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A06472	The glory of their times. Or The liues of ye primitiue fathers Co[n]tayning their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 16943; ESTC S108921	238,060	544

overthrown The Devill therefore may exercise us with combats not conquer us by his assaults but that we knowing we are beset every where should alwayes watch and be ready Lib. de opificio Dei cap. 20. Lactantius reading the first Verse of the fourteenth Psalme viz. The foole hath said in his heart that there was no God asked why the foole said so he first gives this answer because he was a foole then hee askes the question farther why hee did say so in heart and not with his tongue Because said hee if hee had said it openly and before men then they would conclude him a foole indeed Ibid. 16. cap. 14. I have here also registred his Works as recorded by Cardinall Bellarmine 1 Of divine Institutions 7 books 2 Of Gods Anger one book 3 Of the Creation one book 4 An Epitome upon his books 5 Verses on the Phaenix 6 On the Lords Passion 7 On our Saviours Resurrection Saint Ierome reckons up one that was written to the youth of Africke and another inscribed the Grammarian and two to Aesclepiades One of Persecution Foure books of Epistles to Probus two books of Epistles to Geverus two of Epistles to Demetrianus his Auditour An. Christi 340. Sanctus Athanasius S. ATHANATIVS AMongst these glorious Lights of the Church who have beene even by their Adversaries not onely known but confest to have bin eminent for piety and learning this reverend Athanasius deserves for his worth to be enchased if you will believe a cloud of witnesses then you cannot but have this Athanasius in a singular reverence for Saint Gregory Nazianzen speaking in his Oration that God hath alwayes had famous men in his Church either dignified for their good Government abilities of Learning or for Miracles done by them or else for their constancie in suffering Martyrdom by Tyrants Ex his Athanasius alios exaequavit c. So speaks that Father That this Athanasius did equall some came short of very few excelled many hee obtained the Learning of some the Eloquence of others the Action of others hee followed some in meeknesse others in zeale and many he exceeded in his sufferings hee lost by none gained some goodnesse from all so that the same Father speaks thus in his commendation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athanasium laudans in praysing this Athanasius I commend vertue it selfe for it is all one to set forth the prayse of him and vertue for he doth truly possesse all vertues in himselfe For vertue in all workes is chiefly and above all things to be praysed as the head fountaine our most precious Jewell of all manner of riches Vertue is said to be a strong Castle that can never be won it is a river that needeth no rowing a Sea that moveth not a fire that quencheth not a treasure that ever hath an end an army never overcome a burden that never wearieth a spie that ever returneth a signe that never deceiveth a plain way that never faileth a sirrope that forthwith healeth a renowne that never perisheth it is onely vertue which attaineth everlasting blessednesse all these appeare at once in this our Athanasius as you shall plainly confesse by his constancy in suffering and by his Piety in the conclusion Lampadius doth declare him to be well descended of vertuous and Religious Parents who had no more Children but this one Athanasius who did not degenerate from their worth but added lustre and glory to his progenitors his spring shewed what a rich harvest he would produce For even in his young yeares hee was Ingenious liberally disposed of upright cariage obedient to his parents Hee is of all Writers famous for his actions even in his youth especially for one which I cannot omit when Alexander the Bishop of that City did yeerely celebrate a great Feast in memory of Peter the Martyr which had beene formerly Bishop in the same place he having his house by the waterside saw many youths playing together now the manner of their sport was that all the boyes should personate Priests and Deacons and so they all consented and cho●e this Athanasius to be their Bishop and so they presented unto this Athanasius some other youths which were not yet baptiz'd that they might be baptized by him so Athanasius performing all things requisite baptized them with the water of the sea and gave them good counsels and admonitions directing them what to doe hereafter which the Bishop of Alexandria beholding and wondring at their actions caused them to be brought to him whom when he had asked many questions being certified of the act would not have the children to be rebaptized and gave order forthwith that Athanasius parents should be brought to him to whom he gave strict charge that they should see him brought up to Learning which they performed So this Athanasius profiting exceedingly in all sorts of learning he was as an other Samuel to the old Bishop Alexander who at first used him to read to him and write from him then he was