in the hearing of some of our Bishops Before God and Christ Jesus my Redeemer I will acknowledge from my heart and professe openly That the Church of England is a true and orthodoxal Church of Christ. His shiftings in Religion The Papists urge two things much against the Reformed Religion 1. Our divisions and differences amongst our selves as Fitz Simons in his Britannomachia ministrorum in plerisque Fidei fundamentis Articulis dissidentium Secondly The Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther To the first I might answer with Zanchy That this is rather an Argument that we are the true Churches of Christ. For there are saith he three kindes of Churches 1. Where God onely reigns without contradiction This is the Triumphant Church in Heaven 2. Where Satan only reigns This is the Church of the wicked and Idolaters such are the Turkish Jewish Popish Churches 3. Where God truly reigns but not without the snares and assaults of Satan This is the true Church of Christ which is called Militant This alwayes fights with the flesh the world Hereticks and the Devil The Confessions of Faith of the Churches professing the Gospel having been long ago exhibited to the several Princes of the Countreys States and Kingdoms where these Churches are are now of late very profitably published to the conviction of all such as slander the Reformed Churches to be variably distracted and rent in sunder with infinite differences of Faith Travers answer to a Popish Treatise written to the LL. of the Councel Amyraldus de Secessione ab Ecclesia Romana pag. 67. saith The chief controversies inter Evangelicos may be reduced to four heads 1. Concerning the Nature of the Sacraments 2. About the Person of Christ and the Properies of both Natures in it 3. How the Doctrine of Predestination is to be explained 4. What is to be held concerning the Providence of God especially as it is conversant about the ill actions of the reasonable creature and shews there also how far yet they agree in all these D r Hall in his Peace of Rome shews That Bellarmine acknowledgeth and numbers up above three hundred differences of opinions maintained in the Popish Church and that Navarre confesseth near threescore differences amongst their own Doctors in one only point of their Religion There are many Sects risen since the Gospel was first published but none are so guilty of division as the Papists though they extoll their own Church for Unity They unchurch all the Churches of Christ through the world besides themselves the Greek Church and divers others What a State were all former ages in before the Popes Supremacy was acknowledged The pure and primitive times The reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is condemned amongst them as a capital crime in Spain and Italy but allowed in England and France Albertus Pighius dissents from Cajetane Thomas from Lombard Scotus from Thomas Occam from Scotus Alliacensis from Occam Their nominals disagree from their reals What difference is there between the Franciscans and Dominicans concerning original sinne in the blessed Virgin What difference among the Jesuites and other Papists concerning Councels being above the Pope The Jesuites hold that the Pope is above a Councel Bellarmine confesseth lib. 2. de Concil cap. 17. parag 1. that Proposition That the Pope is absolutely above a Councel is not simply de fide and those are not Hereticks properly who hold the contrary The Pope in two Councels those of Constance and Basil was declared to be inferiour to a Councel 2. For the other Objection of the Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther I answer there are books written to refute this calumny The Waldenses for divers hundred years before Luther successively opposed Popery professed the truth of the Gospel and sealed it with their bloud Campian in his third reason cals them Majores nostros Vide Gerhard Epist. Ded. ad Confess Cathol Illyricus in his Catalogus Testium veritatis and Wolfius in his Lectiones Memorabiles Reconditae And Gerhard in his Confessio Catholica sufficiently refute this Objection Errours often lie hid under the venerable Cloak of ancient custom Matth. 5. 21 27 31 33 38 43. But on the contrary sound and orthodox Doctrine is undeservedly taxed with the crime of novelty Mark 1. 27. Act. 17. 19. therefore judgement is to be made of both by Scripture Act 17. 11. Secondly We may retort this Question on them Where was your Religion before the Councel of Trent Cardinal Contarenus holding the same with us for substance in point of Justification and many of those learned and modest men which are reckoned for Papists groaning under the corruptions of their Church and desiring a Reformation of many abuses as well as we Bishop Iewels challenge of the Papists is commonly known with which Peter du Moulin also accords There is rather a conspiracy amongst the Papists then true union as on the contrary the difference amongst us is rather a diversity then a division in circumstances or things of lesse moment and among persons rather then generally We are reproached beyond Sea for our unsettlement in matters of Religion and for the diversity of opinions and sects now in the Land Some amongst our selves also will be ready to object That there are so many religions and opinions that they know not which course to take 1. Such should therefore take the Scripture onely for the rule of their faith and life 2. They should study faithfully to know the plain meaning of the Scripture they should reade it diligently seek Gods direction come to it not with forestalled conceits but with love of the truth 3. They should resolve to obey what they shall finde upon such diligent inquiry to be the plain minde of God beyond dispute They should practice what all Christian Sects agree in they all confesse that God is above the creature and to be preferred before it that the pleasures and profits of this world are far short of the glory to come CHAP. VII Of the Syncretisme of Religion or of a friendly Reconciliation of the different parties amongst themselves THey are Christians which professe Christian Religion therefore those which either know not Christ as the Pagans or deny him to be the Saviour of the world as the Mahometans or that contemn and blaspheme him as the Iews are excluded There are several opinions about this matter The first is of those who hold That whosoever they be who differ about Religion so they be Christians they may and ought to be reconciled and agree together in an Ecclesiastical Syncretism so the Socinians Libertines Polititians Machivillians The second opinion is of those which denieth that Christians differing in Religion can or ought to be so reconciled So the Papists especially the Jesuites think and teach requiring a full consent with the Church of Rome as that which cannot erre and out
dignity and office to Peter himself Minime verò vel ipsis crepantibus Antichristis But thou wilt say that none was strengthened in the faith by Iulius But dost not thou see a remedy prepared viz. an Oecumenicall Councell Hic nobis adest Cardinalis Crescens qui ut Ecclesiae dignitas crescat recuperetur efficiet Gentilet Exam. Concil Trid. l. 3. Sess. 12. For the Lords Supper and the Mass Peter du Moulin in his Anatomy de la Messe l. 1. chap. 2. reckons up thirty four contrarieties between them How the Papists transgress against both Law and Gospel breaking every Commandement and violating every article of the Creed and both the Sacraments The Papists have used both violent and fraudulent means to propagate their Religion 1. Violent as the Spanish Inquisition the Irish Immanity the Gunpowder plot in England shew They teach that hereticks are to be extirpated with fire and sword Thuanus Hist. tom 5. parte secunda p. 135. fully relates the Gunpowder Treason and begins thus Nunc horrendam ab omnibus aeque damnatam conjurationem contra magnae Britanniae Regem vitam continua narratione exequemur They use fraudulent means they make use of spurious writings defend equivocation they shelter themselves with false Miracles Legends Relicks That Massacre of Paris was very cruel but ushered in with pretences of great love and friendship There are three maxims saith Peter du Moulin which are the pillars of Popery The first of which is That the Church of Rome cannot erre The second That the Pope and the Church of Rome are not subject to the holy Scripture but have more Authority then it The third That the Pope and Church of Rome have power to change the Commandments of God and to make new Articles of Faith D r Ereston as I remember reduceth all to these two heads 1. That the true Church cannot erre 2. That the Church of Rome is that true Church Peter du Moulin in his Anatomie De La messe l. 4. Chap. 5. shews when England received the Orders of Rome Chap. 7. when Popery was brought into France and Chap. 8. when it was brought into Spain What opinion was there heretofore of Monkery What esteem have the Papists of it still This is one of the Prerogatives of the Order of S t Francis and S t Dominick that the habit of S t Francis or S t Dominick is worthy a second Baptism and that by this habit all the former sins are blotted out Whence it came that many Princes and Persons of quality in mortal diseases have put on the habit of S t Francis that they might blot out all their sins Learned Rudolphus Agrîcola dying at Heidelberg was buried in a Fraciscans habit by the Minorites as he commanded Campians brag in his third reason Ad Patres si quando licebit accedere confectum est praelium tam sunt nostri quam Gregorius ipse Decimus tertius filiorum Ecclesiae Pater amantissimus is succinctly and pithily answered by our learned Whitaker Quem nos filiorum Ecclesiae hostem capitalem furiosum esse novimus eum tu Patrem vocas amantissimum quam hoc verum est tam illud esse verum concludis Fateor ambo quam illud utrumque enim falsissimum CHAP. VI. Of the Reformed Religion THe people of God which are called and come out of Babylon need not a new plantation of a Church but a Reformation only In which respect the term of the Reformed Churches is very fit and godly and the proceeding accordingly Whereas the course of the Anabaptists and all such as either begin all anew or averre such Assertions as do necessarily imply it is not only preposterous but exceeding sinfull and erroneous Iohnsons Christian Plea pag. 137. Gerhard in his Catholick Confession lib. 1. General part 1. cap. 4. saith That Luther in his work of Reformation Non fuisse novi alicujus dogmatis inventorem sed antiquae fidei assertorem nec fuisse novae Ecclesiae autorem sed pristinae repurgatorem Junius noster dicere solebat Papistas ita in fundamentis errare ut à fundamentis non aberrarent cui ego plane assentioâ—â— Walaei Epistolae Antonio Walaeo Hugo Grotio Gerhard in his first General Book of his Catholick Confession chap. 6. speaks of Luther the instrument of Reformation and chap. 7. of the occasion of Reformation the immoderate extolling of the Popes indulgences and the excessive gain of those that vented them The Prophet Zachary saith The man whose name is the Branch he shall build the Temple of the Lord Because 1. The Temple is Christs house Matth. 16. 18. Heb. 3. 6. 2. Christ hath undertaken this work This appears in the work of Reformation because they which were the chief Reformers did not communicate their counsels to one another and likewise if we consider the instruments by Luther a Monk and other mean men in Germany and by Edward the 6 th a childe in England and by a woman Q. Elizabeth that such a glorious work should be effected Also if we observe how our cause from the beginning against the will of Emperours and many Kings maugre the malice of Popes hath taken increase and by little and little spread into all Countreys Quibus armis obsecro vos intra annos 58. plus minus expugâ—atum ferè est Antichristi regnum in tota prope Europa Regnum verâ— Christi longè lateque propagatum per homines imbecilles atque inermes per Lutherum cum suis in Germania per Zuinglium in Helvetia per Calvinum in Galliis perque alios aliis in locis nisi vi verbi Spiritus Sanctus qui in ipsis locutus est suasque exeruit vires adversus omnem mundi Satanae potestatem Zanch. Orat. The Church of Rome was so unsound in Doctrine and corrupt in worship that it was no schism but a duty then to separate from it The means taken by the first Reformers for promoting the work of Reformation of Religion 1. They searched diligently into the Word of God and so discovered the errours of Popery Their care was after to translate the Bible into vulgar languages and to interpret it to the people and illustrate it with ample Comments 2. They were carefull to educate children in the Principles of Christian Religion and Piety It is a piece of Luthers counsel if ever you would have a good Reformation look to the Reformation of children 3. They were ready to dispute with their Adversaries in all places and speedily to reply to their writings Nonne tot disputationes Witembergenses Ratisbonienses Augustanae Spirenses Wormatienses Bernenses Posliacenae Londinenses Cantabrigienses Oxonienses testes esse possunt locupletissimae quo animo qua doctrina qua veritate causam Religionis nostrae propugnaverimus Whitakeri ad Rat. primam Camp Respons Chamier hath answered the Papists generally in his learned Panstratia Catholica Bellarmine is well answered by Iunius Ames Whitaker The
