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A71277	Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 2. an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690 representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings : to which are added, the Fasti, or, Annals, of the said university, for the same time ...	Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.	1692 (1692)	Wing W3383A; ESTC R200957	1,495,232	926

Church of Rome Together with a short postill upon his text Print 1672. in oct The title of which in the first page of this book is ΤΩ ΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΩ Stillingfleeton He also wrot A Dialogue between a Knight and a Lady about Popery and Letters under the name of Diaphanta in tw Besides this Jo. Vinc. Cane was one John Keynes a Jesuit born as I have heard his acquaintance say at Compton Painsford in Somersetshire author of Doctor Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet which being answer'd he came out with a reply entit Dr. Stillingfleet still against Stillingfleet or a reply to Dr. Stillingfleets answer to a book called Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet c. But all this being spoken by the by let 's now go forward with Owen who hath also written Vindication of the animadversions on Fiat Lux. Lond. 1664. oct A peace-offering in an Apology and humble plea for indulgence and liberty of conscience Lond. 1667. qu. Indulgence and toleration considered in a Letter to a person of honour Printed with the Peace offering Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews Also concerning the Messiah c. with an Exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said Epist to the Hebrews Lond. 1668. fol. Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning Ecclesiastical Polity Lond. 1669. oct By the publishing of which book written against Samuel Parker he thought as 't is said to have put a stop to the whole proceedings of Parliament and to have involved the nation in confusion and blood A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity As also of the person and satisfaction of Christ c. Lond. 1669 in tw c. He the said Dr. Owen was also supposed to be the author of A sober answer to A friendly debate between a Conformist and Nonconformist written by way of Letter to the author thereof Lond. 1669. oct Published under the name of Philagathus but the true author as it since appears was Sam. Rolle a Nonconformist before mention'd Practical exposition on the 130. Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared and the truth and reality of it asserted c. Lond. 1669. 1680 qu. Exercitations concerning the name original nature use and continuance of a day of sacred rest wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the World the morality of the fourth commandment c. are inquired into c. Lond. 1671. oct Discourse concerning evangelical Love Church peace and unity c. written in vindication of the principles and practice of some Ministers and others Lond. 1672. oct Plea for Nonconformists tending to justifie them against the clamorous charge of Schisme Lond. 1674. oct wherein are two printed sheets on the same subject by John Humphrey Discourse concerning the holy spirit wherein an account is given of its name nature personality dispensation operations and effects c. Lond. 1674. fol. Answered by Will. Clagett of Cambridge in a book entit A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owens book on that subject Lond. 1680. c. oct It consists of three parts in the last of which the author proveth that the Antients make not for Dr. Owens turn as Dr. Owen insinuats by adorning his margin with quotations out of the Fathers Vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning Communion with God from the exceptions of Will Sherlock Lond. 1674. oct Soon after came out a book against this entit A discourse concerning the imputation of Christs righteousness to us and our sins to him with many questions thereunto pertaining resolved Together with reflections more at large upon what hath been published concerning that subject by Mr. Rob. Ferguson in his Interest of Religion and Dr. Owen in his book stiled Communion with God Lond. 1675. oct Written by Tho. Hotchkis Rector of Staunton near Highworth in Wilts sometimes M. of A. of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge Exercitations and an exposition on the third fourth and fifth Chapters of the Ep. of S. Paul the Ap. to the Hebrews Lond. 1674. fol. This is the second Vol. of the exercitations before mention'd The first vol. is an exposition on the first and second Chapters and the exposition on all five is contracted by Matth. Pole who stiles it Lucubratio non vulgari doctrina conscripta and put into the fifth vol. of Synopsis The nature power deceit and prevalency of the remainder of indwelling sin in Believers together with the ways of its working and means of prevention Lond. 1675. oct It was also printed in 1668. in oct The nature of Apostasie from the profession of the Gospel and the punishment of Apostates in an exposition o● Hebrews chap. 6. ver 4.5.6 Lond. 1676. oct The reason of faith or an answer unto the enquiry whether