicorum Audomarus Talaeus Professour of Eloquence at Paris There are his Rhetorica Prâ—fatione Epistolae Orationes ejusdem praelect in Cic. Porphyr Arist. Talmud As if you should say Doctrinale in which the Jews have made as it were their Canon Law and their Divinity out of the sentences and examples of their ancient Doctors after the same manner that Peter Lombard the book of Sentences and Gratian the Decrees among the Papists That work was first begun as the Jews themselves Masius Genebrard and Petrus Galatinus have recorded within two hundred years from the Nativity of Christ although it was long after finished at least the Babylonian Talmud for the Talmud of Ierusalem was sooner published See Buxtorfs Bibliotheca concerning the Editions of these two Talmuds There are two parts of the Talmud the Mischna containing the Text of the Talmudical Law This came out about the year of Christ 150. This was read explained and disputed in the Academies of Ierusalem and Babylon Those disputations and the decisions of them were called Gemara So of the Mischna and Gemara came the Ierusalem Talmud Anno Christi 230. But the Babylonish Talmud more perfect and copious finished about the year of Christ 500. L' Emperour hath written a Book which he entitleth Clavis Talmudica Vide Seldenum De Iure Naturali Gentium l. 1. c. 2. p. 34 35. Ruardus Tapperus Charles the fifth Emperour and Philip the King of Spain sometimes the Pope himself required his pains and industry There are his Opera Theologica Io. Tarnovius A learned Lutheran as his Exercitationes Biblicae and Commentaries on the small Prophets shew Paulus Tarnovius he hath written well on Iohn Alex. Tartagnus a learned Italian Lawyer Tatianus Alexandrinus Anno Dom. 180. There is his Oratio contra Gentes Harmonia Evang. Fridericus Taubmanus a learned and pious man There are his Schediasmata Poetica Melodâ—sia sive Epulum Musaeum Commentariolus posthumus in Moretum incerti authoris His Commentary on Plautus and Virgil. Ioh. Taulerus a Preacher of Argentine in Germany Anno 1350. He taught openly against all mens merits and against Invocation of Saints and preached sincerely of our free Justification by grace Francis Taylor A learned Linguist and worthy Divine of the Assembly at Westminster He and D r Boot wrote Examen Praefationis Morini In Biblia Graeca de Textus Ebraici corruptione Graeci authoritate He hath put out other Works himself Tractatus de Patribus Rabbi Nathan Pirke Aboth Capitula Patrum and other Works D r Thomas Taylor a solid and judicious Divine There are divers usefull Treatises of his published A Comment on Titus the twelfth Chapter of the Revelat. A Book in Folio containing divers Tracts And other Treatises mentioned in the late Catalogue of Divinity-Books Sir William Temple a learned Gentleman and great Ramist There is his Analysis Logica 30 Psalmorum Scholia upon Ramus his Logick And other Works Io. Temporarius a miracle in nature if that be true which is reported of him He was made Knight by Charles the Great in the fifteenth year of his Age. He hath written Chron. demonstrat Publius Terentius Terence Erasmus somewhere saith thus of him Plus est exacti judicii in una Terentianâ Comaediâ absit Nemesis dicto quam in Plautinis omnibus Tully ad Atticum quotes Terence to justifie his own Latine Tertullian He was born in Carthage a famous Town in Africa Anno Dom. 200. The ancientest of the Latine Fathers He was expert both in Greek and Latine was a great Philosopher Lawyer would dispute well was eloquent in writing When the Christians were vexed with wrongs and falsly accused of the Gentiles Tertullian taking their cause in hand defendeth them against their persecutors and their slanderous accusations Cyprian Bishop of Carthage so esteemed his writings that he read somewhat in them every day and called him his Master he would say to his servant Da Magistrum that is Tertullian Ierom also commends him much in his Apologeticall Book against the Gentiles Some much commend his Apology Heraldus and others have commented on that Others his Book De pallio Iunius and Salmasius have written upon that Libellus mole exiguus sed dignitate grandis ut qui maximé Jun. in Epist. ad Not. in Tertul. lib. de Pallio He was a Montanist and a Millenary Scis quam durus sit asper sermo Tertulliani Certe stridet magis quam loquitur Calv. Epist. N. S. p. 373. See in Minutius Foelix Tertullianus perturbatissime loquitur ut Afer Ludov. Viv. de trad discip l. 3. Testamentum Novum There is Testamentum Graecum cum notis Stephani Scaligeri Casauboni Testamentum Graecum Latinum interpret Bezae Testamentum Novum opera Eliae Hutteri 12 Linguis Testamentum Novum Arabice ex Editione Thomae Erpenii Testamentum Novum Syriacè sed Charactere Hebr. cum interpret Imman Tremellii Testamentum Novum Graecè ex editione Rob. Stephani Testamentum Novum Germanicè per Mart. Lutherum Testamentum Novum Anglicè cum notis Rhemensibvs CHAP. II. JO. Ravisius Textor was born at Nevers in France A certain Frenchman called Textor writeth a Book which he named Ossicina wherein he weaveth up many broken ended matters and sets out much râ—ff raff pelsery trumpery baggage and beggery ware clampard up of one that would seem to be fitter for a shop indeed then to write a Book Aschams Toxophilus pag. 26. Themistius a wise man and great Philosopher All his Works are in one Volume Themistocles Plutark writes his Life Theocritus a famous Greek Poet. There are his Ioyllia Epigrammata Theodoret Bishop of Cyrus in Syria Anno Dom. 430. He propounded Chrysostom as his worthy patern in forming his style of writing and by this means he proved so fluent and eloquent full of grace and learning in his Works The Lives of the Primit Fathers He hath written part of the Ecclesiastical History and other Works Theodotio Ponticus He hath turned the Old Testament into Greek Theon a great Mathematician He hath written in Greek upon Aratus Euclide Ptolomy Exercitationes Rhetoricae Gr. Lat. Theophanes There are his Hymus in Deiparam Oratio Gr. Lat. ante exaltationem crucis Theophilus Antiochenus Anno Dom. 170. He hath written upon the four Gospels Against the calumniators of the Christian Religion Philippus Theophrastus He was so called from his divine speaking before he was
