Mathematician Ut gemma quaedam rarior inter aevi sui Mathematicos illuxit Quo nomine Carolo V. Caesari harum artium non ignaro in primis gratus saepe Bruxellam est evocatus vicissim ab aulicis Lovanii salutatus Caestell Vita Illust. Med. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica He hath left many Writings in the Mathematicks De Orbis Divisione Dâ— locorum describendorum ratione deque eorum distantiis inveniendis â—sâ—â— anâ—ali Astronomici De usu Globi Astronomici De Radio Astronomico Geometrico Also Cosmographia cum aliis Libellis De Astrolabio Catholico Qui liber ultimus erat eorum quos conscripserat adâ—ò ut fatis praereptus non ipsemet sed post ipsum filius Cornâ—lius Gemma eum absolverit ideóque verisimile est eum postremâ—â—â—uas haâ— de re cogitationes sensus qui plaerunque solâ—â—t meliores veriorésque esse patefecisse Tych. Brah. l. 2. De Cometâ— Anni 1577. c. 7. Cornelius Gemma a famous Physitian and Philosopher of Lovain Illustris parentis Gemmae Frisii non obscurus filius Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1377. l. 2. c. 6. Eruditionis paternae haeres praesertim quoad Artes Mathematicus quibus ille si quis alius excelluit Id. ibid. l. 2. c. 10. Reliquit Cornelius filium Philippum Doctorem medicum rarò certè exemplo filium patrem avâ—m eruditos iisdem deditos studiis ut in Italia nostro aevo Manâ—tios flornisse Aubertus Miraeus Elog. Belg. Gilb. Genebrard a Divine of Paris and the Kings Professor of Hebrew A good Hebrician but a most petulant Writer By whom saith B. And. it is verified that much Learning and railing may be accidents in one subject Gennadius Scholaris 1450. Innocentius Gentiletus He hath put out Examen Concilii Tridentini An Apology for the French Christians of the Reformed Religion both in French and Latine Apologie pour les Chrestiens de France de lâ— Religion Evangelique on Reformee foundâ—e sur la Saincte Escriturâ— approveè par la raison par les aâ—ciâ—â—s Canons Alberiâ—us Gentilis an eloquent Italian the Regins Professor of Civil Law in Oxford His Works are most of them mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and the Appendix Iohn Gerhard Doctor of Divinity and Professor in the University of Iena A laborious and Learned Lutheran as his Supplement of Cheminitius his Harmony and his Common places of Divinity Commentaries on the Hebr. and Peter Meditationes sacrae shew At the end of Gerhardi Patrologia there are Funerall Orations had in divers Universities at Gerhards death where he is deservedly magnified CHAP. II. JOhn Gerson Anno Salutis 1410. 1363. saith Theuet A Divine of Paris right famous he was present at the Councell of Constance and in books written he commendeth highly the Decree whereby it is agreed that the Bishop of Rome should be subject to the Counsell And saith the thing is worthy to be written in all Churches and publick places for a perpetuall memory For he saith they are pestilent flatterers which bring this Tyranny into the Church as though the Bishop of Rome ought neither to obey the Counsell nor be judged by the same as though the Counsell should take all its force and authority from him as though it could not be called but at his pleasure as though he were bound to the observation of no Laws nor no accompt might be taken of his doings These monstrous sayings must be utterly rejected which are against all Laws equity and reason For all the authority of the Church dependeth on the generall Counsell and it is lawfull to appeal from the Pope unto it and those which inquire whether the Bishop of Rome or the Church be greater make as wise a question as if they should ask whether the part be more or the whole for it appertaineth to the Counsell to constitute to judge and to depose the Bishop of Rome as lately it was declared at Constance Sleid. Comment l. 1. The greatest Learned man of his time and the only Doctor and leader of the Councell of Constance B. Iewels Pref. to his Defence of his Apol. He was counted a subtill Disputer and profound School-Doctor and for his Wisdom and Learning was thought worthy to be the Director of all the Bishops in the Councell of Constance that is all the Bishops of the world Iewels Def. of his Apol. part 4. c. 15. The Learned and devout Chancellor of Paris B. Bedell Waddesw lett p. 107. He wrote a Book de auferibilitate Papae ab Ecclesia intimating that it is in the power of a Generall Councell to cast the Pope out of his place and to choose another He was singularly acquainted with temptations and wrote a Book De variis Diaboli tentationibus He was sirnamed Doctor Christianissimus Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Quid potuit Sorbona doces meritissimè Gerso Magni Gerso luxque decusque chori His Works are Printed in four Volumes his French Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Conradus Gesnerus He was born at Zurick the chief Town of the Helvetians Anno Christi 1516. He was scarce 49 years old when he died He died Anno Christi 1565. Neander in the first part of his Geography highly commends him especially for those three Works his Historia Annimalium and Stirpium and Bibliotheca Verè sanctissimus doctissimus omnibusque numeris absolutissimus totius Enropae ornamentum Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Bulling Nobilis ejus fama quam praeclaris scriptis suis sibi peperit jampridem in omnes Orbis provincias emanarit Waseri ad Mithridatem Gesireri Commentarius Caius in his Book de Libris propriis commends him highly and much bewails his death He practised Physick in Zurick and taught Philosophy for a publick stipend 25 years Vir pius omni genere virtutum ornatissimus omnia naturae arcana perscrutatus in omni literarum genere praesertim verò in medicina Philosophia naturali atque Philologia clarissimas lucubrationes edidit lumen Germaniae decus Helvetiae Boissardi Icones He mentions his Works William Gibieuf Doctor of Sorbonne He hath written two Books De libertate Dei Creaturae which are often cited by Bishop Davenant and others Obertus Gifanius Vir eruditissimus mihique obrarat excellentissimi ingenii dotes carissimus Jos. Scal. Com. in Copam He hath published Observationes in Linguam Latinam Gulielmus Gilbertus an English man He hath written a painfull and an experimentall Work touching the Loadstone Bac. Advancem of Learning l. 2. c. 13. That admirable searcher of the nature of the Loadstone D r Gilbert by means of whom and of D r Harvey our Nation may claim even in this later age as deserved a Crown for solid Philosophical Learning as for many ages together it hath done formerly for acute and subtill speculations in Divinity Sir Ken. Digb Treat of
chanced one the rest looking upon to fall down by sudden death This Waldus being one of them who beholding the matter more earnestly then the other and terrified with so heavy an example Gods holy Spirit working with all was stricken with a deep and inward repentance whereupon followed a new alteration with a carefull study to reform his former life He admonished others also to repent and ministred large alms of his goods to such as needed Many people therefore daily resorting to him and he seeing them ready and diligent to learn he began to give out to them certain rudiments of the Scripture which he had translated himself into the French Tongue The Bishops seeing him so to intermeddle with Scriptures and to have such resort about him albeit it was but in his own house under private conference threatned to excommunicate him if he did not leave so to do He despising their Excommunication they ceased not with prison with sword and banishment to persecute him till at length they had driven both Waldus and all the favourers of his true preaching out of the City Whereupon came first their name and they were called Waldenses or Pauperes de Lugduno because they being thrust out both of Countrey and goods were compelled to live poorly whether they would or no. See Doctor Chalon Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam part 2. pag. 91 92 93 94. D r Iohn Wallis the learned Professor of Arithmetique and Geometry in Oxford and one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster There is his Grammaticâ— linguae Anglicanae Another Work in English Nich. Waltherus an eminent Divine in East-Frizeland He hath published Spicilegium Controversiarum 22. De SS Dei nominibus Officina Biblica Harmonia Biblica sive Conciliator locorum Bibliorum Harmonia totius Scripturae Iâ— Wamesius De Appellat Consilia Samuel Ward a learned and pious Divine There is his Magnetis reductorium Theologicum And divers English Sermons D r Samuel Ward Professor of Divinity in Cambridge His Gratia discriminans is an excellent Sermon and opposite to the Arminian Doctrine Sir Iames Ware He hath written De Scriptoribus Hiberniae Antiquitates Hiberniae Casper Waserus a learned Linguist He hath written De antiquis nâ—mmis mensuris Hebraeorum De nummis Ebraeis in usu Scriptor diligentissimus doctissimusque Selder uâ— De Iure Naturali Gentium l. 6. c. 17. Dr. Gilbert Wats a learned Englishman now living Gulielmus Watsius an English Divine whom Vossius in his Book De vitiis Sermonis often honourably mentions He hath translated Austens Confessions and added Notes to it Geo. Weiganmeierus There are these Works of his published Iustit Heb. Linguae per Tab. Abbreviat Hebr. in Com. Hebr. Abbreviat Hebr. explicatio Crinesius De Confas Linguarum c. 3. commends him for a most accurate writer and mentions him with Drusius Schindler Buxtorf as one of the most approved Grammarians of our age Mar. Frider. Wendelinus He hath put forth these Works Christiana Theologia Admiranda Nili Institutiones Logicae Contemplationes Physicae And some Theolog. Exercit. lately Io. de Wesalia See Foxes Acts and Monum Vol. 1. p. 948. There are his Paradoxa Matthaeus Wesenbecius was born at Antwerp Anno à Salute partâ 1531. a learned Lawyer Fuit Theoricus instructissimus practicus excellentissimus Melch. Adam in ejus vita Nostri seculi alter Papinianus conjunxerat ille verae religionis studium professionem cum juris prudentia Gryn Epist. l. 1. Epist. 