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A88705	Speculum patrum: A looking-glasse of the Fathers wherein, you may see each of them drawn, characterized, and displayed in their colours. To which are added, the characters of some of the chief philosophers, historians, grammarians, orators, and poets. By Edward Larkin, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now minister of the Word at Limesfield in Surrey.	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L444A; ESTC R230373	42,396	106

He lived to the 83 year of his age and was almost all his time desirous of privacy and retiredness Ierome saith of him Se in multis Scripturae locis difficilibus eo magistro usum That he made use of him to help him out in the explication of many hard Texts of Scripture And further speaking of his Writings he gives him this Elogie Certe qui hunc legerit latinorum furta cognoscet contemnet rivulos cum coeperit haurire de fontibus Imperitus Sermone est sed non Scientia Apostolicum virum ipso stylo exprimens tam sensus lumine quam simplicitate verborum Truly he that will reade him will know the thefts of the Latines and he will despise the rivulets when he hath begun to drink of the fountains he is in Speech unskilful but not in Science in his very style expressing an Apostolick Author as well in the light of his sense as in the simplicity of his words Antonius a Monk travelling in company with him to the City of Alexandria used these or the like words to him as Sixtus Sinensis delivers them Nihil O Didyme turbet te corporalium oculorum jactura talibus enim destitutus es oculis quibus Muscae culices videre possunt sed laetare quod oculos habes quibus Angeli vident Deus consideratur lux ejus apprehenditur Let not the loss of thy corporal eyes trouble thee O Didymus for thou art deprived of such eyes wherewith Flies and Gnats can see but rejoyce thou that thou hast eyes by which Angels do behold and God is considered and his light is apprehended He flourished under the great Theodosius Optatus BIshop of Milevita appeared glistering in his Orb about the time that Valentinian and Valeus were Emperours Morn lib. 1. de Euchar. cap. 6. saith that he lived paulo ante Augustinum magni in Africa nominis a little before Augustine of great fame in Africa He was a man well skill'd in most kindes of Literature his life was pious and his doctrine sincere and sound He shewed himself a notable Antidonatist and thereupon he wrote six Books for the confutation of Parmenianus So Ierome But now they are numbred seven the seventh consenting in all respects with the six so that Ierome's number is conceived to be erroneous Barthius calls this man Pium elegantemque scriptorem quod in eo dignum honore summo summum argumentandi artificem A pious and elegant writer and which is praise-worthy a most exquisite artist in arguing and disputing Paraeus thus expresses him Vir fuit instructus multiplici eruditione constanti pietate doctrina sincera He was a man well furnished with various learning constant piety and sound doctrine Mr. Leigh in his Treatise of Religion and Learning calls him that learned Bishop of Milevita Whereas the Donatists of old did assert that the Church of God was no where else but onely among them limited unto and shut up in a corner of Africk where their Heresie prevailed this excellent man confuted that opinion by that of the second Psalm where God saith in a promise to his blessed Messias Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Which Scripture doth evidently demonstrate the Church of the Gospel to be spred all over the whole world and not to be restrained as these Donatists did vainly imagine to a particular Region And whereas they affirmed likewise That the Ordinance of Baptism was altogether ineffectual unless some of their Ministers were in place to perform it He to confute them replied That when God made the world at the beginning the presence of the glorious Trinity was powerful enough in operation to create Water though none of the Donatists were then in presence Even so saith he the blessed Trinity can work effectually in Baptism although not administred by the Donatists yea and that it was God the Author of Baptism and not the Minister which did sanctifie a cording as it is expressed by the holy man David Psal 51. