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A14345	The history of the moderne protestant divines containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant. Faithfully translated out of Latine by D.L.; Praestantium aliquot theologorum. English	Verheiden, Jacob, fl. 1590.; Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Heroologia Anglica.	1637 (1637)	STC 24660; ESTC S119100	56,783	398

to a Councell 6. Of the freedome of Monks 7. The difference betwixt true Bishops and those of the Romish Church 8. Of the Priest hood Lawes and Sacrifices of the Pope against Henry the eight King of England 10. Against those who deny marriage to Priests 11. Axiomes of Erasmus for Luthers cause 12. Confession of faith exhibited to the Emperor at the Commencement at Augusta 13. An Apology for the Augustan confession 14. Epistles to his Friends to Princes to divers Common-weales to Cities to Churches 15. To Councells 16. Disputations 17. Sermons 18. The whole Bible tran●ated out of Hebrew into high Dutch Mens quêis Impura venite Hic etenim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sordida corda lavat PHILIPPVS MELANCTHON FITLY may this man follow Luther being both at one time famous and indeed Luther could never have found a more faithfull and trustier friend than this Melancthon For Luther was vehement Melancthon milde Luther couragious Melancthon warily fearefull Luther was fit for the Pulpit Melancthon for the Schooles Luther onely for plaine Divinity Melancthon was excellent in all manner of Philosophy so that his fame was onely among such as were full of zeale that way but Melancthon was renowned of all that heard him or reades his workes For his learning was not onely Theologie but Philosophy and even an Encuclopaedia of all variety of learning By these two Wittenbergh was as famous as Rome it selfe These Learned men fetcht Students from severall quarters to heare them Melancthon bred up many a rare Schoolemaster and excellent Theologues which furnished most part of Germany his fame was not onely great for Learning in the City of Wittenbergh but also in forraine parts nay with his very Adversaries who not onely praised him for that but also for moderating his spirit and for his dexterity in the managing all his actions and Disputations so that King Francis the first King of France whose name will bee ever fresh among the Learned sent an Embassador and Letter in which and by whom hee earnestly desired Melancthon to come into France that by his Conference and Councell matters pertaining to the Church and Religion might bee fairely decided and determined where he used such affability and sweetnesse of behaviour and carriage that he wrought there very effectually and gaind the love even of his opponents he was the most earnest against that poynt of Transub●tantion and no waves favoured that poynt of the Lutherans either of the Vbiquity or Consubstantiation So when this learned light had laboured hard to reform both Doctrine and Discipline of the Church and when hee had exercised his Pen to the publishing of many rare and profitable works to the Church of Christ hee yeelded up his soule to God All his writings were printed at Basil in the yeare of Grace 1544. and 1545. by Hervagius being 5. Tomes the names of which I have here inserted Tome 1. 1. Commentaries upon Genesis 2. Vpon the Proverbs of Salomon 3. Briefe explications upon some Psalmes 4. Annotations up St. Matth. upon St. Iohn 5. Vpon the first Epistle to the Corinths 6. An apologie for Luther against those Parisians 7. Against Anabaptists 8. Sentences of the Fathers of the Lords Supper 9. Of the qualification of Princes of the Law-suites of Christans 10. Of the Tree of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Church of Synods and of Ecclesiastique writers Tome 2. 1. Commentaries on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans 2. Another on the same 3. Schoole notes on the Colos. 4. Common places of Divinity Tome 3. 1. A Confession of Faith 2. A Catechisme 3. A briefe method of Preaching of the office of a ' Preacher and of attaining to skil in Divinity 4. Theologicall disputations 5. An Epistle to Carthusianus of vowes 6. An Epitome of the Doctrine of the ' Reformed Church 7. An Epistle to Iohn Earle of Weda Tome 4. 1. Philosophicall workes 2. Commentaries upon the soule cald De Anima 3. Vpon Aristotles Ethicks 4. Epitome of Morall Philosophy 5. Vpon Aristotles Politiques Tome 5. 