Tossanum in Evang. Harmoniam The use of the Hebrew and Greek Concordance is very great In Reading of the Text when I doubt what a word signifies I turn to my Concordance to see how many times the word occurs and in what Sence it is taken For Instance Hebrews 11. 1. Fides est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some render Persona Substantia Expectatio c. Now 't is very incongruous to affirm That Faith is a Person Substance or Expectation for 't is an Accident an Assent of the Understanding and Truth is the sole Object of it I do not mean Bonum futurum for that is the proper Object of Expectation or Hope By consulting in this Doubt my Concordance I find the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to occur five times in the N. Testament 1. It signifies a Person 2. And twice it evidently signifies and we render it Confidence 3. Tho' not so evidently yet most probably it signifies Confidence too For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Faith oppos'd to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the 12. and 19. verses which is Principium Fundamentum Fiduciae Confidentiae nostrae By the Circumstances then of the Text it is evident that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Confidence and if we apply that Signification to Hebrews the 11. 1. the place doubted of it will appear to be very agreeable to the Nature of Faith and the thing there spoken of Fides est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Fides est eorum quae sperantur Confidentia eorum quae non videntur argumentum so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies and Hierom and the Vulgar render it Faith is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such an Argument as is the ground of all the Assurance and Confidence we have or can have of Heaven This seems to me the Genuine Sence of the place if we consider either the signification of the Words or the Nature of the thing signified it is certain and concluded by all That a true and firm Faith in the Promises of GOD in the Gospel is the Foundation and Evidence of all our Hopes of Heaven c. whence it is that the Trent Conventicle calls Faith Humanae salutis initium fundamentum radix and in the Margent cites this very Text Heb. 11. 1. 2. For Lexicons and Glossaries they are useful for Explanation of the Words in the Originals of the Old and New Testament and amongst them we may consult for the Old Testament 1. Lexicon Polyglot 7. Linguis per Ed. Castellum Londini 1669. 2. Lex Pentaglot Val. Shindleri Hanoviae 1612. 3. Masii Lex Hebr. Syr. Chald. Gr. Antverp 1571. 4. Joh. Buxtorsii Lex Chald. Talmud Rabbin or his excellent Opus triginta Annorum as he calls it printed at Basil 1639. 5. Kercher's Concordance before mention'd may well be call'd and us'd for a Lexicon Heb. Gr. every word in the Bible and the various Translations of them being express'd by the LXX in their as they call it Hellenestical Greek 6. Nomenclator Biblicus Hebr. Lat. per Ant. Hulsium Bredae 1650. useful for all Divines 7. For Proper Names for these already named are for Appellative words such as these may be consulted 1. Gregorii Greg. Lexicon Sanctum Hanoviae 1634. in Octavo wherein all proper Names in Scripture are explain'd 2. Onomasticon Sacrum in quo omnia Nomina propria Hebr. Chald. Gr. quae tam in Vet. quam Nov. Test. Apocryphis occurrunt explicantur per Joh. Leusden Ultrajecti 1665. in Octavo For the New Testament and 1. Appellative words consult Hesychius Suidas Phavorinus Etymolog mag Glossae veteres per Stephan Bonavent Vulcanius Stephani Thesaurus Harpocration all these are useful 2. For Proper Names Lex Sanct. Gregorii Greg. before mention'd gives an Account of all their Proper Names Hebrew and Greek in both Testaments So Stephanus of Cities and Suidas of the Proper Names of Men. 3. For Greek-barbarous words you may consult Petri Chritomaei Graeco-barbara Nov. Test. quae Orienti Originem debent Amstel in Octavo his Lexicon also Graeco Barbarum After the Knowledge of Words quae sunt Rerum Signa Indices the next business will be to know the true Sence of Scripture signified by those words to this purpose you must consult Commentators And first of all those that have written upon the whole Bible 1. The Criticks of the last Edition at London in several Tomes the first Printed 1669. the benefit of which Book is very great I may call it Bibliotheca seeing when we doubt of any Text of Scripture we may uno intuitu see what many Learned Men say of it and then by collation of them and others judge which or whether any of their Expositions be true 2. Biblia Universa cum Commentariis 1. Lyrani Gente Judaei Religioni Christiani Oxoniensis hic enim literis operam dedit 2. Cum Glossa ordinaria quam Strabo Fuldensis condidit circa An. 846. 