they are 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 H◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon Original Sin upon the Fall of Mâ—â—â— and Angels upon the 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 of Baptism and Grace upon the Distinction of Veâ—ial and 〈◊〉 Sâ—â—s upon the Eternity and the Inequâ—lity of the Pains of the Daâ—â—ed upon the Exâ—… of the VVill of God to save Men upon Fâ—â—e-Will and upon the State of Souls till the Day of Judgment Having thus explained what concerns Faith he comes to Hope and he â—â—â—th That Christians â—â—â—ght to Hope in God alone and that whatsoever we Hope for is coâ—prehended in the Lord's Prayer upon which he makes some Reflections Lastly he treateth of Charity without which he pretends That no Man can be Rigâ—…eous To which he 〈◊〉 all the 〈◊〉 of God and Advices of the Gospel This Book was written after St. Jerom's Death who dyed in 420. as is plain by the 87th Chapter where St. Augustin speaks of him as one dead The Book intiâ—â—led The Câ—â—bâ—â— of a Christian has much the same Design with the foregoing St. Augustin coâ—posed i◠〈◊〉 after he was a Bishop in a plain Stile that it might be the more proper to instill the Doctrine and Prâ—â—â—pts of Christian Religion into those Christians who were not Skilfull in the Latin Tongue He exhorts them at first to fight against the Devil Then he shews Thâ—â— Men get the Victory over him when they overcome their Passions and bring their Bodies under Subjection which is only done by submitting to God to whom every Creature ought to be subject either Willingly or out of Necessity He adds That in this Combat Man is armed with Faith and with the Assistances which Christ meâ—â—â—ed for us by his Death At last he runs through the Articles of the Creed and refutes the contrary Herâ—sâ—â—s The Book of Instruction for these that have no Knowledge of our Religion was written at the Request of a Deacon of Carthage who desired of St. Augustin Rules and a Method to Caâ—eâ—â—iâ—e his People acceptably and usefully The Father comforts him at the beginning upon his being very often not pleased with his own Discourses since it sometimes happens that a Discourse which displeases the Speaker is very acceptable to the Hearers He adviseth him to teach them cheerfully and not to be tired with it and then furnishes him with Rules how to instruct them right in their Religion He saith in the first place That perfect Instruction should begin at the Creation of the World and end with the present Age of the Church Bâ—â— for this there is no need of learning by heart or reciting all the Books of the Bible one needs only chuse the best the most admirable and most diverting Passages He layeth down in the second place his usual Rule That every thing ought to be referred to Charity That Care must be taken that the Aâ—ditor may believe what is spoken Hope what he Believes and Love what he Hopes for And he would have him inspired with a wholsome Fear of God's Judgments and kept from all prospects of temporal Interest and Advantage that he might have by being a Christian. He observes That the same Method is not to be followed with the Learned as with the Ignorant and he lays down very prudent Rules how they are to be dealt withal He shews what Things commonly tiâ—â— the Heareâ—â— and he gives excellent Remedies how they may be avoided and at last makes Two instructive Speeches one pretty long the other shorter but composed with a great deal of Art to serve for an Example or Pattern of such Instructions as ought to be given This Treatise shews That to instruct Men well in Religion is an harder Task than most Men imagine and that the Method formerly used was nobler and larger than that which is now observed This Book is of the Year 400 or thereabouts Though St. Augustin does not mention his Treatise of Continency in the Review of his Works yet he owns it in the 262d Epistle and Possidius reckons it among his VVorks This Book is a Discourse upon these VVords of the 140th Psalm Set a Watch O Lord before my Mouth and keep the Doors of my Lips O let not my Heart be enclined to any evil Thing let me not be occupied in ungodly Works with the Men that work Wickedness He shews That true Continency consists in suppressing ones Passions and he recommends the Necessity of Grace to overcome them He speaks against the Proud who excuse their Sins and particularly against the Manichees who charged their Sins upon an evil Nature that was in them This Sermon is thought to be of the Year 395. or thereabouts Both the following Treatises are written against the Errour of Jovinian This Enemy of Virginity had drawn aside several Roman Virgins from their Design of continuing so and perswaded them to marry saying to them Are you better than Susanna or Anna or so many other Holy Women Though Jovinian's Opinion was rejected at Rome yet this Heretick's Disciples gave out That none could refute him without condemning Marriage To undeceive those that were of this Opinion St. Augustin writ a Book intituled Of the Advantage of Matrimony before he undertook to speak of the Excellency of Virginity Wherein he saith first That the Union betwixt the Husband and the Wife is the most Ancient and the most Natural After that he examineth a Question rather Curious than Useful namely How Men could have had Children had they persisted in the State of Innocence He observes a Four-fold Advantage in Marriage The Society of both Sexes the Procreation of Children the good Use of Lust which is regulated by a Prospect of having Children and the Fidelity which Husband and Wife preserve towards each other He saith That every Union between a Woman and a Man is not Marriage He doth not think That this Name is to be given to that Union whose aim was only to satisfie their brutish Passion if they endeavoured to prevent their having Children He declares That Man guilty of Adultery who should abuse a Virgin when he has a Design of Marrying another As for the Young Woman he judgeth her guilty of Sin but not of Adultery if she is true to that Man and Designs not to marry when he leaveth her Nay he preferrs her before several married VVomen who abuse Matrimony by their Intemperance He doth not excuse from venial Sin either the Man or the VVoman who have another Prospect in Marriage than the begetting of Children In a word he distinguishes Three Things in Marriage The Fidelity which married Persons owe one to the other which is of natural Right the Procreation of Children which ought to be the end of Marriage and the Sacrament â—r mysterious Signification which makes it indissoluble For which Reason he determines That though humane Laws permit a Man to marry again when he is divorced from a former Wife yet it is not Lawful for Christians to whom St. Paul forbids it He concludes That Marriage is
lost A Paraphrase upon the eight first Books of the Bible A Paraphrase upon the Prophesie of Daniel and Zachary Three Books on praise of Cyprian the Martyr A Supposititious WORK Homer ' Cento's PROBA FALCONIA Her Genuine WORKS Virgil's Cento's TYRSIUS RUFUS ASTERIUS His Genuine WORK c. A Conference in Verse about the Old and New Testament PETRONIUS WORKS lost The Lives of the Egyptian Fathers A Treatise about the Ordination of a Bishop CONSTANTIUS His Genuine WORK c. The Life of S. German Bishop of Antisiodorum PHILIPPUS WORKS lost A Commentary on Job His Letters to his Friends SIAGRIUS WORKS lost A Treatise about the Faith in the Trinity Another Treatise of Faith and the Rules of Faith ISAAC WORS lost See the Catalogue p. 213 214. A Supposititious WOKR A Treatise of the contempt of the World which is the Work of another Isaac more Modern S. SIMEON STYLITES His Genuine WORKS c. A short Discourse and some Letters MOCHIMUS A WORK lost A Treatise against Eutyches ASCLEPIUS WORKS lost Some Writings against the Arians and Donatists PETRUS WORKS lâ—st Treatises upon different Subjects Psalms in Verse PAUL His Genuine WORKS c. Two Books of Virginity His Treatises of the contempt of the World Of the Institution of a Christian Life or the Correcting of Manners SALVIAN His Genuine WORKS Eight Books of the Government of God and of Judgment Four Books of the Catholick Church under the Name of Timotheus WORKS lost Three Books of the advantages of Virginity A Book to Claudian upon the end of Ecclesiastes A Book of Letters Several Homilies A Treatise in Hexameter Verse upon the Hexa ëmeron A great number of Discourses on the Sacrament Supposititious WORKS Three Books of Questions to reconcile the Old and New Testament ARNOBIUS Junior His Genuine WORK c. A Commentary upon the Psalms HONORATUS Bishop of Marseilles His Genuine WORK The Life of S. Hilary Bishop of Arles under the name of Reverentius WORKS lost The Lives of the Saints and several Homilies SALONIUS and VERANUS Genuine WORKS A Letter to S. Leo. A Mystical Exposition An Explication of Solomon's Proverbs PAULINUS of Perigueux His Genuine WORKS Six Books of the Life and Miracles of S. Martin MUSAEUS A WORK lost A Treatise upon the Sacraments VINCENTIUS A WORK lost A Commentary upon the Psalms SYRUS A WORK lost A Treatise against Nestorius SAMUEL WORKS lost His Treatises against the Nestorians and Eutychians CLAUDIANUS MAMERTUS His Genuine WORKS c. Three Books of the Nature of the Soul The Hymn Pange Lingua PASTOR A WORK lost A Treatise in the form of a Creed containing the Articles of Faith VOCONIUS A WORK lost A Treatise against the Enemies of the Church EUTROPIUS WORKS lost Two Consolatory Letters to two Sisters disinherited EVAGRIUS A WORK lost A Disputation betwixt a Jew and a Christian. TIMOTHEUS A WORK lost A Treatise upon the Nativity of Our Lord. EUSTATHIUS His Genuine WORK c. A Translation of 9 Homilies of S. Basil upon the Hexaëmeron THEODULUS WORKS lost Several Works and particularly a Concordance of the Old and New Testament EUGENIUS His Genuine WORK A Confession of Faith and a Petition to Hunnericus CEREALIS A Genuine WORK A Confession of Faith SERVUS-DEI A WORK lost A Treatise about seeing God with our bodily Eyes IDACIUS His Genuine WOKRS c. A Chronicon from the Year 381 to 467. A Calendar of the Consuls from Anno. 245. to 468. VICTORIUS A Genuine WORK c. The Paschal Cycle GENNADIUS Patriarch of Constantinople His WORKS lost A Literal Commentary upon Daniel Some Homilies A Treatise to Parthenius Another Treatise cited by Facundus ANTIPATER of Bostra A WORK lost A Confutation of Eusebius's Defence of Origen HILARY Bishop of Rome His Genuine WORK c. Twelve Letters SIMPLICIUS Bishop of Rome His Genuine WORKS c. Eighteen Letters FAUSTUS Bishop of Ries His Genuine WORKS A Letter to Lucidus the Priest A Treatise of Grace and Free-will to Leontius Bishop of Arles A Letter to Gratus A Treatise concerning the Generation of the Son the Incarnation and of the Nature of the Soul A Letter to Felix Two Discourses to the Monks Some other Discourses A Letter to Paulinus Five Letters to Ruricius WORKS lost A Treatise about the Spirit Another Treatise in form of a Dialogue RURICIUS and DESIDERIUS Genuine WORKS Some Letters APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS Three Panegyricks A Collection of Poems Letters divided into several Books JOANNES TALAIDA A WORK lost An Apology addressed to Gelasius JOHN a Priest of Antioch A WORK lost A Treatise against those that assert that there is but one Nature in Jesus Christ. JOANNES AEGEATES A WORK lost His Ecclesiastical History beginning at the Deposition of Nestorius and ending at that of Peter Fullo VICTOR VITENSIS His Genuine WORK c. The History of the Persecution of the Vandals VIGILIUS TAPSENSIS His Genuine WORKS c. 12 Books of the Trinity A Writing against Varimadus A Treatise against Falicianus Two Conferences between Arius and Athanasius Five Books against Eutyches A Treatise of Faith against Palladius FAELIX III. Bishop of Rome His Genuine WORKS c. Fifteen Letters Supposititious WORKS Three Letters in Greek Two Writs to Summon Acacius A Letter of a Council in Rome to the Clergy and Monks of Bithynia An Unknown AUTHOR who wrote in 486. A Genuine WOKK c. A Memoir about the Affair of Acacius GELASIUS I. Fifteen Letters Some Formula's or Commissions A Letter to Rusticus A Treatise upon the binding power of an Anathema A Discourse against Andromachus about the Lupercalia A Treatise against the Pelagians A Treatise against Eutyches and Nestorius His judgment upon Apocryphal Books WORKS lost Other Treatises upon several Subjects Some Hymns ANASTASIUS II. His Genuine WORKS c. A Letter to the Emperor A Letter to Lewis King of France Some Fragments of a Letter to Ursicinus PASCHASIUS the Deacon His Genuine WORKS c. Three Books of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit JULIAN POMERIUS His Genuine WORKS Three Books of the Contemplative and Active Life WORKS lost A Dialogue of the Nature of the Soul divided into Eight Books A Treatise to Principius about the contempt of Worldly things A Treatise about the Institution of Virgins A Treatise of Virtues and Vices GENNADIUS a Priest of Marseille His Genuine WORKS c. A Treatise of the Ecclesiastical Writers A Treatise of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine WORKS lost Eight Books against all the Heresies Six Books against Nestorius Three Books against Pelagius A Treatise of the Millennium and the Apocalypse of S. John NEMESIUS His Genuine WORK A Treatise of the Nature of Man AENAEAS GAZAEUS His Genuine WORK c. A Treatise of the Immortality of the Soul and of the Resurrection GELASIUS CYZECENUS His Genuine WORK c. The History of the Council of Nice AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR Who lived about the end of the Fifth or beginning of the Sixth Age and wrote some Books under the Name of Dionysius the Areopagite Of
on a certain Quality A Tract about the Context between Ratherius and the Clergy of Verona An Apologetical Treatise A Discourse to the Clergy of Verona A Charter for the Institution of Canons instead of Monks An Ordinance prohibiting to solemnize Marriages on Sundays Five Letters A Synodical Letter Ratherius's Itinerary to Rome Six Sermons A Letter on the Eucharist Works lost The Combat or Meditations of the Heart A Book call'd Phrenesis Divers Sermons The Life of S. Ursmar A Grammar which bears the Title of Spera dorsum FLODOARD Canon of Rheims Genuine Works still extant An History of the Church of Rheims A Chronicle LUITPRANDUS or LIUTPRANDUS Bishop of Cremona Genuine Works which we have A History beginning at the Reign of the Emperors Leo and Arnulphus and ending at that of Constantinus Porphyrogenneta A Relation of his Embassy to the Emperor Phocas An History of the Expulsion of Bâ—renger Spurious Works The Lives of the Popes A Chronicle HULDEBERT Archbishop of Mentz Genuine Works Certain Lives of the Saints DURANDUS Abbot of Castres A Work lost A Tract against those Persons who avouch the Soul to be Mortal JOHN Monk of Cluny A Genuine Work The Life of S. Odo Abbot of Cluny ODO Archbishop of Canterbury His Genuine Works Ecclesiastical Constitutions A Pastoral Letter BERNERUS Monk of S. Remy at Rheims Genuine Works The Life of S. Hunegonda The History of the Translation of the Body of that Saint ATTO Bishop of Vercelli His Genuine Works still extant A Capitulary for the Clergy of his Diocess A Treatise of the Persecutions rais'd against Clergy-men Eleven Letters Works lost Politica or the Perpendicular Seventeen Sermons BRUNO Archbishop of Cologn Works lost or forg'd A Commentary on the Pentaâ—â—uch The Lives of certain Saints WILLIAM Archbishop of Mentz A Genuine Work A Chronicle of the Archbishops of Mentz JOHN XII Pope Genuine Works Two Letters S. ULRIC Bishop of Augsburg Genuine Works Several Sermons referr'd to by the Author of his Life A Spurious Work A Letter about the Celebacy of Priests EDGAR King of England Genuine Works still extant His Laws His Discourse to S. Dunstan A Work forged Certain Ecclesiastical Constitutions UTHO Bishop of Strasburg Genuine Works The Lives of S. Arbogastus and S. Amand. GERARD Dean of S. Medard at Soissons A Genuine Work The Life of S. Romanus in Prose A Work lost The Life of S. Romanus in Verse THIERRY or THEODORIC Archbishop of Trier A Genuine Work The Life of S. Lutruda WITICHIND Monk of Corby in Saxony His Genuine Works Three Books of the History of the Saxons containing the Reigns of the Emperors Henry the Fowler and Otho I. Certain Poems Works lost The Lives of S. Thecla and S. Paul the first Hermite ABBO or ALBO Abbot of Fleury His Genuine Works which we have An Apology Letters to Bernard Abbot of Bâ—aulieu A Letter to an Abbot of Fulda A Collection of Canons Works lost A Letter in Hexameter Verse in Commendation of Otho The Harmony of the Gospel dedicated to Odilo A Treatise of the Cycles Spurious Works An Epitome of the Lives of the Popes The Life of S. Edmund JOHN XIII Pope Geâ—â—ane Works Four Letters ADSON Abbot of Luxueil A Genuine Work An History of the Miracles of S. Vandalbert ROGER Monk of S. Pantaleon at Cologn A Genuine Work still extant The Life of Bruno Archbishop of Cologn ROSWIDA a Nun of Gandersheim Hâ—r Genuine Works A Poem on the Life of the Emperor Otho I. Other Poetical Pieces BENEDICT VII Pope A Genuine Work A Letter to the Bishops of France and Germany S. ETHELWALD Bishop of Winchester Spurious Works A Treatise of the Abbots of Lindâ—farn and others mention'd by Pitsaeus S. DUNSTAN Archbishop of Canterbury His Genuine Works Concordia or Rules for the Monastical Life Ecclesiastical Constitutions under the Name of Edgar King of England A Letter to Wulfin Bishop of Worcester ADSON Abbot of Deuvres Genuine Works which we have The Lives of S. Bercarius S. Basolus S. Mansuet and S. Frodbert The History of the Translation and Miracles of S. Bercarius and S. Frodbert HELPERIC or CHILPERIC Monk of S. Gallus A Genuine Work A Preface to a Treatise of the Calendar A Work lost A Treatise of the Calendar JOHN XV. Pope Genuine Works still extant A Relation of the Treaty of Peace between Etheâ—â—ed and Richard An Admonition to the Bishops of Picardy NICON of Armenia A Genuine Work A Tract concerning the Religion of the Armenians FULCUIN or FOLCUIN Abbot of Lobes Genuine Works His History of the Abbey of Lobes The Life of S. Ursmar and S. Fulcuin REGNALD Bishop of Eichstadt His Genuine Works The Lives of S. Nicolas and S. Blaâ—ius The Lives of S. Wilbald and S. Unnebald BERTHIER or BERTHERIUS Priest of Verdun A Genuine Work A Compendious History of the Bishops of Verdun GREGORY V. Pope Genuine Works Four Letters GERBERT Archbishop of Rheims afterward of Ravenna and at last Pope under the Name of Sylvester II. His Genuine Works still extant CLX Letters The History of the Acts of the Council of Rheims in 992. A Discourse to the Council of Mouzon in 995. A Discourse concerning the Episcopal Functions against Simony which he compos'd being Pope Three Letters written during his Pontificate Works lost Divers Treatises of Rhetorick Arithmetick and Geometry AIMOIN or AIMONIUS Monk of Fleury The History of France in three Books and 41 Chapters of the fourth The Life of Abbo Abbot of Fleury Two Books of the Miracles of S. Benedict A Sermon on the Festival of that Saint A Piece in Verse on his Translation and on the Foundation of the Abbey of Fleury HERIGER Abbot of Lobes Genuine Works still extant An History of the Bishop of Liege A Treatise of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. The Life of S. Ursmar Works lost A Letter to Hugh about several Questions A Treatise of Discord and of the Coming of our Lord. Doubtful Works The Lives of S. Bertenda and S. Landoald UFFIN or UFFO Monk of Werthin A Genuine Work The Life of S. Ludger Bishop of Munster A doubtful Work The Life of S. Ida. A Work lost The Life of S. Lucius King of England GERARD the Pupil of S. Ulric A Genuine Work which we have The Life of S. Ulric Bishop of Augsburg A nameless WRITER Monk of S. Vito at Verdun A Genuine Work A Continuation of Berthier's History of the Bishops of Verdun ALBERT or OLBERT Abbot of Gemblours Works lost The Lives of the Fathers compos'd by that Author ALDELBOLD Bishop of Utrecht A Genuine Work The History of the Emperor Henry III. Works lost Hymns in Praise of the Cross and of the Virgin Mary Some other Works JOHN Abbot of S. Arnulphus at Metz. Genuine Works An Account of the Life and Translation of S. Glodesinda The Life of S. John Abbot of Gorze LETALDUS Monk of Micy or S. Memin Genuine Works An History of the Miracles of S. Memin The Life of S. Julian Bishop of Mans. A Nameless
Berthin flourish'd about 1080. GERARD Abbot of St. Vincent at Laon flourish'd at the same time and died in 1095. WILLERAM Abbot of St. Peter at Mersburg flourish'd about 1080. URSIO Abbot of Aumont wrote about the same time AMATUS A Bishop in Italy flourish'd at the same time ADAM A Canon of Bremen flourish'd at the same time JOAN THRACESIUS SCYLITZES Curopalata flourish'd under the Emperor Alexis Comnenus that is to say after 1080. ENGELBERT Archbishop of Trier flourish'd about 1080. CONRAD Bishop of Utrecht flourish'd about the same time WENERIC Bishop of Verceil flourish'd at the same time ULRIC A Monk of Cluny flourish'd about the same time BERNARD A Monk of Corbie in Saxony flourish'd about the same time WALERAN Bishop of Naumberg flourish'd in the end of the Century URBAN II. Pope chosen in 1087. died in 1099. DEUS DEDIT Cardinal flourish'd about 1085. LAMBERT Bishop of Arras flourish'd in 1090. RAYNOLD Archbishop of Rheims flourish'd at the same time NICOLAS sirnam'd the Grammarian Patriarch of Constantinople chosen in 1084. SIMEON the Young Abbot of Xerocerce flourish'd in the end of the Century St. ANSELM Archbishop of Canterbury born A. D. 1033. chosen Abbot of Bec in 1078. and Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093. He died in 1109. THIERRY or THEODORIC Abbot of St. Trudo flourish'd about 1090. and died in 1107. PETER Chartophylax or Keeper of the Records of the Church of Constantinople wrote about 1090. INGULPHUS Abbot of Croyland made in 1076. died in 1109. GEORGIUS CEDRENUS A Greek Monk flourish'd in the end of the Century ROSCELIN A Clerk of the Church of Compiegne flourish'd in the end of the Century PAUL Provost of Benrieden flourish'd in the end of the Century CONRAD A Monk of Bruvilliers flourish'd in the end of the Century GEFFREY de MALETERRE A Monk of Normandy flourish'd at the same time BERTULPHUS or BERNULPHUS A Priest of Constance flourish'd at the same time WILLIAM of APULIA Wrote in the end of this Century NALGOD A Monk of Cluny flourish'd at the same time OTHLO A Monk of St. Boniface flourish'd at the same time GREGORY Cardinal flourish'd at the same time PETER de HONESTIS A Clerk of Râ—venna flourish'd at the same time THIBAUD or THEOBALD A Clerk of the Church of Etampes flourish'd at the same time EADMER A Monk of Canterbury the Pupil of St. Anselm flourish'd in the end of the Century and died in 1121. GISLEBERT A Monk of Westminster flourish'd in the end of the Century BERNARD A Monk of Cluny flourish'd at the same time BERNARD A Clerk of the Church of Utrecht flourish'd in the end of this Century ADAM Abbot of Perseme flourish'd about the same time ALBERT A Benedictin Monk of Mets flourish'd at the same time ERARD A Benedictin Monk flourish'd at the same time BERTHORIUS Abbot of Mount Cassin flourish'd at the same time GONTHIER or GONTHERIUS A Monk of St. Amand flourish'd at the same time ANASTASIUS A Monk of St. Sergius at Anger 's liv'd at the same time BAUDRY Bishop of Dol flourish'd at the same time GAUNILON An English Monk flourish'd at the same time NICETAS SERRO Archbishop of Heraclea flourish'd at the same time SAMUEL of MOROCCO A Converted Jew wrote in the end of the Century ALGER Deacon of Liege and afterwards Monk of Cluny flourish'd A. D. 1130. NICOLAS Bishop of Methone flourish'd in the end of the Eleventh Century or rather in the Twelfth SAMONAS Archbishop of Gaza flourish'd about the same time A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Eleventh Century SYLVESTER II. Pope His Genuine Works still extant THree Letters A Discourse against Simoniacal Practices not to mention some Pieces compos'd by him before he was made Pope St. FULBERT Bishop of Chartres Genuine Works CXXXIV Letters IX Sermons A Collection of certain Passages of Holy Scripture about the Mysteries of the Trinity and of the Incarnation A Penitential A Collection of Passages of Scripture relating to the Eucharist Certain Poetical Pieces A Letter about the use of Church-Revenues publish'd by Father Dachery The Life of St. Auspert WILLIAM Abbot of St. Benignus at Dijon A Genuine Piece His Letter to Pope John XVIII GODEHARD Bishop of Hildesheim Genuine Works Five Letters GOSBERT Abbot of Tergensee His Genuine Pieces Four Letters BURCHARD Bishop of Worms Genuine Works His Decretals divided into twenty Books MEGENFROY or MEGINFROY a Monk of Fulda A Genuine Piece The Life of St. Emmeran Works lost XXIV Books of History ERCHENFROY or ERCHINFROY Abbot of Melch. A Genuine Work An History of the Life and Miracles of Saint Colman SYRUS Monk of Cluny A Genuine Piece still extant The Life of St. Maiol OSBERT or OSBERN a Monk and Chanter of Canterbury Genuine Works The Lives of St. Dunstan St. Odo and St. Alphegus ADELBOLD Bishop of Utrecht A Genuine Piece The Life of the Emperor Henry II. RUPERT Abbot of Mount Cassin Works lost Sermons and other Tracts mention'd by Trithemius DITHMAR Bishop of Mersburg A Genuine Work An Historical Chronicle divided into 7 Books BENEDICT VIII Pope His Genuine Works A Discourse made in the Council of Pavia concerning the Incontinency of Clergy-men A Bull in favour of the Abbey of Cluny LEO sirnam'd the Grammarian A Genuine Work that we have His Chronicle from A. C. 813. to 1013. GUARLIN or GAUSLIN Archbishop of Bourges A Genuine Piece A Letter to King Robert Pieces lost Two Letters to St. Fulbert TANGMARUS Dean of Hildesheim A Genuine Piece The Life of St. Bernard Bishop of Hildesheim GUY ARETIN Abbot of La Croix St. Leufroy Works lost A Method for attaining to the Science of Musick call'd Micrologus A Treatise of the Body and Blood of Jes Christ. ARIBO Archbishop of Mentz Works lost A Commentary on the five gradual Psalms A Letter to Berno Abbot of Richenaw BERNO Abbot of Richenaw His Genuine Works A Treatise of the Office of the Mass. The Lives of St. Ulric and St. Meginrard Works lost A Treatise of the coming of our Lord. Another on the Fasts A Tract dedicated to Pilgrin Archbishop of Colen A Treatise of Musical Instruments Another of the Monochord Divers Letters ADEMAR or AIMAR de CHABANOIS a Monk of St. Cibar Works lost A Chronicle or History of France A List of the Abbots of St. Martial at Limoges Certain Pieces in Acrostick Verse Manuscript Works A Letter directed to Jourdain Bishop of Limoges Several Sermons about the Apostleship of Saint Martial HUGH Arch-deacon of Tours A Genuine Piece A Dialogue about an Apparition seen by Herveus Treasurer of St. Martin at Tours ARNULPHUS Monk of St. Emmeran A Genuine Piece still extant The Life of St. Emmeran by way of Dialogue ODORAN a Monk of St. Peter le Vif A Genuine Work His Chronicle ending A. D. 1032. AEGELNOTUS Archbishop of Canterbury Works lost A Piece in commendation of the Virgin Mary Several Letters and some others Works EBERARD the Pupil of St. Harvic A Genuine Work The Life of St. Harvic JOHN XVIII
Treatises of Piety A Treatise of the Recommendation of Faith A Treatise of the Sacrament of the Altar ERMENGARDUS or ERMENGALDUS A Genuine Work A Treatise against the Manichees and other Hereticks of his Time JOHN the Hermit A Genuine Work The Life of St. Bernard BERNARD Abbot of Fontcaud A Genuine Work A Treatise against the Vaudois JOANNES CINNAMUS the Grammarian A Genuine Work The History of the Emperors John and Manuel Comnenus THEORIANUS A Genuine Work Conferences with the Armenians HUGO ETHERIANUS Genuine Works still extant A Tract in Defence of the Latins against the Greeks A Treatise of the State of the Soul ROBERTUS PAULULUS a Priest of Amiens Genuine Works The Books of the Offices of the Church The Canon of the Mystical Offering GERVASE a Priest of Chichester A Manuscript Work A Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachy ODO Abbot of Bel. A Genuine Work A Letter to his Brother a Novice in the Abbey of Igny LABORANT Cardinal Manuscript Works A Collection of Canons A Treatise of Justice Three Letters to Hugh Archbishop of Palermo GEFFREY Prior of Vigeois A Genuine Work A Chronicle of the History of France THIERRY or THEODORICUS a Monk A Genuine Work still extant The History of Norway JOANNES BURGUNDUS a Magistrate of Pisa. Genuine Works A Translation of St. John Damascenus's Treatise of the Orthodox Faith and of Nemesius's Eight Books of Philosophy MAURICE of Sully Bishop of Paris Manuscript Works Sermons for the Sundays of the Year Instructions for Priests CELESTIN III. Pope Genuine Works Seventeen Letters PETRUS COMESTOR Dean of St. Peter at Troyes Genuine Works A Scholastick History Sermons Printed under the Name of Peter of Blois JOANNES PHOCAS a Grecian Monk A Genuine Work still extant A Relation of a Voyage to the Holy Land NEOPHYTUS a Greek Monk A Genuine Work A Relation of the Calamities of the Island of Cyprus A Nameless AUTHOR A Genuine Work The Expedition of the Danes to the Holy Land A. D. 1185. DEMETRIUS TORNICIUS A Manuscript Work A Treatise of the Procession of the Holy Ghost JOHN Bishop of Lydda A Genuine Work A Letter to Michael Patriarch of Jerusalem GAUTERIUS a Regular Canon of St. Victor A Work lost A Treatise against the four Labyrinths of France THIERRY or THEODORICUS Abbot A Genuine Work The Life of St. Elizabeth Abbess of Schonaw OGERUS Abbot of Lucedia Genuine Works still extant Fifteen Sermons on the Lord's Supper GODOFREDUS of Viterbo A Genuine Work An Universal Chronicle call'd Pantheon A Manuscript Work A Geneology of all the Kings ROBERT of Torigny Abbot of Mount St. Michael Genuine Works A Supplement and Continuation of Sigebert's Chronicle A Treatise of the Abbeys of Normandy An Epistle and Preface to a Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul Manuscript Works lost A Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul The History of the Monastery of Mount St. Michael The History of Henry II. King of England OTHO of St. Blaise A Genuine Work Acontinuation of the Chronicle of Otho of Frisinghen to the Year 1190. JOHN BROMTON Abbot of Jorval Genuine Works still in our Possession A Chronicle from the Year 588. to 1198. LUPUS PROTOSPATUS A Manuscript Work A Chronicle ALULPHUS a Monk of St. Martin at Tournay A Manuscript Work The Gregorian Decretals the Preface of which was publish'd by F. Mabillon ISAAC Abbot of L'Etoile Genuine Works Sermons A Treatise of the Mind and Soul A Letter concerning the Canon of the Mass. HENRY Abbot of Clairvaux Genuine Works A Treatise of the City of God Several Letters PETER Abbot of Clairvaux Genuine Works Divers Letters GARNERIUS Abbot of Clairvaux Genuine Works still extant Certain Sermons GILBERT of Sempringham Genuine Works Two Books of Constitutions for his Order NICOLAS a Canon of Liege A Genuine Work The Life of St. Lambert SIBRANDUS Abbot of Mariegard in Friseland A Genuine Work The Life of St. Frederick Founder of that Abbey BERTRAND Abbot of La Chaise-Dieu A Genuine Work The History of the Life and Miracles of Robert the first Founder of that Abbey RADULPHUS TORTARIUS A Genuine Work A Book of the Miracles of St. Benedict A nameless AUTHOR A Genuine Work still extant The History of Jerusalem from A. D. 1177. to 1190. CHRISTIAN a Monk of Clairvaux A Manuscript Work A Collection of Sermons GAUTERIUS of Chastillon A Genuine Work A Book call'd Alexandreis Manuscript Works Three Books of Dialogues against the Jews THOMAS a Monk of Cisteau A Genuine Work A Commentary on the Book of Canticles GARNERIUS of St. Victor A Genuine Work The Gregorian Decretals ROBERT of Flamesbury A Manuscript Work A Penitential ODO of Chirton Manuscript Works A Summary of Penance Several Homilies JOHN a Carthusian Monk of Portes Genuine Works still extant Five Letters STEPHEN DE CHAULMET a Carthusian Monk of Portes A Genuine Work A Letter to certain Novices WILLIAM LITTLE a Regular Canon of Neutbrige or Neuburg A Genuine Work The Hist of England from the Year 1066. to 1197. GERVASE a Monk of Canterbury Genuine Works A Chronicle from the Year 1122 to A. D. 1199. The Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury A Relation of the burning and rebuilding of the Cathedral-Church of Canterbury A Representation of the Controversies between the Monks of Canterbury and Baldwin their Archbishop GONTHERIUS a Monk of St. Amand. Genuine Works still extant A Poem call'd Ligurinus A Treatise of Fasting and giving Alms. The Life of St. Cyricius and St. Julitta OLIVER of Colen A Genuine Work still extant A Relation of the taking of Damiata RADULPHUS DE DICETO Dean of St. Paul at London A Genuine Work A Chronicle to the Year 1198. GALFREDUS or GAUTERIUS DE VINESAUF A Genuine Work The Itinerary of Richard I. King of England GEORGE XIPHYLIN Patriarch of Constantinople Genuine Works Certain Ecclesiastical Constitutions PETER of Poitiers Chancellor of the Church of Paris A Genuine Work still extant A Book of Sentences Works lost A Commentary on the Books of Exodus Leviticus and Numbers Another Commentary on the Book of Psalms PETER of Blois Arch-Deacon of Bath Genuine Works A Hundred and Eighty Three Letters Sixty Five Sermons Sixteen Tracts SYLVESTER GIRALDUS Bishop of St. David's Genuine Works The Natural History of England The Topography of Ireland The History of the Conquest of Ireland by Henry II. King of England The Itinerary of the Country of Wales The Lives of the Saints and Letters RICHARD Abbot of Mount-Cassin A Genuine Work A Continuation of Peter the Library-Keeper's History of the Illustrious Men of Mount-Cassin STEPHEN Bishop of Tournay Genuine Works still extant CCLXXXVII Letters divided into Three Parts Works lost A Commentary on the Decretal of Gratian. Several Sermons THEODORUS BALSAMON Patriarch of Antioch Genuine Works Commentaries on the Canons and the Nomocanon of Photius A Collection of Ecclesiastical Constitutions The Resolution of divers Canonical Questions Answers to the Questions of Mark Patriarch of Alexandria Two Letters ELIAS of Coxie Abbot of Dunes Genuine Works Two Discourses
May 17 1314. His Genuine Works c. Several Letters and Bull concerning the Business of Boniface and that of the Templars in the History of Mr. du Puis in the I Tome of the History of the Popes of Avignon of Mr. Balaesius and others The Decretals gathered by John XXII under the Title of Clementines in the Body of the Law Other Letters and Bulls in the Annalists WILLIAM PARIS A Preaching Friar flourished about 1310. Genuine Works c. A Dialogue upon the VII Sacraments A Postil upon the Epistles and Gospels JOHN of PARIS A Preaching Friar a Licentiate in the Faculty of Divinity at Paris in 1304 and died in 1306. Genuine Works c. A Treatise upon the Eucharist A Treatise upon the Regal and Priestly Authority Works in MSS. Three Sermons A Treatise of the Christian Religion A Correctory of the Doctrin of S. Thomas THOMAS TOICIUS or TOYCE An Auglish Monk of the Order of Preaching Friars and Cardinals Chosen Cardinal in 1305 died in 1310. His Genuine Works A Commentary on the seven Penitential Psalms Printed at Venice 1602. A Commentary on St. Augustine's Books of the City of God His other Commentaries on the H. Scripture among the Works of St. Thomas WILLIAM LE MAIRE Bishop of Anger 's Made Bishop in 1290 died in 1314. Genuine Works An History of the Church of Anger 's A Collection of Synodal Statutes MALACHY A Grey Friar and Chaplain to Edward II King of England flourished in 1310. A Genuine Work A Treatise of the Infection of mortal Sins and of their Remedies JAMES DE TERMES Abbot of Charlieu flourished in 1310. A Genuine Work A Treatise of Exemptions and Priviledges of the Monks JAMES of VITERBO Of the Order of Hermites of St. Augustin Arch-Bishop of Naples Flourished in 1310. Works lost A Book of the Government of the Christians A Commentary on the Sentences Quodlibetical Questions ALEXANDER of ALEXANDRIA A Preaching Friar Flourished in 1310. Works lost Commentaries on the Book of the Master of the Sentences and on those of Aristotle JOANNES de S. GEMINIANO A Preaching Friar Flourished in 1315. Genuine Works A Summary of Examples and Comparisons Sermons for Lent Funeral Orations RAIMUNDUS LULLUS A Grey Friar Born in 1236 retir'd from the World in 1280 and died in 1315. Genuine and Supposititious Works See the Catalogue of them p. 53. PETRUS JOANNES OLIVA Of Serignan a Grey Friar flourished in the beginning of the Century Works in Manuscript or lost A Postil on the Apocalypse A Treatise of Evangelical Poverty JOHN of FRIBURG Of the Order of Preaching Friars Bp. of Osma flourished in the beginning of the Century and died in 1314. Genuine Works A Summary for Preachers Another Grand Sum for Confessors A Gloss upon the Summs of Raimundus de Pennaforti ANDRONICUS The Elder Greek Emperor Reign'd from 1283 to 1328 died in 1333. A Genuine Work still extant A Dialogue between a Jew and a Christian about Matters of Religion Manuscript Works Treatises against the Armenians and against Joannes Vexus NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTOPULUS A Greek Monk flourished under the Emperor Andronicus the Elder A Genuine Work An Ecclesiastical History AEGIDIUS ROMANUS or GILES Of Rome Arch-bishop of Bourges Was of the Family of Colonni and Pupil to Thomas Aquinas Constituted of the Order of Augustin Hermites in 1292 Install'd Arch-bishop of Bourges in 1294 died in 1316. His Genuine and lost Works See the Catalogue of them p. 54. ECKARD A German of the Order of Preaching Friars Flourish'd in the beginning of the Century Works lost A Commentary on the four Books of the Sentences Commentaries on Genesis Exodus the Book of Wisdom the Gospel according to St. John and the Lord's Prayer A Discourse made in a Chapter of Grey Friars Theses and Sermons GUY Bishop of Ferrara Flourished in the beginning of the Century Works lost A Poem concerning the History of the Old and New Testament call'd the Pearl of the Bible Some other Pieces in Prose and Verse PETRUS DE SAXONIA A Preaching Friar Flourish'd in the beginning of the Century Works lost A Sum of Cases Several Sermons GERHARDUS DE BONONIA General of the Carmelites Flourish'd in the beginning of the Century and died in 1317. Works lost A Commentary upon the Sentences Quodlibetical Questions Divers Sermons Part of a System of Divinity GULIELMUS DURANTUS Bishop of Menda Advanced to that Bishoprick in 1296 died in 1328. A Genuine Work A Treatise of the manner of Celebrating a General Council Printed at Paris in 1671. JOHN of PARIS A Regular Canon of St. Victor Flourished in 1320. Manuscript Works Historical Memoirs or Flowers of History VICTOR PORCHET DE SALVATICIS A Carthusian Monk Flourish'd in 1320. A Genuine Work A Defence of the Christian Religion against the Jews WILLIAM DE MANDAGOT Cardinal made Arch-bishop of Embrun in 1295. Translated to the Arch-bishoprick of Aix and C reated Cardinal in 1311 died in 1321 A Genuine Work still extant A Treatise of the Election of Prelates BERENGARIUS DE FREDOL Cardinal Ordained Bishop of Beziers in 1298. Cardinal Priest by Pope Clement V. Cardinal Bishop of Frascati in 1309 and Cardinal Bishop of Porto in 1317 died June 10. A D. 1323. A Genuine Work A Commentary upon the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia's Sum under the Title of Oculus A Manuscript Work A Treatise of Excommunication and Interdiction ANTONIUS ANDREAS A Grey Friar and Pupil to Scotus Flourish'd about the Year 1320. Genuine Works A Commentary upon the Books of the Sentences Commentaries upon those of Aristotle and Boethius A Treatise about the Principles of Gilbertus Porretanus HERVAEUS NATALIS A Preaching Friar Made the Fourteenth General of his Order in 1313 died in 1323. His Genuine Works See the Catalogue of them p. 55. PTOLEMAEUS LUCENSIS Bishop of Toricelli Made Bishop in 1321. Genuine Works Annals from the Year 1060 to 1303. A Chronicle of the Popes and Emperors PHILIP Bishop of Aichstat made Bishop in 1305 died in 1322. A Genuine Work The Life of St. Walpurgis HUGO PRATENSIS A Dominican Monk Flourish'd from the beginning of the Century to the Year 1322 which was that of his Death Genuine Works Sermons for the whole Year and upon the Festivals of the Saints JOHN of NAPLES A Preaching Friar Flourished in the beginning of the Century and died in 1323. Genuine Works Questions of Philosophy and Divinity Works lost A Commentary upon the Sentences Quodlibetical Questions Sermons c. PETRUS AUREOLUS Of the Order of Grey Friars Arch-bishop of Aix was Professor of Divinity at Paris in the beginning of the Century made Arch-bishop of Aix in 1321 died a little while after Genuine Works still Extant A Commentary upon the Book of Sentences An Abbridgment of the Bible Quodlibetical Questions A Sermon upon the Immaculate Conception Works Lost The Distinctions of the Rose Sermons for the whole Year A Treatise of Poverty MARTIN A Preaching Friar Penitentiary of Rome Flourish'd in the Beginning of the Century Works Lost A Table of Decrees A Short
de PORT NAON A Grey Friar Flourish'd about 132â— A Manuscript Work A Chronicon to the Pontificate of John XXII GUY Abbot of S. Denis Flourish'd about the same time and Dyed in 1333. A Manuscript Work Notes upon Usuardus's Martyrology WILLIAM of NOTTINGHAM A Chanter of York and after a Grey Friar Flourish'd from 1320 and Dyed 1336. His Manuscript Works Questions and Observations upon the Gospels and Lord's Prayer A Treatise against the Errors of Pelagius ASTESANUS A Grey Friar Flourish'd from 1320 till about 1330. A Genuine Work A Summary of Cases MONALDUS A Grey Friar Flourish'd from 1320 and Dyed 1332. His Genuine Works A Summary of Cases call'd Summa Aurea Works in Manuscript Questions upon the Sentences Sermons GERHARD de SIENNA An Hermite of S. Augustine Flourish'd about 1320. Works lost See the Catalogue of them p. 79. WILLIAM MOUNT A Canon of Lincoln Flourish'd about 1330. Works in Manuscript See the Catalogue of them p. 63. WILLIAM de RUBION A Grey Friar Flourish'd about 1333. A Genuine Work c. A Disputation upon the Sentences GUY de MONTROCHER A French Divine Flourish'd about the same time His Genuine Works c. An Instruction for Curates A Treatise of the manner of Celebrating the Mass. LUDOLPHUS or LANDOLPHUS SAXO A Carthusian After he had been a Preaching Friar 30 Years became a Carthusian in 1330. His Genuine Works c. The Lives of Jesus Christ S. Ann S. Joachim and the Virgin Mary Some Divine Commentaries on the Psalms SIMON BORASTON An Englishman Flourish'd from 1336. Works in Manuscript A Treatise of the Unity and Order of the Church A Composure of the Order of Judicial Acts. A Treatise of Philosophy BARTHOLOMEW de S. CONCORDIA A Preaching Friar Flourish'd about 1333. His Genuine Work c. A Summary of Cases of Conscience WILLIAM de BALDENSEL A German Knight Flourish'd about 1336. A Genuine Work c. A Voyage into the Holy Land ARNOLDUS CESCOMES Arch-Bishop of Tarragon Flourish'd about the same time His Genuine Works c. Two Letters DANIEL de TREVISI A Grey Friar Flourish'd about 1340. A Manuscript Work A Relation of a Voyage into America HENRY d'URIMARIA An Hermite of S. Augustine Flourish'd about 1340. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Master of the Sentences A Treatise of the four Instincts A Sermon upon the Passion ROBERT COWTON A Grey Friar Flourish'd about 1340. A Manuscript Work A Short Commentary upon the Sentences DURANDUS de CHAMPAGNE A Manuscript Work A Directory for Confessors CLEMENT of FLORENCE A Servite Flourish'd about 1340. His Works in Manuscript A Treatise upon the Psalms A Golden Chain upon S. Paul's Epistles LUPOLDUS or LEOPOLDUS Of Bamberg a Lawyer Flourish'd about 1340. His Genuine Works c. A Treatise of the Zeal of the German Princes towards Religion Another Treatise of the Rights of the Empire WALTER BURLEY A Grey Friar Flourish'd about 1340. His Genuine Works c. Divers Commentaries upon Aristotle's Works The Lives of the Philosophers A Manuscript Work A Commentary upon the Book of the Sentences JOHN CANON A Grey Friar Flourish'd about 1340. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Master of the Sentences Lectures and Questions A Treatise upon the 8 Books of Aristotle's Physicks MARSILUS PATAVINUS A Lawyer Flourish'd from 1320 to the middle of the Century His Genuine Works c. A Defender of the Peace against the Usurped Jurisdiction of the Roman Bishop A Treatise of the Translation of the Empire A Treatise about the Divorce of the Princess of Bohemia UBERTINUS de CASALIS A Grey Friar Born in 1259. Entred into the Order of Grey Friars in 1273. Wrote his Book of a Crucifyed Life in 1305 and Flourish'd from 1310 to 1340. His Genuine Works c. An Answer and Writing about the Poverty of Jesus Christ and the Grey Friars The Tree of a Crucify'd Life A Treatise of the Seven States of the Church Works lost Some Writings in favour of Petrus Cliva MICHAEL CAESENAS A Grey Frier Chosen General of his Order in 1316 Depos'd in 1329 and died in 1343. Genuine Works c. Three Writings against John XXII concerning the Poverty of Jesus Christ. PETER de CASA A Carmelite chosen General of his Order in 1330 and afterwards made Bishop of Vasio Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences Sermons JOANNES de JANDUNO de Gaunt or de Laon A Lawyer Flourish'd from 1330 to the Middle of the Century His Genuine Works c. Some Treatises of Philosophy Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences A Treatise of the Power of the Church against Jâ—hn XXII Some Quodlibetical Questions A Spurious Work An Information of the Nullity of the Process form'd by John XXII against the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria Compos'd by an Author of that time NICHOLAS de LYRA A Grey Frier enter'd into that Order in 1291 and died 1340. His Genuine Works c. Postills upon all the Scripture A Treatise about the Administration of the Sacrament of the Altar Postills or Explications upon the Gospels of all the Sundays in the Year A Dispute against the Jews A Treatise against a Jew His Works in Manuscript or Lost. Large Commentaries upon Scripture A Commentary upon the Sentences Quodlibetical Questions A Treatise about the Beatifick Vision An Exposition of the Decalogue and some other Works BENEDICTUS XII Pope Chosen Pope Decemb. 16. 1334 Crown'd Decemb. 20. and died April 25. 1342. His Genuine Works c. A Treatise about the Poverty of Jesus Christ. A Treatise of the Beatifick Vision Letters Constitutions and Bulls in the Annalists Register of Bulls and Councils PAUL de LYAZARES A Lawyer Flourish'd about 1340. A Work Lost. A Commentary upon the Clementines LAPUS de CHASTILLON Abbot of S. Miniatus Flourish'd about 1340. A Work Lost. A Commentary upon the Clementines ALBERT de BRESSE A Preaching-Frier Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. A Summary of Cases and several Letters HERMANNUS de SCHILDE An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 79 80. WILLIAM KAYOTH A Preaching Frier Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. An Abbridgment of the Summary of John the German Some Sermons PAUL de PERUSIA A Carmelite Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences Decisions and Sermons JOHN d' OLNEY A Carthusian Flourish'd about the same time His Works Lost. Six Books of the Miracles of the Virgin Meditations in Solitude PETRUS RAIMUNDUS A Carmelite made the XVth General of his Order in 1343. A Work Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences SIMON de SPIRES A Carmelite Flourish'd about 1340. Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences A Pestill upon the Bible A Treatise against the Jews JOANNES SAXO A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the same time A Work Lost. A Summary of Cases JOANNES de RUPE-SCISSA A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences Sermons upon the Desolation of the