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow Basilius Magnus BAsil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia his father was of the same name and a devout Christian his brethren were Gregory of Nyssa and Peter of Sebasta who conform'd to him both for purity of doctrine and piety of conversation He was brought up at Athens the School of the Philosophers under Libanius his Master where he fell into acquaintance with Gregory Nazianzen But after a while leaving Athens he returned to Caesarea where being called to the Pastoral Function by the Bishop of the place Eusebius he expounded some places of Scripture with that gravity and accurateness that he was had in great admiration for his abilities and gifts but at length there arising some difference betwixt him and Eusebius he discreetly withdrew himself on purpose to prevent a greater combustion However in the end he was constrained to return through the Faction of the Hereticks that he might strengthen the hands of the Bishop against them But Eusehius after a few years deceasing this Basil was by the general consent chosen Bishop in his room And now he was no sooner entred on his charge but he met with many violent and tempestuous storms raised by that tyrannous Emperour Valens against him For he coming to Caesarea would have forced this holy man to have closed with the doctrine of Arius threatning his refusal with banishment and death But Basil was most resolute and couragious as appears by this his gallant answer Pueris inquit ille ista terriculamenta proponenda esse sibi vero vitam eripi posse sed confessionem veritatis eripi non posse Those affrightments saith he should be proposed to children Life indeed might be taken from him but the confession of the truth could never be taken away from him It is reported That when he was at his devotions in the Temple the Emperour coming with his Guard to apprehend and seize him he was himself on the sudden surprised with such a Vertigo or dizziness that he had faln immediately if one of his servants had not supported him Socrates tells us in his Ecclesiastical History Chap. 21. of thefourth Book That this Emperours Son by name Galeates falling sick of a dangerous and desperate disease and being given over by Physicians Dominica his Mother told her husband that the same night she was fearfully disquieted with horrible shapes and dreadful visions and that the childe was visited with sickness because of their ill usage of Basil the Bishop The Emperour well marking the words of his Wife at length sent for that good man and because he would know the truth he reasoned thus with him If thy Faith he meant of one substance be true pray that my Son die not of this disease Then Basil answered If thou wilt promise to believe as I do and to bring the Church to Unity and

Philosopher of Athens turned Christian and flourished if we may believe Bellarmine in the year of Christ 142. when Antonius Pius was Emperour and Telesphorus the Roman Bishop though Baronius will not have him to appear till the year of our Lord 179. which was the time when Aurelius sat in the Throne and Soter or Eleutherius in the Chair He was a man of very gteat esteem with the said Prince for his vast abilities and profound learning he wrote an Apology in the behalf of his fellow Christians and likewise undertook an Embassie that he might speak as an Advocate for them to the Roman Majesty He published a golden book as one cals it of the Resurrection set out and interpreted by Andreas Gesner Epiphanius cites this mans Apology in the Heresie of Origen where he relates the words of Proclus out of Methodius Bellarmine in his book of Ecclesiastical Writers saith Scriptorem hunc carere suspicione That this Writer is without suspition and yet he is constrained to confesse that he was over-passed both by Eusebius and Ierome Varro saith that this Author writ also some books of Husbandry How he dyed I read not what is now extant of his Works you have printed in one volume with Iustine Martyr Irenaeus IRenaeus flourished say some about the 160. year of Christ others the 180. when Aurelius Antonius and Commodus were Emperours and in that he saith that in his childhood he converst with Polycarpus some of the learned think that he was born either at Smyrna or not far from it that he was a Greek his name is their warrant to conjecture it Eusebius saith that he succeeded Pothinus in the Bishoprick of Lyons where he governed the Church say some for thirty years others say more Some which have written Martyrologies speaking of his death doe tell us that he was butchered by the Tyrant Maximinus who was a great persecutor of the Saints and people of God Bargnius saith that he was martyred with almost all his people of Lyons in that horrid storm which was raised against the Christians by the Emperour Severus