would seriously attend their offices and teach carâ—fully in the Villages That they would preach still the same things 〈◊〉 the same points and often presse them upon the people Herâ— also Luther put forth a book against the Turk in the German tongue In this year was held that solemne and numerous assembly before the Emperour the States of the Empire w ch was printed made known to all the Nations of Europe Luther composed the seventeen Articles before the Divines of Saxony took their journey to Aâ—gusta In these Articles he omitted scholastick disputes and pointâ— unnecâ—ssary for the peoples instruction and comprised the summe of wholsome and necessary doctrin for the salvation of mens souls and true piety Afâ—er this the Confession written by Melancthon according to Luthers direction and advise was exhibited in the Latine and German tongues in Caesars palace Iune 25. at two a clock in the afternoone and was read by the Chancellor of Saxony before Charles the fifth Ferdinando and all the Elâ—ctors and Princes being assessors and that with so shrill and loud a voyce that not onely in that large Hall but also in the Court beneath and in the places adjoyning it was well heard They who subscribed to this Confâ—ssion were Iohn Duke of Saxony George Marquesse of Brandenbâ—ugh Ernest and Franciâ— brothers Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburgh Philip Landgrave of Hasâ—ia Wolfgang Prince of Anhalt and two Citiâ—s of the Empire Norinberg and Reutling In the year 1533. Luther comforted the Citizens of Oschatz by his letter who had been turned out for hiâ— confession of the Gospell In his letter hâ— saith The Devill iâ—â—he Host and the World is his Inne so that where ever yoâ— come you shall be sure to finde this ugly Hoste In the year 1534. the German Bible translated by him and brought into one body was first printed as the old priviledge dated at Bibliopolâ—â— under the Electors hands sheweth In the year 1535. this Bible was publishâ—d Thâ—n the fancies of the Anabaptists began to appeare in Westphalia and made a very great combustion This year Lutâ—er began publickly to preach on Genesis which taske â—e ended as himselfe was wont to ominate with his life six yeares after In February the year following the Duke Elâ—ctor of Saxony with the Confederate Princes and Cities and their Divines held an Assembly at Smalcald foâ— matters of Religion At this meeting Luther fell sick of a grievous disease so that there was no hope of his life He was pained of the stone and obstruction in the bladder eleven dayes Here he though most of his friends disliked and reasoned against it would be carried thence the event proved his resolution good George Sturk the Physitian being sâ—nt for from Erphord went along with him Luther as he was carried along made his Will in which he bequâ—athed his detestation of Popery to his friends and Pastors as before in the house of Spalatinus in the year 1530. where he made thiâ— Verse Pestis eram vivus moriens ero mors tua Papa I living stopt Romes breath And Dead will be Romes Death But the night after his departure thence he begen to be somewhat better He tooke delight to expresse some things in his owne tongue and in Ryme Of which some were to this sense and meaning Eaâ—e what is sodden well Drâ—â—ke what is pure and cleare That thâ—u the truth doth tell To all let it appeare Speake not to all what eâ—er thou doest knowâ— If thou â—e well keepe wisely were thou art Conserve with care what ever is thine â—â—â—ne Mischanâ—◠〈◊〉 â—ooted comes like th'nimbling â—art Be silent in â—ue time abstaine sustaine Hold up thy head Of need to none complâ—ine Dispaire not of Gods helpe thy state to â—â—sy Who sends asâ—â—stance to us every day He was in his private converse of such behaviour that his life was a patterene of vertue As he dined or supped oftentimes he would dictaâ—e matter to be preached sometimes corrected the faults of the presse sometimâ—s he would recreate himselfe and others with Musick He was by nature which Melancthon would often wonder at a moderate eater and drinker and yet had no small or weake body He hath beene seene for four dâ—yes together and being in health to eate and drinke nothing at set meale times and often at other times for many dayes to be content with a little bread and fish I will say nothing how in the Cloysters he macerated himselfe with watchings fasting labors Oftentimes being invited to Banquets he went not because he would not lose his time I said he lose too much time by invitations to Feasts here in the City I know Saâ—â—n hath such an hand in it that I may not deny it and yet it doth me harme to accept the courtisy In company he was familiar pleasent courteous yet grave as beseemed a man of his place He was â—ffable and studious of truth Melancthon affirmeth that he often found him â—t prayer with great ardency and tears imploring God for the