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A88705	Speculum patrum: A looking-glasse of the Fathers wherein, you may see each of them drawn, characterized, and displayed in their colours. To which are added, the characters of some of the chief philosophers, historians, grammarians, orators, and poets. By Edward Larkin, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now minister of the Word at Limesfield in Surrey.	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L444A; ESTC R230373	42,396	106

the Longobards who had with violence entred Italy and wasted many of the Churches He wrote many books which were consumed after his death by them that hated them a few onely being preserved through the intercession of Petrus Diaconus He dyed in the year of Christ 606. he is said to have countenanced Images in Churches although we finde no such toleration in the writings of former Fathers but no wonder if being a Monk he was a Patron of Superslition and Idolatry yet Barthius gives him this character Ejus Homiliae mirifice bonis rebus plenae exemplar sequentium seculorum doctoribus His Homilies are wonderfully full of good things and as a copy set for the Doctors of the following ages to write after Nay Erasmus calls him simplicem pium And again sayes he In Gregorio pluram nulloque fuco picturatam sanctimoniam agnoscimus We acknowledge in Gregory pure sanctimony and painted with no false deceitful colour But Martin Luther doth not without some colourable grounds disparage him whilst he hath this passage in the 49 Chapter of Genesis Gregorium admodum tenuiter cognovisse Christum verbum Evangelii That Gregory knew Christ and the word of his holy Gospel very slenderly The successor of this Pope Sabinianus by name out of spight and spleen to his memory endeavoured the destruction of all his Works Of which Sabinianus we reade that he was the first Inventer of the use of Bells and of Lamps perpetually burning Isidorus Hispalensis ISidorus Hispalensis lived in the yeer of the Lord 630. and dyed in the raign of the Emperour Heraclius Gesner saith that he wrote a Commentarie almost on all the Scripture besides he wrote a book De ortu obitu Sanctorum Of the birth and death of the Saints and of the Nativity Passion and resurrection of our Saviour together with many Philosophicall Treatises as of Astronomy Cosmography and Grammaticall learning moreover he wrote two books of Epistles to severall persons contemporary then with him Iohn Gerson doth affirm that the acts of the Councills were collected by this Isidore Sixtus Senensis saith that this man was conceived to have been the Disciple of Great Gregorie Our Bishop Downham having an occasion to mention him tells us that he was Archbishop of Sivill in Spain and one of the most learned writers which have been in the Church within these thousand yeers He is said to have culd and gathered out of the immense writings of the ancient Fathers innumerable volumes of all Arts and Sciences To him in regard of his great Sanctity of life Annuall honours on the sixteenth of Ianuary are decreed Hildephonsus composed a Catalogue of his works This Isidore was called Isidore Iunione or the younger Isidore in distinction to another of that name called Isidore Pelusiota who flourished about 450. yeers after Christ and was the disciple of Iohn Chrysostome He wrote a hundred and thirty Greek Epistles now extant as some write in the Vaticane Library wherein he did explain the deep mysteries of the Christian Religion Cardinall Baeronius has inserted into his Annalls an Epistle of this mans written to the Emperour Theodosius in whose Raign he flourished Suidas doth thus advance him telling us quod una cum simplicitate veritatem amaret probaret sine omni simulatione loqueretur That he loved the Truth with simplicity That he approved of it and would speak it without dissimulation or hypocrisy And Demster gives Hispalensis Isidore this following Elogie Grammaticus necessarius in que pleraque quae nusquam alibi A needfull Grammamarian in whom there are many things no where else to be met with Beda BEda was an English man by birth calle Venerabilis venerable for his great learning and gravity and yet he was miserably ensnared with Popish errours which in those times had overspread like a Gangrene every Nation wherein there was a possession of Christianity so that it might be said that as the whole world was once called Arian so then it might have been stiled Antichristian Yet this man though corrupt in his opinions and judgement was very zealous in the duties of his calling fervent in prayer laborious in reading writing and preaching of the Gospel But there is nothing makes more for his commendation then his noble patience