He wrote against the heresies of those times which Satan had spread abroad on purpose to eclipse if not altogether to extinguish the sun-shine of the Truth He was at Rome with Eleutherius where he indeavoured the conviction of Blastus and Florinus two notable Schismaticks and to allay that malignant spirit of error which their stinking breath had raised He also sharply reyroved the Roman Bishop Victor for that he had injuriously excommunicated the Asian Churches so saith Eusebius Erasmus thinks that this Author wrote in Latine and not in Greek and being skilled in Greek he therefore useth Graecismes But Rhenanus judges the contrary because Ierome reckons him among the Grecian Writers Tertullian doth bestow on this man this following admirable character Irenaeus omnium doctrinarum curiosissimus explorator A most exquisite and curious searcher into all manner and kind of learning Epiphanius cals him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most blessed and most holy Ireneus Erasmus in an Epistle of his thus sets him forth first he commends him from his name Magnus ille Ecclesiae propugnator pro sui nominis augurio pacis Ecclesiae vindex and then he goes on highly extolling his writings spirant illius scripta priscum illum Evangelii vigorem ac phrasis arguit pectus martyrio paratum habent enim Martyres suam quandam dictionem seriam fortem masculam That great defender of the Church for the divination of his name a maintainer of the Churches peace his writings breath that ancient vigour of the Gospel and his phrase argues a heart prepared for martyrdome for Martyrs have a certain serious expression valiant and masculine Bellarmine speaking of the books which this man wrote saith of them Quod pleni sum doctrina pietate that they are full of learning and piety Yet notwithstanding this great Light had his eclipses as appears by somewhat that is unsound in his own writings Particularly he was entangled with the snare of Papias who was the Father of the Chiliasts this Eusebius doth charge him with as we find it in the third book of his history the six and thirtieth chapter against which opinion of his Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria is said to have written somewhat in confutation so saith Sixtus Senensis He was likewise once an allower of free-will in spirituals though afterwards he expressed himself to the contrary saying Non a nobis sed a Deo esse bonum salutis nostrae that our salvation is not from our selves but God There was one strange opinion more to which he was addicted and that was Animas a corpore separatas habere hominis figuram characterem corporis ut etiam cognoscantur That souls departed and separated from the body have mans figure and form of his body so that they may be known by it Pantaenus PAntaenus was of the School of Alexandria where at first he professed the Philosophy of the Stoicks but afterwards became very eminent in the profession of Christian Divinity It s said of him by learned Pareus Quod primus scholam ex ethnica in christianaem mutavit that he was the first which changed an ethnick school into a christian He was sent from Alexandria by Demetrianus the Bishop thereof into India to establish that church in the sacred Truth which the Apostles of our Lord Jesus had there planted where meeting with the Gospel of St. Matthew written in Hebrew and left there with those Eastern people by Bartholomew he brought it thence say some to the City of Alexandria though Eusebius tels us that it remained there even in his time He was the Master of that famous Schollar Clemens Alexandrinus he flourished under the Emperours Severus and Antonius Caracalla about the year of Christ 200. he left behind him some certain Commentaries on the holy Scripture which are not now extant though Ierome had in his time the knowledge of them Eusebius stiles him a famous learned man and one in great estimation lib. 5. cap. 9. and Senensis speaking of him tels us that he was eminent propter tam secularis literaturae quam sacrae eruditionis gloriam as well for the glory of his secular learning as his sacred erudition Clemens Alexandrinus CLemens Alexandrinus So called because he was a Presbyter of Alexandria preached the Gospel both at Ierusalem and at Antioch he was the master of Origen and moderated in the School of Alexandria after Pantaenus He flourished in the raign of Severus and his son Antonius He wrote many learne books Eusebius calls him in Divinis Scripturis exercitatum one exercised in the Divine Scriptures Causabon inexhaustae Doctrinae virum a man of unexhausted learning Henisius Penu eruditionis Seientiae The granary of Erudition and Science Caussinus Plutarchum Christianum The Christian Plutark Dempster gravem disertum authorem A grave and eloquent author but the Centuriators of of Magdeburg are full and large in