Rhemist Testament and the Notes are well confuted by Cartwright and Fulk Casaubone hath written learned Exercitations against Baronius Bishop Morton Doctor Fulk and Whitaker have answered the Treatises of several Papists Rivet and Blondel and Moulin have answered Cardinal Peroon Bishop Usher Bishop Andrews Bishop Abbot Doctor Prideaux and others of our Divines have stoutly opposed other Papists The Reformed Religion is well defended by the English and French Divines Some much commend three Epistles that Epistle or Preface of Calvins to his Institutions That of Casaubons to his Exercitations against Baronius and that of Thuanus or Guicchardine before his History That of Calvins is a succinct and pithy Apology for the Protestant Religion Iâ—els Apology was generally liked by the Reformed Churches Daillè Croyus Blondel Iacobus Capellus Amyrot and Gentilettus have written in French or Latine in Defence of the Reformed Religion 4. They diligently compiled the Histories of those times and actions and especially Martyrologies of such as rendred by their deaths a testimony to that truth which was perfecuted in them As we ought highly to reverence the Fathers for their Antiquity so in our times we owe much respect to many famous Writers because by their most learned Labours they have given great light to the right understanding of the holy Scripture We have the same instruments which they had viz. the holy Scriptures and far greater help Zuinglius Luther Calvin all those learned men are to be loved and highly honoured as those that have well deserved of the Church their Books are also to be diligently read and to be preferred before the Volumes of many of the Fathers as those which have more truly interpreted the minde of the holy Ghost then the Fathers which have illustrated the Christian Doctrine brought out of darknesse with wonderfull perspicuity have comprized it with wonderfull brevity and explained it in an excellent method Zanch. Prolegom in Esaiam Illustres illi viri nec unquam sine summa honoris praefatione nominandi quorum Deus in religione restauranda opera usus est Upon the view of the Doctrine of the Church of England compiled by them in the XXXIX Articles translated into Latine in the dayes of King Edward the 6 th and sent abroad into the whole Christian world it was said abroad Puritas doctrinae viget in Anglia For the first ten years of Queen Elizabeth most of the Papists of England came to our Churches prayed our prayers heard our Sermons and received our Sacraments untill by the instigation of the Jesuites Pope Pius Quintus excommunicated Queen Elizabeth and enjoyned all the Papists not to resort to our Churches So they did in Ireland till 88 some Spanish Priests then landing there told them it was condemned in the Councel of Trent This is that Religion which since the first Reformation of it Anno 1. Edw. 6. above one and twenty several Sessions of Parliament as learned as wise as religious as ever were in this Kingdom have allowed and approved M r Baxter in his Confession of Faith Sect. 41. saith thus of the late Assembly of Divines at Westminster I so highly reverence that Assembly that I think this Nation since the Apostles dayes had never any that excelled it for Piety and Ability and Sect. 3. he much magnifies both the Confession of Faith and the Shorter Catechism put out by the Assembly I truly professe saith he Sect. 5. I take the Labours of the Assembly especially these three Pieces the Confession of Faith the larger and lesser Catechism for the best Books next my Bible in my study What Kingdom in Europe is there which hath not yielded eminent Scholars and famous Martyrs of the Reformed Religion France had Calvin Farel Viret Sadeel Daneus Marlorate Beza Mornee Chamier Rivet Peter du Moulin Daillè and many others Italy brought forth and cast out because it was unworthy of them Peter Martyr Zanchy also Immanuel Tremelius and Deodate Spain had Iohn Diaz Austen Cacalla and also other Martyrs Germany had Luther Melancthon Ioachim Camerarius and Chemnitius Zuinglius Oecolampadius Martin Bucer Wolfangus Capito Caspar Hedio Musculus Hyperius Foster Avenarius Mollerus Pezelius Helvetiae had Bullinger Gualter Pellicane Leo Iudae Aretius Wolfius Simler Bibliander Stuckius England was fruitfull of Martyrs and great Scholars Barns Rogers Cranmer Latimer Ridlie Hooper Philpot Haux Bradford Iuel Rainolds Whitaker Fulk Perkins Morton Davenant Twisse Prideaux and divers others Denmark brought forth Palladius Hemmingius and many others Polonia brought forth Iohannes à Lasco Servavit te huc usque Deus ut sicut Lutherus suae Germanias Zuinglius suae Helvetiae Calvinus suae Galliae ita tu tuae Poloniae sis Apostolus Zanch. Epist. l 2. ad illum Scotland was made famous by the Martyrdom of Patrick Hamilton and by the Doctrine of Iohn Knox and Robert Rollock Andrew Melvin Cameron Baronius Forbes This may suffice to answer that calumny of the Jesuites as if the Protestants had no Scholars amongst them The Papists call us Hereticks This was ever an old and cunning trick of Papists and their fore fathers if any did complain of their errours and faults and desired to have true Religion restored to condemn such for Hereticks as men new-fangled and factious They reproachfully nick-name us Lutherans Zuinglians Calvinists whereas we maintain not any private or proper Doctrine of theirs They called us in England heretofore Lollards either because they cried Lord Lord unto their God as M r Fox saith in his Acts and Monuments or rather from Lolium which signifies Cockle and such like weeds whereas indeed they endeavoured to extirpate all pernicious weeds And them in France Huguenots of which term see Thuanus his History Tom. 4. lib. 24. and Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 8. c. 55. I will not rehearse the several opinions about the original of that word because Heraldus a learned Frenchman saith Unde Huguenoti appellati fuerint nec nos ad huc satis liquido scimus Animad ad Arnob. adversus Gentes l. 1. As the Jews were in times past called by the Gentiles Sabbatarians in contempt the Christians Galileans by Iulian the Apostata so now they which imbrace truth of Doctrine began to be called Huguenots They term us those of the pretended Reformed Religion whereas it is truly Reformed according to the word of God They acknowledge themselves to be Papists and from the Pope and glory in the title Luther saith Primum oro ut nomen meum taceatur nemo Lutheranus sed Christianus appelletur They suffer Turks and Iews which deny and persecute Christ but put to death those of the Reformed Religion who believe in Christ. They say that the Heathens which had no knowledge of Christ by their morality may be saved and yet deny that Protestants who have a knowledge of Christ and exceed them in their morality may be saved Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-bishop of Spalato said
ibid. Conradus Pellicanus a learned Germane Divine a great Linguist ibid. William Pemble a learned and pious English Divine 285 His speech about Justification when he died ib. Pembroke-Colledge in Oxford 99 Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge 101 Iohn Pena Professor of Mathematicks to the King of France in Paris 285 Gabriel Penottus ib. Benedictus Pererius a learned Jesuite ib. William Perkins a learned and godly Divine ib. Commended ib. Cardinal Perron 286 Commended ib. His Books against the Protestants well answered and by whom ib. Nicolaus Perottus 286 Persian Language 61 Aulus Persius Flaccus the most eloquent Satyrist yet obscure 286 Dionysius Petavius a learned French Jesuite 286 Commended and censured ib. Peter-House in Cambridge 101 Samuel Petitus a very learned Frenchman 287 Francis Petrark a witty and sententious Italian Orator and Poet ib. When he was born and died ibid. Commended ib. He inveighs against Rome ib. His Life written and by whom ibid. Part of his Epitaph ibid. Petronius Arbiter an obscene Writer yet his Latine is pure ibid Suffridus Petrus a Frisian who wrote the History of Frisia and of the Writers of Frisia 288 Gasper Peucer a learned Physician and Mathematician ib. He wrote a singular Book of his own imprisonment ib. Christ. Pezelius a learned Writer ibid. Demetrius Phalereus ib. Philo Iudaeus who lived in Christs time or after his passion but was unskilfull in the Hebrew ib. Commended ib. The Book of Wisdome written by him ibid Io. Philoponus ibid. Philosophy natural and moral 44 45 Philosophers the several sorts 44 The chief Philosophers ib. m Iohn Philpot one of the most learned of our English Martyrs 289 Fl. Philostratus ibid. Gul. Philander a very learned man ibid. Franciscus Philelphus ibid. Phisiognomy 51 52 Phoenicians the inventers of Arithmetick 41 Photinus learned but a great Heretick 289 Photius Patriark of Constantinople the learnedst man of his time ibid Physick 45 Alexander and Francis Piccolomny 289 Pet. Picherellus a learned Frenchman ibid. His Notes on a great part of the New Testament unhappily lost ib. Io. Pierius Valerianus 290 Some of his Works commended ibid. Albertus Pighius a learned Papist ibid. He by reading Calvin altered his judgement 290. m. Stephanus Pighius 290 Laurentius Pignorius the great ornament of Italy commended ibid. Pindar one of the chief Lyrick Poets ibid. Commended ibid. Pineda 291 Ioannes Vincentius Pinellus a learned Italian skilled in many Languages ib. How he adorned his house ib. Iohn Piscator an excellent Scripture-Divine but no School-Divine ib. Io. Pistorius ib. Io. Pitsaeus ib. Franciscus and Peter Pithaeus 291 292 Bartholomaeus Pitiscus a learned Divine and Mathematician 292 Plantavitzius ib. Christopher Plantine a learned Printer ib. Bartholomaeus or Baptista Platina a most learned man ib. Felix Platerus Verses on his name ib. Plato was called Divine for his rare wisdom 293 Whence he had his name ib. Plautus where born ib. C. Plinius the Uncle and Plinius secundus the younger ibid. Verses of the younger Pliny 294 Edmund Ployden a great Lawyer ib. His Commentaries commended 294 Plutark where born ib. A grave and learned Writer ib. Commended ib. Verses of him ib. Edward Pocock Professor of Hebrew and Arabick in Oxford ib. Poetry 48 49 50 The several sorts of Poets 49 50 Ioannes Franciscus Poggius Florentinus 295 Poictiers 83 Amandus Polanus 295 Angelus Politianus why so called 295 Commended ib. Iulius Pollux ib. Reginaldus Polus Cardinalis 296 Commended and censured ib. Polyander à Kerckoven ib. Polybius a learned Historian ib. Polycarpus when he lived 290 Arnoldus Pontacus 296 Io. Isaacius Pontanus 97 Lud. de Ponte Romanus or Pontanus 297 Popery what it is 13 The contrarieties in it ib. God had his people in the midst of Popery 15 The Popish Church not holy ib. Ausonius Popma 297 Porchetus ib. Porphyrie an enemy to Christians ib. Gilbertus Porretanus ib. Io. Baptista Porta ib. Ioan. Vincentius Porta 298 Posnavia 87 Ioannes Posselius a pious and learned man 298 Antonius Possevinus ib. Ioannes Posthius a learned Physician and Poet ib. Gul. Postellus a great Linguist ib. The first of Christians which published the rudiments of the Arabick Grammer ib. Odeschalcus Praetorius ib. A Verse upon him ib. Regnerus Praedinius ib. Hieronymus Pragensis when burnt at Constance 299 Prague 87 D r Iohn Preston 299 D r Prideaux ib. Sylvester de Prierie ib. Gilbert and David Primrose ib. Printing an usefull Art by whom invented 53 54 Famous Printers 54 Priscianus a famous Grammarian 299 Proclus had a great memory ib. A great Mathematician and Philosopher ib. Procopius Gazaeus ib. Propertius singular in Elegies 300 Verses of him ib. Prosper of Aquitane ib. Protestants why called Lollards in England and Huguenots in France 21 Proverbs 300 Aurelius Prudentius when he lived ib. Commended ib Claudius Ptolomaeus when he flourished 301 Commended ib. Ptolomaeus Philadelphus a favourer of Learning and famous for a magnificent Library 301 Erye Puteanus 301 Claudius Puteanus commended ib. Samuel Purchas our English Ptolomy 301 302 Pythagoras the Philosopher where born 302 The illustrator if not inventer of the Mathematicks ib. His Schollers highly honoured him ib. Q QUeens Colledge in Oxford 97 In Cambridge 102 Iohannes Quinquarboreus Regius Professor of Hebrew and Chaldee at Paris 302 Quintilian commended 302 R RAbanus Maâ—râ—s when he lived 303 Commended ib. Franciscus Rabelaesus a witty but Atheistical French Physician ibid. Iacobus Ranardus a great Lawyer ibid. Georgius Ragusius commended ib. D r Iohn Rainolds a learned and pious Doctor of Oxford ibid. Commended ib. Sir Walter Raleigh ib. Ralph a Monk of Fulda 304 Petrus Ramus commended ib. Verses of him ib. Slain at the great Massacre at Paris ib. Ranulphus ibid Francis Raphelengius a learned Linguist ibid. Rasis or Rhasis a great Physician of Arabia ib. William Rastall a great Lawyer 304 305 Franciscus Ranchinus 305 Ioannes and Pet. Ravennas ibid. Hermannus Ravenspergerus ibid Reconciliation of different Religions how far justifiable 23 24 Whether the Protestants may be Reconciled with the Papists 24 25 Reformation of the Church of Rome necessary 14 15 The Reformed Religion maintained 17 18 19 The means taken by the first Reformers for promoting the work of Religion 19 Reformed Writers commended 19. 20 And the purity of their Doctrine asserted 20. Nicknamed by the Papists 20 The Papists two great Objections against the Reformed Religion answered 21 22 Ioannes Mullerus Regiomontanus one of the famousest Mathematicians of Germany 305 When he lived ib. He found out the tenth sphere and its diurnal motion ibid. Iacobus Reihingius 305 Erasmus Reinholdus a famous Astronomer ibid. Religion that it is 1 What it is 2 The Hebrew Greek and Latine words for Religion opened ib Defined ib. It is true or false ibid. It s antiquity ibid. Rules to know the true Religion 2. 3 Christian Religion planted by the power of God 3 Wherein the glory of Religion lies 3 4 Means to keep us constant in the true Religion 4 Whether men may be saved in
