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
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
what it is its Antiquity the true and false Religions the Reformed Religion and some Questions about Religion are also discussed The second Book is concerning Learning its Excellentcy Usefulness of the Liberal Arts the Languages Universities In the four last Books my intention was to speak of such as were Zealous for the true Religion or eminent for Learning either as general Schollers or peculiarly learned in any kinde As the Argument is double Religion and Learning and the persons double Religious and Learned so I should be glad if it might conduce any way to the advancing of the esteem at least of the true Religion and Learning to the setling of men in the true Religion and incouraging of them in all good Literature You have here a Catalogue of the famous Witnesses of Christ against Antichrist of the Champions for Truth the glorious Reformers and blessed Martyrs to win you to the liking of and constancy in the true Religion You have also here a roll of the famous Linguists and Artists the learned Lawyers Physicians Divines ancient and modern Protestants and Papists the learned Poets Philosophers Historiographers Orators learned men and women to allure you to a good opinion at least of Learning as that which is so many wayes usefull both to Civil and Christian societies I might here expatiate in the just praises of England for the purity of its Doctrine in Religion and also for the many learned Authors here bred and fostered But because I speak somewhat of it in the Book I shall be the briefer here As the Separation made by our first Reformers was most just for the Idolatry and Cruelty of the Romish Church Revel 17. 5 6. notwithstanding the great charge of Schism against us by the Romanists so the English have since the first Reformation here happily begun in the Reign of that pious Prince Edward the sixth and sealed with the bloud of many holy Martyrs in the dayes of Queen Mary maintained and countenanced that pure Religion which may fitly be called their Palladium England is celebrated abroad by the name of the ringing Island and it may justly ascribe the great fertility and plenty of outward blessings it enjoyes to the free entertainment it hath given to the Gospel and the true Professours of it But let us take heed of imitating Holland too much in an Universal Toleration of all Religions shall I say or opinions least what Baudius applies to them agree too fitly to us Sed vivimus hic non solum in regno libertatis verum etiam licentiae Baud. Epist. cent â— Epist. â—8 For learned men if there were Athenae Anglicae as there are Athenae Batavae and Belgicae and as Leland Balaeus Godwin of old so some judicious pen would reckon up the Viri Illustres of later times here in England I doubt not but there would be a great number of English Heroâ—s Pithaeus Praefat. in Quintiliani Declamationes reckons up many learned Frenchmen Archbishop Spotswood in his History of Scotland mentions many learned Scotchmen l. 1. p. 22 23. I shall endeavour to marshall up some of our English Schollers For the multitude of Divines and Preachers of this Nation I shall need to say little it being generally acknowledged that we herein surpasse the rest of the Reformed Churches The ancient great lights of our Church were Iuell Humfrie Fox Whiâ—gift Fulk Whitaker Rainolds Bilson Greenam Babington Eedes Holland Abbot Perkins Field Hooker Overall Willet White Mason Elton Randall Stock The later are Davenant Hall Morton Ward Bromwrick Boise Preston Stoughton Stbbes Goâ—ge Hill Reynolds Seaman Harris Vines Tucknie Strong Arrowsmith Martial Owen Goodwin Calamy Caryl Baxter Marshal Burgess Manton Blake For English Schoolmen I say enough in Merton-Colledge For Humanists Burton Farnaby For Linguists Hebricians of old Baines Pacie Wakefield Of later time Fuller Lively Broughton Ainsworth Grecians Downes Cheek Hales Sir Henry Savil Du Port. For Grammarians Linacer Grant For Historians Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster Huntingdon Gulielmus Malmesburiensis Sir Walter Raleigh Wheare For Logicians Brerewrod Crakanthorpe Sanderson For Poets of old Chaucer Spenser Ockland Of late Alabaster Serjeant Hoskius Herbert For Mathematicians Roger Bacon Iohannes de Sacro-bosco Brigges Lydiat Pell Oughtred For Philosophers Sir Francis Bacon Gilbert For learned Physicians D r Butler D r Harvy For learned Antiquaries Leland Camden Sir Henry Spelman Selden For Cosmographers Purchas Hues For learned women Queen Elizabeth the Lady Iane Gray and Weston Some may perhaps think it may savour of flattery for me to mention the living amongst the other learned men deceased Nam vivorum ut magna admiratio ita censura difficilis est Paterc Hist. l. 2. To that I answer Some of those Latine Authors which write of illustrious men speak of divers that were then living 2. Those that are well acquainted with my temper will not I suppose much charge me with adulation and the ordinary way of honourably mentioning Authors in quotations little differs from this I hope what I say in that kinde will incourage and not puff up any As I may through mistake insert some here who perhaps were neither eminent for Religion nor Learning so I hope no man will imagine that I take upon me to give so compleat an enumeration as to omit none that were too difficult a Province for me to undertake if the most here be such as will agree with the running Title I hope none will interprete it exclusively as if these alone were such I have cause to bless God that this Subject is profitable as those others I have formerly laboured in and hope that as they have been generally well-esteemed of for who can expect to please all so this likewise will be favourably entertained by those that are candid and judicious which is the desire of Thy Affectionate Friend EDWARD LEIGH The Names of such BOOKS as this AUTHOR hath Published 1. CRitica Sacra on the Hebrew of the Old Testament and on the Greek of the New Testament Fol. 2. Annotations on all the New Testament Fol. 3. A Systeme or Body of Divinity Fol. 4. A Treatise of Divine Promises 12 o. 5. Analecta or Observations on the twelve first Caesars 8 o. 6. The Saints Incouragement in Evil Times 12 o. 7. A Phylological Commentary or an Illustration of the most obvious and usefull Words in the Law 8 o. 8. A Treatise of Religion and Learning Fol. A TREATISE OF RELIGION AND Learning BOOK I. OF RELIGION CHAP. I. Of Religion in general RELIGION is the chief thing which distinguisheth a man from a beast the Elephant and some bruits have a shadow of reason but Religion is peculiar to men or reasonable creatures at least therefore Gesner as I remember saith the Pigmies are a kinde of Apes and not men because they have no Religion I Shall in the entrance to this Work shew 1. That Religion is 2. What Religion is 1. That it is Some of the Arguments which prove that
there is a God prove also that there is Religion for Religion gives God that honour and homage that is due unto him The working of Conscience proves that there is a God and it also proves a Religion The knowledge and sense of sinne is in all mens hearts the Heathens had their turpia honesta a great part of Religion lies in a kindly fear of sinne and the feare of punishment after sinne proves it also that there is some Religion 2. The flying to refuge in troubles and the praying also in straights Ion. 3. 6. is a proof that there is a God and also that there is a Religion 3. It bath been the practise of all people ever since the world was to use some religious Rites Abel sacrificed See Gen. 4. ult The most ancient Heathen Histories mention their Religion Plùtarch saith the first care their Lawgivers had was about their Gods and their Worship So all Nations acknowledge that there is a God and therefore to be worshipped Religion is the glory and excellency of Angels in that they adore him that is better then themselves it was the excellency of Adam in Paradise being the effect of the Image of God upon the soul. The Jews were once the only Nation whom God honoured by intrusting them with his Oracles Rom. 9. 4. compared with c. 3. v. 2. The imbracing maintaining and practising of the true Religion is the onely way to make a Nation or Person strong and peaceable 2 Chron. 11. 16 17. prosperous and plentifull in all outward blessings 2 Chron. 11. 5 12. 2 Sam. 6. 12. For those that honour God he will honour and those that despise him shall be lightly esteemed 1 Sam. 1. 