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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

of honest life 7 The Monks Looking Glasse 8 Divers sermons 9 A description of his Monastery 10 The lamentation of the blessed Virgin 11 The doctrine of St. Bernard 12 Homilies on them that went to Emaus 13 Of Gods love 14 Of the nature and dignitie of divine love 15 On the Lords Passion 16 A Tract of the Passion 17 St. Bernards Rhetorick 18 Of the manner of living well to his sister 19 Of Conscience 20 Sermons on divers Arguments 15. 21 Vpon that Salve Regina 22 An Epistle to one to shew what God doth require of us 23 Of Burthe●s Cardinall Bellarmines judgement of these is this some of these are known manifestly not to be Saint Bernards yet are full of weight and profit Some of them have their Authours names noted some are so slight and not any wayes relishing Saint Bernards stile nor spirit and some are so like his Works that it is hard to make distinction of them those that either for curiosity or satisfaction desire to know may see the Cardinals observation upon each Tract in his booke of Ecclesiasticall Writers pag. 142. 143. An. Christi 1145. Peter Lombard PETER LOMBARD HEaven hath been pleased to send many famous Divines into the world who like Embassadours comming from our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ have expounded the Gospell of Salvation and defended it from the schismaticall interpretation of Hereticks As therefore Solomon saith memoria justi cum laudibus the memory of the just is pretious and praise-worthy it must needs follow that the praises of these deceased holy Fathers will encourage others to give God thanks for raising up such worthy instruments in his Church and also in their lives and conversations to follow their example Amongst the other renouned Fathers famous for Learning soundnesse of Doctrine Piety and integrity of life Peter Lombard deserves a prime place For as it is a Divine gift above the nature of man to instruct men concerning God and Religion and to move and incline their minde to piety and sanctimony of manners so it is necessary that Divines should bee furnished with Ecclesiasticke Eloquence and sentences to bring about this great work which famous men even from the first infancy of the Church have endeavoured and laboured to effect And from hence proceeded so many Greek and Latin Commentaries Meditations Homilies Precepts and Ecclesiasticall instructions written by the holy Fathers who that they might by their laborious writings illuminate the Church in mysteries of salvation were all brought up to scholasticke learning that some by Commentaries some by Sermons and some by Sentences might all helpe to edifie and build up the Church of God And this Father the most renowned Peter Lombard of Novaria Bishop of Paris was as Sixtus Senensis and others have written by all Schoole Divines for a certaine singular excellence of Veneration called the Master of the Sentences upon whose compendium of Divinity and Volumes of innumerable disputations the most learned Divines of the most famous Universities in the whole Christian World have elaborately written He was contemporary with Gratian and as hee gathered Canons and was the Master of the Canons so he collected out of the sentences of Ambrose Hillary Augustine Cassiodorus and Remigius suppressing their names most learned sententious Commentaries on all Davids Psalmes and on all Saint Pauls Epistles inserting some things of accompt of his owne The Commentaries on the Psalmes begin Cum omnes Prophetas Sancti spiritus revelatione constat esse locutos The Commentaries on Saint Paul begin Principia rerum sunt inquirenda So that this Peter Lombard being endowed with all naturall qualities improved by education and learning in the schools and being also painfull and industrious to advance Religion to increase spirituall knowledge and to furnish Students in Divinity with most exquisite and mellifluous sentences so sweet so admirable and patheticall hee I say to this end collected the Sayings and Sentences of the Fathers which may be thence gathered and cited to various and divers purposes either to confirme any Doctrine to amplifie matters or to delight the audience Sentences being the Creame of wit the abstract and epitome of words for instruction necessary easie to be retained in memory as briefe rules of Life and Religion How ought then posterity to be thankful to this famous Father Peter Lombard who out of so many learned Divines painfully collected so many Sentences out of their Gardens gathering Divine flowers which are all bound together in his Workes And therefore although Laus est or atio bona alicujus enumerans praise is but the repetition of particular vertues and goodnesse Yet the life of this worthy Father would deserve a whole volume of praises fild with Encomiums and sententious Eulogyes but because they cannot reach his desert both for Piety Religion and Sanctity it will bee his best commendation to read some of his sweet Sayings collected out of his owne Workes Peter Lombard his Sayings Of Sinne. Every sinne that is not speedily by Repentance discovered becomes a new Sinne and the punishment of former sinne Of the Will There can no good dwell in us that cannot will good nor can we perfect good that cannot desire good Of the Law Death is not by the Law but by the fault of man but sinne is the procurer and efficient cause of Death because it turneth that which is good into evill For so Physicke is not the cause of Death though it discovers deadly poysons nor the Law discovering the poyson of sinne in reprobate men There are in us evill concupiscences and desires which are the Devills weapons whereby when God for sakes us he overthrowes us and gives our soules a deadly wound Of Predestination God condemneth none before he sinneth he crowneth none before hee over-commeth but he hath a definitive prescience of every ones will whereby hee shall bee condemned or crowned If God be for us by predestinating us before our being by our vocation when we were enemies by justifying us when we were sinners by glorifying us when we were mortall nothing can hurt us but all things worke for our good Of Gods Love If nothing can separate us from Gods love what more certaine and greater good can there be For he that loveth God cannot dye but it is death not to love God or to preferre any thing before the love of God therfore the love of God is a right affection of the minde which joyneth us to God and God sheweth his love to us in Christ whom for us hee delivered to death Of gifts Let none glory in the gifts of Preachers or men in that they edifie more by them for they are not authors of grace but ministers Of Love The reall vertue of Piety is the love of a pure heart a good conscience and faith unfeigned This is vertue which nothing overcommeth no fire or windes of persecution no flames of temptations can extinguish of this vertue it is said Love is as strong as

