he to Alting I give thee leave to take any one book and to carry it away with thee This proffer our generous Alting refused saying Sir If all these things be yours I pray God that you may enjoy them longer then their last Master did This was with Iob to say The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest Thuâ— returning to his former refuge not without very great danger three days after Tilly who had taken up Altings son in Laws house for his Quarters was prevailed with to grant him a safe conduct to go to Heilbron to bring back his family from thence Thus escaping out of Heidleberg he passed through a thousand dangers and deaths till it pleased God at last to bring him safely to Heilbron from whence after a short stay he went to Schomdorf where he found his family In which place he stayed till Frebruary following having obtained leave so to do of the Duke of Wirtemberg by the mediation of his Dutches whom otherwise the Lutheran Divines would not have endured and indeed they fretted exceedingly at it having no other reason for their spleen but only because he was a Professor of Heidleberg The year following being 1623. the King of Bohemia sent for him into the Low-countries and at last through Gods mercy after a long difficult dangerous and chargable journey both by Water and Land he arrived safely with his Family at Embden and after a short stay there went into Holland presenting himself to his King who presently made him Tutor to his Eldest son Frederick Neither would the King suffer him to imbrace a frequent call which he had to a Pastoraâ— charge in Embden Yet neither did he pass over that year without great danger For as he was passing in a sled upon the ice nere Purmerend the ice breaking he fell into the water and was very neer drowning But by Gods mercy being pulled out he fell into a dangerous disease of which though he recovered yet he felt a continual pain in his left shoulder all his life after A while after taking all his Family with him he removed to Leiden to oversee the Kings sons in their studies Anno Christi 1625. Sibrand Lubbertus dying at Franekâ—r he was called by the States of Frisland to supply that place and they sent again and again to the King to desire his consent thereto But the King not consenting he modestly excused it Anno Christi 1626. he was called to Groning to supply the place of Ravensâ—erg one of the Professors of Divinity lately dead And though the King would by no means at first hear of it yet at the importunity of the Senate and University he at last consented and furnishing him with necessaries dismissed him So that he removed to Groning and the Easter following began his work in the University Anno Christi 1627. yet once a year he used to visit the King who always highly prized him and used him very familiarly He supplyed that Professors place at Groning for the space of eighteen years with admirable fidelity diligence and industry as not only his hearers but his works testifie As his Body of Divinity His Explication of Vrsins Catechism and the Belgick Confession His Disputations and Lectures against the Manual of Becanus His Tractates concerning the Plague Predestination and the Term of Life His Vindication and Explication of the Canons of the Synod of Dort Besides some other of his Works not yet printed He was three times Rector of the Academy in Groning In the years 1628. 1636 and 1641. At all which times he brought some great profit or other to the University In his first Rectorship he procured an encrease of Fellowships For whereas there were but forty before he encreased them to sixty In his second Rectorship he procured a great augmentation to the University Library In his third he obtained that one of the Doctors was sent at the Publick charge to Leiden to buy the choicest Books out of Gomarus his Library He was seven years Pastor of the Church of Groning At the request of Count Benthemius he visited the County of Steinfurt purged it from Socinianism and setled peace in the Churches He together with some other learned men was imployed in perusing and correcting the new Version of the New Testament and the Apocrypha Books wherein he attended it with great diligence and danger at Leiden the Plague being very rife amongst them at the same time He always had a singular care of the Churches of Germany and especially of the Pallatinate improving his interest in procuring liberal contributions in all the Reformed Churches for their maintenance that they might not perish through want The Collections which were made in England were committed to his distribution with two others by the Elector Charles Lodowick The contribution of that Noble and Munisicent man Lodowick de Geer was put into his hand for the training up of young German Students in Divinity which might when God should restore peace furnish the Churches of the Palatinate again which trust he discharged with great diligence and fidelity He refused the Cals which he had to Vtrick and Leiden For though he condescended to the latter when it was brought him Anno Christi 1633. by the Syndic of Leiden yet it was upon condition that the Provincial States of Groning would give their consents But he was too dear to them to be dismissed though several requests were made to them by the States of Holland for the obtaining thereof He was once calleâ— back by the