30. 2. What Religion is Of the word The Hebrew word comes from a verb which signifieth to serve or worship see Iames 1. ult for Religion the Syriack interpreter hath a word which signifies service worship Austin and Lactantius derive the Latine word à religando it is the great bond to tie us to God and to man Others à reeligendo or à relegendo because by the often reading and choice of holy books Religion is learned Religion is either true or false The true Religion is that whereby we serve the true God and with true worship False religion is either that whereby either we serve the false god as the Romanes in times past or whereby we serve the true God with false worship as the present Romanes Religion may be thus defined It is an officious action debt duty worship or service inward and outward which God requireth and man is bound to perform according to his will by vertue of that bond whereby he is tied to God True Religion is the true service of the true God Morn de verit Christ. relig cap. 24. One saith True Religion is the right performance of those duties which we owe to the one onely true God The Antiquity of Religion It was in the beginning of the world We reade of Sacrifices offered by Cain and Abel and likewise the distinction of clean and unclean beasts The Christian Religion is now of some standing There are resemblances of all the gifts of man in the Beasts but none of Religion this is the chiefest perfection of man Azoriuâ— saith Religion is a Morall and not a Theological vertue for God is not the object of it but the honour and worship of God which Religion gives to the divine Majesty Rules to know the true Religion False Religions love obscurity but the true Religion setteth forth her doctrine to view The Mahumetans Turks and Persians have their service in the Arabick tongue which the people understand not The Jews reade in their Synagogues the Law and the Prophets in the Hebrew tongue whereas the most part of their people have but little or no understanding thereof The Papists have the Scriptures and their Liturgie in Latine 2. False Religion is loose but the true Religion requires strict and holy walking Iames 1. 26 27. Ea Religio praeferenda quae favet puritati sanctitati vitae Lessius Fornication was scarce a sinne among the Heathens Mahomet was dissolute himself and allowed his Disciples to be sensuall The Jews practise Usurie Abominable uncleannesse is permitted and practised at Rome 3. The Scripture is the only rule to judge of true and false Religions Deut 13. 1 2 3 4. 1 Thes. 5. 21. 1 Ioh. 4. 1 2. The marks of the true Religion laid down by Walaeus are 1. The true knowledge of the true God 2. A true way of reconciliâ—â— man with God 3. True worship of God Zanchy layes down these Theses 1. True Religion which is the same with piety consists in the true worship of God both externall and internall but especially in the internall 2. True Religion knowes and worships onely one God Exod. 20. 3. God will have no companion in his majesty and worship The wisest Philosophers and best Poets among the Gentiles thought the same as both Iustin Martyr and Clemens Alexandrinus and other Fathers have abundantly demonstrated 3. The true Religion worships God with no other worship then that which he hath prescribed viz. with true piety of minde Externall Rites Ceremonies Sacrifices which also are called worship in the Scripture are onely exercises of inward piety and therefore are so farre acceptable to God as they proceed from inward piety Christian Religion was planted by the power of God As it appears 1. By its speedy propagation Rom. 1. 8. Col. 1. 6. 1 Ioh. 5. 4. 2. All these things were foretold long since by the Sybils and Prophets 3. From the nature of the Doctrine of Christ the efficacy of his Doctrine and the authority of the Teacher What Doctrine did Christ and his Apostles use to perswade their hearers Give to the poor Give your cheeks to the smiter Do good to your enemies Deny your selves Take up your Crosse You must look for many afflictions and persecutions if you follow us O suasionem diffuasionis omnis undique plenam saith Facinus Yet Christ perswaded suddenly many and great men and the reason is given Mark. 1. 22. Christ taught with authority not as the Scribes and Pharisâ—es 4. From the sublimitie and symphonie and certaintie of the books of the old and new Testament Other Authors doubt and waver 1 Ioh. 1. 2 3. and 5. 9 10 11 12 13. 1 Ioh. 4. 13 14 15 16. 5. The purity of this Doctrine and the amplitude of the Promises These reasons and more are alledged by Marsilius Ficinus in his 8 th and 35 Chapters of his excellent book De religione Christiana The glory of a Religion lies in three things 1. The excellency of Rewards 2. The purity of the Precepts 3. The sureness of the principles of trust Let us examine the Christian Religion by these things and see if it can be matched elsewhere 1. The reward is the eternall injoyment of God in Christ Psal. 6. 11.
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
Lepidissimus nitidissimus Poeta Propertius Turneb Advers l. 8. c. 2. Prosper of Aquitane from his Country not the place of his Bishoprick as Baronius He wrote about the year of our Lord 450. Proverbs They shew the genius and wit of a Nation There are the Proverbs of the Grecians collected ex Zenobio Diogeniano Suidae collectaneis by Andreas Schottus Erasmus his Latine Adagies are full of Learning Amongst the Europaeans the Spaniards Italians French English Dutch excell in them Gruter hath put out Proverbia Italica Gallica Belgica Germanica Britannica For the Eastern people Erpenius hath put out two Centuries of Arabick Proverbs with his own and Scaligers interpretation and Levinus Warnerus a Century of Persian Proverbs with Notes Andreas Schottus hath put out Adagialia sacra N. Testamenti Gr. Lat. selecta atque ex posita Ioach. Zehnerus hath published also Adagia Sacra The Hebrews have two speciall wise Sentences as De Dieu in the entrance to Xaverius his Persian History of Christ observes Nullum foramen acus augustum est duobus amicis Nec satis latus est universus mundus duobus inimicis No hole of a needle is narrow to two friends nor is the whole world broad enough to two enemies Quemnam hominum diliges maximè Responsio Eum cujus multa sunt beneficia ergame quod si talis non detur contra quem sunt multa delictamea Whom wilt thou love best The answer Him who hath bestowed many benefits on me but if there be none such him whom I have much offended Aurelius Prudentius Anno Dom. 380. 393. Helvic A learned Spaniard one cals him the Christian Pindar He hath left many Poems witnesses of his piety and zeal to Christian Religion among which are those which he hath written against Symmachus Claudius Ptolomaeus A learned Aegyptian of a deep and long reach in the knowledge of Astronomy and other Mathematicall sciences He flourished under Marcus Antoninus Emperour of Rome There are three esteemed miracles of nature amongst the Learned Plato Aristotle Ptolomy which the Ancients especially the Platonicks adorn with three divers Elogies Plato is styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi supra sortem humanam Ptolomy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 admirandus to be admired to whom this is singular and plainly wonderfull that he alone or certainly alone after Aristotle hath published books in four divers faculties every one of which in its kinde may be esteemed the chief with posterity His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Ptolomaeus Philadelphus He was a great favourer of Learning and is famous for his magnificent Library at Alexandria of seven hundred thousand Volumes of which Antoine Du Verdier in his Preface to his Bibliotheque B. Usher in the first part of his Annals and Naudaeus Aduis pour dresser une Bibliotheque c. 3. make honourable mention Eryc Puteanus Claudius Puteanus the son of Clement a very learned man though he wrote nothing Iuvenis per quà m eruditus Lambine Claudius Puteanus Clementis filius juvenis bonarum artium ac litterarum studio inprimis deditus valdeque ingeniosus atque eruditus quae virtutes rarò in tali aetate reperiuntur egregiè cordatus continens temperans ac modestus Lamb. Comment In Aemil. Prob. vit p. 122. Ios. Scalig. writes to two choice young men Christopher and Austen Putean sonnes to Erycius and begins his Epistle thus Patrem vestrum charissimi adolescentes me non amisisse jam sentio quem video in vobis vivere Virtutes patrum tam rarum natis est