Carperis carpis sic tuâ— fata ferunt Voss. De Construct cap. 16. De Latini sermonis elegantia scripsit elegantissime Erasmus De Ratione Studii Quintiliani in primis admirator simul imitator maledecus alioquin in omnes One made this Distick of him being dead Ohe ut Valla silet solitus qui parcere nulli est Si quaeris quid agat nunc quoque mordet humum Volat. Comment Urban lib. 21. There are two witty Epigrams made of him the one by way of censure viz. this Nunc postquam manes defunctus Valla petivit Non aendâ—t Pluto verba Latina loqni Jupiter hunc Coeli dignatus honore fuisset Censorem lingua sed timet esse suae The other by way of Commendation thus Fatales post quam soluit Laurentius annos Extimuit tantum Rhetora Pluto nâ—oens Jupiter hunc sacro non dedignatus Olympo Facâ—ndo Maiae praeposuit genito There is this Elogy also of him Laâ—reus Valla jacet Romanae gloria linguae Primus enim docuit qua decet arte loqui His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Cypriar de Valera a Spaniard who was B. Welch of Irelands Tutor turned Protestant and was here in England and carried over into Spain the Bible translated into Spanish and also Calvins Institutions and went and dispersed them there He is called in Oxford Catalogue Cypriane â—â— Valeriola There is a Book of his there mentioned De la Missa and others in Spanish Lucas Valerius For his admirable skill in the Mathematicks he deserved to be called the Archimedes of his age He put out a â—â—â—â— De centro gravitatis solidorum He taughâ— the Mathematicks long in Rome especially Geometry Henrâ— Valesius He hath put out Notes on Ammianus Marcellinus and on Excerpta de Pâ—lybio Franciscus Vallesius a most learned Spanish Philosopher He was Professor of Physick in Academia Complutensi He wrote his ten Books in which he explains the more difficult controversies of Physick and Philosophy Opus eruditi judicii quamvis id Iuvenis admodum scripsit ut testatur lib. 5. c. 6. nec animo vnlgandi Castellanus De vitis medicorum He wrote Commentaries upon Hippocrates his Book De morbis popularibus Upon his Aphorisms and his Book De ratione victus inacutis Marcus Varro He was so esteemed for his excellent Learning as Tully himself had a reverence to his judgement in all doubts of learning If his Books had remained to posterity as by Gods providence most part of Tullies did the Latine Tongue might have made good comparison with the Greek Asch. Schoolmaster part 2. His Life was spared in civil dissentions for his incomparable Learning Vivat Varro doctissimus Romanorum He is often styled Doctissimus Togatorum and Romanorum doctissimus by Seneâ—a Consolat ad Helv. and Quintilian l. 10. c. 1. His Etymologies are somewhat forced Sed Varro more suo anxiè Etymologias Comminiscitur Jos. Scaliger Conjectan in Varr. De Lingua Latina Nam Varro in Etymologiis Varro non videtur itaque à Quintiliano merito ridetur Manut. Epist. l. 3. Epist. 23. Gabriel Vasquez the Papists most expert Schoolman Franciscus Vatablus Regius Professor of the Hebrew Tongue in Paris His Notes if they be his upon the Bible are well liked Iohn Udall a learned and pious Divine He hath put out a Translation of Martinius Hebrew Grammer with a short Dictionary and a praxis upon certain Psalms and a Commentary on the Lamentations Divers Sermons of his are mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue of English Books Nic. Vedelius a learned Writer as his Works shew Rationale Theologicum De Deo Synagogae De prudentia veteris Ecclesiae De Arcanis Arminianismi Panacea Apostasiae bono constantium lapsorum praescripta Andr. Vega one of the learnedst at the Councel of Trent He hath put forth a Defence of the Councel of Trent concerning Justification Flavius Vegetius He hath written De re militari Scriverius and Godeschalcus Steuuechius have put forth Animadversions on him Marcus Velserus Illud Margaritum Germaniae suae Pignor. Symb. Epistol Epist. 13. He going into Italy published Antiquitates Augustana Foelix famae surgentis auspicium pium Exinde aliis atque aliis ad unguem factis monumentis obligavit sibi rem literariam Melch. Ad. in ejus vita He mentions there his several Works Marce Velsere Te fortem pium beatum Coelo receptum si lugeamus nefas At publica damnâ— publicam jacturam nisi lugeamus quantum nefas Tibi religio cui tu patronus pietas cui tu vindex studium boni aequi cui tu assertor nuper fueras certatim funus ducunt Dicunt tuas laudes uno ore modestia candor ingennitas Te Germania sidus suum sibi extinctum Te Italia alumnum suum sibi ereptum justissimiâ— fletibus conqueruntur Subeunt feretrum tuum Fama per te constantior Honos per te illustrior virtus per te nobilior Gloria per te solidior Fuisti enim tecum una fuerunt deliciae lepores veneres sobriae castae eruditionis vis doctrinae pondus sapientiae quae tu alio migrans tecum extulisti omnia Laur. Pign Miscella Elog. Adelamat c. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus Italus Anno Dom. 580. One cals him Scholasticissimum He hath written Upon the Lords Prayer and Apostles Creed Divers Poems Claud. Verderius the great Censurer The Title of his Book is In Auctores penè omnes censiones correctiones CHAP. V. PAulus Vergerius an eloquent Lawyer and Phlosopher The Bishops of Rome Clement and Paul used his service in Germany He was in high favour with King Ferdinando so much that when his daughter Katharine was born Vergerius and George Marquesse of Branderburg and Iohn Archbishop of Lunden were her Godfathers at the Font. But after he revolted from the Bishop of Rome by a wonderfull occasion when he was sent for to Rome from the Conference of Wormes which was in the beginning of the year 1541. The Pope going about to make new Cardinals appointed him also among others But there were some which privily whispered in his ear that he was now through much familiarity with the Germans become a Lutherane After that Vergerius had heard this by Cardinal Ginueius unto whom the Pope had told it he was marvellously astonished And to the intent he might purge himself he goeth home into his Countrey and beginneth a book which he entitled against the Apostates of Germany And whilst to confute their Arguments he turneth over diligently the books of his Adversaries and pondering deeply their reasons He feeleth himself taken and vanquished Then casting away all hope of his Cardinalship he goeth to his brother Iohn Baptist Bishop of the City of Pole and reciting the whole matter asketh his counsel His brother being afraid at the beginning lamenteth his case much But after he was perswaded by him to apply