his Character which we have from them as followeth Fuit in hoc homine omnino Ingens discendi cupiditas ingenium acutum tenacissima memoria Fervens Zelus Gloriae Dei Religionis Christianae ut ex suis Scriptis conspici potest maximae eruditionis Zeli facundiae ac proinde etiam authoritatis sed etiam Scriptis tum toti Ecclesiae sui Aevi tum etiam posteritati in perpetuum profuit There was in this man altogether a vast desire of learning an acute wit a most tenacious memorie a fervent zeal of Gods glory and the Christian Religion as may be seen out of his writings of very great erudition zeal eloquence and so also of authority neither did he onely advantage his Auditors by his voice but likewise by his writings both the whole Church of his age as also posterity throughout all ages This man with his Master Pantaenus is reported to have been the first founders of publike Academies for they delivered the fundamentals of Heavenly truth not by sermons to the people but by Catechisticall doctrine to the learned in the Schooles S. Ierom saith this of this mans Workes Feruntur ejus insignia volumina plenaque eruditionis eloquentiae tam de Scripturis Divinis quam de secularis literaturae instrumento Yet this man had too high an esteem of Tradition whereby it hapned that he fell into various errours amongst which he affirmed That afterour calling to the Knowledge of the truth possibly God might grant to them that have sinned a recovery into their former state for once or twice by repentance but if they should fall oftner into sin then so there is no more restitution to be expected or hoped for but a fearfull looking for a finall judgement And yet afterward forgetting this his assertion he saith in his fourth book of Strom. That Whensoever sinners do repent whether here in this world or else in the next they may be received to Gods mercy In which passage of his he seems to insinuate that men may repent and so finde favour at the hands of God after that this present life is determined Then which Position there is nothing more contrary to the Scripture and likewise to his own forementioned and foregoing expression Moreover he delivered lib. 7. Strom. That the law of Moses was sufficient to the Iewes and to the Heathens or Gentiles their Philosophy before Christs coming to salvation In his first Book you have these words touching the Justification of the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philosophy heretofore did of its own nature justifie the Greeks You have an enumeration of all this mans errours from Chemnitius in the first part of his Examen pag. 78. He dyed at Alexandria where he taught so saith Baronius Origenes Adamantius ORigenes Adamantius flourished say some vnder Gallus and Volusian others under Galienus and Valerian He was the son of Leonides and disciple of Clemens of Alexandria he first taught by way of Catechizing when he was but aged eighteen yeers and saith one of him Quemadmodum docuit sic vixit quemadmodum vixit sic docuit As he taught so he lived and as he lived so he taught When he was but a child he encouraged his father to continue constant in the Christian cause himself being forward to seal it with his own blood if his mother had not as Eusebius records prevented him in it Ierome in his Catalogue of Illustrious Writers relates this of him in commendation of his great learning that he read publike Lectures in these following sciences Logick Geometry Arithmetike Musick Grammer Rethorick and other Philosophicall disciplines When he was but a youth he would search very narrowly into the sence of the Holy Scriptures which his father Leonides observing would now and then gently reprove him in these or the like expressions Nequid supra aetatens quaeras Dive not into that mystery which is out of the reach of thy youthfull yeers to comprehend And yet coming to his bedside at night and uncovering his breast he would kindly kisse it judgeing himself most happy in this that he had so gracious a son Some write that he made himself an Eunuch for chastities sake Epiphanius records of him that he wrote 6000. volumes Opera ejus ascendunt ad sena millia librorum and t is Ieroms Quis nostrum tanta potest legere quanta ille conscripsit Which of ours can read so much as he hath written It s an ancient observation concerning