Foelix Consortium OR A FIT CONJUNCTURE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING In one entire Volume consisting of six Books The first Treating of RELIGION IN GENERAL The FALSE RELIGIONS and the TRUE And several Questions also discussed concerning that ARGUMENT The Second Of LEARNING the Excellency and Usefulness of it The Liberal Arts the Chiefest Languages the Universities and Publick Schools of several Nations The Third Fourth Fifth and Sixth Books Particularizing the Men Eminent for Religion or Learning Divine or Humane among the Jews Christians Ancient or Modern Writers Protestants or Papists Characterizing their Persons and giving Judgment of their Works In an Alphabetical Order By EDWARD LEIGH Master of Arts of Magdalen-Hall in Oxford LONDON Printed for Charles Adams at the Sign of the Talbot near S t. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1663. TO THE Right Reverend JAMES USHER Arch-Bishop of Armagh HONOURED SIR BOth the Subject I handle and my own special Obligation are a just Apologie for my Dedication of this Treatise unto you I treat of Religion and Learning a noble Argument and were it answerably handled well-worthy of so noble a Patronage Learning is the great Ornament of a man and true Religion which is an honouring of God suitably to his Excellency is the great Ornament of a Christian. Where there is a happy conjunction of a learned Head and a sincere and truly religious Heart there is a Person every way accomplisht Bishop Juell is frequently for this reason styled The Jewell of Bishops and of D r Raynolds it is said Incertum est fuerit doctior an melior D r Rivet and Peter du Moulin two French Divines are famous for their eminent Piety learned Writings and fifty years preaching Your Name is also precious in all the Reformed Churches witness the Dedication of divers learned Treatises to you and the honourable mention which many learned men frequently make of you One thing I shall desire to specifie which I look upon as one of your great Accomplishments your humble and affable Disposition both in a free admission of the very meanest and also in a ready communicating of your self unto them which noble quality being in you when you were at the highest as I have heard is therefore the more commendable Your sending to Samaria for several Copies of the Samaritane Pentateuch bringing them first into Europe and dispersing them many wayes and also your purchasing at a dear rate the Syriack-Bible and many other Syriack-Books from Syria and your free imparting them to such Schollers as were skilfull in that Language is deservedly celebrated by M r Selden in his Preface ad Marmora Arundeliana De Dieu in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Acts and D r Boot in his Index Autorum before his Animadversiones Sacrae Your Liberality to such as are in a necessitous condition is also well known It is a usual Maxim or Proverb That the greatest Schollers are not the best Preachers and Queen Elizabeth was wont to say That she had made a Bishop and marr'd a Preacher You have really confuted both these by your plaâ—n and powerfull Preaching and by your constant labouring for above fifty years in that sacred Function even after the time that through â— naturall decay you were unable to reade your Text. Therein well fullfilling your Motto both in 〈…〉 Episcopall and Archiepiscopall Seal Vae mihâ—â—â— non Evangelizavero Could your leisure have permitted you to have heard me reade this whole Work to you as you did vouchsafe me the favour to hear part of it it might have been more exact in it self and so more worthy your Countenance You were pleased to commend to me some of the Authouâ—s I made use of and to supply me also with some choice Books out of your well-furnisht Library some of the Observations also I was beholding to you for to you I say who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a breathing Library and walking Study This with what I before alleadged may justifie this honouring of my Book with your Name the Dedication of it to you being as proper as that of Tullies Book De senectute ad senem or that of Hermannus Hugo De origine foribendi ad Scribanium The Argument also is seasonable for these timâ—s wherein Learning hath other enemies besides the ignorant if a Governour of a Colledge in the University may not goe for an Ignaro also and wherein the vitals of Religion are in so much danger partly by Scepticisme of the one side and questioning almost all the great Articles of Christian Faith and by Libertinisme on the other side as if the Primitive Christians Martyrs and old Puritans had been more precise then wise It is your honour therefore in such a declining Age when others dispute away Truths and Duties to stand for Orthodox Truths and practise holy Duties Psal. 119. 126 127. Old-age saith Salomon is a Crown when it is found in the way of Righteousness As God hath inriched you with large Abilities so lay them out still for the good of the Church that so you may prove a happy instrument whilst you live of Gods Glory which is the desire of SIR Your most Affectionate Friend and Servant EDWARD LEIGH To the Judicious and Candid READER READER WHen I first pitcht my thoughts upon this Subject I intended only to give some brief Character of some Humanists and some of the chief reformed Writers but in the prosecution of my Design meeting with divers Elogies and apt descriptions of some of the chief Popish Writers I thought it not amiss to make the Work more general A learned Divine inquired of me when my Body of Divinity was coming forth Whether I treated there of Religion seeming to wonder that many who published Systemes of Divinity said nothing of so usefull a Subject whereabout also many Questions might be raised and discussed I thereupon bethinking with my self that I might conveniently treat of it in this Book accordingly made Religion and Learning the Argument of the two first Books and those that were eminently Religious or Learned are mentioned according to the order of the Alphabet in the four following Books But I take liberty therein by reason of the Alphabetical order and because I could not so properly refer them to the second Book to speak of several Bibles Councels Confessions Proverbs and the Talmud in the letter of the Alphabet whereto they belong the knowledge thereof being helpfull to Schollers Besides where I speak of Charles the Great and the fifth I also mention Charles the ninth both because I met with an excellent Character of him in Thuanus and also because he was a special instance of Gods retaliating Justice for shedding the bloud of Protestants in the Parisian Massacre I may perhaps also mention an Heretick that was not famous either for Learning or Piety I thought good to advertise the Reader hereof lest he should wonder else when he meets with these particulars The first Book is concerning Religion that it is
what it is its Antiquity the true and false Religions the Reformed Religion and some Questions about Religion are also discussed The second Book is concerning Learning its Excellentcy Usefulness of the Liberal Arts the Languages Universities In the four last Books my intention was to speak of such as were Zealous for the true Religion or eminent for Learning either as general Schollers or peculiarly learned in any kinde As the Argument is double Religion and Learning and the persons double Religious and Learned so I should be glad if it might conduce any way to the advancing of the esteem at least of the true Religion and Learning to the setling of men in the true Religion and incouraging of them in all good Literature You have here a Catalogue of the famous Witnesses of Christ against Antichrist of the Champions for Truth the glorious Reformers and blessed Martyrs to win you to the liking of and constancy in the true Religion You have also here a roll of the famous Linguists and Artists the learned Lawyers Physicians Divines ancient and modern Protestants and Papists the learned Poets Philosophers Historiographers Orators learned men and women to allure you to a good opinion at least of Learning as that which is so many wayes usefull both to Civil and Christian societies I might here expatiate in the just praises of England for the purity of its Doctrine in Religion and also for the many learned Authors here bred and fostered But because I speak somewhat of it in the Book I shall be the briefer here As the Separation made by our first Reformers was most just for the Idolatry and Cruelty of the Romish Church Revel 17. 5 6. notwithstanding the great charge of Schism against us by the Romanists so the English have since the first Reformation here happily begun in the Reign of that pious Prince Edward the sixth and sealed with the bloud of many holy Martyrs in the dayes of Queen Mary maintained and countenanced that pure Religion which may fitly be called their Palladium England is celebrated abroad by the name of the ringing Island and it may justly ascribe the great fertility and plenty of outward blessings it enjoyes to the free entertainment it hath given to the Gospel and the true Professours of it But let us take heed of imitating Holland too much in an Universal Toleration of all Religions shall I say or opinions least what Baudius applies to them agree too fitly to us Sed vivimus hic non solum in regno libertatis verum etiam licentiae Baud. Epist. cent â— Epist. â—8 For learned men if there were Athenae Anglicae as there are Athenae Batavae and Belgicae and as Leland Balaeus Godwin of old so some judicious pen would reckon up the Viri Illustres of later times here in England I doubt not but there would be a great number of English Heroâ—s Pithaeus Praefat. in Quintiliani Declamationes reckons up many learned Frenchmen Archbishop Spotswood in his History of Scotland mentions many learned Scotchmen l. 1. p. 22 23. I shall endeavour to marshall up some of our English Schollers For the multitude of Divines and Preachers of this Nation I shall need to say little it being generally acknowledged that we herein surpasse the rest of the Reformed Churches The ancient great lights of our Church were Iuell Humfrie Fox Whiâ—gift Fulk Whitaker Rainolds Bilson Greenam Babington Eedes Holland Abbot Perkins Field Hooker Overall Willet White Mason Elton Randall Stock The later are Davenant Hall Morton Ward Bromwrick Boise Preston Stoughton Stbbes Goâ—ge Hill Reynolds Seaman Harris Vines Tucknie Strong Arrowsmith Martial Owen Goodwin Calamy Caryl Baxter Marshal Burgess Manton Blake For English Schoolmen I say enough in Merton-Colledge For Humanists Burton Farnaby For Linguists Hebricians of old Baines Pacie Wakefield Of later time Fuller Lively Broughton Ainsworth Grecians Downes Cheek Hales Sir Henry Savil Du Port. For Grammarians Linacer Grant For Historians Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster Huntingdon Gulielmus Malmesburiensis Sir Walter Raleigh Wheare For Logicians Brerewrod Crakanthorpe Sanderson For Poets of old Chaucer Spenser Ockland Of late Alabaster Serjeant Hoskius Herbert For Mathematicians Roger Bacon Iohannes de Sacro-bosco Brigges Lydiat Pell Oughtred For Philosophers Sir Francis Bacon Gilbert For learned Physicians D r Butler D r Harvy For learned Antiquaries Leland Camden Sir Henry Spelman Selden For Cosmographers Purchas Hues For learned women Queen Elizabeth the Lady Iane Gray and Weston Some may perhaps think it may savour of flattery for me to mention the living amongst the other learned men deceased Nam vivorum ut magna admiratio ita censura difficilis est Paterc Hist. l. 2. To that I answer Some of those Latine Authors which write of illustrious men speak of divers that were then living 2. Those that are well acquainted with my temper will not I suppose much charge me with adulation and the ordinary way of honourably mentioning Authors in quotations little differs from this I hope what I say in that kinde will incourage and not puff up any As I may through mistake insert some here who perhaps were neither eminent for Religion nor Learning so I hope no man will imagine that I take upon me to give so compleat an enumeration as to omit none that were too difficult a Province for me to undertake if the most here be such as will agree with the running Title I hope none will interprete it exclusively as if these alone were such I have cause to bless God that this Subject is profitable as those others I have formerly laboured in and hope that as they have been generally well-esteemed of for who can expect to please all so this likewise will be favourably entertained by those that are candid and judicious which is the desire of Thy Affectionate Friend EDWARD LEIGH The Names of such BOOKS as this AUTHOR hath Published 1. CRitica Sacra on the Hebrew of the Old Testament and on the Greek of the New Testament Fol. 2. Annotations on all the New Testament Fol. 3. A Systeme or Body of Divinity Fol. 4. A Treatise of Divine Promises 12 o. 5. Analecta or Observations on the twelve first Caesars 8 o. 6. The Saints Incouragement in Evil Times 12 o. 7. A Phylological Commentary or an Illustration of the most obvious and usefull Words in the Law 8 o. 8. A Treatise of Religion and Learning Fol. A TREATISE OF RELIGION AND Learning BOOK I. OF RELIGION CHAP. I. Of Religion in general RELIGION is the chief thing which distinguisheth a man from a beast the Elephant and some bruits have a shadow of reason but Religion is peculiar to men or reasonable creatures at least therefore Gesner as I remember saith the Pigmies are a kinde of Apes and not men because they have no Religion I Shall in the entrance to this Work shew 1. That Religion is 2. What Religion is 1. That it is Some of the Arguments which prove that