1. A Latine Grammar 2. A Greeke Grammar 3. Logicke Rhetoricke 4. Enarrations on Hesiods workes 5. Words fit for measures and Arithmetique 6. Epigrams These were Printed by Hervagius but there are divers others set forth by Christopher Pezzelius professor of the Schoole of Breme 1. An Admonition and Premonition to those that reade the Alcoran 2. A defence for the Marriage of Pri●sts 3. Commentaries on Daniel 4. A discou●se on the Nicene Creed 5. Vpon Luthers life and death 6. Many Schoole notes on Cicero's Epistles 7. Translations of Demosthenes and P●utarch 8. Greeke and Latine Epigrams 9. Two Tomes of Epistles 10. Cario● his Chronologie enlarged with many Histories By these it is evident that this worthy Instrument did not hide his Talent but did imploy it to the glory of God and the profit of his Church and so dying in the Lord hee rested ●om his labours HVLRICVS ZVINGLIVS AS all Germany admired their Luther so all Sw●zerland this Zuinglius He was as famous at Tigurum as the other at Wittenbergh Zuinglius as himselfe testifies in his worke of Articles which is full of learning began to preach the Gospell in the yeare of Christ one thousand five hundred and sixeteene he spoke much against the Popes Pardons and Indulgences This poynt hee learned well of his Tutor Doctor Thomas Witenbach of Biele when hee read upon it at a publicke Session of Divines at Basil. Zuinglius was solid in all manner of learning hee was a diligent searcher of the Scriptures which he might the easlier doe because he was so expert in the Holy Tongues he was admirable for refining his owne language he was such an Engine against the Popes uniust proceedings that their side wanting ability to hurt did as to Luther by great gifts and presents as so many baites strive to allure him to their side and cause and these enticements proceeded not from meane persons but from Cardinals themselves who lay at Basil as Embassadors There fell betwixt Luther and Zuinglius a sharp contention about the Vbiquitary presence of Christ in the Eucharist Zuinglius constantdenyed and it is thought since it had beene better for the Church of God if Luther in that poynt had wanted a pen to write or a tongue to speake but such insirmities accompany the best of men This Zuinglius feared neither dangers nor death so that hee might preach the Word of God He stir'd up the courages of the souldiers for the cause of Christian liberty maintaining at that time a sharpe warre h● put them in good hope of immortality he exhorted he comforted them nay hee accompanied them and dyed in the head of the battell So that one truely saies of him Quod pro Aris focis sanguinem profuderit But his Enemies cruelty towards his carcase is remarkable that when he was kild they tooke his body and cut it in foure pieces and committed it so to the fire This Battell in which Zuinglius

course of his life unblameable Master Foxe in his History of Martyres saies hee might be called Englands Apostle the workes which he writ besides the translation of the Scriptures are these that follow 1. A Christians obedience 2. the unrighteous Mammon 3. The practice ●f the Papists 4. Commentaries on the seventh Chapter of St. Matthew 5. A discourse of the last will and testament of Tracij 6. An answer to Sir Thomas Mores Dialogues 7. The Doctrine of the Lords Supper against More 8. Of the Sacrament of the Altar 9. Of the Sacramentall signes 10. A foote path leading to the Scriptures 11. Two letters to Iohn Frith All these are extant together with the workes of two Martyrs Barnes and Frith in English in Folio and thus after much labour and persecution this worthy member of Christ yeelded to the flames expecting a ioyf●ll resurrection IOHN BRADEFORD THIS Scholler was not inferiour in parts either of doing or suffering to others he was borne in the County of Lancaster in that famous Marte Town of Manchester He was by his parents brought up from his Cradle to learning and he was singular for docility and diligence so that he profited admirably in his studies and exercises which hee undertooke then hee was sent to Cambridge and was admitted into Queenes Colledge where hee tooke all degrees so that hee was made Master of the same Colledge which hee governed with great dexterity and sincerity Afterwards in the reigne of King Edward the ●xth he was appoynted Di●inity Lecturer in the Cathe●rall Church of St. Paul in London which taske he performed not without admirable demonstration of la●our and learning But in the time of Queene Mary the state of Religion altering and the Protestant professors being hated this famous Bradford among the rest for the love of Jesus and his Gospell which hee had faithfully preached was consumed in the fiery flames of Persecution and so was crowned with that glorious name of Martyre This he suffered the first of