3. Cum Glossa Interlinearia Ansel. Laudunens circa An. 1077. Of these three Lyranus is much the best especially on the Old Test. because he well understood the the Hebrew and Greek Languages which the other two as most of the Barbarous Age were wholly ignorant of 3. Biblia Sacra Vet. Nov. Test. cum Notis Trimellii Junii Editionis tertiae Hanov. 1596. 4. Cornelius a Lapide Stephanus Monochius Jacobus Tirinus Emmanuel Sa all Jesuites and Joh. Deodat For your understanding of the Old Test. how the Ancient Jews interpreted it consult 1. The Chaldee Paraphrase 2. Josephus 3. Philo-Judaeus As for Antiquity so for Authority and Sobriety they are more significant than any may be than all the Rabbins Maimonides Qui primus inter suos nug ari desiit comes next them 5. Lugd. de Dieu has written very short and significant Critical Notes on all the Old and New Test. in 5 or 6 Volumes in 4o. On the Pentateuch consult Ainsworth inferior to none Cajetan Calvin ubi bene nemo melius Joh. Ferus a Pious Papist who has said many things well and truly and therefore the Spanish Expurgatory Index has damn'd many Passages in his Commentaries on the New Test. and his other Works As for his Commentaries on the Old Test. they are absolutely prohibited till the Inquisitors think fit to correct them Paulus Fagius his Annotations on the Chaldee Paraphrase on the Theodoret's Questions on the Penta Hyeronymus ab Oleastro Antverp 1568. Besides the Pentateuch Cajetan Calvin Ferus Theodoret Hierom August and Beda and Pareus have written on other parts of the Old Test. and upon occasion may be consulted And for Genesis and Exodus in particular you may consult Andr. Rivetus who hath wrote well on both he hath also publish'd a very useful Book in Quarto on the XX. Chap. of Exod. Lugd. Batav 1637. Pererius the Jesuite hath also long and
And yet so it is Not that I think that either their Questions or Resolutions are always wise but they will surnish a wise Man with many Material Questions and with some very Material Answers and deliver him from the Danger of ever being impos'd on with School-Falacies And a Man who reads them with this Design and this Caution will find great Benefit by it For tho' I am no Admirer of School-Divinity I doubt the great Ignorance of some Persons may be ascrib'd to a Contempt of it without knowing it But then he ought also to read other Systems of Divinity as Calvin's Institutions and Zanchius whom I take to be one of the best and subtilest Writers of Calvinists and Arminius Episcopius or the late Remonstrant Philip à Limborch For a Man who will throughly enquire ought to have the different Schemes of Religion in his Head But especially to read and consider well the Articles Homilies and Canons of our Church which every one who intends to be a Minister of the Church of England ought to do Having thus far advanced you may think I bring him back again when I come to more particular Enquiries But if you think well of it you will find he is not sufficiently prepar'd for them before And now I begin from the very Foundations of Religion To enquire strictly and severely into the Reasons of Our Faith And 1. Why He believes there is a GOD. And here he must review all the several Hypotheses of Philosophy and examine the Powers of Nature and the Arguments of Atheists Tully and Dr. Cudworth will sufficiently furnish him if his Curiosity does not draw him further The next Enquiry is Whether GOD has made any Revelation of his Will to the Word And here he must consider the Authority of Revelation and the Canon of Scripture And Dr. Stillingfleet's Origines Sacrae Huetius or Dr. Cosin's Canon of Scripture will furnish him with all that is needful to be known or direct him where he may enquire further And this is the most proper time to read the Apologists for Christianity Justin Martyr Tertullian Minutius Felix Arnobius Lactantius St. Austin de Civitate Dei Theodoret contra Gentes and such like as Eusebius's Praeparatio and Demonstratio c. And now especially it is time to read the Scriptures with greater Care both to understand the Grammatical and Critical Sence of them by comparing the various Versions especially the Septuagint with the Original of the Old Testament and by our Volumes of Criticks which have more than all that is useful and to understand the true Sence of them As for particular Commentators I know not how to direct because there is so great variety of them But Ainsworth upon the Pentateuch is allow'd by all Josephus and Philo-Judaeus tho'a Platonick Jew are very useful for the Old Testament and Maimonides Nevochim and such Tracts of Jewish Writers as he may meet with Dr. Lightfoot I think has prescrib'd the best Method of Reading the Scriptures by digesting the Historical and Prophetical Books into the order of Time And the Prophesies are certainly understood by considering the times to which they relate Tho' I must needs say That the shortest and most compendious way to useful Knowledge is to study the New Testament and those parts of the Old Testament which he there finds apply'd to the state of the Gospel which will enable him the better to