Son of God and saith that the Virgin conceived by smelling to a Rose presented her by Gabriel and that he was born out of her breasts Also that he was not crucified but Iudas or some other wicked thief Christ being separated from them by a cloud that covered him and came from heaven Herb. Trav. l. 2. p. 273 254. Brerewood in his Enquiries cap. 11. gives four reasons of the spreading of Mahumetanism whereof two are 1. Their peremptory restraint even on the pain of death of all disputations touching their Religion and calling any point of it into question 2. The sensuall liberty allowed by it viz. to have many wives and the like promise of sensuall pleasures to succeed after this life to the Religious observers of it in Paradise God was pleased to suffer a base Epileptick person a villain and vitious to set up a Religion which hath filled almost all Asia and Africa and some parts of Europe D r Taylors Rule of a Holy Dying ch 1. sect 4. Vide Crines Discurs de Confus Ling. c. 6. The Janizaries many of which were at first Christians are the greatest strength of the Turkish Empire being first instituted by Amurath the first they are often dreadfull unto the great Turk himself after whose death they have sometimes preferred to the Empire such of the Emperours sonnes as they best liked without respect of prerogative of age contrary to the will of the great Sultan himself Some suppose they are not unlike in time to be the chief cause of the ruine of that large Empire The Christians themselves in Turkie are numerous When any of the Janizaries have committed ought worthy of death the custom is to send the same party in the night time over by Boat from Constantinople to Pera where by the way he is thrown into the water with a great stone about his neck and then there is a piece of Ordinance shot off which is a token of some such execution The Turk is forced to take this course lest the rest of his Janizaries should mutiny when any of their fellows is put to death That complicate errour of the Socinians sprung from Mahometism The abstinence and sobriety of many Turks will condemn intemperate Christians and their frequent prayers the prophanness of divers Christians There is a Book in Latine in Folio styled Machumetis Alcoran published by Theodore Bibliander There is the Premonition of Philip Melancthon to the Reader of the Alcoran Biblianders Apology for the edition of the Alcoran Annotations upon it and severall other things out of Ludovicus Vives and others against it Before the Turks come to prayer they prepare themselves thereunto by outward washing of themselves in token of reverence and suffer no women to come to their Churches lest the sight of them should withdraw their mindes from prayer CHAP. IV. The third false Religion is Iudaism THey were after the Babylonian Captivity casled Jews of the chief and royall Tribe and their Country Iudea Before Christs death the Gospel was revealed only to the Jews a few Gentiles were brought in as Rahab Iob the people of Nineveh after his resurrection it was revealed to all Nations Mark 16. 16. The first Church that ever was gathered was of the Jews Matth. 15. 24. Luke 24. 47. Because 1. They were the first-born and their Fathers were in Covenant with God Gen. 17. 7. 2. Christ came of them after the flesh Rom. 9. 4 5. The Jews look for a Messiah to come in outward pomp yet some of their Rabbines say In Regno Messiae nihil mundanum They detested the Publicanes of old as most vile sinners but now they are the only Publicans who serve under the Turk no man will trust them now they are so perfidious See Deut. 32. 26. They are of more vile account in the sight of Turks then Christians insomuch that if a Jew would turn Turk he must first turn Christian before they will admit him to be a Turk Biddulphs Travels They deride Christ with that reproachfull and despitefull name Talui which is as much as hanged or crucified After their prayers they utter an execrable curse against all Christians and Baptized Jews They are given much to Fables Titus 1. 14. Nunquam tam bene intellexi quae de Iudaicis fabulis vitandis monet Paulus atque quum Talmud gustavi Wal. Epist. Walaeo Gomarus This is a sign that they are given up by God to a reprobate minde as the Lord threatens Deut. 28. 28. They have been cast off 1600 Years the curse they wished on themselves is upon them till this day Polyd. Vergill de Invent. Rerum l. 8. c. 4. saith the people of the Jews though it imbraced the same Law was divided into divers Sects Nazarenes Pharisees Essenes Saducees Samaritans Herodians There are three principall Sects among the Jews Pharisees Sadducees and Essenes 1. Pharisees They were the strictest Sect among the Jews Act. 26. those that pretended most of all to walk according to the rules of the Jewish Religion Paul the Apostle was a Pharisee See of them Spanhem Dub. Evan. parte tertia Dub. 28. Cameron on Matth. 20. v. 3. 2. The Sadducees Antigonus Master to Sadoc the Father of the Sadducees exhorted his Schollars to embrace the Law not looking for a reward that is for love of it self Sadoc and the Sadducees after him taught that there was no reward after this life and therefore no resurrection D r Lightfoots 3 d part of his Harmony Sect. 6. It is noted of them that of all other Sects they were the most cruell in their judiciall censures as Euseb. Eccles. Hist. l. 2. c. 14. out of Iosephus They denied the resurrection and last judgement so as they were Atheists This made them dare to practice all cruelty and injustice For Maxima peccandi illâ—cebra impunitatis spes See of them Spanhem Dub. Evang. parte tertia Dub. 29. 3. The Essenes From whom some fetch the originall of Christian Monks There were also Scribes Learned men which professed the reading and interpretation of the Law either of the Sect of the Pharisees or Sadducees The Jews had so high an opinion of the Scribes and Pharisees that they thought if but two went to heaven one must be a Scribe and the other a Pharisee For Justification They found no need of the righteousness of Christ therefore Christ saith he came not to call such righteous persons in their own conceit but sinners See Rom. 10. 3. For Sanctification All their righteousness came from self that which may be found in a naturall man they knew not what Regeneration or a new nature meant Iohn 3. 4. 10. 2. Not the Law but their interpretation of it was their rule Matth. 5. 27. 3. They pleaded their obedience before God All these have I kept from my youth The Rabbins have much from old Writers agreeable to the Apostles Doctrine but stained with dogged blasphemies
notwithstanding their readiness in the Text and Records in pieces of ancient Truth must be regarded As touching their sayings fighting for us against themselves I think them profitable when they are cited with skill what they do mean or ought to mean otherwise they will trouble much men little acquainted with them H. Broughton of Melchis Two things are most firmly to be held against the Jews 1. That the promised Messiah is come 2. That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Messiah The first is most certain from these Arguments 1. Because the Messiah ought to come when the Scepter was taken from Iudah Gen. 49. 10. 2. Because he was to come before the destroying of the second Temple Hag. 2. 8 10. Mal. 3. 1. 3. Because the place of the Nativity of the Messiah hath been destroyed for 1500 years and more That is Bethlehem Mic. 5. 2. 4. Because the Oracles and Heathenish Idolatries and also the Leviticall Ceremonies have ceased Zach. 13. 2 4. Dan. 9. 26 27. The second also is most certain That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Messiah because all the Prophesies of the Old Testament concerning the Messiah agree to him 1. He was born when the Scepter departed from Iudah according to the Prophesie of Iacob Gen. 49. 10. 2. He came while the second Temple stood Hag. 2. 8. Mal. 3. 1. 3. He was born in Bethlehem Mic. 5. 2. Matth. 2. Luk. 2. 4. When he came the Oracles ceased according to that Zach. 13. 24. as it is manifest from Plutarch about the ceasing of Oracles Iuvenals 6 th Satyre and Ecclesiasticall History 5. He abrogated the Leviticall Ceremonies and Sacrifices Dan. 9. 26 27. Ier. 3. 16. Aben-Ezra upon Isa. 52. 13. confesseth that the Jewish Rabbins affirm that those things are spoken of the Messiah So also doth Abrabaneel upon the place and the Chaldee Paraphrast there for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My servant hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My servant Messiah The Conversion of the Jews is called by Paul a mystery it is uncertain when it shall be There are divers hinderances of their Conversion 1. The great differences among Christians 2. Their slighting and undervaluing of Gospel Ministry and Ordinances the multitude of Heresies and Blasphemies 3. Their loose lives swearing cursing Sabbath-breaking 4. The great Idolatry of the Church of Rome artolatria iconolatria The Jews hate Image-worship 5. The severe carriage of Christians in civil commerce with them Helps to their Conversion 1. Unity 2. Holiness of life and conversation 3. The love of the Gospel and propagation of it to dark places 4. Knowledge and skill in the Old Testament and Rabbins 5. Earnest prayer When we were out of Covenant they prayed for us Cant. 8. 8. By those arguments Ioh. 5. 30. Act. 17. 2. 18. 28. Rom. 16. 26. many Jews have been overcome Iohannes Isaac a Jew was converted by reading Isa. 53. And conferring with five Rabbins at Frankefort out of that Chapter he brought them to such straits that they could not answer Isaac contra Lindanum l. 2. defens Heb. verit Lyra Immanuell Tremellius Paulus Ricius Lud. Carretus were converted Jews M r Fox preached a Sermon at the Baptisme of a Jew God will exalt the Jews as the mother-Mother-Church so that all the Churches in all the world shall depend on them as some conceive Isa. 60. 17. Ezek. 16. Rev. 21. 24. CHAP. V. The fourth principall false Religion is Popery POpery is but Ethnicismus redivivus as divers have shewed or Heathenism and Judaism together Irrepsit in ceremonias Iudaismus in vitam Paganismus Nota nimis ac testata loquor veriora quam vellem Dominatur in Monasteriis Pharisaismus in Canonicorum collegiis Epicurismus Rivius de Religione l. 2. Papastry is a Pile or Timpany rather of Doctrines and Ceremonies cemented and built with admirable skill All the subtilties and counsels and cunning slights of humane wit have been imployed in the framing of it Therefore the Apostle styles it The mystery of iniquity Moulins Antibarb ch 8. Though they maintain the same Scriptures with us the same Commandements the Lords Prayer and the three Creeds of the Apostles of Nice and of Athanasius yet they have many superstructions and groundless additions of their own both in Doctrine and Worship See Beza's Traicte Des Marques De Leglise Cathol p. 86. jusques au fin The Church of Rome when Luther arose was not the Catholick Church but only a part of it and the most corrupted and incorrigible Chillingworth cap. 3. Sect. 56. Si authoritas quaeritur orbis major est urbe Quid mihi profers unius viri consuetudinem Hieron ad Evagrium We protest and proclaim that we have very little hope of their salvation who either out of negligence of seeking the truth or unwillingness to finde it live and die in the impieties of that Church Chillingworth ch 3. Sect. 63. S r Edwin Sands in his Europae speculum or Relation of Religion of the Western parts of the World discovers fully the superstitions and gross corruptions of the Church of Rome He shews how their State is strangely compacted of infinite contrarieties What pomp what riot to that of their Cardinals What severity of life comparable to their Hermites and Capuchins Who wealthier then their Prelates Who poorer by vow and profession then their Mendicants On the one side of the street a Cloyster of Virgins On the other a Sty of Courtezans with publick toleration This day all in masks with all looseness and foolery to morrow all in Processions whipping themselves till the blood follow On one door an Excommunication throwing to hell all transgressours on another a Jubilee or full discharge from all transgressions He saith this is a Proverb recorded in their own books That the worst Christians of Italy are the Romanes of the Romanes the Priests are wickedest the lewdest Priests are preferred to be Cardinals and the baddest man among the Cardinals is chosen to be Pope There is a twofold separation One condemned Iude v. 19. when men separate from a Church where salvation is to be had Christ did not separate from the communion of the Jewish Church Iohn 4. 21 22. but from the corruptions of it He frees the Law from the false glosses of the Pharisees the 5 th 6 th and 7 th Chapters of Matthew he would not joyn with them in their superstitious purifications They kept the Passeover a day after its time he kept it a day before they kept it Matth. 26. 27. 2. Another commended and approved Rev. 16. 3. 18. 4. Salvation was no longer to be had in Rome their worship was grosly corrupt in such cases not only a mentall but externall separation was requisite See Camer Popish Prejud Examined and Confuted c. 33. Gerhâ—â—d in his Confess Cathol l. 1. General part 1. c. 4. shews that many before Luthers time confessed that the Doctrine of the Church of
