Mathematician Ut gemma quaedam rarior inter aevi sui Mathematicos illuxit Quo nomine Carolo V. Caesari harum artium non ignaro in primis gratus saepe Bruxellam est evocatus vicissim ab aulicis Lovanii salutatus Caestell Vita Illust. Med. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica He hath left many Writings in the Mathematicks De Orbis Divisione Dâ— locorum describendorum ratione deque eorum distantiis inveniendis â—sâ—â— anâ—ali Astronomici De usu Globi Astronomici De Radio Astronomico Geometrico Also Cosmographia cum aliis Libellis De Astrolabio Catholico Qui liber ultimus erat eorum quos conscripserat adâ—ò ut fatis praereptus non ipsemet sed post ipsum filius Cornâ—lius Gemma eum absolverit ideóque verisimile est eum postremâ—â—â—uas haâ— de re cogitationes sensus qui plaerunque solâ—â—t meliores veriorésque esse patefecisse Tych. Brah. l. 2. De Cometâ— Anni 1577. c. 7. Cornelius Gemma a famous Physitian and Philosopher of Lovain Illustris parentis Gemmae Frisii non obscurus filius Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1377. l. 2. c. 6. Eruditionis paternae haeres praesertim quoad Artes Mathematicus quibus ille si quis alius excelluit Id. ibid. l. 2. c. 10. Reliquit Cornelius filium Philippum Doctorem medicum rarò certè exemplo filium patrem avâ—m eruditos iisdem deditos studiis ut in Italia nostro aevo Manâ—tios flornisse Aubertus Miraeus Elog. Belg. Gilb. Genebrard a Divine of Paris and the Kings Professor of Hebrew A good Hebrician but a most petulant Writer By whom saith B. And. it is verified that much Learning and railing may be accidents in one subject Gennadius Scholaris 1450. Innocentius Gentiletus He hath put out Examen Concilii Tridentini An Apology for the French Christians of the Reformed Religion both in French and Latine Apologie pour les Chrestiens de France de lâ— Religion Evangelique on Reformee foundâ—e sur la Saincte Escriturâ— approveè par la raison par les aâ—ciâ—â—s Canons Alberiâ—us Gentilis an eloquent Italian the Regins Professor of Civil Law in Oxford His Works are most of them mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and the Appendix Iohn Gerhard Doctor of Divinity and Professor in the University of Iena A laborious and Learned Lutheran as his Supplement of Cheminitius his Harmony and his Common places of Divinity Commentaries on the Hebr. and Peter Meditationes sacrae shew At the end of Gerhardi Patrologia there are Funerall Orations had in divers Universities at Gerhards death where he is deservedly magnified CHAP. II. JOhn Gerson Anno Salutis 1410. 1363. saith Theuet A Divine of Paris right famous he was present at the Councell of Constance and in books written he commendeth highly the Decree whereby it is agreed that the Bishop of Rome should be subject to the Counsell And saith the thing is worthy to be written in all Churches and publick places for a perpetuall memory For he saith they are pestilent flatterers which bring this Tyranny into the Church as though the Bishop of Rome ought neither to obey the Counsell nor be judged by the same as though the Counsell should take all its force and authority from him as though it could not be called but at his pleasure as though he were bound to the observation of no Laws nor no accompt might be taken of his doings These monstrous sayings must be utterly rejected which are against all Laws equity and reason For all the authority of the Church dependeth on the generall Counsell and it is lawfull to appeal from the Pope unto it and those which inquire whether the Bishop of Rome or the Church be greater make as wise a question as if they should ask whether the part be more or the whole for it appertaineth to the Counsell to constitute to judge and to depose the Bishop of Rome as lately it was declared at Constance Sleid. Comment l. 1. The greatest Learned man of his time and the only Doctor and leader of the Councell of Constance B. Iewels Pref. to his Defence of his Apol. He was counted a subtill Disputer and profound School-Doctor and for his Wisdom and Learning was thought worthy to be the Director of all the Bishops in the Councell of Constance that is all the Bishops of the world Iewels Def. of his Apol. part 4. c. 15. The Learned and devout Chancellor of Paris B. Bedell Waddesw lett p. 107. He wrote a Book de auferibilitate Papae ab Ecclesia intimating that it is in the power of a Generall Councell to cast the Pope out of his place and to choose another He was singularly acquainted with temptations and wrote a Book De variis Diaboli tentationibus He was sirnamed Doctor Christianissimus Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Quid potuit Sorbona doces meritissimè Gerso Magni Gerso luxque decusque chori His Works are Printed in four Volumes his French Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Conradus Gesnerus He was born at Zurick the chief Town of the Helvetians Anno Christi 1516. He was scarce 49 years old when he died He died Anno Christi 1565. Neander in the first part of his Geography highly commends him especially for those three Works his Historia Annimalium and Stirpium and Bibliotheca Verè sanctissimus doctissimus omnibusque numeris