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
dignity and office to Peter himself Minime verò vel ipsis crepantibus Antichristis But thou wilt say that none was strengthened in the faith by Iulius But dost not thou see a remedy prepared viz. an Oecumenicall Councell Hic nobis adest Cardinalis Crescens qui ut Ecclesiae dignitas crescat recuperetur efficiet Gentilet Exam. Concil Trid. l. 3. Sess. 12. For the Lords Supper and the Mass Peter du Moulin in his Anatomy de la Messe l. 1. chap. 2. reckons up thirty four contrarieties between them How the Papists transgress against both Law and Gospel breaking every Commandement and violating every article of the Creed and both the Sacraments The Papists have used both violent and fraudulent means to propagate their Religion 1. Violent as the Spanish Inquisition the Irish Immanity the Gunpowder plot in England shew They teach that hereticks are to be extirpated with fire and sword Thuanus Hist. tom 5. parte secunda p. 135. fully relates the Gunpowder Treason and begins thus Nunc horrendam ab omnibus aeque damnatam conjurationem contra magnae Britanniae Regem vitam continua narratione exequemur They use fraudulent means they make use of spurious writings defend equivocation they shelter themselves with false Miracles Legends Relicks That Massacre of Paris was very cruel but ushered in with pretences of great love and friendship There are three maxims saith Peter du Moulin which are the pillars of Popery The first of which is That the Church of Rome cannot erre The second That the Pope and the Church of Rome are not subject to the holy Scripture but have more Authority then it The third That the Pope and Church of Rome have power to change the Commandments of God and to make new Articles of Faith D r Ereston as I remember reduceth all to these two heads 1. That the true Church cannot erre 2. That the Church of Rome is that true Church Peter du Moulin in his Anatomie De La messe l. 4. Chap. 5. shews when England received the Orders of Rome Chap. 7. when Popery was brought into France and Chap. 8. when it was brought into Spain What opinion was there heretofore of Monkery What esteem have the Papists of it still This is one of the Prerogatives of the Order of S t Francis and S t Dominick that the habit of S t Francis or S t Dominick is worthy a second Baptism and that by this habit all the former sins are blotted out Whence it came that many Princes and Persons of quality in mortal diseases have put on the habit of S t Francis that they might blot out all their sins Learned Rudolphus Agrîcola dying at Heidelberg was buried in a Fraciscans habit by the Minorites as he commanded Campians brag in his third reason Ad Patres si quando licebit accedere confectum est praelium tam sunt nostri quam Gregorius ipse Decimus tertius filiorum Ecclesiae Pater amantissimus is succinctly and pithily answered by our learned Whitaker Quem nos filiorum Ecclesiae hostem capitalem furiosum esse novimus eum tu Patrem vocas amantissimum quam hoc verum est tam illud esse verum concludis Fateor ambo quam illud utrumque enim falsissimum CHAP. VI. Of the Reformed Religion THe people of God which are called and come out of Babylon need not a new plantation of a Church but a Reformation only In which respect the term of the Reformed Churches is very fit and godly and the proceeding accordingly Whereas the course of the Anabaptists and all such as either begin all anew or averre such Assertions as do necessarily imply it is not only preposterous but exceeding sinfull and erroneous Iohnsons Christian Plea pag. 137. Gerhard in his Catholick Confession lib. 1. General part 1. cap. 4. saith That Luther in his work of Reformation Non fuisse novi alicujus dogmatis inventorem sed antiquae fidei assertorem nec fuisse novae Ecclesiae autorem sed pristinae repurgatorem Junius noster dicere solebat Papistas ita in fundamentis errare ut à fundamentis non aberrarent cui ego plane assentioâ—â— Walaei Epistolae Antonio Walaeo Hugo Grotio Gerhard in his first General Book of his Catholick Confession chap. 6. speaks of Luther the instrument of Reformation and chap. 7. of the occasion of Reformation the immoderate extolling of the Popes indulgences and the excessive gain of those that vented them The Prophet Zachary saith The man whose name is the Branch he shall build the Temple of the Lord Because 1. The Temple is Christs house Matth. 16. 18. Heb. 3. 6. 