himself to the searching of the Scripture and had considered diligently that Article of Justification comparing the sentences together he giveth place and judgeth the Bishop of Romes Doctrine to be false Whereupon they rejoyced together And as the duty of Bishops is began to instruct the people in Istria and preach diligently the benefit of Christ imploy'd upon mankinde and declare what works God requireth of us to the intent they might call men again to the true Religion Iacobus Verheidenus That Book of his is of good use Effigies Elogia Theologorum qui Romanum Antichristum praecipuè oppugnarunt Andreas Vesalius He was born at Bruxels in Brabant Anno Christi 1514. A famous Physician He professed Anatomy at Basil Padua and almost in all the Universities of Italy He wrote Opus admirandum De humani corporis fabricâ in which he so expressed all its members in figures that he even seems to expose them to view and this he put forth at 28 years Et sanè opus illud De corporis humani fabricâ certissimis demonstrationibus aptum gravissimo dicendi genere conditum robusti ingenii divinum vigorem eruditionemque pertinaci studio auctam longè lateque ostentat Castellani vitae Illust. Medic. Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Sextus Aurelius Victor A most elegant Historian who lived under Constantius and Iulian. There is his Origo gentis Rom. De viris illustribus De Caesaribus Histor. Augustae Epitome which was rather anothers of the same name Hugo de S. Victore His Works are in three Tomes Many of which are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Richardus de S. Victore He flourished in the time of Hugo de S. Victore about the year 1130. and lived in the same Monastery with him His Works are extant in two Tomes and many of them mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Fr. à Victoria Professour at Salamanca Clenard in his second book of Epistles pag. 241 242. makes honourable mention of him Ignorat Salmantica saith he quem possideat thesaurum in nostro Victoria gratulentur sibi Dominici monasteria quod tale decus meruerunt So called from Victoria a Town of Cantabria in Spain There be his Relect. Theologicae Summa Sacramentorum Ecclesiae Victorinus Afer Anno Dom. 270. There are these Works of his Adversus Arianos De Trinitate Hymni tres De Macchabaeis fratribus Liber contra Manichaeos Item de principio diei Petrus Victorius a singular Grecian Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Marcus Hieron Vidas He so excelled in Poetry Ut proximè ad Vergilianam excellentiam illum pervenisse omnes judicent Cujus rei insigne testimonium praebet insigne illud nunquam satis laudatum opus Christiadâ—s Poema proculdubio quod tam materia quam compositione stylo debet meritò praeferri caeteris omnibus scriptis quae à nostri saeculi Poetis melioribus tradita sunt Continet enim vitam Christi ac gesta libris 6. Scripsit eadem felicitate De arte Poetica lib. 3. Boissardi Bihliotheca Vide plura ibid. Franciscus Vieta a learned French Mathematician There are his Opera Mathematica Vol. 2. Relatio Calendarii vere Gregoriani cum aliis opusâ— Universalium inspectionum ad Canonem Mathemat lib. singularis De Aequatione recognitione emendatione Nic. Vignerius a learned French Historiographer There are To 3. de la. Bibliotheq Hist. and other Works of his Nic. Vignerius Sonne to the other a learned Divine He hath published an excellent Treatise in French styled Theatre de l' Antichrist and a Dissertation in Latine of the Excommunication of the Venetians against Cardinal Baronius And Theses of the Satisfaction of Christ which Rivet highly commends and annexeth unto his own Disputations Io. Bapt. Villalpandus A learned Divine and Mathematician He hath written well upon Ezekiel Arnaldus de Villa-novax or Villa-novanus There is a Town in Catalouia in Spain which is called Villa-nova His several Physical Works are mentioned by Castellanus De vitis Medicorum Longolius commends Simon Villa-novanus Longolius Epist. lib. 3. Octaviano Grimoaldo hath this passage of him Non dici potest quam de Villanovano laborem nec co tam amicitia nostra quae quidem summa est adductus moveor quà m humanitate naturameâ— qui tam praeclarum ingenii lumen tam misere extingui doleam Otium illi ad aliquot annos est opus non quo vel cum Budaeis vel cum Erasmis nostris quos jam elegantia dicendi subtilitate vicit sed cum veteribus illis aliquando contendat See also there several Epistles of his to Baptista Egnatius wherin he commends him Alexander de Villa Dei Loquendi quondam magister singularis habebatur Ram. Orat. Refor Par. Acad. Laurentius Villa-vincentius a Spaniard He wrote a Book De rectè formando Theologiae studio which he took from Hyperius who wrote of the same Argument viz. De ratione studii Theologici So Solinus takes all he hath from Plinie Vide Salmos Prolegom in Solinum Vincentius Belluacensis seu Bellovacensis He made four Tomes and gave them the name of a Glasse Speculum Historiale l. 32. Speculum Naturale l. 33. Speculum Doctrinale l. 13. Speculum Morale l. 3. Vincentius Lirinensis Anno Dom. 430. He writes against the Pelagians and Nestorians Scripsit opusculum parvum mole sed virtute maximum Bellarm Vossius Hist. Pelag. lib. 1. cap. 9. reckons him among the Semi-Pelagians and thinks his Commonitorium was either written against Austen himself or those at least who followed Austens opinion concerning Predestination Et fortè saith he hac ratio est cur nomen suum praeterierit quod adversariis illis suspectum esse sciret Nam sub Peregrini nomine commonitorium suum edidissâ— ex Praefatione cognoscimus Petrus de Vineis He hath written Epist. l. 6. Elias Vinetus a most learned and eloquent man he hath written a Commentary and illustrations upon Ausonius A Preface and Annotations on Persius Upon Aurelius Victor Antonius Viperanus There is an Oration of his at the funeral of the Emperour Charles the fifth A Work Describenda Historia And other Works CHAP. VI. PEt. Viretus an eloquent French Divine whom Calvin desired for his Colleague His French Books are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Virgilius a Bishop in Bavaria much renowned for his Piety and Learning being seen in all Sciences especially in the Mathematicks was condemned for an heretick for affirming that there were Antipodes Polyd. Virgilius or Vergilius a man not much to be trusted for his relation of English affairs Vir multis nominibus clarissimus Lel. Comment in Cygneam cantionâ—m Utinam Polydorus tam oculatus fuisset testis in rebus Britannicis quam interim est tersus nitidus elegans Nae ille tum exegisset opus immortalitate planè dignissimum modo eadem opera