July 1555 in that noted plac● called West Smithfield Londo● the last words that hee wa● heard to utter were O● England repent hee left behind him his famous disputation● which hee had with the Papists which are extant at large in Foxes History of Martyrs He had a famous Epitaph written of him His workes which hee writ in English are these 1. Two Sermons the first of Repentance the second of the Lords Supper 2. Some letters to his fellow Martyrs 3. An answere to ones letter desiring to know whether one might goe to Masse or not 4. The danger ensuing the hearing of Masse 5. His examination before the officers 6. Godly Meditations made in Prison cald his short Prayers 7. Truths Complaint 8. Melancthon translated of Prayers HVGH LATYMER THis worthy Divine was borne in Leicester shire brought up to learning from a youth afterwards hee was ●laced in Cambridge where ●e tooke not without de●ert the eminent Title of Doctor of Divinity his as●ect did promise much sin●erity and ingenuity and hee was of Candid manners and ●f courieous and meeke car●iage for his singular lear●ing he was by King Edward●he ●he sixth made Bishop of Worcester where while hee ●ate in that See all good men ●erceived his singular care dexterity in managing that weighty function He was alwaies ready and forward to propagate the truth But he also in the time of Queene Maries Reigne was both d● prived of his Bishoprick an● ministeriall function an● being cast into prison w● condemned to the fire H● was much like that old an● cient Father of the Primitive time St. Polycarpus 〈◊〉 either you looke upon th● forme of his Martyrdome or weigh well the saying 〈◊〉 them both at the time 〈◊〉 their sufferings That old Polycarpus being fourescore and above a little before his death uttered that sweete● saying of St. James Fideli● est Deus qui non sinit nos tentari● supra quod possumus that is God is faithfull who will not suffer us to bee tempted above our strength And a little after he said Pater Celestis suscipe spiritum meum which is Oh Heavenly Father receive my Spirit In like manner this Father Latimer for so he was cal'd was a constant and stout Martyr of Jesus Christ and was burnd at Oxford the sixeteenth day of October in the yeare of Grace 1555. hee left his Sermons behind him wherein we may reade his sincerity and piety many of them were preached before King Edward the sixth and the Illustrious Lady Katharine Dutches of Suffolke and a● now to bee had in any one● hands almost having been● so many times imprinted with the Publicke approbation of all learned and iudicious Divines and to the comfort of all well dispose● Christians who may gathe● great profit out of them Hi● life actions and sufferings are at large to be read in Master Foxes History NICOLAS RIDLY LEarning did not onely adorne this worthy Divine but also parentage being well descended hee was borne in the Bishopri● of Durham In his youth he was endued with many singular vertues and his Parents spared no cost to have him well and Christian-like educated well knowing the power of good education to helpe much hee was sent to Cambridge to study where hee tooke degree of Batchelor of Divinity and presently he was made Master of Pembrook Hall but his parts and gifts were so eminent as appeared by his wife and religious deportment in that preferment that that religious and pious King Edward the sixth took notice of him and being ful●y certified of his integrity of life and excellent schol●ership made him Bishop of Rochester nor did his hand stay untill he had cald him ●rom that See to the Bishoppricke of London where hee shewed the parts of a true Bishop and shepheard of soules by his painfull watching prayings preachings But these Halcyon dayes of the Churches peace lasted not long but King Edward paying Natures debt and Queene Mary comming to the Crowne of England this worthy Pr●late sate not long quiet for religion being altered and the Bishop of Romes authority comming in again he was remov'd and cast both from his Ecclesiasticall dignity and wholly from the Ministery and was condemned to be burnd as an Heretique This English Father might fitly be compared to that old Father of the Church St. Ignatius not onely for his famous writing upon the Lords Supper but also for his suffering so constantly and zealously in the cause of Christ. Wel this man was a choice flower of Christ his Church and therefore is not unworthily stiled a Martyr for in the same day and same houre was he with Father Hugh Latimer burnd to ashes in the Vniversity of Oxford over against Baliol Colledge his last words in the flames that he was heard to utter were these Into thy hands O Lord doe I commend my Spirit His works besides that Treatise of the Lords Supper are extant in English which follow 1. A Conference with Father Latimer 2. A right forme