whole Church He set apart every day a certaine time for the reading some Psalmes and intermixt his owne prayers and teares with them He often used to say that he was offended with them who either through Idlenesse or variety of imployment said that it was enough to pray with groanes onely And for that end said he formes of prayer are prescrâ—bed us by the will of God that reading might inâ—lâ—me our mindes yea that the voyce also might professe whaâ— God we call upon When â—e recreated his minde and took it of from study he delighted to play at Chesse and was skilfull at it He sometimes practised the art of Turning with his servâ—nt Wolfgang and would say if the world should denâ— us sâ—stenance for my paines in Gods word we would learne to get our livingâ— with our hands Sometimes he did play on an Instrument sometimes shoote He was carefull also of the neatnesse of his Garden and desired of his friends variety of plants to furnish it So that he had no vacant time Of his imployments thus he writeth I am very full of imployment preaching to the people might well require all my paines my course of worshiping God and prayer might wholly busie mâ— my paines bâ— expounding Scriptures by writing my writing Epistles my care of otheâ— mens affaires takâ—tâ— up my time my converse with my friends which I use to call a feeding of my corps doth very badly steale away a greaâ— part of my time It was his usuall course either to meditate or to read or preacâ— or to give good counsell to his friends so that hâ— was never idle He was very liberall to the poore On a time when a Stdents asked some money of him he bad his wife give him some thiâ—g and when she excused the matter in regard of their penury at that time he tooke up a silver cup and gave it to the Schollar and bid him sell it to the Gâ—ld-smith and keep the money
truely blest For which rare Doctor let both high and low Blesse God that they so clear Christs truth doe know And pray the Lord that these his Gospels rayes May to the World shine-forth for datelesse dayes Philip Melancthon Dead is grave Luther worthy all due praise Who set forth Christ in Faiths illustrious rayes His Death the Church laments with sighs sincere Who was her Pastour nay her Patron deare Our Israels Chariots and Horsemen rare Is dead with me let All sad Sables weare Let them their griefe in groaning verses sing For such sad Knells such Orphans best may ring Theodore Beza Rome tam'd the World the Pope tam'd Rome so great Rome rul'd by power the Pope by deep Deceit But how morâ— large than theirs was Luthers Fame Who with One Pen both Pope and Rome doth tame Goe fictious Greece goe tell Alcides then His Club is nothing to great Luthers Pen. John Major By Luthers labours Leo the tenth is slaine Not Hercles Club but Luthers Pen's his bane Joachim a Beuft When Luther dy'd then with him dy'd most sure A Crown and credit of Religion pure His Soul soar'd up to heaven on Concords day Which tended Luther thither on his way Deare Christ since Discord followed with Coats rent Give to thy Spouse Elijahs ornament Upon his Tomb-stone the University of Wittenberg as to her beloved father engraved MARTINI LVTHERIS THEOLOGIAE D. CORPVS H. L. S. E. QVI ANNO CHRISTI M. Dâ—XLVI.XII CAL. MARTII EISLEBII IN PATRIAS M. O. C. V. AN. LXIII M.III.D.X Luthers writing were published at Wittenberg and Iene in severall Towns both in Latine and German tongue Part of them were expositions of Scriptures part doctrinall part polemicall Of these this was his own judgement Aâ—ove all I beseech the godly Reader and I beseech him for our Lord Iesus Christs sake that he would read my writings judiciously and with much piâ—ying my case In Wedlock he lived chastly and godly above twenty yeers and when he dyed left three sons and Catharin de Bora a widdow who lived after his death seven years To her it was a great griefe that her husband died in a place far from her so that she could not be with him and performe the last conjugall offices to him in his sicknesse In the time of the war which presently followed she wandred up and down with her orphants and in banishment was exposed to many difficulties and dangers And besides the miseries of widowhood which are full many the ingratitude of many did much afflict her for where she hoped for kindenesse in regard of her husbands worthy and noble deserts of Gods Church often she was put of with great indignity When afterward her house at Wittenberg in time of pestilence was infected she for her childrens safety as became a godly mother betook her selfe to Torg where was also an University But in the way when the horses affrighted ran out and seemed to indanger the waggon she amazed not so much for her owne as her childrens preservation lept out of the Waggon whereby poore wretch she grievously bruised her body in the fall and being cast into a poole of cold water caught thereby a disease