exprimere quam patribus virtutum suayum ac morum exempla suis relinquere posse Samuel Purchas a learned English Divine our English Ptolomy There is Hackluitus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes containing an history of the World in Sea-Voyages and Land-Travels by Englishmen and others and his Pilgrimage inlarged with additions Gaudeat irriguus Ptolomaei nomine Nilus Ast Anglis primus sum Ptolomaeus ego Pythagoras the Philosopher He was born in the Isle of Samos and was one of the chiefest persons of Greece His Life is written by Iamblichus He was the inventer or at least a principall illustrator of the Mathematicks The Pythagoreans so honoured their Master that they were wont to alleadge him still in these two words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much to say we ought to beleeve it since he viz. Pythagoras said it There are his Symboles and golden words and golden verses Greek and Latine and Poems Greek and Latine CHAP. VIII Q JOhannes Quinquarboreus He was Professour of Hebrew and Chaldee to the French King in Paris There is his Chaldee Paraphrase with Scholia upon Ruth Lamentations Hosea Ioel Amos. Quintilianus Martial hath a whole Epigram of him it begins thus Quâ—ntiliane vagâ— moderator summe juventae Gloria Romanae Quintilianâ— Togae Mart. 2. Epig. 90. Iuvenall and Pliny the younger were his Scholers as Politian shews in his Preface to Quintilian CHAP. IX R RAbanus Maurus that famous Archbishop of Mentz Anno Dom. 840. and Scholer sometime to Alcuinus in Paris an English man he wrote a learned Commentary on all the Books of the Old and New Testament He was an excellent Philosopher Oratour Astronomer Poet Rhetorician and Divine Italy nor Germany scarce ever brought forth the like in Learning Franciscus Rabelaesus A witty but Atheisticall French Writer and Doctor of Physick Matthias Raderus a learned and diligent Writer He hath Commented on Martial and put out Viridarium Sanctorum and other Works Iacobus Raeuardus a great Lawyer Jacobum Raeuardum audeam cum I. Lipsio V. Cl. Belgii nostri Papinianum nominare ut qui cum priscis illis Iureconsultis ingenii doctrinaeque praestantia comparandus esse videatur Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica Georgius Ragusius A man of exquisite Learning and a curious siâ—ter of the truth in doubtfull points and a man of that integrity that having got great credit in the world for his skill among other things in Judiciall Astrology being convinced in his conscience as himself relateth that it was but meer coâ—zenage and imposture he made no scruple to make open recantation and wrote against it very learnedly D r Casaub. on Enthus c. 2. He hath written Peripateticall Disputations and two books of Mathematicall Epistles or of Divination Iohn Rainolds a learned and pious Doctor of Oxford Famous beyond sea as well as here He alone was a well furnisht Library full of all faculties of all studies of all learning the memory the reading of that man was near to a miracle D r Hals Dec. of Epist. Epist 7. Some much commend his Lectures upon the Apocrypha Others his Conference with Hart. Sir Walter Raleigh His History of the world is well esteemed Ralphe a Monk of Fulda All the hard questions were sent to him from divers parts of the world Petrus Ramus the Kings Professour in
Rhemist Testament and the Notes are well confuted by Cartwright and Fulk Casaubone hath written learned Exercitations against Baronius Bishop Morton Doctor Fulk and Whitaker have answered the Treatises of several Papists Rivet and Blondel and Moulin have answered Cardinal Peroon Bishop Usher Bishop Andrews Bishop Abbot Doctor Prideaux and others of our Divines have stoutly opposed other Papists The Reformed Religion is well defended by the English and French Divines Some much commend three Epistles that Epistle or Preface of Calvins to his Institutions That of Casaubons to his Exercitations against Baronius and that of Thuanus or Guicchardine before his History That of Calvins is a succinct and pithy Apology for the Protestant Religion Iâ—els Apology was generally liked by the Reformed Churches Daillè Croyus Blondel Iacobus Capellus Amyrot and Gentilettus have written in French or Latine in Defence of the Reformed Religion 4. They diligently compiled the Histories of those times and actions and especially Martyrologies of such as rendred by their deaths a testimony to that truth which was perfecuted in them As we ought highly to reverence the Fathers for their Antiquity so in our times we owe much respect to many famous Writers because by their most learned Labours they have given great light to the right understanding of the holy Scripture We have the same instruments which they had viz. the holy Scriptures and far greater help Zuinglius Luther Calvin all those learned men are to be loved and highly honoured as those that have well deserved of the Church their Books are also to be diligently read and to be preferred before the Volumes of many of the Fathers as those which have more truly interpreted the minde of the holy Ghost then the Fathers which have illustrated the Christian Doctrine brought out of darknesse with wonderfull perspicuity have comprized it with wonderfull brevity and explained it in an excellent method Zanch. Prolegom in Esaiam Illustres illi viri nec unquam sine summa honoris praefatione nominandi quorum Deus in religione restauranda opera usus est Upon the view of the Doctrine of the Church of England compiled by them in the XXXIX Articles translated into Latine in the dayes of King Edward the 6 th and sent abroad into the whole Christian world it was said abroad Puritas doctrinae viget in Anglia For the first ten years of Queen Elizabeth most of the Papists of England came to our Churches prayed our prayers heard our Sermons and received our Sacraments untill by the instigation of the Jesuites Pope Pius Quintus excommunicated Queen Elizabeth and enjoyned all the Papists not to resort to our Churches So they did in Ireland till 88 some Spanish Priests then landing there told them it was condemned in the Councel of Trent This is that Religion which since the first Reformation of it Anno 1. Edw. 6. above one and twenty several Sessions of Parliament as learned as wise as religious as ever were in this Kingdom have allowed and approved M r Baxter in his Confession of Faith Sect. 41. saith thus of the late Assembly of Divines at Westminster I so highly reverence that Assembly that I think this Nation since the Apostles dayes had never any that excelled it for Piety and Ability and Sect. 3. he much magnifies both the Confession of Faith and the Shorter Catechism put out by the Assembly I truly professe saith he Sect. 5. I take the Labours of the Assembly especially these three Pieces the Confession of Faith the larger and lesser Catechism for the best Books next my Bible in my study What Kingdom in Europe is there which hath not yielded eminent Scholars and famous Martyrs of the Reformed Religion France had Calvin Farel Viret Sadeel Daneus Marlorate Beza Mornee Chamier Rivet Peter du Moulin Daillè and many others Italy brought forth and cast out because it was unworthy of them Peter Martyr Zanchy also Immanuel Tremelius and Deodate Spain had Iohn Diaz Austen Cacalla and also other Martyrs Germany had Luther Melancthon Ioachim Camerarius and Chemnitius Zuinglius Oecolampadius Martin Bucer Wolfangus Capito Caspar Hedio Musculus Hyperius Foster Avenarius Mollerus Pezelius Helvetiae had Bullinger Gualter Pellicane Leo Iudae Aretius Wolfius Simler Bibliander Stuckius England was fruitfull of Martyrs and great Scholars Barns Rogers Cranmer Latimer Ridlie Hooper Philpot Haux Bradford Iuel Rainolds Whitaker Fulk Perkins Morton Davenant Twisse Prideaux and divers others Denmark brought forth Palladius Hemmingius and many others Polonia brought forth Iohannes à Lasco Servavit te huc usque Deus ut sicut Lutherus suae Germanias Zuinglius suae Helvetiae Calvinus suae Galliae ita tu tuae Poloniae sis Apostolus Zanch. Epist. l 2. ad illum Scotland was made famous by the Martyrdom of Patrick Hamilton and by the Doctrine of Iohn Knox and Robert Rollock Andrew Melvin Cameron Baronius Forbes This may suffice to answer that calumny of the Jesuites as if the Protestants had no Scholars amongst them The Papists call us Hereticks This was ever an old and cunning trick of Papists and their fore fathers if any did complain of their errours and faults and desired to have true Religion restored to condemn such for Hereticks