of which there is no salvation and cannot nor will not bear these which differ Hence it is a common speech amongst them there is no other way to agreement then by the receiving and approving of the Councel of Trent Many of those which professe to follow Luther are of that opinion also refusing to joyn with those which they reproachfully call Calvinists unlesse they will receive the Augustane Confession as it is wont to be explained by them and the book of Concord The third opinion is of them who go the middle way between these extreams and affirm That there may be an agreement among those that differ in some Controversies but not in others These are the Orthodox Teachers of the Reformed Churches A universal conjunction is impossible the rule of consent about Religion is only the word of God The enemies of Christian Religion are twofold Open or Close Those openly oppose the Doctrine of Christ and persecute his Church viz. the Heathens Mahometans and Iews these treacherously and under the name of Christ as Hereticks but especially Arminians Pelagians and Papists Altingius and others hold an agreement with both these unlawfull To endeavour to soder different Religions and persons holding to their principles will make up but a medly and patcht Religion As some in the Apostles time mingled Circumcision with Baptism and the Sacrifices with the death of Christ. This was the way which the great Emperour Charles the fifth took to reunite the two Religions in Germany by the Tract called the Interim which was composed by an Apostate Minister named Islebius But it was opposed by the faithfull Ministers and although out of fear it was admitted by some Princes and Commonwealths yet it was soon abolisht Circa idem tempus monstrosus partus toti Germaniae pestilens in lucem infelici sidere prodiit quem Interim seu inter Religionem Augustanam nominarunt cum edicto Caesaris quo promulgata est certa quaedam Religionis formula interim servanda donec universali Concilio coacto Religionis controversiae cognoscantur tollantur Melchior Adam in vita Joan. Wigand Vide plura ibid. Et in vita Joan. Iâ—lebii Brentii Castam Christi Sponsam decet casta concordia said Doctor Sibbes in a Clerum in Doctrine as well as Worship Malefida semper fuit Religionum ferruminatio publicis calamitatibus praevia said the same Reverend Divine in that Latine Sermon The Samaritans with their patcht Religion retarded Christs work Some distinguish between Consent and Concord others make a difference between Consent Concord and Peace Consent we call Unity in judgment Concord Unity of will and desire peace quiet and calme conversation a life void of janglings and free from tumults There may be Consent without Concord Concord without Consent and Peace without both Men may agree in their opinion and yet differ in their desires they may differ in opinion and desires yet live in peace That there should be a mutual amity and forbearance amongst those who differ in matters of Church-Government or the like but agree in the Fundamentals is most reasonable It is a Question An Ecclesia Protestantiúm conciliari possit cum Pontificiis Whether the Church of the Protestants may be reconciled with the Papists Roma irreconciliabilis was D r Hall's tenet Franciscus de Sancta Clara Cassander the Archbishop of Spalato and Millitier and other Conciliators there have been but all in vain Gentilettus in his Preface to his Apologia pro Christianis Gallis Religionis Reformatae saith well Imprimis hoc verissimum esse statuo inter Catholicos Romanos Evangelicos Religionis Reformatae in multi dogmatum Articulis quidem praecipuis magnam esse contrarietatem Nihilominus tamen in hoc omnes conveniunt ut agnoscant profiteantur veritatem personae Iesu Christi in duabus naturis non confusis nec non sanctam Trinitatem Patris Filii Spiritus sancti amplectanturque omnes sanctam Scripturam Veteris Novi Testamenti Though the Papists and we agree in these things that we both acknowledge the Unity of the Person of Christ in two Natures not confounded and the Trinity of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost and all the holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament yet in many Articles of Religion we much differ and chiefly in the Doctrine of Justification Vide Whitak dâ— notis Eccles. Some make the great difference between the Papists and us to be about the corporal presence of Christ in the Sacrament and the Infallibility of the Pope It is a Question An cura Religionis ad Magistratum Civilem pertineat Whether any thing of Religion come under the Magistrates Cognizance or belong to his care That it doth appears First From the Nature of Christianity it goes through his whole conversation 1 Pet. 1. 15. and reacheth to all his relations A Heathen Magistrate or Parent is as truly a Magistrate and Parent as a Christian Magistrate or Parent Christianity gives no farther power but a higher Law The name of Christianity lies in exercising it in all our relations Secondly The Gospel is given for Nations and is their great priviledge that receive it Magistrates ought to take care of all National priviledges Rev. 11. 15. Thirdly That which God hath promised to his people as a mercy Magistrates should labour to be and fulfill in duty Isa. 49. 22. Psal. 2. 11. It is a great Question An Magistratus plures Religiones in una republica tolerare debeat Whether it be lawfull for a Magistrate to tolerate many Religions in one Commonwealth Some give this distinction in the Doctrine of Toleration They put a difference inter Tolerationem approbationem a Magistrate must discountenance all corrupt Doctrines and before hand Dissensum suum publicè declarare debet Religio non potest cogi Religion cannot be constrained and yet blasphephemies must be restrained See Revel 2. 20. Hereticks should sure not be advanced to high places Toleration intolerable Toleration is the great Diana much cried up in these times Some think there is no love among men unlesse they allow an universal Toleration of all blasphemies and heresies We must distinguish between loving of mens persons and their errours Ephes. 4. 15. 2 Ioh. v. 1 3. We should joyn grace and truth and charity together Some give these Cautions First If they be such Religions as do not overthrow the foundation Secondly Nor such as disturb the Government established in the State or Kingdom Thirdly If the Professors thereof be not factious ambitious or pertinacious but honest simple tractable obedient to their Superiours Some say Take heed of two destroying extreams First That of the Libertines that all should be tolerated without limitation Secondly Others who would have liberty for none but themselves and men of their own opinion For the Papists They are not tolerated in Holland The Jews are not only tolerated but have the publick
of Sussex Aunt to the renowned Sir Philip Sidney widow of Thomas Ratcliffe Earl of Sussex founded this Colledge by the name of the Colledge of the L. Frances Sidney Sussex It is much inlarged since by divers Benefactors Doctor Ward was Master there and M. Gataker Fellow CHAP. XIV Of the Universities of Scotland and Ireland THe learned men of Scotland have been these 1. Marianus sirnamed Scotus 2. Hector Boetius both Historians 3. Iohn Major a well known Schoolman Since the Reformation George Buchanan an excellent Poet. King Iames his Scholar and a good Poet also Napier the Laird of Marchiston Barclay the Father and the Sonne Iohn Skeine the Antiquary of this Nation Doctor Iohn Maxwell the learned Bishop of Rosse Rolloc Baronius Cameron Melvin The Universities I. Aberdein King Alexander with his Sister Isabella adorned this with many priviledges about the year 1240. Doctor Iohn Forbes was Professor of Divinity here Glasco It is honoured with an Archbishops See and an University founded here by Archbishop Turbal An. 1454. S t Andrews It is the chief Town of Fife an Archiepiscopal See and an University erected in the year after our Saviours Incarnation 1411. The University of Ireland THe Christian Faith was first preached among the Irish by S t Patrick The Irish Scholars of Patrick profited so notably in Christianity that in the Age next following Ireland was termed Sanctorum Patria that is the native Countrey of Saints and the Scottish Monks in Ireland and Britain highly excelled for their holinesse and learning Out of Ireland came Caelius Sedulius a Priest Richard Fitz-Ralf commonly called Armachanus is of famous memory who turned the edge of his style about the year 1355. against the mendicant Friers as detesting in Christians such voluntary begging Dublin or Divelin There is a beautifull Colledge consecrated unto the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity which for the exercising and polishing of wits with good Literature Queen Elizabeth endowed with the Priviledges of an University and it is furnished with a good Library Bishop Usher was born there and was the first Scholar of that Colledge Thus much of Dublin saith Camden in his Britaine for the most part of which I acknowledge my self beholden unto the diligence and learning of Iames Usher Chancellor of S t Patricks Church whose variety of knowledge and judgement are far above his years The End of the second Book THE THIRD BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION or any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. A ISaac Abarbinel a Jew of great note both amongst the Jews and Christians He is the best Expofitor of the Jews upon the Text. His Hebrew Comment upon the Pentateuch and Prophets are much esteemed by those who are so well skilled in the Hebrew that they are able to make use of them He hath Commented say some upon all the Scripture Some Jews of malice study to pervert all Christian Doctrine as this man Abrabbanâ—â—l or Barbanel a Rabbin of great pains and wit but not of grace and only to be followed when he clearly is on our side H. Broughtons Observat. upon the first ten Fathers Robert Abbot a pious and Learned Bishop His excellent Writings are much esteemed Some much commend his Book de Antichristo others his Answer to Bishop others his Treatise de gratia perseverantia Sanctorum He wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latine upon the Epistle to the Romanes with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day They who withhold this work from the publick view as they wrong the Church in generall so in speciall the City and Cathedrall Church of Worcester to which he bequeathed it as a kinde of legacy as the Authours own words in his Dedicatory Epistle to B. Babington printed with his Sermons upon the 110 Psalm import Petrus Abelardus vel ABAELARDUS a person of great note in his time contemporary with Bernard See Pasquiers Recherch de la France l. 6. c. 17. Two of the verses of his Epitaph are these Ille sciens quicquid fuit ulliscibile vicit Artifices artes absque docente docens Scripsit opera quam plurima in unum volumen edita opera Studio Francisci Amboesi equitis Abelfoedus a great Cosmographer Alpbonsus Tostatus Abulensis Episc. 1430. Had he lived in any other age save his own we should not have needed now to envy either Hippo for Augustine or Strido for Ierom nor any other of those ancient noble Worthies of the Church Possevine in his Apparatus saith that at the age of 22 years he attained the knowledge of almost all Arts and Sciences For besides Philosophy and Divinity the Canon and Civill Laws History and the Mathematicks he was well skilled in Greek and Hebrew Hic stupor est mundi qui scibile discutit omne He wrote so many Books and they not ill ones that the world computed a sheet for every day of his life Some conceive they meant after he came to the use of reason and the state of a man others say he wrote more sheets of paper then he lived daies It is related by a very credible Author Fr. Ximenes Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of all Spain that reckoning the daies that he lived from his first infancy untill his dying day you shall finde three sheets of paper that he wrote for every day He is styled Voluminous Abulensis or the Voluminous Writer Accursius He flourished in the year 1223 or as some say 1230. He was the first that wrote a Gloss upon all the Civil Law and as yet the last saith Genebrard in his Chronology Iacobus Acontius He hath written a book called Stratagemata Satanae See D r Cheinels Triunity Adrian the Emperour was a very Learned Prince and Facetious a great Grecian he was called by many Graeculus Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman he was bred and born at S t Albons Oft times in familiar talk with Iohn of Salisbury his Countryman he used these sentences To take the Papacy saith he is to succeed Romulus in murder and not Peter in sheep-feeding None is more wretched then the Romish Bishop neither is any mans condition more miserable then his Iohan. Salisb. de nugis aulicorum l. 8. His breath was stopt with a fly which entred into his throat Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans sonne of Utrecht He was a Learned man and Schoolmaster to Charles the 5 th who sent him to Rome to negotiate for him for the Popedom thinking thereby to sway much if he could get both the Swords but they chose Adrian who would not change his name as the custom is when he was made Pope Marcellus Cervinus being elected Pope also retained his name shewing that his dignity had not changed him See the Hist. of the Counell of Trent l. 5. p. 389 390. He