in bearing those heavy and fearfull agonies which he underwent immediately before his death He was of great fame in the Raign of Iustinian the second of that name about the yeer of Christ 690. He lived as some reports Vitam longissimam till he was very aged He dyed under Leo the third in the yeer 731. so some say but others 734. His works are set out in eight Tomes His Commentaries on Pauls Epistles he gathered out of Augustine as himself doth insinuate by these words in the preface of them In Apostolum quaecunque in opusculis S. Augustini exposita Inveni contra per ordinem transcribere curavi Whatsoever I have found expounded on the Apostle in the works of S. Augustine I have taken care to transcribe them in their order Durandus writes of this Bede that being blinde by reason of his great Age he caused himself to be led into the villages by certain guides that he might preach the Word unto the people and when on a time they carried him into a valley full of stones and his leaders deluded him saying that there was a throng of people met together whereas indeed there was not a man come to hear him he began to preach very zealously as was his manner and when he had concluded his Sermon with these words per secula seculorum instantly all the stones cryed out with a loud voice Amen Venerabilis Beda Amen whence it was saith this Durandus that he was ever after stiled Venerable Beda Johannes Damascenus IOhannes Damascenus was a superstitious Monk the disciple of Cosmus contemporary with Bede who appeared in the West as he did in the East He was for a time mingled with the Saracens and for fear of death committed Idolatry amongst them worshipping as they did the bones of Mahomet He stood stifly for Imagery whereupon he was excommunicated in the General Council assembled by Constantius Copronymus He was much conversant in the books of the ancient Fathers as appears by his Treatise de Orthodoxa Fide but if he had been as narrow a searcher of the holy Scriptures he had not fallen into those Popish snares He was the first man that brought Christian Religion to a certain method in imitation of whom Peter Lombard styled The Master of the sentences did the like He flourished under Leo Isaurus and Constantius Copronymus about the year of Christ 730. Suidas does commend him in these words Damascenus vir doctrissimus aetatis suae nulli eorum qui doctrina illustres fuerunt secundus Damascene a most learned man second to none of his age that were accounted learned Baronius censures him for a vain empty light and lying Writer And Bellarmine lib. 2. de

and so far he prevailed by his insinuating Rhetorick that he perswaded him to spare the City beyond the expectation of all men And after this when Gensericus that Tyrant of the Vandals and great persecuter of such as were sound in the Faith came with his displayed Banners against Rome being wooed thither by Eudoxia to revenge the death of her slain husband Valentinian the late Emperour he so wrought upon him by his conquering eloquence that he was content onely with the spoils and plunder of the City altogether abstaining from slaughter and bloodshed No marvel then if Trithemius style this Pope Primum Ecclesiasticae dictionis Tullium sacra Theologiae Homerum Rationum fidei Aristotelem Autoritatis Apostolicae Petrum in Cristiane pulpite Paulum The first Tully of Ecclesiastick speech The Homer of Sacred Theologie the Aristole of Reasons of Faith the Peter of Apostolicall Authority and the Paul in a Christian pulpit In this mans time those horrible earthquakes were asswaged which had ruined so many eminent Towns and cities The Papists do attribute some miracles to him as they have done to some other Popes before him Theodoretus THeodoretus the Bishop of Cyrus in Syria was the Scholar of Chrysostome of whom he was instructed both in Philosophy and Theologie he wrote an Ecclesiasticall History comprizing the beginnings of the Arian Sect and the contentions of the Church from the first yeer of Great Constantine to the beginning of the Raign of Theodosius which in all contains the space of an hundred and five yeers He had conflicts with the Heretick Eutyches not onely with voice but with style also It 's reported that his Mother being aged and as it were past hopes of having a childe the Monkes of Syria prevailed by their prayers for his Nativity who as soon as he was borne was forthwith consecrated to God Caussinus joyning him with Clemens and Cyrillus thus speaketh of him Clemens Alexandrinus Cyrillus Theodoretus inter eloquentes summe docti inter doctos summe eloquentes Amongst the Eloquent wonderously Learned amongst the Learned wonderonsly eloquent This man was Anathematized by Dioscorus of Alexandria and unjustly