Cross. Works in Manuscript Two Sermons A Spurious Work A Method or Rule for Monks JOHN HONSEMIUS or HOXEMIUS Canon of Liege Flourish'd in 1350. A Genuiue Work c. The History of the Bishops of Liege Du Pin 14 Cent. JOHANNES BECANUS Canon of Utrecht Flourish'd in 1350. A Genuine Work c. A Chronicle of the Bishops of Utrecht and Earls of Holland BERNARD Abbot of Mount-Cassin Flourish'd about the Year 1350. A Genuine Work c. The Mirrour of the Monks of St. Benedict A Manuicript Work A Commentary upon the Rule of St. Benedict Works Lost. Sermons and Regular Precepts THOMAS BRADWARDIN A Grey Frier and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in 1348. Dy'd the same Year His Genuine Work c. A Treatise of the Cause of God against Pelagius and of the Virtue of Causes ALBERICUS ROSATUS or ROXIATI A Lawyer Flourish'd about 1350. Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Sextus A Dictionary of Civil and Canon-Laws PETRUS de PATERNIS An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about 1350. A Manuscript Work c. A Treatise of the Necessity and Sufficiency of Man's Life ROBERT A Carmelite Flourish'd about 1350. Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences and Epistles of S. Paul Several Sermons MICHAEL de MASSA An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about the Middle of the Century Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 80. JOHANNES WALSGRAM A Carmelite Flourish'd about the Middle of the Century Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences Divers Questions JOHANNES SAXO and JOHN BRAMART Grey Friers Flourish'd about the Middle of the Century Works Lost. See their Titles p. 80. HENRY D' ERFORD A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the Middle of the Century Works Lost. See the Catalogue p. 80. JOHANNES TACESPHALUS NICHOLAS DORHIN TILMAN and PETER THOMAS Carmelites Flourish'd about the Middle of the Century Works Lost. See their Titles p. 80. BARTHOLOMEW A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the Middle of the Century Works Lost. A Treatise of the Property of Things Sermons PETER A Monk of Clara-Vallis Flourish'd about 1350. Works in Manuscript Two Letters A Treatise of the Pope's Power THOMAS of STRASBURG An Hermite of St. Augustine Chosen General of his Order in 1345 and Died in 1357. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Four Books of the Sentences A Work Lost. A Book upon the Constitutions of his Order GREGORIUS ARIMINENSIS An Hermite of St. Augustine Chosen General of his Order in 1357 and Died in 1358. Genuine Works still Extant A Commentary upon the 1st and 2. Books of the Sentences An Addition to that Work Commentaries upon St. Paul's Epistles and the Canonical Epistle of St. James A Treatise of Usury Works Lost Sermons ADAM GODDAM or WODHAM A Grey Frier Flourish'd from 1330 and Died in 1358. A Genuine Work still Extant A Commentary upon the Books of the Sentences TORTANERIUS VASSALLI Cardinal Chosen General of the Grey Friers in 1343. Made Arch-Bishop of Ravenna in 1347. Patriarch of Grado in 1351. and Cardinal in 1360. Died in 1361. A Work Lost A Commentary upon St. Augustine's Books De Civitate Dei JOHANNES THAULERUS A Preaching Frier Flourish'd in 1350. Died in 1361. His Genuine Works c. Sermons Translated out of the German Language into Latin by Surius INNOCENT VI. Pope Chosen Pope Decemb. 18. 1352. Crown'd Decemb. 23. Died Sept. 12. 1362. His Genuine Works c. Several Letters Publish'd by the Annalists taken out of his Register which is in Manuscript in the Vatican Library PETRUS BERCHERIUS Prior of St. Eligius Flourish'd about 1350. Died in 1362. His Genuine Works c. A Moral Dictionary A Reductory of the Bible A Moral Induction ALPHONSUS VARGAS Arch-Bishop of Sevil Flourish'd about 1350 and Died in 1366. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the 1st Book of the Sentences Questions upon the Three Books of Aristotle De Anima RICHARD FITZRALPH Arch-Bishop of Armagh Chancellor of Oxford about 1333. Chosen Arch-Bishop of Armagh in 1347. Died in 1360. His Genuine Works c. A Defence of the Curates against the Begging Friers A Summary against the Armenians Four Sermons in Praise of the Virgin Manuscript Works A Treatise about those who are to hear Confessions A Treatise of Begging A Reply to Robert Conway Several Sermons A Summary upon the Sentences ROGER CHONOE or ROBERT CONWAY A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the same time A Genuine Work c. An Answer to the Defence of the Curates by Richard of Armagh A Manuscript Work A Confutation of the same Richard of Armagh concerning Begging Works Lost Seven Books about the Poverty of our Lord. An Answer to Frier John de Terinis RALPH HIGDEN or HIKEDEN A Benedictine Monk of Chester Flourish'd about 1350 and Died 1363. A Manuscript Work c. A Polychronicon Translated into English by John de Trevisi Works Lost See the Catalogue of them p. 71. JOHN MALVERN A Benedictine Monk of Winchester Flourish'd about 1350. Works in Manuscript or Lost. A Treatise of Visions The Continuation of Ralph Higden's Poly-Chronicon BERNARD DAPIFER A Monk of Melk Flourish'd about 1360. A Genuine Work The History of St. Gothalmus JOHN CALDERINUS A Lawyer Flourish'd about 1360. Works of the Common Law c. A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Interdicts A Table of the Texts of Scripture quoted in the Decretals A Manuscript Work A Commentary upon the Decretals BARTHOLOMEW de GLANVILE A Grey Frier Flourish'd about 1360. His Genuine Works Nineteen Books of Morality and Sermons PETRUS BOHERUS Abbot of S. Aignan Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 80 81. JACOBUS de ALTA VILLA A German Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. A Treatise upon the Sentences Some Questions JOHN d'IMENHUSEN A German Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences Sermons URBAN V. Pope Chosen Pope Octob. 28. Consecrated and Crown'd Nov. 6. 1362. He died Decemb. 19. 1370. His Genuine Works A Constitution against the Plurality of Benefices which is found in the Councils Several Letters in the Annalists PHILOTHEUS Patriarch of Constantinople Chosen Arch-Bishop of Heraclea in 1354 Driven out in 1355 Restor'd in 1367 and died in 1371. His Genuine Works and Manuscripts See the Catalogue of them p. 90. THEOPHANES Arch-Bishop of Nice Flourish'd under the Emperor Cantacuzenus Works in Manuscript A Treatise against the Jews An Instruction to Clergy-men A Letter concerning the Contempt of the World NILUS Arch-Bishop of Rhodes Flourish'd about 1360. A Genuine Work c. The History of the Oecumenical Councils JOANNES CANTACUZENUS The Greek Emperor After he had left the Empire in 1357 liv'd a long time His Genuine Works c. The History of the Reigns of the Andronici and his own A Treatise against the Saracens and Mahometans Works in Manuscript The Contradictions of Prochorus Cydonius JOANNES CYPARISSIOTA Flourish'd in the Reign of Cantacuzenus and Joannes Palaeologus His Genuine Works c. A Part of his Errors while a Palamite
and the Passage of Joshuah ought likewise to be understood of the whole Law To this may be added that in the other Books of the Old Testament they always consider the entire Pentateuch as the the Work of Moses In the first of Kings ch 2. v. 3. David speaking to Salomon tells him That the Ceremonies Precepts and Laws of the Jews were written in the Law of Moses Keep the Charge of the Lord thy God to walk in his Ways to keep his Statutes and Commandments and his Judgments and his Testimonies as it is written in the Law of Moses It is therefore believed that all the Pentateuch which contains these Ceremonies Precepts and Judgments was the Law of Moses All the Law is likewise attributed to Moses in the second Book of Kings ch 21 and 23. v. 8. v. 25. If they observe all the Law of Moses In the second Book of Chronicles ch 23. v. 18. To offer the Burnt-Offerings of the Law as it is written in the Law of Moses Is not Leviticus therefore Moses's Book That which is delivered in the 30th 31st and 35th Chapters of the same Book is taken out of Leviticus and Numbers are they not therefore the Books of Moses In the 25th Chapter Deuteronomy is cited as one of Moses's Books As it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses the Father shall not die for the Children Which Words are to be found in the 24th Chapter of Deuteronomy Leviticus quoted by Baruch ch 2. as a Book that was written by Moses As thou speakest by thy Servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write thy Law before the Children of Israel saying If ye will not hear c. Which words are in the 26th Chapter of Leviticus v. 14. In the second Book of Kings ch 22 and 23. as also in the second Book of Chronicles ch 34. it is said that Hilkiah found a Book of the Law of Moses's written perhaps with his own hand as these words seem to imitate Per manum Moysi This Book of the Law according to Josephus is all the Pentateuch according to others Deuteronomy However it is yet it follows from hence at least that Deuteronomy is his Now Deuteronomy supposes that the other Books of the Law were written because it is as it were an Abridgment and upon that acccount is called Deuteronomy or The Second Law In the ninth Chapter of Daniel it is said that the Curse which is written in the Book of Moses is fallen upon the Jews and in the tenth Verse the words of Deuteronomy and Exodus are particularly cited The Prophet Malachi ch 4. exhorts the Jews to remember the Law of Moses Raguel in the 7th Chapter of Tobit says He will give his Daughter in Marriage to Tobias to obey the Law of Moses The Law of Moses is frequently repeated in the Psalms the 77th 104th 105th 135th Psalms contain the History of the Israelites which is plainly taken out of the Pentateuch The Law of Moses is often cited in Ezrah Ez. 9. 10. 23. the Passages cited in these places are to be found in the Books of the Pentateuch In the 10th Chapter of Nehemiah v. 29. the Israelites oblige themselves by a new kind of an Oath to keep the Law and Precepts of Moses Now among these Precepts there are several that are taken out of the Books of the Pentateuch In the second Book of Maccabees ch 7. Eleazar saith I will not obey the King's Commandment but that of the Law which was given unto Our Fathers by Moses Lastly whatever is taken out of the Pentateuch in the New Testament is always cited under the name of the Law of Moses St. James in the 15th Chapter of the Acts says The Jews read Moses every Sabbath day in their Synagogues Moses of old time hath in every City them that Preach him being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath day And St. Paul in his Epistles says That the Jews did not understand Moses although they read him Usque in hodiernum diem cum legitur Moses Therefore they did not in the least doubt that the Pentateuch was written by Moses since they tell us that those who read that Book read Moses All these Passages make it very evident in the first place that Moses wrote the Law of the Jews Secondly That by the name of the Law we ought to understand the Pentateuch Thirdly That not only Deuteronomy but also all the other Books of the Pentateuch have been cited in Scripture for the Books and Law of Moses Fourthly That this has ever passed for a constant truth of which no body doubted Fifthly That they not only believed Moses to be the Author of the things contained in these Books but of the Books themselves so that when they read them one might say they read Moses as when we read the Aeneids we say we read Virgil. c By the Authority of Jesus Christ. In St. John ch 5. There is one one that accuseth you saith our Saviour even Moses in whom ye trust For had you believed Moses you would have believed me for he wrote of me 'T is plain therefore that Moses wrote and that he wrote those Books which the Jews read for his Now who doubts that these Books were the Pentateuch And indeed since our Saviour does always distinguish the Prophets from the Law of Moses by the Law he can mean only the Pentateuch In the first Chapter of St. John Philip saith to Nathaniel We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write There are many other places where our Saviour cites the Books of the Pentateuch under the name of the Law and consequently we ought not to doubt that he has assured us that these Books were written by Moses St. Luke in the 24th Chapter of his Gospel saith That our Saviour beginning with Moses and continuing with the Prophets Expounded to his Disciples who were going to Emmaus the Things that were said concerning himself in the Scriptures Therefore Moses was the most ancient Author of the Jews and the Pentateuch was acknowledged to be written by him as they owned the Books of the Prophets to be written by the Prophets d The Consent of all Nations 'T is certain that not only the Jews were always of opinion that these Books were written by Moses but also that all People have considered Moses as the Author of the Law and Religion of the Jews 'T is the unanimous Consent of all Nations and all Men no one ever questioning the Truth of it before these last Ages Huetius maintains that all Religions have borrowed their Theology out of the Books of Moses whose History they have purposely altered and disguised to accommodate it the better to their Fables He pretends for Instance That Adonis of the Phaenicians that Mercury Osiris Serapis Anubis and the other Gods of the Aegyptians that Zoroaster of the Persians and the Divinities of the Western Nations that Cadmus Apollo Priapus
Bede But it is at present generally agreed that this Book as not being cited by any of the ancient Writers and containing many untruths and absurdities is a counterfeit Work Melito lived under the Reign of Marcus Antoninus he presented his Apology in the Second year of this Emperor that is to say in the Year of our Lord 182. and died before the Pontificate of Victor as appears from the Epistle of Polycrates to this Pope wherein he mentions him as already dead in these Words Why should not I speak of Melito whose Actions were regulated by the Motions of the Holy Ghost who lyes enterr'd at Sardes where he expects the Judgment and Resurrection This shews that Melito was esteemed as a Prophet that is to say as a Man inspired by God according to the Testimony of Tertullian produced by S. Jerom. If the same Tertullian had not assured us that this Author wrote Elegantly and was a good Orator it would be very difficult to give any Judgment concerning his Style by that little of his Writings which is yet extant TATIAN TATIAN Sirnamed the Assyrian a Sirnamed the Assyrian At the end of his Treatise against the Gentiles he declares that he was born in Assyria and that he had been instructed in the Theology of the Grecians from the Name of his Country was an able Orator and S. Justin's Scholar He remained in the Communion of the Church during the Life of his Master but after his Martyrdom being puffed up with Pride which often attends the Opinion Tatian of Knowledge he became Head and Author of a new Sect b Of a new Sect. S. Irenaeus Lib. 1. Euseb. Lib. 4. c. 29. S. Jerom in Catalogo which was called the Heresie of the Encratites or of the Continent because these Sectaries condemned Marriage as also the use of diverssorts of Meats and Wine leading a sober and austere Life in appearance besides this they maintained some of the Errors of the Valentinians and affirmed that our Fore-Fathers were Damn'd This Sect was afterwards augmented by Severus c This Sect was afterward augmented by Severus S. Epiphanius affirms that Severus lived before Tatian but he is mistaken from whom they took the Name of Severians these later rejected the Epistles of S. Paul and the Acts of the Apostles But to return to Tatian he having got a great facility in writing Composed a great number of Books and among others an excellent Treatise against the Gentiles which is most esteemed of all his Works as also a Gospel Collected from the Four Evangelists There is yet extant the Treatise of Tatian against the Gentiles which was first Printed at Zurick in the Year 1646. together with the Version of Conradâ—s Gesner afterwards inserted in the Bibliotheca Patrum and Lastly annexed to the Works of S. Justin the Title thereof is as follows The Discourse of Tatian against the Gentiles proving that the Greeks are not the Inventors of any of the Sciences as they boast themselves to be but that they were all invented by those whom they call Barbarians This is indeed the Subject of the beginning of his Discourse but then he adds that the Greeks corrupted the Sciences which they received from the Barbarians and more especially Philosophy Afterwards he proceeds to the Explication and defence of the Christian Religion he Treats of the Nature of God of the Word of the Resurrection of the Body and Freedom of the Soul He confutes the Opinion of Fate he discourseth of the Nature of the Soul and of Devils discovering the Snares that they lay for Men. He intermixeth all these things with several Satyrical Reflections on the ridiculous Theology of the Pagans and the corrupt manners of their Gods and Philosophers shewing at the same time that the Writings of Moses are more ancient than all other Histories and giving an admirable Description of the Holy Conversation of the Christians This Work is extremely full of profane Learning and the Style thereof is Elegant enough but exuberant and not very elaborate and the Matters therein contained are not digested into any Order It was certainly Composed by Tatian before he fell into Heresie tho' after S. Justin's Death since he doth not condemn the State of Matrimony in that Book d He doth not condemn the State of Matrimony in that Book On the other hand Pag. 168. he seems to approve it He argues concerning the Generation of the Word in such Expressions as do not agree with our manner of explaining it but they may be interpreted in a Sense which is not Heretical e A Sense which is not Heretical He asserts that the Word was begotten in the time of the Creation of the World altho' he was from all Eternity calling the Generation of the Word his Application if we may so term it to the exteriour Works He adds that the Word was not begotten by way of Separation but after the same manner as one Fire is lighted or kindled by another so that God did not remain without the Word but that the Word proceeded from him and remained in him altogether or at the same time this he explains by the instance of human Speech These are the Principles of some of the ancient Christians The Version of this Treatise was Printed together with the Greek Text at Basil in the Years 1564 1569 1575 15â—â— and at Geneva in 1592. He maintains that the Angels and Devils consist of Bodies and Souls He denies the Immortality of the later affirming that they die and that they shall hereafter rise again with their respective Bodies which is a considerable Error As for the Gospel that was Compiled by Tatian S. Epiphanius in his Description of the Heresie of the Nazarenes hath confounded it with that which was Entituled The Gospel according to the Hebrews and indeed they had this in common that the Genealogy of Jesus Christ was not in either of them But the Gospel according to the Hebrews was older than Tatian's besides the later was only a kind of a Catena or Concordance wherein this Author had gathered together what he judged proper to be Collected out of the Four Evangelists S. Ambrose seems to mention it in the Preface to his Commentaries on S. Luke when he declares that some Writers had made one single Gospel out of the Four by Collecting those passages which they believed to be most favourable to their Opinions and omitting the rest The Gospel of Tatian was Composed after this manner in which he retrenched the Genealogy of Jesus Christ together with all that which relates to his human Nature and his Extraction from the Stock of David Baronius thought that that was the Work of Tatian which is in the Seventh Tome of the Bibliotheca Patrum under the Name of Ammonius but this is a distinct Book for as Valesius observes it is an Historical Epitome of the Gospels written by an ancient Orthodox Author containing many passages wherein Jesus Christ is
often cites our Author against divers Hereticks Lib. 1. cap. 2. He says that he wrote against Menander In the 4th Chapter against Basilides and Isidorus in the 7th against the Helcesaites Eusebius says concerning these last That it was in his Homilies In the 19th Chapter against Appelles in the 3d Book Chap. 2. against the Nazareans He attributes to him in the 5th Chapter the little Labyrinth against Theodotus which is by another Author but we must not therefore think that he composed so many express Treatises against these Hereticks they are only some Passages of his Works where he confutes several Errors whilst he is writing upon other Subjects The Chief of all these Books is the Discourse against Celsus divided into eight Books which were published in Greek long since with the Translation of Gelenius and the Notes of Haeschelius and of one Christoph. Persona printed at Rome in the Year 1471 and afterwards very correctly in England in â—658 The Exhortation to Martyrdom has â—een lately published by Wâ—â—stâ—nius the Greek Professor as Basil together with the Letter to Africanus concerning the History of Susanna which was formerly set forth in part by Haeschelius in the Year 1602. We have likewise the Version of the four Books de Principâ—â—s composed by Ruâ—â—inus But he has taken so much Liberty aa But he has taken therein so much Liberty He declares it himself in his Preface where he says that he has retrenched and added several things concerning the Trinity The Passages out of these Books related in the Apology are quite different from this Version as well as those which are in the Phâ—lâ—â—â—lia that we cannot discern what is Origen's own There are some Latin Fragments of the Books of the Resurrection cited in the Apology of Pamphilus which we have only in Latin The Letter to S. Gregory Thaumaturgus is entire in Greek in the Philocalia Ruffinus relates a Fragment of a Letter to those of Alexandria where he complains that they had corrupted his Books S. Hierom accuses him for having omitted that in this same Letter Origen railed at Demetrius Bishop of Alexandria and at those others who had condemned him Eusebius also produces as we have already said some Fragments of two Letters The Book of Prayer which Hiietius had promised has been lately published in Greek and Latin in England This Work was addressed to Ambrose and Tatianus and it may be divided into three Parts In the first he treats of the Necessity the Advantage and the good Effects of Prayer In the Second he discourses of the different kinds of Prayer and particularly explains the Lord's Prayer In the Last he speaks of the Circumstances and Conditions which ought to precâ—de accompany and follow our Prayers Lastly We may joyn to Origen's Works the Philocalia which is a Collection of several Passages of Origen relating to the Holy Scripture made by S. Basil and S. Gregory Nâ—zianzen and published by Tarinus in the Year 1618 and the Book of the Apology of Pamphilus of which we have the Translation done by Ruffinus which is amongst S. Hierom's Works in the Fourth Tome We ought also to have reckoned here the Dialogue against Marcion which bears his Name if it was not more probable that it was composed by another Author bb If it was not more probable that it was composed by another Author This Dialogue is a Dispute against the Marcionites and the Valentinians wherein he introduces Origen defending the Doctrines of the Church Mâ—gethius and Marcus taking the Part of the Marcionites Droferius Valens and Maximus that of the Valentinians and Eutropius as a Judge between them We have three different Versions of it that of Perinius that of Picus printed in 1655 and that of Humfredus in 1557 which is much the exactest But it has Whom our Author 〈◊〉 ... by this English-man I know not â—etâ—tenius the Greek Professor at Basil was the first that published it at Basil Gr. Lâ—t in 1674. 40. been lately published in Greek by a Learned English-man who pretends that it is Origen's Hiâ—etius after Halloixius and Rivet believes that it is not Origen's and this Opinion seems the most probable 'T is indeed cited in the Philocalia as a Work of Origen's But it is possible that S. Gregory and S. Basil might have been deceived because it bears his Name or that believing that this Book containing nothing but Origen's Opinions and going under his Name they might quote it in a Work wherein they made a Collection of his Opinions Besides it appears by the Title that they had taken this Passage from Eusebius who relates it word for word as it is in the Philocalia in his 7th Book de Praeparatiâ—â—e Evangelicâ as taken from the Treatise of one Mâ—ximus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say concerning Matter and at the end they add the following Remark This is extracted from Eusebius ' s Book De Praeparatione Evangelicâ the Author thereof is Maximus a famous Writer among the Christians as Eusebius observes but it is likewise found almost in the same Tâ—rms in Origen ' s Dialogue against the Marcionites and other Hereâ—ickâ— in which Megethius is the Disputant and Eutropius the Judge This Observation makes it appear that the Authors of the Philocaliâ— believed that this Passage did really belong to Maximus relying upon Eusebius's Authority but having also found it in a Dialogue which bears Origen's Name they believed that they might cite it as his without examining whether he was the Author of it for 't is a thing very unlikely to affirm that Origen had taken this Passage from Maximus to insert it into his Dialogue since it is already in Eusebius in form of a Dialogue though the Names be suppressed So it seems that we may say that Maximus was the Author of this Dialogue wherein he introduces Origen disputing against the Hereticks and Eutropius as Judge But there are considerable Difficulties raised against this Hypothesis The first That Maximus was more ancient than Origen as appears by Eusebius who in the first Book of his History Chap. 27 places him amongst the Authors who flourished under the Emperours Commodus and Severus The Second is That it is not likely the Treatise of Maximus should be this Dialogue because it was Entitled concerning Matter and he only proved therein that Matter was a created Substance whereas this Dialogue contains several other Points of Religion We may answer to the first Reason That Eusebius was not exact in setting down the Times of Authors and especially of those about whose Lives he was not particular The second Objection is more difficult though we may say that Eusebius having extracted out of this Book of Maximus only what relates to the Original of Evil and the Creation of Matter he gave it the Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unde sit malum though it treated of other Subjects besides that this Dialoguew as chiefly designed to confute the Error of the
1634. in Octavo Thysius afterward revised his Edition and caused it to be Printed at Leyden by le Maire with the Notes of several others 1652. and 1657. in Quarto Lastly Priorius Printed the Books of Arnobius against the Gentiles at the end of St. Cyprian's Works at Paris by Dupuis in 1666. LACTANTIUS LUcius Caelius a Lucius Caelius This is his proper Name There are some Manuscripts where he is called Cecilius 'T is supposed that he was Surnamed Firmianus from his Country and Lanctantius from the sweetness of his Elocution but this is not certain Firmianus Surnamed Lactantius was b Converted in his Youth See the Seventh Book of his Institutions Chapter the last the Third Chapter of his Epitome l. 2. c. 10. where he seems to reckon himself in the Number of those who after they had acknowledged their Errour were converted to the Truth St. Jerome tells us That he was the Disciple of Arnobius Converted in his Youth to the Christian Lactantius Religion He Studied Rhetorick in Africk in the School of Arnobius but far surpassed his Master in Eloquence Whilest he was there he writ a Book Intituled Convivium or The Banquet which acquired him so great a Reputation in the World that he was sent for to Nicomedia to teach Rhetorick there But meeting with sew Scholars there because it was a Grecian City where they had no very great value for the Roman Eloquence he gave himself altogether to the writing of Books St. Jerome informs us That he wrote a Poem in Hexameter Verse wherein he gave a Description of his Voyage and another Piece which he called The Grammarian but imagining that he was obliged to employ his Learning and Time upon a better and higher Subject he entred the Lists in behalf of Religion The First Treatise which he composed after this manner was that about the Work of God He afterwards undertook his Seven Books of Institutions c About the Year of our Lord 320. Lanctantius was at Nicomeida at the time of Dioclesian's Persecution in the Year 302. as he himself tells us Lib. 5. of his Instit. Chap. 2. He tarried there till the Persecution was over afterwards he went to France where he wrote his Book of Institutions for he speaks of the Persecutors in the Beginning of his First Book as if he were then in another Country he therefore wrote it in the time of the Persecution carried on by the Emperour Licinius which began in the Year 320. So that the Name of Arians that is to be found in some Manuscripts of his Books might perhaps have been added since about the Year of our Lord 320 in which he strenuously defends the Christian Religion and likewise Answers all those that had written against it After he had finished them he abridged them and added the Book concerning the Anger of God to the rest He likewise wrote Two Books to Asclepiades and Eight Books of Epistles Four to Probus Two to Severus and Two to Demetrianus but all these Books that were extant in St. Jerome's time are lost at present We have only recovered one Small Treatise concerning Persecution mentioned by St. Jerome which Baluzius has lately Published under the Title of De Mortibus Persecutoruns He Promises several other Works of the same Author as his Disputes against the Philosophers against the Jews and against the Hereticks but there is no reason to believe that Lactantius ever composed these Pieces since St. Jerome doth not mention them at least that they were contained in his Epistles Constantine afterwards took him to be Tutor to his Son Crispus to instruct him in all manner of Learning In the midst of all these Honours he was so very Poor that he often wanted Necessaries being very far from making any pursuits after Pleasure This is all that we know of the History of this great and excellent Person but even this very Circumstance alone as we find it related in Eusebius's Chronicon may pass for an extraordinary and magnificent Commendation of him and ought to inspire us with no mean Idea of his Piety For he must certainly have been a very Vertuous Man that could live poorly in a Court that could neglect the Care even of Necessary things in the midst of Plenty and Abundance and had not the least taste of Pleasures when he resided amongst Persons that were overwhelmed in them We are now to consider the Subject of the Seven Books of Lactantius which besides the general Title of Divine Institutions have each of them a particular Inscription that acquaints us with the Matter whereof it Treats The First is Intituled De falsa Religione of false Religion The Second De Origine Erroris of the Original of Errour The design of Lactantius in these Two Books is to demonstrate the falsity of the Pagan Religion In the first after he has informed his Reader of the Reasons that moved him to undertake such a Work and has made his Addresses to the Emperour Constantine he shows that there is a Providence in the World and that it is God who Rules and Governs it He particularly enlarges upon this Second Proposition and makes it evident by several Arguments by the Authority of the Prophets that have Established it and by the joint-Testimonies of the Poets of the Philosophers of Mercurius Trismegistus of the Sybils and the Oracle of Apollo and there is only one God that Governs the World And lastly towards the latter Part of this Book he demonstrates the Falsity of the Pagan Religion by showing that the Gods to whom they paid their Adoration were Mortal Men and not only so but for the most part wicked and profligate Wretches In the Second Book he goes on to confute the Pagan Religion and directs his Discourse chiefly against the Idols and Representations of their Deities and plainly proves that it is the highest Degree of Madness and Stupidity to pay Adorations to them as Divine Beings After this coming to assign Reasons for the Prodigies and Oracles which the Pagans attributed to their Idols he rises as high as the Creation of the World to furnish himself with a fit occasion of discoursing about the Nature of Daemons to whom he ascribes all those wonderful miraculous Effects Lastly he shews That the principal Cause of the Errours and Malice of Men is owing to the perpetual Temptations and Snares of the Devil as also to the abandoning of Cham and his Posterity The Third Book is Intituled De falsa Sapientia Of false Wisdom because it is chiefly levelled at the Pagan Philosophers the Vanity of whose Philosophy he endeavours to expose and discover From hence he draws this Conclusion That the only Wisdom of Man is to know and worship God The Fourth is concerning true Wisdom and 't is in this Book chiefly that he lays open the Doctrine of the Christians In the beginning of the Book he shows That the Philosophers were not able to find out the true Wisdom because they
to believe concerning the Divinity acquaints them with the Knowledge of their own Natures teaching them that they are compos'd of Body and Soul That the Soul is Immortal because of Jesus Christ who has given it Immortality That it is free and has the power of doing Good and Evil That it did not Sin before it came into the World That the Souls of Men and Women are of the same Nature That the Body is the Work of God That it is not Wicked by Nature That when it meets with a holy Soul it is the Temple of the Holy Spirit and that we ought to be very watchful lest we defile it by Uncleanness He occasionally takes Notice That Virginity is the more perfect state but that we ought not to blame Marriage That Married Persons may hope for Salvation provided they use Marriage aright That in Order to their living holily in this state they must abstain sometimes from the use of Marriage to give themselves unto Prayer and that their Intention should not be to satisfie a brutal Passion but to have Children He adds That we ought not to condemn even those that proceed to Second Marriages and that this weakness should be pardon'd in those who stand in need of this Remedy to avoid Fornication As to what concerns Abstinence from Meat St. Cyril says That Christians do abstain during their Fasts from Flesh and Wine but that they have no aversation to those things as if they were in themselves Abominable That they do not abstain but to Merit the more by despising what is agreeable to our sense that they may enjoy the heavenly Feast He absolutely forbids the Eating of things Sacrificed to Idols and things Strangled As for Clothes he desires that they may be modest and such as may serve not to adorn but to cover the Body and defend it from the Injuries of the Weather He speaks afterwards of the Resurrection and brings Examples to show that it is not impossible The Holy Scripture is the last thing of which he treats in this Lecture He says That the Old Testament is part of the Holy Scripture and exhorts them not to read the Apocryphal Books He informs them That there are but 22 Canonical Books of the Old Testament and observes That they have been translated by the LXX He believes that this Translation was made by Inspiration and that the Seventy Interpeters being shut up in separate Cells all their Versions were found to agree together He recommends the Reading of the Canonical Books and Meditation upon them He reckons amongst this Number in the Old Testament the Book of Ruth that of Esther Job and Baruch but he does not reckon those other Books which are not in the Hebrew Canon The Canonical Books of the New Testament are according to him The Four Gospels the Acts of the Apostles the Seven Canonical Epistles and the Fourteen Epistles of St. Paul which in his time and in his Country were at the End of the New Testament after the Canonical Epistles He says nothing of the Revelation He condemns Judicial Astrology Necromancy Publick Spectacles Games Usury Covetousness the other Superstitions of the Jews and Pagans and the Assemblies of Hereticks In the Fifth Lecture after he has prov'd by many Examples the Necessity and Vertue of Faith he says That we must continue in that Faith which we have received from the Church and which is fortified with the Testimony of Holy Scripture But says he because Men cannot read the Scripture some being hindred by their Ignorance others by their Worldly Business therefore all that we are oblig'd to believe is compriz'd in a few words I pray you then to remember to fix it upon your Minds and to be fully perswaded that this is the only true Faith Afterwards at your leisure ye may search for the Proofs of it in the Holy Scripture But at present do you acquiesce in the Doctrine which you have learn'd by Tradition engrave it upon your Hearts that you may persevere in it with Piety for if you remain in doubt and uncertainty 't is to be fear'd that the Enemy will work your Perdition and that Hereticks will overthrow that Doctrine which I have taught you The Sixth is concerning the Monarchy or the Unity of God against Pagans and Hereticks He describes the Errors both of the one and the other and more particularly enlarges upon the Heresie of the Manichees and gives an account of its Original Progress and Impiety He produces a Fragment of the Dispute of Archelaus against the Heretick Manes He observes That Men cannot comprehend the Nature and Essence of God In the Seventh he explains how the Name of Father agrees to God He observes that he has only one Son by Nature who is Jesus Christ and that Men are his Children by Adoption He takes occasion from hence to Exhort his Hearers to live worthy of the Title of the Sons of God and to honour him though of his good Pleasure he chose them to be his Children At the same time he admonishes them to have a Reverence for their Fathers and Mothers In the Eighth he shows That God is Almighty because he can do all things and all things depend on his Power The Ninth is upon these words the Creator of all things visible and invisible There he shows what cause we have to admire the Greatness and Beauty of God's Works The Tenth is upon these words in Jesus Christ our only Lord. He says That in order to the Pious Adoration of the Father we must adore the Son also He explains all the Names that are given him He maintains That 't was the Son who appear'd to Adam and Moses He makes Moral Remarks upon the Name of Jesus and that of Christ. He produces many Proofs concerning Jesus Christ and places in this number the Wood of the Cross which says he is seen to this day amongst us and with those who having taken of it here have fill'd the whole World almost with it The Eleventh is concerning the Divinity of the Word and his Eternal Generation There he refutes the Error of the Arians and proves that the Word is of the same Nature with the Father That he was from all Eternity and that he made all things There he calls St. Peter the Prince or the Chief of the Apostles and the Sovereign Preacher of the Church The Twelfth is concerning the Incarnation where he shews by many Testimonies of Scripture That Jesus Christ was made Man for the Salvation of Mankind He quotes some of the Prophecies that foretold the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and shows That the time of the Messias's coming the place where he was Born his Condition and the manner of his coming into the World were foretold he praises Virginity and observes That those who perform'd the Sacerdotal Office observ'd Celibacy In the Thirteenth he relates the Prophecies which concern the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ. He recommends to the Faithful the signing
upon Usury His 37th and 38th Letters COMMENTARIES AND DISCOURSES Upon the Holy Scripture Books of Criticism EUsebius's Treatise of the Places in the Holy Land Evangelical Canons and Letter to Carpianus Eustathius of Antioch's Discourse of the Pythoniss or Witch of Endor St. Gregory Nyssen's Treatise on the same Subject Fragment of St. Athanasius's Festival Epistle St. Athanasius's Abridgment of the Scriptures Book to Marcellinus upon the Psalms St. Gregory Nyssen's Treatise upon the Inscriptions of the Psalms Questions upon the Old and New Testament believed to be written by Hilary the Deacon St. Ambrose's Preface upon St. Luke St. Epiphanius of Weights and Measures Physiologus Of the Twelve Precious Stones on the Breast of the High-Priest Of the Life and Death of the Prophets Upon the Old Testament Victorinus's Tract upon the beginning of Day St. Basil's Commentary upon the beginning of Genesis Two Homilies upon the Creation of Man A Homily upon Paradise St. Gregory Nyssen of the Creation of the World Of the Formation of Man Of the Life of Moses St. Hilary's Commentary upon the Psalms Translation of the Psalms in Verse by Apollinarius Twenty Two Homilies of St. Basil upon the Psalms St. Gregory Nyssen's Homily on the fifth Psalm St. Basil's Homily upon the sixth Chapter of Proverbs Commentary upon the sixteen first Chapters of Isaiah St. Gregory Nyssen's Homily upon Ecclesiastes and the Canticles Victorinus's Poem upon the Maccabees St. Ambrose's Treatise of the Creation of the World and the rest that follow in the First Volume of his Works Upon the New Testament Juvencus's Paraphrase of the Gospels in Verse St. Hilary's Commentary on St. Matthew's Gospel St. Gregory Nyssen upon the Lord's Prayer and upon the Beatitudes St. Athanasius upon these Words of our Saviour Whoever shall blaspheme c. Fragments upon these Words of our Saviour My Soul is heavy even unto Death c. Commentaries upon all the Epistles of St. Paul attributed to St. Ambrose but believed to belong to Hilary the Deacon St. Gregory Nyssen's Homily upon the fifteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians Didymus's Commentary upon the Canonical Epistles St. Ambrose's Commentary upon St. Luke's Gospel Letters 7th 8th 27th and the five following also 43d 44th 50th 65th and the nine following Historical Discourses Eusebius's Apology for Origen Chronicon Ecclesiastical History Treatise concerning the Martyrs of Palaestine Books of the Life of Constantine Of the Names of Places in the Holy Land Panegyrick upon Constantine Constantine's Letters and Edicts Harangue to the Council of Nice Juvencus's Poem of the Life of Jesus Christ. St. Athanasius's Historical Treatises Apologetick to Constantius Letters to the Egyptians and to the Orthodox First Apology Second Apology Historical Treatise to those that lead a Monastick Life Letter to Serapion upon the death of Arius Discourse of Synods Letters of Lucifer Letters to the Bishops of Egypt Arabia c. Letters of the Council of Alexandria Letter to Jovian Letter to the Africans Letter to John and Antiochus Letter concerning the Opinion of Dionysius of Alexandria Letter concerning the Decision of the Council of Nice Epistle to Palladius Conference with the Arians Life of St. Anthony Hosius's Letter to Constantius Julius's Letter to the Eastern and Egyptian Bishops Liberius's Letters St. Hilary's Treatise of Synods Discourses to Constantius Fragments Conference against Auxentius Peter of Alexandria II. his Letters St. Cyril's Letter upon the Apparition of the Cross. Damasus's Letters The greatest part of the Letters of St. Basil. St. Gregory Nazianzen's Discourses 7th 25th 26th 30th 41st and some others His Panegyricks which are Sermons 6th 10th 11th 18th 19th 20th 22d 23d and 24th First Poem upon his Life Discourse upon Bishops His Testament St. Gregory Nyssen's Funeral Orations and Panegyricks Letter to Flavianus Eusebius Vercellensis his Three Letters Marcellinus and Faustinus Luciferians their Petition addressed to the Emperours Valentinian and Theodosius St. Ambrose's Letters 20th 22d and 24th Panegyrick on Theodosius and Valentinian Philastrius of Heresies St. Epiphanius of Heresies An Abridgment of it by himself His History of the Lives and Deaths of the Prophets Hilarion's Chronicle A General INDEX of the Principal Matters contained in the Second Volume The Figures shew the Pages and the Small Letters the Notes A. ABstinence from Meats Usage and Usefulness of it III. Fasting consists not in abstaining from Meats 150. Acacius of Caesarea succeeds Eusebius 97. His Doctrine and Writings ibid. Difference with St. Cyril ibid. Death ibid. Achillas Bishop of Alexandria 27. Acesius a Novatian Bishop 253. Adultery Canons against Adulterers and against other Sins of uncleanness 140 141 c. 196. Adrian Pope Upon what occasion he implored the Succour of Charlemaigne 19. Aetius History of his Life and of his Condemnation 98 99. Death 99. Africanus's Chronicon 5. Agapae Feasts of Charity 268 269. Agapetus Pope sent by Theodatus to the Emperour Justinian 18. Agapius Bishop of Caesarea 2. Agapius Bishop of Bostra Difference with Bagadius for that Bishoprick 285. St. Agnes 207 209. Alexander Bishop of Alexandria Ordination 27. Assembles a Council at Alexandria against Arius ibid. Letter to his Collegues ibid. Another Letter of this Bishop ibid. Advertisement or Pastoral Letter ibid. Assists in the Council of Nice 28. Death ibid. Alexandria Council of Alexandria of the Year 306. under Peter Bishop of that City 242. Council in 323 against Arius 250. Another Council against Arius in 324 ibid. Another in 362 to Determine how the Arians that desired to be reunited to the Church should be received 265. Another in 341 in favour of St. Athanasius 255. Council of Alexandria in the Year 399 where the Books of Origen were condemned 284. Alipius Priest of Alexandria defends St. Athanasius before Constantine 29. Alms. Effects and Necessity of Alms-Deeds 151. 181. Exhortation to it 166. Not to be done to Persons unworthy 207 Alms of Constantine 12. 15. Ambrose of Alexandria His Writings 196. St. Ambrose Bishop of Milan 198. Time and Place of his Birth ibid. and a. b. Parents 198. Prodigy at his Birth ibid. 199. Education and Studies ibid. Elected Governour ibid. And after Bishop 200. Avoided being Bishop ibid. At last Ordained ibid. and c. acquits himself worthily in the Function of the Ministry ibid. Persecuted by Justina ibid. and 201. Writings ibid. 202 c. Stile 232 Editions of his Works 233. St. Amphilochius His Country 184. Ordained Bishop of Iconium ibid. Assists in the Council of Constantinople and holds one at Sida against the Massilians ibid. Handsome reply to the Emperour Theodosius ibid. Writings 185. Ancyra Council there in 314. 248. Its Canons ibid. 249. Another Council in 358 against Aëtius 263. Anger Contrary to the Spirit of Christianity 153. Angels Not to be adored 5. Antioch A pretended Council held there in 330 against Eustathius 254. Councils of Antioch in the Years 341 and 342. Upon what Subject 256. Another in 345. 258. Another in 358. which condemned the Terms Consubstantial and of like Substance 263.