cognitionem utriusque linguae videlicet Britannicae Saxonicae tanquam ad coronidem adjecisset Id. ibid. Vide plura ibid. Publius Virgilius Maro the â—tately Poet. Lilius Gyrald and Politian write him Vergilius Some compare him with Homer nay prefer him before him others style him Homer in Latine This was said upon the coming forth of Virgils Aeneads Cedite Romani scriptores cedite Graii Nescio quid majus nascitur Iliade He set this Distick upon the Palace-gate of the Emperour Augustus Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane Divisum imperium cum Jove Caesar habet As much to say God sheweth his power by the night rains Caesar his magnificence by the pomps of the day These two Verses were very well liked and brought to the Emperours Majesty who took great pleasure in them and willed the Authour should be known A sausie Courtier pretended to be the man and had a good reward given him for the Emperour himself was not only learned but very munificent toward all learned men Virgil seeing himself by his overmuch modesty defrauded of the reward which an impudent person had gotten by abuse of his merit came the next night and fastened upon the same place this half Metre four times iterated thus Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis And there it remained a great while because no man wist what it meant till Virgil opened the whole fraud by this devise He wrote about the same half Metres this whole Verse hexameter Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honores And then finished the four half Metres thus Sic vos non vobis Fertis aratra boves Sic vos non vobis Vellera fertis oves Sic vos non vobis Mellificatis apes Sic vos non vobis Nidificatis aveâ— And put to his name Publius Virgilius Marâ— This matter came by and by to the Emperours ear who taking great pleasure in the devise called for Virgil and gave him not only a present reward but also held him ever after upon larger triall he had made of his Learning and Vertue in so great reputation as he vouchsafed to give him the name of Amicus which among the Romans was a great honour and special favour He made a Talisman or brazen Fly which he set upon one of the gates of the City Naples which for the space of eight years kept all manner of Flies from coming into the City Gaffarels Unheard of Curiosities Part. 2. Chap. 7. See more there The purity of his style and conceptions is generally known and the purity of his manners was once admired by those of Naples which for this reason commonly called him Parthenius Virgilius Latinae linguae columen vocatur à Servio Cicero cùm jam senex in hujus adolescentis opusculum incidisset de illo sic fertur augurasse Magnae spes altera Romae Campianus de Imit Rhetor. c. 3. Vitae Lives Diogenes Laertius hath written the Lives of the Philosophers in two Books There are the Lives of the Fathers illustrated with Notes by Rosweyde the Jesuite There are the Lives of many famous Romans written well by Plutark The Lives of Sophisters written by Eunapius There are the Lives of the Popes written well by Platina Vitae res gesta Pontificum Romanorum S. R. E. Cardinalium ab initio nascentis Ecclesiae usque ad Urbanum 8 um by Ciaconius The Lives of the Germane Divines Lawyers Physicians and Philosophers written by Melchior Adam The Lives of Cardinal Contarenus and Bembus by Iohn Casa The Life of Pinellus written by Paulus Gualdus Of Cardinal Pool written by Dudithius The Life of Calvin written excellently by Beza and the Life of Galeacius Caracciolus written first in Italian and translated into Latine by Beza and into English by M r Crashaw Of Iuel by D r Humfrie Of Whitaker by Abdias Asheton Of Whitgift by Sir George Paule Of Bernard Gilpin written by Bishop Carleton Of Sadeel by Lectius Of Gesner by Simler Of Bellarmine by Fuligat in five Books Iunius hath written his own Life Buchanan his Cardaâ— his And so hath Thuanus his in six Books Sir Thomas Bodlie also wrote his own Life and Bale Io. Annaeus Viterbiensis A Monk by profession who lived some two hundred years ago having attained to more then ordinary knowledge both of the Tongues and Histories applied himself by his knowledge and proficiency not to help but to cheat the world To that end he counterfeited divers ancient Historians of best note and greatest antiquity as Berosus Manetho Catonis Origines and the like which had not been heard of in many ages and wrote Comments upon them these passed so current for a long time that even to this day though descryed by divers learned men of all Nations and professions many can scarce perswade themselves that so many fine titles and shows should be but a piece of juggling Scaliger in his Elench Orat. Chronol Parei cals him Fanaticum Dominicanum And elsewhere in that Book he saith Ut doctior videatur mendacia sua auctoritate priscorum auctorum firmare conatur Propterea commentus est Myrsilos Xenophantas De aequivocis Metasthenes alios nescio quos qui aut non fuerunt aut ea non scripserunt quae planus ille eos scripsisse mentitur Got fridus Vitehergensis He was learned in the Hebrew Greek Chaldee and Latine Tongues and many vulgar ones He got himself a great name by his universal Chronicle which because it contains a History of all Princes and they are styled Gods in Scripture he named it Panthâ—on Vitellio He hath written excellently on the Opticks Iacobus de Vitriaco Anno Dom. 1220. There is his Praefatio in Historiam Orientalem Historia Hierosolymitana five Orientalis Ric. Vitus Basingstoch Hist. l. 8. cum Notis antiquitatum And other Works Io. Lud Vives Lewes Vives At the intreaty of Cardinal Wolsie leaving his own Countrey he came to Oxford where being incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law he continued in Corpus Christi Colledge whose Learning grew so famous that not onely many of the University but of the Court would flock thither to hear him reade the Greek Lecture in Corpus Christi Colledge Hall King Henry the 8. sometimes Si Latinae Linguae puritatem excipias bene literatus Steph. Epist. Dedicat. ad Aul. Gel. Noct. Attic. Ulphilas He lived under Valens the Emperour about the year of Christ 380. He was not Literarum Danicorum inventor as some say Olai Wormii Literatura Danica c. 6. 20. Ulpian a great Lawyer There are his Tituli Gisbertus Voetius A learned Dutch Divine Professour of Divinity at Utrect His Bibliotheca and his Book De Desperata Causa Papatus are very well esteemed His Selectae Disputationes Theologicae both first and second Part are of good use Raph. Volaterannus Anno Dom. 1500. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these