Administrator of the Palatinate Prince Lodowick Philip to be Professor of Heidleberg and to restore the Churches in the Palatinate and for that end he went through many dangers as far as Franckfurt but by reason of the overthrow at Norlingen a new tempest hung over the Palatinate which hindred his prosecution of that work How much he watched over the good of the University of Groning how careful he was for the choice of able Professors in case of vacancy and how prevalent he was therein by reason of his favour and authority with the States is known to all that were his Contemporaries there He was very careful for the training up of young Students to the work of the Ministry that they should not be sent forth raw and unprovided to so great and difficult imployments for which end he caused Ecclesiastes Bucani to be printed for their use He marryed a wife whilst he was at Heidleberg Anno Christi 1614. a little before he was called to his Professors place Not rashly as many do marrying and getting children before they have means to maintain them She was a very religious Matron Susanna Belieria the daughter of Charles Belierius then Consul of Heidleberg with whom he lived lovingly without domestick quarrels for
the pestilent Heresie of Arius Yea a while after the Emperour himself began to favour that opinion and so by little and little it was spread everywhere first the Emperours Guard took it up then it busied the mindes of the multitude in the City the Emperours Chamberlains in the very Pallace began to contend with women about it And this woful Effect followed the countenancing of this Heresie that in every House and Family through the City they brawled and went together by the ears about it Yea this infection spread it self quickly through other Regions and Countries and the controversie much like a spark of fire kindled the mindes of the hearers with the fiery flame of discord and dissention For every one that desired to know why they made tumults by and by had occasion given him to reason and every one was not satisfied with questioning but contentiously would argue thereof By these means the peaceable and quiet state of the Church was turned upside down But in the interim it pleased God that this flame kept in the East whilest the Western Church injoyed peace and quietness For by no means would they suffer the Canons of the Nicene Council to be violated or made null After the heat of contention was blown abroad and burned more and more the Faction of Eusebius doubted not but it would turn to their great advantage for they hoped that it would come to pass that some Bishop would be chosen of Alexandria that would favour and advance their opinion But at the very same time Athanasius returned unto Alexandria carrying along with him Letters from Constantine the Younger who was one of the Emperours The tenour whereof was this Constantine Caesar to the People of the Catholick Church of Alexandria sendeth greeting I hope it is not unknown to your discreet wisdoms that Athanasius the Professor of sacred Divinity was for a time banished into France least that through the mischievous dealing of lewd men for blood suckers and cruel beasts sought to bereave him of his life he should privily be slain wherefore that he might be sheltred from the malice of those despiteful men he was taken out of their jaws and was commanded to live under my Dominion where I took care that he might be fully furnished with all things needful as if he had been in the City where formerly he lived And when as our Lord and Father of famous memory Constantine the Emperour had intended to restore him to his Bishoprick again he was prevented by death before he could accomplish his desires I thought it my part and duty therefore to execute the intent of so godly an Emperour With what estimation and reverence I have entertained the man he shall report with his own mouth at his return to you neither is there any marvel that I shewed him such courtesie For me thought that I saw in him the great longing ye had for him and I beheld also the Fatherly reverence and gravity of the man himself all which moved me not a little thereunto God of his goodness Wel-beloved Brethren have you in his tuition Athanasius upon the confidence of these Letters returned unto Alexandria whom the people received with most willing mindes But such in that City as were infected with the Leprosie of Arianism conspired against him so that many tumults and skirmishes were raised which gave occasion to the confederates of Eusebius to accuse Athanasius falsely to the Emperour that of his own private spirit without the consent of the Assembly of the Bishops he had setled himself in that Church This odious accusation so far incensed the Emperour Constantius that he sent one Gregory an Arian to be Bishop of Alexandria and with him Syrianus a Captain with 5000 Souldiers to drive out Athanasius and to settle Gregory in his room the Arians which were in the City joined themselves with them to help them It was then even-tide and the people were assembled in the Church to prepare themselves for the Sacrament which was the next day to be administred The Captain drew nigh set his Souldiers in battail array and beset the Church Athanasius understanding the danger devised how the people might take no harm for his sake whereupon he commanded his Deacon to read