understand the Old Testament when he has more leisure for the thorough Study of it And for Modern Authors let him read Mr. Poole's Synopsis Criticorum allowing for the different Hypotheses of the Authors and reading with Caution Tho' if I may advise when he intends thoroughly to understand any Book of Scripture let him read it several times over and make himself Master of it Then let him read it Verse by Verse and observe what the Difficulties are and try by the Construction and Signification of the Words and the Series of the Discourse what he can make of it and after that consult Expositors This is the most laborious and slow but the most useful and will be found at last the shortest way to true and substantial Knowledge I have found such advantage by it my self that I dare recommend it From hence he may proceed to the Enquiry into particular Controversies which he is now well furnish'd for with a great compass of Knowledge And here he may begin and end if ever he can find an end where he pleases And he will easily inform himself of the best Writers on both sides As for the Fathers and Councils and Ecclesiastical Historians I think the best way at first is to examine as he has opportunity such Citations as he meets with and see to what purpose their Authority is urg'd on all sides or to read any particular Tract in them as he has occasion for it And then when he finds leisure to read them he will know how to use them This is sufficient Employment for some Years and as imperfect as the Rules are if observ'd will certainly make him a very good Divine and furnish him with useful Knowledge and before he has done half this he will need no Director I have taken no notice of Reading the Ancient Moralists and observing the Differences of their several Sects and how they differ from or agree with the Precepts of Christianity nor of the Nature of Laws c. These being suppos'd necessary Prolegomena FINIS a Sir P. P. S. W. b Genuine Remains c. a St. Ives Huntington Buckden and St. Neots a 68 when Consecrated and 85 at his Death * Five Counties and in half * Above 1300 Clergy in Lincoln Diocese * Six Shillings and Six Pence a Theologia Revelata in its full Latitude may be 1. Patriarchalis containing the Positive Revelation of God's Will and Worship made to the Patriarchs before Moses for to them the Messias was promised and Salvation by him they had the Covenant of Grace and Sacrificia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which were Sacraments and Seals of it 2. Mosaica which contain'd many further positive Revelations of God's Will and Worship 3. Evangelica of which only at present 〈…〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suid. in Joh. Stob. vid. Photii Biblioth Cod. 167. pag. 366. Theologia 〈◊〉 Bibles prâ—peâ— for the Teâ—t of the Old Testament For the New Testament * Vid. Suidam verb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bibles Concordances a Extant Concordantiae Hebr. per Mazi Calasium in 4 Tomes printed at Rome 1621. in Bodley's Library much larger than Buxtorf's but whether better Docti judicent a Heb. 1. 3. b 2 Cor. 9. 4. and 11. 17. c Heb. 3. 14. d Tindal renders it so Faith is a sure Confidence of e Gloss. vet in calce Cyrilli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arguo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Probatio oecumen Theophylac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in loc a Concil Trident. Sess. 6. de Justificat cap. 8. Vid. Vasq. in
learned Commentaries on both the two first Books of Moses In short you have Catalogues of the Commentators on every part of the Bible already printed out of which you may chuse the Commentaries of Brentius Calvin Pet. Martyr Joh. Wolsius Bucer Melanchton Luther Musculus c. Cajetan Masius Ar. Montanus Gaspar Sanctius Simeon de Muis the best Popish Writer on the Psalms A Lapide Corn. Jansen Vitalpandus in Ezek. Fran. Ribera in 12. Prophetas Minores Arias Montanus in 12 Prophetas In Hexameron you may consult 1. Eusta Antiochenum Lugduni per Alatium 1629. in 4o. 2. Ambrosium in Hexameron Tom. 4. Operum Edit Erasmi Basil 1527. For the New Testament very many Ancient and Modern have writ Explications of it some or all may be consulted 1. Chrysost. hath Homilies on most parts of the N. Test. 2. Hierom on the Gospels Acts and all St. Paul's Epistles but they are none of his as is certain and confess'd 3. Ven. Bede in 5 or 6 Tomes 4. Theophylact. on the Gospels Acts and all St. Paul's Epistles his Commentary on the Acts is by it self very hard to be met with Gr. Lat. per Laur. Sifanum Col. Agrip. 