chanced one the rest looking upon to fall down by sudden death This Waldus being one of them who beholding the matter more earnestly then the other and terrified with so heavy an example Gods holy Spirit working with all was stricken with a deep and inward repentance whereupon followed a new alteration with a carefull study to reform his former life He admonished others also to repent and ministred large alms of his goods to such as needed Many people therefore daily resorting to him and he seeing them ready and diligent to learn he began to give out to them certain rudiments of the Scripture which he had translated himself into the French Tongue The Bishops seeing him so to intermeddle with Scriptures and to have such resort about him albeit it was but in his own house under private conference threatned to excommunicate him if he did not leave so to do He despising their Excommunication they ceased not with prison with sword and banishment to persecute him till at length they had driven both Waldus and all the favourers of his true preaching out of the City Whereupon came first their name and they were called Waldenses or Pauperes de Lugduno because they being thrust out both of Countrey and goods were compelled to live poorly whether they would or no. See Doctor Chalon Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam part 2. pag. 91 92 93 94. D r Iohn Wallis the learned Professor of Arithmetique and Geometry in Oxford and one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster There is his Grammaticâ— linguae Anglicanae Another Work in English Nich. Waltherus an eminent Divine in East-Frizeland He hath published Spicilegium Controversiarum 22. De SS Dei nominibus Officina Biblica Harmonia Biblica sive Conciliator locorum Bibliorum Harmonia totius Scripturae Iâ— Wamesius De Appellat Consilia Samuel Ward a learned and pious Divine There is his Magnetis reductorium Theologicum And divers English Sermons D r Samuel Ward Professor of Divinity in Cambridge His Gratia discriminans is an excellent Sermon and opposite to the Arminian Doctrine Sir Iames Ware He hath written De Scriptoribus Hiberniae Antiquitates Hiberniae Casper Waserus a learned Linguist He hath written De antiquis nâ—mmis mensuris Hebraeorum De nummis Ebraeis in usu Scriptor diligentissimus doctissimusque Selder uâ— De Iure Naturali Gentium l. 6. c. 17. Dr. Gilbert Wats a learned Englishman now living Gulielmus Watsius an English Divine whom Vossius in his Book De vitiis Sermonis often honourably mentions He hath translated Austens Confessions and added Notes to it Geo. Weiganmeierus There are these Works of his published Iustit Heb. Linguae per Tab. Abbreviat Hebr. in Com. Hebr. Abbreviat Hebr. explicatio Crinesius De Confas Linguarum c. 3. commends him for a most accurate writer and mentions him with Drusius Schindler Buxtorf as one of the most approved Grammarians of our age Mar. Frider. Wendelinus He hath put forth these Works Christiana Theologia Admiranda Nili Institutiones Logicae Contemplationes Physicae And some Theolog. Exercit. lately Io. de Wesalia See Foxes Acts and Monum Vol. 1. p. 948. There are his Paradoxa Matthaeus Wesenbecius was born at Antwerp Anno à Salute partâ 1531. a learned Lawyer Fuit Theoricus instructissimus practicus excellentissimus Melch. Adam in ejus vita Nostri seculi alter Papinianus conjunxerat ille verae religionis studium professionem cum juris prudentia Gryn Epist. l. 1. Epist. 11. Melchior Adam in his Life relates the manner of his conversion from Popery His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and Melchior Adam in his Life He made this Epitaph for himself before his death Matthaeus placidâ sopitus pace quiesco Iustitiae juris praeco Wesenbecius Vita mihi studium fuit impensique labores Et dolor gemitus assiduaeque preces Iova pater miserere mei miserere meorum Solius in Christi sanguine nostra salus Wesselus Groningensis otherwise named Basilius He preceded Luther he was excellently learned in Physick Divinity in the Greek Hebrew and Latine and therefore of the people he was called Lux mundi the light of the world whom Luther was wont to call his prodromus He demonstrated that the Pope was Antichrist whom the Disciples of Christ ought in no wayes to follow He wrote a Book De dignitate potestate Ecclesiastica in which book he saith That Subjects should be absolutely and simply bound to beleeve the Pope is so irrational and full of blasphemy that it is found more pestilent then any heresie whatsoever Being aged upon a certain time when a young man called M. Ioannes Ostendorpius came to him he said these words Well my childe thou shalt live to that day when thou shalt see that the doctrine of these new and contentious Divines as Thomas and Bonaventure with others of the same sort shall be utterly rejected and exploded from all true Christian Divines And this which Ostendorpius then being young heard Weselus to speak he reported himself to Noviomagus which wrote this story Anno 1520. and heard it of the mouth of the said Weselus Anno 1490. Foxes Act. and Monum vol. 1. p. 955 956. Vide Effig vit Profes Acad. Groningae Omlandiae Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Matth Westmonasteriensis Anno Dom. 1370. A famous Historian Elizabeth Weston a learned English woman commended by Ioseph Scaliger and Ianus Dousa She hath written a Book of Poetry called Parthenicon Angla vel Angelica es vel prorsus es Angelus immo Si sexus vetat hoc Angelus est animus So Dousa as I remember William Whateley a Divine well versed in the original Text both Hebrew and Greek a frequent and powerfull Preacher and whose Life was answerable to his Doctrine There are his Exposition of the ten Commandments A Care-cloath or Treatise of the Cumbers of Marriage Prototypes And some Sermons Deg. Wheare both learned and godly he was History-Reader in Oxford He hath put out a Book entitled De ratione as methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Where he reckons up the several Greek and Latine Historians and censures them and shews the method of reading them Abraham Wheelock He was the first Arabick Professor in Cambridge He hath put out Beda in Latine and Saxon with Notes D. William Whitaker a learned and pious Divine He was Master of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and the Kings Professor in Divinity Famous for his admirable skill in the Arts and Tongues and for his controversal Works especially his Confutation of Campian Sanders Paree William Rainolds Stapleton and Bellarmine That honour of our Schools and Angel of our Church learned Whitaker then whom our Age saw nothing more memorable What clearnesse of judgement what sweetnesse of style what gravity of person what grace of carriage was in that man Who ever saw him without reverence or heard him without
