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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14345	The history of the moderne protestant divines containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant. Faithfully translated out of Latine by D.L.; Praestantium aliquot theologorum. English	Verheiden, Jacob, fl. 1590.; Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Heroologia Anglica.	1637 (1637)	STC 24660; ESTC S119100	56,783	398

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