ordained Deacon and so received the order of Priesthood about what time Arrius began to broach his too too infectious Heresie about which there was some priva●e meetings and conferences at Alexandria before the Nicene Councell in which this Athanasius shewed himselfe a maine opponent and that with an admirable expression of Learning and integritie Whereupon the old Bishop Alexander going to the Councell at Nice tooke this Athanasius with him not onely as his companion in his journey but as his fellow Champion in this great conflict and to speak truth his learning procured him all good mens love and hatred from the Arrians well His old Lord Bishop dying shortly after the Nicene Councell this Athanasius was not onely by his last Will but by the Generall Suffrages of all the Churches of Alexandria chosen Bishop of that See and that not without the singular providence of God so disposing it for hee proved so eminent that few in after times equall'd him take but a judicious mans testimony of him Iudicium in 〈◊〉 vis ingenii excellen● Eloquentia eximia inveris sententiis tuendis 〈◊〉 in adversariis refutandis firmitas inexpugnabilis ad res adversas perferendas Magnanimitas verò Heroica à Spiritu Sancto accensa in ipsius pectore flagrabat This Athanasius had a sharpe judgement a strong wit an admirable gift of Eloquence resolute in defence of the truth valorous in refuting his Adversaries and patient in all adversities in a word There was an Heroicall magnanimitie kindled in his heart by the Holy Ghost There is not any Doctour of the Church since the Apostles times that suffered for so long time more hatred treacheries persecutions even as though the whole World had conspired against him For as one saith well Non solum Episcopi sed ipse etiam Imperatores Regna Exercitus populi infesti sunt Not only Bishops but Emperours Kingdomes Armies Nations molested him but the Sonne of God whose cause this Athanasius maintained

because that rain was procured by the prayers of the Christians so that they lived securely and held Councels and did preach freely in his reigne as also in the reigne of Commodus who succeeded Antoninus But divers weedes sprung up againe to disturb the Church of Lions and Rome and the Easterne parts Lions was troubled with the Valentinians and Gnosticks Rome it was molested with Blastus and Florinus and the Eastern Church was disquieted with a great deal of contention about the celebration of Easter but against all these did this Irenaeus proceed he setled Lions refuted Blastus and Florinus follies and was mightily studious to settle the Churches about Easters celebration He lived in Antonius Commodus and Severus Reignes being about 182 yeeres after Christ but this Severus being a cruel man against the Christians rais'd the fifth persecution against them wherein many Martyrs were crowned But most of all it raged at Lions in so much that the blood of slaughtered Christians ran down the streets so that their names could not be told nor numbred but God hath written them in the Book of Life at last this blessed Saint was by the slaughter-man laid out to death with the greatest part of that Citie on the fourth of the Calends of Iuly as Trithemius about the sixtieth yeere of his age other say the ninetieth There is great dispute among Historians about the yeere of our Lord in which he died but it is certaine that he with divers others were set betweene two Hils there being a Crosse on the one and an Idoll on the other being put to choice which way he would goe either to the Crosse and so suffer or to the Idoll and live Hee and all they chose to suffer Martyrdome and so were all put to death His bones as relicks were reserved with great care and laid in rest untill the yeare 1562. they were digd up in that furious and raging cruelty of the Hierognosticks who neither spared dead nor living nor Temples Altars nor any holy things but spoiled all and cast part of his bones into the River and his skull was kicked about the streets as a Ball but a Christian Chirurgion stole it up and kept it two yeers untill Charles the ninth got the City again and restored to Christians their former liberty who hearing where his skull was came and decently with great respect buried it and caused it to be registred in their common Register of the Citie His Sentences I have here placed with his Works Hee used to compare the Hereticks and Schismaticks of his time to Aesops dog that lost the substance of Religion by too earnest gaping after the shadow In a just consideration of the glories and honours of this transitory World What profit is there saith hee in that honour which is so short liv'd as that perchance it was not yesterday neither will be too morrow For such men that labour for it are but like froth which though it be uppermost yet is unprofitablest 1 Against the Gentiles 1 booke 2 Of Discipline 1 book 3 Of Schisme to Blastus 1 book 4 Against Heresies 5 books 5 Of the Monarchie of God 6 Of Ogdoades 7 Of Easter to Victor 8 Of the Apostolicall preaching An. Christi 204. Quinctus Septimius Florens Tertullianus TERTVLLIAN THis