THE HISTORY of the Moderne Protestant Divines Containing their Parents Countries Education Studies Lives and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed With a true register of all their severall Treatises and Writings that are extant Faithfullv translated out of Latine by D. L. The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance LONDON Printed by N. and John Okes 1637. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Knights Sir PAUL PINDAR Sir IOHN WOLSTENHOLME Sir ABRAHAM DAVVES Sir JOHN JACOB Farmers of the Custome-House to the Kings most Excellent Majesty all happinesse wished Right Worshipfull THAT my Intention was devoted to your Worships appeares by this Presentation and that my Intention hath rightly directed my Presentation will easily bee seene for where could these faithfull Witnesses that are dead have had fairer hopes of Tuition than by you who are living Witnesses of the same Truth most of them have constantly suffered for some of them were Exoticke some Natives all of the same Faith GODS Word commends the protection of the former Grace and Nature both pleade for the other Some of them that were Strangers had faire protection and good provision in this Kingdome and were publickly grac'd allowed in the famous Schooles of our Vniversities and some of ours upon the change of Religion found presently a Reciprocall requitall in their chiefest Hans towns Both one and the other were worthy Agents in the Church of GOD and their Workes the never dying Monuments of their Fame will praise them in the Gates they were so eminent Lights that my Encomium will rather séeme to lessen than augment their lustre however I have striven as much as I could to revive their Memories from the grave of Oblivion And Right Worshipful if you but receive as much comfort by Reading of their Workes as I have done by the Edition I am fully perswaded your Worships will rest satisfied and I shall not be taxt for presumption Disdaine not therefore I pray you to Patronize those whom I doe beleeve ere this GOD the Father of the Faithfull hath registred for his own Sonnes in the Booke of Life I neede not blazon your Worthy and Religious actions to the World when as both Church and State adorned and greatly beautisied by them doth and will for ever eternize your Pietie and Vertues to succeeding posterity I onely wish the rich men of this age either to imitate your doings or be ashamed that they follow not such Eminent examples Goe on still I exhort you and in due time you shall reape the recompence of reward Your Worships that so much love GODS Temple I hope will vouchsafe to receive and entertaine these famous men who have been the Lords Embassadors in his Church here and are in the Celestial Temple with him in Glory So wishing all your Worships the like happinesse with his Saints when you shal be dissolved and praying for your prosperity on earth with length of dayes I referre my selfe and all my endeavours to Him and your worthy selves being Your Worships in all Christian Offices Donald Lupton To the Christian Reader I Have here sent to the view of the World the lives of these Reverend Moderne Writers whose Actions in their Studies do sufficiently declare what they did and what they suffered in the cause of our Saviour JESUS I found them in Latine and I thought it might bee some profit to our times to make them speake English They were in their times great Antagonists to the Roman cause and it is pitty their Memories should perish or that they should not bee generally knowne who generally did so much good in the Church of God against all oppositions in their dayes For their Effigies or Icons they are not of my Invention but taken to the Life Some by Albertus Durerus and the others by that Famous Henry Hondius onely I desired to have them done in lesser Plates for the profit of the Buyer Reade their lives without prejudicate Opinion admire their Diligence and Vigilancy imitate their Vertues and Pious performances praise GOD for raising such stout Champions for defence of the Truth and blame not mee who have laboured thus much for your sakes and will with GODS Blessing doe more for your profit Who am Yours D. L. A CATALOGUE of all the names of the Moderne Divines mentitioned in this Booke Out-landish Writers BErengarius pag. 1 Iohn Hus. p. 1 Hieronymus Pragnensis 8 Erasmus Roterodamus 14 Martinus Lutherus 21 Philippus Melancthon 30 Hulricus Zuinglius 40 Iohannes