R. attenta in Sueciam cum clade urbâ—s Hulmiae Bernard Zigler Zoilus Iohannes Zonar as a Greek Monk he flourished Anno Dom. 1120. He wrote three Books of Annals in which he comprehended Universal History from the beginning of the world even to the death of Alexius Comenus Emperour of the Grecians who died Anno 1118. His History in Greek and Latine is in three Tomes Zosimus There is his History in Greek and Latine in six Books D r Richard Zouch a learned Civilian of Oxford There are his Elementa Iuris prudentiae Descriptio Iuris Iudicii feudalis c. The Dove of Cosmography Vigilius Zuichemus He had all those accomplishments which are required in a compleat Professour of the Law being very much versed in the Theory and practice of the Law He had an exact knowledge of the Circle of the Arts and of History he had skill in the Greek Latine the Germane French and Italian Tongues Theodorus Zuingerus His great Work entitled Vita humanae theatrum got him a great name Basilius Amberbachius hearing of his death broke out with sighs into these words Piget me vivere post tantum virum cujus magnafuit doctrina sâ—d exigna si cum pietate conferatur It irks me to live after so great a man whose Learning was great but small if it be compared with his piety Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Iacobus Zuingerus The Son of the afore-named Zuingerus His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam There is his Principiorum Chymicorum examen Huldricus Zuuinglius Anno 1487. As Germany admired her Luther so Helvetia her Zuinglius He was skilfull in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues though hard to be goâ— at that time using the best Professours he had a great memory being able to repeat Valerius Maximus and S t Paul by heart whose Epistles he had copied out He frequently disputed with both Papists and Catabaptists whereof Franciscus Lambertus then a minorite Fryer being one was as he thankfully acknowledged hereby reclaimed and became afterwards a great Light in the Church Stando confecit omnia sua studia certas eis vendicanâ— horas quas etiam non emisit nisi seriis coactus A summo mane ad horam decimam lectioni interpretationi doctrinae scriptioni dabat operam prout temporis rerum postulabat ratio Post prandium audiebat vel narrantes vel consilia rogitantes aut confabulabatur aut deam bulabat cum amicis usque ad horam secundam hinc etiam reditus ad labores Post Coenam ubi paulisper deambulasset fere literis scribendis vocabat interdum ad mediam usque noctem nihil agens aliud The Tigurins being compelled to warre against their enemies Zuinglius was slain in the battel It is the manner of Zurick that when they go forth in warfare the chief Minister of their Church goeth with them Zuinglius also of himself being a man of a stout and bold courage considering that if he should tarry at home and they should go by the worse what displeasure he should sustain as one that in his Sermons would encourage and himself faint when any danger was would needs take such part as others Sir Thomas More in his Preface to the Confutation of Tyndals Answer hath this bitter passage Zuinglius that first brought into Switzerland that abominable Heresie against the blessed Sacrament of the Altar was by the hand of God this year slain in plain battel against the Catholiques with many a thousand of his wretched Sect being in number to the Catholiques three against one and as proudly and with his malicious purpose invading them as ever did the Egyptians pursue the children of Israel His Works are published in four Tomes mentioned by Boissard After his body was cut first in four peeces and then consumed with fire three dayes after his death his friends came to see whether any part of him was remaining where they found his heart in the ashes whole and unburned FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABarbinel p. 105 His name is written several wayes The best Jewish Expositor and the time when he flourished ibid. Abbot Bishop of Salisbury 106 Which of his Works are best liked ib. Abelardus 106 Of great note in his time ibid. Abraham taught the Mathematicks first among the Chaldeans 40 Academies 65 How called now and heretofore ibid. Were alwayes built in some famous City ibid. Four weighty causes of them 65 66 Set up in many places 66 Acontius 107 Accursius 106 107 When he flourished 106 The first that wrote a Glosse upon all the Civil Law 107 Adrian the Emperour a learned Prince and great Grecian 107 Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman born at S t Albans 107 Kill'd with a Fly ibid. Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans son of Utrecht 107 A learned man ibid. Would not change his name when made Pope ibid. Thought to be poysoned ibid. Adversaria what 344. m. Aegidius Romanus when he lived 108 Aelian when he lived 108 His Books liked ibid. Paulus Aemylius of Verona an eloquent Writer 108 Spent thirty years about his History ib. Aeneas Sylvius after Pope Pius the second when he lived 108 Very learned ibid. Preferred a General Councel before the Pope till he was made Pope ibid. Ioannes Aepinus 108 Aeschines the Orator ibid. His contest with Demosthenes ibid. Aeschylus the Tragedian 109 He first published Tragedies and was slain by the shell of a Tortoise on his head ibid. Agapetus Diaconus a learned and holy man ibid. Agobardus when he lived 109 Rodolphus Agricola a great Scholler ibid. Verses made on him by Hermolaus Barbarus ibid. Georgius Agricola a learned man also ibid. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa a great Scholler but too much given to Magick ibid. Ainsworth a learned Expositor 110 D. Alabaster an excellent Poet ibid. Albategnius a famous Mathematician ibid. Albertus Magnus a great Scholler ibid. Leander Albertus a learned man ibid. Leo Bapt. Albertus a learned man of the same Family 110 Gabriel Albaspinaeus a great Antiquary ibid. His Epitaph ibid. Edmund Albertine a learned Protestant Divine ibid. Albon-Hall in Oxford 99 Alchimy what 52 53 Alchimists why obscure 206 Alcoran the word of God with the Turks 8 It is written in Arabick verse and stuft with fopperies ibid. Andrew Alciate the first that wrote learned Notes on the Civil Law 111 A very learned man ibid. Verses of him by Arias Montanus and Stephanus Paschasius ibid. Flaccus Albinius or Alcuinus a learned Englishman Schoolmaster of Charles the Great and one of the Founders of the University of Paris ibid. Was not Bedes Scholler ibid. Ulysses Aldrovandus hath written learnedly of all living Creatures 112 Hieronymus Aleander a very learned Cardinal ibid. Had a great memory ibid. Alexander the Great a great Scholler and Souldier both ibid. Aristotles Scholler ibid. He laid Homers Iliads still under his pillow when he slept 225 There were two learned Alexanders ibid.