could not do it so well in Latin This Custom was found so reasonable that several Bishops in Africa followed his Example admitting Priests to Preach in their Presence yea they did St. Augustin the Honour to make him Speak in a General Council of Africa held at Carthage in the year 393. where he Expounded the Creed in the Presence of the Bishops who conceived so great an Esteem of his Learning that they judged him worthy of a more excellent Dignity But Valerius fearing lest a Person so necessary for the Government of his Diocess should be taken away from him resolved to make him his Co-adjutor and accordingly two years after he caused him to be Ordained Bishop of Hippo by Megalius Bishop of Calama then Primate of Numidia in the year 395. With much difficulty St. Augustin consented to that Ordination though he did not then know as he afterwards declar'd that it was contrary to the Laws of the Church and to a Canon of the Council of Nice which forbids the Crdaining Two Bishops in the same Church I shall not now give any Account of what he did and wrote whil'st he was Bishop because that will come in in the Abridgment of his Works Neither will I enlarge upon the Praises which may be given him nor upon his Holiness and his Vertues which were known and admir'd by all the World both before and after his Death This is no part of my Design besides the Name only of St. Augustin is the greatest Commendation that can be given him and whatsoever may be said after that can serve only to lessen the Opinion Men have conceived of his rare Merit and his great Piety He died as Holily as he had liv'd the 28th day of August 430. aged Seventy six Years with Grief to see his Countrey Invaded by the Vandals and the City whereof he was Bishop Besieged for several Months St. Augustin's Works make up several Volumes wherein they are divided according to that order which was judged to be most natural We shall follow that which is observed in the last Edition set forth by the Benedictines of St. Germans The First TOME of St. Augustin's Works THE First Volume containeth the Works which he wrote before he was a Priest with his Retractations and Confessions which serve as Prefaces to his Works because the First giveth Tome I. an Account of his Writings and is useful to understand the most difficult places of his Works and the Second discovers his Genius and takes notice of the principal Circumstances of his Life The Book of Retractations is a Critical Review of his Works He tells you there the Title and sets down the first Words of them He gives a Catalogue according to the Time and he observes upon what Occasion and wherefore he writ them he tells the Subject and the Design which he had in composing them he clears those places which seem to be obscure he softens those which he thinks are too hard gives a good Sence to such as seem capable of having a bad one and rectifies them where he thinks that he erred from the Truth In one word He confesseth ingenuously the Errours or Mistakes which he committed The Preface to this Work is very humble He says That his Design is to review his Works with the Severity of a Censor and to reprove his own Faults himself following therein the Apostle's Advice who saith That if we judge our selves we should not be judged of the Lord. That he is frighted with those words of the Wise-man That it is difficult to avoid committing Faults in much speaking That he is not terrify'd with the great number of his Writings since none can be said to Write or Speak too much when he Speaks and Writes only things that are necessary but he is afraid lest there should be in his Writings many false things or at least unprofitable ones That if now being Old he thinketh not himself free from Errour it is impossible but that he must have committed Faults when he was Young either in Speaking or in Writing and so much the rather because he was then obliged to Speak often That therefore he is resolved to judge himself according to the Rules of Jesus Christ his Master whose Judgments he desires to avoid The Body of this Work is divided into Two Books In the former he reviseth the Works which he writ before he was Bishop And in the latter he speaketh of those which he composed afterwards to the Year 427. which is the time when he made his Book of Retractations I need say no more at present because in discoursing of each of them I shall mention what St. Augustin hath observed in his Retractations His Confessions are an excellent Picture of his Life he draweth himself with lively and natural Shapes representing his Infancy his Youth and Conversion very critically He discovers both his Vices and his Vertues shewing plainly the inward Bent of his Heart with the several Motions wherewith he was agitated As he speaks to God so he often lifts up his Spirit towards him and intermixes his Narration with Prayers Instructions and Reflections He tells us himself That he would have us view him in that Book as in a Looking-Glass that represents him to the Life and that his Design in the Writing of it was to Praise both the Justice and the Mercy of God with Respect to the Good and Evil which he had done and to lift up his Heart and Spirit to God That this is the Effect that it produced in him when he composed it and that which it produceth now when he readeth it Others saith he may have what Opinion of it they please but I know that several Pious Persons have loved my Confessions very much and do St. Augustin Tome 〈◊〉 love them still As indeed all spiritual Persons have ever since read that Work with Delight and Admiration This Book is not full of whimsical Imaginations and empty obscure useless Spiritualities as most Works of this Nature are It contains on the contrary excellent Prayers sublime Notions of the Greatness Wisdom Goodness and Providence of God solid Reflections upon the Vanity Weakness and Corruption of Man proper Remedies for his Misery and Darkness and most useful Instructions to further him in a spiritual Life In one word It may be said that of all spiritual Books there is none more sublime or stronger than this Yet there are some Notions too Metaphysical above the reach of some devout Men and there appeareth too great an Affectation of Eloquence There is perhaps too much Wit and Heat and not enough of Meekness and Simplicity St. Augustin's Confessions are divided into Thirteen Books whereof the Ten first treat of his Actions and the Three last contain Reflections upon the beginning of Genesis In the First Book after an excellent Prayer to God he describeth his Infancy discovering the Sins he committed at that time as well as the evil Inclinations that were in him He
Conference with the Arian Bishops The King told him with a stern Countenance If your Religion be good why do not you hinder the King of the Franks your Soveraign from making War upon me Avitus answer'd That he did not know the Reasons which his Prince had to make War upon him butif he would submit to the Law of God he did not doubt to obtain a Peace for him The King answer'd That he did acknowledge the Law of God but he would not acknowledge three Gods Avitus gave him to understand that the Catholicks do not acknowledge but one God only and then he fell prostrate at his Feet The next day the King told them That his Bishops were ready to enter into a Conference with them but that it must not be held before the People but only in his presence and before such Senators as he should choose To Morrow is appointed for the day The same Night the Lessons were read which mention'd the hardning of Pharaoh's heart and of the Jews which was a bad Omen When the time for the Conference was come the Bishops of both Parties were present at the Place appointed Avitus explain'd the Faith of the Church about the Mystery of the Trinity and prov'd it by Testimonies of the Holy Scripture Boniface being the Arian Bishop that was to speak answer'd nothing to Avitus's Discourse but only propos'd many subtil and entangling Questions about the Mystery of the Trinity and then broke forth into reproachful Language The King respited the Answer of Boniface till to morrow An Officer call'd Aredius would have perswaded the Catholicks to retire telling them That this sort of Conferences did nothing but exasperate mens minds Bishop Stephen answer'd him That on the contrary it was the only means to clear up the truth and to reconcile men to one another and bring them to a good understanding But notwithstanding this Admonition the Catholick Bishops entred into the Place King Gondebaud seeing them came to meet them and spoke reproachfully of the King of the Franks whom he accused of solliciting his Brother against him The Bishops answer'd him That the way to make Peace was to agree about the Faith and that they themselves would be Mediators for it and then every one took his place Avitus being desirous to wipe off the Calumnies of Boniface who had accus'd the Catholiks of worshipping many Gods prov'd that the Catholicks acknowledg'd one God only Boniface instead of answering continued still to reproach them The King seeing that this would not put an end to the difference rose up with indignation Avitus insisted that he should either answer his Reasons or yield But to shew clearly on whose side the Truth was he propos'd That he should go immediately to the Monument of St. Justus and ask the Saint about the truth of the one and the other's Belief and then report what he had said The King approv'd this Proposal but the Arians refus'd it saying They would not do as Saul did who had recourse to Charms and Divination that the Scripture was sufficient for them which was much more powerful then all other means The King going away carried with him to his Chamber Stephen and Avitus and bidding them farewel he embraced them and intreated them to pray to God for him Which discover'd to them says the Author of this Relation what a perplexity he was in But because the heavenly Father had not drawn him he could not come to the Son that this word of truth might be fulfill'd 'T is not he that willeth nor he that runneth but God that sheweth mercy After this day many Arians were converted and baptiz'd some days after and God exalted our Faith by the Intercession of St. Justus These are the very words of the Acts of this Conference ENNODIUS Bishop of PAVIA MAgnus Felix Ennodius descended of an illustrious Family among the Gauls a Descended of an illustrious Family among the Gauls says in many places of his Works that his Parents were Gauls He was a Kinsman to the greatest Lords in his time as to Faustus â—oetius Avienus Olybrius Senarius Florianus c. was born in Italy b In Italy 'T is certain that he pass'd his first years in Italy in the Year 473 c In the Year 473. In the Panegyrick which he made upon Theodoric he declares that he was sixteen years old when that King entred into Italy in the Year 489. Having lost at the Age of Sixteen an Aunt who gave him Maintenance and Education he was reduc'd to low Circumstances in the World but by marriage to a rich Fortune he was restor'd to a plentiful Estate He enjoy'd for some time the Advantages and Pleasures which Riches afford but knowing the danger of them he resolv'd to lead a more Christian Life He entred into Orders with the consent of his wife who for her part embrac'd a chast and religious Life 'T was at this time that he became famous for his Letters and other Writings He was chosen to make a Panegyrick upon King Theodoric and undertook the Defence of the Council of Rome which acquitted Pope Symmachus For his Merits he was promoted to the See of Pavia about the Year 510 d About the Year 510 Father Labbe says that he was made Bishop of Pavia in 490 but this cannot be since he was not then seventeeen years old He was not yet Bishop when his Book was approv'd in the Synod of Rome in 503 for the Title of Bishop is not given him After this he was made choice of to endeavour the Re-union of the Eastern to the Western Church Upon which occasion he made two Journeys into the East the first in the Year 515 with Fortunatus Bishop of Catana and the second in 517 with Peregrinus Bishop of Misena These Journeys had not the success which he desir'd but they discover'd his Prudence and Courage For the Emperor Anastasius did all he could to seduce or corrupt him but not being able to compass his design after many affronts at last he caus'd him to put to Sea in an old rotten Vessel and forbad all persons to suffer him to land at any Port of Greece whereby he was expos'd to manifest danger Nevertheless he arriv'd safe in Italy and return'd to Pavia where he died a little time after on the first day of August in the Year 521 aged 48 years There are many Writings of this Author which have no relation to Ecclesiastical Matters Among his 297 Letters which are divided into nine Books there are but very few from whence any weighty observation can be made about the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church The fourteenth Letter of the second Book is one of this number It is written to the Christians of Africk whom he comforts under the Persecution which they had suffer'd for a long time and the loss of their Bishops Fear not says he to them because you see your selves destitute of Bishops you have amongst you him who is both
Râ—an in 1521 by Regnaldus at Paris by 〈◊〉 1542. at Easte by Frobenius in 1564. at Answerâ— by Plantin in 1572. at Venice in 1583. at Paris by Nâ—veâ—… in 1571 and in 1586. These Editions were follow'd by that of Rome in six Tomes which was begun in 1588 and finish'd in 1593. From these was made the Edition at Rome in Octavo 1613. and those of Park in the Years 1605 and 1640. The last Edition of the Works of St. Gregory was publish'd at Paris in 1675. It appear'd under the Name of Mr. Goussainville a Priest but 't is know that Dr. 〈◊〉 took a great deal of pains in it They had a great number of Manuscripts by which they might review all the Works They distributed them into three Tomes The first contains the Morals the Pastoral the Homilies upon Ezekiel and upon the Gospels together with the Lives of St. Gregory written by Paul and John the Deacons and the Testimonials of the Ancients The second Tome contains the Dialognes the Letters accompanied with long and learned Notes the Antiphonary Sacramentary and the Benedictionary The third Tome contains the Commentaries upon the Kings the seven Psalms and the Canticles attributed to St. Gregory together with the Commentaries of Paterius upon the Holy Scripture taken out of the Works of St. Gregory The Prefaces which are prefixed at the beginning of each Work are short useful and well-written The whole Edition is dedicated to my Lord Louis de Bassompiere then Bishop of Santones a Prelat who perfectly imitated the verâ—â—ues of St. Gregory who practis'd exactly according to the Rules which this great Pope prescribed to Pastors and who had all the Qualifications which he requires in Bishops For after he had pass'd his first years in Retirement and lead that part of his Life free from Crimes wherein the greater part of young People are engag'd in worldly Pleasures he was nam'd when he thought little of it to the Bishoprick of Santones His design was to refuse it but being as it were forc'd to accept of it he thought of nothing more then discharge his Office For accomplishing this design he abandon'd the Court and Secular Affairs to retire into his Diocese that he might apply himself wholly to the Government of that Flock which Providence had entrusted to him Afterwards he had favourable opportunities of encreasing his Fortune in the World and of advancement to Churches more Paterius beneficial and considerable but he shun'd them with the same precipitation that others run after them He was observ'd to fly away quickly at a time when the Affairs of his Diocese oblig'd him to stay at Paris because a Report went about that some had cast an Eye upon him to give him a place which would engage him to live at a greater distance from his Church or to accept of another 'T is very well known with what prudence he govern'd his People in the most difficult times with what Discretion he continued in his Duty of Loyalty to his Prince with what Meekness hereclaim'd a great number of Hereticks to the Church with whom his Diocese was fill'd when he entred into it All the World did equally experience his Goodness his Moderation and Easiness Great Persons had always occasion to praise him for his Civility and Inferior Persons for his Charity He distributed his Goods to the Poor with so much Liberality that oftentimes he reserved nothing to himself He gave considerable Alms to poor Gentlemen and to Families that were in want without letting them know to whom they were oblig'd for the Relief He did so industriously conceal the Good that he did that those who came nearest to him could hardly perceive it and if it happen'd that they did discover it he strictly charg'd them to tell no body Sometimes he would feign by a pious fraud that the Alms which he gave was a Debt that those who receiv'd it might not be asham'd to take it He never heard any speak of a Quarrel Difference on Suit against any Person in his Diocese but he us'd his utmost endeavours to accommodate it and as he was of a sweet and obliging Disposition and had a brisk and sharp Wit he did almost always succeed in them to the Content of all Parties He lov'd Order and Discipline yet was never severe or morose He treated his Priests as his Brethren and hated an imperious and domineering Spirit He vigorously maintain'd the Dignity of Bishops and could not endure to see it any ways diminish'd He defended the Truth and the Rights of Episcopacy stoutly but humbly He would never engage himself into any Party in the Disputes which were manag'd with so much heat in his Life-time among Divines and behav'd himself with so much Prudence that both Parties were satisfy'd with his Conduct Lastly at his death he gave signs of a great Abstraction from the World and left the Poor his only Heirs There remains now an illustrious Monument of this great Prelat 'T is a Treatise written in the form of a Dialogue about cutting off some Festivals printed by his own Order in 1670. He lays down there Principles so solid and discovers so great strength of Reason and Learning that I doubt not but all those who read it will have as great an Idea of his Learning as those that knew him had of his Holiness I know that this Digression is a little remote from my Subject but I hope the Reader will easily pardon me that I have taken this occasion to do Justice to the Memory of a Prelat who deserves to be famous to future Generations PATERIUS PAterius a Disciple of St. Gregory and Notary of the Church of Rome made a Collection of Testimonies out of St. Gregory wherein he explains passages of Scripture and ranks them according to the Order of the Holy Books He compos'd three Books of Explications two upon the Books of the Old Testament and the third upon those of the New This Collection was subjoyn'd to the Works of St. Gregory in the Roman Edition of them and in those which follow'd after it But it was compos'd only of two Books viz. of the first which is upon the Books of the Old Testament as far as the Canticles and of the third upon the Books of the New Testament That which should be the second is not in these Editions nor in the greatest part of the Manuscripts But Father Oudinus assures us that he saw it in a Manuscript of the Library of the Celestines This Work being only an Extract out of the Books of St. Gregory 't is not necessary to say any thing more of it St. LEANDER Bishop of Sevil. ST Leander Son of Severianus of the Province of Carthage in Spain after he had profess'd a Monastical Life was promoted to the Bishoprick of Sevil. He had so much Eloquence so much Address St. Leander Bishop of Sevel and Wit and Learning that he brought back into the bosom of the Church the Goths who were
Challon upon the River Soane in the Year 603. in which Arigius Bishop of Lyons presided But perhaps it might be some other Council For this was assembled about the Business of Desiderius Bishop of Vienna This Letter is written before the foregoing S. Columbanus's Letter has lately been attributed to S. Gregory who is mention'd in the Two preceeding Letters There he does very confidently set down the Authorities he depends upon to shew that Easter should always be celebrated by the twentieth of the Moon in March before the Equinox and creats the Cycle of Victorius with a great deal of Contempt And does alsâ— refute Pope Victor's Opinion That Easter is not to be kept at the same Time with the Jews He exhorts the Pope to alter his Opinion and Practice about that and then asks him Whether he should communicate with those who are ordain'd Bishops contrary to the Constitutions and Canons by Simony or having committed some Crimes in the Time they were Deacons In fine he consults him what is to be done with Monks who depart from their Monasteries without their Abbot's Leave renouncing their Vows He lets him know he would gladly have come to Rome to see him He commends his Pastoral and prays him to send him some of his Works and chiefly those upon Ezekiel He acquaints him that he hath perused the Six Books of S. Hierom on that Prophet but that that Father hath not explain'd half of it S. Columbanus's Fourth Letter is written to Pope Boniface IV. of that Name upon the Motion of Agilulphus King of Lombardy By this Letter it appears That that Prince assisted the Defenders of the Three Chapters and that he had persuaded S. Columbanus that there was some cause to suspect the Church of Rome of Error That the Pope himself was consenting to it or at least permitted it That Vigilius dyed an Heretick and that the Fifth Council ought to be rejected S. Columbanus entertaining these Opinions writes a vehement Letter to Boniface wherein he exhorts him to watch over his Flock and condemns Vigilius's want of Vigilancy He saith he died an Heretick and wonders they should put his Name in the List of Catholick Bishops He exhorts the Pope to clear both himself and his Church from the Suspicion of Heresy by calling a Council to make an exact Exposition of the Catholick Faith and to condemn all those that swerved from it He believes that the Fifth Council approved Eutyches's Error and confounds the Two Natures and yet he says at his coming into Italy they wrote to him That Communion with Rome ought to be shun'd because they there held Nestorius's Heresy Which shews he was not rightly informed of the Fact he wrote of It had been better for him to have only exhorted the Pope as he does to endeavour to suppress the Schism and Division in Italy about the Business of the Three Chapters by tolerating those that defended them 'T is said that S. Columbanus had written some Letters to King Theodorick but we have none of them Jonas speaks also of a Letter directed to Clotharius but it is lost as well as his Book against the Arians mention'd in the same Author his great Treatise of Easter Two Letters to S. Gregory and his writing to Arigius upon the same Subject They say more-over He had made a Commentary upon the Gospels but it is not mention'd in ancient Authors They ascribe yet to him a little Treatise of Penances for Monks Clerks and Laicks but it does not seem to me to be his Father Flemingue an Irish Franciscan hath collected the Works of this Father and printed them at Louvain in the Year 1667. since which they have been printed in the last Edition of the Bibliotheca Patrum at Lyons with the Works of Two other Irish Writers The First of which is a Tract of S. Aeleran or Ereran containing a Mystical and Moral Interpretation of the Names recited in the Genealogy of Christ which are applyed to our Lord's Qualities or Precepts This Aeleran sirnamed the Wise was Presbyter it is said he also wrote the Life of S. Patrick There is another Ereran an Irish Abbot who wrote a Monastical Rule The Second Tract added to S. Columbanus's Works in this Edition is a very large Penitential of one Cumianus or Cuminus an Abbot in which there are several remarkable Things and amongst others That there are twelve principal Means of obtaining Pardon of our Sins grounded upon Testimonies of the Holy Scripture viz. 1. Baptism 2. Charity 3. Alms-giving 4. Tears 5. Confession 6. Mortification of the Flesh and Spirit 7. Change of Manners 8. Intercessions of the Just 9. Faith 10. Converting of others 11. Forgiving of Enemies and 12. Martyrdom That e Confession of secret Sins and Thoughts was in use Confession of Sins private and publick to God is absolutely 1 Joh. 1. 9. necessary to obtain Pardon of them and where we have done any Mat. 5. 23. Wrongs or Injuries to Men we must acknowledge them and making Restitution endeavour Reconciliation And Matt. 3. 6. if still there remain any Doubts and Scruples in our Consciences it is convenient to discover our Griefs to the Ministers of God's Word that we may receive from them Ghostly Counsel and Advice In these Cases no doubt the Confession of Cyprian Serm. de laps Tertul. de poenitentia Origen in Ps. 37. Secret Sins Thoughts and Desires was ever in use in the Church But as to that Auricular and Sacramental Confession which seems to be insinuated in the Words of this Father as it was not in use in the First Ages of the Church so can it pretend to no other Ground for the Use of it than the Lateran Council under Innocent the Third anno 1215. or the Council of Trent which is of much later date Confession of secret Sins was ever approved and used never generally imposed nor made necessary to Absolution till Popery prevailed Confession of Secret Sins and even of Thoughts and Desires was in Use in that Time that great Crimes were also subjected to long Penances that lesser Faults were punished with many Days of Penance that eating of strangled Beasts and of Blood was as yet forbidden that the Fast of Lent was commanded that all kind of Pollutions were punish'd with Penances that the f Caelibacy of Clerks commanded Altho' the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament do no where disallow the Marriage of Priests but give them an equal Liberty in that kind with the Laity Athan. epist. ad Dracon Socr. hist. eccl l. 9. c. 38. Tertullian Jerom. Ambrose insomuch that all the Apostles except S. John were married Men as also the greatest part of the Clergy of the first Times But yet some there were of the most eminent Bishops and most zealous Christians who having imbibed the Philosophers Opinions and Prejudices against Marriage as an Estate in it self unclean and so troublesome that it was utterly inconsistent with an Holy and
there were found above 160 of them The Acts of the Council began with the Emperor's Letter to Pope Donus in which he represents to him his Sorrow to see the Eastern Church divided from the Western That Theodorus Patriarch of Constantinople of blessed Memory would not send a Synodical Letter to the Holy Seâ— according to the Custom for fear it should nor be received and that he contented himself to direct a Letter to him in the Form of an Exhortation That that Patriarch and Macarius Patriarch of Antioch being consulted why the Chuch was thus divided seeing all the Bishops received the Definitions of the five General Councils and the Doctrine of the Fathers and rejected all Heresies They answered the Contest came from some new Expressions brought in either out of Ignorance or out of a Desire of piercing too deep into the unsearchable Works of the Lord That the Sees of Rome and Constantinople disagreeing about this they remained divided He exhorts the Pope not to suffer this Division about inconsiderable Points to continue for ever and invites him to send some able Legates to the Synod with necessary Instructions and Books promising he would cause them to be received and be equally favourable to both Parties He tells them he thinks three Men will be enough to hold his Place with twelve Archbishops or Bishops in the Name of his Council He adds That he had been desired by the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Antioch to give them Leave to take Vitalian's Name out of the Dypticks and to leave none but that of Honorius because the Bishops of Rome his Successors had differed from the Eastern Churches but that he would not suffer them to do it And that he could assure him that the Names of Honorius and Vitalian were left in the Dypticks There is a second Letter of the Emperor dated September 10th 680. directed to George of Constantinople wherein he orders him immediately to bring the Bishops and Archbishops to Constantinople and to send Word to Macarius to bring likewise those of his Synod The third Piece is a Latin Letter of Mansuetus Bishop of Milan which he wrote to the Emperor in the Name of the Synod held at Milan in which he exhorts him to imitate the Zeal of Constantine the Great for the Faith and beginning with Arius's Heresy and the Nicene Council he maketh a compendious History of the other Errors condemned in the five first Councils held by the Authority of the Christian Emperors He assures him that they do hold and maintain the Definitions of those Councils and the Doctrine of the Holy Orthodox Fathers To this Letter is annexed their Confession of Faith in which having asserted two Natures in Christ they add That there be also two natural Wills and two Operations With these Letters they sent some Deputies from the Pope and the Synod The Pope sent two Presbyters named Theodorus and George and a Deacon named John and the Bishops of the Council sent three Bishops in their Name to the Synod of Constantinople When these Deputies were arrived at Constantinople and had saluted the Emperor September 10th 680. he gave an order directed to George of Constantinople whom he styles OEcumenical Patriarch as he had styled the Pope OEcumenical Pope wherein he commands him immediately to bring the Archbishops and Bishops to Constantinople and to send Word to Macarius of Antioch to bring those of his Synod The first Action of the Council began the the 7th of November 680. in the Emperor's Palace It is said he presided in the Assembly that his Counsellors or Officers were present at it and Act. i. that the Synod was called by the Emperor's Order The three Legates of the Pope held the first Place among the Bishops of the Council George Patriarch of Constantinople the second the Deputy of the Church of Alexandria the third Macarius of Antioch the fourth the Deputy of the Patriarch of Jerusalem the fifth the Bishops Deputies of the Synod of Rome the sixth next after them were the Deputies of the Church of Ravenna and about 32. Bishops with some Abbots After they were set down the Legates of the Pope and of the Synod of the West said That they were sent by the Pope and the Council of Rome and that they brought two Letters with them which they had delivered to the Emperor That seeing the Difference came from this That the Patriarchs of Constantinople had invented and maintained Novelties by teaching That there was but one Will and one Operation in Christ those of their Party ought to shew the Grounds of this new Doctrine Macarius answered in the Name of the Churches of Constantinople and Antioch That they had invented no Novelties and did teach nothing but what they had learn'd from the Holy Fathers as they are expounded by Sergius Pyrrhus Paul and Peter their Patriarchs by Honorius Pope of Rome and by Cyrus Patriarch of Alexandria That they were ready to defend this Doctrine by the general Synods and the Fathers whose Authority was owned The Emperor commanded them to do so and the Acts of the Reumenical Councils to be brought Those of the Council of Ephesus were read and Macarius thinking to have found there a Place favouring his Opinion in S. Cyril's Letter to Theodosius where Christ's Will is said to be Omnipotent he would have inferred from thence that there was but one Will in Christ. But the Western Deputies some Bishops and the Judges themselves took notice That the Will of the Word only was spoken of there and not the Divine and Human Will in Christ then they read over the Acts of the Council of Ephesus In the second Session held the 10th of November the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon were read and when they came to S. Leo's Letter the Pope's Legates maintained That there Act. iâ— was a Place where that Pope established two Wills and two Operations Macarius contrariwise affirmed That the Passage of S. Leo proved only That there was in Christ one Operation Theandrick In the third of the 13th of the same Month they began to read the Acts of the fifth Council At the Head of which there was a Discourse written under the Name of Mennas to Vigilius The Pope's Legares maintain'd it to be supposititious and to have been added a little while ago to the Acts of the fifth Council which they proved because Mennas dyed the 21st Year of Justinian and the fifth Council was not held till in the 27th Year of the same Emperor And indeed the Judges and the Bishops examining the Sheets which they were Act. iii. reading they found three prefixed to the beginning without Cyphers and written by a different Hand Whereupon they left out that Discourse of Mennas and set themselves to the reading of the Acts of the fifth Council In them they found a Letter of Vigilius in which he asserted one only Operation in Christ but the Legates denied it to be his and when they went
also published in England in the year 1664 some Letters of Bede Together with the Lives of the Abbots of Weremoâ—th and Jarrow F. Mabillon in his first Tome of his Analecta hath published a short Letter of Bede to Albinus but it contains nothing remarkable in it Besides the Works afore-mentioned there hath been lately Published out of the Antient MSS. by the Reverend and Learned Mr. Henry Wharton Arch-Deacon of Canterbury a Commentary of Bede's upon the first One and Twenty Chapters of Genesis His Exposition of the Song of the Prophet Habacuc as also two Epfstles the one containing an Apology for himself against such as accused him of some Erroneus Opinions the other to Egbert Arch-Bishop of York together with a more correct Edition of his History of the Lives of the Abbots of Weremouth and Girwy Printed at London in 1693. Bede's stile is clear and easie but is neither Pure Elegant Lofty nor Polite He wrote with wonderful readiness but without Art or Consideration He had much Reading and Learning but wanted Judgment and Critical Exactness He Collected indifferently all he found without Picking and Choosing His Commentaries upon Holy Scripture as we have observed are nothing but Extracts of the Commentaries of the Fathers Collected and put together by him He had set down the Authors out of which he took every passage by putting into the Margin the first Letter of their Names bat by the Negligence of such as copied them they are lost His History is exact enough as to the things that passed in his time or a little time before him but as to the other parts of it we cannot safely credit it because he often made use of false Memoirs His Composures upon the Prophane Sciences are neither very deep nor exact but they are well done for his Age. JOHN Patriarch of Constantinople and AGATHO Deacon of the same Church AFTER the Death of the Emperor Constantine commonly called Pogonatus his Son Justinian the Second of that Name a Cruel Man obtained the Empire in 685 and John Patriarch and Agatho Deacon of Constantinople was deprived os it in the Tenth year of his Reign by Leontius Patricius who cut off his Nose and Banished him but he was soon after Deposed by Apsimarus Tiberius And at length Justinian was again restored in 705 but was at last Slain in Bithynia Anno. 712. by the Command of Bardanes Sirnamed Philippicus who Invaded the Empire This Man who had been the Scholar of the Abbot Stephen the Scholar of Macarius caused the Picture of the Sixth Council to be Pulled down the Names of Sergius and Honorius to be put in the Dypticks and the Acts of the Council which were in his Place to be Burnt He Persecuted the Orthodox Bishops Banished Cyrus Patriarch of Constantinople put John in his place and endeavoured to reverse the Definitions of the Sixth Council and revive the Doctrine of the Monothelites But he did not live long enough to perfect his design for he was taken and had his Eyes put out by certain Persons that conspired against him in 713 on the Saturday before Whitsuntide and the next Day Fl. Anthemius was declared Emperor Sirnamed Anastasius and Crowned by John He published the Sixth Council anew put up the Picture of it and caused the Acts to be written out again by the Deacon Agatho who relates this whole matter in a Memoir which he hath put at the end of the Acts of the Council John Patriarch of Constantinople declared that he was of the same Opinion and to reconcile himself to the Western Church He wrote a Letter to Pope Constantine in which he excuses himself for not sending a Synodical Letter of Communion because he was hindred by the violence of Philippicus He then gives him an Account how he was raised to the Patriarchate He says That Philippicus had a design to put a Person who was not of the Clergy and who was of his own Sentiments but he was forced by the earnest Petitions of the Clergy of Constantinople to choose him That he never had declared himself to be of the Erroneous Opinions of the Emperor nor did write to the Pope in defence of them but he owns That he was forced to dissemble the Truth by using ambiguous terms He endeavours to excuse his behaviour plainly acknowledges two Natural Wills in Jesus Christ and approves of the Council held under Martin I. and the Sixth Council Lastly He earnestly desired the Pope to receive him into his Communion and to write his Synodical Letters to him without regard to what had passed Nevertheless Constantine gave him no Answer and he was likewise Deposed a little after and Germanus put in his place GERMANUS Patriarch of Constantinople GERMANUS Bishop of Cyzicum was translated to the Patriarchal See of Constantinople Anno. 713. and enjoyed it till 730 when he was Deposed by the Emperor Leo Isaurus and sent into Banishment in which he Died. We have three of his Letters in the Acts of the Seventh Council Some attribute also to him a Mystical Work about the Ceremonies of the Liturgy Entitled Theoria Printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum which contains also an Explication upon the Lord's Prayer which is printed by it self Four Sermons upon the Virgin printed by F. Combefis in Greek and Latin in his Addition to the Biblioth Patrum The first is upon her Presentation in the Temple The second which is upon her Annunciation is a Dialogue between the Angel Mary and Joseph and the two last are upon the Death of the Virgin in one of which he insinuates that she was taken up into Heaven in her Body Schottus hath published another Sermon upon the Nativity of the Virgin under the Name of Germanus but F. Combefis hath restored it to Andreas Cretensis Some also believe and not without Reason that the Book Entitled Theoria and his Homilies of which we have spoken already belong to another Germanus Patriarch of Constantinople who lived in the twelfth Age under Alexius Comnemus and in the time of Pope Gregory the IX to whom he wrote a Letter Gretzer hath also published two Sermons upon the Cross which are this latter's rather than the former's as also the Sermon upon the Virgins Girdle put out by Surius Lastly F. Combefis hath published in Greek and Latin a long Discourse about the Burial of Our Lord which Gretzer attributes to the Author of the two Homilies upon the Cross but it seems to be better Written and to belong to a more ancient Author We find also a Fragment taken out of a Treatise of Synods and Heresies directed to Antimus the Deacon which seems also to be a good Piece But the Work that doth most certainly belong to the elder German Patriarch of Constantinople is that which Photius gives us some Extracts of in his Biblioth cod 233. Entituled * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of a lawful Retaliation Germanus Patriarch of Constantinople in which he defends S. Gregory Nyssene from
And therefore that there 's nothing in the Confession of Faith bearing his Name that proves it not to be his These Reasons and Solutions saith F. Mabellonius make it probable tho' not certain that this Confession of Faith is Alcuin's Alcuin's Stile is neat and lively he writes wittily his Expressions are pure enough for his time he handles things pleasantly one may say he did not want Eloquence no nor Elegance neither ETHERIUS ETHERIUS Bishop of Axume in Spain and Beatus Abbot and Priest were some of the first that opposed Felix and Elipandus's Error These charged them with Eutychiaanism It was to vindicate themselves and to convince their Adversaries of the opposite Error That they made 2 Books in which they profess to hold the Doctrine of the Council of Ephesus and resist the Sentiment of their Adversaries contrary to their Doctrine These 2 Books are very much confused and full of several idle useless Reflections and divers Repetitions They were printed in Canisius's Antiquities and in the last Bibliotheca Patrum PAULINUS of Aquileia PAULIN Bishop of Aquileia was present at the Council of Frank fort held in 794 there he encountred Felix and Elipandus's Error about the Title of adoptive Son which they attributed Paulin of Aquileia to Jesus Christ he made a small Writing and three Books upon this Subject Those Works are found among Alcuin's They did formerly attribute to him the 7 Books of Alcuin against that Error There is a Fragment yet extant of a Letter directed to Heistulphus who had killed his Wife which he suspected of Adultery he does most sharply reprove that Lord and lays a heavy Penance upon him We may find also some Fragment of Paulinus of Aquileia in the first Tract of the Miscellanea of M. Baluzius Tom. 1. p. 362. Lastly The Book of wholsome Instructions which went a long while under S. Austin's name was restored to Paulinus of Aquileia in the last Edition of this Father's Works upon the Credit of an old Manuscript of M. Colbert's Library It contains several useful Advices to lead a Christian Life and is of the same Style with the Advertisement to Heistulphus This Bishop died about the Year 803. His Style is very simple and no way elevated THEODULPHUS Bishop of Orleans THEODULPHUS Abbot of S. Benedict upon the Loire and afterwards preferred to the Bishoprick of Orleans before 794. flourish'd towards the end of this Century and died Theodulphus towards 821. F. Sirmondus published this Bishop's Opuscula in 1646. at Paris with his own Notes The first and chief is his Capitulary containing 46 Articles for the Instruction of the Priests of his Diocess He discourses with them of the Dignity of their State and recommends to them the Care of their Flock Diligence in Reading Praying and Working he enjoyns them when they come to the Synod after the Custom to bring along with them the Habits Books and Vessels wherewith they perform their Functions and 2 or 3 Clerks to have a care that the Bread the Water and the Wine wherewith they celebrate the Mass be very decent and proper to make the Bread themselves which is to be consecrated or cause it to be made in their presence He forbids Women to approach the Altar whilst the Priest is celebrating and orders That their Oblations shall be received in their Seats He forbids Priests to celebrate Mass by themselves without other Communicants He prohibits putting any thing in Churches besides the Sacred Vestments Vessels and Books He will not have any body to be buried within the Church but Clergymen only or persons of singular piety He prohibits Assemblies in the Church for any other thing than Praying and also celebrating Mass without the Church He extends the Prohibition of Church-men keeping Women at home with them to the nearest Relations He forbids Clerks to go to the Tavern and recommends to them Sobriety in the Feasts they are invited to He forbids Presbyters to take the Tythes belonging to their Brethren or to solicit and entice their Clerks He charges all Presbyters to baptize Children in case of Necessity whether they be of their own Parish or not He forbids Presbyters and Laymen to convert Sacred Veâ—sels to prophane uses He would have Schools set up in Parishes to teach Youth to lead a Christian Life of which he maketh an Abridgment and all the Faithful to know the Lord's Prayer and the Creed He exhorts them all to pray to God at least twice in the Day He enjoyns them to spend Sundays in Praying and being present at the Divine Service and prohibits all manner of Work but what is of necessity to dress Meat He permits Travelling provided they be present at the Office He charges the Laymen to be present at the first Vespres of Festivals at Mattins and at Mass and would have them to be exhorted to the practice of Hospitality to be deterred from false Oaths Perjuries false Witness to be instructed in the Holy Scripture to be reproved to be admonished to be constant in Prayer He exhorts Laymen to confess all their Sins even those of Thought and instructs the Presbyters how they ought to examine Sinners He exhorts Men to the Works of Mercy towards others He will have the People to be put in Mind of the Obligation laid upon Children to honour their Parents and upon Parents to use their Children gently and of the mutual Love they owe one another that Merchants and Men of Business are to be remembred that they should not mind their Temporal Gain so much as Life Eternal That the People must confess their Sins the Week before Lent and then receive Penance in order to their doing of it during Lent He marks out several ways of obtaining forgiveness of Sins he recommends the exact keeping of the Lent-Fast and the joyning of Alms-giving to Fasting He will not have Men to break their Fast at the ninth Hour of Prayer but to stay till the Hour of Vespres He thinks it would be a great perfection to abstain from Eggs Cheese Fish and Wine yet he allows infirm Persons and Labourers to use them He will have all the Faithful to communicate on Sundays in Lent except those which are suspended the Communion and that all take the Sacrament on Holy Thursday on Easter-Eve and Easter Day that they abstain from the Use of Matrimony on Fast-days and also some Days before the Communion that they prepare themselves for this Holy Action by Almsgiving and good Works That the Priests who say private Masses on Sunday shall not say them publickly lest they should take off the People from being present at the Mass in their Parishes Lastly he will have the People put in mind That they should not eat till they have been at the solemn Mass and the Sermon There was published since an Addition to this Capitulary containing a general Advertisement about such things as the Parsons ought to instruct the People in This Bishop wrote one Book more upon