deposed from his Bishoprick because he consented with Flavianus of Constantinople in the condemnation of the Eutichian Heresie he is said to have written a deprecatory letter to Pope Leo for his restitution unto his Episcopal jurisdiction Dalleus stiles him virum sui seculi eruditissimum The most learned man of the age he lived in Illyrius sayes of him Quod instructus Ingenio excellentissimo ad omnis generis disciplinas percipiendas capacissimo fuit that he was furnished with a most excellent wit and most capable of all manner of learnings He was Cyrilli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contemporary with Cyrillus with whom he had some sharp disputes about the acts of the first Councill of Ephesus wherein he was present and afterward he was called to the Councill of Chalcedon Pareus saith that he dyed not very Aged but Sixtus Senensis tells us That he was a very old man before his death his dissolution happening about the yeer of Christ 450. Junilius Afer IUnilius Afer was a Bishop in Africa the cities name is not known certainly where he exercised his government He lived saith Sixtus Senensis under the Raign of Theodosius the younger about the yeer of our Lord 440. he was intimate with Primasius the learned Bishop of Vtica and the Disciple of Augustine By whose perswasions and encouragements some say he did collect those Explanations upon Genesis for the instruction of such as were unskilfull and unlearned in the Scriptures which work of his he dedicated to the said Primasius Some report that he wrote other Treatises but Trithemius makes mention that the never saw any other but this I meet with two Characters bestowed on this man the one is from Trithemius who stiles him Virum in Sacris Scripturis valde doctum inq secularibus disciplinis sufficienter instructum sensu profundum eloquio dulcem ornatum A man very learned in the Holy Scriptures and sufficiently instructed in humane disciplines deep or profound in his sense sweet and comely in his expression The other Elogie and much of the same sound is from Sixtus Senensis who calls him virum bonis artibus in seculo eruditum in Scripturis Sanct is peritissimum eloquio brevem sensu acutem A man learned in the liberall arts and most skilfull in the sacred Scriptures short in expression and acute in Sense Some say that that little Commentarie on the first Chapters of Genesis is none of this Iunilius his but that reverend Beda is the author thereof because it quotes Gregorie and is reckoned among the workes of Bedae Bel. de Scrip. Eccles in Iunil p. 246. Salvianus SAlvianus was Bishop of Marseilles in France styled by Sixtus Senensis Episcoporum sui temporis Magister The Master of the Bishops of his time he lived about 460. yeers after Christ or as some others will have it 480. It was about the time when the Northerly people of Gothes came down into France and fearfully overrun it which sad opression cansing the people of those parts to doubt of Gods Heavenly Providence in the worlds government gave occasion to this learned Prelat to write that good and excellent book of his De gubernatione Dei wherein he sheweth that it is a just and tighteous thing with God to punish sinfull men which knowing well what they are to do are yet negligent performers of their duty which little work of his he dedicated to Salonius who was at that time Bishop of Vienna Trithemius calls this man Virum in divinis Scripturis eruditissimum in secularibus literis sufficienter instructum A man most learned in the holy Scriptures and sufficiently skill'd in humane and secular learning agreeing with that of Sixtus Senensis Divina humana literatura copiose instructus The foresaid Historian speaking of his Epistles saith of them that they are Sale sapientiae conditae seasoned with the salt of wisdom And Sixtus Senensis in reference to all he hath written tells us Quod scripsit Latino candido succincto sermone multa laudatissima opuscula That he wrote many commendable works in the Latine Tongue both candidly and succinctly He was the Master of Veranius and Salonius both of which were also Bishops So Gennadius reports in his de viris Illustribus Prosper of Aquitain PRosper of Aquitain so called not as some think from his Bishoprick for he was Bishop of Reimes but from the place of his nativity he being an Aquitain by birth lived about the year of Christ 460. in the Reign of Leo Augustus he wrote excellent Tractates his Sentences are met with among the Works of Augustine He shewed himself a most fierce and sharp impugner of the heresie of Pelagius Besides his Theological writings he was the Author of a Chronologie mentioned by Gennadius He succeeded in his Episcopal See to the Bishop Faventius Trithemius thus