learned and pious Divine 126 Baliol. Colledge 96 Balsac an eloquent Frenchman 126 Theodorâ— Balsamon one of the chief of the Greek Canonists ib. Dominic Bannes a famous Dominican ib. William and Iohn Barclay 127 Francis Barbarus a learned Venetian ib. Hermolaus Barbarus one of the great restorers of Learning ibid. Petrus Angelus Bargaeus a learned Poet ib. Peter Baro ibid. Gaspar Barlaeus a great Poet ibid. Caesar Baronius 127 128 Iustus Baronins changed his name ibid. Robert Baronius a learned Scotchman ib. Verses of him ibid. Gul. Sallustius Bartasse an excellent French Poet. ibid Gaspar Barthius a learned Germane ibid. Bartoluâ— de Saxoferrato a great Lawyer 129 Basil the Great 129. Why so called ib. Basil Bish. of Seleucia when he lived 129 Basil an University when founded 68 Dominious Baudius an elegant Poet 129 Bernardus Bauhusius made a Book of the Virgin Mary by changing one Verse a 1022 wayes 129 Martinus Becanus a learned Jesuite ibid. Christoph. Beckman a learned Linguist ib. Beda an Englishman the learnedst man of his time 130 Why called venerable 130 William Bedwell skilfull in the oriental Tongues 130 W. Bedle a learned Bishop of Ireland 131 Robert Bellarmine commended 131 William Bellay 132 Francis de Belleforest a learned French Historian 132 Petrus Bellonius 132 Peter Bembus a learned Venetian and Cardinal 132 133 R. Benjamin a famous Jewish Geographer ib. Antonius Benivenius 133 Paulus Benius 133 Berengarius a learned Frenchman the first that was counted an heretick for denying Transubstantiation ib. Bernard when he lived 133. A learned Writer in those obscure dayes 133 134 Philippus Beroaldus 134 Two Philippi Beroaldi both Bononians and of the same age and learned ibid Matthaeus Beroaldus both learned and pious ib. Bertramus a learned man 134 Bonaventure Cornelius Bertram a famous Hebrician 135 Bessarion made Cardinal for his Learning 135. He and two others brought Greek and pure Latine into Europe ibid. Xystus Betulâ—ius a learned Writer ibid. Theodore Beza commended 135 Bibles divers 136 137 Theodorus Bibliander a good Linguist 137 Gabriel Biel 137 Nicolas Biesius a learned Dutchman ibid. Hier. Bignonius 137 Eberardus Bilichius 137 Iacobus Billius Prunaeus a great Grecian 138 Thomas Bilney 138 Bishop Bilson rose by his Learning 138 Laelius Bisciola a learned Italian 138 Bilibaldus Pirkheimerus a great Mathematician 138 Peter Blesensis 138 Davil Blondel a learned French Divine 138 Flavius Blondus a famous Historian and Secretary to many Popes 138 Ludovicus Blosius a good Linguist 138 Iohn Boccace a famous Poet of Hetruria but too obscene 138 Trajanus Boccalinus an elegant Italian 139 Samuel Bochart a learned French Divine 139 Iohn Bodin a judicious Papist 139 Sir Thomas Bodly a great Scholler and prudent Statist 139 Skilfull in the oriental Tongues the great Founder of the publick Library at Oxford 140 His Arms ibid. Bisanson 86 Boetius Severinus when he lived and why called Severinus 140 He was a great Peripatetick slain by Theodoricus King of the Goths ibid. Iohn Bois a good Grecian and Divine 140 Hath published learned Notes on Chrysostom ibid. Daniel Bombergus a famous Printer who hath printed many excellent works 140 Bonaventure called a Seraphical Doctor 141 His Opuscula commended by Gerson 141 Alexander of Hales his Speech of him and when he flourished ibid. Why he was called a Saint by Thomas Aquinas though living and when he was canonized by the Pope 141 Franciscus and Lazarus Bonamicus 141 Books The benefit of good Books 30 D. Boot a learned Dutchman 141 His Works commended 141 142 Cardinal Borromaeus 141 Franciscus Bosquetus a learned Lawyer 141 He hath written a History of the French Popes ib. Henry de Bracton a learned Lawyer 142 Iohn Bradford a learned and holy Martyr 142 William Bradshew a learned Divine 142 Thomas Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury and Confessor to King Edward the 3 d 142 He opposed the Arminian Doctrine stoutly in those times 142 Henricus Brandius a learned and pious Divine 142 Tycho Brahe a Danish Knight a great Astronomer 142 Bredah 74 Edw Brerewood the first Astronomy Lecturer in Gresâ—am-Colledge 143 Iohn Brentius a learned Divine 143 Guido de Brâ—s a French Martyr 143 Henry Brigges a famous Mathematician and pious 143 Thomas Brightman a learned and godly Divine 143 Iohn Brinsley a learned man 143 Barnabas Brissonius the learned Chief Justice of France ib. Paschasius his Verses of him ib. Iohn Briton a great Lawyer 143 Erasmus Brockman a learned Lutheran 143 Ioannes Brodaeus a man of stupendious reading and incredible memory ib. Sir Robert Brook a great Lawyer 144 Hugh Broughton a great Hebrician and Grecian but injudicious and haughty ibid. Christopher Brower a learned man 144 Henricus Brucaeus a great Geometrician ibid. Fr. Lucas Brugensis a famous Popish Divine 144 Petrus Brunellus 144 Guil. Bucanus 144 George Buchanan a famous Scotch Poet and Historian 144 Verses of him ib. Martin Bucer a judicious Commentator 145 Abraham Bucoltzer a good Chronologer 145 Iohn Buckeridge 145 William Budy when and where born 146 He accused the Pope Bishops and Priests before Luther 145 Buchanans Distich and Paschasius his Verses of him 145 146 Io. Bugenhagius 146 Henry Bullenger 146 Henry Bunting 146 Aegidius Burdinus 146 Francis Burgersdicius 146 Paulus Burgensis a converted Jew 146 Walter Burley the Master of King Edward the 3 d. 146 Iohn Buridan 146 Burgundius 146 Part of his Epitaph ib. Robert Burhill 147 Anne du Burg a learned Lawyer and Martyr 147 Aâ—gerius Busbequius a great Embassador and learned man 147 Ioannes Busaeus 147 Iohn Buxtorf the Father and Son both learned Hebricians 147 C CAbbalistical Arts condemned 53 Iulius Caesar a great Souldier and Scholler 148 149 Thomas de Vio Cajetanus a learned and candid Popish Cardinal 148 Caius Colledge in Cambridge 53 Iohn Caius a learned Doctor of Physick 148 Taxed 100 101 Domitius Calderinus Veronensis a good Grammarian 149 Ambr. Calepinus 149 Georgius Calixtus a most learned man ib. Iohn Calvin a most learned and judicious Divine 149 150 Sethus Calvisius a learned Chronologer ib. Giraldus Cambrensis 150 Cambridge 100 101 102 Not founded by Cantaber 100 Nor Sigebert ibid. Bede read not there ibid. William Camden our British Pausanias 150 Ioach. Camerarius the great Light of Germany 151 Philippus Camerarius 151 Iohn Cameron a learned Scotchman 151 Io. Camers 151 Thomas Campanella 151 Thomas and Laurence Campegius 151 Ioannes Campensis 152 Edmund Campian a good Orator 152 Cane 85 Angelus Caninius a good Linguist 152 Henry and Peter Canisius 152 William and Theodore Canter both learned men 152 Melchior Canus a learned and ingenious Spaniard 152 153 Ierom Capivacceus or Capivacca a famous Professor of Physick in Padua 153 Iacobus and Ludovicus Capâ—llus both learned French men 153 Ludovicus Carbo 153 Ierome Cardane a great Scholler 153 George Carleton 153 Iohn Carion 154 Charles the Great why so called 154 Charles the 5 th and 9 th Kings of France 154 Nic Carpenter 155 Des Cartez 155 Dionysius