it was for profit in both these hee shewed exquisite eloquence and depth of judgment as well knowing what he did He doth not use any circumlocutions hee desired rather to give the best then much and naughty His stile is no where languid or dull he strives to refresh to stirre up to comfort the Reader for the learning and sincerity that you shall find you may admire him In briefe hee hath so done all that none but the malicious can speak against him or his Works This and a great deale more doth that learned Erasmus speake of our Arnobius so that who pleaseth to read his prayses at large may view them set forth in the Epistle Dedicat●ry before the Commentary on the Psalmes printed by Frobenius This Arnobius flourished in the time of Dioclesian from the yeere of our Lord 290 to 300. Arnobius sayings Of Prayer It is the bed of a sick and weake mans soule refresheth in tentations and keepes warme the actions of grace In Psal. 41. Of Despaire He that fals into Despaire is like a ship that looseth her Anchors and runs on the Rocks In Psal. 42. Of Persecution Persecution brings death in one hand and life in the other for while it kils the bodie it crowns the soule In Psal. 45. His Writings 1 Seven Books against the Gentiles 2 Commentary on the Psalmes 3 A learned tract of Rhetoricke hee died under Dioclesianus the Emperour An. Christi 326. The life of Eusebius Caesariensis EVSEB CAESARIENSIS EVsebius Bishop of Caesarea Palaestina formerly called the Tower of Strato for his great friendship towards Pamphilus sirnamed also Pamphilus being Scholer to Dorotheus the Eunuch a most learned man and a most diligent searcher of the Divine Library with Pamphilus was so famous among all the contemporary Bishops of his age for his knowledge in divine and humane Learning so that his deserts were celebrated with this most noble Eulogie of the Emperour Constantine who would often say That it was Eusebius happinesse to bee worthy to be Bishop not onely of one City but of the whole World A praise of an high straine beseeming an high place Indeed mens abilities should be answerable to their dignities greatest perfections are fittest for greatest places and promotions If Moses be placed over all the Israelites as supream Judge his endowments ate proportionable but with his employments his measure of spirit is abated and part resteth on the seventy Elders who were fitted for the like performances He that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an Over-seer and such had need bee furnished with more then ordinary gifts for correcting of vice instructing the ignorant making straight that which is crooked Such were the manifold endowments of this Reverend Bishop Eusebius And for his eloquence Saint Ierome stiled him Romani eloquii Tubam the Trumpet of Roman elocution Eloquence in a Minister is a singular ornament Moses was fearfull to take up Gods Embassage not being eloquent but slow of speech therefore God appointeth his brother Aaron for his helper The lineaments of a Picture make it no exquisite without colours and varnish they make it beautifull Oftentimes a faire out-side leads us to the finding of hidden worth within and the phrase or stile of writing sets a lustre upon the matter Luther caused to be painted over his study doore Verba sine rebus Erasmus Res sine verbis Lutherus nec res nec verba Carolastadius res verba Melancthon Words without matter Erasmus matter without words Luther neither matter nor words Carolostadius both matter and words Melancthon Thrice happy Melancthon judicious and eloquent Omne tulit punctum qui mis●uit utile dulci. The same was the commendation of Eusebius That he was a defender of the Arrian Heresie and a corrupter of the Nicene Synod some Writers affirme either deceived by the affinity of name and dignitie which he had with Eusebius first Bishop of Berithus in Palaestina and afterward at Nicomedia in Bythinia Captain of the Arrians or else induced to that beliefe because Eusebius of Caesarea would not consent in the Nicene Councell to the propounders of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Consubstantiall but after a long inquisition and examination of the said word done by him not maliciously but rather out of sincere pietie for when many of the Bishops would have the word Homousii as excluding a multitude of gods inducted by Arrius and most of the Bishops did sharply oppose the acception of the same word as introducing the opinion of Sabellius who held that the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost were but one person through their diversitie of opinions Eusebius being doubtfull to whether part hee should assent Eustathius Bishop of Antioch accused afterward by Cyrus Bishop of Bexoen opprobriously termed him a Favourer of the Arrians and a corrupter of the Nicen Faith Eusebius on the con●rary affirmed that hee neither favoured Arius nor corrupted the Nicen Faith but that Eustathius did introduce the perfidious opinion of Sabellius Lastly when it was declared by the Fathers that this word Homousii did not take away the distinction of persons which were of the same Nature and Essence hee subscribed to the Decree of the Homousii or Consubstantialls and by the Fathers command hee composed that Nicene Creed which is now sung in the Church A singular stayed discretion in a man of authority and eminent dignity not rashly to suffer any noveltie to creep into the Church without examination how farre forth it may prove profitable to the good of the Church especially in matters of greatest importance such as this concerning the Deity 's essence and manner of existence which is well distinguished by the Schoolmen every person in the Deity say they is alius alius sed non aliud aliud the former notes the distinction of persons but the later their essence to be the same and undivided such as the Father is such is the Sonne and such is the Holy Ghost And that you may the better be drawne into the admiration of his eloquence take notice of some of his sentences which were like Gold Coine containing much worth in a little compasse they are here inserted Of the Law and Gospell Moses did write the old Law in dead Tables of stone but Christ did write the perfect Documents of the new Testament in living soules And the difference of the Law and Gospell may further appeare in this that the Law is a killing letter for it worketh death making us lyable to the curse For cursed is hee that continueth not in all things that are written in the Law to doe them but the Gospel is a quickning letter and supplies for our defects in not obeying the Law we being clothed with anothers righteousnesse the long white robes of Christs righteousnes the imputation whereof makes us as acceptable to God as if wee had fulfilled the Law in our own person Christ having actively and passively fulfilled the whole Law for us by