CUMINUS an Irish Abbot A Penitential A Letter concerning Easter HESY CHIUS a Priest of Jerusalem His Genuine WORKS A Commentary upon Leviticus Two Homilies upon the Virgin Mary WORKS Lost. Four Discourses cited by Photius in his 51st Volume of his Bibliotheca Some Fragments of two Sermons cited by Photius A Summary of the 12 small Prophets and Isaias in Greek The Treatise of Temperance the Ecclesiastical History mentioned in the fifth Council as also the Harmony of the Gospels of whom M. Cotelerius hath published an Abridgment belong to a more ancient Hesychius There was also another Hesychius a Priest of Jerusalem more modern of whom Photius speaks in Vol. 52. of his Bibliotheca and gives us the Extracts of four of his Sermons EUSEBIUS of Thessalonica WORKS Lost. A Letter against a dissembling Monk Ten Books against the Errors of the same Monk BONIFACE IV. Bishop of Rome Supposititious WORKS A Decree and Letter published by Holstenius Pope DEUS-DEDIT His Spurious WORKS A Letter to Gordian JOHANNES PHILOPONUS His Genuine WORKS A Treatise upon the six days Works A Treatise upon Easter Philosophical Treatises WORKS Lost. A Treatise against Jamblichus the Philosopher A Treatise of the Resurrection A Treatise of the 4th Council A Treatise against the Discourse of Joannes Scholasticus Patriarch of Constantinople THEODOSIUS the Monk A Work lost A Writing against Philoponius CONON EUGENIUS and THEMISTIUS Works lost Invectives against Philoponus Themistius's Apology for Theophobius His Answer to Theodorus THEODORUS the Monk A Book written again Themistius NICIAS Works lost A Book against Philoponus intituled the Arbiter or Judge A Treatise against Severus Two Books against the Heathens ANTIOCHUS A Genuine Work His Pandects of the Holy Scripture JOHN of Thessalonica A Genuine Work Some Homilies upon the Women who carried Spices to embalm the Body of Jesus Christ. A Work lost Some Dialogues about Religion GREGORY of Antioch A Genuine Work A Discourse about the Women that embalmed Jesus Christ. JOHN Bishop of Sarragosa A Work lost Prayers to be sung in the Service of the Church JUSTUS Bishop of Toledo A Genuine Work A Letter to Richilan CONANTIUS PALENTINUS Works lost Hymns and Prayers BONIFACE V. A Genuine Work Three Letters mentioned by Bede MODESTUS Bishop of Jerusalem Works lost His Sermons of which Photius Vol. 275. Biblioth gives us some Extracts GEORGE Bishop of Alexandria A Genuine Work The Life of S. Chrysostome HONORIUS Genuine Works Some Letters to Sergius Nine other Letters SOPHRONIUS of Jerusalem Genuine Works A Synodical Letter to Sergius Four Sermons The Life of S. Mary the Aegyptian Works lost A Synodical Letter to Honorius A Discourse about S. Cyrus and S. John A Spurious Work The Voyages of S. Peter and S. Paul JOANNES MOSCHUS A Genuine Work The Spiritual Medow GEORGIUS PISIDES Genuine Works A description of the Creation of the World in Verse A Poem upon the vanity of Life Sermons in honour of the Virgin Works lost The Life of the Emperor Heraclius The Persian War A Panegyrick upon the Martyr Anastasius A Book intituled Avarica Some Poems EUGENIUS Bishop of Toledo A Genuine Work His Poems Works lost A Treatise upon the Trinity in Verse Another on the same Subject in Prose APOLLONIUS a Priest of Novara A Genuine Work A Poem upon the ruin of Jerusalem JOHN IV. His Genuine Works An Apology for Honorius Two Letters THEODORUS I. A Genuine Work Two Letters and a Memoir MARTIN I. A Genuine VVork Seventeen Letters S. MAXIMUS Genuine VVorks His Life and the Acts of his Persecution Questions upon the Scripture to Thalassius Seventy Nine Answers to as many Questions An Exposition of the 59th Psalm An Ascetick Discourse 400 Spiritual Maxims of Charity 200 Theological and OEcumenical Maxims A Writing to Theo-perapius 243 Moral Maxims 25 Dogmatical Treatises A Conference with Pyrrbus A Treatise of the Soul Several Letters Five Dialogues concerning the Trinity under the name of Athanasius His Mystagogy A Collection of Moral Sentences A Commentary upon the Work attributed to S. Dionysius the Areop Scholiasts upon S. Gregory Nakienzen A Calendar A Spurious VVork A Resolution of Doubts to the King of Achrida ANASTASIUS Scholar of S. Maximus A Genuine VVork A Letter to the Monks of Cagliari ANASTASIUS APOCRISIARIUS A Genuine VVork A Letter upon the death of S. Maximus THEODOSIUS and THEODORUS A True VVork An Historical Work about the Sufferings of Anastasius THEODRUS of Raithu His Genuine Work A Treatise of the Incarnation PETER of Laodicea His Genuine Work An Explication of the Lord's Prayer THALASSIUS His Genuine Work 400 Moral Maxims ISAIAH the Abbot A Genuine Work Some Precepts THEOFRIDUS His Genuine Work Two Homilies upon Relicks DONATUS A Genuine Work Two Rules one for Monks and another for Nuns VITALIANUS His Genuine Work Six Letters S. ELIGIUS His Genuine VVork A Book of Instructions collected by S. Owin in the Life of this Saint A dubious VVork Sixteen Homilies which bear his name AGATHO A Genuine Work A Letter to the Emperor Constantine A Spurious Work A Letter to Ethelred LEO II. His Genuine VVorks A Letter by which he subscribed to the Determinations of the sixth Council Four Letters sent into Spain BENEDICT II. A Genuine WORK A Letter to the Bishops of Spain about the Sixth Council DREPANIUS FLORUS His genuine WORKS A version of the 22 26 27. Psalms into Verse The Song of the three young Men in the Furnace in Verse An Hymn to S. Michael another upon the Paschal Taper and other Poems ILDEFONSUS of Toledo His genuine VVorks A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Writers A Treatise of the perpetual Virginity of Mary Some Letters WORKS lost Of which there is a Catalogue p. 34. Suppositious WORKS Another Treatise upon the perpetual Virginity of Mary Twelve Sermons upon the Purification TAIO A Genuine WORK A Letter to Quiricus A Manuscript Work not published Five Books of Sentences collected out of S. Gregory's Works LEONTIUS Bishop of Cypress A Work lost His Apology for the Christians MARCULPHUS A genuine WORK Some ancient Forms collected by him COSMAS Bishop of Jerusalem Thirteen Hymns PANTALEO A WORK lost Four Sermons JULIAN of Toledo Genuine WORKS His Prognosticks divided into three Books A Treatise against the Jews The History of Wamba WORKS lost See the Catalogue P. 37 38. Supposititious WORKS Contrarieties of Scriptures A Commentary upon the Prophet Nabum THEODORUS Archbishop of Canterbury A Genuine Work His Propositions to the Council of Hereford A Work lost His penitential A spurious Work Several Collections and Extracts of his penitential FRUCTUOSUS A genuine Work Two monastick Rules CEOLFRIDUS A genuine Work A Letter to Naotan about Easter and the Tonsure of Clerks ADELMUS A genuine Work A Book concerning Easter ADAMANNUS His genuine Works The History of the Holy Land The Life of S. Columbanus APONIUS A genuine Work A Commentary upon the Canticles CRESCONIUS A genuine Work A Collection of Canons in two parts JOHN the Monk A genuine Work A Sermon upon the Nativity of
the Virgin DEMETRIUS CYZICENUS A genuine Work A Memoir of the Original of the Jacobites Works without Name A Memoir concerning the Schism of the Armenians A Memoir about the Nativity of Jesus Christ. S. OWEN A genuine Work The Life of S. Eligius BEDA His genuine Works I. About Arts and Sciences His Books of Grammar Arethmetick Astronomy Physick Chronology and Morality Two Treatises of the Tropes and Figures of the Scripture His Books of the Lunar Cycles A Treatise of Times II. Of History The History of England in five Books A Treatise of the Holy Land A Treatise of the Hebrew Names III. Upon the Bible An Explication of the three first Chapters of Genesis A Commentary upon the Pentateuch Four Books of allegorical Explications upon the two first Books of Kings Some Questions upon these Books An allegorical Explication of the Books of Esdras and Tobit Three Books of Commentaries upon the Proverbs and seven upon the Canticles An Allegory upon the Ark of the Testimony A Commentary upon the Gospels of S. Matthew S. Mark and S. Luke the Acts the Catholick Epistles and the Revelation Homilies and Sermons Several Questions and Treatises upon the Scripture see p. 87 88. A Martyrology in Verse published by Dacherius Some Letters Works lost or in Manuscript only Commentaries upon the Proverbs Ecclesiastes and S. Paul's Epistles A Martyrology and Penitential Supposititious or uncertain VVorks The Lives of several Saints A Martyrology A Penitential Collections out of the Fathers An Exposition of Job A Commentary upon S. Paul's Epistles Several Sermons JOHN Patriarch of Constantinople A genuine Work A Letter to Pope Constantine AGATHO the Deacon A genuine Work A Memoir composed by this Deacon GERMANUS the Patriarch A genuine Work A Treatise upon the Burial of our Lord in Verse published by Gretzer Works lost A Treatise about lawful Retaliation of which Photius gives us some extracts A Treatise of Synods Supposititious Works made by another later German A Book called Theoria or Speculation Four Sermons upon the Virgin Two Sermons upon the Cross. A Sermon upon the Virgin 's Girdle BONIFACE of Mentz A genuine Work Several Letters Dubious or supposititious Works The Life of S. Livinus The Statutes of Boniface A Work last A Treatise upon the Unity of the Faith GREGORY II. Genuine Works Fifteen Letters A Memoir containing diverse Instructions GREGORY III. A genuine Work Seven Letters A spurious Work A Collection of Canons ZACHARY A genuine Work Sixteen Letters A supposititious Work The seventeenth and eighteenth Letters ANDREAS CRETENSIS Genuine Works Seventeen Panegyricks An Homily upon the Nativity of the Virgin and another upon the beheading of S. John Dubious Works A Commentary upon the Revelation Odes and Proses for Festivals ANASTASIUS A supposititious Work A Treatise against the Jews EGBERT Archbishop of York A Genuine Work His Penitential Spurious Works Several extracts of his Penitential A Treatise of the Life of Clergymen S. JOHN DAMASCENE Genuine VVorks Four Books of the Orthodox Faith Other dogmatical Treatises of which we have a Catalogue p. 102. Three Orations concerning Images A discourse about Prayer for the Dead A Treatise upon this Question Wherein consisteth the Likeness of Man with God A Treatise of the Last Judgment A Treatise of Heresies Parallels Sermons Several Hymns Such of them as are in Greek see p. 103. VVorks lost See a Catalogue of them p. 104. Supposititious VVorks Two Letters about the Mass and Consecration The History of Barlaam Some Hymns CHRODEGAND Bishop of Metz. A genuine VVork A Rule for the Regular Clergy STEVEN II. Genuine VVorks Six Letters His Answers to the Questions of the Monks of Bretigny WILLIBALD A genuine VVork The Life of S. Boniface of Mentz JOHN Patriarch of Jerusalem A dubious VVork The Life of S. John Damascene GOTTESCHALLCUS A genuine VVork The Life of S. Lambert Bishop of Leige AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS Genuine VVorks A Commentary upon the Revelation attributed to S. Ambrose and perhaps his Commentary upon the Psalms and Canticles The Book of the Opposition between Virtues and Vices in S. Austin The Lives of S. Paldon Taton and Tason Works lost A. Treatise of Concupiscence Several Homilies PAUL I. A genuine Work Several Letters inserted in the Caroline Code STEVEN III. A genuine Work Three Letters ADRIAN I. Genuine Works Several Letters to the Kings of France which are in the Caroline Code Letters about Images in the Acts of the Council of Nâ—ce relating to the Caroline Book A Letter to Tilpin related by Flodoardus A Collection of Canons dedicated to Ingilram Bishop of Metz. PAUL of Aquileia Genuine Works The History of the Lombards The History of the Bishops of Metz. The Lives of S. Arnoldus the Martyr S. Cyprian S. Benedict S. Maurus and S. Scholastica and S. Gregory Lessons for all the Days of the Year The Hymn Ut queant Laxis Works lost A Commentary upon S. Benedict's Rule Some Homilies CHARLES the Great Genuine Works Several Capitularies made by his Orders Several Letters written by his Command The four Caroline Books about Images A Letter against the Error of Felix Urgelitanus ALCUINUS Genuine Works Questions upon Genesis An Exposition upon the Penitential and 118 Psalms A treatise of the Use of the Psalms A Liturgy A Letter upon the Canticles A Commentary upon Ecclesiastes and the Gospel of S. John A treatise of the Trinity A Letter about Time and Eternity A treatise of the Soul Seven Books against Felix Orgelitanus A Letter to Elipandus and a Reply to his Answer divided into four Books Several Letters A Confession of Faith An Homily upon the Purification Twenty six Letters A spurious Work His Book of Divine Service ETHERIUS A genuine Work Two Books against Elipandus PAULINUS Genuine Works A small Tract and three other Books against Elipandus A treatise of wholesome Instructions among S. Austin's Works Works lost A Letter to Heistulphus of which we have only a Fragment A Fragment of another Treatise in M. Baluzius's Vol. 1. of Miscell THEODULPHUS Bishop of Orleans A Capitulary for the Instruction of the Priests of his Diocess containing forty six Articles A treatise about Baptism to Magnus Some Poems LEO III. A genuine Work Thirteen Letters TARASIUS Genuine Works An Apology for his Election Three Letters ELIAS CRETENSIS A genuine Work A Commentary upon the Orations of S. Gregory Nazianzen GEORGIUS SYNCELLUS A genuine Work His Chronicon A Table of the Acts Letters and Canons of the Councils held in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries The Conference at Worcester THe Acts related by Bede in the second Book of his History The Council of Challon Some Memoirs The Council of Toledo under Gondemar An Act to make Toledo a Metropolis The Council of Egara A Decree made in it about Celibacy Council V. of Paris Fifteen Canons confirmed by the Edict of Clotarius A Council held in France about the same time Fifteen Canons The Council of Sevil. Some Acts containing twelve Decrees The Council of Rheims under Sonnatius 25
Canons the Extracts of which are related by Flodoardus Council IV. of Toledo A Confession of Faith and 74 Canons Council V. of Toledo 9 Canons Council VI. of Toledo A Confession of Faith and 18 Canons Council VII of Toledo 6 Canons A Council in the Lateran under Martin I. 5 Actions or Sessions in Greek and Latin A Circular Letter of this Popes Council III. of Constantinople which was the Sixth General The Emperor's Letter to Dionysius and George The Letter of Mansuetus Bishop of Milan and a Confession of Faith The Acts containing 17 Acts or Sessions The Council's Letters to Agatho The Emperor's Edict and His Letter to Leo II. and the Bishops of the Roman Council The Council of Challon 39 Canons Council VIII of Toledo King Recesuind's Letter The Acts which contain 12 Canons A Decree about the King's Revenue Recesuind's Edict The Jews Petition and Remonstrance Council IX of Toledo A Preface and 17 Canons Council X. of Toledo 7 Canons and a Decree against a Bishop who had Married A Conference in Northumberland The Acts of this Conference The Council of Merida 22 Canons The Council of Autun A Constitution concerning Monks A Council at Hereford 10 Canons Council XI of Toledo 15 Canons Council IV. of Braga 8 Canons Council XII of Toledo 13 Canons Council XIII of Toledo 13 Canons Council XIV of Toledo The Acts of the Council containing an Exposition of the Faith Council XV. of Toledo The Acts about the difficult Places in the preceeding Confession The Council of Sarragosa 5 Canons Council XVI of Toledo A Memoir of King Egica and 13 Canons Council XVII of Toledo A Memoir of Egica and 8 Canons The Council called Quinisext or in Trullo 102 Canons The Council of Barkamsted 25 Ecclesiastical Constitutions Councils held about the Business of Wilfrid The History of the Acts of these Councils recited by divers Authors The Council of Rome under Gregory II. 17 Canons A German Council under Carlomannus 7 Canons The Council of Lessines 4 Canons and Form of Abjuration A Memoir or Instruction about prohibited Marriages The Council of Rome under Zachary 13 Canons The Council of Soissons 10 Canons Council II. of Rome under Zachary The Acts of this Council The Council of Cloveshaw 30 Canons The Council of Verbery 21 Canons The Council of Verneuil 30 Canons The Council of Metz. 9 Canons The Council of Compaigne 21 Canons Several other Councils of France under Charles the Great The Constitutions of this Council are in the Capitularies of this Prince The Councils of Constantinople against Images The Acts of this Council are inserted in the sixth Action of the second Council of Nice Council II. of Nice The Acts of this Council in Greek and Anastasius's Translation 22 Canons The Council of Norhumberland 20 Canons The Council of Aquileia 14 Canons The Council of Ratisbone We have nothing of this Council A Council in Italy against Felix A Letter of this Council The Council of Frankfort A Letter of this Council against Felix 56 Canons The Council of Rome under Leo III. Some Fragments of these Acts. The Council at Aix-la-Chapelle We have none of its Acts. A Table of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries disposed according to the Order of the Matters contained in them Treatises of Religion against the Pagans Jews and Sarazens TWO Books of S. Isidore against the Jews A Treatise of Julian of Toledo against the Jews A Dialogue between a Christian and a Sarazen by S. John Sarazen Upon the whole Body of Divinity Isidore's Origens A Manuscript Treatise of Taio S. J. Damascene's treatise of the Orthodox Faith Upon the Trinity Five Dialogues of S. Maximus S. J. Damascene's Trisagion A treatise of Alcuin upon the Trinity Upon the Incarnation and particularly upon the two wills Honoâ—ius Letters to Sergius Sophronius's Letter Honorius's Apology for John IV. Some of S. Martin's Letters Several Treatises of S. Maximus Some of his Letters Theodorus of Ratthu's Treatise upon the Incarnation Agatho's Letter S. Leo II. and S. Benedict II. Letters Several Treatises of S. John Damascene The Acts of the Councils of Lateran Constantinople and Toledo Of the Incarnation against Felix Orgelitanus Charles the Great 's Letter 7 Books of Alcuin against Felix Orgelitanus His Letter to Elipandus Four Books of Reply to that Bishop's Answer 2 Letters of Etherius against Elipandus A small Tract of Paulinus of Aquileia Three Books against the same Person The Council of Frankfort Upon the Soul and Man's End S. Maximus's Treatise of the Soul Julian of Toledo's Prognosticks in 3 Books A treatise of Prayer for the Dead by S. John Damascene as also of the last Judgment Alcuin's treatise of the Soul Upon Images Pope Gregory II's Letters Damascene's Orations of Images Adrian Germanus and Tarasius's Letters The Acts of the Council of Constantinople against and of Nice for Images The Caroline Books The Council of Frankfort The Council of Paris and Letters in their Name Of the perpetual Virginity of Mary A treatise made by Ildephonsus of Toledo Works of Discipline Isidore's two Books of Offices Some of his Letters S. Columbanus's Penitential and Letters Cuminus's Penitential and paschal Letter Philoponus's treatise of Easter S. Maximus's Mystagogy His Calandar for Easter Vitalian's Letters Marculphus's Formula's Theodorus of Canterbury's Capitula Ceolfridus's Letter to Naitan about Easter Adelmus's treatise Cresconius's Collection of Canons Paul of Aquileia's Book of Lessons Charles the Great 's Capitularies Letters and Laws Alcuin's Letters His Liturgy of the Church Two Books of Divine Services falsly attributed to him A Fragment of Paulinus's Letter Theodulphus of Orleans's Capitulary A Treatise upon Baptism Canons of Councils Popes Letters Critical Works upon the Bible S. Isidore of Sevil's Prolegomena John of Thessalonica Gregory and Modesius's Homilies upon the Women who embalmed Jesus Christ. Bede's Treatise of the Hebrew Names His Questions upon the Scripture German's Treatise upon our Lord's Burial Alcuin's Treatise upon the use of the Psalms Commentaries upon Scripture S. Isidore's Notes upon the Octateuch His allegorical Notes upon the same Philoponus's Book upon the Hexameron Bede's Explication of the first 3 Chapters of Genesis and Comment on the Pentateuch Hesychius's Commentary on Leviticus His Allegory upon the Ark. Alcuin's Comment on Genesis S. Maximus's Questions to Thalassius's 79 Answers to the same His Exposition of Psalm 19. Bede's Questions on the Books of Kings His allegorical Explications of the Books of Kings and Tobit His Commentary on the Psalms and Proverbs Alcuin's Exposition of the 118th and the Penitential Psalms His Commentary on Ecclesiastes Upon the Canticles S. Isidore's allegorical Comment Aponius and Bede's Commentary Alcuin's Letter Upon the New Testament Bede's Commentary on the Gospels Canonical Epistles and Revelation Alcuin's Comment on S. John's Gospel Andreas Cretensis's upon the Revelation Ambrose Autpertus on the same Book Historical Works Isidore's Chronicon and History of the Gothâ— His Abridgment of the History of the Goths and Vandals
Friends told him that he could not properly impute Heresie to an Opinion that only respected Manners he on the contrary held That his Adversaries had made a Doctrine of it by giving a Dispensation or Indulgence to an Adulterous Match and pronouncing them Accursed who would not acknowledge it Lawful They produced several Presidents of Indulgences and Dispensations in answer to which to shew the present case to be very different from those they alledged he wrote a Treatise of Dispensations or Indulgences In 811 he returned from his second Exile after the Death of the Emperor Nicephorus and was reconciled to the Patriarch Nicephorus by the Mediation of the Emperor Michael and the Pope In the Reign of Leo he undertook the Defence of Image-Worship with much heat and vigour and tho' the Emperor commanded him to be silent yet he spake and wrote Zealously against a Synod held by that Emperor against the Worship of Images This was the cause of his third Exile in which he suffered much through the Cruelty of Leo whom he provoked by Writing to his Fellows in his Exile and animated them to maintain their ground In the beginning of the Reign of Michael Balbus in 821 he had Liberty given him to return to Constantinople but having spoken too freely he was forced to retire for some time At the end of his Life he visited the Patriarch Nice-phorus in his Exile and several others He died in the Year 826. Michael his Scholar hath written his Life who thus speaks of his Writings He wrote or dictated several Works which shew That he was enlighten'd by the Holy Spirit The first was a Catechise which he calls a small one tho' it contains 135 Sermons spoken to his Brethren proper for each day of which the Sentences are choice and Terms elegant In them he treats of Constancy contempt of Adversity Perseverance in the Austerities and Exercises of a Monastick Life resisting of Temptations and Courage under all Accidents of Life with great Eloquence He hath also another Work called a large Catechism divided into three parts containing the Rules and Discipline of a Monastick Life He hath also composed a Volume of Panegyricks or Sermons upon the chief Festivals of the Year as well those of our Lord as those of the Virgin and St. John whose solitary and retired Life he commends in an Hymn by it self He hath made a Piece also in Jambick Verse in which he describes the Creation the Fall of the first Man the Murther of Cain the Life of Enoch and of Noah In the same Book also he delivers an History of the Heresie of the Iconoclasts We have 5 Books of his Letters in which he manifests a great deal of freedom in his Discourse Zeal for the Truth Care of the Church and Constancy in Adversity Lastly He hath made a Dogmatical Treatise in which he confutes the Sophisms of the Iconoclasts with solid Reasons Of these Works only these are come to our hands A Latin Version of his 134 Sermons made by Livineius Canon of Antwerp and Printed there by Miraeus in 1602. The Version of several of his Letters which Baronius had out of a MS. and caused them to be Translated by Sirmondus to put into his Annals where they may be found between the Years 795 and 826. A Sermon in Latin upon the 4th Sunday in Lent which is in the Biblioth Patrum Tom. 14. A fragment of a Letter to Naucratius about the Hereticks extant in Gr. and Lat. in Allatius de consensu l. 3. c. 13. A Letter to a Monk who had left his Monastery Translated by Turnan A Sermon upon S. Bartholomew turned into Latin by Dacherius in the 3d Tome of his Spicilegium The Life of S. Plato Head of the Monastery of Mount Olympus published by Surius December 6. or 16. Lastly A Doctrinal Treatise about the Worship of Images Printed at Antwerp 1556. in Lat. and at Rome in 155◠in Gr. with a Treatise of S. John Damascene of Images Baronius hath also Printed the Testament or Will of this Abbot in his Annals in 826. which contains several profitable Admonitions and Directions for his Monks but chiefly a Superstiticus Zeal for Image-Worship It is also Printed with his Sermons at Antwerp in 1602. and in Biblioth Patrum Tom. 14. In the Greek Liturgies there are several Hymns or Songs in Honour of the Restoration of Images attributed to him but they are not his being made since the Peace was restored to the Greek Church about that subject F. Sirmondus hath Published the Works of this Monk in Greek and Latin at the end of his own Works His Works are useful for Monks He wrote in a plain and easie Style He died in the Year 826. Nov. 11. His Life was written by his Scholar Michael part of which is Published in Baronius's Annals Tom. 9. The Relation of his Death made by Naucratius who was another of his Scholars hath been Published in Greek and Latin by F. Combefis in Vol. 2. Auctuar Biblioth Patr. Dr. Cave hath this Treatise in MS and hath given us a Specimen of its trifling and vain commendation of the Image-Worshippers and in particular of Theodorus Studita in Hist. Lit. p. 512. Joseph Archbishop of Thessalonica was the Brother of Theodorus and his Companion in all his Joseph Bishop of Thessalonica Troubles He was Banished with him for opposing the Marriage of Constantinus Copronymus the Restoration of Joseph the Steward of Constantinople and for so zealously maintaining Image-Worship He hath left us a Discourse in Honour of the Cross extant in Gretzer de Cruce Tom. 2. p. 1200. and an Epistle to Simeon the Monk Printed in Baronius's Annal in 808. p. 10. Dr. Cave 22. There was another Theodorus Sirnamed Graptus which flourished about the same time with Studita Theodorus and was one of the most Zealous Patrons of Image Worship for the Defence of which he died in Exile and Prison He composed the Relation of a Conference of Nicephorus Patriarch of Constantinople with Leo Published by F. Combefis with a Narration of the Martyrdom of himself and Brother Theophanes who out-lived him and was Bishop of Nicaea There is attributed to him an Hymn in commendation of his Brother which is found among the Greek Offices Theodorus also hath a Letter to Joannes Cyziconus concerning his own and Brothers Sufferings from the Emperor Theophilus Published also by Father Combefis and a Book de fide Orthodoxâ contra Iconomachos yet in MS. Theosterictus a Monk and Scholar of Nicetas a Defender of Image-Worship wrote the Life of Theosterictus his Master in a Panegyrick recited by Metaphrastes and is extant in Surius April 3. It contains an Abridgment of the Persecutions raised upon the account of Image Worship from the Reign of Leo Isaurus to that of Michael Balbas These are the chief of the Greek Authors which wrote in the beginning of this Age in the dispute of Images Besides the forementioned Authors there were others engaged in
tell Hincmarus that he was in torments for not following his good Advice and that he prayed him to help him and deliver him from those pains by his Prayers That after this he was carried into a place full of Light where he saw Hincmarus ready to Sing Mass and that being discharged of his Commission at his return he found Charles in a light place and in a good condition That he also met with Jesse and saw several poor Souls tormented by the Devils in Lakes of Fire That he also saw Earl Atharius who charged him to bid his Wife pray to God for him That he was dismissed by a Man of an honest countenance who Exhorted him to abound in good Works that he might have an happy Station in another World and promised him that he should live 14 years That Bernoldus after he had related these things received the Communion and then Eat and Drank Hincmarus hearing of this and believing it true because he had read such like Visions in S. Gregory's Dialogues and heard that the like had happened to a certain Monk named Wetinus in the Reign of the Emperor Lewis the Kind or Godly he took an occasion from hence to Exhort all the People of his Diocess to live well and recommended it to them to Pray for King Charles and for all others whom this restored Person had seen Interpreting what they had said in this sence that if they did what they desired they should receive the comfort which they longed for Towards the end of Hincmarus's Works is a Piece added concerning the Repentance of King Pepin A Relation of K. Pepin's Repentance This Prince being delivered by the Lords of Aquitain to his Brother Charles and confined to the Monastery of S. Medard at Soissons An. 852. made his escape out of that Monastery and fled to the Normans who then Ravaged France but was taken again Hincmarus consulting with himself how he ought to be dealt with made this Treatise and in it concludes that he ought to be Exhorted to make a Sincere and General Confession of all his Sins in secret and publickly acknowledge his fault in leaving his Monastery being Perjured and made no better than an Heathen and do his publick Penances that then he may be reconciled receive the Clerical Tonsure and put on a Monks Habit promising to live regularly for the future And after this he may take the Communion but must be treated civilly and kindly and left at liberty in the Monastery yet the Monks ought to observe strictly that he doth not relapse into the same fault nor escape as he hath already done from the Monastery of S. Medard and as Caroloman had done from the Monastery of Corby At the end of Hincmarus's Works are some fragments of his Letters taken out of Hodoardus The first Several Letters of Hincmarus is taken out of a Letter written to King Charles the Bald concerning the manner how he ought to administer Justice to the Bishops The second is out of a Letter to Lewis Emperor of Germany about the Ordination of Bertulphus to the Archbishoprick of Treves This Church had been a long time vacant and Hincmarus Ordained Bertulphus to it Lewis of Germany was angry at it as an encroachment upon the Rights of his Kingdom and an intrusion upon a Church that did not belong to him wherefore Hincmarus wrote to him to excuse himself and says that he undertook that Ordination for the good of the Church that he thought since there were not Bishops enow in the Province of Treves to Ordain a Metropolitan it belonged to him who was the next Archbishop to do it and so much the rather because the Churches of Reims and Treves were looked upon as Sisters and the Custom in the Councils was that the most ancient of those two Churches should have the Precedency of the other That indeed he had not concerned himself with that Ordination but by the entreaty of the Church of Treves by whom Bertulphus was generally approved of That he was resolved to maintain what he had done and to defend the validity of this Ordination That so long as he lived he would acknowledge Bertulphus Archbishop of Treves unless he were Canonically Deposed That Walto who had invaded that Church should never be acknowledged by him for a Lawful Bishop and if he persisted in his Claim they would condemn him In another Letter written to the Monks of S. Dennis he forbids them to sell their Tythes and convert the Price of them to their own advantage In the 4th directed to an Earl he forbids him taking any thing for his Nomination to a Church and tells him That if a Person capable of a place be presented to him he will Ordain him if he will vouch that he hath given nothing for it if not he shall put in another He complains that there was a Person put into the Register of the Church who had given a Present to have his Name written into it In the fragment of the 5th Letter he assures Hermengardis Lotharius's Queen that he never was unfaithful to the Emperor her Husband The 6th is an Admonition to the Nuns about the Election of an Abbess for the Monastery of S. Crosse. The last is a fragment of a Treatise of Hincmarus's Intituled Ferculum Solomonis taken out of Durandus Abbot of Troarn who says that this Treatise of Hincmarus's was in Verse That which we have in the end of the first Tome of this Author's Works is in Prose and seems to be a second part of that Work The first is lost and we have not spoken of the other because it contains nothing in it but some Mystical Notions and Meditations There are two other Treatises of Hincmarus's of the same Nature the one upon these words of the Psalmist Herodii Domus Dux est illorum and the other upon the Mystical Name which he had given to the Council of Nice in which he affirms That it deserves that Name because the number of 318 which was the number of the Bishops present at it is a Mystical Number By what we have said of the Life Actions and Writings of Hincmarus it is plain that he was better Versed in the Canons and Discipline of the Church than in the Studies of Ecclesiastical Doctrines He had read the Writings of the Councils well and had made Collections of the Passages of their Writings and Canons upon all sorts of Subjects He knew how to use them dexterously and convert them easily to his own advantage He was a great Politician and knew very well how to use the Laws of the Church to bring about his Intentions and Designs The French Church is much beholding to him for his vigor in defending her Liberties and the Dignity of her Bishops and Metropolitans against the attempts that the Popes had made upon their Rights yet without depriving the H. See of the respect and subjection that was due to it He found out a way to oppose the
He advises them to be Charitable and Hospitable He forbids them going to Inns suffer Wine to be sold in the Church to dwell with any Women or be familiar with them to be Farmers or Men of business He forbids Usury and orders them to keep the Sunday Holy He requires them to take nothing for the Burial of the Dead but allows them to take any Free-gifts He orders the Deans to call Assemblies of the Curates every Month on the First day of it but forbids Feasting at them and enjoyns them to have Conferences about what concerns their Ministery and the occasions of their Parishes He orders them to reconcile those that are Enemies or Excommunicate them if they refuse He enjoyns them to give Notice of the Fasts he hath appointed to the People This Letter is published by Condesius with Hincmarus's Works at Paris 1615. and is Printed in Tome IX of the Councils Elias Bishop of Jerusalem Wrote in 887 a Letter to Charles the Grosse the Clergy and Lords of the Kingdom of France to desire of him some Relief for the Churches of Elias his Countrey He tells him That the Prince under whose Government they were being become a Christian had allowed them to re-build and repair their Churches which were either quite ruin'd or ready to fall That to doe it they were forc'd to Mortgage their Lands and Revenues so that they had nothing to purchase Oil Ornaments and Holy Vessels for Divine-Service Then he exhorts this Prince and the French to exercise tâ—… Charity upon this occasion and to bestow something upon the Two Monks which he woâ—… send to gather their Alms. This Letter is in Latin in Tome II. of Dacherius's Spicilegium 〈◊〉 is well Written but very short Luitbeâ—tus Arch-bishop of Mentz hath Written a Letter to King Lewis In which 〈◊〉 tells that Prince That seeing the Danger their Churches were exposed to he was obligâ—… Luitbertus to speak because the Primacy and Dignity of St. Peter is assaulted and Dishonoured by tâ—… who ought to be the Leaders of the People of God who prefer Humane things before 〈◊〉 vine insomuch that he is afraid that the Evil which is in the Headâ— will spread 〈◊〉 self into all the Members unless a Remedy be timely provided He tells the King tâ—… there is present danger because those that ought to watch for the Salvation of others 〈◊〉 stroy themselves and dig a Pit of destruction for those that follow them He exhorts 〈◊〉 to conser with those that know the Law of God that he may remove these Scandals and 〈◊〉 Peace in the Church He adds That it is so much the Easier because all the Body 〈◊〉 the Church is not corrupted as yet That there are some Members weakened by the wound 〈◊〉 the head but may be cured with suitable Medicines That it seems necessary and profitâ— ble that King Charles call a Council soon that the Bishops of his Kingdom which 〈◊〉 not infected with the Disease might joyn with the Bishops of Germany and Him to reâ—… the Peace and Agreement of the Catholick Church as soon as he returnâ— from the Voyâ—… he was about to take This Letter seems to relate to the Troubles which happened after 〈◊〉 Death of Lotharius about the Kingdom of Lorain which Pope Adrian claimed for the Emperour Lewis threatning Excommunication to Charles and to the rest who were in possession of it Of all Authors of this Age there is none that hath taken more pains about the Canons than Regino He was chosen Abbot of Prom about 892 after Farabertus had voluntarily resigned it but he enjoyed it not long being deprived of it in 899 by the Arts of his Enemies who put Richarius the Brother of the Counts Gerhardus and Montfredus into his place He endured this injustice with a great deal of Patience and lived a private Monk in the Abbey of Prom. In this time he composed his Collection of Canons and Ecclesiastical Constitutions at the desire of Rathboldus Arch-bishop of Treves He finished it in 906. He also composed a Chronicon which ends in 968 dedicated to Adelbertus Bishop of Metz. We do not exactly know to what Age he lived His Collection of Canons is entituled A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Discipline and of the Christian Religion collected by the order of Rathboldus Arch-bishop of Treves by Regino heretofore Abbot of Pâ—… and taken out of the Fathers Councils and Popes It is divided into two Books In the first he sets down the Canons which concern Ecclesiastical Persons and in the Second those that concern the Laity These two Books begin each of them with a form of such things as Bishops or Ministers ought to be informed in when they make their Visits That which is at the beginning of the first concerns the Clergy and that which is at the beginning of the second concerns the Laity Then he confirms the Articles of the first by the Canons and Ecclesiastical Conâ—titutions He quotes the Canons of the Councils and particularly those of France the Constitutâ—ons of the Kings the genuine Decretals of the Popes and sometimes the false some passages of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Authors This Collection is very large and exact Burchardus Ivâ— Carnatensis and the other Collectors of Canons that follow him have made use of it and often copy it out It hath been published from a M S. of Flaccus Illyricus and printed at Helmstad 1659 and since M. Baluzius hath taken care to print it at Paris by Muguet 1671 having received it by a very ancient M S. in the Library of the Fathers of the Oratory at Paris He hath set down in the Margin the places from which the Canons and passages of that Collection are taken and where the Articles of Burchardus's Collection are found Regino's Chronicon is divided into two Books It was printed at Frankfort in 1583. Trimethius assures us that this Author wrote several Sermons some Letters and other Works which never came to his Hands He much commends his Ingenuity Learning and Piety and says that he is the best of the German Writers of his Time Lastly we have another Author of this Age who treats of a very curious Subject of Discipline and that is Auxilius who maintains the Validity of the Ordinations made by Pope Formosus He was a Ordained by this Pope He says it plainly at the end of his first Treatise in which having spoken of the Validity of the Ordinations of this Pope he adds That he continued in the order which he had received by Consecration waiting for the equitable Judgment of a General Council In the Thirty First Chapter of his Second Treatise His Adversary objects that he was a Stranger and at first he don't deny it but about the end he puts in a Doubt saying 't was a fiction of his Adversaries He says also in the same place â—hat he was ordained a Priest by Formosus In the Chapter of the Second Book he says also that