the Collects to the people and after that to sing a Psalm and as the Psalm was sweetly and harmoniously sung all the people went out at one of the Church doors and it pleased God that the Souldiers had no power to meddle with them and Athanasius in the midst of the Singers escaped also without any harm and Gregory took possession of the Church whilest Athanasius being thus through Gods mercy delivered went in all hast to Rome About this time Constantine the younger was slain by the souldiers and Constance the youngest of the three Emperours remained Emperour of the West Athanasius coming to Rome complained to the Bishop Julius of the great wrong which was done to him the like did divers others of the Eastern Bishops who were unjustly thrust out by the Arians Hereupon Julius wrote freely unto the Bishops of the East requiring them to restore those Bishops to their places again sharply rebuking such as had raâ—hly and unjustly procured their deposition The wronged Bishops trusting to Julius his Letter returned every man to his own Church conveying the Letters unto whom they were written who when the Letters came to their hands took it very hainously that Julius should interpose in that cause and thereupon summoned a Council at Antioch In the mean time Athanasius being come to Alexandria there was great stir and many tumults were raised by Gregory and the Arians against him they also forged and divulged this slander viz. That whereas Constantine the Great had given certain grain for Alms to relieve the Poor of the Church of Alexandria this say they Athanasius had sold and converts it to his own private lucre the Emperour takes this slanderous report for truth and threatneth him with death which Athanasius hearing of fled and hid himself in a secret and obscure place At length Julius Bishop of Rome being informed where he lay hid sent for him and when he was come to Rome he acquainted the Emperour Constance with all the injuries which were done to him This good Emperour being much affected with that sad relation wrote to his Brother in the East requesting him to send to him three men that would justifie the accusations against Athanasius Accordingly there were sent Narcissus the Cilician Theodore the Thracian â—aris the Calcedonian and Marcus the Syrian But when they came to Rome they would by no means reason with Athanasius only they exhibited to the Emperour a certain Form of Faith and so took their leave without reasoning of any other matter Not long after the Western Bishops assembled in a Council at Sardis where Athanasius was acquit from the crimes charged upon him and thereupon Constance
not suffer their Bishop to have any violence done to him Hereupon the people being assembled from all parts a great tumult was raised so that every one expected a Sedition to ensue the President sent presently to the Emperour to acquaint him with these proceedings and in the mean time suffered Athanasius to remain in the City Many days after when the Sedition was well appeased Athanasius privily stole out of the City and went and hid himself in a certain secret place The night after the President and Colonel of the Souldiers went to his house which joined to the Church and there sought every corner for him but not finding him they lost their labours For they thought that now the people were quieted and feared no such matter they might easily apprehend him and so execute the Emperours command But when Athanasius could not be found every one much wondered at it believing that God had discovered the danger to him and thereby preserved him from it Others say that Athanasius mistrusting the heady and rash motion of the common people fearing that if any mischief were wrought by them it would be laid to his charge retired privily and hid himself for the space of four months in his Fathers Monument But in the mean time the Emperour Valence considering how many friends Athanasius had which by reason of his absence might happily raise commotions to the great prejudice of the Empire and withall considering that Valentinian who was an earnest Defender of the Nicene Faith might take the banishment of Athanasius very hainously hereupon he wrote very loving Letters to the people of Alexandria signifying that his pleasure was that Athanasius should quietly according to their hearts desire enjoy his Bishoprick Yet in other places a great Persecution was raised against the Orthodox who were driven out of their Churches and Arians placed in their rooms only the Churches of Egypt enjoyed Peace all the life time of Athanasius whose death fell out not long after when having endured many skirmishes in the quarrel of the Church and having been Bishop 46 years in which time he had often been in great hazard of his life yet at the length through the goodness and mercy of God he dyed in peace in his own City of Alexandria leaving behinde him Peter a godly and zealous man to succeed him Anno Christi 375. It was said of him Non solùm Episcopi c. Not only Bishops but Emperours Kingdoms Nations and Armies opposed him whereupon he used to say Though an Army should encamp about me yet would I not fear In the time of Julian the Apostate who made much use of Conjurers the Magicians and Southsayers in Alexandria cryed out that they could do nothing in their Art except Athanasius were removed out of the City It was