ib. Bishop Iohn Ieul commended ib. Iulian the Apostate a learned Prince 235 He scoffed at Christ and Christians ib. Franciscus Iunius a pretty passage between him and a Countreyman 235 236 Censured by D. Twisse and Thuanus 236 Francis Iunius his Son ib. Patricius Iunius ib. Fr. Iuretus ib. Christ. Iustellus a learned Protestant ib. Iustinian the Emperour commended ib. Verses by Melancthon of his Institut ib. Augustinus Iustinianus a very learned Bishop 237 Laurentius Iustinian ib. Leonardus Iustinianus there were three famous Orators of his Family ib. Iustin Martyr a famous Philosopher and Martyr ib. When he flourished ib. The ancientst of the Fathers except Clement ib. How he was brought to the faith and when he suffered Martyrdom ib. Iustin the Historian ib. Iunius Iuvenal the best Satyrist ib. Iuvencus Presbyter when he flourished 238 He comprized the Gospel in four Books of Verses ib. K BArth Keckermannus 238 Thomas de Kempis ibid His Book De imitatione Christi commended ibid. Iohn Kepler a famous Mathematician ib. Iacobus Kimedontius ib. R. David Kimchi a learned Rabbin and deadly enemy to Christians 239 R. Moses Kimchi ib. Athanasius and Conradus Kircherus ib. Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany ib. Iohn Knew stub a learned Divine ibid. Iohn Knox a learned Scotch Divine ibid. Had a prophetick Spirit ib. Albertus Krantzius a great enemy to Popery 238 His Speech to Luther ib. L LActantius Firmianus when he lived 240 Was poor ibid. The Christian Cicero ib. Why called Firmianus ib. Franciscus Lambertus ib. Dionysius Lambinus commended ib. Carolus and Iohannes Langius ib. Steven Langton a learned Englishman ib. Languages 54 55 56 57 Hubertus Languetus 241 Thomas Lansius ibid. Cornelius à Lapide low of stature 241 His Expositions â—xed ib. m. Ioannes Lascares ib. Bishop Latimer 242 Latine Tongue 63 64 65 Ioannes Latius or de Lâ—et 242 Iacobus Latomus Father and Sonne 241 Lud. Lavaterus by what Book he got himself a name 241 Io. Baptista Laurus 241 Iacobus and Gaspar Laurentius ibid. Law Civil and Canonical 44 Peter De Lawney 242 Wolfgangus Lazius ib. Learning It s excellency 29 30 Its usefulnesse 31 32 33 Whether humane Learning may saw-fully be used in a Divine Exercise 35 When abused ib. Some times and places favourable to Learning 35 Iac. Ledesma 242 Legend the golden Legend why so called and what it contains 242 Leiden 73 74 Leiptzige 70 Iohn Leland a famous Antiquary 242 Lavinus Lemnius ibid. Leo Hebraeus 243 Leo the first and the tenth Pope ibid Leo the Emperour 244 Ioannes Leo of Africa ib. Nicolans Leonicenus and Leonicus ibid. Leonardus Lessius ibid Lerida 96 R. Levi Ben Gerson 244 Io. Lewenclavius ibid Libanius ibid Liberal Arts 38 39 Library Some of the famous Libraries mentioned 244 245 Duncanus Liddelius 245 Fridericus Lideubrochius ibid D. Lightfoot ibid Liege 73 William Lilly 245 Thomas Linacer an Englishman a great Grammarian ibid Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford 97 William Lindan 246 Petrus Lindebergius 246 Linguists Some great Linguists mentioned 55 Lions 84 Aloysius Lippomanus 246 Iustus Lipsius commended and censured ibid Lisbone 90 Litorae variae 247 Thomas Littleton a great Lawyer ibid Edw. Lively Hebrew Professor in Cambridge a great Hebrician ib. Titus Livius a famous Historian ib. Loadstone its wonderfull vertue 50 Logick what it is 39 Aloysius Lollinus 248 Peter Lombard the Father of the Schoolmen ib. Why sirnamed Master of the sentences ibid. Commended ib. Dionysius Longinus a great Rhetorician ib. Christ. Longomantanus a great Mathematician ibid. Christopher Longoly where he was born ib. A great Ciceronian ib. He died young 249 Petrus Lorichius ib. Io. Lorinus ib. Lovain 73 Lucan and Lucian 249 Caius Lucilius ibid. Lucius the first Christian King of England 250 Titus Lucretius ib. Ludovicus Romanus ib. Raym Lullius ib. Martin Luther ibid What Verse Melancthon seeing his picture uttered ib. Other Verses of him ib. Commended ib. Beza's Verses of him 251 The Reformed Religion long before Luther 22 Lycophron an ancient and very obscure Poet. ibid. Thomas Lydiat a learned Mathematician ib. Lyranus Lyrator or de Lyra a learned Jew ib. When he lived ibid. He wrote learnedly upon all the Scripture ib. The Papists saying of him ib. M NIcholas Machiavell a great Historian when he lived 252 Ioh. Macovius a learned Divine ibid. Georgius Macropedius a learned Poet ibid. Caius Cilnius Macenus the patron of Learning ibid. Ioannes Petrus Maffaeus a very eloquent Italian ib. Raphael Maffaeus a learned man also ib. Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford 104 Magdalen Hall 104 Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge 103 Ferdinandus Magellanus 252 Magick condemned 52 Magistrate his power in matters of religion 25 Whether he may tolerate many Religions in one Commonwealth 25 26 Mahometism when it began and what it is 8 The reasons of its spreading 9 R. M. Maimon or Rabbi Ben Maimon or Maimonides famous among Jews Christians and Mahometans 273 Commended highly ibid. The Jews speech of him ib. m Why called Aegyptius and Rambam 253. m. Iohannes Major a famous Scotchman 253 Buchanans Verses against him ibid. M. Antonius Majoragins ib. Majorica 90 91 Maldonate a learned Jesuite and judicious Expositor on the four Evangelists 253 He was wronged by those that published his Works after his death ibid. m. Gulielmus Malmesburiensis a famous Historiographer 254 Io. Manardus ib. M. Manilius or Manlius ib. Baptista Faustus Mantuanus a learned Poet of Mantua ibid Verses of him ibid He discovered the abuses of Rome ibid. Aldus Manutius senior and junior 254 255 Paulus Manutius two of that name 255 Gualt Mapes a witty writer who discovers the vices of the Church of Rome ibid. Samuel Maresius a learned French Divine Professor at Groning ibid Ammianus Marcellinus when he lived Commended ibid. Io. Mariana a learned Jesuite ib. Maximus Margunus ib. Psalterium B. Mariae Bonaventure the author of it 256 Marianus Scotus ib. Augustine Marlorate a learned French Protestant-Divine ibid. Philip Marnix 256 Verses of him ib. Clâ—m Marot a French Poet ibid. Margarite Queen of Navar 257 Marsilius de Sancta Sophia ib. M. Valerius Marsialis a witty Poet but too obscene ibid. Matthias and Petrus Martinius ibid. Martpurge 71 Peter Martyr a learned Italian 257 Commended ib. Andreas Masius a great Linguist 258 Masorites 258 Christianus Maffaeus ib. Papyrius Massonius ib. Antonius and Petrus Matthaeus ib. Petrus Andreas Matthiolus ib. Mathematicks what they are and their excellency 40 41 How divided ibid. The most famous Mathematicians ib. Maximilian 259 Barthol Mayerus ib. Ioseph Mede 259 De Medicis that house a great favourer of Learning ibid. What they give for their Armes ib. Cosmi de Medicis ib. Laurence and Peter de Medicis ib. Iohn Michael and Barthol à Medina 260 Ioh. Henricus and Marcus Meibomius ib. Balthasar Meisner 260 Adolphus Mekerkus ib. Philip. Melancthon commended ib. What he wrote before his death 261 He was too fearfull ib. Paschasius his Verses of him ib. Andrew Melvin a famous Scotch Poet ibid.
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