made use of it to promote their Designs and it serv'd as an Umbrage to the League which the Princes and Lords of Germany renew'd against him It likewise shock'd some of those who assisted at the Assembly of Worms and amongst others Udo Arch-bishop of Treves who went express to Rome to procure his Absolution and be reconcil'd to Gregory and being return'd to Germany he was one of the first who maintain'd That they ought not to communicate with the King till such time as he should be reconcil'd to the Pope The Archbishop of Mayence and a great many more became of the same Mind and there were but a very few of the Prelates who would venture to stand to what they had done The Pope for his part made sure of the Forces and Places belonging to Matilda the Widow of Godfrey Duke of Lorrain who dy'd this year in his Dutchy being parted from his Wife a long time before This Princess was Daughter to Beatrice the Sister of the Emperor Henry III. and to Boniface Lord of Lucca She was possess'd of a very considerable Estate in Italy having the Sovereignties of Lucca Parma Reggio Mantua and a part of Tuscany under her She has wholly wedded to the Interests of Gregory VII who likewise espous'd her Interests with all the warmth imaginable Whilst Affairs stood in this posture Gregory thought that before he broke out into an open War it was advisable to use his fresh endeavours to bring over King Henry to submit to what he was minded to require of him To forward this design he directed a Letter to all the Bishops Abbots Priests Dukes Princes Knights and in general to all the Faithful of the Roman Empire wherein after he had declar'd what he had done in favour of Henry and the base returns he had receiv'd for it he exhorts them to prevail upon this Prince to do Pennance that so he might be reconcil'd to the Church declaring that if he would not hearken to their Counsels they ought to convene together to consult the Wellfare of the Universal Church He puts them in mind of holding no Correspondence with those who were not separated from Communion with Henry To conclude he calls God to witness that he had no temporal Advantage in his eye but the Wellfare of the Church was the only Motive of what he did This Letter which is the First of the fourth Book bears date July 25 in the Year 1076. Within a while after Herman Bishop of Metz who kept Neuter in this Affair wrote to Gregory to ask him whether the Bishops who communicated with Henry were excommunicated and at the same time he takes notice to him that there were some Persons who maintain'd that a King could not be excommunicated Gregory answer'd him by the Second Letter of the same Book written at Tivoli August 25. That there was no question to be made but that all those who communicated with King Henry if it be lawful to call him King were excommunicated And that with respect to those who say that a King ought not to be excommunicated there was no need to return them an Answer since their Opinion was so Ridiculous However he did not stick to prove that Kings might be excommunicated from the example of Pope Zachary by whom he says the King of France had been depos'd and his Subjects absolv'd from their Oath of Alliegance to him From several Privileges which are among the Letters of S. Gregory wherein he declares the Kings and Princes excommunicated and depriv'd of their Dignity who shall infringe them He subjoyns the instance of Theodosius and lastly he alledges as a convincing Argument that when JESUS CHRIST gave S. Peter the Power of feeding his Sheep and the Power of Binding and Loosing he excepted no Person from it Afterwards he gives Herman to understand That he had granted some Bishops a Power of Absolving the Bishops and Grandees who would separate themselves from communion with King Henry but that he had forbidden them to grant Absolution to that Prince till such time as he was assur'd by good creditable Witnesses of his Repentance and the satisfaction he would make since he knew very well that there were Bishops enow who would not scruple to absolve him if he had not forbit it 'T is much in the same Air he wrote Eight Days after a Second Letter to the Prelates and Grandees of Germany wherein after protestation made that it was neither Pride nor Interest which mov'd him to excommunicate King Henry but only for the welfare of the Church he prays them to be tender of him if he did sincerely Repent Upon condition however that he would turn out of his Council those excommunicated Persons who were guilty of Simony and for the future follow the Advice of those who value the welfare of the Church above their own Interests That he would look upon the Church as his Mistress and use her no longer as a Servant That he would no longer defend such Customs as were contrary to the Liberties of the Church but follow the Doctrin of the Holy Fathers That if he gave them an assurance of performing these and other things which with Reason might be required of him they shall give him notice thereof by their Deputies that so they might consult together what is best to be done on that occasion but that he absolutely forbids them to absolve him from his Excommunication till they had receiv'd an Approbation in writing from the Holy See for it That if he would not repent they ought to proceed to the election of a Prince who would discharge the Duties aforemention'd and that they ought to inform him of the Conversation and Manners of the Person they shall elect that so he might confirm their Election That with regard to the Oath which they had taken to the Empress Agnes in case her Son should dye before her they ought not to be concern'd about it because they might very well perceive that she had no longer a Right thereto whether she opposed or consented to his being Deposed That upon the whole they should let him know who the Person was whom they design'd for Emperor after they should have resolv'd to Out Henry This is the Third Letter of the Fourth Book It was no sooner receiv'd in Germany but the Princes and Grandees of the Empire resolv'd to meet at Tribur or Oppenheim to consult of the measures they ought to take Radulphus Duke of Suabia The Convention at Oppenheim and the Dukes of Bavaria and Carinthia with the Bishops of Wirtzburg and Wormes having held a Conference at Ulma appointed this Convention to be on the Twenty sixth of October and acquainted therewith all the Princes of the Empire and the Pope who sent thither two Legats to wit Sigehard Patriarch of Aquileia and Alman Bishop of Passaw These Legats declaim'd against the Conduct of Henry and desir'd that they would elect another King in his stead Henry for his part sent
Pope Genuine Pieces Three Letters EUGESIPPUS A Genuine Piece A Geographical Treatise of the Holy Land BRUNO Bishop of Wurtzburg His Genuine Works A Commentary on the Book of Psalms Annotations on the Canticles the Lord's Prayer and the Creeds GLABER RADULPHUS Monk of Cluny His Genuine Works still in our Possession An Ecclesiastical History dedicated to Odilo Abbot of Cluny The Life of St. William Abbot of St. Benignus at Dijon ARNOLD a Canon of Herfeldt A Genuine Piece The Life of St. Godehard Bishop of Hildesheim publish'd by Browerus ALEXIUS Patriarch of Constantinople Genuine Works Certain Ecclesiastical Constitutions CAMPANUS a Philosopher of Lombardy Works lost A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Numbers Another of the making of Sun-Dials Another of the Calendar with some other Pieces BERENGARIUS or BERENGER Arch-deacon of Anger 's Genuine Works Three several Confessions of Faith A Letter directed to Ascelin Another Letter to Richard Part of his Treatise against the second Confession of Faith Works lost A Manuscript Treatise against the Third Confession of Faith A Treatise against Adelman and others EUSEBIUS BRUNO Bishop of Anger 's A Genuine Piece still extant A Letter to Berenger THEODUIN or DIETWIN Bishop of Liege A Genuine Piece A Letter against Berenger directed to Henry King of France ADELMAN or ALMAN a Clerk of the Church of Liege and afterwards Bishop of Brescia A Genuine Piece A Letter to Berenger A Piece lost A Letter to Paulinus Bishop of Mets. ASCELIN a Monk of St. Evrou A Genuine Work A Letter to Berenger about the Eucharist HUGH Bishop of Langres A Genuine Piece still extant A Letter against Berenger GREGORY VI. Pope A genuine Piece A Circular Letter to all the Faithful CLEMENT II. Pope A Genuine Piece A Letter to John Archbishop of Salerno LEO IX Pope Genuine Works XII Letters Divers Bulls VICTOR II. Pope A Genuine Piece A single Letter STEPHEN IX Pope Genuine Works A Letter to the Archbishop of Rheims Another Letter to the Bishop of Marsi NICOLAS II. Pope Genuine Works IX Letters HUMBERT Cardinal Genuine Works still extant An Answer to Michael Cerularius's Letter A Confutation of Nicetas Pectoratus's Tract against the Latin Church A Copy of the Sentence of Excommunication denounc'd against Michael Cerularius MICHAEL CERULARIUS Patriarch of Constantinople His Genuine Works A Letter written in his own Name and under that of Leo of Acris to John Bishop of Trani against the Church of Rome Two Letters to Peter Patriarch of Antioch A Form of Excommunication of the Pope's Legats NICETAS PECTORATUS a Monk of Studa Genuine Works A Piece against the Latin Church A Fragment of his Treatise of the Soul Two Hymns A Work lost A Treatise of the Soul DOMINIC Patriarch of Grado A Genuine Piece A Letter to Peter Patriarch of Antioch PETER Patriarch of Antioch Genuine Pieces still extant A Reply to Dominic Patriarch of Grado with another to Michael Cerularius about the Differences between the Greek and Latin Churches ANSELM Dean of Namur A Genuine Work An History of the Bishops of Liege from St. Theodard to Wason HERMANNUS CONTRACTUS a Monk of Richenaw A Genuine Work A Chronicle from the Creation of the World to the Year 1052. continu'd by Bertulphus Doubtful Works Anthem in honour of the Virgin Mary Some other Divine Poems Works lost A Treatise of Musick Another of the Monochord Three Books of the manner of making the Astrolabe and its usefulness One Book of the Eclipses One Book of the Calendar A Treatise of the Quadrature of the Circle Another of the Discord of Sounds Another of Phisiognomy The Lives of divers Saints THEOPHANES the CERAMEAN Archbishop of Taurominum Genuine Works still extant LXXII Homilies NILUS DOXOPATRIUS Archimandrita A Genuine Work A Treatise of the Patriarchal Sees GUALDO a Monk of Corbie A Genuine Piece The Life of Anscharius Bishop of Hamburgh DROGO Bishop of Terouane Genuine Works Certain Relations of the Lives of St. Godelena and St. Oswald A Manuscript Piece The Life of St. Vinock HELGAUD a Monk of Fleury A Genuine Piece The Life of King Robert WIPPO Chaplain to the Emperor Henry III. Genuine Works An History of the Life of the Emperor Conrad A Panegyrick on the Emperor Henry III. EBERVIN or EVERVIN Abbot of St. Maurice at Tolen A Genuine Piece still extant The Life of St. Simeon of Syracuse EVERSHEIM Abbot of Aumont A Genuine Piece The Life of Poppo Abbot of Stavelo GERVASE Archbishop of Rheims A Genuine Piece A Letter to Pope Nicolas II. GUIBERT Arch-deacon of Toul A Genuine Piece The Life of Pope Leo IX ANSELM a Benedictin Monk of Rheims A Work lost The Itinerary of Pope Leo IX JOHN Archbishop of Euchaita Genuine Works Divers Poetical Pieces about the Festivals of the year The Lives of St. Eusebia and St. Doroitheus JOHN or JEANNELIN Abbot of Erbrestein Genuine Works that we have Several Extracts of Prayers with a Preface compos'd by that Author Three Letters Manuscript Pieces Certain Forms of Prayer dedicated to the Empress Agnes Works lost A Treatise of the Institution of a Widow Another of the Life and Conversation of Virgins Another of Alms. Another of the Heavenly Jerusalem or of Contemplation HEPIDANNUS a Monk of St. Gall. Genuine Works A Chronicle The Life of St. Wiborada LANFRANC Archbishop of Canterbury Genuine Works A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles A Treatise of the Body and Blood of JESUS CHRIST Divers Letters Doubtful Works Certain Constitutions of the Order of Saint Benedict A Treatise of Confession A Discourse on the principal Duties of the Monastick Life Works lost An Ecclesiastical History The Life of William the Conqueror King of England A Commentary on the Book of Psalms GUITMOND Archbishop of Aversa Genuine Works still in our Possession Three Books of the Eucharist against Berenger An Exposition of the Articles of Faith relating to the Holy Trinity the Incarnation and the Eucharist A Discourse made to William I. King of England upon his refusal of a Bishoprick offer'd to him by that Prince DURAND Abbot of Troarn A Genuine Piece A Treatise of the Eucharist against Berenger PETER DAMIAN Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia Genuine Works A Volume of Letters divided into eâ—â—ht Books â—X Tracts Divers Sermons The Lives of St. Odilo St. Maur Bishop of Cesena St. Romualdus and St. Rodulphus The History of the Passion of St. Flora and St. Lucilla Divers Prayers Hymns and Proses Supposititious Works Certain Sermons which are among those that are contain'd in the Collection of his Works Five Sermons publish'd by Father Luke Dachery ALEXANDER II. Pope Genuine Pieces XLV entire Letters and several Fragments of other Letters ALPHANUS Archbishop of Salerno Doubtful Works Divers Hymns and other Poetical Pieces GREGORY VII Pope His Genuine Works CCCLIX Letters a Register of which is compos'd divided into nine Books IX or X other Letters A Decretal Letter to Otho Bishop of Constance against the Marriage of Clergy-men and their keeping of Concubines with the Apology of the first Council of
from the Decrees of his Predecessors and desir'd nothing more than to revoke what he had done but durst not undertake it on his own head after the Oath which he had taken and the solemn Bull he had granted To wind himself out of this Difficulty he assembled a Council of one hundred Bishops or thereabouts The Council of Lateran in the Year 1112. in the Lateran Church in March 1112. The chief Institution of which was the Repealing the Right of Investitures For after they had renew'd against the Clerks the Favourers of Guibert the Anti-pope the Interdiction pronounced against them the fifth day of the Session the Pope shew'd in what manner He and the Cardinals had been apprehended by King Henry and how contrary to his Resolution he had been forc'd to grant to that Prince the Investitures for to obtain his Freedom the Peace of the Church and the People That he had taken an Oath that he would give him no farther disturbance about Investitures and that he would pronounce no Anathema against his person That though the King had not observ'd the Conditions of that Oath yet he was resolv'd to stand to what he had done that however he acknowleg'd that he had done amiss and desir'd it should be redress'd so that the Church might come to no prejudice To clear himself the more fully from all Suspicion of Heresy the next day he made a Profession of Faith wherein he declar'd that he embrac'd the Faith and Doctrine contain'd in the Holy Scriptures in the four General Councils and in the Decrees of the Popes his Successors especially those of Gregory 7. and Urban 2. that he approv'd of what those Pope approv'd and that he condemn'd what they had condemn'd After this Declaration Gerard Bishop of Angoulême read a paper importing that all those who were then present at that Council condemn'd declar'd Null and absolutely cancell'd the Privilege or rather Pravilege extorted from Pope Paschal by the Compulsion of Henry particularly that which imply'd that those who should be Canonically Elected by the Clergy and People could not be Consecrated till such time as they had Received Investiture from the King This Sentence was approv'd by all the Prelates of the Council consisting of twelve Arch-Bishops an hundred and fourteen Bishops and twenty three Cardinals Priests and Deacons There was nothing done in this Council against the Person of the Emperor Henry but Guy Arch-Bishop The Decrees against Henry upon the account of Investitures of Vienna the Pope's Legat a Man very zealous for promoting the interests of the Holy See call'd a Council together in September wherein he not only cancell'd the privilege of Investitures as had been before done in the Lateran Council but farther declar'd that it was Heresie to receive Investiture at the hand of any Laicks and Excommunicated the Emperor Henry He sent the Pope word of what he had done in that Council and desir'd that he would be pleas'd to confirm it The Pope who had already declar'd against what himself had done made no scruple to grant his Request Cardinal Conon Bishop of Palestrina and Legate of the Holy See in the East thunder'd out Excommunications against Henry as well in a Council held at Jerusalem as in those he held at his return in the Years 1114 and 1115. at Beauvais at Rheims at Cologne and at Châlons Thierry Cardinal and Legate of the Holy See appointed a Council to be held at Cologne in the Christmas Holy-days 1115. and set out with an intention of being there but he dy'd by the way however the Council thunder'd out an Excommunication against the Emperor Henry That Prince perceiving himself to be thus frustrated of the hopes which he had conceiv'd of quietly The Emperor Henry V's second Journey into Italy enjoying the Investitures resolv'd upon marching a Second time into Italy and the rather because his Presence there was requisite for the taking possession of the Dominions of the Princess Mathildis who dy'd the 24th of July 1115. Thereupon having enter'd into Lombardy he made a stay near the River Po to take possession of the Estates left him by the Death of that Princess and in the mean time sent the Abbot of Clugny and several other Deputies to the Pope to endeavour an Accommodation with the Holy See The Pope held at that time a Second Council in the Lateran which commenc'd the 6th of March The Lateran Council in the Year 1116. the three first Sessions whereof were wholly taken up in discussing the private Affairs of some Bishops Several of those who assisted in this Council complained that they spent too much time on such Affairs as were of little or no consequence to the Church and required that they might enter immediately upon the Debate of that for which they were more especially assembled that they might know what the Pope's sentiments were and what they ought to teach when they were return'd to their Diocesses Upon tâ—…s Remonstrance the Pope declar'd that he freely acknowledg'd that designing to put a stop to the Robberies Burnings Murders and other Crimes which were daily committed he had done amiss in granting the privilege of Investitures which now he condemn'd with an Eternal Anathema and desir'd they would do the same All who were there present cry'd out Let it be so Let it be so Bruno of Signi immediately said Let us give God thanks for that Pope Paschal President of this Council has in our hearing condemn'd this wicked Privilege so full of Injustice and Heresie Moreover a Bishop averr'd that since this Privilege was Heresie he who had granted it by consequence was an Heretick This discourse mov'd Cardinal John Cajetan who applying himself to that Bishop How dare you says he in our presence call the Pope Heretick The Writing indeed which he granted was bad but not Heretical Another added that strictly speaking it could not be call'd bad because it had been done to deliver the people of God which according to the Gospel was a good Work The Pope who was out of patience to hear himself accus'd of Heresie caus'd silence to be made and then with a loud Voice expressed himself thus Hark ye my Lords and Brethren †This is a bold assertion and fit only for a Pope an infallible Pope to make but how true it is we with him appeal to the Determination of the whole World let the whole World know that the Church of Rome has never been guilty of Heresie and that it has extirpated them all That the Arian Heresie which lasted for 300 Years together was at last condemn'd at Rome That the Heresies of Eutychius and Sabellius were there likewise Condemn'd That Photinus and the other Hereticks receiv'd their Condemnation at Rome That lastly 't is for this Church the Son of God pray'd just before his Passion when he said Peter I have pray'd for thee that thy Faith fail not And thus ended the third Session At the fourth which
in his II Tome of Miscellanies has given us a Letter of this Pope's written to the Bishops of Reggio and Foro-Julio whereby he forbids the said Bishops to exact any thing from the Church of Barjole since it was under protection of the Holy See He also Excommunicates the Bishops of these Diocesses for having Interr'd Excommunicated persons in Consecrated Ground There is also a Privilege in favour of the Bishops of the Province of Bourges whereby Eugenius confirm'd the Liberty granted them by the Kings of France and which had been approv'd by the Popes Innocent and Lucius which was that they might be Elected without being Oblig'd to do Fealty or Homage to the Papal-Chair To the Letters of these Popes we may here Add those of Anacletus II. the Anti-Pope which have The Letters of Anacletus II. the Anti-Pope been lately publish'd by Christianus Lupus at the End of his Collection of Letters printed at Louvain in the Year 1682. They are in all 38 whereof the most considerable have been written about his Election which he maintains to have perform'd according to Custom and with the Unanimous Consent of the Clergy of Rome He there Accuses Aimeric Chancellor of the Church of Rome to have been the Cause of his Adversaries being Elected and of the Troubles which Ensu'd These Letters are writ in a good stile and with some sort of Elegance and Force CHAP. IV. The Life of St. Bernard together with his Works SAint Bernard was Born in the Year 1091. at Fontaine a Village of Burgundy whereof his Father call'd Jeschelin was Lord. His Mother nam'd Alethe Daughter to Count Montâ—art had The Life of Bernard 7 Children six Boys and one Girl all which she Educated very discreetly and piously St. Bernard was very much inclin'd to Virtue from his Infancy and took betimes a resolution to retire from the World He also engag'd all his Brothers and several Friends in the same Resolutions who after they had liv'd for some time retir'd in their own houses in the year 1113. met together and went to Cisteaux there to enter into a Monastical Life This Monastery is Situated in the Diocess of Chalons about Five Leagues from Dijon It had been Built about 15 Years before in 1098 by Robert Abbot of Molesme who retreated thither with about one and Twenty Monks who all embrac'd an Austere and Rigid Life But in the Year following Robert being Oblig'd by the Pope's Order to return to Molesme Alberick Prior of Cisteaux was made Abbot who dying in 1109. Steven Hardingve became the Third Abbot He Govern'd this Monastery reduc'd to a small Number of Monks by reason of the Austerity of their Lives when St. Bernard and 30 of his Companions came into it This extreamly augmented the Zeal of this Order which then began to encrease for the first year after the Abby of la Tecté first Daughter of Cisteaux was founded near la Grone in the Diocess of Chalons The year following there was another Establish'd at Pontigni four Leagues from Auxerre and in the year 1115. those of Clairvaux and Morimond were founded in the Diocess of Langres Abbot Stephen sent St. Bernard and his Brothers to that of Clairvaux He chose although he was very Young to govern this Monastery He was Consecrated Abbot by William de Champeaux Bishop of Chalons by reason of the Vacancy of the Episcopal See of Langres The Reputation of St. Bernard's singular Piety and the strict Manner of living in his Monastery drew People from all parts to be Admitted of it Insomuch that in a little time several Monks went out thence to Establish themselves in other Monasteries where they liv'd according to the same Rule That of the Three Fountains was first founded in the Diocess of Chalons in the year 1118. That of Fontenay a little while after in the Diocess of Autun in the Year 1121. Next there was one Establish'd at Foigny in the Diocess of Laon and that of Igny in the Diocess of Rheims and Lastly the fourth Off-spring of Clairvaux was founded in the year 1127. All these Monasteries had for their first founders the Monks of Clairvaux who were all Abbots successively But St. Bernard had a general supervisorship over all the rest The Learning and Virtues of this Saint were too bright to continue long hid within the Walls of a Cloyster for they quickly render'd him so famous in the Church that nothing of Moment pass'd there wherein he was not Employ'd He was call'd to the Councils of Troyes and Chalons held by Matthew Cardinal Bishop of Albani The first in the year 1128. and the second in 1129. The Schism and Factions which hapned in the Church of Rome after the Death of Pope Honorius II. between Innocent and Peter of Leon gave a great deal of Trouble to St. Bernard who was the principal Defender of Innocent for eight years together The King of France before he would declare for either of these Competitors assembled a Convocation of his Prelates at Etampes to examine which of the two had the greater Right To this Assembly St. Bernard was call'd and the sole Decision of so important a matter refer'd to his Judgment Whereupon he gave his Opinion for Innocent II. and all the Assembly acquiesced in it This Pope being thus acknowledg'd by France posted thither with all imaginable diligence and St. Bernard waited on him all along during his stay there He carry'd him from Orleans to Chartres where he perswaded Henry King of England to Acknowledge him From thence he follow'd this Pope into Germany and was present at the Conference his Holyness had with the Emperor at Liege He there spoke with a great deal of freedom to this Prince perswading him to alter his resolutions of requiring the Pope to re-establish Investitures At his Return from Liege His Holyness held a Council at Rheims in the year 1131. which when ended he retir'd to Auxerre after having Visited Cluny and Clairvaux which did not go in Procession before him clad in splendid Ornaments but cloath'd in Course Cloath carrying a homely Crucifix and singing leisurely and modestly Hymns and Anthems The year following St. Bernard accompany'd the Pope into Italy and brought over to him both the Pisantines and Genoeses At length he came with him to Rome whence he was not long after sent into Germany to make Peace between Conrade and Lotharius Having happily Negotiated this Affair he was recall'd to Pisa whither the Pope was forc'd to retire a second time St. Bernard Assisted at the Council which his Holyness held in this City in the Year 1134 after the Conclusion of which the Pope sent him to Milan to reconcile the Milaneze to the Church of Rome He sent also along with him two Cardinals in quality of Legates Guy Bishop of Pisa and Matthew Bishop of Albani and this to the end that they might purge the City of Milan of the Schism which Anselm a favourer of Peter of Leon had spread there
to him and the rather because Charity requires us to put the best Sense on Doubtful matters After he had publish'd this Apology he set out on his Journey towards Rome but being arriv'd at Cluny he was detain'd there by Peter the Venerable Abbot of Cluny Whilst he was The 〈◊〉 of Abâ—â—ard to Cluâ—y and his Death there the Abbot of Cisteaux coming thither likewise endeavour'd to bring him to make his Peace with Saint Bernard Peter the Venerable urg'd the same thing to him also perswaded him to go and Wait upon him with the Abbot of Cisteaux and advis'd him that in case he had said or writ any thing which might be Offensive to the Ears of the Catholicks to advance no such thing for the future and to strike it out of his Books He took his Advice waited upon Saint Bernard and was reconcil'd to him by the Mediation of the Abbot of Cisteaux He return'd afterwards to Cluny where he resolv'd to spend the rest of his Days in Repose free from the Hurry and fatigue of the Schools Peter the Venerable thought himself oblig'd to allow this favour to his Age to his Weakness and to his Piety not questioning withall but that his Learning would be very advantageous for the Instruction of his Monks He wrote about it to Pope Innocent and pray'd him to grant that Abaelard might spend the remainder of his Life with them 'T is to be believed that the Pope granted him that favour for Abaelard resided in that Community till he dy'd and behav'd himself with a great deal of Piety and Humility for two Years together Towards the End of his Life he found himself very much oppress'd with Infirmities and was sent to the Monastery of Saint Marcellus of Chalons upon the Seyne as being a more healthful and pleasant place where he dy'd in the year 1142. in the sixty third year of his Age. Peter the Venerable acquainted Heloissa of his Death by a Letter wherein he gives her an Encomium of his manner of Living ever since he had retreated to their Society annexes thereto an Epitaph in his praise and sent his Body to the Abbey of Paraclete to be there interr'd He afterwards went himself to visit that Abbey where he said Mass made an Exhortation to the Religious in the Chapter house gave them the Eucharist and promis'd Heloissa to put up Prayers to God for her in the Society of Cluny for thirty days together after her Death She thank'd him for all those Favours in a Letter which she sent to him and at the same time intreats him to send her Abaelard's Absolution and to procure a Prebend for her Son Astrolabe Peter the Venerable sent her this Absolution and promis'd her to do his best for the procuring a Prebend for her Son tho' the Bishops were very Scrupulous in granting those Sort of Benefices The Works of Abaelard which are now extant are the Letters which we have mention'd in the Course of his History Expositions of the Lords Prayer of the Apostles Creed and of the The Works of Abaelard Creed of Saint Athanasius A Reply to the Questions or Problems propos'd by Heloissa a Book about Heresies a Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans divided into five Books thirty two Sermons on the Festivals of the year an Introduction into Theology divided into three Books the last of which is imperfect Those which are lost or have not as yet been printed are his Logick of which he makes mention in his first Letter and in the third Book of his Theology his Notes upon Ezekiel his Morals intituled Nosce Teipsum Know thy self another Book intituled Sic Non Yea and No which is to be met with in Manuscript in the Library of Saint Germain of Prez so intitul'd because 't is a Collection of such Sentences out of holy Writ as are in appearance contrary to each other and a Treatise of the Creation of the World dedicated to Heloissa which is likewise a Manuscript in the same Library In abstracting his Works we will begin with his Introduction into Theology which is the Book which has made so great a Noise in the World it being that which Contains the Principles of his Doctrine and the Heads upon which he was reprehended and condemn'd He begins the First Book with the Explication of Faith Hope and Charity he says that there are three things necessary to Salvation Faith Charity and the Sacrament for he believes that Hope is comprehended in Faith as a Species in its Genus He defines Faith to be the Estimation or Idea of Invisible things and Hope the Expectation of some Good Faith according to him has Respect to Good and Evil both present and future whereas Hope has only regard to future Good He defines Charity to be an honourable Love directed to its due End or Object and Lust on the Contrary to be a shameful and dishonourable Love Love in General is that Good Will and Affection which one has for another whereby one wishesto an other some Good upon the Sole Esteem which he has for him Charity is the Love of God Lust or Concupiscence is the Love of the World God is the Ultimate End or Object of the former Man is the Ultimate End or Object of the Latter He observes that Man is the Cause but ought not to be the End of his Actions and that what he does for himself ought to have a Respect to God As for the Sacrament he defin'd it to be an outward and Visible Sign of the Invisible Grace of God Thus for instance says he when a man is baptiz'd the outward washing of the Body which we behold is the sign of the Inward Washing of the Soul Faith is the Foundation of other Virtues because we only hope for what we believe For which reason 't is defin'd by the Apostle Heb. 11. 1. to be the Substance i. e. the Foundation and Origin of things hop'd for things Invisible or future are properly the Object of Faith tho' sometimes we apply this Term to things which are seen Among the things which may be believ'd there be some which t' is no matter whether they be believ'd or no such as whether it please God it should or should not rain to morrow But when one speaks of Faith one means only that which relates to such things which we are oblig'd to believe under the Pain of Damnation and which belong to the Catholick or Universal Faith the which is so necessary that without it no man can be sav'd This Faith has for it's Object the Nature of God and his Benefits shown to mankind In the first place 't is requisite to retreat of that which relates to the Nature of God and to explain how there is but one God and three persons The Works of Abaelard After he had Establish'd the Unity Simplicity and Immutability of God he treats of the Trinity of Persons He says that one of the Divine Persons is
JOHN of Salisbury the intimate Friend of Thomas Becket Arch-bishop of Canterbury and his John of Salisbury Bishop of Chartres Companion during his Exile was at last made Bishop of Chartres A. D. 1179. and died three Years after He was one of the most ingenious most polite and most learned Men of that Age as is evident from his Book call'd Pâ—licraticon or A Discovery of the Fopperies of the Lords of the Court Justus Lipsius assures us that many considerable pieces of Purple and Fragments of a better Age are to be found in that Work Peter of Blois in like manner declares that he was even charm'd with it having discover'd therein a well regulated sort of Learning and abundance of Things the Variety of which renders them extremely delightful And indeed 't is an excellent Work treating of the Employments Occupations Functions Vertues and Vices of the Men of the World but more especially of Princes Potentates and great Lords in which is contain'd a vast Treasure of Moral Notions Sentences fine Passages of Authors Examples Apologues Extracts of History common Places c. 'T is divided into Eight Books and compos'd in a plain and concise Style But this Style is more proper for the numerous Letters which the same Author wrote to the Popes Adrian and Alexander to the Kings of England and divers other Princes to Thomas Becket Arch-bishop of Canterbury to several English Bishops and to many other Persons either about general Occurrences and Transactions as the Schism of Octavian the Antipope and the Election of Alexander III. the contest between the Pope and the Emperor Frederick and that between the King of England and the Arch-bishop of Canterbury or relating to particular Affairs of the Churches of England or to certain Points of Doctrine and Discipline As the 172d Letter concerning the Number of Writers of the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament the 67th about the nullity of a second Marriage which a certain Woman had contracted after she was divorc'd from her former Husband who was a Priest the 68th about the cohabitation of Women with Clerks and the 69th about the Sums of Mony that were exacted of the Vicars of Churches In these Letters he appears to be much addicted to the Interest of Thomas of Canterbury whose conduct nevertheless he sometimes censures and seems likewise to be much devoted to the Pope's Service although he does not always approve every thing that is done at Rome and condemns the Vices of the Cardinals on certain Occasions He openly approves the deposing of the Emperor Frederick and the Proceedings of Pope Alexander against him His Letters are full of Allusions to the Sacred History and of Examples taken out of Holy Scripture in which he also intermixes many Passages of Profane Authors The number of these Letters amounts to 301. and they were printed at Paris A. D. 1611. with the Life of Thomas Becket Arch-bishop of Canterbury by the same Author to whom are likewise attributed certain Commentaries on the Epistles of St. Paul printed at Amsterdam in 1646. PETER of BLOIS Arch-Deacon of Bath PETER sirnam'd of Blois from the Place of his Nativity deriving his extraction from Peter of Blois Arch-deacon of Bath Bretagne study'd the Liberal Sciences at Paris the Civil and Canon Law at Bononia and after having attain'd to a profound skill in all sorts of Humane Learning apply'd himself entirely to the Study of Divinity under the Tuition of John of Salisbury Bishop of Chartres It is also probable that Peter of Blois was Canon of that City however having pass'd into Sicily A. D. 1167. with Stephen the Son of the Count of Perche and the Cousin of the Queen of Sicily he was chosen Tutor and afterwards Secretary to William II. King of Sicily but he was soon oblig'd to leave that Country when Stephen Count of Perche who was made Chancellor of the Kingdom and Arch-bishop of Palermo was banish'd from thence Upon his return to France he was invited over into England by King Henry II. and after having spent some time at Court he retir'd to the Palace of Richard Arch-bishop of Canterbury and became his Chancellor He was sent by that Arch-bishop to King Henry II. and to the Popes Alexander III. and Urban III. to negotiate Affairs relating to the Church of Canterbury and after the Death of King Henry he continued for some time in the Court of Queen Eleonora In the end of his Life he was depriv'd of the Arch-Deaconry of Bath which was conferr'd on him at his arrival in England but some time after he obtain'd that of London in the discharging of which Duty he took a great deal of pains and enjoy'd only a small Revenue He died in England A. D. 1200. Peter de Blois himself made a Collection of his Letters by the Order of Henry II. King of England as he intimates in his first Letter directed to that Prince in which he observes That they are not all alike that sometimes the great number of urgent Affairs oblig'd him to write with less accuracy that sometimes the Subject did not allow him to enlarge and that sometimes the meanness of the Capacity of those Persons to whom he wrote constrain'd him to make use of a more plain Style He excuses himself for citing profane Authors as also for speaking freely and even for presuming to reprove his Prince He protests that to the best of his remembrance he never wrote any thing with a Design to Flatter but that Integrity and an unfeigned Zeal for maintaining the Truth always excited him to set Pen to Paper The Second is a Letter of Consolation directed to the same King on the Death of his Son Henry III. in which he induces him to hope for the Salvation of that young Prince who died in a course of Repentance In the Third he severely reprehends a certain great Lord who had reproach'd his Chaplain with the meanness of his Birth and gives him to understand that none ought to be puff'd up either upon account of Nobility or Riches In the Fourth he congratulates the Prior of Cisteaux upon the Tranquillity he enjoy'd in his Solitude protesting that he even envy'd his Condition and entreats the same Prior to remember him in his Prayers and Oblations In the Fifth he reproves Richard the Successor of Thomas Becket in the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury for applying himself with greater earnestness to the maintenance of the Temporal Interests of his Church than to the Spiritual Government of his Diocess remonstrating that his Diocesans and Prince are very much scandaliz'd at those Proceedings In the Sixth to wipe off the reproaches that a certain School-Master who undertook to teach the Liberal Sciences had put upon the Clerks who live in the Palaces of Bishops he asserts That his Profession was more contrary to the Ecclesiastical Function than the conduct of those Clergy-men In the Seventh he rebukes a Professor who was addicted to Drunkenness In the Eighth he
IX A Treatise of the Corruption of the Age The Life of St. Peter of Anagnia Six Books of Moral Discourses attributed to St. Bruno Two Letters A Treatise of the Sacraments or Ceremonies of the Church CALIXTUS II. Pope Genuine Works still extant Thirty Six Letters Spurious Works Four Sermons on St. James GUIBERT Abbot of Nogent sous Coucy Genuine Works A Treatise of Preaching Ten Books of Moral Commentaries on the Book of Genesis Tropologia or an Explication of the Prophecies of Hosea and Amos and on the Lamentations of Jeremiah A Treatise against the Jews A Treatise of the Real Presence of the Body of JESUS CHRIST in the Eucharist A Treatise of the Encomiums of the Virgin Mary A Treatise of Virginity Three Books of the Relicks of Saints The History of the Crusades under the Title of Gesta Dei per Francos The Life of Guibert by himself A Sermon on the last Verse of the 7th Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon Works lost Sentences taken out of the Gospels Commentaries on the other lesser Prophets Manuscripts ERNULPHUS or ARNULPHUS Bishop of Rochester Genuine Works still extant Two Letters GAUTERIUS Bishop of Maguelone A Genuine Work An Epistle serving instead of a Preface to Lietbert's Commentary on the Book of Psalms publish'd by him GEFFREY Abbot of Vendôme Genuine Works Five Letters A Treatise of the Body and Blood of JESUS CHRIST A Treatise of Elections against the Investitures Two other Treatises against the Investitures A Treatise of Dispensations A Discourse on the Qualities of the Church Explications of the Ark of the Testimony A Treatise of the Sacraments of Baptism Confirmation Extreme Unction of the Sick and the Lord's Supper A Treatise of the Reiteration of the Sacraments A Treatise to prove that Bishops ought not to exact any thing for Blessings and Consecrations A Rule for the Confessions of Monks A Discourse on the Three Virtues of Pastors A Dialogue between God and the Sinner Four Hymns Eleven Sermons HONORIUS II. Pope Genuine Works still extant Eleven Letters BAUDRY Bishop of Dol. Genuine Works The History of the Crusade A Memoire concerning the Monastery of Fecamp The Life of St. Hugh Archbishop of Rouen Other Lives of the Saints HILDEBERT Bishop of Mans and afterwards Archbishop of Tours Genuine Works Eighty Three Letters Nine other Letters publish'd by F. Dachery Two Discourses on the Nativity of our Lord. A Paraphrase in Verse on the Canon of the Mass. Two Sermons A Synodical Discourse The Life of Hugh Abbot of Cluny The Epitaph of Berengarius A Letter to Reginoldus A Preface to the Life of St. Radegonda A Work lost A Treatise of Virginity STEPHEN HARDING Abbot of Cisteaux Genuine Works still extant The Charter of Charity The small beginning of the Order of Cisteaux A Discourse on the Death of Albericus A Discourse Dedicated to St. Bernard PETRUS GROSOLANUS or CHRYSOLANUS A Genuine Work A Discourse before Alexis Comnenus EUSTRATIUS Archbishop of Nice Manuscript Works A Reply to Chrysolanus Some other Treatises STEPHEN Bishop of Autun A Genuine Work A Treatise of the Prayers and Ceremonies of the Mass. NICEPHORUS BRYENNIUS of Macedonia A Genuine Work still extant The Byzantine History from the Year 1057. to 1081. JOANNES ZONARUS Secretary of State to the Emperor of Constantinople Genuine Works Annals or an Ecclesiastical History Commentaries on the Canons A Discourse of Impurity A Canon of the Virgin Mary A Preface to the Poems of St. Gregory Nazienzen Fifty Six Letters Works lost An Explication of the Canons for the Festival of Easter Several Sermons A Poetical Work on the Procession of the Holy Ghost HONORIUS SOLITARIUS Professor of Scholastical Divinity in the Church of Autun Genuine Works A Treatise of the Lights of the Church or of the Ecclesiastical Writers A List of Hereticks A Chronological Table of the Popes The Pearl of the Soul or a Treatise of Divine Offices divided into Four Books A Treatise of the Image of the World in Three Books The Philosophy of the World A Treatise of Praedestination and Free Will Questions upon the Book of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes A Commentary on the Book of Canticles The Seal of the Virgin Mary Works lost An Illustration of the Church of the Doctrine of JESUS CHRIST and of Eternal Life The Mirror of the Church The Scandal against the Incontinence of Priests An Historical Summary A Treatise of the Eucharist A Treatise of Eternal Life The Ladder of Heaven Extracts out of St. Augustin's Works in form of a Dialogue A Treatise of the Pope and the Emperor Commentaries on the Books of Psalms and Canticles Certain Homilies on those Gospels that were not explain'd by St. Gregory The Key of Natural Philosophy The Nutriment of the Mind in the Festivals of our Lord and the Saints Several Letters A Spurious Work A Moral Commentary on the Book of Canticles NICOLAS a Monk of Soissons A Genuine Work still extant The Life of St. Godfrey AELNOTHUS a Monk of Canterbury A Genuine Work The History of the Life and Passion of Canutus King of Denmark THOMAS a Monk of Ely A Genuine Work An Account of the Life and Translation of St. Etheldrith S. NORBERT Founder of the Order of Premontré A Genuine Work A Moral Discourse in form of an Exhortation RUPERT Abbot of Duyts Genuine Works A Treatise of the Trinity and its Operations divided into Three Parts and containing Commentaries almost on the whole Bible Cammentaries on the XII lesser Prophets and on the Book of Canticles XIII Books of the Victory of the Word of God A Commentary on St. Matthew of the Glory of the Son of God Commentaries on the Gospel of St. John and o◠the Apocalypse A Treatise of the Glorification of the Trinity and of the Procession of the Holy Ghost A Treatise of the Divine Offices GUIGUE Prior of La Grande Chartreuse or the Great Charter-House Genuine Works still extant Statutes of the Carthusian Order The Life of St. Hugh Bishop of Grenoble Meditations A Treatise of the Contemplative Life or the Ladder of the Cloister Four Letters Works lost A Treatise of Truth and Peace kept in Manuscript in the Charter-House or Carthusian Monastery of Colen Some other Letters DROGO or DREUX Cardinal Bishop of Ostia Genuine Works A Sermon on the Passion of JESUS CHRIST A Treatise of the Creation and Redemption of the first Man A Tract on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost A Treatise of the Divine Offices PETER of Leon Anti-pope under the Name of ANACLETUS II. Genuine Works XXXVIII Letters GEFFREY Bishop of Chartres A Genuine Work still extant A Letter to Stephen Bishop of Paris GEFFREY the Gross a Monk of Tiron A Genuine Work The Life of St. Bernard Abbot of Tiron PETER Library-Keeper of Mount Cassin Genuine Works A Treatise of Illustrious Personages of Mount-Cassin The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Mount-Cassin A Treatise of the Roman Letters Works lost Semons 〈◊〉 of the Saints 〈◊〉 History of the Righteous Men of