said of him Vnus Athanasius contra totum mundum One Athanasius stood firm against all the world Gregory Nazianzen stiles him Tubam ingentem Columnam Ecclesiae The great Trumpet and Pillar of the Church Theodoret stiles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Bulwark of Truth His Works are commonly printed in two Tomes which Scultetus distinguisheth into Germana Dubia Supposita Germana sunt Oratio adversus Gentes Oratio de incarnatione verbi Expositio Fides Respons ad Liberium Epistola de fide ad Jovinianum Sermo de incarnatione Orationes quinque contra Arianos Tractat in illud dictum Omnia mihi sunt tradita à Patre Epistolae and Adelphinum fratrem and Maximum Philosophum de sententia Dionysii Refutatio hypocriseos Miletii Eusebii Pauli Samosetani Sermo de humana natura suscepta Epistolae ad Epictetum de Incarnatione Christi contra Apolinarium Oratio contra Apolinarium Oratio contra gregales Sabellii Epistolae duae ad Scrapionem de spiritu sancto Epistola de Incarnatione Verbi Dei. Apologiae ad Imperatorem Constantinum De fuga sua prima secunda Ad Africà nos Narratio de Concilio Nicaeno Epistola Catholica Epistolae ad Antiochenses ad Serapionem de morte Arii ad omnes solitariam vitam agentes De Synodis Arimini Seleuciae ad omnes ubique Orthodoxos Ad Joan. Antiochum Ad Palladium Ad Dracontium Ad Ruffianum De Sabbato Circumcisione De peccato in S. Sanctum Synopsis Scripturae sanctae Dubia sunt Orationes de Semente De Ascensione Christi Symbolum Athanasii Epistola ad Aremùn Fragmentum Epistolae festalis Vita S. Antonii De Virginitate sive de meditatione Omnia reliqua sunt supposititia The Life of Hilarie who flourished An. Chri. 355. HIlarie Bishop of Poictiers was nobly descended and of excellent gifts He was frequent in Preaching exemplary in Life a great opposer of the Arian Heresie whereupon the Bishops Valence and Vrsacius procured the Emperour to banish him into Phâ—ygia Afterwards the Emperour commanding many Bishops to assemble at Seleucia to give their opinions about the Arian Heresie Hilarie carried himself so well there that he was restored to Poictiers After which he travelled over Italy and France diligently instructing the Bishops of both those countries in the Canons of the Catholick Faith He was a very Eloquent man and wrote many things in the Latine tongue amongst which he wrote 12 Books of the Trinity expounded the Canon containing the clause Of One Substance proved it sufficiently and confuted the arguments of the Arians He was a very Heavenly man both in his Life and Doctrine and by his means especially the Faith confirmed in the Nicene Council was propagated and defended in these Western parts of the World all his life time He wrote also against the Emperour Constantius one Book Two Books to the Emperour against Auxentius the Arian Commentaries on Matthew Epistles to S. Augustine c. He dyed in peace under Valentinian and Valence CYRIL The Life of Cyril who dyed Anno Christi 365. Cyrillus Bishop of Jerusalem was at the first an Arian and therefore by that faction was made Bishop of Hierusalem but shortly after he was accused in a Council for certain hainous crimes by whom he was deposed from his Bishoprick and being often called by them to purge himself from those crimes he still absented himself for the space of 2 years thinking thereby to escape and the crime to be forgotten as soon as he was deposed he sent an appellation in writing to his Deposers appealing from them to the Judges of the Higher Court. Constantius the Emperour admitted his appellation so that Cyril was the first and the only man that brought in this president so prejudicial to the Ecclesiastical constitutions At length he came to Seleucia to have his cause heard where his Deposition was confirmed for his communicating with certain heretical Bishops and Herennius was substituted in his room Bishop of Hierusalem and after him Heraclius and after him Hilarius These continued the Government of that Church till the reign of Theodosius senior At which
c. Dialogi de confusione Mundi De communicatione fidelium Expositio Orationis Dominicae De natura varietate Vâ—torum atque Legum Divinarum Disputationes de statu defunctorum c. J. JVEL The Life of John Juel who dyed A no Christi 1571. JOhn Juel was born at Buden in Devonshire Anno Christi 1522. His Father was a Gentleman that carefully trained him up in piety and learning His singular promptnesse of wit and industry accompanied with ingenuity and modesty procured him much love from his Master At thirteen years old he was sent to Oxford and admitted into Merton Colledge under the tuition of Master â—arkhurst who was as carefull to season him with pure Religion as with other learning afterwards he removed to Corpus Christi Colledg where his proficiency in learning was so remarkable that he took his degree of Bachelor with much applause and shortly after was chosen before many his Seniors to read the Humanity Lecture which he performed with such accuratenesse diligence and excellency that many came from other Câ—lledges to hear him and amongst others Master Parkhurst his former Tutor who the Lecture being ended saluted him thus Olim Discipulus mihi chare Juelle fuisti Nunc ero Discipulus terenuente tuus Dear Juel thou a Scholar wast of mine Hereafter though unwilling I le be thine He was very studious and his onely recreations