2. Christ hath undertaken this work This appears in the work of Reformation because they which were the chief Reformers did not communicate their counsels to one another and likewise if we consider the instruments by Luther a Monk and other mean men in Germany and by Edward the 6 th a childe in England and by a woman Q. Elizabeth that such a glorious work should be effected Also if we observe how our cause from the beginning against the will of Emperours and many Kings maugre the malice of Popes hath taken increase and by little and little spread into all Countreys Quibus armis obsecro vos intra annos 58. plus minus expugâ—atum ferè est Antichristi regnum in tota prope Europa Regnum verâ— Christi longè lateque propagatum per homines imbecilles atque inermes per Lutherum cum suis in Germania per Zuinglium in Helvetia per Calvinum in Galliis perque alios aliis in locis nisi vi verbi Spiritus Sanctus qui in ipsis locutus est suasque exeruit vires adversus omnem mundi Satanae potestatem Zanch. Orat. The Church of Rome was so unsound in Doctrine and corrupt in worship that it was no schism but a duty then to separate from it The means taken by the first Reformers for promoting the work of Reformation of Religion 1. They searched diligently into the Word of God and so discovered the errours of Popery Their care was after to translate the Bible into vulgar languages and to interpret it to the people and illustrate it with ample Comments 2. They were carefull to educate children in the Principles of Christian Religion and Piety It is a piece of Luthers counsel if ever you would have a good Reformation look to the Reformation of children 3. They were ready to dispute with their Adversaries in all places and speedily to reply to their writings Nonne tot disputationes Witembergenses Ratisbonienses Augustanae Spirenses Wormatienses Bernenses Posliacenae Londinenses Cantabrigienses Oxonienses testes esse possunt locupletissimae quo animo qua doctrina qua veritate causam Religionis nostrae propugnaverimus Whitakeri ad Rat. primam Camp Respons Chamier hath answered the Papists generally in his learned Panstratia Catholica Bellarmine is well answered by Iunius Ames Whitaker 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
Affricanae Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Universa Iustinian the Emperour He was born at Prisdena in Sertia He was most Orthodox in Religion a most constant Defender of the true Doctrine against the Arians Nestorians Eutychians and Manichees He wrote four Books of Institutions in which the Summe of all the Romane Laws is briefly comprehended Of these Melancthons Distich is memorable Continet hic tenuis legum praecepta libellus Primaque Romani semina juris habet Augustinus Iustinianus Episcopus Nebiae Paulus Iovius saith when he passed from Genua into the Corsick Island he was thought to be drowned or to be intercepted by Pyrates Sodalitatis praedicatorum eximius theologus Graecis Hebraeis Arabis Chaldaeisque literis ornatus qui ex Graecis Hebraicisque Latinitati plurima donavit Ingensque volumen historiarum Genuensium lingua vernacula cum insulae Corsicae descriptione condidit Leand. Albert Descript. tot Ital. in Liguria Laurentius Iustinian the Patriark of Venice was also of the same house Leonardus Iustinianus His Family had the same felicity that the Curios had that there were three famovs Orators of it two Leonards the Grandfather and the Grandchilde and Bernard the Grandchildes sonne Volat. Anthropel l. 21. Iustin Martyr A famous Philosophâ—â—â— and a great Defender of Christian Religion who first exhibited unto the Emperour Antoninus Pius and to the Senate an Apology in the Defence of the Christians and afterward himself also died a Martyr He flourished in the Church after Christ about the year 150 so Zanchy Others say 163. He is the ancientest of the Fathers whose writings remain except Clement He lived in the very next Age to the Apostles and Tertullian lived the next Age to him He was first allured to the Faith by the cruelty of Tyrants and by the constancy and patience of Gods Saints In the year of Christ 163. he suffered Martyrdom for the faith under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Philosopher and Lucius Verus Emperours His Works were printed in Greek and Latine by Coâ—imelinus Anno 1593. Iustin the Historian He lived under the Emperour Antoninus Iunius Iuvenal He is commended by learned men for the best Satyrist That Censor morum liberrimus He is a rare Poet is testified by his Verse flowing like a River when the winde breaths gently