Eoculampadius 50 Paulus Fagius 60 Martinus Bucerus 68 Andreas Gerardus Hyperius 81 Wolfgangus Musculus 90 Ioannes Calvinus 99 Augustinus Marloratus 108 Petrus Martir 115 Hieronimus Zanchius 122 Martinus Chemnitius 132 Aretius Benedictus 140 Henricus Bullingerus 147 Rodolphus Gualterus 158 Theodorus Beza 166 Franciscus Junius 178 The English Writers follow IOhn Wickliffe pa. 190 John Bale 197 John Collet 207 William Tindal 214 John Bradford 221 Hugh Latimer 226 Nicholas Ridley 231 Thomas Cranmer 237 Edwine Sands 246 Alexander Noel 251 John Juel 258 Matthew Parker 269 John Foxe 276 Edmond Grindal 286 Laurence Humphrede 293 Gervase Babington 299 Thomas Holland 304 Robert Abbat 311 John Whitguift 319 Thomas Becon 330 James Montagu 339 William Perkins 347 William Whitakers 356 BEREN GARIVS BEhold the Effigies of this great and worthy Scholler whose hand and eye poynt towards Heaven whither his Saviour Jesus is ascended in the sight of his Apostles and shall be there untill his second appearing to iudgement he is placed first in time amongst these famous witnesses this is that Berengarius a French man and Arch-Deacon of Gant who was powerfull in the Scriptures and expert in the writings of the ancient Fathers of the Church and who with admirable wit and wisedome did prove that Christ was not carnally in the Blessed Sacrament and so hindred mainly that grosse error of Popish Transubstantiation which Doctrine hee confuted out of Gods Holy Word and by the authority of the sincere Fathers so that his writings went farre and neare with approbation and admiration to wit into Italy Germany France and other Territories and this was in the yeare of our Lord 1020. Whereupon Leo the ninth cald a Councell at Vercellis and did in it condemne this Doctrine of Berengarius so also when Nicholas the second was Pope he was cald to a Councell held in Rome where by the bitter menacings of that Pope he was compel'd to a recantation which did mightily reioyce the Pope insomuch that he sent his recantation to the Cities of Italy Germany France as it plainly appeares in that noted Chapter which beginnes Ego Berengarius de consecratione distinct secunda Wherein these words full of Blasphemy are by the consent iudgement and prescipt of that Councel to be read I doe beleeve that the Body of our Saviour Jesus Christ is sensibly in the Sacrament Et in voritate manibus sacordotum tractari frangi fidelium dentibus a●teri But it is not the malice of thy Adversaries oh

Executioner kindling the fir● behinde him Hierome cald to him and bade him kindle i● before his face for said he I am not affraid of it for had I I had not come hither at this time having had so many opportunities offered mee to escape it The whole City of Constance admired this mans constancy and Christian-like magnanimity in the suffering this death It is not certaine whether he set out any thing in print or not but certaine it that many brave Manu●ipts and worthy Orati●s had in sundry Vniversi●s with his Letters and ●nclusions went to the fire ●s wel as tho Author who de●ivered up himselfe a pleasant ●acrifice into the hand of his Saviour Iesus whom hee so dearely loved for as one sung of him that he should say at the giving up of the Ghost Hanc animam in flammis offero Christe tibi ERASMVS ROTERDAMVS H●e was borne at Roterodam upon St. Simon and Judes Eve and lived 57 years his Mothers name was Margaret at Zevenbergen His fa●hers name was Everard He had two unckles almost ninety yeares old a peece his education was at Deventer Schoole nine yeares Peter Winchell being his Tutor once chiefe Schoole-master at Goud so sent to St. Hertogen Bosch here he was solicited to enter into a Cloyster to turne Monke they gave him time to resolve he answered Hee was too young to know the world un●itter to know a Cloyster because as yet hee knew not himselfe yet at last he had bound himselfe to that life being drawne by the strong perswasions of one Corneliu● his Chamber-fellow at Deventer living then at Stein nere Goud hee told him the holinesse of that kinde of life rich furniture and copiousnesse of Bookes the rest and tranquility of minde with the Angel-like society of the Brethren The first that tooke notice of him was Henry Bishop of Bergh but this Bishop missing for want of meanes a Cardinalship gave leave to Erasmus to travell to Paris with promise of yearely maintenance but failed a fault too frequent in great men Here falling sicke by ill dyet hee returned to his Lord Bishop and was nobly entertained and recovering health hee went amongst his owne friends againe into Holland but staid not but departed againe for Paris he was afraid