11. Melchior Adam in his Life relates the manner of his conversion from Popery His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and Melchior Adam in his Life He made this Epitaph for himself before his death Matthaeus placidâ sopitus pace quiesco Iustitiae juris praeco Wesenbecius Vita mihi studium fuit impensique labores Et dolor gemitus assiduaeque preces Iova pater miserere mei miserere meorum Solius in Christi sanguine nostra salus Wesselus Groningensis otherwise named Basilius He preceded Luther he was excellently learned in Physick Divinity in the Greek Hebrew and Latine and therefore of the people he was called Lux mundi the light of the world whom Luther was wont to call his prodromus He demonstrated that the Pope was Antichrist whom the Disciples of Christ ought in no wayes to follow He wrote a Book De dignitate potestate Ecclesiastica in which book he saith That Subjects should be absolutely and simply bound to beleeve the Pope is so irrational and full of blasphemy that it is found more pestilent then any heresie whatsoever Being aged upon a certain time when a young man called M. Ioannes Ostendorpius came to him he said these words Well my childe thou shalt live to that day when thou shalt see that the doctrine of these new and contentious Divines as Thomas and Bonaventure with others of the same sort shall be utterly rejected and exploded from all true Christian Divines And this which Ostendorpius then being young heard Weselus to speak he reported himself to Noviomagus which wrote this story Anno 1520. and heard it of the mouth of the said Weselus Anno 1490. Foxes Act. and Monum vol. 1. p. 955 956. Vide Effig vit Profes Acad. Groningae Omlandiae Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Matth Westmonasteriensis Anno Dom. 1370. A famous Historian Elizabeth Weston a learned English woman commended by Ioseph Scaliger and Ianus Dousa She hath written a Book of Poetry called Parthenicon Angla vel Angelica es vel prorsus es Angelus immo Si sexus vetat hoc Angelus est animus So Dousa as I remember William Whateley a Divine well versed in the original Text both Hebrew and Greek a frequent and powerfull Preacher and whose Life was answerable to his Doctrine There are his Exposition of the ten Commandments A Care-cloath or Treatise of the Cumbers of Marriage Prototypes And some Sermons Deg. Wheare both learned and godly he was History-Reader in Oxford He hath put out a Book entitled De ratione as methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Where he reckons up the several Greek and Latine Historians and censures them and shews the method of reading them Abraham Wheelock He was the first Arabick Professor in Cambridge He hath put out Beda in Latine and Saxon with Notes D. William Whitaker a learned and pious Divine He was Master of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and the Kings Professor in Divinity Famous for his admirable skill in the Arts and Tongues and for his controversal Works especially his Confutation of Campian Sanders Paree William Rainolds Stapleton and Bellarmine That honour of our Schools and Angel of our Church learned Whitaker then whom our Age saw nothing more memorable What clearnesse of judgement what sweetnesse of style what gravity of person what grace of carriage was in that man Who ever saw him without reverence or heard him without
by those who most improved the light of nature and revealed Christ by the Gospel to those who were more wicked and perverse then they Deut. 32. 28. Ezek. 3. 16. 5. 6. Matth. 11. 21. not to Socrates Plato Aristides Cato laudatissima inter Gentiles nomina but to more wicked But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness 1 Cor. 1. 23. The Jews mock us because we had such a Messiah which cried out My God my God why hast thou saken me If he was God say they why did he so cry out did not all troubles come to him by his own will Wisdom is justified of her children We have those famous Apologies of Iustin Martyr who dedicated his first to the Roman Senate and his second to Antoninus Pius Augustus and that of Tertullian who in the time of Severus the Emperour seeing Christians persecuted only for the Name as a sufficient crime wrote his Learned large and accurate Apology dedicating it to the Emperour and his Sonne He is styled by Pierius Valerianus Acerrimus Christiani nominis propugnator The wiser Heathens did call the Christians Idiots and reproached them as illiterate But the Atheist cannot name any age wherein the Heathen had an Oliver to oppugne our Christian profession but we had a Rowland to defend it If they had a Porphâ—rie or Celsus to oppose Philosophy against it we had an Arnobius an Origen to maintain and follow Christianity If they had a Symmachus we had an Ambrose and Prudentius If they had a Iulian we had a Gregory Nazianzon Those Atlasses of Christian Religion equalled the most renowned Heathens in all Learning as well as they exceeded them in true Religion Such among others were Iustin a Philosopher and Martyr Tertullian Irenaeus Cyprian Origen Learned to a miracle Clement of Alexandria Eusebius Epiphanius the three Learned Gregories Nazianzene Nyssene Thaumaturgus both the Basils Athanasius Cyrill Minutius Faelix Arnobius Chrysostom Ierom Ambrose Lactantius Austin Prosper Hilary Prudentius and others of most eminent Learning piety and courage who defended the Christian Religion against proud Heathens and pestilent Hereticks of those daies D r Gaudens Defence of the Ministry pag. 407. Of all the Countries subject to the Papall Empire England suffered the most hard and shamefull servitude especially in the reign of Henry the 2 d and Iohn and Henry the 3 d. Some say England was the first Kingdom in all the world which received the Gospel with the countenance of Supream Authority it was prima provinciarum quae amplexa est fidem Christi so Sabellicus and others By whom the Christian Religion was first brought hither is disputed some say by Iames the brother of Iohn some Simon Zelotes some Peter and Paul others Ioseph of Arimathea some Gregory the Pope See Camdens Prefat ad Britan. Godw. de praesulibus Angliae Antiquitates Britannicae Episc. Usser de Britannic Eccles. Primord cap. 8. Bed Hist. l. 1. cap. 23. B. Mort. Appeal l. 1. c. 4. 9. Rivii Reg. Anglic. in Hiber def p. 44 c. The first Christian King that ever was in the world was King Lucius a Britain and the first Christian Emperour was born in England even Constantine the Great Habemus optime vir Dei saith Zanchius in his 2 d Book of Epist. to Bullinger upon the relation of the burning of Archbishop Cranmer pro quo gratias aga mus Deo quod tot tantorumque virorum sanguine cùm alibi tum praesertim in illo Anglicano Regno sacro sanctum Filii sui Evangelium quotidie obsignare dignatur ad confirmandam fidem nostram ad instaurationem sanctorum Fieri non potest quin solum illud tanto Martyrum sanguine irrigatum laetas Domino segetes ferat ex quibus Ecclesia Christi coalescat Fieri etiam non potest quin tantus sanguis è terra clamet ad Dominum O barbaram impiam omnis humanitatis expertem meretricem Perdat illam Deus quam citissimè sua in illam judicia patefaciat Thuanus reporteth of Ludovicus Marsacus a Knight of France when he was led with other Martyrs that were bound with coards to execution and he for his dignity was not bound he cryed Cur non me quoque torque donas insignis hujus ordinis militem creas Give me my chain to let me be a Knight of the same Order CHAP. III. The second great false Religion is Mahometism IN the Year of our Lord 666 the detestable Sect of Mahumet began to take strength and place Moamed or Machumed an Ishmaelite being a poor man till he married a widow wealthy and of high countenance having the falling sickness whereby the widow was sorry that she matched with him perswaded her by himself and others that his fits were but a trance wherein he talked with the Angel Gabriel The woman made women beleeve that her husband was a Prophet afterwards men by help of certain Heretiques set the false Prophet forward From Iudaism Arius Nâ—storius and his own brain he frameth a Doctrine He prevaileth so by force of his wilde company and guile deceiving the simple that before his death he winneth Arabia and the Countries about Euphrates The sonnes of Ishmael ashamed of Agars name borrow from Sara the term of Saracens Brought Concent He gave sundry Laws to his followers patched of many Sects and Religions together He taught them to pray ever to the South and as we keep the Sunday so they keep the Friday which they call the day of Venus He permitted them to have as many Wives as they were able to maintain to have as many Concubines as they list to abstain from the use of wine except on certain solemn daies in the year to have and worship only one God omnipotent saying that Moses and the Prophets were great men but Christ was greater and greatest of all the Prophets as being born of the Virgin Mary by the power of God without mans seed and at last was taken up to heaven but was not slain but another in his likeness for him Fox's Act. and Monum Vol. 1. p. 161. See 963 964. The Persians beleeve in Mahomet yet the Turks and they differ in opinion about him the one pursuing the other with most deadly hatred insomuch that there is almost continuall Warre between them The Alcoran is given out for the Word of God it is written in Arabick verse in form of a Dialogue between the Angell Gabriel and their Prophet it is prohibited to be translated which both preserves the Arabick tongue and conceals the Religion M r Henry Blunt's Voyage into the Levant p. 146. The Alcoran is stuft with obsceanness lies miracles visions morall and naturall Philosophy such trash as may wonderfully provoke the silliest Student to a height of laughter It is in Volume twice so big as the Psalmes of David divided into a hundred and fourteen Chapters He denies Christ to be the