as men new-fangled and factious They reproachfully nick-name us Lutherans Zuinglians Calvinists whereas we maintain not any private or proper Doctrine of theirs They called us in England heretofore Lollards either because they cried Lord Lord unto their God as M r Fox saith in his Acts and Monuments or rather from Lolium which signifies Cockle and such like weeds whereas indeed they endeavoured to extirpate all pernicious weeds And them in France Huguenots of which term see Thuanus his History Tom. 4. lib. 24. and Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 8. c. 55. I will not rehearse the several opinions about the original of that word because Heraldus a learned Frenchman saith Unde Huguenoti appellati fuerint nec nos ad huc satis liquido scimus Animad ad Arnob. adversus Gentes l. 1. As the Jews were in times past called by the Gentiles Sabbatarians in contempt the Christians Galileans by Iulian the Apostata so now they which imbrace truth of Doctrine began to be called Huguenots They term us those of the pretended Reformed Religion whereas it is truly Reformed according to the word of God They acknowledge themselves to be Papists and from the Pope and glory in the title Luther saith Primum oro ut nomen meum taceatur nemo Lutheranus sed Christianus appelletur They suffer Turks and Iews which deny and persecute Christ but put to death those of the Reformed Religion who believe in Christ. They say that the Heathens which had no knowledge of Christ by their morality may be saved and yet deny that Protestants who have a knowledge of Christ and exceed them in their morality may be saved Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-bishop of Spalato said
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
of Sussex Aunt to the renowned Sir Philip Sidney widow of Thomas Ratcliffe Earl of Sussex founded this Colledge by the name of the Colledge of the L. Frances Sidney Sussex It is much inlarged since by divers Benefactors Doctor Ward was Master there and M. Gataker Fellow CHAP. XIV Of the Universities of Scotland and Ireland THe learned men of Scotland have been these 1. Marianus sirnamed Scotus 2. Hector Boetius both Historians 3. Iohn Major a well known Schoolman Since the Reformation George Buchanan an excellent Poet. King Iames his Scholar and a good Poet also Napier the Laird of Marchiston Barclay the Father and the Sonne Iohn Skeine the Antiquary of this Nation Doctor Iohn Maxwell the learned Bishop of Rosse Rolloc Baronius Cameron Melvin The Universities I. Aberdein King Alexander with his Sister Isabella adorned this with many priviledges about the year 1240. Doctor Iohn Forbes was Professor of Divinity here Glasco It is honoured with an Archbishops See and an University founded here by Archbishop Turbal An. 1454. S t Andrews It is the chief Town of Fife an Archiepiscopal See and an University erected in the year after our Saviours Incarnation 1411. The University of Ireland THe Christian Faith was first preached among the Irish by S t Patrick The Irish Scholars of Patrick profited so notably in Christianity that in the Age next following Ireland was termed Sanctorum Patria that is the native Countrey of Saints and the Scottish Monks in Ireland and Britain highly excelled for their holinesse and learning Out of Ireland came Caelius Sedulius a Priest Richard Fitz-Ralf commonly called Armachanus is of famous memory who turned the edge of his style about the year 1355. against the mendicant Friers as detesting in Christians such voluntary begging Dublin or Divelin There is a beautifull Colledge consecrated unto the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity which for the exercising and polishing of wits with good Literature Queen Elizabeth endowed with the Priviledges of an University and it is furnished with a good Library Bishop Usher was born there and was the first Scholar of that Colledge Thus much of Dublin saith Camden in his Britaine for the most part of which I acknowledge my self beholden unto the diligence and learning of Iames Usher Chancellor of S t Patricks Church whose variety of knowledge and judgement are far above his years The End of the second Book THE THIRD BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION or any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. A ISaac Abarbinel a Jew of great note both amongst the Jews and Christians He is the best Expofitor of the Jews upon the Text. His Hebrew Comment upon the Pentateuch and Prophets are much esteemed by those who are so well skilled in the Hebrew that they are able to make use of them He hath Commented say some upon all the Scripture Some Jews of malice study to pervert all Christian Doctrine as this man Abrabbanâ—â—l or Barbanel a Rabbin of great pains and wit but not of grace and only to be followed when he clearly is on our side H. Broughtons Observat. upon the first ten Fathers Robert Abbot a pious and Learned Bishop His excellent Writings are much esteemed Some much commend his Book de Antichristo others his Answer to Bishop others his Treatise de gratia perseverantia Sanctorum He wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latine upon the Epistle to the Romanes with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day They who withhold this work from the publick view as they wrong the Church in generall so in speciall the City and Cathedrall Church of Worcester to which he bequeathed it as a kinde of legacy as the Authours own words in his Dedicatory Epistle to B. Babington printed with his Sermons upon the 110 Psalm import Petrus Abelardus vel ABAELARDUS a person of great note in his time contemporary with Bernard See Pasquiers Recherch de la France l. 6. c. 17. Two of the verses of his Epitaph are these Ille sciens quicquid fuit ulliscibile vicit Artifices artes absque docente docens Scripsit opera quam plurima in unum volumen edita opera Studio Francisci Amboesi equitis Abelfoedus a great Cosmographer Alpbonsus Tostatus Abulensis Episc. 1430. Had he lived in any other age save his own we should not have needed now to envy either Hippo for Augustine or Strido for Ierom nor any other of those ancient noble Worthies of the Church Possevine in his Apparatus saith that at the age of 22 years he attained the knowledge of almost all Arts and Sciences For besides Philosophy and Divinity the Canon and Civill Laws History and the Mathematicks he was well skilled in Greek and Hebrew Hic stupor est mundi qui scibile discutit omne He wrote so many Books and they not ill ones that the world computed a sheet for every day of his life Some conceive they meant after he came to the use of reason and the state of a man others say he wrote more sheets of paper then he lived daies It is related by a very credible Author Fr. Ximenes Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of all Spain that reckoning the daies that he lived from his first infancy untill his dying day you shall finde three sheets of paper that he wrote for every day He is styled Voluminous Abulensis or the Voluminous Writer Accursius He flourished in the year 1223 or as some say 1230. He was the first that wrote a Gloss upon all the Civil Law and as yet the last saith Genebrard in his Chronology Iacobus Acontius He hath written a book called Stratagemata Satanae See D r Cheinels Triunity Adrian the Emperour was a very Learned Prince and Facetious a great Grecian he was called by many Graeculus Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman he was bred and born at S t Albons Oft times in familiar talk with Iohn of Salisbury his Countryman he used these sentences To take the Papacy saith he is to succeed Romulus in murder and not Peter in sheep-feeding None is more wretched then the Romish Bishop neither is any mans condition more miserable then his Iohan. Salisb. de nugis aulicorum l. 8. His breath was stopt with a fly which entred into his throat Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans sonne of Utrecht He was a Learned man and Schoolmaster to Charles the 5 th who sent him to Rome to negotiate for him for the Popedom thinking thereby to sway much if he could get both the Swords but they chose Adrian who would not change his name as the custom is when he was made Pope Marcellus Cervinus being elected Pope also retained his name shewing that his dignity had not changed him See the Hist. of the Counell of Trent l. 5. p. 389 390. He
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
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.