to study Divinity least mistaking the grounds hee should be termed Heretique But the Plague raging in Paris a whole yeare he went to Lovaine but he had seene England before and his noble Maecenas the Lord Montioy where he was wonderously entertained and writ a Booke in the praise of the King and all England he● he had the favour of th● Arch-bishop of Canterbury but from hence he went into Italy and stayed at Bononia Now hee was almost forty yeares old hence he went to Venice where he printed his Adagies so he passed to Patavia thence to Rome where he was much esteemed of by Raphael Cardinal of St. George he had meanes enough if Henry the 7. K. of England had lived at last hee returned for Brabant and was admitted into Charles the 5. Emperors Councell by the helpe of Iohn Silvagius great Chancellor All his workes are printed ●t Basil sold by Hierome ●roben 1540 in Folio being ● Tomes 1. Containes those things which ●onduce to the Latine and Greeke tongues Divers Translations of Greeke Orators Poets Tragedians Morals Similes Colloquies Declamations Epigrams 2. 1000 of Proverbs his Attica Musa and Cornucopia full of all manner of learning 3. His Epistles 4. Containes institutions of Manners Apothegmes Institutions of princes with divers others 5. Enchyridion of a Christian souldier his Commentaries upon some Psalmes Prayers institution of Christian marriage many Treatises Theologicall 6. The New Testament with Annotations 7. Paraphrases upon the New Testament 8. Some things translated out of Greeke into Latine out of St. Chrysostome Athanasius Origen Basill 9. Many Apologies against detractors of his workes Fabricius Clauditur exigua Rotorodomus Humo MARTINVS LVTHERVS THis Luther was borne in a Dorpe in Saxony named Isleben his parents were not eminent either in wealth or honour he was brought up carefully in the liberall Arts and being of an excellent wit and a great courage and magnanimous spirit he left the Cloystered life being graced with the stile of Doctor in Divinity not unworthily having a charge of soules in Saxony he preached Gods Word constantly and zealously He spoke much against Indulgences and Popes Pardons and Bulls sold by Teccelius He received his degree of Doctor by the intreaty of the Duke of Saxony and the Vniversity being then of the Order of St. Augustine by the hands of Doctor Stupitius who seeing Luther something willing to refuse that degree told him that God had much worke to be performed by the wisedome of Learned men and intended to use his labours in that kinde Maximilian the Emperor reading with great delight the disputations of Luther against Teccelius gave speciall command to Doctor PfEfinger that hee should defend this man safely for he saw that his Labours and workes would in short time be very necessary and usefull against the iniuries and contrivings of the Bishop of Rome but Luther going on did write couragiously and sharply against that See insomuch that he is reputed of many to bee carried with too much zeale I lee was called to appeare at Wormes but being disswaded from the iourny by some of his friends in regard the Adverse part were strong he answered resolutely that he would appeare in that place Though all the Tiles of Wormes were Divels Luther spoke some things which he said should come to passe and so indeed they fell out Onewas which he writ to Scnepfius Doctor of Theology that after his death many of his followers would fall away and that what neither would bee done against the Church of God by the Turke nor the Pope should be done by some of his followers who hating those of the Reformed Religion did maintaine thar vaine Idoll of Vbiquity with Brentius and Smedelinus and leane to the Romish cause Another was that when Charles the Emperor should oppose against the Gospell of Christ that then he would lose all his domiminions in Low Germany and so it came to passe in his son Philips reigne who striving to advance the Roman cause lost the Spread Eagle for thereupon the united States revolted and defended their owne liberties against the houses of Spaine and Austria Well after a great deale of labour to advance the Gospell and to abate the power of Rome this great Heroicke spirit gave up his Spirit into the hands of his Maker All or the most part of his works are printed in High Dutch Latine by Sigismund Sueve most of those that are extant are here numbred 1. Proposition of Penitents and Indulgences 2. A disputation of the Popes power 3. An Epistle to Silvester Cajetan 4. Epistles to them of Breme to the Brethren in Holland Brabant Flanders and to Charles the fift Duke of Saxony 5. An Appeale from the Pope