this Father Origenes ubi bene Scripsit nemo melius ubi male nemo peius Where Origen wrote well 〈◊〉 wrote better where ill none worse Whence for some errors he is reckoned by some Authors in the number of Heriticks Vincentius Lyrinensis tels us Errorem Originis propter ejus tum doctrinam tum zelum magnam in Dei Ecclesia fuisse tentationem That the errour of Origen both for his learning and zeal was a great temptation in the the Church of God He was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the number of the books he did compile and set out which he ever writ standing Gregory saith that all the latter Doctors of the Church were much furthered by this mans works whence 't is said as it is in Suidas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origen the whet-stone of us all Ierome stiles him Sacrorum omnium expositorum victorem the victor of all sacred Expositors Erasmus Theologorum sine controversia principem of Divines the chief without controversie And Possevinus speaking of his works saith of them In qua parte probantur neminem post Apostolos habuit aequalem in them which are approved he had none after the Apostles his equal Yet however some there be that doe debase him Basil charges him that he had not a sound opinion of the Holy Ghost Ierome cals his opinions Venenata dogmata aliena Scripturis vim facientia Scripturis invenomed opinions erring from the Scriptures and doing them violence Causabon will have him accounted a Platonick Philosopher rather than a Divine Ribera stiles him Arii patrem aliarum heresew radicem the father of Arius and the root of all heresies out of Epiphanius He dyed at Tyre in the year of his age 69. Tertullian TErtullian of Carthage in Affrica first studied Philosophy and the Civil Law but afterwards addicted himself to the study of Theologie he was the son of a Centurion called Florens from the habit or garb of his body he was a man of admirable parts and most piercing wit excelling in the knowledge of the Greek and Latine tongues he flourished when Alexander Severus and Antonius Caracalla were Emperours At first he was a Priest at Rome where he continued to the midst of his years and then being driven thence he returned to Carthage where for a time he maintained the damnable opinion of the heretick Montanus but at last some say that he recanted and renounc'd it He waged many disputes with the Iews and with those detestable instruments of Satan

to his haven in the dayes of the good Emperours Iovian and Valentinian who were an Asylum or refuge not to him onely but likewise to all the persecuted people of God This godly Father lived to the seventh year of Valentinian and then rested in the Lord anno Christi 371. This was a familiar speech of his Verberari Christianorum propium est flagellare autem Christianos Pilati Caiphae officia sunt It s proper for Christians to be beaten but to scourge them is the office of Caiphas Pilate he was Bishop of Alexandria forty six years of whose most excellent endowments Gregorie Naziane is the Trumpeter who speaks thus of him in his funeral oration Athanasium laudare idem esse ac virtutem ipsam laudare to commend Athanasius is to praise vertue it self Indeed no Doctour of the Church ever endured so sharp disputes and so bitter afflictions for the truth as he Photius the Arch-bishop of Constantinople writing to his brother Tarasius concerning the works of this pious Father he thus expresses him Athanasius in sermonibus ubique locutione clarus est brevis simplex acutus tamen altus argumentationibus omnino vehemens in his tanta ubertas ut admirabilis sit Athanasius in his Sermons is clear in epxression and short and plain yet acute and high in his arguments altogether vehement and in these so great fertility that it is admirable Theodoret calls propugnaculum veritatis the fortress of truth Nazianzen lumen ecclesiae the light of the Church Epiphaneus latrem rectae fidei the Father of the Orthodox Faith Others orbis oraculum the Oracle of the world Bishop Andrews of Winchester stiles him Athanasius the Great great in many respects but especially great for the Creed he compiled His writings against Apollinarius do excel for grace and ornament as also those Epistles of his wherein he doth excuse his banishment Possevinus saith of him Athanasius fuit tanquam columna ecclesiae adversus omnes haereticos Athanasius was as as it were the pillar of the Church against all hereticks And another calls him haeraeticorum Malleum The beetle of Hereticks as one which knockt them at head by his solid and substantiall reasonings When