of which she lay sick three months in banishment and pining away at length dyed quietly in the year 1552. Welfare those gentle Quilâ— whose ere they be Whose meritorioâ—s labours shall set free The Urne imprisoned Dust of that renown'd Thrice famous Luther Let his head be crown'd With sacred Immortality and rais'd Much rather to be wondred at then prais'd Let Bâ—bes unborn like fruitfull plants bring forth To after dayes new Monumeâ—ts of his worth And time out lasting Name that Babels Whore And all his bald-paâ—e panders may ev'n rore For very anguish and then gnaw and bite Their tongues for malice and their nailes for spite Whilst men made perfect in his well know story May all turne Patrâ—os and protect his Glory ERASMVS ROTERDAMVS The life and Death of Desiderius Erasmuâ— HIs Sirnamâ— implyes the place of his birth Roterdam is a City of Holland Holland the seat of the ancient Batavi but now illustrious by the production of one pen then by all her former harvests of pykes Seaven Citâ—es no coâ—temptible portion of witty and work-like Greece accouâ—ted the Nativitie of Homer so great an access to their other glories that they seriously contested about it Although Homer because Antiquity will have it so be greater then Erasmus yet litle Roterdam hath more to boast of in him then great Athens Smyrna Rhodes Colophon Chios Salamis or Argos in the other For it is certaine Erasmus was born at Roterdam but pitch upon what City of those seven you please it is six to one whether Homer was born there or not But what talke we of Roterdam Rhenamus sticks not to impute his Nativity to the fortune of Emperors and felicity of the whole German Empire within the limits whereof he was born upon the vigil or Eve of Simon and Iude under Frederick the third But in what yeer of our Lord or that Emporors raigne is not remembred this is certaine in the yeer of grace 1519. he was either 50. or 52. his mothers name was Margaret daughter to one Peter a physitian of Zavenberg his father Gerard. These accompanied together secretly but not without promise of marriage untill the young woman proved with childe Gerards father was named Helias his wife Catherine each of them lived till past 95. They had ten Sonnes without any daughters all married except Gerard who was the youngest save one All of them much resented this Clandestine combination and commixture betwixt Gerard and Margaret wherefore to prevent their marriage to gaine his portion to themselves and yet not loose a brother able in time to feast them at his owne cost they resolve out of ten to give Gerard as the Tieth unto God that is to dedicate him to the Church whereby perceiving himselfe excluded from marriage and not yet resolved to enter into holy Orders he fled to Rome By the way he wrot back to his friends the reason of his journey he intimated by the impresse of his seal which had one hand infolded in another In the meane time Margaret was brought to bed and the child the subject of this discourse cheerfully received and carefully nourished by his grandâ—mother Gerard after his arrivall at Rome maintained himselfe by his Pen for he wrote an exellent hand and Printing was not then found out or but in the infancy In processe of time the Copying out of learned bookes begate in him a love to learning it selfe so that besides his knowledge in the Tongues both Greek and Latin he became a considerable proficient in the Lawes which he might the more easily doe Rome then abounding with many learned and able Schollers and he himselfe having the happinesse to be an Hearer of Guarinus His father and brethren having certaine intilligence both of his being and well being at Rome fraudulently advertise
victory from those who were his contemporanean School-fellowes and that nothing might seem to be wanting to the perfection of so hopefull a Plant he reached unto the knowledge of the Scince of Mâ—sicke wherein he shewed himselfe so excellent and so compleat an Artist that his judgement compared with the tendernesse of his yeeres enforced his spectators to the greater admiration and his Master Bintzlius well perceiving that his Sâ—udies and learning were incongruous and too mean for so apt and so vertuous a disposition sent him back againe unto his Father together with his judicious opinion concerning him advising him to provide otherwise for him and to search out for such a Master whose learning might be correspondent unto the promptnesse of his naturall disposition His Father being joyfull with this approbation of his Master and also fearfull least these springing vertues should suffer an Eclipse by the interposition of that odious vice of Idlenesse he forthwith sent him unto Berna a famouâ— City in Switzerland to be instructed and brought up by Henricus Lupulus a man well learned and excelling in Poâ—try from whom through the reading of Classiâ— Writers he became a good Orator got