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
call Rules or Canons and by reason of the end because it was collected and confirmed to that end that it may prescribe a Rule of Ecclesiastical Government The Canon-Law contains The Decree of Gratian for the most part collected out of the sentences of Fathers and Decrees of Councels The Decretals of Gregory the ninth The sixth of the Decretals of Boniface the eighth The Clementines and Extravagants collected out of the Epistles and replies of the Popes Corpus Canonum à Gratiano Monacho consarcinatum ab Eugenio 111. Pontifice Rom. comprobatum authoritate firmatum fuisse constat qui ut in Academiis doceretur propéque Tribunali in Iudiciis reciperetur ut postea factitatum est praecepit Gentil Apol. c. 1. Lancelots Institutions are commended for the Canon-Law as Minsinger on Iustinians Institutions for the Civil-Law In the Body of the Canon-Law the Canons are sometimes diametrially opposite one to the other Archidaconus Panormitan Innocentius Rebuffus were famous Canonists Of Philosophy It is either Natural or Moral called Ethicks Natural Philosophy De mundo aut de iis quae sunt in mundo quaerit Pier Valer. Hierog l. 38. c. 10. Tully cals Philosophy in his Offices Studium sapientiae in his Tusculanes virtutis indagatricem expultricemque vitiorum How many several sorts of Philosophers are mentioned who were severed by their distinct Schools of Academicks Peripatetiques Stoicks Epicures Pythagoreans too numerous to be rehearsed Of all which see Desiderii Iacotii De Philosophorum doctrina libellum ex Cicerone Aristotle was the Prince of the Peripateticks Zeno the chief of the Stoicks Epicurus of the Epicureans and Pythagoras of the Pythagoreans Philosophiam optimè docebit Plato Aristoteles atque hujus Discipulus Theophrastus tum utrinque mixtus Plotinus Erasm. De Ratione Studii As the Grecians for the title of wise men called themselves lovers of wisdome that is Philosophos so also the Doctors of the Jews often were not called wise men but Scholars of wise men that is studious of wisdome Ubi desinit Philosophus ibi incipit Medicus ubi desinit Medicus ibi incipit Theologus Ethicks or Moral Philosophy It is so called because it is conversant about the manners of men The adequate object of it are humane actions not considered any way but as honesty hath place in them and as they are capable of vertue D r Ames hath a Theological Disputation against it and shews that all Aristotles practical vertues are to be found in the Scripture Physick The subject of it is mans body the end health It is lawfull it was before the promulgation of the Law Gen. 50. 2. The Poets brought in Apollo as the chief god of Medicine to whom they have assigned Aesculapius for his sonne Christ was a Physician both of soul and body Omnibus est aliis Medicus praestantior unus Is Homers verse Physical Institutions are a 〈…〉 llificium compounded out of the choisest flowers A long series of times ha 〈…〉 brought forth many famous Grecians Physicians some Latines and some Arabians Among the Grecians Hippocrates and Galen excelled Dioscordes also was a good Physician Amongst the Latine Physicians Cornelius Celsus was the first Of late Fernelius and Sennertus Amongst the Arabians Avicenna Rhazes Averrhoes Avenzoar Mesue Serapio and Alsaharavius were chief In Plants there is much difficulty Vide Voss. De vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 28. Rondeletius Matthiolus Bellonius Camerarius Bauhinus Spigelius have done well about Herbs Alexandria of old and Padua of late is famous for the Profession of Physick Metaphysicks It is the highest part of all Philosophy from the subject of it because it treats De causa altissima D r Ames hath a Theological Disputation against Metaphysicks and saith it is but an imaginary science M r Baxter in his Reply to M r Kendall saith he hath above thirty Tracts of Metaphysicks by him and seems to value Suarez Schibler and Burgersdiciâ—s before all the rest History Historia est testis temporum nuncia vetustatis lux veritatis vita memoriae Magistra vitae Cic. 2 do de Oratore Historia est rerum publicè gestarum diffusa continuata narratio Muretus The end of it is double profit and pleasure Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. Ferdinand King of Sicily and Alphonsus King of Spain recovered their health by reading of History the first by reading Livy the second by reading Q. Curtius Some have observed that the being versed in Books of History makes men wiser then in those of Policy for that those furnish us with instances as well as rules and as it were personate the rule and draw it out more into the full lineaments M r Herles Morall prudence ch 19. History is either 1. Ecclesiasticall which handleth Church matters and is for its Antiquity and Dignity to have the precedence Vide Sixt. Senens in Praefat. ad Lectorem in Bibliotheca Sancta Or 2. Politicall which handleth civil matters in Kingdoms States or Commonweals Just or perfect History is of three kindes according to the nature of the object which it propounds to represent for it either represents a portion of time or some memorable Person or some famous Act. The first we call Chronicles or Annals the second Lives the third Relations Of these Chronicles seem to excell for celebrity and name Lives for profit and examples Relations for sincerity and verity S r Francis Bac. Advancem of Learn l. 2. c. 7. The History of Times is either universall or particular This comprehends the affairs of some Kingdom or State or Nation That the affairs of the world Amongst Histories Itineraries have the preheminence when one shall faithfully relate the most memorable things he hath observed by travelling into many and strange Countries And amongst Itineraries that of R. Benjamin a Jew hath been very much esteemed by many saith Constantine L'Empereur because he did not only travell over Europe and Africa but professeth that he entred into the most inward and extream regions of Asia where he witnesseth that he saw rare things and yet unknown to our world and therefore his little book abundantly affords examples of very many things so that it cannot but be read with delight The first Law given to an Historian saith Tully de Oratore is Nequid falsi dicere audeat deinde nequid veri non audeat ne qua suspicio gratiae sit in scribendo ne qua simultatis The composing of a History consists in things and words for things he must have respect to the order of time and the description of places the manners lives counsels sayings deeds and events of men for words the kinde of speech must not be large yet adorned with a pure and famous brevity T. Livius in the opinion of all Learned men is the Prince of Latine History there are only two books of Salusts Caesars Commentaries contain famous things but done in a few years
They delighted to write songs of pleasure of which sort was Pindar Anacreon and Callimachus with others among the Greeks Horace and Catullus among the Latines 3. Elegiack who wrote in a certain pitious verse called Elegy such among the Latines were Ovid Tibullus and Propertius 4. There were Comicall Poets who wrote Enterludes to recreate the people with matters of disport of whom among the Greeks Menander and Aristophanes were most excellent with the Latines Terence and Plautus and also Tragicall who set forth the dolefull fals of unfortunate and afflicted Princes such were Aeschyius Euripides and Sophocles with the Greeks Seneca among the Latines Satyricall who taxed the vices of the people in bitter speeches such were Lucilius Iuvenall and Persius among the Latines Others were given wholly to scoffing at undecent things and in short Poems uttered pretty merry conceits and these were called Epigrammatists as Martiall Poets are drawn with a desire of glory and are greedy of praise Nec petitur sacris nisi tantum fama Poetis There are Deliciae Poetarum where the famous Italian French German and Scotch Poets are mentioned Chytraeus hath this Epigram In tres Petros Poetas Carmine quid possint Itali cum Teutone Galli Scire cupis ternos aspice quaeso Petros Italiae Angelium Ronsardum Gallia suave Lorichii ingenium Teâ—tonis â—ra tulit Of Painting Painting is silent Poetry and Poetry a speaking Picture Of the first Inventer of it See Polyd. Verg. de Invent. Rerum l. 2. c. 24. Zeuxis Appelles Lysippus Parrhasius Praxiteles Phidias were famous Painters Two Artificers contended for the mastery in their Art and faculty the first drawing Grapes so lively that he couzened the birds the other a Vail so exquisitely that he couzened the Artificer himself Of Navigation This Art is much perfected since Salomons time Prima dedit nautis usum magnetis Amalphis Iohn Tapp hath written of the Art of Navigation and S t Thomas Rives hath written Historiam Navalem in two parts The vertue of the Loadstone is certainly wonderfull unknown to Aristotle and Plâ—ny and all the Ancients which vertue thus now being known and understood Navigation through and about the whole world was made easie and happy Sir Francis Bacon in his first book of the Advancement of Learning lib. 1 cap. 4. saith The Sciences which hold more of the Fancy and of Belief then of Reason and Demonstration are chiefly three Astrology naturall Magick and Alchimy I. For Astrology Though the Ancients generally confounded Astronomy and Astrology yet they are to be distinguished as the very Greek words shew The Scripture Psal. 19. commending the Sunne and the Starry Heavens for all its proper uses and ends that we should make of them saith not the least word of Judiciall Astrology or foretelling future events in the world by them whereas if that were true which is said that God by the Heavens as by a Book hath revealed what he would do it would have commended the study of the Heavens for this end to all for if God have manifested his will by it then certainly he would have commanded us to search for it there as he doth command us to finde out his will in the Scripture But the Scripture is so farre from commending such a study that it expresly forbids it as a grievous sinne Deut. 18. 