1567. Theophylact. hath nothing on the Canonical Epistles or Revelations 2. Beza's Notes on the whole New Test. the best Edition for there are many is that at Cambridge 1642. Camerarius's Notes on the whole N. Test. are joyn'd with it Calvin on all the N. Test. except the Apocalyps these two paucis exceptis quae Disciplinam Presbyterianam Genevetismam sapiunt are inferior to none for the Literal Sence of the Scriptures Aug. Marloratus his Comment on all the N. Test. containing the Expositions of many Protestant Writers Zach. Muthesius in 4o. Edit 1611. Dr. Wm. Foulke in Nov. Test. contra Annotationes Anglo-Rhemensium Erasmi Annot. in N. Test. Aquinas in Nov. Test. Chemnitius Gochardus Brentius Bucer Novae Glossae in Mat. Mar. Luc. per Rob. Steph. They are damn'd by the Spanish Inquisitors and therefore more valuable Lucas Brugensis in 4. Evang. Antv. 1606. Maldonatus Lutetiae 1629. There are former and worse Editions he is Vir Dotatus but as Causabon calls him maledicentissimus Hugo Cardinalis alias Hugo de Sancto Claro he writ about the Year 1244. in which he was created Cardinal by Pope Innoc. the IV. in a time of great Ignorance when Popery was not form'd whence it is that He and others of that Age have many things which they at Rome like not Jacobus Faber Stapulensis in 4 Evangel He was an Honest and Sober Papist and has an Excellent Preface before his Commentaries concerning the Excellency Perfection and universal Use of Scripture c. And therefore that Preface totally and many other things in his Commentaries are damn'd by the Inquisitors and all his Works prohibited by Clement VIII till they be purg'd that is corrupted and spoil'd by the Inquisitors and their Indices 1. Theodoret in omnes Pauli Epistolas num 14. he has nothing on the 7. Canonical Epistles James Peter John Jude nor the Revelation he is amongst the Ancients one of the best and usually comes nearest the Literal Sence Ambrose in omnes Pauli Epist. except ad Hebr. Peradventure because that Epistle was not in his time receiv'd in the Roman Church which may be the reason too why St. Hierom has no Commentary on that Epistle nor any Preface to it as he has to most Books of the Bible but those Commentaries are deny'd to be Ambrose's by many and suspected by more Primasius Utiensis circa Annum 545. Sedulius circa Annum 430. Oecumenius quisque demum fuerit in omnes Pauli Canonicas Epist. cum quo conjungitur Arethas Caesariensis in Apocalyp Who he was and when he liv'd is uncertain Bellarmine places him after the Year 1000. and some sooner his Commentary is indeed a Catena taken out of about 121. Ancient Authors for so many he cites and amongst them he often cites Photius whence 't is evident he liv'd after Photius's time who flourish'd after the middle of the Ninth Century 1. Conrad Vorstius on all the Epistles excepting that to the Hebrews who has first the Analysis 2. the Paraphrasis 3. Scholia in Paraphrasin 4. The Loci Communes of every Chapter Dr. Hammond's Annotations on the New Testament Cameronis Mirothecium Evang. Lud. Capelli Spicilegium both bound together printed in 4 to 1632. they have both many short and considerable Notes on many particular places in the Epistles and Apocalyps c. Estius in Epistolas one of the best Popish Writers on that Subject Joh. Gagnaeius in omnes Epistolas Apocalypsin Brevissima facillima Scholia in 8 0 Antv. 1564. Petrus Lombardus in omnes Pauli Epistolas He writ before Transubstantiation Opinionis portentum prodigium was Decreed in the Lateran Council Anno 1215. and in many things Honest Peter is no Papist Dionysius Carthusianus in omnes Pauli Epistolas and many others c. Arias Montanus in omnes Epistolas Apocalyp For the better Understanding of the Scriptures it will be convenient to know and to consult such Books as have given General Directions for Studying Scriptures and particular Explications of the Jewish Antiquities and Customs c. such as these 1. Antiquitatum Judaicarum lib. 9. per Ar. Montanum Lug. Bat. 1593. in Quarto 2. Buxtorfii Tiberias seu Commentarius Historicus Didacticus Criticus ad illustrationem operis Biblici c. Bas. 1620. Folio 3. And. Riveti Isagoge seu Introductio ad Scripturam Sacram Vet. Nov. Test. Lug. Bat. 1627. 4. Ant. Possevini Apparatus ad Studia Scripturae Theologiae Scholasticae practicae c. Ferrariae 1609. Quarto 5. Ejusdem Bibliotheca Selecta dictae Bibliothecae lib. 2. 3. Colon. Agrip. 1607. Fol. there are many such more Bibliotheca Studiosi Theol. per Gilb. Voetium Ultrajecti 1651. lib. 2. sect 2a. pag. 481. De Apparatu Theologico Hen. Hottingeri Clavis Scripturae seu Thesaurus Philologicus Tiguri 1649. in Quarto Seeing there are many Controversies concerning the Canon of Scripture some Books being Canonical to some which to others are Apocryphal it will be convenient to consult some who have writ ex professo of that Subject Amongst others these that follow 1. Joh. Rainolds de lib. Apocryphis Tom. 1 2. sunt quatuor Oppenheim 1611. there are many Controversies learnedly discuss'd obiter in those two Volumes besides those about the Canon 2. The Scholastical History of the Canon of Scripture by Dr. Cosins late Bishop of Durham London 1657. 3. Hen. Lemmichii Vindicatio Lib. Apocryph 1638. Octavo 4. Consulendi sunt cum opus fuerit Scriptores Eristici Pontificii Reformati qui Controversiam de Canone Bib. tractant quales sunt Chemnitius in exam Concilii Trident. Dan. Chamier Panstrat Cath. Tom. 10. Andr. Rivetus Catholici Orthodoxi Tom. 1. Tract 1. Eras.