framing the Decrees of Originall sinne and Justification having noted all the opinions and reasons used in those Discussions thought to communicate them unto the world and to draw the words of the Decree to his own meaning printed a Book containing the whole together and did intitle it De Natura Gratia and did Dedicate it with an Epistle to the Councell to be as he said in the Dedication a Commentary of the two foresaid Decrees Coming to the Article of the certainty of grace he said in a long Discourse that the Synod had declared that a man cannot know he hath grace by so great Certainty as is that of Faith excluding all doubt Catarinâ—s newly made Bishop of Minori having defended the contrary and still persevering did print a little book with an Epistle Dedicatory to the same Synod the scope whereof was to maintain that the Councels meaning was not to condemn the opinion of him that saith A just man may know he hath grace as certainly as he knoweth the Articles of Faith to be true yea that the Councell hath decided that he is bound to beleeve it because in the 26 Canon it hath condemned him that saith That the just man ought not to hope for and expect a reward it being necessary that he that ought to hope as a just man should know he is so In this contrariety of opinions both writing affirmatively to the Councell either of them did not only say that his opinion was the opinion of the Synod but afterwards wrote also and Printed Apologies and Antipologies making complaints to the Synod the one of the other of attributing that to it which it never said bringing divers testimonies of the Fathers to prove their own opinion who bare witness some for one some for another This seemed to put all men out of hope to understand the meaning of the Councell seeing the principall men that were present in it did not agree History of the Counc of Trent l. 2. p. 229 230. Cato he was called Cato Censorius to distinguish him from Cato Uticensis Pliny l. 7. c. 21. gives him a threefold Elogy he saith he was Optimus Orator optimus Imperator optimus Senator the best Orator the best Commander the best Senator M. Porcius Cato Censorius historieus eximius aliis quoque nominibus laudatissimus Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 5. Plutarch wrote his life Catullus Dulcissimus omnium poetarum politissimus Turneb Advers l. 12. c. 1. Iacobus Cavacius There is his Historia Caenobii D. Iustinae Patavinae Nemo sorâ—e melius nostra hac aetate monstravit quid valeat vivida foelix ingenii ab ipsa natura vis quam Iacobus Cavacius condiscipulus olim noster amicus omnium horarum Histeriarum libri sex brevissimo temporis intervallo absoluti eruditorum manibus tâ—runtur quos Phoenix Litteratorum Isaacus Casaubonus unicè â—â—rabatur Pignoriâ— Miscella Elog. Adclamat c. Nicol. Caussinus a very eloquent French Papist and yet living There are these Works of his Eloquentiae Sacrae humanae Paralela De Symbolica Aegyptiorum Sapientia Polyhistor Symbolicus Lâ— Coâ—r Saincte The â—uâ—us Graecae Poeseos Many of his Works are translated into English Aurelius Cornelius Celsus a Learned Physitian Vir in omni disciplina summus Augusti principatu vel Tiberii floruit Castellanus de vitis medicorum Vide plura ibid. Hippocrates ille Romanus He imitates Hippocrates as Marcellus doth Scribonius Virgill Homer and Oribasius Galene sed tam occulte ut non facile deprehendas nisi in Hippocrate multum sis versatus Caius de libris propriis Conradus Celtes He was in esteem in the time of Frederick the Emperour by whom through the perswasion of the Duke of Saxony he was adorned with a Poeticall Lawrell in the 32 year of his age and was the first of the Germanes that was honoured with this title Boxhorn Monum Illust. Vir. Elog. Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 3. c. 10. He and Eobanus Hessus were two of the most famous Poets of Germany He hath put out severall Works Index eorum omnium quae in orationem venire possunt De situ moribus Germaniae De Conscribendis Epistolis Urbis Norembergae descriptio Poemata and other Works CHAP. XI CEnturiae Ecclesiasticae Four Saxons gathered together in the City of Magdeburge viz. Flaccus Illyricus Ioannes Vigandus Matthaeus Iudex and Basilius Faber in religion rigid Luther anes took upon them to write the whole Ecclesiastical History from Christ to their times by centuries or ages allowing a hundred year to every age whence they are called Centuriatores Pars. threefold Convers. of Engl. part 1. l. 2. c. 5. Lucas Osiander hath epitomized the eight first Centuries of the Magdeburgenses so that he hath scarce omitted any thing necessary to be known All godly learned men and truly fearing God saith Melchior Adam in vita Wigandi have with Sturmius approved that Ecclesiastical History and to this day approve it because they see an Idea as it were of the Church of Christ in its several Centuries contained in it according to its propagation persecution tranquillity doctrine heresie Ceremonies Government schismes Synods persons miracles Martyrdoms the Religion out of the Church and Politick State of the Empire Iacobus Ceratinus He died at Lovain in the flower of his Age Anno 1530. Ludovicus de la Cerda a learned and industrious man He hath put out these Works Adversaria sacra Psalterii Salomonis c. Gr. MS. Codice Latina versio De excellentia Coelestium Spirituum imprimis de Angeli custodis Ministerio Annotationes in Tertullianum Com. in Lib. Virgilii and other Works Antonius Rodolphus Cevallerius a Norman a great Hebrician There are Rudimenta Hebraicae linguae recognita aucta ab eodem cum Pet. Cevallerii Annot. Joh. Tremellii Epistola Petrus Cevallorius a French man and very expert in the Hebrew Vir linguae sanctae dum viveret peritissimus mihique ob singularem pietatem morum probitatem charissimus Casaub. Animadvers in Athen. l. 3. c. 28. Demetrius Chalcondylas a diligent Grammarian who being himself a Grecian by Nation was Professour of the Greek in Italy Daniel Chamierus a Frenchman who in his Panstratiae Catholicae hath so learnedly refuted the Papists that none of them hath made any answer to it His Epistolae Iesuiticae and Corpus Theologiae also shew his great abilities There is also a Work of his in French entituled La Confusion Des Disputes Papistes Par Daniel Chamier And another in answer to some Questions of Coton the Jesuite which I cannot purchase He was killed at Mountaban with a Canon bullet which had a C. on it on the Lords-day Being asked by one before Whether he preached on that day He said it was his day of repose or rest and so it proved though he meant it in another sense Peter Charon a French Papist He
been in the Church within this thousand years B. Down Defence of his Serm. l. 3. c. 4. He hath learnedly interpreted almost all the Old and New Testament He hath written twenty Books of Etymologies wherein he hath not only shewed himself a Grammarian but a compleat Artist Isidorus Pelufiota floruit anno 482. Bell. de Script Eccles. For his famous sanctity he was called by a peculiar name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is carrying God in him Isocrates He was very bashfull and never spake in publick but once Tully cals him the father of eloquence Dilher that Attick Syren Isocrates quidem suavitatem habuit vim Demosthenes Notae Dounaei in 36. Hom. Chrysost. in Epist. prim ad Corinth Henricus Isselburgius Professor and Pastor of Brema Doctor in Divinity There is a Book of his published styled Digeries praecipuarum quarundam Controversiarum Theol. Iohn Iuel Bishop of Salisbury exile in Queen Maries time for the Profession of the Gospel He was born in Devonshire Iohn comes from the grace of God Iuel is the same in our Language with Gemma in Latine as lately a learned Writer was called Gemma Frisius The Jewel of Bishops the worthiest Divine that Christendom hath bred for some hundreds of years saith incomparable Hooker Doctor Hackwell Apol. lib. 5. Hardly is there any Controversie of importance handled at this day of which in his Works is not to be found some learned and probable resolution His Apology was esteemed not only by the Tigurines but by all Protestants It was translated into the Germane French Italian Spanish Tongue and into the English by the Lady Anne Bacon wife to the Lord Chancellour Bacon The first part of it is an illustration of the true Doctrine and a certain paraphrastical Exposition of the twelve Articles of our Christian faith The second a succinct and solid Refutation of Objections He had at hand a great paper-book as it were a rich treasury of Sciences in which he wrote his divine and humane collections out of Poets Philosophers and Divines We call it a Common-place book Doctor Rainolds in his Letter to his friend concerning his advice for the study of Divinity saith thus Touching noting you know I do not like the common custom of Common-place Books The best in my judgement is to note in the Margent or in some paper-book for that purpose the Summe and Method of that which you reade In other little Books which he carried about with him an Ephemerides or Diary he diligently wrote all the Apophthegmes and witty speeches or jests which he heard from others or observed any way by which means he much increased his knowledge yearly He was very affable and courteous amiable in his whole life in speech witty and pleasant in his writings he is solid and yet facetious He fled in Q. Maries dayes and returned when Q. Elizabeth ruled Iulian the Emperour a Learned Prince but an Apostate Quo tetrius magisque Deo simul hominibus exosum animal orbis vix vidit Crak De Provid Dei He was given to Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia to be instructed of whom also he learned the Doctrine of the Church and was made a Reader in the Church of Nicomedia But he was a hearer secretly of Libanius the Rhetorician and was familiarly acquainted with the most famous Philosophers of that time He was drawn back by these by degrees to the Heathenish Religion He wrote Books against the Christians and reproved their Doctrine especially the prohibitions of revenge delivered which though they properly belong to private revenge yet he wrested them for publick revenge and he said by these Magistrates punishments lawfull warres were taken away and all the sinews of retaining humane Societies Ammianus Marcellinus commends his Temperance in meat and drink and his continual watching and the partition of the night into private publick and divine offices He took away the great Gifts and holy Vessels which Constantine the Great had given to the Churches use and Ministers maintenance with this scoff See in what goodly vessels this Nâ—zarite is served It was one of his scoffs when he robbed the Churches and the Christians He did it that the Galileans so he contumeliously called the Christians might go more readily to heaven He not onely killed the Christians but scoffed at Christ himself and the Scriptures He had scarce raigned two years when warring against the Persians he was struck and mortally wounded with a Spear in that warre as Nazianzene Theodoret Socrates Sozomen and others uno ere docent and filling his hand with bloud casting it into the air he cried out Vicisti Galilaeâ— Ita simul victoriam confessus est blasphemiam evomit saith Theodoret. Franciscus Iunius The glory of Leyden the oracle of Textual and School-Divinity rich in Languages subtil in distinguishing and in Argument invincible D r Halls Dec. of Epist. Epist. 7. He saith in his own Life written by himself that he being once in the times of trouble very hungry came by accident into the house of a Countreyman and desiring some food he entertained him most courteously Hic ô sapientiam Dei admirabilem saith he optimam scholam Christianitatis Dominus meus mihi paraverat There they discoursing together about the troubles for Religion Sic effecit Deus admirabiliter saith Iunius ut bonus rusticus sanctissimum Zelum quem habebâ—t operante Domino mihi quasi instiâ—â—arâ—â— ego verò malus Christianus siquidem Christianus ei scientia praelucerem Una eadem hora suam gratiam in utroque explicavit ostendit Deus à me scientiam rustico ab illo Zeli semina quâ—dam mihi ingenerans And so being each of us some way bettered by the other we departed saith Iunius He is censured by Doctor Twisse as too obscure but by Thuanus over-harshly Vir desultorio ingenio qui multa conatuâ— an adsecutus sit quod moliebatur doctorum erit judicium Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 79. from whom he is vindicated by Vossius His Works are in two Volumes in Folio Migravit ad Christum anno 1602. His Son Francis Iunius whom I know well hath written a learned Book De Pictura veterum Hadrianus Iunius a Physician One of the great Lights of Holland as Erasmus also was Vir eruditissimus variaeque lectionis Ful. Miscel. l. 4. c. 5. Fuit Medicus Criticus Poeta Historicus exactissima antiquitatis cognitione egregiè clarus linguarum plurium peritus Melch. Ad. vit Germ med Many Monuments of his wit full of Learning witnesse his great ability His Nomenclator six Books of Animadversions Copiae Cornu and other Works Ptricius Iunius Patrick Young a Scotchman a great Grecian There is his Catena Pat. Graec. in Iob Gr. Lat. Clementis ad Corinthios Epistola cum ejus notis Fr. Iuretus He hath put out Notes on Seneca Christ. Iustellus a learned Protestant He hath published these two excellent Works Codex Canonum Ecclesiae