some knowledg in the art of Logickes having now spent at Berna almost two yeers and longing after the knowledge of Phylosophy whose ground and Basis was already laid he removed unto Vienna a famous City of Austria situate on the river Danubius where he not onely attained to the knowledge of Phylosophy but he also augmented and perfitted those things which in former time he had learned and having spent here some few yeeres he returned againe to Basil where he first began to imploy that talent which God had bestowed on him for here he began first to teach others that which he himselfe had learned and having spent some time in the instructing of others and in furnishing himselfe with the knowledge of the Liberall Arts he waâ— advanced unto the title of Master which being obtained hâ— forthwith addicted himselfe being guided thereunto by the spirit of God unto the study of Schoole Divinity wherein he remained silent for a while being rather a spectator then an Actor untill he was called by the Glareanes to the discharge of a Pastorall function office amongst them where with all alacrity and cheerfulnessâ— he finished that which had beene formerly begun by others And by this meanes having received holy Orders he gave himselfe wholy to the study of Divinity spent all his time in searching into the old and new Tâ—stament â—hat so he might be able not onely to speake but also to judge of the Scriptures as for the writings of the Ethnicks he did not greâ—tly esteeme and accompt onely he made use of Vâ—lerius Maximus who by reason of the variety of his examples he perceived it would be beneficiall unto him But becâ—use he well understood that he could have no sound judgement concerning the Scriptures nor concerning the writings of pious and learned men unlesse that he were wel skild in the tongues he forthwith betook himself to the study of the Greek tongue wherin in short time he so well profited that the Greek seemed more easier unto him then the Latin and he better able to judge of a Greek then of a Latin Author and for the better understanding of the tongue he used help of the best Lexicons and translations and with them translated Saint Pauls Epistles committing them all to Memory and other bookes of the New Testament But when he had found it written in Saint Peter that the Scripture was not of private interpretation he lifted up his eyes to heaven beseeching the holy Ghost and earnestly wrestling with him by prayer that he would be pleased so to illuminate his understanding that he might rightly and truely understand the sense and meaning of the holy Scriptures so that he might neither decieve himselfe nor lead away others with a false image of the spirit Having thus in some measure fitted himselfe for the beating down of sin advancing furthering of the truth he then first began to condemne the Helvetian Pensions labouring to overthrow them and to reduce and bring backe againe former sanctity and worship into the Countrey and hence hatred and reproachfull speeches had and took their beginning against this good pious and laborious man who notwithsâ—anding this affront at the first shewing of himselfe for the glory of God and that in his owne Country chearfully proceeded Preaching the Gospel and endeavouring rather as yet to plant truth in the hearts of his Auditors and to cause them fully to understand it rather then to open and to discover unto them the vices and wickednesses of the whore of Babilon Not long after occasion being offered and D. Theobaldus Gerolzeggius desiring or rather earnestly intreating the sam he departed from Glarona and went to Eremus there intending to continue for a time but indeed the chiefest cause of his reparing unto that place was the happy opportunity of preaching Christ and his truth unto diverse remote and forreine Nations being at that time gathered togethered unto that place from all parts of the world In the meane time it fell out that the Church of Tigurum was destitute of a Curate or Priest many there were which greatly laboured to bring in Zuinglius he being altogether ignorant of this matter comes to Tigurum where being demanded by a certaine Canon who accidentally met him Whether he could preach the word of the Lord unto those of Tigurum he presently answered that he could upon which answer he is called unto the Church of Tigurum not without the great joy of many godly minded persons and that which he promised he began with happy successe to performe the Lord being with him and giving a blessing unto his labours in the yeer of grace one thousand five hundred twenty and one During the time of this happy proceeding of his at Tigurum the Switzers had taken great notice of the name of Martin Luther by reason many of his writings which in all places came unto their hands these he exhorted them to read and to peruse that so they might perceive the vnity of the spirit drawne out