hath written a fine Treatise De La Sagesse if he be not beholding to others for it Galfridus Chaucerus Ieffery Chaucer he was born in Oxfordshire He first of all so illustrated the English Poetry that he may be esteemed our English Homer He is our best English Poet and Spencer the next Praedicat Algerum meritò Florentia Dantem Italia numeros tota Petrarcha tuos Anglia Chaucerum veneratur nostra Poeta Cui Veneres debet patria lingua suas Lel. lib. Epig. He seems in his Works to be a right Wiclevian as that of the Pellican and Griffin shews He was an acute Logician a sweet Rhetorician a facetious Poet a grave Philosopher and a holy Divine His Monument is in Westminster Abbey Chaucerus linguam patriam magna ingenii solertia ac cultura plurimùm ornavit itemque alia cum Joannis Mone poema de arte amandi Gallicè tantùm legeretur Anglico illud metro feliciter reddidit Voss. De Histor Lat. l. 3. c. 2. Antoine de Chandieu a learned French Divine Beza highly commends his Book of the Marks of the true Church There are other Works also of his De l' unique Sacrifice Contre les Traditions Sir Iohn Cheek He was Schoolmaster to King Edward the 6 th and most skilfull in Greek and Latine He was Publique Oratour and Greek Reader in Cambridge In the discharge of the later he went over Sophocles twice all Homer all Euripides and part of Herâ—dotus Roger Ascham in the first Book of his Epistles speaking of him and Sir Thomas Smith saith Qui si adscribendum se dedissent nec in Sadoleto Italia nec in Longolio Gallia justius quam in istis duobus Anglia gloriata fuisset He was the first Regius Professour of the Greek Tongue in Cambridge as Sir Thomas Smith was of Law They were both Fellows of the same Colledge both Professours in the same University both Officers of State in the same Court both wrote De pronunciatione linguae Graecae They two especially by their advice and example brought the study of Tongues and other politer Learning first into request in Cambridge Under God Sir Iohn Cheek was a special instrument of the propagation of the Gospel and that religion which we now professe in this Kingdom For he not only sowed the seeds of that Doctrine in the heart of Prince Edward which afterward grew up iuto a general Reformation when he came to be King but by his means the same saving truth was gently instilled into the Lady Elizabeth by those who by his procurement were admitted to be the Guides of her younger studies In Henry the eighths time his friends and familiars were most of those worthy men which proved Reformers in King Edwards dayes and either Martyrs or exiles in Queen Maries His forreign acquaintance were Sleidan Melancthon Sturmius Bucer Camerarius Celius Peter Martyr and others great Scholars and good Protestants He went into Low-Germany Ut uxorem educeret saith Sleiden to fetch his wife from thence These words were corrupted into Uxorem duceret by Thuanus and others for he was married before In his return from Bruxwels to Antwerp he was apprehended by a Provost-Martial from King Philip and so conveighed speedily away to the Tower of London He was there by threatnings and other wayes brought to a recantation for which he was after much troubled and so died Sir Iohn Cheeks Works were Introductio Grammatices l. 1. De Ludi magistrorum officio l. 1. De Pronunciatione linguae Graecae Correctiones Herodoti Thucididis Platonis Demosthenis Xenophontis lib. plurimis Epitaphia l. 1. Panegyricus in nativitatem Edvardi Principis Elegia de aegrotatione obitu Edvardi 6 ti In obitum Antonii Dennei l. 1. De obitu Buceri Commentarii in Psalmum 139. alios An liceat nubere post Divortium lib. 1. De Fide justificante lib. 1. De aqua lustrali cineribus palmis ad Wintoniensem l. 1. De Eucharistiae Sacramento l. 1. Collegit in Parliamento argumenta rationes ex utraque parte super negotio Eucharistiae Libellus de damno ex seditione He translated also other things out of Greek into Latine and out of English into Latine Martinus Châ—mnitius A most famous and learned Doctor of Divinity in the Church of Brunswick His Harmony and other Theological writings are most profitable especially that excellent Work or rather most rich Theological Bibliotheque which contains both a Refutation of the Councel of Trent and also an Explication of the whole Doctrine of the Church to be read daily by all to whom the knowledge of the truth is welcome saith Neander Andreas du Chesne the King of France his Geographer He hath put out divers French Books Renatus Chopinus There are several Books of his Monasticon De Sacra Politia De Civil Paris moribus De domanio Franciae Privilegiis Rusticorum Panegyricus Henrici quarti and other Works Emanuel Chrysoloras of Constantinople He first brought back again the Greek Language after seven hundred years and Learning into Italy writing a Grammar and he stirred up the Europeans against Bajazet Pezel Mellif Histor. part 3. See Antoine du Verdier his Preface to his Bibliotheque He came to Italy under Boniface the 9 th and first taught at Venice then at Florence afterward he went to the Councel of Constance there he was put to death and was praised at his Funeral by Poggius his Scholar Petrus Chrysologns the golden spoken man He was Archbishop of Ravenna 450 years after Christ. His Works are in one Volume Iohn Chrysostome Anno Dom. 400. 398. saith Calvisius A Greek and Ecclesiastical writer a writer no lesse profitable then copious no lesse copious then sweet Quo nemo ex antiquis aut majore dexteritate scripturas tractavit aut populum docuit salubrius aut haereticos oppugnavit acrius quo nemo aut ad virtut is studia inflammavit vehementius aut vitia sui temporis insectatus est liberius Bois in the Preface to his Notes upon Chrysostomes third Tome Post sacra Biblia Paulinas imprimis Epistolas nullum novi scriptum in quo qui concionatores sunt Graece non nesciunt majore cum fructu versentur quam in beata Chrysostomi homiliis quas it a numeros as reliquit ut nemo plures it a bonas ut nemo meliores it a disertas dilucidas ut nihil ne excogitari quidem possit disertum aut dilucidum magis Bois ibid. The soundest Interpreter I think of all the Greek and Latine Fathers D r Hackw Apol. l. 5. The Christian Demosthenes Although he very well answeres his name yet he sometimes redounds with words and seems immoderate in digressions Eras. Epist. l. 28. Epist. 7. He doth excellently on the New Testament There is Opus imperfectum on Matthew in Latine of which there is nothing to be found in the Greek books of Chrysostomes Opus sine
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
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
senex optimè meritus de Ecclesia D. Farellus primus istarum partium Apostolus Calv. Epist. Bullingerus Calvino There is Beza's Epigram In tres eximios aetatis nostrae Ecclesiastas Gallia mirata est Calvinum Ecclesia nuper Quo nemo docuit doctins Est quoque te nuper mirata Farelle tonantem Quo nemo tonuit fortius Et miratur adhuc fundentem mella Viretum Quo nemo fatur dulcius Scilicet aut tribus his servabere testibus olim Aut interibis Gallia Fasciculus Temporum A Book full of complaints against the Popes and grosse things in Popery The Fathers They were eminent for Learning holinesse of life and eloquence Antiquos Patres nos amplectimur ita accipimus ut nec sine justa evidenti ratione ab uno pluribusve nec ad unanimi ipsorum consensu unquam in causis fidei dissentiamus Crak Log. l. 4. c. 26. In the division of the Decalogve four precepts and one of those about not worshipping Images are rehearsed in the first Table by Philo Iosephus Origen Athanasius Ierome Gregory Nazianzen Chrysostom but six in the second Only Austen propter Trinitatis mysterium puts three in the first Table and seven in the second dividing the last precept into two and referring the second which forbids worshipping of Images to the first D r Daniel Featly a learned Divine and a most acute Disputant as his Grand Sacriledge several Conferences and Answers to the Papists and other Works shew Minutius Felix an eloquent Father Lucius Fenestella a famous Historian of whom Plinie Plutark Gellius make mention He lived in the time of Tiberius Caesar. Dominicus Floccus Florentinus was the Author of the little Book De Magistratibus Sacerdotiis Romanorum ascribed to him Dudlie Fenner a learned Divine Thomas Cartwright and Walter Travers were