10 14. Isa. 2. 6. 41. 23. 44. 25. 47. â—2 Iâ—â— 10. 2. Eccles. 10. 14. And that Judiciall Astrology is a vanity appeareth by this reason They undertake to foretell contingencies for the most part from the position of the seven Planets Now there being so vast a number of fixed Stars which have influence in earthly things in some proportion as well as the Planets how is it possible that they should foretell any certain truth One in Basill by his calculation noted a certain day which he mistrusted should be fatall unto him by some thing which should at that time befall him Whereupon he determined with himself all that day to keep him sure and safe within his chamber where he reaching up his hand to take down a Book the Book falling down upon his head gave him his deaths wound and shortly after he died upon the same Tycho Brahe in his Oration de Disciplinis Mathematicis doth plead somewhat for Astrology But Gassendus de Doctrina Epicuri hath a Diatribe against Judiciall Astrology and cals it ridiculous Sixtus ab Hemminga wrote a Book against those which profess Astrology which he entitled Astrologia ratione experientia refutata liber He shews there that all the promises which Astronomers make of future events are vain and that evidently in the genitures of thirty famous persons which Suffridus Petrus de Scriptoribus Frisiae reckons up Another kinde of Divination is Physiognomy If I say a sanguineous man is prone to lust that is a true judgement this is properly Physiognomy but if thou saiest he is actually lustfull that is a rash judgement for by reason or the grace of God he may restrain that as the story of Socrates is known A certain kind of Physiognomy is called Chiromancy or Palmestry which is a divination by inspection of the lines in the hand Frontemque manumque praebebit vati Juv. Sat. 1. Aristotle in his singular book of Physiognomy hath made no mention of Chiromancy yet I beleeve the Egyptians who were addicted to those abstruse and mysticall sciences had a knowledge therein to which those vagabond and counterfeit Egyptians did after pretend and perhaps retained a few corrupted principles which sometimes might verifie their prognosticks D r Brown Religio Medici See of them Camerar Histor. Meditat. l. 1. c. 17. II. Of Natural Magick Some distinguish between Natural Artificial and Diabolical though others dislike them all Zoroaster is said first to invent this Art of Magick Vide Aug. De Civ Dei l. 21. c. 14. Polyd. Verg. De Invent. Rerum l. 1. c. 22. Magick flourished especially among the Persians One saith Magia est ars impetrandi à Diabolo quicquid ipsi praescripseris Magick is an Art of obtaining of the Devil whatsoever thou shalt command him As Christianity is an Art of obtaining from God what is profitable so Magick is an Art of obtaining from the Devil what thou shalt command him For the Devil is the Author and worker of those things which the Magicians work though one saith The Art is but Naturalis Philosophiae absoluta consummatio the absolute perfection of natural Philosophy Plinie speaketh of Moses his Myracles though he do ill in calling him a Magician for 1. what likenesse is there between the illusions of a Magician which vanish away in the twinkling of an eye and the leading of a mighty great Nation through the Sea and which is more the maintaining of them from hunger and thirst so long a time There is no Law in the world
about the Scriptures Act. 6. 9. In Ecclesiasticall Histories we may see this care of the Apostles and their Disciples in setling Schools every where where Churches were built and in setting over them such men as were indued with singular piety and Learning Hence those most famous Schools of Antioch Alexandria and Constantinople and many others in the East and also in the West which were indowed by Emperours and Kings with most ample rewards priviledges and all kinde of benefits that the pure Doctrine might be continued in them The Egyptians Chaldeans Babylonians Persians Grecians Romans set up Schools and by great liberality and other waies promoted Learning and incouraged Schollars Vide Lipsi Lovanium l. 3. c. 6 7 8. Quintilian in the second Chapter of his first Book Instit. Orat. handleth this Question Utiliusne sit domi atque intra privatos parietes studentem continere an frequentiae scholarum velut publicis praeceptoribus tradere Whether children be more profitably taught at home or in some publick School Ante omnia saith he futurus orator cui in maxima celebritate in media Reipublicae luce vivendum est assuescat jam à tenero non reformidare homines neque illa solitaria velut umbratili vita pallescere Necesse est enim sibi nimium tribuat qui se nemini comparat Adde quòd domi ea sola discere potest quae ipsi praecipientur in Schola etiam quae aliis Audiet multa quotidie probari multa corrigi proderit alicujus objurgata desidia proderit laudata industria excitabitur laude aemulatio turpe ducet cedere pari pulchrum superasse majores Accendunt omnia haec animos licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio frequenter tamen causa virtutum est Immediatly after Schollars come to the University they are matriculated and then they enjoy the priviledges of the University They are called Undergraduates till they receive a degree after Graduati or in better Latine In gradu aliquo dignitatis constituti The first degree with us is that of Bachelor of Arts which they cannot attain usually before four years standing or near it Three years after they may if they be sufficient Schollars take the Degree of Masters of Arts which are Doctors as it were of the Arts and therefore a Master of Art takes place of a Doctor of Musick because he is Doctor but of one Art Seven years after they are Masters of Arts they may take the Degree of Bachelors of Divinity and five years after they may Commence Doctors of Divinity so that they are almost of twenty years standing before they take that highest Degree Of the Ceremonies used in creating of Doctors D r Prideaux speaks sufficiently in his Lectures Alsted in his Encyclopaedia l. 24. c. 13. and Iunius in Academiis handle the Universities after the Alphabeticall order of the severall Countries and so beginning with Anglia they first mention Oxford and Cambridge then they mention Bohemia and in it Prague then Denmark in it Hafna then France in it Alsted mentions sixteen Universities then Germany where he rehearseth twenty five Universities then Spain there he reckons up twenty two Universities then Italy there eleven three in Polonia and three in Scotland Iunius speaks of Lusitania before Polonia where he mentions Conimbra Leukenor our Countryman in his Discourse of Universities first begins with Germany high and low and so goes on with Italy France Polonia Prussia and Lituania Bohemia and Moravia Spain England and Scotland Middendorpius mentions them in this order Italy Sicily Germany Polonia Spain England Scotland CHAP. VIII Of the Universities of Germany Denmark and Sweden I Shall follow Leukenors method who is much beholding to Middendorpius and Neander beginning with Germany and ending with England Scotland and Ireland I might speak also of the famous University of Athens the Greece of Greece as Thucidides cals it It was the place where Rhetorick had its first birth and was brought to an height greater then it ever had in any place In which one City in memory of one age were more Learned men and that in a manner altogether then all time doth remember In Philosophy Plato Aristotle Xenophon Euclide and Theophrast In Eloquence and Civil Law Demosthenes Aeschynes Lycurgus Dinachus Demades Isocrates Isaeus Lysias Antisthenes Androcides In Histories Thucydides Xenophon In Poetry Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes It was the universall Study of all the world one was not held Learned saith Munster in the 4 th Book of his Universall Cosmography who had not studied at Athens The Mathematicks excepted which came rather from the Chaldeans and the Egyptians the whole flower of Arts and good Learning came from Greece Of the Universities in Germany High and Low Divers great Schollars have been bred in Germany Ockam a stout Defender of the Rights of the Empire against the encroachments of the Pope Otho Frisingensis the Historian Albertus Magnus the Philosopher Martin Luther that great instrument of the Reformation and Philip Melancthon his coadjutor in that work the Phoenix of that age Ioachim Camerarius a great friend of Philips Martin