of those holy writings in them both and so by that meanes nothing doubting but that they would be the more willing to consent and to give place unto the truth This is also remarkable in the godly man that notwithstanding his continued paines in the discharging of his Pastorall office he omitted not his reading of the difficultest Greek Authors for the preserving of that knowledg w ch he had formerly gotten not ceaâ—ing here he adventured on the Hebrew wherein by the helpe assistance of some who were his associates he profited so much that he was able aptly to expound the two major Prophets Isaiah and Ieremiah About the same time Franciscus Lamberius a Frier Minorite forsaking his Monastry came to Tigurum who disputed publiquely with Zuinglius concerning the
he was turned over for further institution to Marcellus Virgilius then Town-cleark or Secretary of State to that City a man of much learning as may appeare by his edition and translation of Dioscorides with his Commentaries thereupon He was willing to take paines notwithstanding his imployments in the State otherwise with many young Gentlemens sons whereof diverse also proved famous for their learning and learned writings and this our Martyr among the rest who albeit he surmounted the most of his fellow-students in sharpnesse and readinesse of wit to apprehend and strength of memory to retaine what was taught joyned with an insatiable ardor and unweariable endeavorour of continuall either hearing or reading and a measure of proficiency much more then ordinary proceeding necessarily from the the same yet such was his modesty and amiable demeanour that he drew to him the affections of all his consorts and there grew no emulation betweene him and them Being now grown up to riper yeeres and affecting such courseâ— as might both further his studies and keep him within compasse he grew into liking of a Monkish life and because the Regular Canons of Saint Augustines order were at that time in greatest fame throughout all Italie for the study of Divinity and for severity of Discipline he betooke himselfe to their society and being sixteen yeeres old was admitted into the Fessulane Colledge neer to Florence which fact of his was not greatly pleasing to his father whether in regard of some dislike of the profession it selfe or because he desired by him the propagation of his family and disposing therefore at his decease his maine estate to an Hospitall he left his son onely out of it a small yeerly pension howbeit his â—ister his Parents onely daughter liking so well of it that she followed him therein and became a vailed Nun. In that Colledge wherein the younger sort were trained up for the most part in the Rules of Retoricke and the reading of Scripture which they used to get by heart having past over three yeeres with great goodâ—liking of the whole Society he was from thence sent over to the University of Padua and there entred into the Monastery of Saint Iohn of Verdera whereof albeit a man not unlearned himselfe and a lover of learning in others was Abbot There he gave himselfe to the study of Phylosophy freequenting the Lectures of diverse of prime note that then red the same in that University under whom also in disputations he frequently exercised himselfe so acquiting himselfe in the same that the Readers themselves tooke speciall notice of him in so much that Branda a chiefe man among them would oft call him out to dispute stiling him his Florentine as â—rinaeus sometimes Arminius his Hollander For his better furtherance in these his studies he spent sometime in getting skill of the Greek tongue that he might read Aristotle in his owne langvageâ— and in the study of that tongue he so profited aâ— one apt to take ought that he bent himselfe to that in a short time he was able to read any Greek Author Historianâ— Orator or Poet witâ—out help of a translation And withal he so followed the study 〈◊〉 Divinity hearing diligently and constantly those that read the same there adjoyning also his owne private â—ndvourâ— thereunto that being of six and twenty yeeres a thing among them then not usuall he was by the Fellows of the Colledg he lived in made a publike Preacher and partakeâ— of those priviledges that to such of their orders were aâ—â—nexed His first preaching was at â—rixia in the Church of 〈◊〉 after that he preached at Rome Venis Mantua Moâ—nâ—ferâ—â—â— â— and in others the Cities of Italy and the confines of Frâ—â—câ— â— besides that in the Colledg of his own society he read 〈◊〉 Philosophy and Divinity and Homer in Geek and hitherto haveing studied most Schoole-divinity Thomâ—s of Aquinâ— especially and Gregory of Rimino he now began in more speciall manner to addict himselfe to the study of the Scriptures and to this purpose laboured with much sedulity using the help of one Isaak a Iew that professed Physick to get the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue His constant paines in Preaching and teaching gained him that singular esteme that he was by generall conseâ—t chosen Abbot of Spoleto in which place he so wisely and worthily carried himselfe that it was much admired how a man so bookish and so much adicted to his studieâ— should attaine such abilities for dexterity of government For he not onely reduced the Colledg and two Nunneâ—iâ—â— belonging to it that had bin very loose and scandalous in their courses before to a more regular and orderly demeâ—nour but so also by his authority good perswasions and discreet ordering the matter prevailed with two poâ—â—â—t factions that had long desturbed the State there that â—â—composed their differences and wrought concord between them which they also continued in so long as he continued there with them Three yeere he aboad there and at three 〈…〉 a solemne assembly of the whole Order 〈◊〉 was made â—â—vernor of Saint Peters at the Altar in Naples a place of very pleasant situation greate dignity and rich and large revenew Here addicting himselfe more diligently and seriously to search into the Scriptures the light began daily to appeare more and more to him and to discover to him the errours and superstitious conceits that he had formerly bin possest with And now he fell to read some of our menâ— writings Bucers commentaries upon the Psalmes and the Evanglists Zuinglius his Treatise of true and false Religion and another of Gods Providence with some pieces of Erasmus whence having gained more insight into these things he communicated therein with some others likewise piously disposed to wit Benedyct Cusane Anthony Flaminy and Ioâ—n Valdesie a Spaniord by whose joynt endevour a pretty Chuch of pious people was now gathered at Naples Nor did this our Peter forbear publikely to Preach that truth that God had now reveiled unto him For handling the first to the Corinthians to which his Lectures among others divers Noble men whom that City never wanteth and some Bishops also resorted when he came to the third Chapter the 13. and 14. verses he affirmed that place not to be ment of Purgatory since that the fire there spoken of is such a fire as both good and bad all must passe This seeming to shake a maine piller of Purgatory the Popes furnace the fire whereof like the Prilosophers stone melteth all his leaden Bulls into pure gold his under Chymists some of them like Demetrius and his consorts bâ—gan to bestir themselves and so wrought that from above he was inhibited to proceed in his reading Which inhibiâ—ion he yet refused to obey appealing to the Pope by help of some Cardinals of better sort among whom our Poole was one some other learned men in grace with the Pope he gat the interdict revoked Howbeit he continued not long his readings
laid a sound foundation for a further firmer fairer future fabrick he betook himself to the study of Divinity Unto which now mainely addicting himselfe he began as was most need with the Scriptures the pure Well-spring of all divine truth the authority whereof as he alwayes maintained so he made them ever his Ground-worke for all matters of Faith and his Touchstone for the triall of all humane either writings or opinions From theÌ„ he proceeded a good course to be taken by young students in Divinity to the writings of our modern Divines of the best note and from these to the Monuments of the auncient Doctors all the works of whom whither Greek or Latine Fathers of any note being one as of a strong and able body so of pains and industry unweariable by night watches repairing what at any time by day he lost through emergent occasions he read over and dispatched within few years Herein he both so profited and made his proficienâ—y to appeare that nothing ordinary was now expected from him and being chosed when he took his first degree in Divinity to answer the Act at the Commencement in that solemn Assembly he therein so acquited himselfe that the place of the chiefe Professor of Divinity becoming shortly after even the very next year vacant by the removall of Doctor Chaderâ—on who then held it from the Headship of Queens Colledge to the Bishoprick of Chester notwithstanding his immaturity of years as might be deemed for such an employment his maturity of judgement and learning joyned with singular piety modesty gravity and discreete cariage prevailed so much as to procure him that placâ— though much laboured for by some others far auncienter then himselfe and of good darts and note otherâ— we see Being now brought upon a most eminent Stage wherein he lay open to all eyes to envious ones especially seldome wanting in such cases and of all other most curious and quick-sighted to pry narrowly into the defects and defaults of those whom they envie he therein so worthily demeaned himselfe beyond all expectation that he not onely surpassed the expectation of his wel-wishing