Tertullian flourished in the Reigne of Severus the Emperour and lived till the reign of Antoninus Caracalla as himselfe witnesseth in his first book against Marcion as also in other places Pamelius who wrote his life sayes That it was when Victor was Bishop of Rome who was an African borne and when as Septimius Severus was Emperour that then this Tertullian an African was famous also in the Church There have beene those who have striven about two Questions first concerning the knowledge of this Tertullian from one Tertullus a Consul and from one Tertyllianus a Counsellour as also from one Tertullinus a Martyr The second question is about the time wherein this our Tertullianus lived some will have him to be converted to ●e Faith in the yeere of Christ 160. but that is rejected but Eusebius and others do with better judgement place him in the yeere of our Lord 200. I cannot let passe in the first place the cause of the multiplicity of his names All Antiquaries do hold that he was called Quinctus à loco in quo natus from the place in which hee was borne which was his praenomen●sed ●sed by the Romans as Onuphrius testifies and cites some so called as Quinct a Septimia a famous Matrone Septimius was added to him à Gente from his stock which was amongst the Romans both Regall Plebeian and Consular So Septimius Mesius rex Aequicol●rum Lactantius in his Institutions and Saint Ierome in his Epistle to Fabiola doe suppose this Tertullians stock to be very noble The Cognomen or Sirname of Florens denotes a certain Family of that Race of Septimius As for his name Tertullianus it is a derivative of Tertullus as Octavianus of Octavus and as Septimius of Septimus It is concluded by Eusebius and Saint Ierome that this Tertullianus was an Affrican borne the sonne of a Proconsul which also is affirmed by Isidorus Nicephorus and Beda and more specially to be of the Citie of Carthage For his Institution he was happy for it was excellent and hee was as industrious to adde what could be had by study his Works against the Gentiles testifie his able parts which according to Saint Ieroms words Cunctam saeculi continent disciplinam that is they containe all sorts of Learning He was well read in Poets Grammarians Histories and Lawes Hee was well seene in Physicks and Philosophy Lactantius says hee was in omni genere doctrinae peritus well skild in all kinde of Learning Eusebius stiles him Peritia rerum legum Romanorum clarum He knew well and dexterously the affaires and Lawes of the Romans Saint Ierome sayes he was Acris vehementis ingenii vir eruditus quo nihil eruditius c. That hee had a sharpe and pregnant wit that there was none more learned than himselfe Saint Austine stiles him Disertissimum a most discreet man Nicephorus calls him Eloquentia acrem pollentem powerfull in his Eloquence and Oratory but hee that will see his large prayse let him read Vincentius Lyrinensis His words I have Englished Inter Latinos omnes hic facile princeps judicandus that is Amongst the Latine Writers hee is chiefly accounted of for what learning greater then his Who more exercised in all divine and humane knowledge For he was expert in all Philosophy He knew all Sects their Authors Defendors Abettors Arguments Fallacies hee was full of all History his wit was able to decide any Controversies and that with forcible Arguments hee convinced any Opposite hee undertook judiciously who can sufficiently blazon his prayses Each word is a Sentence all his constructions victorious He wrote many Workes that were necessary for Christians which are all

made many sermons to the people and did not he compile that worthy piece that is termed Vitiorum Destructorium which is indeed the very undermi●er of the Kingdome of sinne and darknesse these workes are so able to defend themselves that I neede not spend time to lend praise to them Fourthly as his learning was great his pains wonderfull his Scholars famous his Workes unreproveable so his life and conversation was as upright and honest Certainly he who did take such labour to kill vice in others would not harbour it in his owne soule Are not those his remedies which hee hath prescribed against the Capitall sinnes demonstration sufficient that his aime was to kill them are not all his arguments against them as so many Engines unresistable who is so ignorant of his pious intention that knowes not the reason why he entred into that strict course of life but that he might be the more free from the snares of the world and that he might have the more time and space to give himself to prayer watching fasting meditation and godly writing and what ingenuous spirit but knowes that writing many books is wearinesse to the flesh as Solomon speakes and did not he write many and those solid ones which must needs take up most part of his time adde moreover the set houres of his publick exercises which could not be performed with that generall applause as they were had not hee in private spent much time in molding them so that these things considered seriously who can finde almost in all his life any time for to be idle or ill