th de Obedientia and that Cardinall Poole when he spake to Queen Mary blasphemously used the words of the Angell Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum He died the same day that Queen Mary died CHAP. VII POlyander à Kerckoven Doctor of Divinity in Leyden He hath put out Concertatio Anti-Sociniana Polybius A learned Historian Polycarpus a Tree that bare much fruit according to his name He lived in the time of Ignatius and drew the doctriue of the Gospel from the mouth of the Apostles as a most pure fountain Irenaeus saith of him Hic docuit semper quae ab Apostolis didicerat Ecclesiae tradidit quae sola sunt vera Arnoldus Pontacus Vossius terms him doctissimum diligentissimum and l. 2. De vitiis Sermonis c. 3. Arnoldus Pontacus in iis quae ad B. Hieronymi Chronicon magnâ industriâ nec doctrina minore annotavit Io Isaacius Pontanus the King of Denmarks Historiographer a learned Historian Vossius honourably mentions him lib. De constructione c. 63. Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus Nulli sui saeculi Poetae aut Oratori scribendo vel docendo cessit Boissardi Bibliotheca His Works are mentioned by Boissard Lud. de Ponte Romanus Ludovicus Pontanus commonly sirnamed Romanus because among all the Doctors of the Law he chose his dwelling within Rome He had so happy a memory that he never alleadged the Law and he alleaged it often but he presently rehearsed its text all along without book Ausonius Popma Suffridus Petrus mentions three of his brethren as learned Cyprianus a Popma Sixtus a Popma and Titus a Popma His book De differentiis verborum is of good use Porchetus Some say Galatinus took all out of him Porchetus and he both out of Martinus Raymundus his Pugio There is his Victoria adversus Hebraeos a book well esteemed of Porphyrius He was Plotinus his Scholer and Iamblichus his Master he wrote fourteen books against the Christians which he deadly hated He was a wicked and ungodly Jew of the kindred and sect of the Sadduces an enemy of Christ a hater of God and his Word He wrote many books in Philosophy Rhetorick Grammer and commented upon some of Aristotles books Ejus adeo exosum execrabile nomen ut in edictis Imperatorum profligatissimi quique haeretîci Porphyriani dicerentur Crakanth De providentia Dei Gilbertus Porretanus Anno Dom. 114. There are his 6 Principia In quatuor Lib. Boethii de Trinitate Io. Baptista Porta He discovers many rare and exquisite things He hath published severall Works De miraculis naturae De Furtivis literarum notis Magia naturalis De hum Physiognomia De Distillationibus and other Works Ioan. Vincentius Porta Ioannes Posselius a pious and learned man Hesiodus Analyticus Syntaxis Graecae linguae Colloquia Apophthegmata Graecae linguae Calligrophia Oratoria linguae Graecae a book most profitable to get the propriety elegancy and plenty of the Greek language Liber hic certe magno labore studio ex variis acctoribus Graecis est collectus continetque tum phrases ac formas loquendi elegantiores tum vocabula simplicia synonima item particularum usum additis ubique tabulis probatorum auctorum illustribus exemplis dignus qui ab omnibus serio Graecari Graece ac Latine scribendi exercitium conjungere volentibus nocturna diurnaque manu versetur Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Ant. Possevinus an Italian of Mantua Some dislike him he hath put all Campians reasons into his book D r Raynolds therefore styles him Campiani haeres ex asse and was wont to say of him that he had need of a broom Ioannes Posthius a learned Physitian and Poet. He wrote excellent Poems intitled Parerga poetica Some Anotomicall Observations and other things belonging to Physick Gul. Postellus a good Linguist but he was mad he held that Adams soul was in him and other gross opinions He was the first of Christians which published the rudiments of the Arabick Grammer There are these Works of his De Linguarum 12 differentium Alphab Clavis absconditorum aeternae veritatis De Phaenicum Lit. De Orbis Terrae concordia De Etruriae Origine Gabriel Powel There is his Disput. de Antichristo De adiaphoris His resolved Christian. His Positions of Usury in two Volumes in 8 o and other Works Godeschalcus Praetorius A noble Poet made this Verse upon him Bis septem linguas sophiam omnem calluit unus Regnerus Praedinius the learned Rector of the School at Groning His Works are published in one Volume Hieronymus Pragensis a Bohemish Divine who was truly worthy of a holy name a Martyr also of Christ as Iohn Hus was and was burned at Constance Anno 1416. D r Iohn Preston a learned and profound Divine His Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes and his Sermons upon the Sacraments with other Works are of great use Iohn Prideaux Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Worcester the Learned Professor of Divinity heretofore in Oxford His Lectures and Orations in Latine and other Works have made him famous both here and beyond sea Sylvester de Prierio He hath written Case-Divinity called Summa Sylvestriana and severall books against Luther for which the Pope sent him a golden Rose Gilbert Primerose A learned Scotchman who was a French Preacher at Bourdeaux and after one of the Preachers in the French Church at London He hath put out severall French books La Trompette de Syon Le Voeu de Iacob opposè aux voeux des Moynes La defense de la Religion reformee par passages de l' Escripture Many of his Works are translated into English David Primerose his son was Preacher at Roane in France He put out Theses Theologicae De Peccato in genere specie De Necessitate satisfactionis pro peccato per Christum De Divina praedestinatione annexis articulis A Treatise against the morality of the Sabbath Priscianus a famous Grammarian Priscus nomine fide Grammaticus Voss. l. 1. De Analog c. 19. We call incongrnous Latine the breaking of Priscians head as if to speak and write well by a speciall right belonged to him Proclus Casaubone faith he had the best memory of any that he ever saw or read of He was a great Mathematician and famous Platonick Philosopher Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Procopius Gazeus Anno Dom. 530. a most grave Historian of the Romans who lived in the times of the Gothes and Vandals and was well skilled in the Originall and Manners of both Nations Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Propertius He was excellent and singular saith Pliny in Elegies Propertium qui non amat eum profecto Musae non amant Lipsius l. 2. antiq lect cap. 10. Umbria parva tibi tantum debere fatetur Quantum Callimacho Graecia magna suo Steph. Pasch. Icones
Verses of him De Volaterrano paucis sic Lector habeto Ille sui Plinius temporis alter erat Melchior Volmarus Beza's Master He was most studious of Elegancy in the Latine Tongue so skilfull in the Greek that he affirmed before his Duke of Wittenberge Malle se causam in foro Gaece quam Germanice agere quamvis ea lingua sibi vernacula esset yet he was so modest that though he excelled in writing Greek and Latine yet he published nothing but a very elegant Preface to the Greek Grammer of Demetrius Chalcondylas Conr. Vorstius He was learned but Heretical Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Gerard Iohn Vossius Professour of Eloquence Chronology and the Greek Tongue at Leiden and Prebend of Canterbury in England He was an excellent Grammarian and general Scholler One of the greatest Lights of Holland He hath written learnedly almost of all the Arts of Idolatry his Theological Theses are good His Treatise De Theologia Gentili c. is full of Learning Rivet often commends him Ego certè ita sentio neminem inter Theologos nostros repertum fuisse qui minùs jurarit in verba cujusquam magistri qui aliorum sententias aequiùs expenderit qui veritatis diligentior fuerit indagator And. Rivet Apologet. pro vera pace Eccles. His Historia Pelagiana is most disliked Our Arminians * most depend upon him touching the Authority of the Ancients Bochart Geograph Sac. l. 2. c. 17. saith thus of his Book De Historicis Gracis Opus mira eruditionis ex cujus lectione nos profecisse non parum ingenuè profitemur Urbanus VIII Papa a good Poet he published some Poems There is Naudaei Panegyricus dictus Urbano VIII Pont. Max. Ob beneficia ab ipso in magistrum Thomam Campanellam collata Fulvius Ursinus a most learned Antiquary Optimè de omni meliore Antiquitate apud bonos omnes promeritus Pignor. Symb. Epist. Epist. 18. Celebris ille antiquitatum vindex Uâ—sinus Fulvius Scriv. Animadvers in lib. 10. Mart. There are his Notae in Polybium Dionysii Halyc 〈◊〉 Appiani Diodori Siculi Dionis fragmenta Notae in Tacitum Paterculum Notae in Historices veteres Appendix ad lib. Petri Ciaconii de Triclinio De Faemiliis Romanorum Zachary Ursin a learned and solid Divine He was born at Uratislania the Metropolis of Silesia one of the fairest Cities of Germany in the year of Christ 1534. His Works put out since his death are all collected together and distinguished into three Tomes Conr. â Liechthena Abbas Urspergensis Anno Dom. 1202. There is his Coenobii Chronicon Iacobus Armachanus Iames Usher Bishop of Armagh The hundredth Archbishop of Armagh from him whom some call S t Patrick as Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury told Queen Elizabeth he was the seventieth Archbishop of Canterbury from Austen the Monk Antiq. Brit. He hath a great name deservedly amongst the Reformed Churches for his skill in Ecclesiastical Antiquities his stout Defence of the Orthodox Religion frequent and powerfull preaching and unblameable Life and is likewise famous for his great Abilities with the Papists themselves though yet he be accounted haereticus primae Classis in their Index Expurg Fitz Simonds with whom he disputed about the Popes being Antichrist and was too hard for though the Bishop was then very young in one of his books saith he is Acatholicorum doctissimus And Moranez in his Anti-Iansenius Disp. 11. Sect. 2. hath these words Hanc divinationem de Haeresi Praedestinationis non ipse primus excogitavit sed à Lutheranis Calvinistis ejusdem haeresis recoctoribus accepit praecipuéque à Jacobo Usserio iusigni Calvinista Hyberno qui ann 1631. librum edidit Dublini hoc titulo inscriptum Gotteschalci c. Quo libro probandum suscipit eos qui pro Praedestinatianis haereticis habentur non alios fuisse quam doctrinae Augustinianae defensores Ad quod persuadendum iisdem utitur conjecturis argumentis quibus Jansenius ut recte notavit Antonius Ricardus l. 1. Disputat de lib. arbit c. 1. Sect. 6. relatiâ— utriusque verbis Neque onim sensum duntaxat sed verba fere ipsa transcripsit Jansenius Neque tamen quod aequum erat ullam ejus mentionem facere dignatus est He first got himself a name in the Church by that first and excellent Book of his De Christianarum Ecclesiarum successione statu His Book De Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Primordiis Vossius De vitiis Sermonis c. 10. cals laudatissimum opus and it is generally well esteemed wherein he sifteth to the branne the Brittish Churches Antiquities His other Latine Works are Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge Ignatianarum Epistolarum Sylloge Ignatiana Appendix De veterum Symbolis Annalium pars prima secunda Epistola ad Ludovicum Capellum De anno veterum Macedonum Syntagma de Editione LXX Interpretùm Dissertatio de Cainane His English Works Answer to a Jesuites Challenge The Religion of the ancient Irish and Brittish A Speech in the Starre-Chamber of the Kings Supremacy Two Sermons one before the King another before the Parliament A Treatise of the Incarnation of Christ. A Treatise of the Original of Bishops and Archbishops What Asia is that mentioned in the New Testament Carolus Utenhovius He was skilfull in the principal Languages Hebrew Greek Latine and also in the Germane French Italian English His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Bonaventura Vulcanius Brugensis He was the Greek Professour at Leyden Vir de bonis litteris optimè meritus Pignor. Symb. Epistol eruditissimo suâ— de literis linguâ Gothorum Commentariolo Olai Wormii literatura Danica c. 6. His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life CHAP. VII W LUc. Wadingus There are his Annales minorum in five Volomes in Folio there he speaks of all learned Fryers of that order He is much esteemed now at Rome Sir Isaac Wake The University Orator in Oxford There is his Rex Plaâ—onicus or Musâ— regnantes An Oration at the Funeral of D r Rainolds Robert Wakefield a learned Hebrician of our own He wrote Institutio Gramaticae Hebraeae De laudibus linguae Hebraeae De Hebraeorum câ—dicum incorruptione Paraphrasis in Ecclesiasten cum Praefatione Richardi Pacei Orationes quâ—dam cum aliis opusc Antonius Walaeus He was an orthodox and solid Divine as his several learned Works in one Volume in Folio shew Waldenses Our Historians confound the Albigenses and Waldenses though some learned men hold they are to be distinguished The Waldeâ—ses are famous for their Antiquity Universality and Innocency The first original of the Waldenses came of Waldus a man of great substance in the City of Lions About the year of our Lord 1160. divers of the best of the City of Liâ—nt talking and walking in a certain place after their old accustomed manner especially in the Summer time conferred together upon matters Amongst whom it