smooth besides the banks strong in the current He was a true Philosopher who with inimitable sweetnesse of Language and majesty of Sentences sets before our eyes the lovelinesse of virtue and the deformity of vice So the learned Sir Robert Stapleton in his Preface to his exact Translation of Iuvenals Satyrs Iuvencus Presbyter a Spaniard He flourished in Constantines raign Anno Dom. 330. He wrote four Books of Verses in which he hath comprized the Evangelicall History CHAP. VIII K BArth Keckermannus He hath written almost on all Arts All his Works are in two Volumes in Folio Thomas de Kempis or Kempensis His Book De Imitatione Christi is translated into sundry Languages He is translated into the Turkish Language A Merchant going to Algiers in Mauritania to redeem some Captives from their miserable slavery found this Authour translated and by the King wonderfully enriched with pearls and kept as he saith in a more glorious Cabinet then ever Alexander kept his Homer in Liber quotidianarum pagiâ—arum erat ei Thomae à Kempis divinum opusculuâ—â— de Imitatione Christi de quo in libro de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Ego inquit ab adolescentiâ mea usque ad senectam hoc Opusculum saepissimè volvi revolvi usum per mihi novum apparuit nunc etiam mirificè cordi meo sapit Fuligattus in vitae Bellarmini Aureus ille De Christi imitatione libellus non modò de manibus nunquam deponenduâ— sed ad verbum ediscendus tanquam pietatis myrothecium ut jure omnium gentium linguis hodiè legatur Aubert Miraei Elog. Belg. Vide plura ibid. Ioh. Keplerus a famous Mathematician He hath put out many Works that way Vir ingenio industria quod omnium instar foelicitate inventorum Admirabilis saith D r Ward of him in his Preface to the Reader before his Inquisitie in Bulliald Astronomiae Philolaicae Fundamentâ— Iacobus Kimedoncius he was Professour at Heidelberg in the Palatinate He wrote De verbo Dei De Redemptione generis humani De Divina Praedestinatione Oratio lugubris in obitum Io. Casmiri R. David Kimchi a most learned Rabbin and deadly enemy to Christians The King of Grammarians Broughton of the ten first Fathers He hath styled his Grammatical Work Michlol Liber Radicum that Book of his roots or Hebrew Lexicon is Hebraicae literaturae locupletissimus thesaurus Comment in Psalmos 10. priores There is he and other Rabbins upon the lesser Prophets Adversus Christianos R. Moses Kimchi There is his Introductio ad sapientiam cum Exposit. D. Eliae annot Const. L'Empereur Hebraicè Lat. 80. Athanasius Kircherus a learned Germane Jesuite now living at Rome He hath written these Works Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta Prodromus coptus sive Aegyptiacus Consule eruditissimum de magnete opus Athanasii Kircheri Musaeum Wormianum l. 1. Sect. 2. c. 9. Conradus Kircherus His Greek Concordance of the Old Testament is much esteemed entitled Concordantiae Veteris Testamenti Graecae Hebraeis vocibus respondentes Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany He hath published divers things about the Arabick Tongue Iohn Knewstub a Learned Divine There are his Lectures on Exod. 20. 7. first 17. vers on 1 Cor. 13. v. 4 5 6 7. on Gal. 3. v. 10. on 3 Ioh. v. 16. on Mat. 6. v. 9 10 11 12 13. Answer unto certain Assertions Confutation of monstrous and horrible heresies taught by H. N. and embraced of a number who call themselves of the Family of Love Iohn Knox a learned Scotch Divine Iohannes Major a famous Scotchman also was his Master Beza and Calvin write several Epistles to him Calvin three and Beza two Calvin cals Knox and Goodman his Brethren and excellent men He had a Prophetick Spirit by which he fore-told many things that came to passe afterwards as Whitaker observes He was the Restorer of the Gospel among the Scots His Sermons and other English Works are mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue Albertus Krantzius or Crantzius A man as of an excellent Spirit so of farre greater Place and Authority in Germany then Luther was and one that from as earnest detestation of the Romish Churches pride and insolencies notified as great a desire of Reformation as Luther yet thought he should have but lost his labour in oppugning the greatnesse whereto it was grown The same Bishop a little before his death being made acquaiuted with Luthers purpose after approbation of his good intents to reform the abuse of Indulgences burst into these despairing speeches of his good successe Frater frater abi in cellam dic miserere mei