Iulian the Emperour had by his Imperiall Edict banisht him from Alexandria he comforted his people and friends whom he found lamenting his condition Bono animo estoto filioli Nubecula est brevi evanescet Be of good courage my sons it s but a little cloud and will vanish instantly Sixtus Senensis tells us That Gregorie a Divine did set forth the life of this Father in an excellent Oration Hilarius Pictaviensis HIlarius Pictaviencis Episcopus Bishop of Poicttiers did shine most brightly in the Reigns of these following Emperours Constantius Iulian Iovinian Valens and Valentinian He was an eloquent Preacher and a notable Disputant he did by his solid writings establish the disperst Churches of Illyria France and Italy We reade that he was banished with many other Orthodox Bishops by the power and Policie of the Arians of whom he was a mighty opposer and Antagonist but at length prevailing with the Emperour Constantius for his return he came back to his Charge at Poictiers in the yeer 360. Where he found all grievously distracted and miserably afflicted with the Arians leaven so that like a good and skilfull Chirurgion he laboured to binde up the wounds and to heal the distempers He wrote twelve books of the Trinity wherein as Ierom observes in an Epistle of his Ad Romanum Oratorem quod Duodecim Quintiliani libros stylo imitatus est numero That he imitated the twelve books of Quintilian both in style and also in number And in that worke of his he confuted the blasphemous doctrine of the Hereticke Arius Ierome tells us that he died in the yeer of Christ 372. when Valerian was Emperour and he bestowes on him this worthy Character Hillarius Gallicano attollitur cothurno Eloquentiae Latinae Rhodanus Hilary is lifted up with his Gallican buskins the Rhine of Latine eloquence And elsewhere the same Father stiles him Latinae Sermonis tubam The Trumpet of the Latine tongue Some say he wrote on the whole book of Psalms which work of his is extant in Spain being a great reader and studier of Origen he is said to make use of Heliodorus a Priest who was better skild in the Greek tongue then himself Hence some do impute his misinterpretation of the Psalms whilst in some places he leaves the Grammatical sense and turns it into one that is Allegoricall and Anagogicall meerly to his ignorance in the Hebrew language Sixtus Senensis Speaking of that work of his and of that on St. Matthew he gives us this account of the style of them Stylus absque ulla artis affectatione pressus interdum subobscurus ob id a simplicium fratrum lectione procul est His style short without any artificiall affectation sometimes dark and obscure and for that very reason not to be understood or read by unskilfull and illiterate men T is a commendation which Erasmus gives him In Hilario grandi materiae parem grandiloquentiam atque ut ita dicam cothurnum admiramur This Bishop took such great paines to purge the Churches of France of the Arian Heresie and so far prevailed by his unwearied labours that Ierom resembles him to Deucalion who both saw the flood of waters overflowing Thessalie and the abating of them also Even so this Hilarius saw in his time both the growth and the decay of Arianisme in France One Fortunatianus a successour of his wrote his life in Hexameter verse being Bishop of Poictiers in the yeer 570. Didymus Alexandrinus VVAs an excellent Grammarian and for his eminency in that Art was elected Governour of the School of Alexandria Ierome so highly extols him in his 65 Epistle that he saith there Se quod nescivit didicisse a Didymo quod sciebat illo docente non perdidisse That he learnt what he knew not of Didymus and that he preserved what he knew by his instruction Nicephorus doth seem to eclipse him with a report of some errours that he should seem to adhere and cleave to But Socrates in his History giveth him this credit That he was a chief Maintainer and Patron of the Nicene Faith And Zozomene informs us Arianis in Aegypto nihil fuisse integri quamdiu Didymus in ea floruerit That Arius had no hold at all in Egypt so long as Didymus flourished there This man was a great acquaintance and an intimate familiar of Ieromes insomuch that that Father was greatly delighted with his society He tells us this of him That although he was blinde from his younger dayes yet he proved an excellent Geometrician which chiefly requires the Instrument of sight to the wonder of the whole World He wrote a heavenly Book de Spiritu Sancto of the Holy Ghost which the said Ierome translated into the Latine Tongue and is now mingled with his Works