Chemnitius a solid and laborious Writer Flaccius Illyricus the chief Author of the Magdeburgian Centuries Sebastian Munster an industrious Cosmographer and a learned Linguist Silburgius and both the Buxtorfs Alsted mentions twenty five Universities in Germany others reckon fewer Germania plures nune Academias habet quam reliqua Europa universa Lipsii Lovanium l. 3. c. 8. I. The Universities of High Germany Colen The University was instituted by Pope Urbane the sixt at the instance of the Senate and people of Colen in the year of our Saviours Incarnation 1388 saith Middendorpius He not only gave them full power and authority to conferre all degrees of Scholasticall honour to the Students therein but also confirmed unto them by a publique Charter the Priviledges of Paris There are three Colledges Collegium Montanum Laurentianum and Novum Coronarum There is also another most famous publick Schola trilinguis wherein the Hebrew Greek and Latine tongues and the Arts are also taught Basil. Armianus Marcellinus saith it is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a Kingdom because it is a royall City seated in a Princely place The River Rheine passeth thorow it and by means of it many Merchants come thither The University was founded by Pope Pius the 2 d Anno 1459. and he granted to it all the Priviledges Rights and Liberties which Colen Erford Vienna and Heidelberg enjoyed Basil is no great City nor very rich yet it hath often Printed and Reprinted the Fathers Works Erasmus of Roterdam was buried in the great Church here Here lives now the famous young Iohn Buxtorfe Mentz Dietherus of Eisenburg the Archbishop of Mentz was the Founder of this University in the year of our Lord 1482 wherein at the first beginning all Arts in generall were professed but now only Philosophy and the
another Kingdom who holds Oxford to be the ancienter Oxford also hath been famous for Learned Scholars Mathematicians and Schoolmen for the later there is no question and I shall mention divers of them when I speak of Merton Colledge For the first Roger Bacon Bradwardine Simon Bredon and Oddington were famous The first Professor in Civil Law in England viz. Vacarius was of Oxford Oxford lies in a Champion plain It is a fair and goodly City whether a man respect the seemly beauty of private houses or the stately magnificence of publick buildings together with the wholesom sight or pleasant prospect thereof It is formed in the figure of a Cross two long streets thwarting one another each of them near a mile in length containing in that compass thirteen Parish Churches and a See Episcopall founded here by King Henry the 8 th Anno 1541. For the Stateliness of the Schools and publick Library and Gallery the bravery and beauty of particular Colledges all built of fair and polished stone the liberall endowment of those houses and great incouragements of Industry and Learning in the salary of the Professors in most Arts and Sciences it is say some not to be paralleled in the Christian world D r Iames hath set out two Catalogues of the publick Library in Oxford One published in the year 1605 which mentions the Books Alphabetically distinguished according to the four Faculties The other 1620. in which there is only a care had of the Alphabeticall order by this more exact Catalogue one may readily finde any Authour and all the Works of that Authour uno intuitu If the Library be inferiour to the Popes Vaticane in sumptuous building yet in Printed Books if not in Manuscripts there being many choice ones given by Sir Thomas Bodlie and of late by my Lord of Pembroke and Archbishop Laude in almost all Languages it may well contend with it for a Superiority Reckon the number of Volumes in the publick Library whereof the greatest part are in Folio which amount to 11 or 12 thousands of divers Authours the plurality of Languages the diversity of Sciences wherein these Books are written the condition of the Books whether written or printed by Protestants or Papists or any other the use for six hours every day throughout the whole year Sundaies and Holydaies excepted and we shall finde that the like Library is no where to be found D r Iames of the Corrupt of Script Counc and Fath. part 5. In Oxford there are 18 Colledges endowed with Lands besides 7 Halls where Students live at their own charges in both of them Professors of the Arts and Sciences as also of Divinity Law Physick and the learned Languages with Liberall Salaries University Colledge Founded 872. Alfred or Allured King of the West Saxons being addicted to Religion and good literature for the increase and study of Divinity Philosophy and other Arts in the 2 d year of his reign founded this Colledge by the name of University Colledge George Abbat Archbishop of Canterbury was of this Colledge Baliol Colledge Founded 1262. Iohn Baliol born at Bernads Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham a worthy Warriour to King Henry the 3 d in his civil Warres against his Barons with his wife Dervorgilla a Lady of Honourable Parentage Parents of Iohn Baliol King of the Scots Founded this Colledge giving thereunto both Lands and Revenews for the maintenance of a Master 10 Fellows and 11 Scholars which is Recorded to be the first and most anciently endowed Colledge in this University as some late Historians constantly affirm Iam Fundatoris imprimis Balioli Regis Scotiae nomen jactat quasi tum olim Scotia suos Reges Academiae nostrae propitios in Baliolo suo sposponderit quod in Iacobo nostro jam faeliciter appropinquante praestitit Wake Rex Plat. Iohn Wiclefe was of this House Wiclefus ille Restaurator Religionis cui non notus Baliolensis Alber. Gent. Laud. Acad. Perusin Oxon. Merton Colledge Founded 1274. Walter de Merton sometimes L. Chancellour of England Counsellour to King Henry the 3 d and Edward the first Bishop of Rochester Founded this Colledge by the name of Merton Colledge endowing it in effect with all the Lands and Revenews which at this present are belonging thereunto ordaining in the same a Warden and no definitive number of Fellows It may be styled Collegium Scholasticorum Bacon Burlie Occham Scotus Bradwardine Gatisdene Dumbleton Nicholas Gorrham Suitzaeus great lights of Europe were of this Colledge What one Colledge ever yielded at one time and from one Country three such Divines as Iewell Raynolds and Hooker or two such great Wits and Heroicall spirits as S r Thomas Bodley and S r Henry Savill D r Hackw Epist. Dedicat. to Oxford before his Apology Of this Colledge also were Bishop Carleton S r Isaac Wake the University Orator Excester Colledge Founded 1316. Walter Stapleton being descended of Noble Parentage for his Wisdom Gravity and Learning was often employed in Embassages from King Edward the 2 d who made him Bishop of Excester Lord Treasurer of England and one of his Privy Councell Founded this Colledge it was much augmented by Sir William Peter D r Hakewell Fellow of this House erected and finished the new Chappell D r Prideaux was Head of this House D r Holland was of this House Orial Colledge Founded 1337. King Edward the 2 d erected it it was so called because it was indeed a work which might beseem a King Queens Colledge Founded 1340. Robert Eglesfield Batchelor of Divinity Chaplain to Queen Philippa wife to King Edward the 3 d founded this Colledge in his own ground by the name of Queens Colledge commending the Patronage thereof to his Lady the Queen and to the Queens of England successively which he endowed with Lands and Revenews They are called to Dinner and Supper by the sound of a Trumpet Doctor Ayrie who wrote so well upon the Philippians was Provost of this Colledge Learned D. Langbane is now the Provost of it and worthy M. Barlow the Publick-Library-Keeper a Fellow of it New Colledge Founded 1375. William Wickam principal Secretary to King Edward the 3 d Keeper of the Privy-Seal Bishop of Winchester Lord High Treasurer and Chancellour of England founded this Colledge He also founded a Colledge at Winchester wherein he established one Warden ten Fellows two Schoolmasters and seventy Scholars with Officers and servants which all are maintained at his charge out of which School he ordained should be chosen the best Scholars alwayes to supply the vacant places of the Fellows of this Colledge Thomas Chaundlerus librum de Wiccami vita rebus gestis sane perelegantem conscripsit Waynfleti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wickamus celebratur ab erudito Iurisconsulto Martino Of this Colledge was Philpot the famous Martyr and S r Thomas Rives Bishop Lake D r Twisse and D r Iames. Lincoln Colledge Founded 1420. Richard
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