his Scholars There is his S. Theologia methodicè digesta and several English Tracts His Commentary on the Canticles The order of Houshold Government An Interpretation of the Lords Prayer An Interpretation upon the Epistle to Philemon A short Table orderly disposing the principles of Religion out of the first Table of the Law A Treatise of the Sacrament A profitable Treatise of lawfull and unlawfull Recreations Art of Logick and Rhetorick plainly set forth with examples for the practice of the same c. Answer unto the Confutation of the Recantation of Iohn Nicols especially in the matters of Doctrine of Purgatory Images c. Ioannes Fernelius a learned French Physician to Henry the second of France Medicinam universam doctissimis politissimis scriptis complexus est Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 21. Arnoldus Ferronus Iohn Ferus He is no suborned or counterfeit Authour but the famousest Preacher that was in Mentz or in Germany in all his time His Commentaries upon Iohn were eight times at least printed in ten years Crashaws Prolegom to the English Papists before his Romish Forger and Falsificat Iacobus Fevardentius That railing Franciscan answerable to his name Ioannes Fichardus He was born at Francford ad Moenum Anno 1512. Decus ornamentum eorum quibus cumvixit patriae imò Germaniae totius saeculi sui Boissardi Icones He hath written De vitis Iurisconsultorum recentiorum and other Works mentioned by Boissard Marsilius Ficinus of Florence a famous Philosopher Physician and Divine He wrote many excellent Works Tu Platonem quanquam alios veteres sed Platonem tamen ipsum maxime Platonicosque omnes Latinè loqui doces uberrimis Commentariis locupletas Polit. Epist. l. 9. Ep. 13. Polit. Marsil Fic Eo saltem facto meritus ut qui tot clarorum virorum memoriam in occulto latere passus non est ipse quoque oblivioni minimè sit tradendus Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Richard Field a learned Divine He hath written learnedly of the Church and in defence of such parts of his Book as have been excepted against Thomas Fienus a very learned Physician who hath published a very rational and scholastical Treatise Concerning the Power of the Imagination Io. Filesacus a learned Writer as his Books shew Opera varia De sacra Episcoporum auctoritate De Idololatria De Politico legitimo Principis cultu Comment Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester Vir singulari pietate eruditione Eras. Epist. l. 290. Epist. 42. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert His Abridgement was painfully and elaborately collected and published in the 11 th year of K. Henry 8. by him then Serjeant at Law and he wrote also another Book called his Natura brevium an exact Work exquisitely penned and publishin the 26. year of Henry 8. When he was Knight one of the Judges of the Court of Common-pleas about the same time he wrote his Treatise of Justices of the Peace L. Florus He lived in the Raign of Trajane and Hadrian Ubertus Folieta He hath published divers Works One De Latinae Linguae usu praestantia And Clarorum Ligurum Elogia Patrick Forbes a learned Scotch Divine Iohn Forbes his Son He put out Instructiones Historicae Theologica a Book well esteemed of and Irenicum Iohn Ford or Foorth a learned English Divine He hath written several Works Synopsis Politica In Apocalypsin The Necessity and Antiquity of catechizing and on Heb. 6. 1. The Covenant between God and man Franciscus Forerius He said as much as possibly could be said in the Defence of the Vulgar Translation altering the Hebrew Vowels for this purpose at his pleasure yet it seemeth the errours discovered by him in his Comment upn Esay hath hindered the setting forth of his other Commentaries upon the Prophets which he had finished as appears by the later part of his Epistles to the Trent Fathers so the Church would have approved them D r Iackson on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 31. He that wrote the Spanish Bibliotheque in the second Tome saith He is said to have written besides that on Esay which I have not seen upon the other greater Prophets the twelve lesser Iob Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles Sixtus Senensis saith He wrote upon all the Prophets Petrus Forrestus a learned Physician He read the first Lecture in Physick and made the first Oration for its praise in the University of Leyden then restored He hath published many learned Works CHAP. XX. JOannes Forsterus He was Professour of the Hebrew Tongue at Wittenberg and very much illustrated and amplified it with a Lexicon published at Basil in folio Sir Iohn Fortescu◠an excellent Antiquary and of profound knowledge in the Common-Law He hath written a book De laudibus Legum Angliae This Book was written in the Raign of K. H. 6. in commendation of the Laws of England containing with all much excellent matter worthy the reading Iohn Fox sometime exile for the profession of the Gospel that Saint-like Historian M r Fox D r Hall He studied
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
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
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
Verses of him De Volaterrano paucis sic Lector habeto Ille sui Plinius temporis alter erat Melchior Volmarus Beza's Master He was most studious of Elegancy in the Latine Tongue so skilfull in the Greek that he affirmed before his Duke of Wittenberge Malle se causam in foro Gaece quam Germanice agere quamvis ea lingua sibi vernacula esset yet he was so modest that though he excelled in writing Greek and Latine yet he published nothing but a very elegant Preface to the Greek Grammer of Demetrius Chalcondylas Conr. Vorstius He was learned but Heretical Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Gerard Iohn Vossius Professour of Eloquence Chronology and the Greek Tongue at Leiden and Prebend of Canterbury in England He was an excellent Grammarian and general Scholler One of the greatest Lights of Holland He hath written learnedly almost of all the Arts of Idolatry his Theological Theses are good His Treatise De Theologia Gentili c. is full of Learning Rivet often commends him Ego certè ita sentio neminem inter Theologos nostros repertum fuisse qui minùs jurarit in verba cujusquam magistri qui aliorum sententias aequiùs expenderit qui veritatis diligentior fuerit indagator And. Rivet Apologet. pro vera pace Eccles. His Historia Pelagiana is most disliked Our Arminians * most depend upon him touching the Authority of the Ancients Bochart Geograph Sac. l. 2. c. 17. saith thus of his Book De Historicis Gracis Opus mira eruditionis ex cujus lectione nos profecisse non parum ingenuè profitemur Urbanus VIII Papa a good Poet he published some Poems There is Naudaei Panegyricus dictus Urbano VIII Pont. Max. Ob beneficia ab ipso in magistrum Thomam Campanellam collata Fulvius Ursinus a most learned Antiquary Optimè de omni meliore Antiquitate apud bonos omnes promeritus Pignor. Symb. Epist. Epist. 18. Celebris ille antiquitatum vindex Uâ—sinus Fulvius Scriv. Animadvers in lib. 10. Mart. There are his Notae in Polybium Dionysii Halyc 〈◊〉 Appiani Diodori Siculi Dionis fragmenta Notae in Tacitum Paterculum Notae in Historices veteres Appendix ad lib. Petri Ciaconii de Triclinio De Faemiliis Romanorum Zachary Ursin a learned and solid Divine He was born at Uratislania the Metropolis of Silesia one of the fairest Cities of Germany in the year of Christ 1534. His Works put out since his death are all collected together and distinguished into three Tomes Conr. â Liechthena Abbas Urspergensis Anno Dom. 1202. There is his Coenobii Chronicon Iacobus Armachanus Iames Usher Bishop of Armagh The hundredth Archbishop of Armagh from him whom some call S t Patrick as Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury told Queen Elizabeth he was the seventieth Archbishop of Canterbury from Austen the Monk Antiq. Brit. He hath a great name deservedly amongst the Reformed Churches for his skill in Ecclesiastical Antiquities his stout Defence of the Orthodox Religion frequent and powerfull preaching and unblameable Life and is likewise famous for his great Abilities with the Papists themselves though yet he be accounted haereticus primae Classis in their Index Expurg Fitz Simonds with whom he disputed about the Popes being Antichrist and was too