James at Liege's Life of St. Modoaldus Anscherus's History of the Life and Miracles of St. Angilbert Theofroy or Theofredus's Life of St. Wilbrod Hariulphus's Life of St. Arnulphus with a Relation of the Miracles of St. Riquier and the Life of St. Maldegisilus Bruno of Segni's Lives of Pope Leo IX and of St. Peter of Anagnia Guibert Abbot of Nogent's Life written by himself His Encomium on the Virgin Mary Nicolas a Monk of Soissons's Life of St. Godfrey Aelnothus's History of the Life and Passion of Canutus King of Dnmark Thomas a Monk of Ely's Account of the Life and Translation of St. Etheldrith Guigue's Life of St. Hugh Bishop of Grenoble Geffrey Sirnam'd the Gross's Life of St. Bernard Abbot of Tiron Rodulphus Abbot of St. Trudo's Life of St. Lietbert Ulric Bishop of Constance's Lives of St. Gebehard and St. Conrad Baudry Bishop of Dol's Life of St. Hugh Arch-bishop of Roan and of some others Gualbert a Monk of Machiennes's Two Books of the Miracles of St. Rictrude Pandulphus of Pisa's Life of Pope Gelasius II. Fabricius Tuscus's Life of St. Adelm William of Malmsbury's Life of the same Saint Auctus's Lives of St. Gualbert and Bernard Hubert with the History of the Translation of St. James's Head Odo Abbot of St. Remigius at Rheims's Relation of Miracle wrought by St. Thomas St. Bernard's Life of St. Malachy The Life of St. Bernard written by William Abbot of St. Thierry by Arnold Abbot of Bonneval by Geffrey Abbot of Clairvaux and by Alanus Bishop of Auxerre with other Relations of his Life and Miracles William Abbot of St. Thierry 's History of the Actions of William of Conches Peter the Venerable's Two Books of Miracles Suger Abbot of St. Denis's Life of Lewes the Gross King of France Herman Abbot of St. Martin at Tournay's Three Books of the Miracles of St. Mary at Laon. The Life of St. Otho the Apostle of Pomerania by divers Authors Archard's Life of St. Geselin Hugh Cardinal Bishop of Ostia's Letter about the Death of Pope Eugenius III. Robert Arch-Deacon of Ostrevant's Life of St. Aâ—bert The Life of St. Ludger by a Nameless Anthor Thibaud or Theobald a Monk of St. Peter at Beze's Relation of the Acts and Miracles of St Prudentius Gautier or Gauterius a Canon of Terouanes's History of the Life and Martyrdom of Charles Sirnam'd the Good St. Aelred's Life of St. Edward The Life of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury by divers Authors with the Letters of the same Prelate Ecbert and Theodoric's Relations of the Life of St. Elizabeth Abbess of Schonaw Hugh a Monk of St. Saviour's Life of Pontius Larazius Philip of Harveng's Lives of divers Saints Nicolas a Canon of Liege's Life of St. Lambert Sibrand's Life of St. Frederick Bertrand's History of the Miracles of Robert Abbot of La Chaise-Dieu Radulphus Tortarius's Book of the Miracles of St. Benedict Gonthier or Gontherius's Life of St. Cyricius and St. Julitia Works of Morality and Piety Philip Sirnam'd the Solitary's Dioptron or the Rule of a Christian Life Bruno of Segni's Moral Discourses attributed to St. Bruno Guibert Abbot of Nogent's Treatise of Virginity Geffrey Abbot of Vendôme's Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Tracts Honorius of Autun's Treatise of the Philosophy of the World St. Norbert's Discourse Guigue's Meditations with a Treatise of the Comtemplative Life or the Ladder of the Cloister Franco Abbot of Afflighem's Treatise of the Mercy of God and his Letter to certain Nuns Eckard Abbot of Urangen's Letters and Discourses Hugh a Monk of Fleury's Two Books of the Royal Power and the Sacerdotal Dignity Hugh de Foliet a Monk of Corbie's Works Hugh of St. Victor's Soliloquy of the Soul His Encomium of Charity His Discourse on the manner of Praying His Discourse of the Love of the Bride-Groom and the Spouse His Four Books of the Vanity of the World St. Bernard's several Letters His Treatise of Consideration His Tract of the Manners and Functions of Bishops His Treatise of Conversion His Treatise of Injunctions and Dispensations The Commendation of the New Militia His Treatise of the Degrees of Humility His Treatise of the Love of God William Abbot of St. Thierry 's Letter to the Carthusian Monks of Mont-Dieu His Treatise of the Contemplation of God His Tract of the Dignity of Love His Mirrour of Faith His Mystery of Faith His Meditations Arnold Abbot of Bonneval's Treatise of the Words of Jesus Christ upon the Cross. His Treatise of the Principal Works of Jesus Christ. His Treatise of the Six Days Work His Meditations Peter the Venerable Abbot of Clunys's Letters Antonius Melissus a Greek Monk's Collection of the Maxims of the Fathers Potho a Monk of Prom's Five Books of the House of God and a Treatise of Wisdom Sérlo's Treatise of the Lord's Prayer Nicolas a Monk of Clairvaux's Letters Henry of Huntington's Treatise of the Contempt of the World St. Elizabeth Abbess of Schenaw's Visions and Letters St. Aelred's Mirrour of Charity His Treatise of Spiritual Amity Gilbert of Hoiland's Ascetick Treatises and Letters Richard of St. Victor's Treatises of Piety St. Hildegarda's Letters Visions and Answers to certain Questions Philip of Harveng's Moral Discourses on the Book of Canticles His Letters His Treatises on the Vertues and Endowments of Clergy-Men Adamus Scotus's Treatises about Moses's Triple Tabernacle and the Three kinds of Contemplation John of Salisbury's Polycraticon with a Letter by the same Author Peter of Celles's Letters and other Works Geffrey Abbot of Clairvaux's Letters Baldwin Archbishop Canterbury's Sixteen Treatises of Piety and a Tract of the Recommendation of Faith Isaac Abbot of L'Etoile's Treatise of the Mind and the Soul Henry Abbot of Clairvaux's Treatise of the City of God in Exile Peter Abbot of Clairvaux's Letters Garnier of St. Victor's Treatise call'd The Gregorian John a Carthusian Monk of Portes's Letters Stephen de Chaulmet a Carthusian Frier of the same Monastery's Letters Gonthier or Gontherius's Treatise of Fasting and Alms-giving Sermons Guibert Abbot of Nogent's Treatise of Preaching Odo Bishop of Cambray's Discourse concerning the the Sin against the Holy Ghost and the Parable of the Unjust Steward Radulphus Ardens's Sermons Bruno of Segni's CXLV Sermons Guibert Abbot of Nogent's Sermon on the last Verse of the 7th Chapter of the Book of Wisdom Geffrey Abbot of Vendôme's Eleven Sermons Hildebert Bishop of Mans's Two Sermons with his Synodical Discourse Drogo Cardinal Bishop of Ostia's Discourse Hugh of St. Victor's Hundred Sermons Petrus Abaelardus's Sermons Amedeus of Lausanna's Eight Sermons in Commendation of the Virgin Mary St. Bernard's Sermons on the Sundays Festivals and other days of the Year and on divers other Subjects Arnold Abbot of Bonneval's Discourse in Commendation of the Virgin Mary Petrus Sirnam'd the Venerable his Sermon on our Saviour's Tranfiguration Guerric Abbot of Igny's Sermons Germanus Patriarch of Constantinople's Sermons St. Aelred's Sermons Adamuus Scotus's XLVII Sermons Ecbert's Two Sermons Arnulphus Bishop of Lisieux's Sermons on the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Peter
of the Writers of the Order of Citeaux The Life of St. Engelbert in the Month November of Surius and at Cologn in 1633 with the Notes of Gelenius and the Homilies published by Andrew Coppenstein with the Title of A Collection of Moral Discourses printed at Cologn in 1615. He also was the Author of other Sermons and other Works whereof there is a Catalogue in a Letter of his which Andrew Coppenstein has published at the beginning of the Collection STEPHEN of Langton tho an Englishman after having gone through the course of his Stephen of Langton Studies at Paris was chosen Chancellor of that University and Canon of Paris where he for a good while professed Divinity explaining the Holy Scripture with no small reputation He was afterwards made Dean of Rheims and at last sent for to Rome by Innocent III who made him Cardinal The Archbishoprick of Canterbury falling he was chosen by some of the Canons and consecrated by the Pope at Viterbâ— the 17th of June in 1206 but John King of England would not acknowledg him as not having been chosen by the best and wisest part of the Chapter nor suffer him to enter into possession of the Church Stephen straight has recourse to Ecclesiastical Censures and interdicts the Kingdom of England The King did not think himself obliged to submit to the Interdict but at last the poor condition of his Affairs having forced him to yield to the Pope he was likewise obliged to acknowledg Stephen for Archbishop This Prelate was not long faithful to him but took part with Lewis Son of Philip King of France and remain'd his Friend till the Death of John after which he found a way to get himself for a Sum of Mony discharged from the crime of Rebellion He died the 9th of July in 1228 in his House in the plane of Slindon in the County of Sussex There are in the Libraries of England and other places a great number of Manuscript Commentaries of this Author upon the Holy Scripture but there are not any of them printed We have only his History of the Translation of the Body of St. Thomas at the end of that Arch-Bishop's Letters printed at Brussels in 1682. The latter which he wrote to King John and that Prince's Answer in the third Tome of Father Dachery's Spicilegium and eighty eight Orders made in the Council which he held at Oxford in 1222 of which we shall have occasion to speak ALEXANDER NECKHAM an Englishman Native of Hertford after having Alexander Neckham studied in England perfected himself in the Academys of France and Italy and returning into his own Country was made a Regular Canon of St. Austin at Exeter and afterwards Abbot of the Monastry in that City in 1215 and died 1227. He is the Author of divers Works which have not yet seen the light lying buried in the obscurity of some English Libraries among others A Commentary upon the four Gospels An Exposition of Ecclesiastes A Commentary upon the Song of Songs The Praises of the Divine Wisdom A Treatise of the nature of things The Clearing of a Library which contains an Explanation of many places of the Holy Scripture HELINAND a Monk of the Abby of Froimont of the Order of Citeaux in the Diocess Helinand of Beauvais flourished about the beginning of this Century and died in 1227. He composed a Chronological History from the beginning of the World to the year 1204 the four last Books of which were published by Father Tissier in the 8th Tome of his Library of the Writers of the Order of Citeaux with some Sermons and a Letter to Walter an Apostate Monk about the Recovery of a Man fallen into that condition He has likewise written the Martyrdorn of St. Gereon and his Companions related by Surius in the tenth of October The Verses upon Death published by Loisel are ascribed to him In the Library of Longpont there 's a Manuscript Treatise of this Author 's upon the Apocalypse and in other Libraries a Treatise in praise of a Monastical Life and another of the Government of Princes Trithemius and others speak well of this Author but for all that there is more of Labour in his History than of Judgment for 't is nothing but a Collection from other Authors made without any discretion His other Works are but little worth About the same time flourished CONRADE of Litchtenau Abbot of Urspurg in the Diocess Conrade of Augsburg who composed a Chronicle from Belus King of Assyria to the year 1229 taken from divers Authors It contains many remarkable things about the History of Germany in his time and the foregoing Centuries He was made Abbot of Urspurg in 1215 and died in 1240. St. FRANCIS born in the year 1182 at Assisi Founder of the Order of Minor Friars or St. Francis Minims died in 1226. He not only by his Example taught us Humility Patience Submission and Freedom from the Cares of the World but likewise by his Writings which are the Picture of his Vertues Here 's a Catalogue of those that were published under the name of this Saint by Father de la Haye and printed at Paris in 1641 with the Works of St. Antony of Padua Sixteen Letters Advice to those of his Order containing twenty seven Chapters An Exhortation to Humility Obedience and Patience A Treatise of the Virtues of the Virgin and of every Soul A little Piece of true and perfect Joy An Explanation of the Lord's Prayer The Praise of the Lord God Most High eleven Prayers His Will Two Orders for his Religious A Rule for the Monastrys The Statute of the third Order Twenty eight Conferences The Office of the Passion Three Songs upon the Love of God of Apothegms of familiar Discourses of Parables and Examples of Benedictions of Oracles and common Sentences There are likewise seven Sermons giving the Reasons for the establishing of this Order of Minor Brothers and a little Treatise of the ten Perfections of a true Religious and of a real Christian. St. ANTONY Sirnamed of Padua because he died in 1231 in that City was born at St. Antony Lisbon in Portugal After having professed Divinity at Thoulouse Bologn and Padua he became St. Francis's Disciple and entred into his Order He applied himself particularly to preaching and was in his Time accounted a very neat Preacher tho his Sermons seem to us now very plain and empty They have been printed at Paris in 1521 at Venice in 1575 and since at Paris again in 1641 by the care of Father de la Hay who has also presented us with a mystical Exposition of this Author upon the Holy Scriptures and five Books of moral Concordances upon the Bible And lastly Father Pagi has added a Supplement of some Sermons upon the Saints and other matters which he got printed at Avignon in 1684. RICERUS an Italian of the Marquisate of Ancona one of the Companions of St. Frances Ricerus of Assisi has
Gand speaks of this Author HUGH a Regular Canon of the Order of Premontre in the Abby of Floreff in the Diocess Hugh of Namur wrote about the year 1230 by order of his Abbot the Life of St. Ivetta a Widow and Recluse of Huy that died in 1227 published by Bollandus in the 13th of January and those of St. Ida of Nivelle and of St. Ida of Leurve two Nuns of a Monastry of the Order of Citeaux in Brabant CONRADE of Marpurg a Religious a German of the Order of Preaching Friars Conrade wrote about the year 1230 a History of the Life and Miracles of St. Elizabeth Princess of Thuringen whose Confessor he had been dedicated to Pope Gregory IX published by Allatius in his Collection of Pieces printed at Cologn in 1653. PHILIP of Greve Professor and Chancellor of the University of Paris flourished about the Philip. year 1230. He composed 300 Sermons upon the Psalms of David which were printed at Paris in 1523 and at Bresse in 1600. They were mightily lookt upon in their time and the Preachers made a common use of them to that degree that there was a Sum made out of them which is in Manuscript in Monsieur Colbert's Library In the Libraries of England are likewise to be seen two Commentaries of this Author one upon Job and the other upon the Gospels THOMAS de CELANO of the Order of Minor Friars composed about the year 1235 Thomas a Book of the Life and Miracles of St. Francis approved by Gregory IX We have already spoken in the foregoing Century of JAMES of Vitry and his History of James the East and West all that we are to observe now is that besides this Work and the two Letters there mentioned he composed Sermons upon all the Epistles and Gospels of the year upon the Feasts and upon the different Estates of Men part of which were printed at Antwerp in 1575 and that he likewise wrote the Life of St. Mary of Oignies related by Surius in the 23d of June LUKE Deacon of the Church of Tuy in Spain after having travelled into Italy Grece and Luke Palestine and gained the Friendship of Cardinal Hugolin afterwards Pope under the name of Gregory IX was at last made Bishop of that Church He composed three Books of Controversies against the Albigenses printed at Ingolstadt in 1612 and in the last Bibliotheca Patrum and a History of Spain from the beginning of the World to the year 1274 of the Spanish Aera that is according to our account 1236 into which he inserts the Chronicle of St. Isidorus which he continues down to his time and makes divers Additions to and Alterations in Lastly he is the Author of St. Isidore's Life related in Bollandus in the 4th of April and in the second Benedictine Age of Father Matillon He was no more than Deacon when he wrote his Chronicle which plainly shows he was not made Bishop till after 1236 but how long he remained so or when he died we cannot tell We shall have occasion to speak of this Author's Works against the Albigenses when we treat of those Hereticks GODFREY Monk of St. Pantaleon of Cologn composed an Historical Chronicle from the Godfrey year 1162 to the year 1237 which is in the Collection of the German Writers by Freherus EDMOND RICH born at Abington in England after having gone through his Studies St. Edmond at Oxford gave himself wholly to Divinity and Preaching and taught Philosophy with applause in the University of Oxford He was then made Canon of Salisbury and lastly Archbishop of Canterbury in 1234 by the recommendation of Gregory IX When he came to his Dignity he thought it was his Duty vigorously to check the Irregularities of the Courtiers which procured him the hatred of them and of King Henry the third to that degree that he was fain to get himself to Rome for security from them He did not there meet with all the satisfaction he could desire and so returning into his own Country he went into a voluntary Exile some while after and in 1240 retired to the Monastry of Pontigny in France and two years after into the House of Regular Canons at Soisy where he died on the 16th of November 1246. He was canonized the next year by Innocent IV. He wrote a Treatise of Piety intituled The Mirror of the Church printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum He treats therein of a spiritual Life and of the Perfection of a Christian of the Articles of the Creed of the seven Sacraments of the seven mortal Sins of the seven Beatitudes of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit of the four Cardinal Virtues of the seven Works of Mercy of the seven Petitions in the Lord's Prayer of the Mysteries of our Lord of the Godhead and of the Trinity of the different degrees of Contemplation of the Love of our Neighbour and of Humility He speaks of all these things without entring upon any Controversy in a very edifying way and proper to instruct ordinary Believers Linwood has given us twelve Ecclesiastical Constitutions of this Arch-bishop ROBERT GROSTESTE or GROSTEAD born at Stratbrook in the County of Robert Grostead Suffolk after having studied at Oxford and Paris was made Archdeacon of Leicester and in the year 1235 succeeded Hugh of Velles in his Bishoprick of Lincoln He stoutly opposed the Designs of the Court of Rome and of the Monks about the Jurisdiction of Ordinaries and had a considerable Dispute with Innocent the Fourth about a Mandate which that Pope had granted to a young Italian named Frederick of Lavania his Nephew who was under age for the first Canon's place that should be vacant in the Church of Lincoln This Mandate was directed to the Archdeacon of Canterbury and to Innocent the Pope's Secretary in England who sent to Lincoln and gave notice of it to Robert who by a Letter answered them that he would with all submission and respect obey the Orders of the Holy See but that he would oppose whatsoever was contrary to Orders that were truly Apostolick and that no one could account those Apostolick Orders which were contrary to the Doctrine of Jesus Christ and his Apostles as the things contained in the Letter to him manifestly were First Because the Clause non obstante which was in this Letter and many others of the like nature was an Inundation of Uncertainty Boldness and Temerity and an Inlet to Falshood and Deceit Secondly That there was no greater crime in the World setting aside that of Lucifer and Antichrist nor any thing Robert Grostead more contrary to the Doctrine of the Gospel and of the Apostles nothing more displeasing to Christ Jesus more detestable and abominable than destroying Souls by robbing them of the care of their Pastors which is done when such People receive the Incomes appointed for the subsistence and maintenance of Pastors as are not capable of executing their Offices that it was impossible
of Inventions printed at Paris in 1499. with his Book for the Clergy and his Treatise Intituled The Phantastick in which he makes a Defence for himself and confutes the title which some had given him of a Phantastical Person written in 1311. His Book of Proverbs printed at Paris in 1516. A Commentary upon the First Chapter of the Gospel of S. John printed at Amiens in 1511. A Disputation which he had with Homerius a Sarazen in 1308. printed at Valentia in 1510. The Disputation of Five Learned Men written in the Year 1294. printed at the same place in 1520. His Questions upon the Four Books of the Sentences Composed in 1298. printed at Lyons 1491. and at Palermo in 1507. with the Questions of Mr. Thomas d'Arras resolved according to Art A Treatise of the Immaculate Conception printed at Brussels The Tree of Knowledge printed at Lyons in 1514. and 1515. and several other Philosophical Works printed at other places For as for those Treatises Of the Invocation of Daemons Of the Secrets of Nature and other Books of Chymistry printed in several places they are very Wicked Books which are none of Raimundus Lullus's but of Raimundus de Tarraga a Converted Jew which contain in them many Errors and manifest Follies Out of the Works of Raimundus Lullus Nicholas Eymericus hath Extracted an Hundred Erroneous Propositions which he Presented to Pope Gregory XI that they might be Condemned with all his Works That Pope caused them to be Examined and at last Condemned but Peter King of Arragon wrote to his Holiness to revoke his Sentence and desired him by a Letter dated Jan. 7. 1377. to send the Examination of the Books of Raimundus Lullus immediately but it had no effect As to the Errors which are imputed to him by Eymericus we must own that several of the Propositions which he hath recited may be defended but some of them are unsufferable that the Method of Raimundus Lullus and his way of reasoning is no way helpful to the Knowledge of things and that by his Principles an Error may be maintained as well as the Truth John of Friburg Sirnamed Runsick a Monk of the Order of the Friars-Preachers and Bishop John of Friburg Bishop of Osmo of Osmo in Hungary the most able Preacher of his Time and so Pathetick that having preach'd at Bolen against Usury he made the People drive out all the Usurers of the Town He flourished in the beginning of this Age and died in the Year 1314. after he had left his Bishoprick and was retired into a Convent of his own Order He made a Summ for Preachers printed at Ruthingia in 1487. A grand Summ for Confessors divided into Four Parts printed at Lyons in 1518. A Gloss upon the Summs of Raimundus de Pennaforti which is joined with the Impression of the former Summ at Rome in 1603. The Author of the Bibliotheca Praedicatorum i. e. the Collection of the Authors of the Order of the Friars-Preachers makes mention of a Commentary of this Author upon the Books of the Sentences and Glosses upon the Decrees and some other of his Writings but they are none of them Publick Aegidius Romanus or Giles of Rome of the House of Columnâ a Monk of the Order of the Aegidius Romanus Archbishop of Bourges Hermites of S. Augustine Studied at Paris under Thomas Aquinas whose Doctrines he always held and defended He was made the Master of Philip the Fair and taught Philosophy and Divinity in the University of Paris In the Year 1292. he was constituted General of his Order and promoted in the Year 1294. by Pope Boniface to the Archbishoprick of Bourges by the consent of Philip the Fair. Some say he was made a Cardinal in 1315. but it is a false Opinion He died Decemb. 22. 1316. He had made several Books in Philosophy and Divinity which got him the Name of Doctor Fundatissimus the most Well-grounded Doctor The Books of his which are in Print are A Question about the Ecclesiastical and Temporal Powers composed in 1304. upon the occasion of the Difference between King Philip the Fair and Pope Boniface containing Six Articles in which he shews 1. That God hath established both those Powers 2. That they are distinct and several 3. That God in re-establishing the Spiritual Power hath not given him any Temporal Dominion 4. That the Temporal Power is not Subject to the Spiritual but only in Spiritual Causes 5. That the King of France holds his Kingdom of none but God and has no other Superior He next Answers the Objections brought against this Doctrine This Treatise is in the Second Tome of Goldastus's Monarchia p. 95. The Defence of S. Thomas's Books against the Correctory of William de la Maze printed at Venice in 1601. and 1624. A Treatise upon the Four Books of the Sentences printed at Basil in 1513. A Commentary upon the First Book of the Sentences printed at Venice in 1571. Some Questions upon the Second Book of the Sentences printed in the same City in 1581. Certain Questions upon the Third Book of the Sentences printed at Rome in 1623. A Treatise of the Being Essence Knowledge and Motion of Angels printed at Venice in 1598. A Tract of Original Sin printed at Oxford in 1479. A Treatise of the Subject of Divinity and some other small Tracts printed at Venice in 1501. A Comment upon the Six days Work of the Creation printed at Venice in 1521. Three Books of the Government of Princes made in favour of Philip the Fair printed at Rome 1482. and at Venice 1598. Bellarmine makes also mention of these following Treatises written by the same Author as if they were printed Nineteen Lectures upon the Song of Songs A Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans An Exposition upon the Chapters Firmiter Marthae A Treatise of the Body of Jesus Christ or certain Theorems upon the Sacrament of the Altar A Treatise of the Distinction of the Articles of Faith A Writing of the Renunciation of the Pope Another Writing Composed upon the Occasion of a Clerk not worthily promoted to the Office of a Subdeacon A Question viz. Whether Kings can dispose of the Goods of their Kingdoms A Treatise against persons Exempt A Writing concerning the Influence of God upon the Blessed Another of the Praises of the Divine Wisdom A Treatise of the Defect of the Evil of Fault A Tract of Predestination Of Prescience Paradise and Hell There is also mention made of all these Works by Trithemius and besides of a Commentary upon the Epistles of S. Paul A Treatise of the Office of the Mass an Abridgment of Divinity and divers Sermons but we have not come to the sight of any of them I pass over his Philosophical Tracts both Printed and MSS. which are very numerous for he Commented upon all the Books of Aristotle and several other Books The Works upon the Lord's Prayer and the Angel's Salutation of Mary belong not to Giles of Rome but some
of this Bishop in the Appendix of his Work Intituled Marcha Hispanica P. 1454. There is another Terrenâ named Arnoldus who is thought to be the Nephew of the former Arnoldus de Terrenâ of whom we have spoken He was a Doctor of Law and Sacrist of Perpignan who flourished about the End of this Age and wrote about the Year 1373. a Treatise of the Mass and Canonical Hours and Theological Questions which he Compiled at Avignon which Works are found in MS. in Mr. Colbert's Library Franciscus Mayronius Born at Digne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Grey-Friar a Scholar of Scotus being Batchelor Francis Mayronius of Divinity in the University of Paris first introduced by his Example an Act in the Sorbonne which is held from Morning to Night in the Schools of the Sorbonne by one Respondent without any President and without interruption There he received the Doctor 's Cap in 1323. and died at Placentia in 1325. His Comments upon the Four Books of the Sentences and some other Treatises of School-Divinity have been printed at Venice in 1517 1520 1556 and 1567. His Sermons upon Lent and the Saints-Days were printed in the same City in 1491 and 1493. and at Basil in 1598. The following Treatises of the Poverty of Jesus Christ and his Apostles of the Cardinal Virtues and Vices Of the Articles of Faith Of Baptism Of Humility Of Indulgences Of the Body of Jesus Christ Of the Angels Of Prayers for the Dead Of Penances Of Fasting Of the Last Judgment Of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit Upon the Lord's Prayer and the Magnificat were printed at Basil in 1498. He has an Explication upon the Ten Commandments which is printed at Paris in 1619. Theological Truths upon S. Austin and the City of God printed at Tholouse in 1488. and at Venice in 1489. His Commentaries upon the Predicaments upon the Categories and upon Aristotle's Books of Physicks were printed at Venice in 1517. and some other Works yet in MS. are in several Libraries as that of Mr. Waddingus and the Grey-Friars at Leige Bertrandus de Turre a Grey-Friar of the Diocess of Cahors and General-Minister of the Province Bertrandus de Turre of Aquitain was made Archbishop of Salerne in 1319. and in the following Year Cardinal-Priest of S. Vitalis by John XXII and lastly Bishop of Frescati He was appointed in 1328. Vicar or Administrator-General of the Order of Grey-Friars and approved of the Deposition of Michael de Caesenas in the Assembly of a General Chapter of that Order held at Paris in 1329. He died in 1334. He Composed several Sermons which are in several Libraries Two Volumes of them are in the Library of Cardinal de Bouillon and Three in that of the Sorbonne His Sermons upon the Epistles of the Year were printed at Strasburg in 1501. Durandus de S. Porciano a Village in the Diocess of Clermont in Auvergne of the Order of Durandus à S. Porciano Friars-Preachers a Doctor of Paris flourished in that University from 1313. when he was Licentiate to 1318. when he was made Bishop of Puy or Annecy by the Pope from whence he was translated in 1326. to the Bishoprick of Meaux which he governed to 1333. in which he is said to have died His chief Work is a Treatise of Divinity upon the Four Books of the Sentences which he began when he was very Young and finished a little before his Death as he himself tells us In them he departs much from the Opinions of S. Thomas and Scotus and taught several Doctrines very particular and bold which gave him the Name of the Most resolute Doctor This Commentary was printed at Venice in 1561. several times and at Lyons in 1595. He also Composed a Treatise about the Ecclesiastical Power upon the Occasion of the Question which was disputed upon that Subject in France in 1329. between the Bishops and Peter de Cuguieres of whom Peter Bertrandus makes mention upon the Sixth Book of the Decretals which was printed at Paris in 1506. He also Composed a Treatise against the Opinion of John XXII about the State of Souls but we have it not as also an Instruction for his Clergy and some Sermons Odericus de Port-Naon in Friuli a Grey-Friar after he had travelled a long time in the East Odericus de Port-Naon and Preached the Gospel in Asia and the Indies Composed a Relation of the Wonders of the Eastern Tartars which is in MS. in some Libraries in England and a short Chronicle from the beginning of the World to the Papacy of John XXII Some Sermons and Letters Guido Abbot of S. Denys in France flourished about the Year 1320. and was Abbot of Guido that Abby between Giles de Pontoise who died in 1325. and Walter de Pontoise who succeeded him in 1333. He made some Notes upon Usuardus's Martyrolegy which is in MS. in the Library of S. Victor William of Nottingham a Canon and Chanter of the Church of York and after a Franciscan William of Nottingham Monk flourished in England about 1320. and died Octob. 5. 1336. None of his Works are printed but there are several of them in the Libraries of England and among others some Questions upon the Four Gospels Reflections upon all the Gospels of the Year Questions upon the Lord's Prayer and a Treatise against the Errors of Pelagius William Mount an Englishman Canon of Lincoln flourished in 1330. and Composed several William Mount Works which are in MS. in the English Libraries These are the Titles of some of them which are published Collections with a Paraphrase upon the Psalms The Mirrour of Penance A Summ for Pastors Theological Distinctions Sermons A Numeral A Similitudinary and a Treatise of Tropes Philip de Montcalier in Piedmont became a Monk in the Convent of Grey-Friars at Tholouse Philip de Montcalier and was after Divinity-Lecturer at Padua He Composed in 1330. a Postill upon all the Gospels of the Year and Sermons for the whole Year The Abridgment of his Sermons drawn up by Janselmus de Canova Keeper of the Covent of Cordeliers at Cuma was printed at Lyons in 1510. and 1515. This Author lived to 1350. or thereabouts Astesanus so called from the Village of Ast in Piedmont where he was Born a Grey-Friar Astesanus is the Author of a Summ of Cases of Conscience divided into Eight Books which was printed at Noremburg in 1482. by the Care of Bellatus and Gometius and since at Venice in 1519. from whence Antonius Augustinus hath taken his Penitentiary Canons printed at Venice in 1484. This Author lived to the Year 1330. There is another Astesanus of the same Order who flourished some time after whom Waddingus believes to be the Author of some Commentaries upon the Books of the Sentences upon the Revelation and some Sermons which are not printed Nicholas de Lyrâ a Town of the Diocess of Eureux was Born of Jewish Parents who taught Nicholas
written for the Pope against Lewis of Bavaria and the Augustins at Rome have a Treatise of his in MS. against the Errors discovered in the time of Lewis Duke of Bavaria He also Composed some Spiritual Treatises as a Writing upon the Four Gifts Two Books of the Spiritual War An Explication upon the Gospels of Lent and an Abridgment of the Book of Aegidius Romanus about the Government of Princes We must distinguish him also from Bartholomew Albicius a Native of Pisa also a Grey-Friar who flourished about 1380. and Bartholomew Albicius wrote a Work of the Conformity of S. Frances with our Lord Jesus Christ printed at Milan in 1510. and Six Books of the Life and Praises of the Virgin Mary or the Conformity of the Virgin with Jesus Christ printed at Venice in 1596. Several Sermons upon Lent are also attributed unto him printed in several places This last died Decemb. 10. 1401. WILLIAM de BALDENSEL or BOLDESELE or de BOLDENSLEVE a German Knight wrote an William Baldensel History of his Voyage into the Holy Land at the intreaty of Cardinal Taleran who caused it to be made upon the Occasion of the Crusado which was made that Year This Work is in the Fifth Tome of the Antiquities of Canisius ARNOLDUS CESCOMES Archbishop of Tarragon wrote about the same time viz. in 1337. Arnoldus Cescomes Two Letters the one to Pope Benedict XII and the other to John Bishop of Porto to desire Assistance against the Sarazens of Spain which are published by Mr. Baluzius in the Second Tome of his Miscellanies DANIEL de TRIVISI a Grey-Friar after he had made several Voyages and stayed some time Daniel de Trivisi in the Kingdom of Armenia was sent by Leo King of that Country to Benedict XII in 1338. and Composed for the Justification of the Armenians a Treatise intituled The Answer of Daniel de Trivisi of the Order of Grey-Friars and Ambassador of Leo King of the Armenians in the time of Benedict XII which is in MS. in Mr. Colbert's Library Cod. 1653. HENRY de URIMARIA a Native of Thuringia of the Order of the Hermits of S. Augustine Henry de Urimaria flourished about 1340. He joined a most Devout Piety with a continual Study and Composed several Works of Science and Piety the Commentaries or Additions to the Books of the Sentences printed at Cologne in 1513. are of the first sort The Treatise upon the Four Instincts printed at Venice in 1498. under the Name of another Author is of the second sort as also his Sermons upon the Passion of Jesus Christ and the Saints printed at Haguenau in 1513. and at Paris with the former Treatise in 1514. There are several other Works of Piety of that Author which have not yet been published ROBERT COWTON an Englishman and a Grey-Friar flourished about the same time and Robert Cowton Composed a Commentary and an Abridgment upon the Four Books of the Sentences which are in some Libraries in England DURANDUS de CHAMPAGNE a Grey-Friar Confessor of the Queen of France and Navarre Durandus de Champagne flourished also about the same time and Composed a Summ of Confessions or a Directory for Confessors divided into Four Parts which is in the Library of Mr. Colbert Cod. 451. CLEMENT de FLORENCE of the Order of Servites a Divine of Paris which flourished about Clement de Florence the Year 1340. wrote upon the Psalms and Composed a Golden-Chain upon all the Epistles of S. Paul which are in MS. in the Library of the Great Duke of Tuscany and Concordances dedicated to Annebald Cardinal the Protector of his Order which are in the Library of the Servites at Florence He died in the 78th Year of his Age after he had gone through divers Offices in his Order LUPOLDUS de BAMBERG a Lawyer the Scholar of John Andreas de Bologne has Composed Lupoldus de Bamberg two Works full of Learning the one dedicated to Rodulphus Duke of Saxony concerning the Zeal and Fervour of the Ancient German Emperors towards the Religion of Jesus Christ and the Ministers of the Church in which he produces abundance of Examples of French Kings and German Emperors upon that Subject The other is a Treatise of the Rights of the Empire dedicated to Baldwin Archbishop of Treves printed at Strasburg in 1508. These two Treatises have been printed at Paris in 1540. at Cologne in 1564. at Basil in 1497 and 1566. and at Strasburg in 1603. and 1609. This Author flourished about the Year 1340. WALTER BURLEY an Englishman whom some assure us to have been a Grey-Friar and others Walter Burley a Secular Priest studied under Scotus at Oxford and at Paris but followed not his Doctrines He was the Master of Edw. III. King of England and died about 1340. His Commentary upon the Books of the Sentences was never printed but only several Commentaries upon the Books of Aristotle which have been printed alone in several places and a Book of the Lives of the Philosophers printed in 1472. but very full of Faults as Vossius has observed JOHN CANON an Englishman and a Grey-Friar after he had finished the first course of his John Canon Studies at Oxford came to Paris to hear the Lectures of Scotus where having received a Drs. Cap he returned to Oxford where he taught till he died which was in about 1340. He Composed a Comment upon the Mr. of the Sentences Some Lectures and Questions and a Treatise upon the Eight Books of Aristotle's Physicks printed at Venice in 1492. PETER de PALUDE or PALUDANUS the Son of Gerhard Varembonius a Lord in Bresse of the Peter de Palude Order of the Friars-Preachers a Licentiate in 1314. in the University of Paris flourished in that University and was nominated Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1330. He made a Voyage into the East in 1331. and being returned preached a Crusade He died at Paris Jan. ult 1341. He Composed a large Commentary upon the Four Books of the Sentences of which that Part which is upon the Third and Fourth Books was printed at Paris in 1514 and 1517. and since in 1530. Sermons for all the Year printed at Antwerp in 1571. at Venice in 1584. and at Colen in 1608. A Treatise of the Immediate Cause of the Ecclesiastical Power printed at Paris in 1506. in which he Treats of the Power of S. Peter the Apostles Disciples Popes Bishops and Curates His MS. Commentary upon the First and Second Book of the Sentences was faln into the hands of Damianus Zenarius a Printer at Venice who had a Design to publish it but never brought it to pass There are in the Covent of Jacobins in Paris some Comments of this Author upon all the Books of Scripture and in the Library of Mr. Colbert Cod. 566. A Treatise upon the Poverty of Jesus Christ and his Apostles against Michael de Caesena It is said also That there is a Treatise printed by
with the Catholick Church nor Profession be made of believing in the Roman Church as one believes in the Catholick Church Thus you see what he offers in the Treatise of the Primacy set forth by Salmasius But he destroys these Principles in his Letters which he wrote to the Greeks while he was in the West for he there maintain'd that every Church ought to be Subject to the Church of Rome and her Bishop who hath received his Ordination from JESUS CHRIST that his Decrees ought to be consider'd as the Divine Scriptures that we owe them a blind Obedience that it belongs to him to correct all other Bishops and to examine their Judgments and to confirm them or make them void that he has right to ordain other Patriarchs that St. Peter received this Primacy from JESUS CHRIST that his Successors have ever enjoyed it that the Schism of the Greeks took beginning but Four Hundred Years ago that since this time the Greek Church is fallen to decay and sensible she is reduced to the last Extremity that the Latines cannot be accused of Heresie for using Wafers nor for holding the Procession of the Holy Ghost seeing they follow in it the Opinion of the ancient Doctors of their Church and the Practice of their Ancestors and that the Greeks who obstinately assert that the Holy Ghost proceeds only from the Father are not only Schismaticks but also Hereticks seeing they deny a Truth grounded upon the Holy Scriptures and on the Tradition of the Fathers GREGORY ACINDYNUS followed not the example of Barlaam in his Union with the Latines Gregorius Acindynus a Greek Monk but remain'd concealed in Greece continually writing against the Palamites Gretser has set forth two Books of Acindynus concerning the Essence and Operation of God written against Palamas Gregoras and Philotheus printed at Ingolstadt in the Year 1626. Allatius has published in his Graecia Orthodoxa i. e. Orthodox Greece a Poem in Iambick Verse made by Acindynus against Palamas and two Fragments against the same in one of which he makes mention of Five Volumes which he wrote against Barlaam to defend the Monastick Discipline of the Greeks The Works of GREGORY PALAMAS which are extant follow Two Prayers upon the Transfiguration Gregory Palamas Archbishop of Thessalonica of our Lord wherein he explains his Doctrine of the Light which appear'd on Mount Tabor that it was Uncreated and is not of the Essence of God set out in Greek and Latin by Father Combefisius in his Addition to the Bibliotheca Patrum A Prosopopoeia which contains two Declamations one of the Soul against the Body which she accuses of Intemperance and Disobedience and the other of the Body which defends it self against the Soul together with the Sentence given by a third Party set forth in Greek by Turnebus printed at Paris in the Year 1553. and in Latin in the last Bibliotheca Patrum Two Discourses of the Procession of the Holy Ghost against the Latines printed at London The Confutation of the Expositions of Johannes Veccus on the Procession of the Holy Ghost set forth in Greek and Latin together with the Answers of Cardinal Bessarion by Arcudius and printed at Rome in 1630. He made a great many Works for the Defence of his Opinions whereof divers are cited by Manuel Calecas and by other Greeks which wrote against him and among others A Treatise of Divine Participation A Catalogue of Absurdities which follow from the Opinion of Barlaam Dialogues Letters Discourses c. of which the Extracts are to be seen in Manuel Calecas There is in the Library of Ausburgh a Treatise in MS. of Palamas on the Transfiguration of our Lord more large than the Prayers beforementioned The other Authors who have written for or against Palamas shall be inserted in the Succession of Greek Authors of this Century which we proceed to recite according to the Order of the times NICEPHORUS the Son of Callistus Xanthopylus a Monk of Constantinople a studious and laborious Nicephorus Callistus a Greek Monk Man undertook under the Empire of Andronicus the elder to Compose a New Ecclesiastical History which he dedicated to that Prince it was divided into Twenty three Books began at the Birth of JESUS CHRIST and ended at the Death of the Emperor Leo the Philosopher that is to say at the Year 911. we have no more than the Eighteen first Books which end with the Emperor Phocas that is to say in the Year of our Lord 610. He collected his History out of Eusebius Socrates Sozomen Theodoret Evagrius and other good Authors but he has mixed it with a great many Fables and has faln into many Mistakes the style is not disagreeable and is Correct enough for his time The only Copy of this History which was in the Library of Matthias King of Hungary at Buda was taken by a Turk and Sold at an Auction in Constantinople where it was bought up by a Christian and after carried to the Library of the Emperor at Vienna where it is at this present Langius has translated it into Latin printed at Basil in 1553. at Antwerp in 1560. at Paris in 1562. and 1573. and at Francfort in 1588. and Fronto Ducaeus hath since published it in Greek and Latin printed at Paris in the Year 1630. Father Labbe has set out a Catalogue of the Emperors and Patriarâ—… of Constantinople collected by Nicephorus in his Preliminary Treatise of the Byzantine History printed at Paris in 16â—8 and there was printed at Basil in 1536. An Abridgment of the Scripture in Iambick Verse which aâ—… bears the Name of Nicephorus There is exâ—… under the Name of ANDRONICUS of Constantinople a long Dialogue between a Andronicus the Elder a Greek Emperor Jew and a Câ—…n wherein the Christian proves the principal Points of the Religion of JESUS CHRIST by Quotations out of the Old Testament This Work is published in Latin in the Translation of Liveneius by Stuart and printed at Ingolstadt in the Year 1616. and in the Bibliothecis Patrum It is doubtful who is the Author but the time is certain for the Author counts 1255. Years from the Captivity of the Jews which reckoning since the taking of Jerusalem by Titus fall in the Year 1527. from JESUS CHRIST which makes it appear that Liveneius is deceived in ascribing this Work to Euthymius Zigabenus who died before that time The Politick Verses which he found in the Front of the Book seem to intimate that this Andronicus was of the Family of the Commeni but one may likewise understand them otherwise and perhaps not much strain his Faith The Greek Original is in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria where also are to be found other Dialogues which â—…ry the Name of Andronicus the Emperor viz. A Dialogue between the Emperor and a Cardinal concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost a Dispute of the Emperor 's with one Peter an Armenian Doctor a Treatise of the two Natures in JESUS CHRIST