absolutissimus totius Enropae ornamentum Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Bulling Nobilis ejus fama quam praeclaris scriptis suis sibi peperit jampridem in omnes Orbis provincias emanarit Waseri ad Mithridatem Gesireri Commentarius Caius in his Book de Libris propriis commends him highly and much bewails his death He practised Physick in Zurick and taught Philosophy for a publick stipend 25 years Vir pius omni genere virtutum ornatissimus omnia naturae arcana perscrutatus in omni literarum genere praesertim verò in medicina Philosophia naturali atque Philologia clarissimas lucubrationes edidit lumen Germaniae decus Helvetiae Boissardi Icones He mentions his Works William Gibieuf Doctor of Sorbonne He hath written two Books De libertate Dei Creaturae which are often cited by Bishop Davenant and others Obertus Gifanius Vir eruditissimus mihique obrarat excellentissimi ingenii dotes carissimus Jos. Scal. Com. in Copam He hath published Observationes in Linguam Latinam Gulielmus Gilbertus an English man He hath written a painfull and an experimentall Work touching the Loadstone Bac. Advancem of Learning l. 2. c. 13. That admirable searcher of the nature of the Loadstone D r Gilbert by means of whom and of D r Harvey our Nation may claim even in this later age as deserved a Crown for solid Philosophical Learning as for many ages together it hath done formerly for acute and subtill speculations in Divinity Sir Ken. Digb Treat of
Rome was corrupt and needed Reformation and some that were his contemporaries and also after him did the like One saith the Papists Liturgies are full of Idolatry and blasphemies their Legends full of lies their Ceremonies of superstition Cardinall Mattheo Langî Archbishop of Salzburg told every one that the reformation of the Mass was honest the liberty of meats convenient and the demand just to be disburthened of so many Commandments of men but that a poor Monk should reform all was not to be endured And Cornelius Scoperus the Emperours Secretary said that if the Protestant Preachers had money they would easily buy of the Italians what Religion pleased them best but without gold it was impossible to make theirs shine in the world Hist. of the Counc of Trent l. 1. pag. 55. The Pope in the beginning of the Councell of Trent being desired to make a Reformation to please the Lutherans No saith he it is in vain a whole Reformation will undo the Church and a half Reformation will not gratifie the Lutherans therefore it is better to imbitter both the parties In the vacancies of the Sea of Rome the Cardinals use to compose certain capitulations to reform the Papall Government which all swear to perform if they shall be assumed to the Popedom though it appear by all precedent examples that every one sweareth with a minde not to keep them in case he shall be Pope For so soon as he is elected he saith he could not bind himself and that he is at liberty by gaining the Papacy History of the Councel of Trent l. 1. p. 71. The Cardinals chosen by Pope Paul the third to consider of the State of the Church made report that there were many corruptions in it 31 abuses especially in the manners of Bishops and Clergymen That the Bishops were idle did not instruct the people nor feed the Flock nor look to the Lords Vineyard that they lived in Princes Courts and kept not home That the Cardinals had sometimes three sometimes four Bishops in Commendam not without great prejudice to the Church for that those Offices are not compatible or to be held together That the Covents ought to be clean banished out of the Church B. Iewels Epistle concerning the Councell of Trenâ—t In the midst of Popery God had his people which holding the foundation rejected their errours and out of Babylonish darkness he brought many to the sight of the truth as Waldo Wickliff Luther Zuinglius God stirred up in severall ages some publick and constant Confessors of the Faith which publickly set themselves against Popery some of which resisting it even unto blood had the Crown of Martyrdom Those Confessors may be distributed into three Classes or ranks The first comprehends the whole Churches the Waldenses and the Greek Church The other comprehends the Emperours and Kings which opposed themselves to the Papall Tyranny The third the Doctors and Martyrs which taxed the errours and abuses brought into the Church Bellarmine Bozius Cocceius Costerus and others have written many things of the Marks or Signes of a Church Costerus reckons three Cocceius five Bellarmine fifteen Bozius a hundred Some assign more some fewer Marks but all greatly glory of the holiness of the Roman Church as a speciall and infallible note If the question be of the Roman Church they answer It is One Holy Catholicall Apostolicall If of the Papall Sea The Holy Apostolicall Sea If of the Pope of Rome The most Holy Father If they speak to him Your Holiness Oh quam sancta omnia But whether we understand of holiness of Doctrine or holiness of Life how little holiness is to be found amongst them What holiness of Doctrine is there in that Tenet to hold that Priests may not marry See Heb. 13. 