from hiâ— studies was reading to his Scholars disputing with others and ruminating what he had before read His life was such that the Dean of the Colledge though a Papist thus said I should love thee Juel if thou wert not a Zuinglian In thy Faith I hold thee an Heretick but surely in thy life thou art an Angelâ— thou art very good and honest but a Lutherâ—n In the end of King Henry the eighth's reigne he commenced Master of Arts but he flourished much more under Edward the sixth at which time Peter Martyr being the Divinity Professor in Oxford Juel observed his Art copied ouâ— his Sermons and Lectures and became most intimate with him He preached at Sunningwell and was famous for his Latine Sermons ad Clerum He ever loved Eloquence bâ—t not effeminatam sed virilem Prudentibus viris non placeâ—â— phalerata sed fortia But about the beginning of Queeâ— Maries reign the popish party of that Colledge prevailing they expelled him the house for his Religion After which he â—arried a while at Broadgates-Hall where the same of his learning drew many Scholars to him and the University chose him for her Orator There he stayed so long till the Inquisition caught him urging upon him subscription under pain of Proscription and horrible tortures Now was he brought into such straights that consulting with flesh and blood hee set his name to the paper whereby he approved some articles of Popery This much obscured the glory of his after sufferings and nothing promoted his safety for snares being laid for him he had certainly been caught had he not by Gods speciall providence gone that very night that he was sought for accidentally a wrong way to London and to by going out of the way he found the safest way But afterwards he repented of this publick Subscription by publick confession and contrition As he travelled on foot in a snowie winters night toward London he was found in the way by Master Latimers servant starved with cold and faint with wearinesse lying on the ground panting and labouring for life or for death rather by whose means he was preserved Yet when he came to London he found no safety looking every hour to be delivered up to that cruel butcher Bonner and to be slaughtered at his shambles whereupon he fled from his Native-Soyl and wandring beyond Sea was disappointed of all his friends and means to procure him so much as a nights lodging yet through Gods mercy he came safe to Franckefurt where presently after he made an excellent Sermon and in the end of it openly confessed his fall in these words It was my abject and cowardly minde and faint heart that made my weak hand commit this wickednesse which confession was mixed with hearty sighs and tears and concluded with earnest supplication First to Almighty God whom he had offended and then to his Church which he had scandalized and there was none in that Congregation but ever after imbraced him as a dear brother yea as an Angel of God From thence he was often invited by kinde Letters from Peter Martyr to Strasborough whether at last he went and where he found many Divines Knights and Gentlemen who were fled from England having left their estates honors kindred and dearest friends for the testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When he came to Strasborough Martyr invited him to his Common-Table and used his help in compiling of his Commentary upon Judges and afterwards when Martyr was sent for by the Senate of Zurick to succeed Pellican in the Hebrew Lecture and exposition of Scripture he took Juel with him being accompanied also with many other English Exiles who for a while were maintained by the charity of some Londoners till Steven Gardiner having notice of it by imprisoning and impoverishing their benefactors stopped the current of their bounty Yet in this extremity the Lord raised up Christopher Prince of Wirtemberg bountifully to relieve them The Senators of Zurick also at the request of Bullinger opened the treasury of their liberality to them Also Calvin Zuinglius Melancthon Pellican Lavater Gesner and all the greatest ornaments of Religion and learning in all reformed Churches were very kinde to the English Exiles Juel spent most of the time of his banishment in Peter Martyrs house bettering him and being bettered by him He took much paines also in composing the differences and contentions amongst his brethren arising from the difference of opinion concerning ceremonies and Church-discipline and those which groaned most under the burthen of affliction he perswaded them to patience in bearing their part of Christs Crosse shutting up all with that sweet close often repeated by him Haec non durabunt aetatem Bear a while these miseries will not endure an Age Which words proved a Prophesie for it pleased God in mercy to his Church shortly after to cut off that bloody Queen Mary who lived not out half her daies and to set up Queen Elizabeth to be a Nursing Mother to his Church In the beginning of whose Reign those Exiles returned home and Juel amongst the rest Presently after his return he with some others were appointed to dispute at Westminster with some of the Popish party but the Papists declining the Disputation it came to nothing Shortly after the Queen imployed him into the West to visit the Churches to root out Superstition and to plant true Religion where he took much pains in breaking the Bread