Brochman universae Theol. System Tom. 1. de Sacra Script Bellarm. Tom. 1. Controv. 1. de Verbo Dei G. Amesius contra Bellarminum Vet. Erbormannus Jesuita in sua pro Bellarm. Replica contra Amesium Herbipoli 1661. 5. It will be convenient also to consult what the Ancient Fathers and Canons of Council determine concerning the Canon of Scripture as that I may name some 1. Canon Apostol 85. apud Balsamonem pag. 278. apud Zonaram est Canon 84. pag. 42. Dionysius exiguus antiquissimus Canonum Collector Apostolorum Canones tantum habet spurius ideo est hic Canon 85. vet 84. c. 2. Canon Concil Laodiceni 59. apud Justellum in Cod. can Eccl. Univer can 163. seu ult 3. Canon 47. Concilii Carthag 3. apud Joverium Conc. part 2. p. 19. col 2ª in Conciliis per Labbe Paris 1671. Tom. 2. pag. 1177. But this Canon is Spurious as might evidently be prov'd if need require 4. Athanasius in Synopsi Tom. 2 pag. 55. Gr. Lat. he reckons the Books of Scripture as we do 5. Nicephorus Patriarch of Constantinople his Catalogue of Canonical Books apud Eusebium Chronologic pag. 312. Gr. Editionis Amstel 1658. 6. Hieronymi Prefatio 106. quae est in lib. Regum Tom. 3 pag. 682 689. ubi libros vet Testamenti eodem plane modo quo Ecclesia Anglicana enumerat tum addit Quicquid extra hos est inter Apocrypha reponendum 7. Ruffinus in Symbolum Apostolorum inter Opera Cypriani per Pamelium pag. 552 553. per Goulartium pag. 575. where he has a Catalogue of Canonical Books of both Testaments the very same with Ours of the Church of England 8. Epiphanius de Ponderibus Mensuris § 4 5. Tom. 2 pag. 161. 9. Nazianzenus carm 33. operum Tom. 2. pag. 98. utriusque Testamenti libros nisi quod Apocalypsis desideratur eosdem plane quos Ecclesia Anglicana agnoscit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eusebius out of Origen reckons the Canonical Books as we do only he neither the Protestants nor Papists do reckons an Epistle of Jeremy's with his Prophesie and Lamentations Eccles. History lib. 6. cap. 25. pag. 225. Edit Valesii Vide etiam Cyrillum Cateches Mystog 4. pag. 36 37. Nicephorum Hist. Eccles. lib. 2. cap. 46. pag. 216 217. For the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers it will be convenient to know who they were when they lived and what they writ And for this such Books and Tracts as these may be consulted 1. Nomenclator praecipuorum jam inde a Christo nato Ecclesiae Doctorum Scriptorum Professorum Episcoporum Testium Veritatis Scholasticorum Conciliorum Haereticorum Imperatorum Pontificum Rom. c. per Hen. Ozaeum Hanoviae 1619. He in an Alphabetical order only sets down the Age or Year they flourish'd in 2. Hieronymus de Illustribus Eccl. Scriptoribus Extat operam Sancti Hieronymi per M. Victorium Tom. 1. pag. 263. Gr. Lat. ubi Sophronius dicitur Versionis Gr. Author cum tamen inepta est Versio Sophronio indigna Prodiit Hieronymus de Script Illustr una cum Gennadio Massiliensi de Illustr Eccles. Doctoribus Helmest 1611. Prodiit postea cum aliis 1639. quod ex sequente Aub. Miraei opere constet 3. Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica seu Nomenclatores septem Veteres Hieronymus Gennadius Ildefonsus Sigebertus per Aubertum Miraeum cum ejus Scholiis Auctariis Antverp 1639. Fol. Sed hi Authores à Miraeo editi caute sunt legendi Miraeus enim non uno loco Romae potius quam veritati favet 4. Illustrium Eccl. Orientalis Scriptorum qui secundo saeculo sloruerunt vitae monumenta Authore Pet. Halloix Duaci 1636. habet etiam Pontifices Imperatores Persecutiones Concilia istius saeculi c. Fol. 5. Scriptorum Ecclesiast Abacus Chronologicus Vet. Nov. Test. a Mose ad Annum Christi 1589. Authore Phil. Labbe Paris 1658. 6. Tabulae Ecclesiasticae quibus Scriptores Ecclesiastici eorumque Patria Aetas Ordo Obitus exhibentur a Christo nato ad Annum 1517. Lond. 1674. 7. Phil. Labbe de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis c. in 2. Tom. 80. Paris 1660. in calce Tom. 1. Tractatus Jo. Papissae Coenotaphium eversum 8. Joh. Tritthemius de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis cum Appendicibus duobus Paris 1546. There are many such as these who have given an account of the Time wherein they liv'd and the Writings of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers and upon occasion may also be consulted But because there are in the Works of the Ancient Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers many Apocryphal and Spurious Books and Tracts which are indeed none of theirs whose Name they bear it will be necessary for a Divine to know and have some of those Authors who have writ Critica Sacra and Censures of Books discovering the Fraud or Ignorance of those who have publish'd Erroneous and Heretical Books under Catholick Names amongst others such as these may be consulted 1. Photii Bibliotheca by Shottus 1611. Folio 2. Hierom de Scriptoribus Eccles. of the Edition of Paris 1630. or rather of Labbe's Edition with his Additions in 2 Volumes Paris 1660. 