imployed in did hee not all his life rather chuse to live poorely as holding that to bee the lesse subject to any incombrances was hee not alwayes a friend to the poore as well knowing whose Members they were and to whom they did belong And as his Life was full of Charity and labour so it was as spotlesse and innocent free from suites and needlesse contentions so that in all his deportments he shewed himselfe a patterne of meeknesse temperance and sobriety And to conclude when it pleased God to call him from earth was not his heart and soule ready to be offered Saint Pauls Cupio dissolvi was his resolution and at his death was he not of all learned pious and devout men generally lamented aswell knowing what a great labourer was then called to rest so after a religious devout humble and laborious life he departed quietly in the Lord being in his time the glory of the Pulpit the Father of scholars and the light and grace of the Schoole-men He departed in the yeare of our Lord 1245. in the reigne of Fredericke the second then Emperour Some of Alexander Alensis his wise and religious Sayings collected out of his Workes Of Charity Charity in the soule of a man is like the Sunne in the Firmament which spreads his beames upwards downewards upwards towards God the Angels Saints downwards to the Creatures especially to the poore that are good and as the Sunne shines upon the good and bad so true charity dilates its beames to its enemies Destruct vitior pa. 7. cap. 12. Num. 3. Of Patience A soule patient for wrongs offered is like a man with a sword in one hand and salve in another could wound but will heale Part. 6. cap. 26. Of Faith What the eye is to the body that is faith to the soule t is good for direction if it be well kept as Flies doe hurt the eye so doe little sinnes and ill thoughts the soule par 6. cap. 32. Of the detestation of Covetousnesse It deserves hate of all men for sixe reasons First because it is a sinne against Nature making the desires of the soule terrene whereas they should be Celestiall Secondly from the many curses that are laid against it in Gods Word Woe to them that joyne house to house Esay 5. Thirdly from the many evills it subjects a man to it is the roote of all evills Fourthly it makes a man a foole Thou foole this night c. Fiftly it causes strifes and contentions From whence are strifes c. Sixtly it brings men into snares which drowne them in perdition Destruct vitior page 44. Of the Sinne of Lying Every lye is odious but that most which is against the poynts of Faith as to say that Jesus Christ was not borne of the Virgin Mary c. Faith must bee defended not opposed Dectruct page 52. Of good Counsellours Such should be holy in their lives true in their words righteously zealous and wise by experience par 4. cap. 44. in Destruct Of the danger of customary sinnes Custome in sinne enticeth and invadeth youth tyes fast and bindes age deceives and infects the affections subverts the judgement and is hardly cured par 5. cap. 2. num 11. Of Humility An humble man is like a good tree the more full of fruit the branches are the lower they bend themselves par 4. cap. 48. num 6. Of teares and weeping Shed teares of compunction of compassion of devotion weepi●g availes not if it bee feigned for vaine things immoderate for the dead or the crying of the wicked in Hell torments par 4. cap. 52. num 5. An. Christi 1264. Bonaventura BONAVENTVRVS IN many Authours this Seraphick writer was called Iohn Gerso the Cardinall of Paris thinkes that hee was called Eustachius some have term'd him Eustathius others Eutychius but the most call him Bonaventure the reason why hee was termed Eustathius or Eustachius was because in all his disputations had at Paris with the Grecians he stil was constant and resolved to defend the truth with all solidity and gravity Hee was borne in Etruria of the Greeks called Tyrrhenia one of the most flourishing parts of all Italy called at this day Tuscany his fathers name was Ioannes Fidantius his mother Ritelia both of great Descent wondrous devout and full of charity who had this sonne borne to their mutuall joy in one of the ancientest and renowmedst Cities of all Tuscany called Balneo-Regium in English The Kings Bath This Bonaventure in his youth shewed what he would prove afterwards for as he was mainly addicted to study so he set himselfe to follow that way and those men which were most holy and learned in those times principally Alexander of Hales the glory of that age as also Ioannes Rupellius with many others and for certaine it is that age was as active and full of Disputations as any could be so that Bonaventure could not want occasion or opportunitie for exercise For his feature and proportion of body though as Nazianzen said in the life of Saint Basil his minde was so adorned that hee would passe over all the praise of his outward parts yet he doth plainly say that Saint Basil when he was young was of an able strong constitution comely proportioned gratefull in his behaviour of an heavenly aspect So I may say of this great Doctor though his soule was richly decked