we believe the Scripture to be the word of God with the causes and nature of that faith wherewith we do so Lond. 1677. oct The doctrine of justification by faith through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ explained confirmed and vindicated Lond. 1677. qu. Briefly answered by the aforesaid Tho. Hotchkis in a Postscript at the end of the second part of his Discourse concerning imputed righteousness Lond. 1678. oct The causes ways and means of understanding the mind of God as revealed in his word with assurance therein And a declaration of the perspicuity of the Scriptures with the external means of the interpretation of them Lond. 1678. oct The Church of Rome no safe guide or reasons to prove that no rational man who takes due care of his eternal salvation can give himself up to the conduct of that Church in matters of religion Lond. 1679. qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a declaration of the glorious mystery of the person of Christ God and Man with the infinite wisdome love and power of God in the contrivance and constitution thereof As also of the grounds and reasons of his incarnation c. Lond. 1680. qu. A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz. on the 6.7.8.9 and tenth chapters Wherein together with the explication of the text and context the Priesthood of Christ as typed by those of Melchisedeck and Aaron with an account of their distinct Offices c. are declared explained and confirmed Lond. 1680. fol. This is the third vol. of exposition on Hebrews A brief vindication of the Nonconformists from the charge of Schisme as it was managed against them in a Sermon preached before the L. Mayor by Dr. Stillingfleet Dean of S. Pauls Lond. 1680. qu. A character first of this Answer 2. of Mr. Baxters which is in qu. 3. Of the Letter written out of the Country to a person of quality in the City 4. Of B. Alsops book call'd Mischief of imposition 5. Of The Rector of Sutton committed with the Dean of Pauls or a defence of Dr.

flourished was more large and extensive Wherever their Valour prevail'd their Language and their Learning usually triumphed and Arts as well as Laws were imparted to their Provinces from a Place which was equally the source of Learning and the Seat of Empire But during the Progress of the Roman Wars in England their Arms left us no leisure to rival their Eloquence They fear'd and commended our Courage but had no occasion to envy our Learning If we consider in Cesar Tacitus and Dio the length of those Wars the warmth of the opposition and the variety of the success we shall easily find that from Julius Cesar to Severus there is a continued Succession of Battels and Truces and that Peace was nothing but a time of preparation for War In this troublesome and active Age the ambition of the Britains was carried to other objects than Learning Nor was it possible that Arts should flourish in this Island when the growth of the Wars not only interrupted the pursuit of Studies but prevented it Afterwards when the Northern Nations invaded Europe and the Saxons at last seated themselves in Britain all Arts and Sciences fell in the ruin of the Roman Empire and from thence commenc'd the dark Age of Barbarity Superstition and Ignorance At that time all things concurr'd not only to the gradual loss and decay but to the sudden and final extirpation of Learning At once Inundations and Fires destroy'd her choicest Libraries and Rapine Force and Envy as it were combining with those Natural Causes of destruction carried away the last remains of her Treasure Some Schools are said indeed to have been erected for its support or restoration and several Writers have rather from the mistaken sound of words than any solid foundation in Antiquity maintain'd that Greeklade and Lechlade were anciently founded here as the common Seminaries of the Greek and Roman Learning in Britain However probable it is that no care was taken for the Education of the Youth of the English Nation till Schools were founded for them by Offa at Rome by Iltutus and Dubritius in Wales and by the Excellent Prince King Alfred at Oxon. Monasteries indeed in this Age there were without number but such as were designed to be the Seats of Devotion not of Learning and whose antient Orders rather respected the severity of Discipline and regulation of Manners than the improvement of Arts and Sciences And tho afterwards in those Religious Societies especially in that at Banchor and among those of the Benedictine Order there were some that applied themselves to study and tho in the heat of those Wars that then reigned in Britain the Privilege of Religion exempted the Monasteries from Rapine and gave them leisure and security Yet whether it proceeded from the laziness of the Monks the ignorance of the Age or the want of Foreign Correspondence certain it is that little of value was ever produced by the Cloyster but what receives its price from its antiquity And even in Bede himself the most general Scholar of that time a man would rather admire the extent of his Learning than approve its exactness and accuracy and more commend his diligence in History than either his judgment or discretion In the succeeding Age