framing the Decrees of Originall sinne and Justification having noted all the opinions and reasons used in those Discussions thought to communicate them unto the world and to draw the words of the Decree to his own meaning printed a Book containing the whole together and did intitle it De Natura Gratia and did Dedicate it with an Epistle to the Councell to be as he said in the Dedication a Commentary of the two foresaid Decrees Coming to the Article of the certainty of grace he said in a long Discourse that the Synod had declared that a man cannot know he hath grace by so great Certainty as is that of Faith excluding all doubt Catarinâ—s newly made Bishop of Minori having defended the contrary and still persevering did print a little book with an Epistle Dedicatory to the same Synod the scope whereof was to maintain that the Councels meaning was not to condemn the opinion of him that saith A just man may know he hath grace as certainly as he knoweth the Articles of Faith to be true yea that the Councell hath decided that he is bound to beleeve it because in the 26 Canon it hath condemned him that saith That the just man ought not to hope for and expect a reward it being necessary that he that ought to hope as a just man should know he is so In this contrariety of opinions both writing affirmatively to the Councell either of them did not only say that his opinion was the opinion of the Synod but afterwards wrote also and Printed Apologies and Antipologies making complaints to the Synod the one of the other of attributing that to it which it never said bringing divers testimonies of the Fathers to prove their own opinion who bare witness some for one some for another This seemed to put all men out of hope to understand the meaning of the Councell seeing the principall men that were present in it did not agree History of the Counc of Trent l. 2. p. 229 230. Cato he was called Cato Censorius to distinguish him from Cato Uticensis Pliny l. 7. c. 21. gives him a threefold Elogy he saith he was Optimus Orator optimus Imperator optimus Senator the best Orator the best Commander the best Senator M. Porcius Cato Censorius historieus eximius aliis quoque nominibus laudatissimus Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 5. Plutarch wrote his life Catullus Dulcissimus omnium poetarum politissimus Turneb Advers l. 12. c. 1. Iacobus Cavacius There is his Historia Caenobii D. Iustinae Patavinae Nemo sorâ—e melius nostra hac aetate monstravit quid valeat vivida foelix ingenii ab ipsa natura vis quam Iacobus Cavacius condiscipulus olim noster amicus omnium horarum Histeriarum libri sex brevissimo temporis intervallo absoluti eruditorum manibus tâ—runtur quos Phoenix Litteratorum Isaacus Casaubonus unicè â—â—rabatur Pignoriâ— Miscella Elog. Adclamat c. Nicol. Caussinus a very eloquent French Papist and yet living There are these Works of his Eloquentiae Sacrae humanae Paralela De Symbolica Aegyptiorum Sapientia Polyhistor Symbolicus Lâ— Coâ—r Saincte The â—uâ—us Graecae Poeseos Many of his Works are translated into English Aurelius Cornelius Celsus a Learned Physitian Vir in omni disciplina summus Augusti principatu vel Tiberii floruit Castellanus de vitis medicorum Vide plura ibid. Hippocrates ille Romanus He imitates Hippocrates as Marcellus doth Scribonius Virgill Homer and Oribasius Galene sed tam occulte ut non facile deprehendas nisi in Hippocrate multum sis versatus Caius de libris propriis Conradus Celtes He was in esteem in the time of Frederick the Emperour by whom through the perswasion of the Duke of Saxony he was adorned with a Poeticall Lawrell in the 32 year of his age and was the first of the Germanes that was honoured with this title Boxhorn Monum Illust. Vir. Elog. Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 3. c. 10. He and Eobanus Hessus were two of the most famous Poets of Germany He hath put out severall Works Index eorum omnium quae in orationem venire possunt De situ moribus Germaniae De Conscribendis Epistolis Urbis Norembergae descriptio Poemata and other Works CHAP. XI CEnturiae Ecclesiasticae Four Saxons gathered together in the City of Magdeburge viz. Flaccus Illyricus Ioannes Vigandus Matthaeus Iudex and Basilius Faber in religion rigid Luther anes took upon them to write the whole Ecclesiastical History from Christ to their times by centuries or ages allowing a hundred year to every age whence they are called Centuriatores Pars. threefold Convers. of Engl. part 1. l. 2. c. 5. Lucas Osiander hath epitomized the eight first Centuries of the Magdeburgenses so that he hath scarce omitted any thing necessary to be known All godly learned men and truly fearing God saith Melchior Adam in vita Wigandi have with Sturmius approved that Ecclesiastical History and to this day approve it because they see an Idea as it were of the Church of Christ in its several Centuries contained in it according to its propagation persecution tranquillity doctrine heresie Ceremonies Government schismes Synods persons miracles Martyrdoms the Religion out of the Church and Politick State of the Empire Iacobus Ceratinus He died at Lovain in the flower of his Age Anno 1530. Ludovicus de la Cerda a learned and industrious man He hath put out these Works Adversaria sacra Psalterii Salomonis c. Gr. MS. Codice Latina versio De excellentia Coelestium Spirituum imprimis de Angeli custodis Ministerio Annotationes in Tertullianum Com. in Lib. Virgilii and other Works Antonius Rodolphus Cevallerius a Norman a great Hebrician There are Rudimenta Hebraicae linguae recognita aucta ab eodem cum Pet. Cevallerii Annot. Joh. Tremellii Epistola Petrus Cevallorius a French man and very expert in the Hebrew Vir linguae sanctae dum viveret peritissimus mihique ob singularem pietatem morum probitatem charissimus Casaub. Animadvers in Athen. l. 3. c. 28. Demetrius Chalcondylas a diligent Grammarian who being himself a Grecian by Nation was Professour of the Greek in Italy Daniel Chamierus a Frenchman who in his Panstratiae Catholicae hath so learnedly refuted the Papists that none of them hath made any answer to it His Epistolae Iesuiticae and Corpus Theologiae also shew his great abilities There is also a Work of his in French entituled La Confusion Des Disputes Papistes Par Daniel Chamier And another in answer to some Questions of Coton the Jesuite which I cannot purchase He was killed at Mountaban with a Canon bullet which had a C. on it on the Lords-day Being asked by one before Whether he preached on that day He said it was his day of repose or rest and so it proved though he meant it in another sense Peter Charon a French Papist He
Writer There is his Book Contra Socinum and others Carolus Clusius a great Linguist Lipsius thus sported on him Omnia Naturae dum Clusi arcana recludis Clusius haud ultra sis sed Aperta mihi His Works are mentioned by Boissard Pet. Cluniacensis In the year 1150. He was called Venerabilis Petrus His Works are in one Volume Philippus Clunerius His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Vir stupendae lectionis curae Dilher Disput. Acad. Princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus Voss. de Histor. Graec. Magnum Germaniae ornamentum doctissimus Cluuerius noster Voss. Hist. Pelag. Iohn à Coch or Cocceius Amama in an Epistle to Martinius before that book of his entituled Duo tituli Thalmudici Sanhedrin Maccoth gives this Elogy of him Excitatum eum divinitus esse statuo ad provehenda altius linguarum Orientalium studia reseranda nobis Iudaeorum sacraria Nullus equidem Christianorum tantum in thalmudicis publice unquam praestitit quantum ille eruditissimo hoc de quo non nisi eruditissimi judicabunt scripto His Exposition of Iob the small Prophets and his Book De foedere are well esteemed Christ. Columbus an Italian a most skilfull Cosmographer He found out America called the New world Anno 1492. Columbus by his glorious discoveries more justly deserved a place for a Ship among the Southern constellations then ever the Argonantes did for their so celebrated Argo M r George Sandys Commentary upon the 13 th Book of Ovids Metamorphosis To him most truly agrees Plus ultrá Realdus Columbus Anatomicorum post Vesalium princeps Neand. Pet. Comestor He and Peter Lombard and Gratian were brethren born in adultery as some hold but Bellarmine thinks that opinion is without ground seeing they were of several Countreyes Philip de Commines Knight was born at Commines a Town in Flanders In his youth he served Charles Duke of Bâ—rgnudy and afterward Lewis the 11 th of that name King of France who imployed him in his weightiest and secretest affairs The French Tongue he spake perfectly and eloquently the Italian Dutch and Spanish reasonably well He hath written the History of France under Lewis the 11 th and Charles the 8 th his Sonne He was the Spectator and actor of his History Nothing more grieved him then that in his youth he was not trained up in the Latine Tongue which his misfortune he often bewailed The Emperour Charles the fifth and Francis the first King of France made so great account of this History that the Emperour carried it continually about with him and the King was much displeased with the publishing thereof Philippus Cominius rerum gerendarum usu clarissimus senator Bod. de Repub. lib. 3. cap. 7. He in his History dived so farre into and writ so plainly of the greatest affairs of State that Queen Catharine de Medices used to say that he had made as many hereticks in State-policy as Luther had done in Religion Stephanus Paschasius hath this Epitaph of him Gallorum nostrae laus una gloria gentis Hic Cominaee jaces si modo fortè jaces Historiae vitam potuisti reddere vivus Extincto vitam reddidit Historia Hier Commelinus Annas Comnenas Empresse of the East a learned woman She hath written eight books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De rebus à Patre gestis Gr. CHAP. XIII COncilia Councels There were six Oecumenical Councels orthodox and almost received by all Bishop Andrews in his Sermon on Numb 10. v. 1 2. reckons up seven See that Sermon The first Nicene Councel called by the Emperour Constantine the Great against Arius who denied the Deity of Christ. This was held in the year of our Lord 325. at Nice in Bithinia It consisted of 318 Bishops The Fathers of that Councel did publish a Creed against the Arians The greatest of all Councels next to the Apostles Councel the great Councel of Nice of 318 Bishops Urbs Nicaea clara à Synodo Nicaena quo coacti à Magno Constantino primo Christiano Imperatore convenorunt contra Arium Alexandrinum in Aegypto Diaconum 318 Episcopi quorum plerique Constantia tempore persecutionis dono miraculorum clari fuere teste Eusebio probatissimo Graeco scriptore Neand. Geog. parte 2 da. Vide Aug. Roch. Biblioth Vatic p. 58. to 75. of all these Councels The first Constantinopolitan Councel called by the Emperour Theodosius the elder against Macedonius who denied the Deity of the holy Ghost in the year of the Lord 383 or 384. The first Ephesine Councel called by Theodosius the younger against Nestorius who held That there were two persons in Christ in the year 430 or 434. 