Chronicle Certain Sermons A Collection of divers Miracles SIBERTUS de BEKA A Carmelite Flourish'd in the Beginning of the Century and Corrected the Office of his Order Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences A Summary of the New Law A Commentary upon his Rule PETER of PERPIGNAN A Carmelite Flourish'd in the Beginning of the Century Works Lost A Commentary upon the Sentences Another on the Book of Psalms Some Sermons HERENUS de BOYE A Carmelite Flourish'd in the Beginning of the Century Works Lost A Commentary upon the Book of Sentences Divers Questions ALBERT of PADUA An Augustine Hermite Was the Pupil of Aegidius Romanus and Flourish'd in the University of Paris where he Dy'd in 1323 or 1328. Genuine Works c. An Explication of the Gospels upon all the Sundays in the Year Manuscript Works A Commentary on the Book of the Sentences Commentaries on the Pentateuch the Gospels and St. Paul's Epistles JOHN XXII Pope Chosen Aug. 6. A. D. 1316. Crown'd Septemb. 5. Dy'd Decemb. 4. 1334. Genuine Works c. A Collection of the Clementines Twenty Extravagancies Several Letters Constitutions and Bulls in the Annalists and in the Bullary Sermons upon the Beatifick Vision NICHOLAS TRIVET A Preaching Friar Flourish'd in the End of the XIII Century and Dy'd in 1328. Aged 70 Years Genuine Works c. A Chronicle A Commentary upon St. Augustine's Books De Civitate Dei AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS An Hermite of the Order of St. Augustine Flourish'd from A. D. 1274 to 1328. When he Dy'd Aged 85 Years Genuine Works c. A Summary of the Ecclesiastical Power A Commentaries on the Lord's Prayer and upon the Angelical Salutation The beginning of a Book call'd Milleloquium out of the Writings of St. Augustine See the Catalogue of them p. 56. JOHANNES BASSOLIS A Grey Friar Flourish'd in 1320. A Genuine Work c. Du Pin 14 Cent. A Commentary upon the Book of Sentences JACOBUS de LAUSANNA A Preaching Friar Was a Licentiate in the Faculty of Divinity at Paris A. D. 1317. Genuine Works still Extant Treatises of Morality and Sermons PETRUS ALVERNIENSIS or PETER of AUVERGNE A Canon of the Church of Paris Flourish'd in 1320. A Manuscript Work A Summary of Quodlibetical Questions HENRY de CARRET Of the Order of Grey Friars Bishop of Lucca Flourish'd from the Year 1300 to 1326. when he was turn'd out of his Bishoprick A Manuscript Work A Treatise upon the Prophet Ezekiel FRANCISCUS MAYRONIUS A Grey Friar and Doctor of Paris Flourish'd A. D. 1320. Dy'd in 1325. Genuine Works c. A Commentary on the Four Books of the Sentences Sermons for Lent and upon the Festivals of the Saints Certain small Tracts of Divinity and Piety An Explication of the Ten Commandments A Treatise of the Theological Truths upon St. Augustine's Book Of the City of God Divers Philosophical Pieces ROBERT A Preaching Frier Flourish'd in 1320. Works Lost A Commentary upon the Sentences and some Sermons JOHANNES d' ALIERUS A Carmelite made General of his Order in 1321. Works Lost A Commentary upon the Sentences Notes upon the Book of Ecclesiasticus JOHANNES de REGNO A Carmelite Flourish'd in 1320. Works Lost A Commentary upon the Book of the Sentences Annotations upon the Gospel according to St. Matthew Sermons for Lent and for all the Sundays and Festivals of the Year STEPHEN de PROVENCE Professor of Laws Flourish'd in 1320. Works Lost A Commentary upon the Clementines Several Questions JOHN de BLOMENDAL A Grey Friar Flourish'd in 1320. Works Lost Sermons for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole Year BERNARDUS GUIDO Of the Order of Preaching Friars Bishop of Tuy Born A. D. 1260. Entred into the Order of Dominican Monks in 1280. Made Inquisitor General 1305. Bishop of Tuy 1323. Dy'd Decemb. 13. 1331. Genuine Works c. The Lives of Two Popes viz. Clement V. and John XXII The Lives of St. Fulchran and St. Glodesindis An History of the Order of Grandmont and of the Monastery of St. Augustine at Limoges An Acount of the Actions of the Counts of Toulouse Manuscript Works See the Catalogue of them p. 62. DOMINICUS GRENERIUS Of the Order of Preaching Friars Bishop of Pamiez was made Master of the Sacred Palace and afterwards Bishop of Pamiez in 1326. Dy'd in 1342. A MS. Work Postills upon all the Books of the Bible VITALIS è FURNO A Grey Friar Cardinal Flourish'd after 1310. Made Cardinal Priest in 1312. Cardinal Bishop in 1320. And Dyed in 1321. Genuine Works which we have His Mirrour of Morality Commentaries upon the Proverbs of Solomon Upon the Four Evangelists and Revelation MARINUS SANUTUS Surnam'd Torsello Flourish'd in 1321. Genuine Works c. The Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross or the Means to recover the Holy-Land Divers Letters DURANDUS de S. PORCIANO A Preaching Friar and Bishop of Meaux Flourish'd in the University of Paris from 1313 to 1318. When he was made Bishop of Puy or Annecy and Translated to the Bishoprick of Meaux in 1326. and Dyed in 1333. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Books of the Sentences A Treatise about the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Works lost A Treatise about the Beatisick Vision against Pope John XXII Instructions for his Clergy Some Sermons ALEXANDER de S. ELPIDIO An Hermite of S. Augustine and Arch-Bishop of Ravenna A Genuine Work c. A Treatise of the Jurisdiction of the Emperor and the Authority of the Pope Works in MSS. Treatises of Evangelical Poverty and of the Unity of the Church BERTRANDUS de TURRE A Grey Friar Cardinal Was made Arch-Bishop of Salerno in 1319. Cardinal in 1328. and Dyed in 1334. Manuscript Works Sermons ALVARUS PELAGIUS A Grey Friar and Bishop of Silves Entred into his Order in 1304 was made Apostolick Penitentiary in 1330. Bishop of Coronna in 1332. And after of Silves in Portugal He Dyed after the Year 1340. His Genuine Works A Treatise of the Complaints of the Church A Summary of Divinity Works in Manuscript and lost See the Catalogue of them p. 57 58. WILLIAM OCKAM A Grey Friar Flourish'd in the University of Paris from the beginning of the Century and afterwards in Germaâ—y He Dyed at Munich in 1347. His Genuine Works c. Philosophical Treatises of which the Catalogue is in p. 58. A Commentary upon the first Book of the Sentences Questions upon the Sentences Centâ—lâ—quium Qâ—…berical Questions A Treatise upon the Sacrament of the Altar A Treatise of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Power Eight Questions upon the same Subject A Treatise in the Form of a Dialogue upon the Questions controverted by John XXII Divided into Four Books A Treatise of the Power of the Emperor An Abbridgment of the Errors of Pope John XXII A Treatise of 90 days against John XXII A Treatise of the Divorce of Margaret Princess of Bohemia from her Husband Works in Manuscript A Treatise against Benedict XII A Letter to the General Chapter of the Grey Friars Works lost Seven Treatises against John XXII ODERICUS
Catholick Church GERARDUS An Hermite of S. Augustine and Bishop of Savona Flourish'd about the same time Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 80. FRANCIS PETRARCH Born July 20. 1304 Flourish'd about 1340 died 1374. His Genuine Works c. Two Books of the Cures of both Fortunes Two Books of a Solitary Life Two Books of the Seisure of the Monks Two Books of the Contempt of the World A Paraphrase upon the Seven Penitential Psalms A Treatise against Covetousness Some Letters JOHN BACON A Carmelite made Provincial of his Order in 1329 and died in 1346. His Genuine Works c. An Abbridgment of the Life of Jesus Christ. Quodlibetical Questions A Commentary upon the Sentences Works in Manuscript Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 68. SIMON FIDATUS de CASSIA An Hermite of S. Augustine Flourish'd about 1340 and died Feb. 11. 1348. His Genuine Works c. A Treatise of the Actions of our Lord. A Discourse about the Virgin Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 69. JOANNES ANDREAE A Lawyer Flourish'd in the University of Bononia about 45 Years and died in 1348. His Genuine Works c. Novels or a Commentary upon the Five Books of the Decretals Two Commentaries upon the Sixth Book Glosses upon the Clementines An Addition to the Mirrour of Gulielmus Durantus A Tree of Consanguinity Feudal Questions about Marriages and Interdicts A Summary of Affiances Marriages and Degrees of Affinity GERHARD ODONIS A Grey Frier and Arch-Bishop of Antioch was chosen General of his Order in 1329 made Arch-Bishop of Antioch by Pope John XXII and died in 1349. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Ten Books of Aristotle's Morals The Office of the Marks of St. Francis ROBERT HOLKOTT A Preaching Friar Flourish'd in the University of Oxford about 1340 and died in 1349. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Four Books of the Sentences 203 Lectures upon the Book of Wisdom Historical Morals for Preachers A Table of S. Thomas upon the Gospels and Epistles of the Year Lectures upon the Song of Songs and the Seven First Chapters of Ecclesiasticus A Treatise upon the Imputation of Sin and Others RICHARD HAMPOLE An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about 1340 Dy'd in 1349. His Genuine Works Treatises of Piety of which see the Catalogue p. 69. JACOBUS FOLQUIERUS An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about 1345. A Manuscript Work Viridarum Gregoriinum or Allegories upon all the Books of the Bible MAXIMUS PLANUDES A Greek Monk Flourish'd in the Reign of Andronicus the Elder and was sent Ambassador to Aquileia in 1327. His Genuine Works A Treatise of the Procession of the Holy Ghost against the Latins Some Fragments of his Translation of St. Augustine's 15 Books of the Trinity into Greek A Sermon upon the Burial of Jesus Christ. A Sermon upon St. Peter and St. Paul MATTHEW BLASTARES A Greek Monk Flourish'd about 1335. His Genuine Works c. A Table of Canons A Treatise of the Causes or Questions about Marriage NILUS CABISILAS Arch-Bishop of Thessalonica Flourish'd under the two Andronicus's the Greek Emperors His Genuine Works c. A Treatise of the Causes of the Division of the Greek and Latin Churches A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy BARLAAM Bishop of Hieracium sent to Pope Benedict XII in 1338. Excuses the Palamites in 1340 but being Condemn'd flies into the West where he was made Bishop of Hieracium His Genuine Works c. A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy A Discourse about the Union of the two Churches the Greek and Latin Five Letters Two Letters of Morality GREGORIUS ACINDYNUS A Greek Monk Condemn'd in the Council of Constantinople in the Year 1341. His Genuine Works c. Two Books of the Essence and Operation of God A Poem in Jambick Verse against the Palamites Works Lost Five Volumes against Barlaam CREGORIUS PALAMAS Arch-Bishop of Thessalonica Accus'd in 1340. Absolv'd in 1346. Made Arch-Bishop of Thessalonica in 1347. His Genuine Works and Lost See the Catalogue of them p. 87. GUY de TERRENA A Carmelite Bishop of Perpignan was made General of his Order in 1318. Bishop of Majorca in 1331 and after of Elne or Perpignan He Dy'd in 1342. Genuine Works c. A Summary of Heresies Synodal Decrees Works in Manuscript Commentaries upon Gratian's Decrees A Treatise of the Perfection of Life or a Treatise of the Poverty of Jesus Christ. PHILLIP de MONTCALIER A Grey Frier Flourish'd at Padua in 1330 and Dy'd in 1350. A Genuine Works c. An Abbridgment of his Sermons Works Lost Postills upon the Gospels Sermons for all the Year PETRUS BERTRANDUS Cardinal Flourish'd in the Law-Schools before 1320 was made Bishop of Nevers about the same Year Translated to the Bishoprick of Autun in 1325. Made Cardinal in 1331. Dy'd in 1349. His Genuine Works The Acts of the Conference between the Clergy of France and Peter Cuguieres about the Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions A Treatise of the Original and Use of Jurisdiction or of the Ecclesiastical and Temporal Powers WILLIAM de MONTLEDUN Abbot of Monstierneuf Flourish'd in the University of Toulouse under the Papacy of Benedict XII Works in Manuscript Divers Treatises of Canon-Law of which see the Catalogue p. 67. PETRUS de PALUDE A Preaching Frier Patriarch of Jerusalem was a Licentiate in Divinity in the University of Paris in 1314 made Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1330 and dy'd in 1341. His Genuine Works c. A Comment upon the 3d. and 4th Books of the Sentences Sermons A Treatise of the immediate Cause of the Ecclesiastical Power Works in Manuscript A Comment upon the 1st and 2d Books of the Sentences Commentaries upon the whole Bible A Treatise of the Poverty of Jesus Christ against Michael Caesenas CLEMENT VI. Pope Chosen May 7. 1342. Crown'd May 12. Dy'd Decemb. 6. 1352. His Genuine Works c. Letters set down by Annalists by M. Balusius in the Second Tome of the Lives of the Popes of Avignon and in the Register of Bulls BARTHOLOMEW d'URBIN An Hermite of St. Augustine and Bishop of Urbin Made Bishop in 1343 and Dy'd in 1350. A Genuine Work Milleloquium of St. Augustine finish'd by this Author Milleloquium of St. Ambrose Works Lost. A Treatise against Lewis of Bavaria Works of Piety NICHOLAS CABASILAS Arch-Bishop of Thessalonica Flourish'd under the Emperor Cantacuzenus His Genuine Works The Life of Jesus Christ. An Exposition of the Liturgy A Treatise against Usury Works in Manuscript A Treatise against Thomas Aquinas A Commentary upon the Vision of Ezekiel NICEPHORUS GREGORAS Chartophylax of the Church of Constantinople Flourish'd under the Emperor Cantacuzenus His Genuine Works The Byzantine History A Funeral Oration upon the Death of Theodorus Metochita Notes upon the Book of Synesius of Dreams The Sufferings of St. Cordatus Manuscript Works A Treatise against Palamas A Treatise of Easter and others CALLISTUS Patriarch of Constantinople Chosen Patriarch in 1354. Dy'd in 1358. A Genuine Work An Homily upon the Exaltation of the
October 1389. His Genuine Works still Extant Letters and Bulls of this Pope in the Annalists And Register of Bulls CLEMENT VII Pope at Avignon Elected September the 20. 1378. Died September 16th 1394. His Genuine Works c. Letters Printed by M. Balusius and the Annalists ROBERT GERVAIS A Preaching Frier and Bishop of Senez Made Bishop in 1369. And dyed in 1388. His Manuscript Works A Treatise of Schism The Mirrour Royal. PETER de NATALIBUS Bishop of Jesol Flourish'd about 1380. A Genuine Work A Catalogue of Saints JOHN de BURGO Chancellor of Cambridge Flourish'd about 1380. A Genuine Work c. A Treatise call'd Pupilla Ocuii i. e. The Apple of the Eye for the Instruction of Priests JACOBUS de TERAMIS Arch-Deacon of Aversa Flourish'd about 1390. Works in Manuscript A Commentary upon the Sentences A Consolation for Preachers GUIDO D'EUREUX A Preaching Frier Flourish'd about 1390. Works in Manuscript Sermons A Rule for Tradesmen AUGUSTINE D'ASCOLI An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about 1390. Works in Manuscript Sermons HENRY BOICH A Lawyer Flourish'd about 1390. His Genuine Works c. Commentaries upon the Five Books of the Decretals upon the Sextus and the Clementines BONIFACE IX Pope at Rome Chosen Pope 1389 and Died in 1404. His Genuine Works c. Constitutions related by Historians BENEDICT XIII Pope at Avignon Chosen Pope Sept. 26. 1394. Died in the next Century His Genuine Works c. Divers Letters concerning the Obedience which he claim'd as due to him Related by the Historians of the Schism Constitutions and other Letters related by the Historians of that time SIMON de CREMONA An Hermite of St. Augustine Flourish'd about the End of the Century Died in 1400. His Genuine Works c. Postils upon the Gospels Works in Manuscript See the Catalogue of them p. 15. BARTHOLOMEW ALBICIUS A Grey Frier Flourish'd at the End of the Century and Died in 1401. His Genuine Works c. A Treatise of the Conformity of our Lord Jesus Christ and St. Francis A Treatise in Praise of the Virgin Mary Sermons WALTER DISSE A Carmelite Flourish'd in the Papacy of Boniface the IX whose Legate he was in England Spain and France Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 81. PETER QUESNEL A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works in Manuscript See the Catalogue of them p. 75. HENRY KNIGHTON A Grey Frier Flourish'd about the end of the Century His Genuine Works still Extant A Chronicle of England to 1395. The History of the Deposition of Richard II. King of England WILLIAM THORN A Benedictine Monk of S. Augustine at Canterbury Flourish'd about the end of the Century A Genuine Work c. The History of the Abbots of S. Augustine at Canterbury MATTHEW D'EUREUX A Preaching Frier Flourish'd at the end of the Century Works in Manuscript A Commentary upon the Pentateuch Postills upon Isaiah and other Books of Scripture NICHOLAS de GORHAM A Preaching Frier Flourish'd about the end of the Century His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the New Testament Sermons for all the Year JOHN BROMIARD A Preaching Frier Flourish'd to the end of the Century and died in the next A Genuine Work A Summary for Preachers Works in Manuscript A Treatise of the Civil and Canon-Law An Explication of the Ceremonies of the Mass. Exhortations THOMAS LAMB and NICHOLAS de RITZON Carmelites Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. See the Titles p. 81. RADULPHUS de RIVO Dean of Tongres Flourish'd in the end of the Century and died in 1403. JOHN de TAMBACH A Preaching Friar Chosen Master of the Holy Palace in 1366. Died in the next Century being above 80 years Old A Genuine Work The Comfort of Divinity or Mirrour of Wisdom A Manuscript Work A Treatise of Nature and Grace Works Lost. A Treatise of the Pleasures of Paradise Sermons RAIMUNDUS JORDANUS Surnam'd Idiota a Canon Regular and Provost of Usez Flourish'd about the end of the Century His Genuine Works c. Works of Piety Of which see the Titles p. 77. FRANCIS XIMENIUS Bishop of Elne or Perpignan and Patriarch of Jerusalem Flourish'd at the end of this Century or beginning of the next His Genuine Works c. A Book of the Angelical Life Four Books of the Christian Life Instructions for Pastors LUCIUS COLUTIUS SALUTATUS de STIGNANO Chancellor of Florence Flourish'd from 1360 to 1406. in which he died His Genuine Works c. Two Letters and one Petition Works Lost. See the Titles p. 78. ANTONIUS de BUTRIO A Lawyer Flourish'd at the end of this Century and beginning of the next And died in 1408 or 1417. His Genuine Works c. A Commentary upon the Sextus A Repertory of the Canon and Civil Law HENRY de KALKAR A Carthusian Flourish'd about the end of this Century And died 1408. Works Lost. See the Catalogue p. 81. HENRY de BAUME or de PALMA Flourish'd about the end of this Century A Genuine Work c. Mystical Divinity BERTRANDUS de TRILLE A Preaching Frier Flourish'd about the end of the Century A Manuscript Work A Commentary upon the Sentences RICHARD de MAYDESCON A Carmelite Flourish'd about the end of this Century Works Lost A Treatise against the Lollards Several Sermons JOHN A Benedictine Monk of Castel Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost See the Titles p. 81. CONRADUS A Canon of Ratisbon Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. Several Books of Moral Philosophy JOHN de SCHODEHOVE A Carmelite Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 81. PHILLIP de FERRIERES Bishop of Badajoz Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. Sermons for the whole Year MICHAEL AIGRIANUS or AIGNANUS A Carmelite Chosen General of his Order in 1381. Died in 1396. Or as others in 1416 but out of his Office A Genuine Work c. A Commentary upon the Psalms without a Name Works Lost. See the Catalogue p. 78. JOHN de HESDIN A Knight Hospitaller of S. John at Jerusalem Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. Commentaries upon the New Testament And Sermons WILLIAM de OPPENBACH A German and Doctor of Paris Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. A Commentary upon the Sentences Questions and Sermons HENRY EUTA or OYTA A Professor Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 82. JOHN GLUEL HENRY D'ARDENAC and BLAISUS ANDERNARIUS Carmelites Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works lost See the Titles p. 82. JOHN Abbot of S. Bavon Flourish'd about the end of the Century A Work lost A Treatise of the Use of Food p. 82. RICHARD de LAVENHAM and JOHN de CAMPSCEN English Carmelites Flourish'd about the end of the Age. Works lost See the Titles p. 82. JOHN de WERDEN A Grey Friar Flourish'd about the end of the Century Works lost Sermons PHILIP Abbot of Otterburg Flourish'd about the end of the
Utrâ—cht and Earls of Holland by John Becanus Canon of that City With Additions The History of the Bishops of Liege from 1247 to 1348. by Hortensius The History of S. Gothalmus by Bernard Dapifer A Chronicle of the Arch-Bishops of York by Thomas Stubbs The Life of Bartholus Bishop of Strasburg by Albert de Strasburg A Catalogue of Saints by Petrus de Natalibus The Mirrour of Carmelites by Ribot The Viridarium of that Order and their Illustrious Men by John Grossius The History of the Abbots of Canterbury by Thorn The History of the three Bishops of Liege by Radulphus de Rivo The Letters of Lucius Colutius Stignano The Lives of the Popes at Avignon by Peter Herentals The Passion of S. Cordatus by Nicephorus Gregoras Works of Morality A Summary for Confessors by John de Friburg A Treatise of the Poison of Mortal Sins and their Cure by Malachias A Moral Mirrour by Vitalis de Furno A Treatise of the Seven Estates of the Church by Ubertinus de Cassalis Some Treatises of Franciscus Mayronius A Summary of Cases by Astesanus A Summary of Cases call'd The Golden Summary by Monaldus A Summary of Cases by Bartholomew de S. Concordia Two Books of the Remedies of both Fortunes Two Books of a Solitary Life Two Books of the leisure of Monks Two Books of the Contempt of the World A Paraphrase upon the Penitential Psalms A Treatise against Avarice Some Letters By Petrarch An Addition to the Mirrour of Durantus by John Andreae A Treatise of Usury by Gregory Ariminens Nineteen Books of Morality by Bartholomew Glanvile A Treatise of the Care of a Common-wealth and the State of Sovereign Princes by Philip de Loydis The Consolation of Divinity or the Mirrour of Wisdom by John de Tambach Sophologia by Jacobus Magnus Two Letters of Morality by Baralam Works of Morality by Manuel Palaeologus the Greek Emperor Works of Piety and Mortification Hymns and Proses by Jacobus de Benedictis A Commentary of Augustinus Triumphus upon the Lord's Prayer and Angelical Salutation The Tree of a Crucifyed Life by Ubertinus de Casalis Five Treatises of Franciscus Mayronius The Works of Ludolphus a Carthusian A Treatise of the four Instincts And Sermons of the Passion by Henry de Urimaria A Treatise of the Actions of Jesus Christ and a Treatise of the Virgin by Simon de Cassia The Treatise of Richard Hampole The Mirrour of the Monks of S. Benedict by Bernard Abbot of Mount Cassin The Pomegranade by Gallus Abbot of Konigsael The Revelations Sermons and Rules of St. Bridget The Letters of St. Catharine of Sienna A Treatise of Providence by her as also A Discourse of the Annunciation of the Virgin The Divine Doctrine of the Eternal Father to the Holy Spirit by Raimundus de Vignes Three Works of Gerhard Groot The Works of Piety of Ruysbrokius The Mirrour of the Virgin by Bonaventure of Padua The Ascetick Treatises of Gerhard de Zutphen The Works of Raimundus Jordanus The Angelical and Christian Life of Fr. Ximenius The Mystical Divinity of Henry de Palma The Conformity of Jesus Christ and St. Francis by Bartholomew Albicius The Treatises of Piety of Manuel Palaeologus A Discourse of the Contempt of Death by Demet. Cydonius Six Books of the Praises of the Virgin by Barthol Albicius Sermons and Works about Preaching A Summary of Examples and Comparisons for Preachers by John de S. Geminiano Funeral Orations and Sermons for Lent by him A Sermon of Justus in a Chapter of the Carthusians A Summ for Preachers by John of Friburg Bishop of Osmo Sermons upon Sundays Lent and the Festivals of the Saints by Hugh de Prato Sermons upon the Immaculate Conception by Petrus Aureolus Sermons and Explications of the Gospel by Jacobus de Lausanna The Sermons of Franciscus Mayronius An Abbridgment of Sermons by Philip de Montcalier The Sermons of Peter de Palude Historical Morals for Preachers by Robert Holkot Sermons in commendation of the Virgin by Richard of Armagh The Sermons of Thaulerus The Dictionary Reductory and Inductory of the Bible by Petrus Bercherius A Summ of Sermons by Jordanus Saxo. Sermons for all the Year by Nicholas Gorham A Summ for Preachers by John Bromiard The Sermons of Bartholomew Glanvile The Sermons of Bartholomew Albicius The Sermons of Planudes upon the Burial of Jesus Christ. His Sermon upon St. Peter and St. Paul The Funeral Oration of Theodorus by Gregorius Metochita A Homily upon the Exaltation of the Cross by Callistus Patriarch of Constantinople The Sermons of Philotheus The Panegyrick of Theodorus by Manuel Palaeologus Commentaries upon the Books of the Fathers A Commentary upon the Books of St. Augustine De civitate Dei by Tho. Joisius Another Commentary upon the same Work by Nicholas Trivet A Milleloquium of St. Augustine begun by Triumphus and finish'd by Bartholmew Urban who also made the Milleloquium of St. Ambrose A Translation of St. Augustine's Books De Civitate Dei by Radulphus de Praelles A Treatise of Franciscus Mayronius upon St. Augustine De Civitate Die Philosophical Works A Commentary of Joannes Scotus upon Aristotle and other Treatises Some Treatises of Raymundus Lullius The Commentaries of Antonius Andreas the Scholar of Scotus upon the Books of Aristotle and Boethius The Philosophical Treatises of Ockam The Philosophical Treatise of John de Gaunt The Treatises of Franciscus Mayronius The Treatises of Walter Burley A Treatise upon the Eight Books of Aristotle's Physicks by John Canon A Commentary upon the Ten Books of Aristotle's Morals by Gerhard Odonis The Questions of Alphonsus Vargas upon the Three Books of Aristotle De Anima An INDEX of the Principal Matters contained in this Volume A ABbots Of their Election in France c. 47. They ought not to part those Goods which are common with their Monks 94 The Act of the Sorbonne first Introduc'd 62 Publick Acts. A Clause observ'd by the Apostolick Notaries 40 Adam de Valencour 17 Adulterers Excommunicated 93. And depriv'd of Christian Burial 98 Aleth made a Bishoprick 22 Amanaeus Arch-Bishop of Ausche His Constitutions 94 100 Appeals A Rule concerning them 47 Aquileia A Council held there by Gregory XII 46 Arch-Bishopricks Erected by Pope John XXII 22 Arch-Bishops How Elected in the Neutrallty for the Schism 47 Arch-Deacons Not to exact in their Visitations 93 Armenians United to the Church by Clement VI. 31 Arnoldus de Canteloup His Constitutions 105 Arnoldus de Montanier His Errors 115 Arnoldus de Villa Nova His Errors 113 Avignon The Popes that resided in that City 21 22 29 30 31 32. Asylum The Right of Churches to be Asyla 93 105 Attributes Some Propositions concerning the Divine Attributes recanted as Erroneous 114 B BAns of Marriage Necessary 95 97 110 Baptism The necessity of it 95. Its effects ibid. Forbidden to be administred out of the Church 96. The People to be instructed in its Form 97 98. Errors about it condemn'd in England 115 Barlaamites The subject of their contests with the
and some Discourses Conrade of Rodemberg Abbot of the Monastery of St. John of Richenaw of the Order of St. Benedict wrote in honour of the Virgin a thick Volume Entituled The Vine of the Lord of Hosts because in praising her he made use of the Similitude of a Cluâ—â—er of Grapes He wrote also the Exercise of Novices a Preparation to the Mass a Discourse about the Ruin of his Order another about the Causes of the Ruin and a 3d. about Pastoral Care and many Conferences held in the Chapter of his Order This Author died in the year 1486. on the 25th of December Stephen of Caiete a Neapolitan Dedicated to John of Bentevole Councellor to Ferdinand King of Sicily a Treatise of the Sacraments divided into 7 Books George Molitoris of Nuremberg Professor of Divinity at Erford wrote upon the Sentences and some Sermons and Questions Nicholas of Wachenheim Professor in the University of Heidelberg wrote some Questions upon the Sentences some Sermons and Conferences Michael of Milan of the Order of Friars Minors was the Author of many Sermons upon several Subjects John Cousin a Portuguese of the Order of the Carmelites refuted the Heresies of his time by word of mouth and by Writing and wrote a great Volume about Contracts and Exchanges Entituled Of Commutative Justice divided into 4 Books and also many Sermons Henry Prudent a Prior of the Carthusian Monastery at Bruges died in the year 1484. He was the Author of a Tetralogue of Devotion divided into 3 Parts wherein he brings in as Speakers an Angel and a Monk Jesus the Heavenly Father and the Virgin Francis Diede a Venetian the Author of the Life of St. Roch some Discourses and Letters Tilman a Canon Regular of St. Austin in the Monastery of St. Christophlus of Ravengsburg in the Diocese of Mayence wrote some pieces of Devotion as of the Spiritual Vine of the Instruction of Novices and some other little Exercises Nicolas of Creutznach profess'd Divinity at Vienna in Austria towards the end of this Century has left us 4 Books of Questions upon the Sentences a Collection of Conferences and Discourses many Sermons and a Treatise of the Conception of the Virgin He died in the year 1491. Nicasius of Voerde of Malines tho' he became Blind at 3 years of Age yet this did not hinder him from acquiring great Knowledge in the Liberal Arts for he was Professor of Law at Collen was admitted Licentiate in Divinity at Louvain was Ordain'd Priest by a Dispensation from the Holy-See He was a Preacher Confessor and could say Mass by heart he was admitted Doctor of Law at Collen and has left a Commentary upon the 4 Books of Sentences many Sermons divers Questions and Letters address'd to Thithemius who is a Credible Witness of the Truth of a Fact so extraordinary as this He died in 1492. Benedict Capra a Lawyer of Prussia wrote upon the Decretals and also John Andrew Bishop of Aleria in the Isle of Corfu The greater part of the preceding Writers Flourish'd after the year 1470. and died about the year 1490. those which follow liv'd to the year 1494. wherein Trithemius finish'd his Treatise of Ecclesiastical Writers Dominic Bolan a Venetian the Author of a Treatise about the Conception of the Virgin James of Straelen a Divine of Collen wroâ—e upon the Revelations John Pheffer of Widemburg the Founder of the College of Friburg wrote a Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul and a Sacerdotal Directory Baptista de Ferrera of the Order of Carmelites wrote a History from the beginning of the World Entituled Florida a Treatise of the Decay of the Roman Empire a Chronicle of Ferrara a Chronicle of his own Order a Treatise of Mount-Sinai 3 Books of the Life of St. Mathilda and several Sermons Peter Brutus Bishop of Cataro a great Enemy to the Jews has left us a considerable Work agaist them William of Aix la Chapelle a Preacher at Basil and Reader at Erford wrote upon the Gospel of St. John upon the Passion of our Lord an Itinerary of the Holy-Land some Questions and some Sermons Laurence Burel of Dijon of the Order of Carmelites wrote an Heliad and a Treatise of the Illustrious Men of his own Order Hubert Leonard of the same Order a Doctor of Paris an Inquisitor of the Faith in the Country of Liege was made Bishop of Daria He has left some considerable Works as a Commentary upon the Gospel of St. Luke a Treatise of Ecclesiastical Immunities a Book against the Hereticks of Nivelle a Course of Sermons for Lent and many other Sermons not to mention his Genealogy of the Noblemen of France and an account of their Actions John of Milbach a Divine of Erford wrote upon the Epistles of St. Paul and an Encomium of St. Jerom and some Sermons and Questions John of Roseau a German of the Order of Carmelites left the Commentaries upon the Book of Wisdom upon the Psalm Beati Immaculaâ—â— upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans and some Sermons John Bertram of Newburg taught at Erford and Mayence and left a Prologue to the Bible some Conferences and a Treatise of the price of the Mass. John of Keyserberg a German and Preacher at Strasburg wrote many Sermons and to him we owe the first Edition of Gerson's Works Sebastian Ticion or Brant of Strasburg the Author of many Christian Poems James Wimphelinge a Priest of the Church of Spire wrote a Poem which is Dedicated to Bertholdus Archbishop of Mayence Entituled Of a Threefold Candor a Piece in praise of the Virgin Mary the Office of the Compassion of the Virgin an Encomium of the Church of Spire a Discourse about the Holy Spirit some other Discourses and Letters Josse Besselius a German wrote divers Pieces of Profane Learning and some Ecclesiastical as that of the Ambition of a Christian and some Tracts upon the Rosary Giles Nettelet Dean of the Church of Cambray wrote a Collection of Morals taken out of the Epistles of St. Jerom. Theodoric of Osembruck a German of the Order of Friars Minors and Preacher at Collen wrote a Treatise of the Passion of our Lord a Manual of Simples and a Discourse of Interiour Exercise which he Read to Trithemius Jerom of Padua and Dominic Manchini Italians wrote each of them a Poem upon the Passion of our Lord. We have omitted a Writer who is considerable for his numerous Works whereof there is only one in Print and that is John of Hagen or de Indagine a Carthusian who was admitted into the Carthusian Monastery of Erford about the year 1440. and liv'd till about the year 1475. Trithemius has given us a Catalogue of a great number of this Author 's Spiritual Treatises and Petreius has added to them a great many more in his Carthusian Library which make up a Catalogue of many Pages containing 433 Titles of divers Treatises Moral Spiritual or Ascetick The two Books of the Perfection and Exercises of the Order of the
Fragments in his Book of Purgatory George Gemistius Plethon a Celebrated Platonick Philosopher did no less oppose the Union George Gemistius Plethon a Greek Philosopher than Mark of Ephesus he set himself against the Proposal which was made of beginning a Conference with the Latins he gave Advices contrary to the Union in the Council of Florence he derided it when it was made and stood up against it after he was return'd to Constantinople he liv'd a long time and wrote against the Latins Allatius mentions two Treatises which he wrote about the Procession of the Holy Spirit which are in Manuscript in the Vatican Library Bessarion who had been his Scholar writing to his Children after his Death gives a fine Encomium of him There are many Historical or Philosophical Works of this Author in Print To Gemistius we must joyn another Philosopher Nam'd Amirutzes of Trebizonde who was Amirutzes a Greek Philosopher present also at the Council of Florence disallow'd the Union and wrote against it after he return'd to Constantinople his End was unhappy for he Apostatiz'd and became a Mahometan We must not forget to place among the rest Silvester Sguropulus or Scyropulus Grand Ecclesiarch Silvester Sguropulus the Grand Ecclesiarch of the Church of Constantinople who came with the Patriarch to the Council of Florence was present there was always against the Union and yet Sign'd it but he was no sooner return'd to Constantinople but he declar'd openly against it and wrote the History of the Council of Florence after such a manner as was little to the advantage of that Council This has been Translated and Publish'd by Robert Creighton a Doctor of the Religion in England and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells and Printed at the Hague in 1660. It is written by way of Memoirs but with much fineness and purity the Translation of it is not faithful in some places * Here Dupin should have mention'd the Places and the Translator speaking of the Ceremonies of the Church does often make use of Contemptuous and Reproachful terms which do not at all agree with those which are in the Original We must place in the number of those who were Enemies to the Latins George Scholarius a George Scholarius Enemy to the Latins Monk who is different from that George Scholarius who wrote for the Latins in the Council of Florence for this of whom we speak was a Scholar and Friend to Mark of Ephesus and is the Author of a Treatise against the Council of Florence Printed in Greek at London without the Date of the year He wrote many Letters which Allatius saw and quoted Lastly we must add to these Authors Manuel or Michel Apostolius a Learned Man but Poor Manuel or Michel Apostolius whom Cardinal Bessarion maintain'd a long time but he being mov'd by Envy against those Learned Men who deserv'd Praise and Commendation from him set himself to Write against them and so drew upon his head the Rebukes of Bessarion who abandon'd him insomuch that he was forc'd to retire about the end of this Century into the Isle of Crete where he got a livelyhood by Writing Books and teaching Children Then it was that he wrote a Treatise against the Doctrine of the Latin Church contain'd in the Decree of Union made by the Council of Florence which is publish'd by Monsieur Le Moine in his Collection of Pieces He wrote also a Treatise of the Procession of the Holy Spirit against Plethon wherein he Reprimands that Philosopher because he did not found his Doctrine upon Principles of Divinity but upon Arguments of Philosophy whereof Allatius makes mention Among the Greeks who sincerely embrac'd the Union and maintain'd it to the last there was none Bessarion a Cardinal more Illustrious than Bessarion who from being a Monk of the Order of St. Basil was advanc'd to be Archbishop of Nice that he might assist and speak in behalf of the Greeks at the Conferences with the Latins He behav'd himself worthily in this Employment and spoke with a great deal of Eloquence in the Council of Florence After he had Disputed earnestly for the Greeks he came to a Temper and was the chief promoter of the Union By this means he became odious to the Greeks who were displeas'd with it and therefore he stay'd in Italy and was honour'd with the Dignity of a Cardinal or rather he honoured the Purple which he wore by his Learning Wisdom and Piety He deserv'd to have been Pope and should have been so if he would have made some advances to obtain that Supream Dignity but he preferr'd Retirement Study and Repose before the Pontifical Dâ—◠〈◊〉 and thought that he could not in Conscience seek after it He died in 1472. Aged 77 years after his return from his Embassie into France whither he had been sent by the Pope The Works of Bessarion which now remain are these which follow a Treatise of the Sacrament of the Eucharist and of the words of Consecration wherein he proves that the Bread and Wine are chang'd into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ by vertue of the words of our Lord and not by Prayer and answers the Objections of the Greeks by explaining their Liturgy according to the Doctrine of the Greek Fathers a Dogmatical Discourse about the Causes of Schism and another about Union in the Acts of the Council of Florence a Treatise address'd to Alexis Lascaris concerning the Procession of the Holy Spirit and in Defence of the Definition of the Council of Florence related in the 13th Tome of the Councils p. 1228. A Letter of the Procession of the Holy Spirit an Apology for Veccus together with a Confutation of the Treatise of Palamas a Letter to those of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and an Answer to 4 Arguments of Planudes about the Procession of the Holy Spirit which works were publish'd by Arcadius and printed at Rome in 1630. These are all the Theological Works of Bessarion not to mention those of Philosophy which discover that he was as great a Philosopher as Divine He defends the Philosophy of Plato in 4 Books against George of Trebizonde who attack'd it he wrote about that Philosophers Books of Laws and a Treatise of Nature and Art address'd to George of Trebizonde he Translated the Metaphysicks of Aristotle and Theophrastus which Works were printed at Venice in 1503. and 1516. He wrote a Letter to the Governour of the Children of Prince Thomas Paleologus about their Education which is publish'd by Pontanus in his Notes upon the History of Phranza printed at Ingolstat in 1504. and by Meursius at Leyden in 1613. There was also printed at Islebon in 1603. An Exhortation to Christian Princes to make War against the Turks and Bzovius has inserted into his History a Discourse which Bessarion made upon the death of the Emperor Manuel Paleologus There are also some Letters of his in Print and in Manuscript There is no Greek