3. Censura quorundam Scriptorum quae sub nominibus Sanctorum Veterum Authorum a Pontificiis citari solent c. per Rob. Cocum in Quarto Lond. 1623. 4. A Treatise of the Corruption of the Fathers by Dr. James Quarto Lond. 1612. 5. Andr. Riveti Crit. Sac. libri quatuor in Octavo cum Tractat. de Authoritate Patrum Errorum causis Nothorum Notis Genevae 1626. 6. Abrahami Sculteti Syntagma Medullae Theologiae Patrum in Quarto Francof 1634. he gives an Account of almost forty very ancient Writers of their Genuine Works of their Suppositions of their Errors of their Consent with Protestants and the Particulars wherein and an Analysis of all their Genuine Writings 7. Joh. Dallaeus de Pseudepigraphis Apostolicis Harderb 1653. 8. Davidis Blondelli Pseudo-Isiodorus Turrianus Vapul in Quarto Edit 1628. veterum Roman Pontificum à Clemente X. ad Sirisium i. e. An. 383. Epistolas decretales ab Isiodoro Mercatore suppositas a Ioh. Bosco editas ac tandem a Francisco Turriano defensas spurias esse demonstrat Blondellus 9. Bellarmine de Scriptoribus Ecclesiast Sixtus Senensis in Bibliotheca Possevinus in Apparatu Sacro c. and many other Popish Authors confess and prove many supposititious Books printed and publish'd with the Genuine Works of the Fathers and yet very usually cite those Tracts when they make for them against Protestants In the Edition of Hierom's Works the whole ninth Tome consists of such Tracts as are now confess'd to be all Spurious In the 17th Tome of the Magna Bibliotheca Patrum Paris 1654 There is Index Chronologicus and Index omnium Patrum Alphabeticus in which we have many things well and truly said of the Times and Writings of the Ancient Fathers 10. Vide Gratian. Dist. 15 16. praecipue can
Sanc. Rom. 3. where we have a long Catalogue of Authentick and Apocryphal Books made by Pope Gelasius and he infallible sure as any of his Successors and his Council of 70 Bishops An. 494. the Canons of that Council we have elsewhere better than in Gratian. In that Canon and Council they call some things Canonical and Authentick which they damn now as Apocryphal and so do we too and other things they approve as Authentick which now neither they nor we approve vid. Joh. de Turre Cremata his 15 and 16 Can. Glossas especially the late ones where to reconcile the Contradictions of this Canon and Council to the present Opinions of Rome they are glad to say that this Canon is so much corrupted that they cannot tell which words in it are really the words of Gelasius and which not It will be requisite for a Divine to consult some Writers about the Authority and Use of Fathers as to their Works which are confess'd to be Genuine such as these 1. Dallaeus de usu Patrum Extat 1. Gallice 2. Latine per Joh. Mettaienum Genev. 1656. in 4o. 2. Tractatus de Patrum Concil Traditionum Authoritate in rebus Fidei c. per Emend K. Vyfalvinum cum Praefat. D. Paraei Francof 1611. in 8o. 3. Tractatus de Patrum Authoritate c. Qui sint Patres Quid eorum Authoritas ad quid c. per And. Rivetum praefixus libro suo Quem Criticum Sacrum inscripsit 4. Vide Gratiani Distinctio 9. Glossam a Tur. Cremata ibidem multa de Authoritate Scripturae Concil Patrum c. True it is that the Socinians grant the Fathers no Authority at all and the Papists tho' all their Ecclesiasticks Secular and Regular are sworn never to expound Scripture but secundum unanimem Patrum consensum but very little and when they make against them none at all as we may evidently see by Cajetan Feuardentius Maldonatus c. who tell us it was the Opinion of Augustin and Pope Innocent the I. that it was necessary to Communicate Infants and that Augustin deliver'd this Non ut opinionem suam sed ut Fidei totius Ecclesiae Dogma which Opinion prevail'd in the Church for many Centuries tho' 't is now denied For the better understanding Scripture and Fathers the Knowledge of Ecclesiastical History will be necessary To this end you may consult such as have writ general Epitomes and Comprehensions of Ecclesiastical Histories for instance to omit others 1. Timanni Gesselii Historia Sacra ordine Chronologico compendiose digesta à Mundo condito ad annum Christi 1125. Trajecti ad Rhe. 1659. 2 Vol. in 4o. 2. Joh. Cluverii Historiarum totius Mundi Epit. ab origine Mundi ad an Christi 1633. Lug. Bat. 1639. 1 Vol. Quarto There are others who have writ Ecclesiastical History anciently and more fully as 1. Eusebii Hist. Eccl. cum Notis Hen. Valesii Paris 1659. 2. Socrates Sozomon per eundem Par. 1668. 3. Theodor. Evagrii Philostorgii Theodori Historia per eundem Paris 1673. These give an Account of Church Affairs for almost 600 Years And if Ruffinus his 2 Books of Ecclesiastical History by Ben. Laurent de la Barre Paris 1580. and the Historia Tripartita compos'd by Cassiodore and publish'd by Ben. Rhenanus Basil. 