any Religion ibid. Of the chief false Religions 5. to 17 Of the Reformed Religion 17 18 19 The Papists use both violent and fraudulent means to propagate their Religion 16 17 Reliques the worshipping of them condemned 16 Remigius commended 305 306 Georgius Remus ibid. Iohn Reuchlin commended 306 Iovius makes him the author of that Book Epistolae obseurorum virorum ibid. He bred many excellent Schollers ib. Nicolaus Reusnerus 306 Rhemes 85 Beatus Rhenanus commended 306 Verses of him ibid. Rhetorick what it is and whence derived 39 Iohannes Rhodius 307 Ludovicus Coelius Rhodiginus when he lived ibid. Commended ibid. His Epitaph ib. Pet. Ribadeneyra ibid. Fr. Ribera a learned Jesuite ib. Antonius Riccobonus ib. Christophorus Riccius ib. Paulus Riccius a learned Germane Jew converted to the Christian Faith 308 Bishop Ridley the most learned Martyr in Queen Maries dayes ibid. Petrus Riga ibid. Nicolaus Rigaltius ib. Ioh. Riolanus both the Father and the Son ib. Ioachimus Fortius Ringelbergius ibid Fridericus Risnerus ibid. Couradus Ritterhusius when and where he was born 308. 309 Commended ibid. m. Sir Thomas Rives 309 Andrew and William Rivet ib. Mart. de Roa ibid. Franciscus Robortellus ib. Angelus Roccha ib. Robert Rollock a learned Scotch Divine 310 Romances whence the word comes 64 Adrianus Romanus 310 Rome 75 76 Gulielmus Rondeletius an excellent Physician 310 Peter Ronsard Prince of the French Poets ibid. An Epitaph of him ib. Bartas and Cardinal Perrons speech of him 310 311 Io Rosinus 311 Alexander Rosse a learned Scotchman ibid. Rostock 71 Herebertus Rosweydus a learned Jesuite 311 Hieronymus Roverius ib. Hier. Rubeus a famous Physician ibid. Rudolphus secundus Imperator ib. Ioannes Ruellius ibid. Ruffinus Presbyter ib. David Rungius 311 312 Rupertus Abbot of Tuy commended 312 Io. de Rupescissa ib. Ianus Rutgersius ibid. S EManuel Sa 312 Marcus Antonius Cooceius Sabellicus ibid. Raymundus de Sabunde ib. Io. de Sacro bosco a famous Philosopher and Mathematician 313 When he flourished ib. An Englishman ibid. Antonius Sadeel commended 313. m Iac. Sadoletus a learned Cardinall 313 Thought to be poisoned ibid Salamanca 8â— Salern 80 81 Iac. Salianus 313 Cl. Salmasius a learned French Critick 313 314 Commended and censured 314 Alph. Salmeron ibid. Salvianus 314 Salustius Crispus ib. Samaritan Language 58 59 Scaevola Sammarthanus a learned French Poet 314 Verses to him ibid. D r Sanderson ibid. Guspar Sanctius a learned Spaniard 315 Antonius and Nic. Sanderus ib. Hugo Sanfordus ibid. Iacobus Sannazarius a learned Poet ibid Cardinal Bembus his Epigram upon him ib. Sappho Lesbia when she lived ib. The Sapphick Verses so called from her 316 Saragossa 90 Erasmus Sarcerius a learned Divine 316 Alex. Sardus ib. Io. Sarisburiensis ib. Adam Sasbout ib. Hieronymus Savanarola a Dominican and famous Preacher ib. Sir Henry Savill a great Mathematician and expert Grecian ib. Commended 317 Scaligers both Iulius and Ioseph ib. Verses of them ibid. Iulius Caesar Scaliger ibid. Commended and censured ibid Ioseph Scaliger commended 317 Ch. Scheibler 319 William Schickard a great Linguist ib. Valentine Schindler ib. Martinus Schoockius ib. School-Divinity 38 Schools Grammer schools the Nurseries of Learning ib. The most famous trivial Schools in England 92 Gaspar and Andrew Schoppius 319 Scotland 53 D r Sclater 321 Learned men of Scotland and its Universities 103 104 Cornel. Schonaeus a Poet of most elegant wit 319 And. Schottus a learned and candid Jesuite ibid. Io. Duns Scotus a learned Englishman the wittiest of all the Schoolmen 320 When he lived ib. Verses of him ib. Iohannes Scotus Erigena an Irishman Master to King Alfred 320 Witty and pleasant ib. He was murthered by his Schollers with their penknives 321 Caelius Sedulius Scotus 322 Carolus Scribanius censured 321 Pet. Scriverius ib. Anna Maria a Schurman a learned Dutchwoman ib. Bartholomaus and Abraham Scultetus 322 Iohn Selden a learned English Lawyer ib. His Books commended ib. What he wrote in all his Books ib. Nicolaus Selneccerus Doctor of Divinity in Lipsia 322 His Distick for himself ib. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher when born 323 The Prince of the Stoicks ib. Nero's Schoolmaster ib. Seneca the Tragick Poet ibid. Sixtus Senensis commended ib. Dan. Sennertus a learned Physician ibid. Nic. Serarius a good Hebrician ib. Servius a most learned Grammarian ibid. Sulpitius Severus commended 324 Robert Sheringham ib. D r Sibbes ib. Sir Philip Sidney 324 Sidney-Sussex-Colledge in Cambridge 103 Sienna 80 Sigebertus Monk of Gemblaux 324 Carolus Sigonius a most accurate Writer ib. Siguenca 90 Silius Italicus 324 Iacobus Silvius a learned man and great Physician but covetous ib. Buchanans Verses of him ib. Io. Simlerus 324 325 Simonides 325 Simplicius ib. Gabriel Sionita ib. Iacobus Sirmondus a learned French Jesuite ib. Siville 88 Iohn Sleiden 325 Henricus Smetius 326 Erasmus Schmidt ibid. Bishop Smith and Sir Thomas Smith ib. Rodolphus Snellus 326 Ernardus and Theodoricus Snepsius ibid. Laelius and Faustus and Marianus Socinus 327 Socinianism sprung from Mahometism 9 The main parts of Socinianism 327 Socrates Scholasticus ib. C. Iulius Solinus Polyhist ib. George Sohn Doctor of Divinity in Heidelberg 327 Sophocles ib. Commended 328 Sore or Sorre 75 Dominicus Soto a Spanish Divine of great fame ib. Sozomenâ— ib. Spain The famous learned men there 88 The Universities there 88 to 91 Frederick Spanheme a learned and pious French Divine 328 Spanish Language 64 Aelius Spartianus 328 Sir Henry Spelman a learned and painfull Antiquary ib. Edmund Spencer the Prince of English Poets in his time ib. His Epitaph ib. Ad. Spigelius a learned Physician 328 Io. Stadius a great Mathematician 329 Sir William Stamford a great Lawyer ib. Richard Stanihurst a learned Irish Papist ibid. Thomas Stapleton a learned Englishman ib. Papinius Statius a good Poet ib. D. Iosiah Stegman ib. Didacus Stella ib. Godeschalcus Stewichius ib. Henry and Robert Stevens 329 330 Stephanus Stephanius 330 Io. Stobaus ibid Stoicks the strictest Sect of the Philosophers yet farre short of Christians 5 D Stoughton a learned and pious Divine 330 Strabo and Walfr Strabo ibid. Strabus Monachus Fuldensis ib. Authour of the Ordinary Glosse ib. Famianus Strada a famous Orator Poet and Historian ib. Sâ—reso a learned Divine 331 Victorinus Strigelius when he lived ib. Commended ib. Kyriacus Strozza a great Philosopher ib. Io. Guliel Stuckius commended ib. Ioannes and Iacobus Sturmins ib. Fr. Suarez 332 C. Suetonius Tranquillus a very faithfull Historian 332 When he lived ibid. Commended ibid Suidas ib. D. Sutlive ib. Emanuel Sayno ib. Fran. Swortius ib. Roger Swinset or Suisset a famous English School Divine ib. Commended 332. m. Caspar Schwenckfeldius 333 Frid. Sylburgius a great Grecian ib. Symmachus ib. Gul. Sympsonus and Edward Symson ib. Michael Syncellus ib. Synesius Cyreneus ib. Syriack Language 59 60 T COrnelius Tacitus when he lived 335. m. Commended ibid. His History preferred before his Annals ibid. Tadaus or Thadaeus 336 Audomarus Talaeus Professor of eloquence at Paris 336 Talmud what it is
Roma respondit Acetum pessimum vini optimi Drus. ad difficil loc Num. c. 22. Quam faedis corruptelis propemodum extincta fuerit vera religio suâ— Papatu vix ullis verbis exprimi potest nec sine summo horrore cogitari Imo quum nihil aliud â—it totus Papatus quam sacrilega innumeris ludibriis referta Nominis Dei profanatio si in repurgandis istis sordibus frigemus ubi suppetit facultas minime coram Deo ejusque Angelis excusabilis erit nostra cessatio Calv. Epist. D. Ioanni Comiti Tarnovio Missam in Christi contumeliam ab ipso Satana fabricatam affirmo ad sanctae caenae eversionem certissâ—mam Plane enim ex diametro illi repugnat ubi sacrificii nomine censetur atque in actionem temere inventam vis efficacia passionis Domini transcribitur extat illic praeterea apertissima idololatria non tantum ubi panis adoratur sed quia oratur pro defunctis merita atque intercessiones sanctorum implorantur pleraque ejusmodi illic siunt quae Dominus nominatim condemnat Quare non magis licet fidelibus communicare illi superstitioni quam olim licebat sacrificari in Bethel Illud enim omnino repugnat Confessioni Fidei quam à nobis Dominus requirit Calv. Epist. N. S. * Palam est nostram à nobis Ecclosiam reformatam esse ex mero ipsius verbo quod unum est pro regula ad quam instituenda illa sit tuenda legitime Plusquam idonea sunt rationes quae ad mutationem illam nos adegerunt cujus praejudicio falso urgemur Primum nempe caput Christianismi est ut Deus colatur Animadvertimus vero formam illam adorationis quae in usu erat falsam perversam esse quia non erat in spiritu veritate sed in externis ceremoniis ritibus etiam superstitiosis Quamvis etiam non jam unus Deus adoraretur sed loco ipsius ligna lapides picturae mortuorum reliquiae caetera id genus Cum Dei adoratione cohaeret ipsius recte invocandi regula Et qualis est Dei invocatio in toto Papatu nisi cum dubitatione diffidentia conjuncta quatenus non tenetur Christi munus quod in eo positum est ut intercedat pro nobis ut ejus nomine à Deo exaudiamur Porro quid sunt aliud publicae illae preces quam strepitus ignoti velut exotici ululatus Postremo quot blasphemiae illic censendae sunt ubi virtus mediatoris transfertur ad sanctos sanctas ut eorum nomine meritis gratia impetretur Tertio loco invocatio proximo est ipse Dei cultus Docebamur autem Deum colere ex vanis hominum traditionibus Ille suam unam voluntatem pro omni regula hac in parte praescripsit Calvin Responsio ad quendam Curatum Erat in Cardinalium caetu Nicolaus Archiepiscopus Capuanus omnis emendationis impatiens ac inter alia dicebat fore alioquin ut Lutherani jacteut quasi ab ipsis propemodum adacti illud fecerunt Sleid. Câ—mment l. 12. Petrus de Aliaco wrote an excellent Tract De Reformatione Ecclesiae and offered it to the Councell of Constance The first consideration is how to reform the body of the Church for that let often Generall Councels be celebrated and other directions he gives 2. To reform the Head that is the State of the Pope and the Court of Rome and shews means for that 3. To reform the principall parts of the Church viz. the Prelates and gives directions for that 4. To reform about Religion and religious persons and he prescribes rules for that 5. To reform the other Ecclesiasticall persons 6. To reform the Christian Lay-people Vide Wolfii Lect. Memorab Centen 15. * â—onsilium De lectorum Cardinalium Ali orum Pâ—clatoruÌ„ de emendanda Ecclesiaâ— D. N. Papae Paulo tertio ipso jubente conscriptum exhibitum Au. 1538. Libellus verè aureus Ante annos 70 in Concilio Tridentino primum editus deinde Romani Antichristi tyranni coâ—ussa injustè suppressus Nunc autem ab interitu vindicatus deâ—uo recusus ex Bibliotheca W. Crashaw in Theol Baccal verbi Divini apud Temp. praedic Audiant Papistae inquit ille in Epist. Dedicat. Tobiae Matthaeo quid de hoc novem viraâ—i concilio non Calvinus non Lutherus non Vâ—rgerius non Bucerus nostri non Sleidanus in suis Commentariis sed Eâ—pencaeus Papista Sorbonista Episcopus inter doctissimos integerrimos melioris netae uti etiam Papa Paulus quartus Cardinalatum obtulit Sic ille Tot annis omnium votis expectatum concilium Paulus tertius indixit delectis primum novem viris doctissimis gravissimis qui ab eo jussi Ecclesiae scandala corrigere qui primum non celaverant ejus sanctitatem hodiernorum malorum inde principium fuisse quod praedecessorum suorum nonnulli prurientes auribus c. Lectori Si istius novem-viralis Concilii Uberius luculentius testimonium quis requirat is sciat quod libellus iste ad verbum extai in Tom. 3. Concil edit per crab editionis Colon. 1551. ut in omnibus aliis editionibus pontificiorum furto fraude defideratur Gasper Card. Contarenus Ioh. Petrus Card. Theatinus Postea P. Paulus quartus Iacobus Cardinalis Sadoletus Reginaldus Card. Anglicus cognomento Polus Fredericus Arch. Salervitanus Hieronymus Brandusinus Iob. Matthaeus Episcopus Veronensis Georgius Abbas sancti Georgii Ven. srater Thomas Magister sacri Palatii Vide Gerh Confess Cath. l. 1. General part 1. c. 4. Semper fuerunt in Germania qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Papatus agnoverunt taxarunt Multi primatum Pontificis clerifastum avaritiam ac libidines detestati sunt multi idolum missae oppugnarunt Multi rectè piè de gratuita hominis peccatoris coram Deo justificatione de invocatione de sacramentis aliis religionis capitibus docuerunt multi reformationem unicè in votis habuerunt Melchior Adam in Vita Gobelini * In hac etiam urbe meretrices ut matronae incedunt per urbem seu mula vehuntur quas assectantur de media die nobiles familiares Cardinales clericique nulla in urbe vidimus hanc corruptionem praeterquam in hac omnium exemplari habitant etiam insignes â—des corrigendus hic etiam turpis abusus They teach that Priests offend less if they whore then if they marry Iohn Casa Archbishop of Beneventum the Popes Legate at Venice wrote in the commendation of a most abominable filthiness and set forth with wicked eloquence that sinne which ought not to be named scarce among Christians Tantae sunt puritatis castitatis ut in templo etiam publico Iesuita non ausit sibi suaeve carni confidere ut solus mulieris excipiat confessionem Hasenmulleri Historia Iesuitici ordinis cap. 6. Vide plura ibid. Audivi ego factum quod mulier