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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

by his very many Treatises worthily famous and full of excellent Divinity which are extant and to be sold in English the Catalogue of which I have ioyned to his life there are none of his workes in Latine that are to be had except on learned Disputation of the Lords Supper which he composed in the time that he was ahroad by which it doth easily and evidently appeare how dearely hee embraced and loved the Protestant Religion hee was chosen into the number of the Prebendaries of Canterbury and kept it untill his dying day He paied Nature her debt about the eight yeare 1570. being 60 yeares old John Parkhurst the Bishop of Norwich hath written verses in the Commendation both of this man and of his works writings His works are contained in three Tomes with study diligence piety I have here set them in order The first Tome containes 1. Newes from Heaven 2. A banquet of Christs birth 3. A Quadragesimal feast 4. A Method of praying 5. A bundle or posie of Flowers 6. An invective against swearing 7. Discipline for a Christian Souldier 8. Davids Harpe 9. The government of vertue 10. A short Catechisme 11. A booke of Matrimony 12. A Christians New-yeares guift 2. Tome containes 1. A Jewell of Mirth 2. Principles of Christian Religion 3. A Treatise of Fasting 4. The Castle of comfort 5. The soules solace 6. The Tower of the faithfull 7. The Christian Knight 8. Homelies against Whooredome 9. The Flowers of Prayers 10. A sweete boxe of Prayers 11. The sicke mans Medicine 12. A Dialogue of Christs Nativity 13. An Invective against Adultery Volumes in English full fraught with learning and iudgement as they are divided 3. Tome containes 1. An Epistle to the distressed servants of God 2. A supplication to God for the restoring his Word 3. The rising of the Popish Masse 4. Common places of Scripture 5. A comparison betwixt the Lords Supper and the Papall Masse 6. Articles of Religion confirmed by the authority of the Fathers 7. The monstrous wages of the Romane Priests 8. Romish Reliques 9. Difference betwixt Gods Word and Humane inventions 10. Acts of Christ and Antichrist with their lives and Doctrine 11. Chronicles of Christ. 12. An abridgement of the New Testament 13. Questions of the Holy Scripture 14. The glorious triumph of Gods word 15. In the praise of death all these were Printed in the yeare 1564. 16. Postills upon all the Sundayes Gospels in quarto 17. The Medicine for the Sicke often Printed in octavo by it selfe IAMES MOVNTAGV WHen you shall reade this worthy Prelate to be Bishop of Winchester and Dean of the Kings Chappell and Prelate of the noble Order of the Garter and privy Councellor to King James know that he obtained these Titles and honors by his vertue and learning To passe by his noble descent from the Montacutes Earles of Salisbury His Father was a Knight that famous Sir Edward of Boughton in Northampton shire His Grandfather was Councellor to King Henry the Eight his Mother was the Sister of the elder famous Lord Harington Hee had education in Cambridge answerable to his birth where his learning was such that the Vniversity bestowed both his Title Master of Arts as also Doctor in Divinity before the set time And the Vniversity gained by him for that Sidney-colledge founded by Francis Countesse of Sussex his Aunt he being Master of it when as there were ill sents by the grounds lying about dangerous and noysome he brought Trumpinton water through a new-cut way into the Garden of the said Colledge both to the health of that Colledge and the whole Vniversity His young yeeres were admirably well seasoned which made him prove so famous afterwards For King James taking notice of him presently swore him Chaplain● in ordinary and was made Deane of Liechfield of the Kings Chappell and presently after of Worcester and not long after Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells In which while he sate for eight yeeres he seemed to have those honours bestowed on him for the publicke good rather than for himselfe so rev●rend was his carriage and pious his life and charitable his hands The poore in that Hospitall lost a good maintainer and all good men of that place a true Bishop He repaired the Bishops Palace almost ruined and furnished it with a Chappell and gardens His house at Banovell speaks his praise and posterity wil never forget his charity to the Church of Bath begun one hundred yeeres since by Oliver a Bishop and chiesly now at his cost and charges finished If death had not prevented here hee had plac'd a Deane and Choyristers and his two worthy brethren Henry and Sidney did provide that his purpose should not be voyd At last translated hee was to VVinchester where he did not so much looke after new honours as new burthens The House called VVinchester-house on the Thames side speaks his praise for her beauty which hee bestowed on her almost decayed Farnham Cas●le also is not filent of his worth and praise which did so much partake of his bounty He also adorned the Tower in the Castle of VVindsor being his lot as P●elate of the Garter so that it is easily knowne that in these works hee l●id out above 5000. pounds sterling He dyed at Greenwich of a Dropsie being aged 49. on the 13. of the Kalends of August 1618. leaving behind him foure famous brethren Knights Sir Edward the eldest Sir Charles which buried him Sir Henry and Sir Sidney now living Master of the Requests He was not unmindfull of Sidney Colledge but gave a yeerely stipend to the Library He desired to be buried in Bath where his Tombe is to be seene of Marble and Alabaster his family did not onely misse him but the Vniversities the Court and Church and his death grieved the King mainely for he loved him dearely for his care integrity sweetnesse of carriage and learning In a word having lived a Reverend Father of our Church and alwayes imitating the Piety of those renowned Fathers Bishops before him in the Primitive times hee is with them laid to rest expecting the reward of the just at that great day of Jesus comming WILLIAM PERKINS THe place of this Divines birth was Marf● not farre from the City of Coventry in Warwick-shire he was brought up and polished in learning in the Vniversity of Cambridge where he made in short space excellent proofe and demonstration both of learning and piety so that he was not onely an excellent and diligent Preacher but also a quicke and dextrous writer of many Treatises and Commentaries which for their worth were many of them translated into Latine and sent beyond Sea where they were and to this day are well approved of so that his fame was not onely in this Kingdome but also in France Germany and the Low Countries and in some parts of Spaine for his workes many of them are in French in high Dutch and low Dutch and his Reformed Catholicke translated into

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