1528. be added it may compleat and facilitate the Understanding of the foremention'd Histories The late Writers of Ecclesiastical History which are very full are such as these 1. Historia Ecclesiastica per Centuriatores Magdeburg Basil. 1624. or the Epitome of it in 7 Volumes in Quarto by Lucas Osiander Tubing 1607. 2. Annales Ecclesiastici Card. Baronii à nato Christo ad annum 1197. continuati à Provio ad an 1431. à Spondano ad an 1646. observand de his Annalibus 1. Quod ex Editionibus omnibus illam Antverpiae 1612. solam correctissimam agnoscit Baronius There were three or four former Editions 3. Rob. Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici Vet. Test. Tom. 8. Col. 1620. in Fol. notand extat Epit. Annal. Card. Baronii per Lud. Aurel. 8o. Monast. 1638. 2 Vol. But before Baronius's Annals be read it will be useful to read the most Learned Exercitations of Causabon upon them which discover the many Errors and Frauds of the Annalist For Baronius is very zealous in maintaining the Pope's Prerogative and all the receiv'd Errors and ridiculous Superstitions of that Church And on the other side the Centuriators are in some things a little too strait-laced so that the Truth many times lies between them that the Reader of their Stories can find it no otherways but by collection of what they have said and the grounds why they did so It is useful also for to consult Ad. Trebbechorii Exercitationes ad Annales Baronii ubi desiit Causabonus in Quarto Edit Kilonii 1673. There are two Historians more which I wou'd commend for understanding the state of Religion since Luther both Persons of great Moderation and Fidelity tho' of different Religions and writ what they might and did know 1. Joh. Sleidani Commentarii de statu Religionis ab anno 1519. ad an 1556. 2. Thuani Historia ab an 1543. ad an 1607. And to these you may add Father Paul's History of the Council of Trent all excellent Persons Cedro digna locuti It is necessary for a Divine in Reading of Ecclesiastical History to have some skill in Chronology after a convenient Knowledge of the Tecknical part of Chronology de Anno Mense Septimana c. de Aeris seu Epochis c. In order to this He may consult such as these 1. Helvicus's Chronology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they call it Oxon. 1651. of continual use in reading any History Sacred or Civil 2. Ja. Usserii Armach Annales c. à Mundo condito ad an Christi 73. 2 Vol. Fol. 3. Chronicon Cath. Ed. Simson Oxon. 1652. Fol. 4. Chronicon Charionis à Melancthone Peacero auctum editum Aureliae 1610. Chronology and Geography are justly the Eyes of History Sacred or Civil and therefore such Maps and Books as are useful in that kind may with benefit be consulted amongst others such as these 1. For Maps Those publish'd by George Hormius Accuratissima Orbis Antiqui Delineatio sive Geographia Vet. Sacra Prophana Folio Amstel 1657. particularly you may consult those Maps which concern Palestine and other places of Scripture which are mention'd in Ecclesiastical History You may consult for Books such as by way of Lexicon or Dictionary explain the proper Names of Nations Provinces Cities c. which are spoken of in Scripture as 1. Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Basil. 1568. it is but an Epitome of Stephanus made by Hermolaus Grammaticus and dedicated to Justinian the Emperor 2. Fragmentum Stephani de Urbibus per Tennulium Amstel 1669. in
Satisfactione Christi Octavo 23. Vid. Ludov. Lucium De Satisfactione Christi contra Michaelem Gettichium Edit Bas. 1612. 8o. 24. Lambert Danaeus in P. Lomb. Sentent lib. 1. multa pro Trinitate disputat Edit an 1580. 8o. 25. Christianus Beemannus Bornensis edidit Exercitationes Theolog. pro Deitate Christi c. contra Socinum Smalcium Ostorodum Crellium Mennonem Simonis Paracelsum Wiegelium c. Amst. an 1643. Fol. 26. Joh. Paulus Felwingern scripsit Examen Disquisitionis brevis edit Norembergae 1637. Octavo 27. Sam. Maresii Xenia Academica seu de Divinitate Personalitate Sp. Sancti contra Socinianos cum aliis Quarto 28. Disputatio Theologica Orthodoxa De Sanctissima Trinitate Auth. Josepho Voisin Par. 1647. 8o. 29. Socinianismi confutati Tom. 1. Auth. Johanne Hoornebecke Professore Ultrajectano Ultrajecti 1650. Quarto 30. Hydra Socinianismi expugnata contra Joh. Volkelium Joh. Crellium per Sam. Maresium Groningae 1651. Quarto 31. Bernardus Paxillus scripsit Monomachian pro defensione Fidei Trinitatis Cracov 1616. in Biblioth Bodl. 32. Joh. Cloppenburg scripsit Vindicias pro Deitate Sp. Sancti adversus Joh. Bidellum Anglum Franck. 1652. 33. Josuae Stegmanni Photiniasmus seu succincta refutatio errorum Photinianorum c. Rhinthelii 1623. 