4. The Chalcedonian Councel called by the Emperour Martian against Eutyches which affirmed That there was onely one Nature in Christ after the Incarnation in the year of the Lord 451 or as some 452 and others 454. To these two other Councels are added the fifth the second Constantinopolitan in the year 548 or as others reckon it 553. called by Iustinian against the Arians Nestoriaens Eutychians The sixth is the third Constantinopolitan Councel against the Monothelites in the year 681 called by Constantinus Pognatus or Barbarus For the Councel of Trent Calvin wrote against it whilst it sate and Chemnitius and Gentilettus since Vide ejus Exam. Conc. Trid. l. 3. Sess. 12. Because nothing was resolved by the Fathers at the Councel of Trent but all in Rome a blasphemous Proverb was generally used That The Synod of Trent was guided by the holy Ghost sent thither from time to time in a Cloak-bag from Rome In this mock-Councel the Pope which was the principal party accused of Heresie was the onely Judge and disposer of all things passed therein against all good Examples Laws Equity and Reason Though the Councel of Trent hath been sufficiently answered by the Protestant Divines yet that excellent History of the Councel of Trent was never answered by the Papists In the Councel of Constance Communion under both kindes and Wickliffs opinions were condemned Iohn Hus and Ierom of Prague were burned against faith given and safe conduct granted by the Emperour Then that wicked maxim was established Haereticiâ— fides non est seruanda which is against Nature Scripture and the Law of Nations There is Summa Conciliorum Pontificum à Petro usque ad Concilium Tridenti num per Bartholomaeum Caranzam Ord. praedicat The National Synod of Dort began in the year 1618. To which were sent from England France Germany and other Reformed Churches many Learned and Orthodox Divines to discusse and unfold those unhappy Arminian Controversies with which the Low-countreys was then molested Confessiones variae The Confessions of Faith of the Churches professing the Gospel having been long ago exhibited to the several Princes of the Countreys States and Kingdoms where these Churches are are now of â—ate very profitably published to the just conviction of all such
R. attenta in Sueciam cum clade urbâ—s Hulmiae Bernard Zigler Zoilus Iohannes Zonar as a Greek Monk he flourished Anno Dom. 1120. He wrote three Books of Annals in which he comprehended Universal History from the beginning of the world even to the death of Alexius Comenus Emperour of the Grecians who died Anno 1118. His History in Greek and Latine is in three Tomes Zosimus There is his History in Greek and Latine in six Books D r Richard Zouch a learned Civilian of Oxford There are his Elementa Iuris prudentiae Descriptio Iuris Iudicii feudalis c. The Dove of Cosmography Vigilius Zuichemus He had all those accomplishments which are required in a compleat Professour of the Law being very much versed in the Theory and practice of the Law He had an exact knowledge of the Circle of the Arts and of History he had skill in the Greek Latine the Germane French and Italian Tongues Theodorus Zuingerus His great Work entitled Vita humanae theatrum got him a great name Basilius Amberbachius hearing of his death broke out with sighs into these words Piget me vivere post tantum virum cujus magnafuit doctrina sâ—d exigna si cum pietate conferatur It irks me to live after so great a man whose Learning was great but small if it be compared with his piety Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Iacobus Zuingerus The Son of the afore-named Zuingerus His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam There is his Principiorum Chymicorum examen Huldricus Zuuinglius Anno 1487. As Germany admired her Luther so Helvetia her Zuinglius He was skilfull in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues though hard to be goâ— at that time using the best Professours he had a great memory being able to repeat Valerius Maximus and S t Paul by heart whose Epistles he had copied out He frequently disputed with both Papists and Catabaptists whereof Franciscus Lambertus then a minorite Fryer being one was as he thankfully acknowledged hereby reclaimed and became afterwards a great Light in the Church Stando confecit omnia sua studia certas eis vendicanâ— horas quas etiam non emisit nisi seriis coactus A summo mane ad horam decimam lectioni interpretationi doctrinae scriptioni dabat operam prout temporis rerum postulabat ratio Post prandium audiebat vel narrantes vel consilia rogitantes aut confabulabatur aut deam bulabat cum amicis usque ad horam secundam hinc etiam reditus ad labores Post Coenam ubi paulisper deambulasset fere literis scribendis vocabat interdum ad mediam usque noctem nihil agens aliud The Tigurins being compelled to warre against their enemies Zuinglius was slain in the battel It is the manner of Zurick that when they go forth in warfare the chief Minister of their Church goeth with them Zuinglius also of himself being a man of a stout and bold courage considering that if he should tarry at home and they should go by the worse what displeasure he should sustain as one that in his Sermons would encourage and himself faint when any danger was would needs take such part as others Sir Thomas More in his Preface to the Confutation of Tyndals Answer hath this bitter passage Zuinglius that first brought into Switzerland that abominable Heresie against the blessed Sacrament of the Altar was by the hand of God this year slain in plain battel against the Catholiques with many a thousand of his wretched Sect being in number to the Catholiques three against one and as proudly and with his malicious purpose invading them as ever did the Egyptians pursue the children of Israel His Works are published in four Tomes mentioned by Boissard After his body was cut first in four peeces and then consumed with fire three dayes after his death his friends came to see whether any part of him was remaining where they found his heart in the ashes whole and unburned FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABarbinel p. 105 His name is written several wayes The best Jewish Expositor and the time when he flourished ibid. Abbot Bishop of Salisbury 106 Which of his Works are best liked ib. Abelardus 106 Of great note in his time ibid. Abraham taught the Mathematicks first among the Chaldeans 40 Academies 65 How called now and heretofore ibid. Were alwayes built in some famous City ibid. Four weighty causes of them 65 66 Set up in many places 66 Acontius 107 Accursius 106 107 When he flourished 106 The first that wrote a Glosse upon all the Civil Law 107 Adrian the Emperour a learned Prince and great Grecian 107 Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman born at S t Albans 107 Kill'd with a Fly ibid. Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans son of Utrecht 107 A learned man ibid. Would not change his name when made Pope ibid. Thought to be poysoned ibid. Adversaria what 344. m. Aegidius Romanus when he lived 108 Aelian when he lived 108 His Books liked ibid. Paulus Aemylius of Verona an eloquent Writer 108 Spent thirty years about his History ib. Aeneas Sylvius after Pope Pius the second when he lived 108 Very learned ibid. Preferred a General Councel before the Pope till he was made Pope ibid. Ioannes Aepinus 108 Aeschines the Orator ibid. His contest with Demosthenes ibid. Aeschylus the Tragedian 109 He first published Tragedies and was slain by the shell of a Tortoise on his head ibid. Agapetus Diaconus a learned and holy man ibid. Agobardus when he lived 109 Rodolphus Agricola a great Scholler ibid. Verses made on him by Hermolaus Barbarus ibid. Georgius Agricola a learned man also ibid. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa a great Scholler but too much given to Magick ibid. Ainsworth a learned Expositor 110 D. Alabaster an excellent Poet ibid. Albategnius a famous Mathematician ibid. Albertus Magnus a great Scholler ibid. Leander Albertus a learned man ibid. Leo Bapt. Albertus a learned man of the same Family 110 Gabriel Albaspinaeus a great Antiquary ibid. His Epitaph ibid. Edmund Albertine a learned Protestant Divine ibid. Albon-Hall in Oxford 99 Alchimy what 52 53 Alchimists why obscure 206 Alcoran the word of God with the Turks 8 It is written in Arabick verse and stuft with fopperies ibid. Andrew Alciate the first that wrote learned Notes on the Civil Law 111 A very learned man ibid. Verses of him by Arias Montanus and Stephanus Paschasius ibid. Flaccus Albinius or Alcuinus a learned Englishman Schoolmaster of Charles the Great and one of the Founders of the University of Paris ibid. Was not Bedes Scholler ibid. Ulysses Aldrovandus hath written learnedly of all living Creatures 112 Hieronymus Aleander a very learned Cardinal ibid. Had a great memory ibid. Alexander the Great a great Scholler and Souldier both ibid. Aristotles Scholler ibid. He laid Homers Iliads still under his pillow when he slept 225 There were two learned Alexanders ibid.