the Danes and the Normans successively oppress'd us The like Tyranny continued the same wast and spoil in the Cities and the like face of Superstition and Ignorance in the Monasteries At last indeed after the settlement of a short Peace amongst us there was a small appearance of Learning in this Nation The false Fires succeeded in the place of Night Mystick Divinity as a proper employment for Men of Leisure and Fancy was entertain'd and flourish'd in all our Confraternities and Schools Logick that was design'd to direct the use and improvement of Reason was wholly turn'd into a subtilty of Disputation and as the Devotionists of that Age intirely apply'd themselves to their Legends so men that pretended to a greater depth of Capacity aspir'd to nothing higher than the niceties of Scholastick Distinctions In the mean time all the Studies of Humane Learning all the best Arts and Sciences lay wast and neglected Their Painture was such as did not surpass the Dye of the Antient Britains Their knowledg of the Tongues seldom equalled and never exceeded the Languages of the Cross Their Mathematicks extended only to the use of their Calendars And in short there was nothing tolerably attempted in any other Study than either History or Law Law indeed by the happy Genius of its Professors or by the Emulation raised against the Canonists upon the introduction of Ecclesiastical Constitutions or lastly by the near insight into Feudal Tenures then first established among the Northern Nations receiv'd even at that time not only Improvement but almost Perfection Their Histories tho they wanted Eloquence Art and Decency were yet often supported by their truth and faithfulness and now at last upon account of the Matter rather than the Writer are recommended to us by their Antiquity It must in the mean while be own'd that many of those Historians that are the most valuable Writers of that Age even those that in their several Monasteries were design'd by the Crown to that Province and rewarded for their care in it are so little exact and yet so unhappily long that they speak much but say little and give us matter enough to tire the Reader and yet not enough to satisfie him And in particular it will seem a wonder to any man that in so notorious a thing as the date of the Coronation or the Death of our Kings no Historian is silent none is doubtful and yet almost every one disagrees from each other As to the Poetry of the Age the beauty of Speech and the Graces of measure and numbers which are the inseparable ornaments of a good Poem are not to be expected in a rude and unsettled Language And tho Chaucer the Father of our Poets had not taken equal care of the force of expression as of the greatness of thought yet the refining of a Tongue is such a Work as never was begun and finished by the same hand We had before only words of common use coin'd by our need or invented by our passions Nature had generally furnish'd this Island with the supports of Necessity not the instruments of Luxury the elegance of our speech as well as the finess of our garb is owing to foreign Correspondence And as in Clothes so in Words at first usually they broke in unalter'd upon us from abroad and consequently as in Chaucer's time come not over like Captives but Invaders But then only they are made our own when after a short Naturalization they fit themselves to our Dress become incorporated with our Language and take the air turn and fashion of the Country that adopted them And this happy State of our Language we never saw till the last Period of the Restoration of Learning first began in Italy and diffus'd its

way as they call it of promoting learning now for some years carried on and professed tho not at this time 1690 and several years since with that active vigour as at first by the Royal Society The institution of which its religious tendency towards the advancement of true substantial and solid improvements and great benefit which hath and may accrue thence to humane life by that real and useful knowledge there aimed at and in part obtained he hath with some shew and appearance at least of reason defended against H. Stubbe and all this against the old way which he calls a bare formal Scheme of empty airy notions sensless terms and insignificant words fit only to make a noise and furnish men with matter of wrangling and contention c. His reflecting on his University education with such regret and disatisfaction declaring often in common discourse that his being trained up in that trite and beaten road was one of his greatest unhappinesses that had ever befalen him as it savoured plainly of too much arrogance thus rashly to condemn the statutable continued practice of such a learned body which doth not as is by our modern Virtuosi falsly pretended so slavishly tye up its youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristole as not to be permitted in any cases to depart from his somtimes erroneous sentiments but gives them free and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing with the many and different writers who set up with the specious name of new Philosophy referring still to the authority of Aristotle as unquestionable in the