friends but surpassed also the emulations of his ill-affected adversaries not unlike a prevailing pillar of fire that with iâ—s cleare and bright flames mounting up on high dispelleth and consumeth the smoake that would obscure and smother it He began with the opening in a dogmaticall way of sundry Bookes and parcels of Scripture the three first chapters of S. Lukes Gospell the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galatians his first Epistle to Timothy and Salomons Song of Songs all which he went through with in his publicke Lectures within the space of six years being attended continually with a constant concourse of the best and an auditory at all times well filled Neither was his Pen idle the whiles but was withall employed otherwise as well as his tongue For during this time he delt by writing with Campian that florishing Jesuite and refuted his ten frivolous and reasonlesse Reasons which he so much vaunted of he replyed upon Duraeus the Scot his scurrilous railings in defence of that his refutation and stopt his foule mouth He grapled with sedicious Sanders evicting his Arguments wherby he laboured to prove that the Pope is not Antichrist and with Rainolds his second who had bin nibling onely at the Preface to his eviction of Sanders his Demonstration but had no hart to meddle with the Worke it selfe After this considering the state and necessity of the times in his publicke Lectures he betooke himselfe to Controversies and singled out Bellarmine the Popes then greatest Champion and Romes Goliah to bicker with The Controversies he handled were concerning the Scriptures concerning the Church concerning Councels concerning the Bishop of Rome concerning the Ministers of the Church concerning the Saints deceased concerning the Church Triumphant concerning the Sacraments in generall the Sacrament of the Eucharist and of Baptisme in speciall whereof some small part he published in his life time some other part hath bin published since his death And as his Readings at home so his Writings both at home and abroad have for ingenuity perspicuity soundnesse succinctnesse received high commendations from the most judicious Divines that this age hath afforded yea it is credibly reported that Cardinall Bellarmine himselfe so esteemed of him that he procured hence his Portraiture and had it hanging in his Study among the Pictures of other men of prime note and that being demanded why he would keepe so near him the effigies of an Hereticke and one that had written against him and grace such an one so much he made answer that Though he were an Hereticke and an Advarsarie yet he was a learned Adversary nor is any testimony deemed more firme and credible then that that proceedeth from a professed enemy Onely while he lived Stapleton a peevish peece â—narled at some passages in one of his Controversies whom he so answered that the waspish dotard had little lust to reply Having some years sat in the Professors chaire and taken the degree of Doctor upon removall of Doctor Howland to the Bishopricke of Peterborough he was called by speciallâ— Mandate from the Queens Majesty to be Master of S. Iohns Colledg which Colledge by his accesse to it he much advanced For in his government thereof which with much moderation and singular discretion he carried himselfe in he had a speciall eye to the advancement as well of Religion as of Learning taking notice even of the lowest and the meanest and giving much encouragement every way to such as he observed to be forward in either By meanes whereof that Colledge during all the time of his continuance there greatly florished and was more frequented then any Colledge in the whole Universitie besides About his latter times som Controversie arising in the Universitie concerning certaine points of Doctrine he was together with some other of chiefe note and place called up to London for the composing of the same wherein having travelled and taken much paines to good purpose in his returne homeward from thence being well near mid-winter and sharpe weather he tooke by some cold in likelihood that sicknesse of which turning to a violent Feaver he not long after deceased During the short time of his sicknesse for he lay not many dayes he carried himselfe very comfortably and cheerfully and departed with much peace He was a man very personable of a goodly presence a body well compact tall of stature upright proportionally limmed blacke hayred of a grave aspect a ruddy complexion a strong constitution of a setled carriage a solid judgement a liberall minde an affable disposition a milde yet no remisse Governour a free disposer of Places a constant frequenter of the publicke service a generall Schollar a great Student to the last a lover of Learning and Learned a contemner of money of a moderate dyet a familiar demeanure a life generally unblameable and that which added a luster to all