hard for though the Bishop was then very young in one of his books saith he is Acatholicorum doctissimus And Moranez in his Anti-Iansenius Disp. 11. Sect. 2. hath these words Hanc divinationem de Haeresi Praedestinationis non ipse primus excogitavit sed à Lutheranis Calvinistis ejusdem haeresis recoctoribus accepit praecipuéque à Jacobo Usserio iusigni Calvinista Hyberno qui ann 1631. librum edidit Dublini hoc titulo inscriptum Gotteschalci c. Quo libro probandum suscipit eos qui pro Praedestinatianis haereticis habentur non alios fuisse quam doctrinae Augustinianae defensores Ad quod persuadendum iisdem utitur conjecturis argumentis quibus Jansenius ut recte notavit Antonius Ricardus l. 1. Disputat de lib. arbit c. 1. Sect. 6. relatiâ— utriusque verbis Neque onim sensum duntaxat sed verba fere ipsa transcripsit Jansenius Neque tamen quod aequum erat ullam ejus mentionem facere dignatus est He first got himself a name in the Church by that first and excellent Book of his De Christianarum Ecclesiarum successione statu His Book De Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Primordiis Vossius De vitiis Sermonis c. 10. cals laudatissimum opus and it is generally well esteemed wherein he sifteth to the branne the Brittish Churches Antiquities His other Latine Works are Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge Ignatianarum Epistolarum Sylloge Ignatiana Appendix De veterum Symbolis Annalium pars prima secunda Epistola ad Ludovicum Capellum De anno veterum Macedonum Syntagma de Editione LXX Interpretùm Dissertatio de Cainane His English Works Answer to a Jesuites Challenge The Religion of the ancient Irish and Brittish A Speech in the Starre-Chamber of the Kings Supremacy Two Sermons one before the King another before the Parliament A Treatise of the Incarnation of Christ. A Treatise of the Original of Bishops and Archbishops What Asia is that mentioned in the New Testament Carolus Utenhovius He was skilfull in the principal Languages Hebrew Greek Latine and also in the Germane French Italian English His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Bonaventura Vulcanius Brugensis He was the Greek Professour at Leyden Vir de bonis litteris optimè meritus Pignor. Symb. Epistol eruditissimo suâ— de literis linguâ Gothorum Commentariolo Olai Wormii literatura Danica c. 6. His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life CHAP. VII W LUc. Wadingus There are his Annales minorum in five Volomes in Folio there he speaks of all learned Fryers of that order He is much esteemed now at Rome Sir Isaac Wake The University Orator in Oxford There is his Rex Plaâ—onicus or Musâ— regnantes An Oration at the Funeral of D r Rainolds Robert Wakefield a learned Hebrician of our own He wrote Institutio Gramaticae Hebraeae De laudibus linguae Hebraeae De Hebraeorum câ—dicum incorruptione Paraphrasis in Ecclesiasten cum Praefatione Richardi Pacei Orationes quâ—dam cum aliis opusc Antonius Walaeus He was an orthodox and solid Divine as his several learned Works in one Volume in Folio shew Waldenses Our Historians confound the Albigenses and Waldenses though some learned men hold they are to be distinguished The Waldeâ—ses are famous for their Antiquity Universality and Innocency The first original of the Waldenses came of Waldus a man of great substance in the City of Lions About the year of our Lord 1160. divers of the best of the City of Liâ—nt talking and walking in a certain place after their old accustomed manner especially in the Summer time conferred together upon matters Amongst whom it
wonder B. Halls 1. Dec. of Epist. Ep. 7. All his Works are in one Volume Ieremy Whitaker my worthy friend a learned and pious Divine of the Assembly lately dead who was a man mighty in the Scriptures of a humble melting Spirit laborious in his ministerial function zealous for Gods glory and wonderfully patient in all the time of his heavy affliction D r Iohn White He hath written the way to the true Church and a Defence of the same which Book is well esteemed Thomas White an English Papist Books written by him Three Dialogues De mundo Institutiones Peripateticae ad mentem Digbaei Institutiones sacrae in 2. Tom. Quaestio Praevia mens Augustini de Gratia De Medio animarum statu Meditationes in Gratiam Sacerdotum Cleri Anglicani Richworths Dialogues or the judgement of common sense in the choise of Religion A Catechism in Religion Meditations in English A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love and A Descant on the Prayer in the Garden Obedience and Government Tabulae Suffragiales by which it appears he wrote a piece called Sonitus Buccinae which was condemned at Rome by the Cardinals Iohn Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury He had an Uncle called Robert Whitgift Abbot of the Monastery of Wellow in Lincolnshire who teaching divers young Gentlemen took like pains also with him In which time as he was pleased often to remember he heard his Uncle the Abbot say That they and their Religion could not long continue because said he I have read the whole Scripture over and over and could never finde therein that our Religion was founded by God And for proof of his opinion the Abbot would alledge that saying of our Saviour Matth. 15. 13. Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out He never preached but he first wrote his Notes in Latine and afterward kept them during his Life There were several writings between him and Thomas Cartwright about the Ceremonies CHAP. VIII IOhn Wicliff a most incomparable Schoolman He followed William Ockam much he is often quoted by him and styled Inceptor Ockam Iohn Hus was his Scholar he brought his Books and Doctrine into Bohemia He being the publick Reader in the University of Oxford was for the rude time wherein he lived famously reputed for a great Clerk and expert in all kinde of Philosophy He flourished about the year of our Lord 1371. Edward the third reigning in England He was called Doctor Evangelicus He was born in the North and to this day some of his name and family do there yet remain to whom I am allied He was brought up in Merton Colledge in Oxford and removed thence to Queens Colledge He was beloved of all good men for his good life and greatly admired of all his adversaries for his Learning and knowledge both in Divinity and humanity He was Doctor in Divinity almost thirty years and for some time Parson of Lutterworth in Leicestershire See Camden there Divers Works of his in written-hand remain in our Oxford-Library He translated the whole Bible into English with Prefaces and Arguments to every book In his Trialogus or Body of Divinity l. 4. c. 7. he saith Ideo si centum essent Papae omnes fratres essent versi in Cardinales non deberet concedi sententiae suae in materia fidei nisi de quanto se fundaverit in Scriptura He also saith Papa est abominatio desolationis in abstracto And Ch. 36. Olim Episcopi nostri dicuntur pseudofratres tanquam Diabolos odivisse cum in tempore Domini Armachani dicuntur ipsum in sumplibus contra hos pseudo ordines defendisse Sed modo facti sunt amici Herodes Pilatus qui prius inter se fuerant inimici There is also his Dialogus and De Veritate Scripturae and divers other Manuscripts of his well worthy the publishing Yet he had his errours lib. 2. of that Book cap. 10. he saith Angelos adoramus See those Scriptures against that opinion Deut. 4. 19. 17. 3. Col. 2. 18. Apoc. 9. 10. 20. 