performance of public exercise So neither did it seem to consist with those grateful returns which his more benign mother the University might here reasonably looked for from him as some slender requital for her so frankly bestowing on him the ground-work or foundation at least of all that learning which afterwards rendred him so mightily known and famous to and among some people Mr. R. Baxter to whom our author wrote a large courting Letter dat 3. Sept. 1661 wherein it appears that he admired his preaching and writings saith that he was a man of more than ordinary ingeny that he was one of themselves here tho an Originist a most triumphant Conformist and not the greatest contemner of Nonconformists and famous for his great wit c. which last commendation is given of him by the most famous Th. de Albiis an eminent writer of another persuasion As for the books that this our author Glanvill hath written the titles of which follow some of them are new vamp'd have fresh titles and somtimes new dedications put to them which whether it was so contrived to make the world believe that he was not lazy but put out a book every year I leave to others to judge The vany of Dogmatizing or confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledg and its causes with some reflections on Peripateticisme and an apologie for philosophy Lond. 1661. oct All or most of this book is contained in Scepsis scientifica c. as I shall tell you by and by It was answered by Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book entit Sciri sive Sceptices Scepticorum a jure disputationis ex●lusio Lond. 1663. in tw By this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the same with Tho. White second son of Rich. White of Hutton in Essex Esq by Mary his wife daughter of Edm. Plowden the great Lawyer in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth which Th. White having been alwaies from his childhood a Rom. Catholick became at length a Secular Priest and a most noted Philosopher of his time as his published writings much sought after and admired by many shew Hobbes of Malmsbury had a great respect for him and when he lived in Westminster he would often visit him and he Hobbes but seldom parted in cool blood for they would wrangle squabble and scold about philosophical matters like young Sophisters tho either of them was 80 years of age yet Hobbes being obstinate and not able to endure contradiction tho well he might seeing White was his Senior yet those Scholars who were somtimes present at their wrangling disputes held that the Laurel was carried away by White who dying in his lodging in Drury lane between the hours of two and three in the afternoon of the sixth day of July an 1676 aged 94 years was buried almost under the Pulpit in the Church of S. Martin in the fields within the liberty of Westminster on the ninth day of the same month By his death the R. Catholicks lost an eminent ornament from among them and it hath been a question among some of them whether ever any Secular Priest of England went beyond him in philosophical matters Our author Glanvill hath also written Lux Orientalis or an Enquiry into the opinion of the Easterne Sages concerning the pre-existence of Soules being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of Providence c. Lond. 1662. oct There again 1683. See at the end of this Cat. of our authors works Scepsis Scientifica or confest ignorance the way to Schisme in an Essay to the vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion Lond. 1665. qu. A reply to the exceptions of the learned Tho. Albius c. Or thus Scire i tuum nihil est or the authors defence of the vanity of Dogmatizing c. Printed with Scep Scient A Letter to a friend concerning Aristotle Printed also with Scep Scient Some philosophical considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft In a letter to Rob. Hunt Esq Lond. 1666. qu. But all or most of the impression of this book being burnt in the great fier at Lond. in the beginning of Sept. the same year it was reprinted there again 1667. qu. The said Phil. consid were answer'd by John Webster practicioner in physick and chirurgery in the W. Riding of Yorshire in a book which I shall anon mention A blow at moderne Saducisme in some philosophical considerations about Witchcraft Lond. 1668 c. qu. See more towards the latter end of this Cat. of books Relation of the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mumpesson Printed with the Blow at Mod. Sad. This disturbance in the house of Tho. Mompesson of Tidworth in Wilts Esq was occasion'd by its being haunted with evil Spirits and the beating of a drum invisibly every night from Febr. 1662 to the beginning of the year following and after Reflections on drollery and Atheisme Pr. also with A Blow at Mod. Sad. Palpable evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft in an account of the famed disturbance by a Drummer in the house of Mr. Mumpesson c. Lond. 1668. This is most if not all the same with the former only the title alter'd A Whip for the Droll Fidler to the Atheist being reflections on Drollery and Atheisme Lond. 1668. This is also mostly the same with Rest on droll and Ath. before-mention'd 'T