ad â— 31. ad Gen 31 47. Effusione enim Spiritus Sancti miraculosâ in festo pentecostes id effectum fuit ut confusio Linguarum uti etiam loquitur excellent issimus nâ—ster Iohan Gâ—â—â—â—râ— Th Doct. eiuâ—que Professor Iâ—nensium â—â—â—â—â— siâ—â—iâ—us in libro meditationum suarum devotissimarum c. 22. propè finem quae poena fuerat superbi◠〈…〉 ficanda turre Babylonis fuerit sublata jamque dispersae illae gentes per diversitatem linguarum in unitâ—â—e◠〈…〉 Spiritus Sancti munere congregatae sunt â—râ—â—s Discâ—â—es de Conâ—uâ— Ling. c. 11. Vide Bocharti Geog. sac Nostri etiam seculi omnes propemodum docti primas linguae Hebraeae deferunt excepto unico Goropio Becano qui Belgicam suam principem antiquitato asserere sed frustra admodum languide allaborat Criâ—â—â—i Discursus de confusione Linguarum cap. 1 Vide plura ibid. Ut Bibliand de Ratione Communi omnium linguarum cap. 5. It is most certain that the Hebrew langage from the beginning of the world to this present â—â—â—â—â— received any alteration or corruption in its dialect or manner of speech See Jerom in his Preface to the Prophet â—eremiah in his last Epistle to Paulus Urbicus and in his Exposition on the third Chapter of Zephany Reuchlin in his Book of the Iews Cabala Augustinus Steuchus in his Annotations on the 37 Chapter of Genesis and divers others quoted by Dâ—ret Histoire Des Langues De cest univers Hac Hebraica sive Judaica lingua quae sacra dicitur Vetus Testamentum conscriptum fuit Profecto Liber fere solus purus Hebraicus habetur ut eruditi affirmant alii enim iisdem Characteribus Conscripti vel Chaldaici sunt vel alias dialectos glossas habent admiâ—tas Aug. Roch. Append. Bib. Vat. de dialectis Textus bibliâ—us â—â—â—â— Heâ—â—aismi puâ—i antiqui thesaurus nobis superest Pâ—cock Not. Miscel. in Porâ—am Mofis c. 3. Nulla enim est lingua quae non ab Hebraica derivata quaedam corrupta vocabula habeat Gesneri Mithridates Hoc verissimum esse vel una vox Hebraica ab clarissimè docet Ab hac enim naâ—a est vox Chaldaica Aethiopica Arabica abbá. Was. Comment ad Methridat * See Brerewoods Enquiries ch 7. * Primus omnium in Angliam Chaldaeum Hebraeum Arabicumque invexit illa publicè in utraque Academia doâ—uit Wakefield de se in orat de laudibus utilitate trium ling. Arab. Chald. Hebraic See Arias Montanus his Preface to his book De Hebraicis Idiotismis and his book intituled Communes familiares Hebraicae linguae idiotismi Qui Ebraeam linguam compendio vult discere assues ce uni Grammaticae eique methodicae plenae Nihil enim magis Tyroni noxium quam per multas Grammaticas volare Sixtini Amama Consilium de Ebraico faeliciter instituendo Hac lingua in Aegypto Aethiopia eruditiores utuntur ut à multis accepi Hebraicae confinis est nec multo magis quà m Dorica à Graeca communi differt Ang. Roch. Appendix Bib. Vatic De Dialectis Haec lingua unâ cum Chaldaeorum Assyriorum Monarchia liberalium artium cultu legumque ac juâ—ium tractatione exculta longe lateque pomaeria sua protulit Prae cateris linguis sanctae maximè affinis est Chaldaica inquit Elias Levita Nam praecipua diversitas in terminatione mutatione litterarum punctorum articulorumque variatione consistit Interdum tamen quaedam apud Chaldaeos vocabula occurrunt quae ab Hebraeis non frequentantur vel planè non usurpantur In hac lingua Daniel Esdras magnam partem conscripti sunt Hujus linguae vocabula nonnulla reperias in Jobo Proverbiis Jeremia alibi Waseri Comment ad Mithridatem Gesneri Chaldaea sunt in lege seu Mose Gen. 31. 47. duae voces in Prophetis Ier. 10. 11. versus integer in Hagiograph Ezraea c. 4. 7. usque 6. 19. 7. 12. usque 27. v. Daniele 24. usque 8. 1. Unde illud ne sit lingua Aramaea levis in oculis tuis quoniam invenimus in lege in Prophetis in scriptis sanctis seu hagiographis quod ille sanctus benedictus ipse Deus tribuit ei honorem Wal. Epist. Walâ—â— Gomarus Totidem verbis quot Judaei ne una quidem mi nus aut amplius Pentateuchum legunt Et quod caput est literis non adulterinis ut Judaei sed meris Mosaicis characteribus ut planè à Postello proditum est res ipsa loquitur Scalig. De emendat Temp. lib. 7. Hoc sacrosanctum est idioma quo uti dignatus est Dominus noster Jesus Christus filius Dei Deus verus verus homo cùm in terris visibiliter ageret Propterea vocant Christianam quia Domino Christo familiaris fuit Ea utuntur Asiatici omnes Christiani cùm inter se tum verò praecipuè in suis sacris Pet. Vict. Cajet Palm Paradig Ling. Syr. Vide plura ibid. Syrorum lingua constata est ex Chaldaica Hebraica Nam habet quaedam communia cum utraque quaedam diversa Wasaeri Comment ad Gesueri Mithrid Haec lingua in diaturno exilio Babylonico primordia coepit ubi Judaei sicut fieri solet à victis ad aucupandam victorum gratiam suam cum Chaldaica miscuerunt ex qua commixtione illa prodiit Hanc linguam sanctissimis labris suis consecravit Christus quum his in terris inter mortales vitam degisset ut quae ejus Apostolorum aetate Judaeis vernacula erat quod docent voces Abba Aceldama Bar Bar aba Bar Jesu Bar jona Bar-Timi Bel vel Beel Belzebub Beth abara Bethania Bethesda Beliar Bene rehem Ephphata Gabbatha Genesara Golgotha Korbona Mammona Ribbi Talitha-Kumi aliae quae merè sunt Syriacae passim in Novo Testamento occurrunt In hac lingua extat translatio totius Novi Testamenti vetustissima elegantissima ac proinde divinam apud doctiores veneratio nem habens quum vel ab Apostolis ipsis vel â discipulis eorum conscripta credatur Wasâ—ri Comment ad Mitâ—rid Gesn. Si ut hominibus ita linguis etiam genus prosapia nobilitatem addat nostra uni cedit He. braeae primae huic nec longo sane intervallo proxima divinae parentis germanissima filia Greav Orat. De Linguae Arab. util praestant Sive autem Hagarenos Saracenos sive Arabes dixeris uno nomine lingua usi sunt hodiéque utuntur eâ quae praeter Hebraeam Chaldaeam omnibus caeteris prior antiquior est quasi mater earum censetur in Africa Asiaque ita vigens ut eam infantes à matribus suis haurire possint Crines De confus Ling. c. 6. Vide plura ibid. Hinc usum ejus obtinere in prerio esse videmus non apud Arabes tantum sed Mauros Poenos Nubios Aegyptios Syros Chaldaeos Turcas Armenos Persas I artaros Indos item