8 9. He grants Purgatory also l. 4. c. 22. of that book Yet he was the first saith Bale who in that dark age brought truth to light and was bold openly to confesse Christ before the whole Synagogue of Satan and to reveal the filthinesse of the great Whore Fuit Wicleffus sectarius plane nostrorum hodie Evangelicorum vervex fuit omnium quae tam longe latéque grassantur haeresion seminarium Harpsf Praefat. ad Histor. Anglic. Eccles. Roger Widdrington a learned School-Divine as his Works both in English and Latine shew His right name was Preston for Widdrington was a plain illiterate man He and Blackwell took the Oath of Allegiance He wrote to the Pope and earnestly beg'd of him that the Papists here might take that just Oath of Allegiance â—o the King and refuted Bellarmine who opposed it with strong reasons This Oath viz. of Allegiance according to every part and parcel of the same may be lawfully taken by any Catholick as have averred both M. Widdrington Sir William Howard and others Widdrington in his New-years-gift hath sufficiently proved that besides the authority of many famous Divines it was the opinion of the chiefest secular Priests in England Doctor Featleys Animadvers on Vert. Rom. Albertus Widmanstadius a famous man and well skilled in the Orientall Tongues He was Chancellor to Ferdinand the wise Prince of the Romans and by his commandment and great liberality was imployed in the Edition of all the New Testament in Syriack in a fair character save the * Apocalypse and four Epistles the 2 d of Peter the 2 d and 3 d of Iohn that of Iude which Work was generally much esteemed by Christians Ioannes Wierus a learned Germane Some commend his Book De praestigiis Daemonum for a most learned and elegant piece Io. Wigandus He was born at Mansfield Anno Christi 1523. Many years before his death he made this Epitaph for himself In Christo vixi morior vivoque Wigandus Do sordes morti caetera Christe tibi The sayings of the Scripture with which he sustained himself against temptations on his death bed were these Ioh. 3. 16. Mat. 11. 29. 1 Ioh. 1. 7. The bloud of Iesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin He left many Works which are mentioned by Melchior Adam Andrew Willet A laborious godly Divine He printed thirty three Books Nigellus Wireker an ancient Poet. He largely toucheth the corrupt living and hypocrisie of his time chiefly in Bishops Priests Abbots Monks Canons and Nuns His Book is all in old Latine Verses and is named Speculum stultorum the glasse of fools that every dissolute Prelate might behold his folly therein Ralph Winterton Greek Professour in Cambridge There are his Observations on Hesiod printed with the minor Greek Poets And he hath translated some others Io. Wolfius Anno Christi 1537. He was born at
〈…〉 ters saâ—th Paul to the learned and unlearned Zanchius in his second Oration De conservando in Ecclesia pâ—ro puto Dei verbo shews That there are only three necessary causes which happen but seldom for a good Preacher extra limites S. literarum per scripta Poetarum Philosophorum aut etiam Patrum evagari either by reason of the obstinacy of hereticks which being not satisfied with the Scriptures are to be convinced with other reasons and testimonies or for the calumnies of the malevolent which it is necessary to refell with other testimonies then those of the Scriptures or lastly by reason of the infirmity of some weak brethren which cannot be a holly divorced from their old superstitiâ—â— and be setled in the truth delivered unlesse the same be also confirmed by the â—â—stimonies of the ancient Fathers The Apostle Paul thrice indeed ciâ—â—th the sayings of profane Poets because they were fiâ— for the matter which he handled but be neither names the Poets neither did he do it often saith he nor without good reason but only mentions some short speeches of theirs seldom soberly and as it were obiter being compelled thereto that the Gentiles by the sayings of Gentiles might be convinced Therefore the Fathers do not so use the sayings of Philosophers and Poets in their Homilies to the Church as in their disputations and books against the Heathens Basilea omnibus temporibus produxit viros doctrinâ— sapientia arque eloquentia maximos Neand. Geograph parte 12. Prodierunt ex Sicyone quemadmodum Athenis multi viri praestantes in omni artium ac doctrinarum genere Id. ibid. Qui tres postremi ex ordine praedicatorum Monachi doctissimi fuere Leand. Alb. Descript. tot Ital. in Campania Aërem urbs permollem placidiâ—â—imum habet agrum jucundissimum quae scilicet multis olim Romanis Imperatoribus virisque Senatoriis at from literarum studiosis huc animi quietiâ—que causa secedendi occasio fuit Id. ibid. Vide plura ibid. Ars est rei cujusque scientia usu vel traditione vel ratione praecepta tendens ad usum aliquem vitae necessarium Bibliand de rat Comm. omnium liâ—g Ars est collectio universalium praeceptorum parata ad cognoscendum agendum vel operandum in certa aliqua finis latitudine Ludâ—v Viv. de tradend Discip. lib. 1. * Consolatione ad Marciam cap. 18. Gen. 4. 21 22. The knowledge even of mechanical Arâ—s ought to be referred to God the Aâ—â—â—our as the very Gentiles by the light of Nature were forced to confesse and the Scripture witnesseth in the builders of the Tabernacle of Moses and of Solomons Temple Artes ingenuae seu liberales idcirco appellatae sunt quod libero ac ingenuo sint homine dignae sive quòd liberos suos sectatores efficiant in fastigio rerum humanarum quasi reges collocent reponant Cael Secund. Cur. Orat. de ingenuis artibus Latini artes vocant liberales tanquam libero homine dignas Voss de Philol. cap. 1. Sunt artes universae in duo genera distriâ—uâ—ae in Logicas Mathematicas Logicas appellarunt quae in sermonis ratione versantur Mathematicas in quâ—nâ—irate Quantitatis autem duplex genus fecerunt aliud dejunctum aliud conjunctum Dejuncta ad numeros pertinent ex quibus ea disciplina manavit quam Arithmeticen dixereâ— Quemadmodum ex conjunctis Geometria in qua lineamenta formae intervalla magnitudines versantur Porro numeri ipsi ad harmoniam translati Musicem pepererunt ea enim numeros voces modos conâ—inet Geometriae facultas ad res coelestes accommodata nobis dedit Astrologiam in qua Coeli conversio ortus obitus motúsque siderum considerantur Rursum eadem ipsa Geometria ad vim cernendi traducta Opticen produxit quae causas affert cur oculi interdum vivendo decipiantur cùm aut majores aut minores quà m sint res esse videantur Ex hac vero ipsa Geometria pingendi ars orta videtur quam veteres inter liberales numerabant Coelii Secun Cur. Orat. de ingenâ—art * Advancem of Learning l. â— cap. 1. Qui autores in singulis artibus legendi sint In Grammatica Diomodes Pâ—râ—ttâ—â— Valla in Dialectica Aristoteles in Rhetorica Cicrâ— Fabiâ—â— praecipui In Astronomia legendi Proclus Aratus nam apud Latinos pauci de ea docte scripsere Si altiora spectes adjungere potes Ptolomaeum In Astrologia Iulius Firmicus qui caeteris elegantius verius artem tradidit In Cosmographia Ptolomaeum In Geographia Pâ—mponâ—um Melam In Geometria Euclideâ— censeo perdiscendos Ringâ—â—â—ergiuâ— De ratione studii Grammatica à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scribâ— dicitur Synec dochicè quia voce tam scripâ—â quam proâ—aâ—â ad sensa animi prodenda uti consuevimus Amesii Technometriâ— Grammatica dicitur voce quidem Graeca sed tamen Romana olim jam civitate donata quam tamen puerilem doctrinam literarum scientiam Ciceronem literaturam Quintilianum sequentes possumus appellare Cal. Sec. Cur. Orat. de ingenuis artibus Vide Pâ—lyd Virg. De Juvent rerum l. 1. c. 7. Grammatica est rectè scribendi loquendi ratio Graâ—t Graec. ling. Spicil Grammatica Graeco nomine de literis dicitur idcirco à Quintiliano literatura transfertur in latinam vocem apertam quidem illam sed non perinde receptam Lud. Vâ—â— de cauâ— corrupt Art l. 2. Grammatica est scientia instrumentalis qua dirigimur congruè apâ—éque propriè concinnè loqui in omni idiomate Hebraeo Graeco Latino Anglico Gallico c. Instrumentum est quidem omnium primum discendis scientiis Crakanth Log. l. 2. c. 13. Habet ista doctrina quam Grammaticam vulgus vocat neque tamen intelligit Habet inquam vetustissimos suos vindices Linum Palamedem Cadinum alios Vâ—lcbam â—escius ne esses eam à maximis viris non solum cultam sed etiam excultam fuisse Qui enim de ea libros reliquerunt maximi viri etiam in aliis studiis fuerunt Crates Aristophanes Nicander Callimachuâ— Apollonius ille Rhodius Chrysippus alii Heroes magni Jâ—s Scalig. Francisco Vertuniano inter opusc Vide plura ibid. Herald Animad in Salmas observ Ad. Jus Aâ—t Rom. l. 2. c. 22. Inter Graecos Grammaticos nemo non primum locum tribuit Theodoâ—â— Gazae proximâ—m mea sententia Constantinus Lascaris sibi jure suo vendicat Inter Latinos vetustiores Diomedes Inter recentiores haud multum video discriminis nisi quod Nicolaus Perottus videtur omnium diligentissimus citra superstitionem tamen Eras De ratione studii Nuncupantur autem triviales scholae quasi vulgares in triviis constitutae quomodo nomen id nulli Scholae ad Latinas Graecasque literas discendas publicitus constitutae conveniat quae rarò in triviis erectae quin fere una duntaxat etiam in magnis est urbibus vel potiùs inde trivialibus