8o. Alli pene infiniti Pontificii pariter Reformati sese Socino opposuere ut passim videre est Vide sis Aegidium Hunnium in Articulo de Trinitate Polanum in Syntagm Theol. l. 3. c. 2. ad 11. Barthol Terres in 1. part Aquinatis Benedict Szentkiral Transylvanum contra Georgium Enjedinum Hieron Zanchium de tribus Elohim c. Hannib Rosseli Comment in Paemandrum Hermetis Calvinum in defensione Orthodoxae Fidei Sacrae Trinitatis contra M. Servetum Georg. Blandr Erasmum Brochmannum qui utraque Controvers parte quaestiones Socinianas proponit discutit Dionys. Petavium qui fusè pariter doctè in Dogmatis Theologicis tractandis contra Socinum disputat testimoniis ex intimâ Antiquitate petitis Tandem longum Scriptorum Catalogum eorum nempè qui contra Socinum sui sequaces militant tibi exhibet Christianus Becmannus Bornensis in Exercitationibus Theologicis Amstelod editis an 1643 pag. 12. Ubi Authores 56 plus minus enumerat qui justo Bello Marte internecino contra Socinum ipsumque etiam Socinianismum animosè militant Qui vellet videat Scholastici quod ad Articulum Trinitatis attinet in 1. Sent. P. Lombardi distinct 2. in 1. parte Aquinatis multa disputant curiosa mag is fateor quam viro cordato profutura Quorum omnium Catalogum laboriosè contextum tibi exhibet Iohan. Martinez de Ripaldâ in Lib. Sent. 1. Disp. 2. Amongst other things 't is exceeding useful for a Divine to have some knowledge of the Canon Law there are many Books written of this Faculty and amongst others to omit those which concern the Forum and Jurisdictionem contentiosam these following may be useful 1. For the Original Parts and Use of the Canon Law it will be very useful first of all to read Dr. Duck De Usu Authoritate Juris Civilis Roman Lib. 1. c. 7. de Jure Canonico pag. 39. Edit Lond. 1653. 2. Institutiones Juris Canonici per Paulum Lancelottum cum Casibus Joh. Bapt. Bartoloni in Octavo Col. 1609. 3. Arnoldi Corvini Jus Canonicum per Aphorismos strict explicat Amstel 1651. in Octavo And this for Brevity Method and Perspicuity may at the first be more useful to a Divine than the aforesaid Institutions 4. Corpus Juris Canonici cum Accessione novarum Constitutionum summorum Pontificum Annotationibus Ant. Naldi c. Lugd. 1661. in Quarto and 2 Volumes This is the last and best Edition Corporis Juris Canonici without the Gloss and contains many useful things which are not in any former Edition 5. If the aforesaid Edition cannot be had then consult Corpus Juris Canonici at Paris 1618. Folio the next in Time and Goodness 6. Corpus Juris Canonici cum Glossis Par. 1612. cum Indice Steph. Davys in 4 Volumes Fol. 7. The old Edition of the Canon Law with the Gloss at Par. 1519. in 3 Vol. in 4º or any other Edition before the Year 1572. for since that Time many things are left out of the Gloss which were in before 8. Censurae in Glossas Juris Canonici Colon. 1672. where what is to be left out of the Gloss is distinctly set down After a General Knowledge of this Law a few Books more will be of Advantage to perfect that Knowledge so far as a Divine may be concern'd in it for Instance such as these 1. Joh. Cardinal de Turre-Cremata in Decretum Gratiani 2. Abbas Panormitanus in Decretales c. 3. Conclusionum Practicarum in Jur. Utr. Foro c. 8. Tom. Fol. per Card. Tuschum Lugd. 1634. The whole Work is in an Alphabetical Order like a Law Dictionary and things easy to be found in it 4. Epit. Juris Pontificii veteris per Ant. Augustinum Fol. Rom. 1614. aut Par. 1641. It is divided into 3 parts 1. De Personis 2. De Judiciis 3. De Rebus c. He has a Catalogue of the Popes Councils Collectors of the Canons and his Censure of them A Book of great use for a Divine For Explanation of the Terms and Ecclesiastical Words which occur in the ancient Canons Histories Councils and Ecclesiastical Writers Greek and Latin some Law Lexicons will be necessary there are many but I shall name only what I think most useful 1. Glossarium Graeco-Barbarum Jo. Meursii 4o. Lugd. Bat. 1614. 2. Lexicon Juridicum Juris Caesarei Canonici per Jo. Calvinum Joh. Christum Genevae 1640. which Edition has escaped the Inquisitors Fury Notand Many things in this Lexicon are damn'd and to be expung'd by the Command of the Inquisitors in the Spanish and Portugal Indices sed salva res est this Edition has escap'd Purgatory Vid. Indicem Expurg Hisp. Madriti 1667. pag. 570 Indicem Olysipone 1624. p. 742. There are more Lexicons which may on many occasions be consulted 1. Lexicon Juris per Sim. Schardium Fol. Colon. Agrip. 1600. 2. Vocabulum Utriusque Juris per Alexandr Scot. 8o. Lugd. 1622. 3. Notitia de Vocabulis Eccles. c. Rauolta de Domenico Magri c. Romae 1650. part Latin and part Italian 4. Glossae P. Pithaei Capitulis Caroli Magni proefixae Paris 1640 c. It is exceeding useful for a Divine to know the Civil Law also setting aside the Litigious part of it such Books as these may be useful And first For a General Knowledge of the Civil Law consult 1. Ridley's View of the Civil Law c. 4o. 2. Dr. Duck's first Book De Usu Authoritate Juris Civilis Lond. 1653. Elementa Juris Civilis per Joh. Arnold Corvinum Amstel 1645. in 12o. Justinian's Institutions shou'd be read with it And for a fuller Explication of Justinian's Institutions it will be