confess'd That he had sometimes said that he had some Hopes that John Wicklef was saved and that he could wish his Soul were where his was but he deny'd that he had stir'd up the common People to take up Arms or was the Cause of the Commotions in the Kingdom of Bohemia and also that it was by any Fault of his that the German Nation had quitted the University of Prague The Cardinal of Chambre and the Emperor when they sent him back again to Prison exhorted him to submit to the Decision of the Council and not to persist obstinately in his Errors He answer'd That he took God to Witness he was come to Constance upon no other design but only to change his Opinion if any one should make it appear to him that he was in an Error The next Day he was brought again before the Assembly and after they had read to him 89 Articles which were said to be drawn out of his Books they exhorted him to submit to the Council and abjure his Errors he made answer that there were many of these Propositions which he had never maintain'd and that as to others he was ready to explain his Opinion and inform the Council of his Thoughts about them After many Disputes he was sent back to Prison and then a Resolution was taken to put him to Death by buming if he did not retract On the 7th of July John Huss was conducted to the Place where the 15th Session of the The Condemâ—â—tion of John Huss Council was held and after the Bishop of Lody had made a Discourse about the Destruction of Heresies the Proctor of the Council demanded that the Process against John Huss should be finished The Errors of Wicklef's Doctrin were read viz. about the real Presence and Transubstantion about the Salvation of Infants dying without Baptism about Confirmation and Confession made to Priests about Marriage about the Primacy of the Pope about the Forfeiture of those who are in mortal Sin of their Power and Rights about the Unprofitableness of Religious Orders the Liberty of paying Tithes or not the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Revenues of Churches the absolute Necessity of Events and about some other Questions more metaphysical These Errors being condemn'd in the Council 30 Propositions were read drawn out of the Books of John Huss which may be reduc'd to the following Dogmes viz. That the Church does consist only of those who are predestinate that the Pope is not the Head of the Roman Church that Ministers who are not righteous and predestinate are no true Ministers that Hereticks ought not to be deliver'd up to the Secular Power that Ecclesiastical Obedience is an Invention of Man that all Priests have the Power to preach and that Excommunication ought not to debar them from it John Huss explain'd some of these Propositions and defended many of ' em Many other Articles of Accusation were also read which were prov'd by Witnesses against him and afterwards upon the Demand of the Proctor of the Council his Books were condemned and he was declared a manifest Heretick convicted of having taught many Heresies and pernicious Errors of having despised the Keys of the Church and Ecclesiastical Censures of having seduc'd and given Scandal to the Faithful by his Obstinacy and of having rashly appealed to the Tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ and thus the Council having censur'd him for being obstinate and incorrigible ordain'd that he should be deposed degraded and deliver'd over to the Secular Power which was presently put in Execution The Bishops appointed by the Council stript him of his Priestly Garments degraded him and having put upon his Head a Mitre of Paper on which there were Devils painted with this Inscription A Ring-leader of Heresie they delivered him up to the Emperor who put him in the hands of the Duke of Bavaria His Books were burnt at the Gate of the Church and he was led to the Suburbs was tied to a Stake and burnt alive persisting even until Death in his Errors His Ashes were gathered together and thrown into the Rhine He wrote while he was in Prison some Treatises about the Commands of God of the Lord's The Works of John Huss Prayer of mortal Sin of Marriage of the Knowledge and Love of God of the three Enemies of Man and the seven mortal Sins of Repentance and the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord and some Days after he arriv'd at Constance he drew up a little piece about the Communion in both kinds He wrote also in Prison an Answer to the Propositions drawn out of his Books which had been communicated to him and prepar'd three Discourses one about the Sufficiency of the Law of Jesus Christ the other to explain his Faith about the last Articles of the Creed and the third about Peace and some Letters to his Disciples in Bohemia All these Treatises of John Huss and other Acts which we have hithetto mention'd are to be found in the first Tome of his Works printed at Nuremberg in 1558. The second contains a Harmony of the four Evangelists with Moral Notes many Sermons a Commentary upon the seven first Chapters of the first Epistle to the Corinthians Commentaries upon the seven Canonical Epistles and upon the 109 Psalm and those which follow to the 119 a Piece against that Proposition that a Priest is a Creator of the Creator wherein he does nevertheless maintain Transubstantiation as in all his other Works But he pretends that it cannot be said That the Priest is the Creator of the Body of Jesus Christ because the Body of Jesus Christ exists before the Bread is chang'd into it A Treatise of the Adoration of Images wherein he maintains that the Humanity of Jesus Christ ought not to be ador'd with the Worship of Latria but only with the Worship of Hyperdoulia and that the Images of Jesus Christ ought not at all to be ador'd not only with the Worship of Latria but even with an internal Worship altho' we may bow the Knee pray set Wax Candles before the Images and use before them any external Signs of Adoration which belong to the thing which they represent After John Huss was executed Jerom of Prague being in Prison was urg'd to abjure his Errors which he consented to do and being brought to the Council he read in the 19th Session The Retractation of Jerom of Prague held September 23 his Retractation wherein he anathematiz'd the Errors of Wicklef and John Huss and protested That he was in every thing of the same Sentiments with the Roman Church the Holy Apostolick See and the Holy Council and profess'd that he would follow their Doctrin above all things chiefly about the Keys the Sacraments the Orders the Offices and the Censures of the Church about Indulgences the Relicks of Saints Ecclesiastical Liberty the Ceremonies and every thing which concern'd the Religion of Jesus Christ and lastly That he approv'd the Condemnation of the
time of the Council of Basil who deputed him 〈◊〉 go to the Bohemians in 1432 he died in 1438. His Genuine VVorks which remain are Works of Morality and Piety whereof see the Catalogue P. 80. NICOLAS AUXIMANUS Of the Order of Friars Minors Flourish'd about the Year 1430. His Genuine VVorks and those that are lost See the Catalogue of them P. 80. St. BERNARDIN of SIENA Of the Order of Friars Minors was born in 1383 profess'd in 1405 died May the 20th in 1444. His Genuine VVorks which remain are Sermons and other Works of Piety whereof see the Catalogue P. 81. AUGUSTINE of ROME Of the Order of Hermites of St. Augustino Arch-bishop of Nazareth was chosen General of his Order in 1419 made Bishop of Cesena in 1431 and afterwards Archbishop of Nazareth he died in 1443 or 1445. His VVorks that are lost See the Catalogue of them P. 81. WILLIAM LYNDWOOD Bishop of St. David's Flourish'd from 1420 was made Bishop in 1434 and died in 1446. His Genuine VVork is A Collection of the Constitutions of the Archbishops of Canterbury ALEXANDER CARPENTER An Englishman Flourish'd about 1430. His Genuine Work is The Destructorium Vitiorum P. 82. RAIMUND of SABONDE or SEBEIDE Professor of Divinity at Tholouse Flourish'd about the Year 1430. His Genuine Works are The Natural Theology of Man and the Creatures or a Treasure of Divine Considerations or the Violet of the Soul PETER of JEREMY Of the Order of Friars Preachers died in the Year 1452. His Genuine Works which remain are Sermons An Explication of the Lord's Prayer of the Decalogue A Treatise upon the Passion of our Lord. of the Faith MAPHAEUS VEGIUS Datary to Martin V. Flourish'd in the Pontificate of this Pope and after died in 1458. His Genuine Works c. are A Treatise of the Education of Children Six Books of Perseverance in Religion A Dialogue of Truth banish'd EUGENIUS IV. Pope was advanc'd to the Holy See March the 14th in 1431 depos'd in the Council of Basil in 1439 died in 1447. His Genuine Works c. are Decrees for the Institution of the Armenians Syrians Chaldeans Nestorians and Maronites which are in the Councils Many Letters and Bulls in the Councils the Annalists and the Bullarium JULIAN CAESARIN A Cardinal was made Cardinal in 1426 died in 1444. His Genuine Works c. are Two Letters to Pope Eugenius Some Discourses in the Councils of Basil Ferrara and Florence GILES CHARLIER Doctor of Paris and Dean of Cambray was made Doctor in 1414 Dean of Cambray in 1431 died in 1472. His Genuine Works which remain are Many Treatises under the Title of Sporta and Sportula Discourses against the Bohemians His Manuscript Works are A Commentary upon the Master of the Sentences and some other Pieces P. 90. JOHN of RAGUSA Of the Order of Friars Preachers Flourish'd in the time of the Council of Basil and of Florence His Genuine Works c. are Discourses about Communion in both kinds HENRY KALTEISEN Archbishop of Caesarea Flourish'd from the opening of the Council of Basil till 1465 when he died His Genuine Works c. are Discourses about Preaching the Word of God His Works that are lost are Sermons Questions and Conferences JOHN POLEMAR Archdeacon of Barcelona Flourish'd in the time of the Council of Basil. His Genuine Works which remain are Discourses about the Temporal Dominion of the Clergy JOHN Patriarch of Antioch Flourish'd in the time of the Council of Basil. His Genuine Works c. are Discourses about the Superiority of a Council above the Pope JOHN Archbishop of Tarentum Flourish'd in the Time of the Council of Basil. His Genuine VVorks c. are An Harangue to the Council of Basil. GERARD LANDRIANUS Bishop of Lodi Flourish'd in the time of the Council of Basil. His Genuine Work is An Harangue to the Council of Basil. AMBROSE The Camaldulian was made General of his Order in 1431 died in 1439. His Genuine Works c. are Translations of many Pieces of the Fathers whereof see the Catalogue P. 85. A Voyage into Italy His Manuscript Works See the Catalogue of them P. 85. JOHN of TURRECREMATA A Cardinal was present at the Councils of Basil and Florence made Cardinal in 1439 and died in 1468. His Genuine VVorks c. See the Catalogue of them P. 89. GEORGE of TREBIZONDE A Greek Author Flourish'd about the Year 1440. His Genuine Works c. are A Letter to John Palaeologus Two Treatises about the Procession of the Holy Spirit Discourses upon these Words of I. G. If I will that he tarry c. Many Versions of the Greek and Latine Fathers MARK EUGENICUS Archbishop of Ephesus Flourish'd in the Council of Florence and died some time after his Return into Greece His Genuine Works which now remain See the Catalogue of them P. 109. JOHN EUGENICUS Flourish'd at the same time with Mark his Brother His Work in Manuscript is A Piece against the Council of Florence GEORGE GEMISTIUS PLETHON A Greek Philosopher Flourish'd in the Council of Florence His Manuscript Works are Treatises against the Latines about the Procession of the Holy Spirit AMIRUTZES A Greek Philosopher Flourish'd at the time of the Council of Florence His Genuine Work is An History of the Council of Florence GEORGE SCHOLARIUS A Greek Monk Flourish'd at the time of the Council of Florence His Genuine Work c. is A Treatise against the Council of Florence His Manuscript Works are Many Letters P. 109. SILVESTER SGUROPULUS ECCLESIARCH Of the Church of Constantinople Flourish'd at the time of the Council of Florence His Genuine VVork is A History of the Council of Florence ANDREW Archbishop of Rhodes Flourish'd in the time of the Council of Florence His Genuine VVorks c. are Discourses in the Council of Florence ISIDORUS Archbishop of Kiovia Flourish'd at the time of the Council of Florence His Genuine VVorks are Discourses in the Council of Florence JOHN ARGYROPULUS 〈◊〉 Greek Author Flourish'd at the Time of the Council of Florence His Genuine Work is A Treatise of the Procession of the Holy Spirit MANUEL or MICHAEL APOSTOLIUS Flourish'd after the Time of the Council of Florence His Genuine VVork c. is A 〈◊〉 against the Decree of Union made by the Council of Florence His Manuscript Works are Some Treatises which are mention'd by Allatius BESSARION A Cardinal Flourish'd in the time of the Council of Florence and after it until the Year 1472 in which he died aged 77 Years His Genuine VVorks c. See the Catalogue of them P. 110. GEORGE SCHOLARIUS Patriarch of Constantinople Flourish'd in the Time of the Council of Florence and after it His Genuine Works c. See the Catalogue of them P. 110. JOSEPH Bishop of Metona Flourish'd after the time of the Council of Florence His Genuine Works c. are An Answer to the Treatise of Mark of Ephesus against the Council of Florence An Apology for the Council of Florence under the Name of John Plusiadenus GREGORY
c. An Aâ—…gment of Theology Sâ—… Treatises of Philosophy GREGORY of HEIMBURG A Civilian was present at the Council of Basil and Flourish'd till after the Year 1460. His Genuine Works c. Works about the Temporal Power of the Popes Tâ—â—ODORE LAELIUS A Cardinal Flourish'd at the same time His Genuine VVorks c. A Reply to Gregory of Hâ—imburg HENRY GORCOMF or GORICHEME Vicechancellor of Collen Flourish'd about the Year 1460. His Genuine VVorks c. A Treatise of Festivals of Superstitious Ceremonies A Concordance of the Bible A Catalogue of the Opinions of the Master of the Sentences which are rejected JOHN GOBELIN Secretary to Pope Pius II Flourish'd about the Year 1460. His Genuine VVorks c. The History of Pope Pius II. JAMES PICOLOMINI A Cardinal was born in 1432 made a Cardinal in 1461 died in 1489 on the â—…th of September His Genuine Works c. A History of the Transactions in Europe from 1464 to 1469. Letters which he wrote from 1462 to 1489 printed at Milan JOHN BUSCH A 〈◊〉 Regâ—… was 〈…〉 his Order in the beginning of this 〈…〉 dieâ— in 1470. His 〈…〉 A Chronicle of Wâ—… â—…RY â—… A Carthusiâ—â— died in 1487. His 〈…〉 A Treatiâ—… of the 〈…〉 of the Virgin ALPHONSUS SPINA Of the Order of Friars Minors Flourish'd about the Year 1460. His 〈…〉 The Fortress of 〈◊〉 MATTHEW CAMARIOTE A Greek Writer Flourish'd 〈◊〉 the Year 1460. His Genuine Works c. A Letter about the Taking of Constantinople by 〈…〉 Turks A Letter about the Light of Thâ—…r DUCAS A Greek Writer Flourish'd about the Year 1460. His Genuine VVork is A Byzantine History from the Year 1441 to 1462. GEORGE CODIMUS Câ—â—OLâ—PORTâ— Flourish'd about the Year 〈◊〉 His Genuine 〈◊〉 c. Divers Works about the Empire and the City of Constantinople LAONICUS CHALCOâ—…EUS A Greek Writer 〈◊〉 â—â—ourish'd 〈◊〉 the Year 1460. His 〈◊〉 VVork 〈◊〉 A History of the Turks PAUL the II Pope promoted to the Papal Dignity in the Month of September of the Year 1464 died the 25th of July in 1471. His Genuine VVorks are Letters and Bulls which are in the Councils iâ— the Annalists in a Collection Printed at Rome in 1579 and in the Bullarium WILLIAM HOUPELANDE A Dr. of Paris Flourish'd about the Year 1460 and died in 1492. His Genuine VVork c. A Treatise of the Immortality oâ— the Soul Printed at Paris in 1499. DENIS RICâ—â—â— A Carthusian born 14â—◠〈…〉 Order in 142â— and died in 〈◊〉 His â—… See the Catalogue of them P. â—2 JAMES â—… A 〈◊〉 died 〈…〉 12th of February His Genuine VVork is A Mirrour of the five sorts of States RODâ—… Bishop of 〈◊〉 Flourish'd about the Year 1470. His 〈◊〉 Works c. A History of 〈◊〉 The Mirrour of Humane Life HENRY 〈◊〉 â—… Of the Order of Friars 〈◊〉 Died in 1478 His 〈…〉 Mystical Works where of see the Catalogue P. 93. GABRIEL BARLETTE Of the Order â—… Liv'd till the Year 1480. His â—… are Sermons P. 9â— JOHN BAPTISTA PLATINA 〈…〉 Flourish'd under Pope Callisâ—us III and his Successors and died in 148â— â—… 〈…〉 The Lives of the Popes Mâ—…al Works whereof see the Catalogue P. 94. MARTIN the MASTER Dr. of Paris and Confessor to the King took the Degree of Dr. in 1473 and died in 1482 aged 50 Years His Genuine VVorks c. See the Catalogue of them P. 94. SIXTUS IV Pope promoted to the Holy See in 1471 died on the 12th of August in 1484. His Genuine Works c. are Two Decrees about the Conception of the Virgin which are in the Councils Many Letters and Bulls which are in the Bullary A Treaâ—… of the Blood of our Lord and a Treatise of the Power of God which he wrote when he was Carâ—… Printed at Rome in 1471. A Treatiâ—◠〈◊〉 Indulgences Printed in 1487. ROBERT FLEMING An English Dâ—… Flourish'd under the Pontâ—…e of Sixtus IV. His Genuine VVorks c. are A Poem in the Praise of Sixtus IV entituled Lucubrationes 〈…〉 JOHN de Dâ—O A 〈…〉 Fâ—…sh'd about the Year 1480. His Genuine Works Printed or not Printed See the Catalogue 〈◊〉 them P. 10â— PETER NATALIS A Venetian wrote about the Year 1480. His Genuine Works c. are A Catalogue of the Saints P. 94. MATTHIAS PALMIER Flourish'd about the end of this Century His 〈…〉 which now remains is A Continuatiâ—â— of 〈…〉 of Matthew Palmier till 1481. ALEXANDER of IMOLA A Civilian died in 1487 aged 54 Years His Genuine VVork is A Commentary upon the 6th Book of the Decretals JOHN WESSEL or of WESSALES A Dr. of Divinity Flourish'd from the Year 1470 and died in 1489. His Manuscript Works are Divers Treatises which are censur'd P. 95. JAMES PEREZ Bishop of Chrysopolis was made Bishop in 1468 died in 1491. His Genuine VVorks c. are Commentaries upon the Psalms A Treatise against the Jews An Exposition upon the Canticles Questions about the Merit of Jesus Christ. INNOCENT VIII Pope was promoted to the Papal Dignity in 1484 died in July 1492. His Genuine Works which now remain are Many Letters and Bulls in the Annalists and Bullarium JOHN PICUS of MIRANDULA Was born in 1463 Flourish'd about the Year 1480 and died in 1494. His Genuine VVorks are Theses and other Works whereof see the Catalogue P. 95. AUGUSTINE PATRICIUS Bishop of Pienza Flourish'd under the Pontificates of Paul II Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII His Genuine VVorks are The Life of Fabian Bencius A Relation of the Entry of Frederick III. Emperor into Rome A Book of the Ceremonies of the Church of Rome printed under the Name of Chrystophilus Marcellus of Corfu PETER SHOT A Canon of St. Peter's of Strasburg was born in 1459 died in 1491. His Genuine Works which remain are The Lives of St. John the Baptist John the Evangelist and John Chrisostome An Encomium of Gerson Casâ—s of Conscience JOHN KUIME of DUDERSTAT Flourish'd about the end of this Century His Genuine Work is A Book of the Elevation of the Soul to God JOHN MAUBURNE Abbot of Livry Flourish'd about the end of this Century His Genuine Work is A Spiritual Rosary ARNOLDUS BOSTIUS or BOSCHIUS Of the Order of Carmelites Flourish'd about the end of this Century died in 1499 on the 4th of April His Genuine Works which remain are The Lives of the Illustrious Men of the Order of the Carthusians His Manuscript Works See the Catalogue of them P. 98. GEORGE PHRANZA A Greek Writer Flourish'd about the end of this Century His Genuine Work is A Byzantine History from 1460 to 1476. DONAT BESSIUS a MILANESE Was born in 1436 Flourish'd till 1489. His Genuine Works c. are A Chronicle of the Archbishops of Milan A Chronicle of the principal Revolutions in the World BONIFACE SIMONET Abbot of the Order of Cistercians Flourish'd about the end of this Century His Genuine VVork c. An Historical Treatise of the Persecutions of Christians and of the Lives of the Popes NICOLAS BARJAN Of the Order of the
Congregation of St. Maur Publish'd a new Edition much finer and more correct than the preceeding Printed at Paris in 1675. which is a signal Proof of his accurate Industry and sound Judgment whose Merit is well known in the Common-wealth of Learning To St. Anselm's Works are annex'd those of Eadmer a Monk of Canterbury and his Pupil the First of which is the Life of his Tutor written very largely and in a very plain Style Eadmer St. Anselm ' s Pupil The Second is call'd The History of Novelties and divided into six Books of which the first Four contain a Relation of the Contests which St. Anselm had with the Kings of England about the Affair of the Investitures and of the Persecutions he suffer'd upon that Account and the Two last the History of the Transactions in the Church of Canterbury under Radulphus his Successor who was translated from the Bishoprick of Rochester to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury five Years after St. Anselm's Death and govern'd that Church till A. D. 1122. The Third is a Treatise of the excellent Qualities of the Virgin Mary in which he extols her Nativity Annunciation Assumption the Love that she had for her Son and the Advantages she procur'd for Men and ends with a Prayer made to her The Fourth is a particular Tract of the four Cardinal Vertues observable in the Blessed Virgin The Fifth is a Discourse of Beatitude or rather of the State of the Blessed in Heaven which he had heard deliver'd by St. Anselm The Sixth is a Collection of divers Similitudes and Comparisons that were taken out of St. Anselm's Works or which he had heard from his Mouth The Same Author likewise compos'd a Treatise of Ecclesiastical Liberty and wrote the Lives of St. Wilfrid and St. Dunstan and many Letters which are not as yet Published He died A. D. 1121. CHAP. X. Of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Eleventh Age who compos'd Treatises of Church-discipline or Commentaries on the Holy Scripture BURCHARD a German by Nation a Monk of Lobes and the Pupil of Olbert Abbot Burchard Bishop of Worms of Gemblours succeeded Franco his Brother in the Bishoprick of Worms A. D. 996. He assisted in the Council of Selingenstadt held by Aribo Arch-bishop of Mentz in 1023. and died in 1026. He compil'd by the help of Olbert a Collection of Canons distributed according to the Matters and divided into twenty Books call'd Decrees in which he has copy'd out and follow'd Regino but he has added many things and even committed several Errors which Regino never fell into This Work was Printed at Colen in 1548. and the next Year at Paris and at the end of it are annex'd the Canons of the Council of Selingenstadt 'T is compos'd very Methodically but without a due choice of Matters being full of Quotations of the false Decretals of the Popes according to the Custom of that Time GODEHARD Abbot of Tergernsee and afterwards Bishop of Hildesheim flourish'd Godehard Bishop of Hildesheim Gosbert Abbot of Tergernsee Guy Aretin Abbot of La Croix St. Leufroy Aribo Arch-bishop of Mentz in the beginning of the Century Father Mabillon has Publish'd five Letters written by him in the fourth Tome of his Analecta GOSBERT was in like manner Abbot of Tergernsee and Contemporary with the former Four of his Letters are Publish'd by Father Mabillon in the same Place GUY ARETIN Abbot of La Croix-St Leufroy flourish'd from the Year 1020. to 1030. and compos'd a new Method for Learning the Art of Musick call'd Micrologus He likewise wrote a Treatise of the Body and Blood of JESUS CHRIST against Berenger which is lost ARIBO the nineteenth Arch-bishop of Mentz is plac'd by Sigebert and Trithemius in the Class of the Ecclesiastical Writers The former only attributes to him a certain Commentary on the Fifteen gradual Psalms and the other adds a Letter to Berno Abbot of Richenaw and some others He says That that Arch-bishop held in the Year 1023. a Council at Selingenstadt with Burchard Bishop of Worms and the other Bishops and Abbots of his Province in which were made very useful Constitutions and that he died under the Emperor Conrad A. D. 1031. BERNO a Monk of St. Gall and afterward Abbot of Richenaw who was contemporary with and the familiar Friend of Aribo is likewise recommended by Trithemius as a Berno Abbot of Richenaw Person not inferiour in Knowledge to any of the learned Men of his Time He was more especially Skilful in the Art of Musick which was much study'd in that Age and compos'd many Works as well in Prose as in Verse We shall here mention those that Trithemius has taken notice of viz. A very elegant and useful Treatise Dedicated to Pilgrin Arch-bishop of Colen but he does not declare the Subject of it A Treatise of Musical Instruments Another of the coming of our Lord Dedicated to Aribo A Book of the Office of the Mass one of the Fast of the Ember-weeks one of Saturdays Fast another of the Time of the Monocord and several Letters But Trithemius has forgotten to make mention of the Life of St. Ulric Bishop of Augsburg compos'd by that Author and set forth by Surius as also of the Life of St. Meginrad Bishop and Martyr which Father Mabillon Publish'd in the second Part of the fourth Benedictin Century Berno flourish'd under the Emperor Henry II. from A. D. 1014. till 1048. when he died after having been Abbot during forty Years His principal Work is the Treatise of the Office of the Mass in which he enquires into the Authors of it and the Original of the Prayers of which 't is Compos'd He supposes that in the beginning of the Church the Mass was not said after the same manner as afterwards that in the time of the Apostles no other Prayers were recited but the Lord's Prayer and that for that Reason St. Gregory Pope ordain'd that the Lord's Prayer should be said over the Host after the Consecration He adds That the Canon was not made by a single Person but that it was augmented from Time to Time and that the other Parts of the Mass were Establish'd by Popes or by Holy Fathers Lastly he Treats in particular of the Gloria in Excelsis and of the times when it ought to be said of the Solemnity of the Octaves of Pentecost of the Office for the Sundays in Advent and other Sundays of the Year of that of the four Ember-weeks and of other Rubricks of the Divine Office But it ought to be observ'd That in this Book as in other Works of the same Nature divers Matters of Fact are advanc'd without sufficient Ground and even contrary to the Truth of History BRUNO Duke of Carinthia Uncle by the Father's side to the Emperor Conrad II. was Bruno Bishop of Wurtzburg ordain'd Bishop of Wurtzburg A. D. 1033. He wrote a Commentary on the Psalms taken out of the Works of the Fathers with certain Annotations on the Songs of the Old
and New Testament on the Lord's Prayer and on the Apostles Creed as also on those of St. Athanasius and St. Ambrose He died A. D. 1045. being crush'd to Pieces under the Ruins of a House which fell upon him as he accompany'd the Emperor Henry III. who was going to carry on the War in Hungary His Works were Printed at Colen in 1494. and inserted in the Bibliotheca Patrum of the Colen Edition and in the last at Lyons Father Mabillon Publish'd in the first Tome of his Analecta the Preface belonging to a Treatise of Prayers taken out of the Fathers and Dedicated as he proves it to the Empress Agnes the Wife of the Emperor Henry III. with certain Extracts of these Prayers Copied out of an ancient Manuscript of the Monastery of St. Arnulphus at Metz. The Preface bears the Name of John Abbot and Father Mabillon shews that he is apparently John sir-nam'd John or Jeannelin Abbot of Erbrestein Jeannelin by reason of the lowness of his Stature who was sometime Monk of St. Benignus at Dijon afterwards Prior of Fecamp under William Abbot and at last nominated Abbot of Erbrestein by the Emperor Henry III. A. D. 1052. This Author makes mention in that Preface of four or five other Treatises which he had compos'd viz. one of the Institution of a Widow another of the Life and Manners of Virgins a third of Alms and a fourth of the Heavenly Jerusalem or of Contemplation the greatest part of those Prayers are also contain'd in the Book of Meditations attributed to St. Augustin There are likewise in the same Place Letters of the same Abbot written by him when Prior of Fecamp In the Two first he consents to the Proposal made him by William I. King of England that Vitalis Abbot of Bernay should be translated to Westminster and that his Brother Osbern a Monk of Troarn should be substituted in his room By the Third directed to Warin Abbot of St. Arnulphus at Mets he requires a certain Monk nam'd Benedict to be sent back again who was then in his Abbey WARIN returns him a large Answer complaining of his rude Manner of treating him Warin Abbâ—t of St. Arnulphus at Mets. and declares That the Monk whom he demanded did not belong to his Jurisdiction by reason that after having taken upon him the Vows of Religion under the Abbot William he was plac'd by that Abbot in the Monastery of Gorze which he left to go to that of St. Arnulphus with the Permission of the Priors of Gorze and even of the Abbot William Warin had for his Successor in the Abbey of St. Arnulphus at Mets WILLIAM who William Abbot of St. Arnulphus at Mets. was chosen by Manasses Arch-bishop of Rheims to be also Abbot of St. Remy William wrote to Pope Gregory VII about the Affair protesting that he did not accept of that Office without a great deal of Reluctancy and Trouble and so much the rather in regard that he had no prospect of discharging it with good success by reason of the Irregularities that were then Predominant among the Monks of that Monastery The Pope did not approve that this Abbot should have the Government of two Abbies at once yet left him at Liberty to retain both However William himself soon repented of having had any thing to do with the Abbey of St. Remy for Manasses who only nominated him to the end that he might Pillage the Revenues of the Monastery with greater impunity perceiving that the Abbot would not suffer it treated him so rudely that at last he forc'd him to leave it which William did severely reprehending the Arch-bishop for his Tyrannical and Exorbitant Practices as it appears from the two Letters which he wrote to him publish'd by Father Mabillon in the first Tome of his Analecta with that Abbot's Letter to Pope Gregory VII four other Letters and a Prayer by the same Author At the same time liv'd Robert de Tombalene a Monk of St. Michael's Mount and afterwards Robert de Tombalene Abbot of St. Vigor at Bayeux Abbot of St. Vigor at Bayeux who wrote a Commentary on the Canticles the Prolegomena to which was set forth by Father Mabillon with an Extract of the Work it self in the first Tome of his Analecta This Extract makes it appear That the Commentary is not much different from that which is attributed to St. Gregory the Great There is a certain Manuscript without the Author's Name in the Library of St. Victor and it was publish'd under that of Radulphus Abbot of Fontanelle by Father Homey of the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustin and Printed by Peter de Laune at Paris A. D. 1684. This good Frier apparently had no other Ground to ascribe it to Radulphus than the Letter R. which he found in his Manuscript which denoted Robert and not Radulphus as he imagin'd ANSELM born at Mantua of a noble Family succeeded Alexander II. in the Bishoprick Anselm Bishop of Lucca of Lucca He receiv'd the Investiture from the Emperor Henry IV. and repenting of it some time after retir'd to the Monastery of Cluny from whence he was re-call'd by Gregory VII to govern his Bishoprick in 1073. Afterwards he was always extremely wedded to the Interests of that Pope and stifly maintain'd them against the Emperor and Guibert the Antipope He wrote two Letters against Guibert in Vindication of Gregory and made a Collection of certain Sentences to shew That Kings have no Right to be Masters of the Church-Revenues These Works are referr'd to by Canisius in the sixth Tome of his Antiquities To him likewise is attributed a large Collection of Canons of which there are some Manuscript-Copies in divers Libraries but although it bears his Name in a certain Manuscript of the Barberine Library nevertheless 't is not probable that it belongs to him as M. Balusius has prov'd in his Preface to Antonius Augustinus 1. Because the Author of the Life of St. Anselm Sigebert and Trithemius have not made any mention of it And 2. By reason that it contains some Decrees of Popes of a later Date than the Year 1086. which was that of the Death of Anselm of Lucca Antonius Augustinus ascribes this Collection to Hildebert Arch-bishop of Mans. Some in like manner attribute to DEUS-DEDIT Cardinal with the Title of St. Eudoxia Deus-Dedit Cardinal who liv'd under Pope Victor III. a Collection of Canons divided into four Books a Manuscript Copy of which is to be found in the Vatican Library There is also a third Collection bearing the same date and call'd Polycarp which was made by another Cardinal of the Church of Rome nam'd GREGORY and of which there are some Manuscript Gregory Cardinal Copies in M. Colbert's Library BENNO a German by Nation and Cardinal of the Church of Rome was one of the Benno Cardinal greatest Adversaries of Pope Gregory VII and wrote two Books against him full of Reproaches and Invectives which are
same An Addition to the Treatise of Schism by the same Propositions about the Extinction of the Schism by the same An Opposition made against the Substraction of Obedience to Benedict XIII A Treatise of the Corrupt State of the Church A Poem upon the same Subject by the same A Treatise of the Infallibility of a General Council by the same Letters about the Schism by the same A Treatise of John of Lignano in Defence of Urban VI. and others A Mirrour of the Pope and his Court by Paul an English Doctor A Treatise of the Priviledges of the Empire and of Investitures by Theodoric of Niem A Discourse of the Superiority of a Council of the Temporal Dominion of the Clergy of Preaching and Communion in both kinds by four Divines in the Council of Basil. A Treatise of Jordan Brice about the Validity of the Election of Eugenius IV. A Treatise of Monarchy by Anthony of Rosellis A Treatise of the Authority of a Council by St. John Capistran A Treatise of the Power of a Pope and a Council by Poggio A Treatise of Catholick Agreement by Nicolas of Cusa A Letter from the same Two Letters of Julian a Cardinal about the Dissolution of the Council of Basil. A Treatise of the Council of Basil by Panormitan A History of the Council of Basil by Aeneas Sylvius A Treatise of the Authority of the Roman Empire by the same A Treatise of the Seven States of the Church by James of Clusa Some Treatises of the same Person under the Name of James of Junterbunck A Sum about the Church and its Authority by Turrecremata A Collection of the Questions of St. Thomas Aquinas about the Power of the Pope The Works of Gregory of Heimburg and the Reply of Theodore Laelius about the Temporal Power of the Popes The Treatises of Denis the Carthusian about the Ecclesiastical Power A Treatise of the Power of the Pope by Simon of Harlem A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Power against Anthony of Rosellis by Henry Institor Some Censures of the Faculty of Theology at Paris against Gorel against Sarazin against Nicolas Quadrigaru against another Friar Minor against John Bartholomew against John Meunier against John D' Angeli about the Observation of Sunday Treatises of Canon Law A Commentary upon the Clementines and other Treatises of John of Lignano a Lawyer of Milan Commentaries upon the Decretals and the Clementines by Peter of Ancharano Commentaries upon three Books of the Decretals upon the sixth and the Clementines by John of Imola A Collection of the Constitutions of the Archbishop of Canterbury by William Lyndwood A Commentary upon the Decretals by John of Anagnia A Sum by Francis de la Place a Lawyer of Bologne A Treatise of Monarchy by Anthony of Rosellis Other Treatises of Law by the same The Treatises of St. John Capistran A Treaty of St. Antonin about Excommunication A Commentary upon the Decretals and the Clementines and some other Treatises by Panormitan A Commentary upon the Sixth by Alexander of Imola A Commentary upon the Decretals and other Treatises of Law by Felinus Sandaus A Commentary upon the 2d Book of the Decretals by Simon of Harlem Commentaries and Treatises upon the Holy Scripture Principles upon the Course of the Bible and the Gospel of St. Mark by Peter of Ailly Lectures of Gerson upon St. Mark A Moral Commentary upon the Lamentations of Jeremy by John Lattebur A Scrutiny of the Bible by Paul of Burgos Additions to the Postils of Nicolas Lyra upon the whole Bible by the same A Treasise of the Name of God by the same A Commentary of Alphonsus Tostatus upon the Holy Scripture Notes of Laurence Valla upon the New Testament The Incentives of Nicolas of Cusa a Cardinal Commentaries upon the Psalms and the Epistles of St. Paul by Cardinal John of Turrecremata A Concordance of the Bible by Henry Goricheme The Commentaries of Denis Rickel upon the whole Bible A Piece upon the Epistles of St. Paul by the same Mystical Commentaries upon the Psalms by James Perez An Exposition upon the Canticles by the same Seven Books upon Genesis and a Commentary upon the 15th Psalm by John Picus of Mirandula Some Treatises of Jerome Sabonarola A Commentary upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans by Marsilius Ficinus A Work upon the Bible entitled Quinquagesima by Anthony Nebrissensis Notes by the same Person upon the Lessons out of the Epistles and Prophets Treatises of Morality and Piety Divers Treatises by Peter of Ailly Maxims for all Estates by Gerson The Signs of the approaching Ruine of the World by the same The Defects of the Ecclesiasticks by the same The second part of Gerson's Treatise about the Incarnation concerning the Motions of Piety in those who receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist A Letter against John Rusbroek by the same A Letter of John of Schonâ—ove in Defence of Rusbroek and the Answer of Gerson to it Treatises about the Tryal of Spirits and Examination of Doctrines by Gerson A Letter to a Carthusian about Stability in his Condition and the Studies he ought to follow by the same A Treatise to distinguish true Visions from those that are false by the same A Tripartite Work by the same Some Treatises of the Difference between Mortal and Venial Sins of Confession and the Resolutions of divers Questions of Morality by the same Some Pieces about Mortal and Venial Sins and the Rebuke of our Neighbour by the same Of the Christian Instruction of Children by the same Treatises of Contracts and Simony by the same Letters of Piety by the same Of the Consolation of Theology by the same A Complaint about the Affair of John Petit by the same A Treatise of the Spiritual Life of the Soul by the same A Treatise of Mystical Divinity by the same A Treatise of the Impressions which Men receive from God Angels and Devils by the same Works of Piety by the same A Treatise of the Illumination of the Heart by the same Instructions to John Major concerning the Office of a Praeceptor to a Prince by the same A Letter against Lascivious Pictures by the same A Letter about the Miseries of the Church by the same A Centilogium of the Final Causes of the Works of God by the same Other Treatises of Morality and Piety by the same A Treatise of the Failing and Restoration of Justice by Clemangis A Treatise of Theological Studies by the same A Discourse upon the Parable of the Prodigal Son by the same A Treatise about the Advantages of Solitude by the same A Treatise of the Benefit of Adversity by the same Many Moral Letters by the same The Remedies of both Fortunes by Adrian the Carthufian Treatises and Letters by St. Vincent Ferrier Treatises of Piety by Nicolas D'Inkelspuel Moral Disticks entituled The Memorial of Roses by Peter of Rosenbeim The Works of John Nider A Sum of Cases of Conscience and an Interrogatory of Confessors by Nicolas Auximanus The
Destructory of Vices by Alexander Carpenter Explications of the Lord's Prayer and the Decalogue by Peter of Jeremy Treatises of the Passion of our Lord and of Faith by the same The Moral Works of Alphonsus Tostatus Works of Piety by Laurence Justinian The Revelations of St. Katherine of Bologne A Treatise of the Education of Children by Maphaus Vegius Six Books of Perseverance in Religion by the same Truth banish'd by the same A Treatise of Vertue and a Discourse upon the Disciples going to Emmaâ—s by St. Antonin A Discourse against Hypocrites by Leonard Aretin A Treatise of Hypocrisie by John Boptista Poggio Four Books of the Inconstancy of Fortune by the same A Treatise of Nobility and another of Humane Misery by the same A Treatise of the Education of Children by Aeneas Sylvius Works of Piety by John Canales Works of Piety by John of Turrecremata Sermons and other Treatises of Piety by Thomas A-kempis The Imitation of Christ attributed to the same Author Works of Morality Piety and Spirituality by Denis the Carthusian The Mirrour of five forts of States by James Gruytrode The Mirrour of Humane Life by Roderick Sancius of Arebal Spiritual Works by Henry Harphius Dialogues about what is truly and falsly good and other Moral Works by Bartholomew or Baptista Platina Treatises of Valour Temperance and some other by Martin the Master A Treatise of the Dignity of Man by John Picus of Mirandula Rules or Precepts for the Institution of a Christian Life by the same A Treatise of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ by the same A Treatise of the Vanity of the World by the same An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer by the same Letters by the same A Discourse of the Reformation of Manners by John Francis Picus of Mirandula Cases of Conscience by Peter Shot Sums of Cases of Conscience by John Baptista Salvis Pacificus Angelus of Clavasio and John Baptista Travamala Other Moral Works by Angelus of Clavasio Moral and Ascetick Works by Charles Ferrand Moral Works by Marsilius Ficinus The Paradise of Conscience by Wenerus Rolwinck of Laer. Works of Morality and Piety by Bernard of Aquila A Treatise of Vertues by Anthony of Baloche A Treatise of the Manner of Confessing by Bernardin of Tome Moral Works by Robert Caraccioli and Michael of Milan Works of Piety by Michael Francis Bishop of Saluzzes Works of John de Deo and John de la Pierre Crrthusians Works of Morality and Piety by John Trithemius Moral Spiritual and Ascetick Works by Jerome Sabonarola Censures against the Proposition of John Petit about the Murder of Tyrants A Condemnation of Magick by the Faculty of Theology at Paris and of Judicial Astrology A Conclusion of the same Faculty about the Observation of Sunday Censures of some Propositions of Morality by the same Faculty Conclusions of the same Faculty about a Contract for Usury and against Superstition SERMONS The Figures of the Bible by Anthony Rampelogus Sermons by Peter of Ailly Two Sermons by Gerson Preach'd before Benedict XIII Other Sermons Preach'd by the same at Constance Other Sermons by the same about Ecclesiastical Discipline Other Sermons by the same Sermons and Letters by the same A Sermon by the same upon the Nativity of the Virgin Other Sermons in French by the same Sermons attributed to St. Vincent Forrier The Sermons of Herman Petri of Stutdorp a Carthusian The Sermons of St. Bernardin of Siena The Sermons of Peter of Jeremy Sermons and Common Places for Preachers by Leonard of Udine by Nicolas of Orbellis by John of Turrecremata by Thomas A-kempis by Henry Harpbius by Gabriel Barlette A Quadragesimale and Questions to be preach'd upon by Nicolas Barjan Sermons by Gabriel Biel. Sermons upon St. Benedict by Wernerius Ralwinck of Laer. Quadragesimale's and other Sermons by Anthony of Baloche Sermons by Bernardin of Tome by Bernardin de Bustis by Robert Caraccioii by Michael of Milan by Stephen Brulefer by Oliver Mailiard by Simon of Harlem by John Raulin Universal History Cosmodromium by Gobelin Persona A Chronicle of Chronicles by Theodoric of Ingelhuse Decads of History by Blondus Flavius Other Books of the History of Italy by the same A Voyage into Italy by Ambrose the Camaldulian An Historical Sum of St. Antonine A Chronicle of Matthew Palmier continued by Matthias Palmier A Chronicle of the Principal Changes of the World by Arnold Bostius Fasciculus Temporum by Wernerus Rolwinck de Laer. A Chronicle by John Naucler Particular Histories An History of the Schism by Theodorick of Niem A Treatise entituled Nemus Unionis by the same The Life of John XXIII by the same A Treatise of the Priviledges of the Empire by the same An History of England by Thomas of Walsirgham A Treatise of Lawence Valia about the Lonation of Constantine A Treatise of St. Antonine about the same Donation A Description of the Death of Jeâ—â—â—â— of Prague by John Baeptista Poggio Funeral Orations upon Zabarella and Albergat Cardinals and upon Laurence of the Medici by the same An History of Liege by John of Stavelo continu'd by John Losse Histories of the Council of Basil by Panormitanus and Aeneas Sylvius An History of the Council of Florence by Sylvesier Sguropulus A Letter of the Coronation of Felix V by Aeness Sylvius The History of the Bohemians by the same An Abridgment of the Decads of Blondus by the same An History of 〈◊〉 Sylvius by John Gebelin An History of James Picolomini from 1464 to 1469. A Chronicle of Windesem by John Busch An History of Spain by Roderick Sancius D Areval The Lives of the Popes by Platina A Poem in praise of Sixtus the IVth by Robert Fleming The Life of Fabian Bencius and a Relation of the Reception of Frederick III. at Rome by Augustine Patricius Bishop of Pienza The Lives of the Illustrious Men of the Carthusians by Arnold Bossius A Chronicle of the Archbishops of Milan by Donat Bostius An Historical Treatise of the Persecutions of the Christians and of the Lives of Popes by Boniface Simonet A Defence of the Preheminence of the Order of Hermites of St. Augustine against the Order of Friars Minors by Nicolas Barjin Histories of the Councils of Basil and Florence and of the Assembly at Ratisbon by Augustine Patricius a Canon of Siena An History of the Priviledges of the Order of Cistersians by John of Circy Annals of the History of France by Robert Gaguin An History of the Order of Carmelites by John Paleonydorus Historical Works of Trithemius whereof see the Catalogue An History of Ferdinand King of Spain by Authony Nebrissensas Greek History The Byzantine History from the Year 1260 to 1476 by George Phranza The Byzantine History of Ducas from 1341 to 1462. A Letter of Matthew Camariote about the Taking of Constantinople Divers Works by George Codinus about the State of the Empire and the City of Constantinople An History of the Turks by Laonicus Chalcondilus An Abridgment of the History of the Turks till the Taking of