4. What holiness of life there is amongst them their Stews and their dissolute courses shew The nine choice persons elected by Paul the third to reform their Church complain of the Stews Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Cum leno aut meretrix Scurra Cinaedus ero Vivere qui sancte cupitis discedite Româ Omnia cùm liceant non licet esse pium Mantuan How dissolute and prodigiously wicked many of the Popes have been the Popish Writers themselves mention How unclean and Sodomiticall many of their Cardinals were we have evident Testimony See the Scarlet Gown or the History of all the present Cardinals at Rome How desperate the life and death of many Jesuites hath been who have against their own consciences opposed the truth Elias Hasenmullerus in his Historia ordinis Iesuitici reports who relates many examples to that purpose seen and heard by himself See Chap. 4 5. of their publick and private life Chap. 11. of their death Of their filthy Monks and Votaries Bale hath written two parts For their worshipping of Reliques what a fond thing is that When many of their Saints are but supposed and their Reliques also To worship the supposed Relique of a supposed Saint Calvin an eye-witness testifieth that when Genevah received the Doctrine of the Gospel the Reliques were visited by the authority of the Magistrate and it was found that what they had adored till then as if it had been the brain of Peter was a Pumice stone and what they had beleeved to be S t Anthony's arm was the sinew of a Hart or Stag. The parts and parcels of wood kept in Europe which they say are parts of the Cross whereon Christ died are so many that if they were all gathered together they would load a ship and yet it was no greater then a man may bear The milk of the Virgin Mary is so plentifull in many places that seven of the best Kine in Holland are not able to give so much milk in ten years saith One. They shew Iudas his Lanthorn at S t Denis in France At Rome there is kept in S t Iohns Church in Lateran the circumcised foreskin of Christ and the Altar at which Iohn did say Divine Service in the Wilderness See D r Willet on Exod. 16. Confer 5. and D r Halls no Peace with Rome p. 661. For the holy Scripture though Bellarmine brags Romanenses pluris facere Scripturam quam Lutheranos yet Gerhard in the first Generall book of his Catholick Confession part 2. c. 4. shews that the Papists weaken the Divine Majesty and authority of the Scriptures twelve waies besides the severall reproaches cast upon it by divers of them which he there also mentions Petrus Fragius Doctor of Divinity made an Oration to the Fathers of the Councell of Trent to assert the authority of the Pope of Rome He told them God had prayed for Peter who being after converted confirmed his brethren in the faith Si igitur said he Dominus pro Petro precatus est cur jam pro Iulio non precabitur What is Christ more weak or cruell now then he was and is Iulius inferiour in
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
letter Vox audita perit litera scripta manet The use of a good Book reacheth farre and lasteth long Many more are instructed by Books then can be by speech and every good thing is better by how much it more communicates it self By Books we have conference with learned men deceased and by these they instruct us as much as they did those with whom they lived together Fifthly As the ignorance of the people and the Authority of the Roman Sea increased together so by the restoring of Arts and Learning both ignorance and the Authority of the Pope of Rome decrèased What did Reuchline Erasmus Pagnine Arias Montanus and others though in other things Popish suffer for no other reason but because they did labour to propagate the knowledge of the Tongues So sad was the face of those times Ut in authoribus latinis Graecè nosse suspectum fuerit Ebraicè autem propè haereticum Espenc ad 2 Tim. 3. Who doth not loath the memory of the Gothes and Vandals for the barbarism they brought along with them See Antoine Du Vâ—rdiers Preface to his Bibliotheque Therefore the names of such are precious who were means of restoring learning and knowledge as in Italy Hermolaus Barbarus Picus Mirandula Politian Baptista Mantanus in Germany Renchline Erasmus Beatus Rhenanus Ludovicus Viâ—es in France Budaeus in England Linacer in Spain Antonius Nebrissensis The ancient Greek and Roman Princes were learned and by it their Noblemen were advanced to great honour Alexander the Great acknowledged himself as much beholding to his Master Aristotle as to his Father Philip for the one gave him his being the other his well-being CHAP. II. II Of the Usefulnesse of Learning IT is usefull for Physicians Lawyers but especially for Divines Languages Arts and Sciences are great helps to the attaining of knowledge in Divinity 1. A competent knowledge of the Languages at least of the three learned ones Hebrew Greek and Latine is very convenient if not necessary for one that would be a compleat Divine Such see with their own eyes The knowledge and interpretation of Tongues is a very great gift of God promised by him in times past Esa. 19. 18. bestowed by Christ attributed to the holy Ghost Acts 2. Paul commends the study of Languages to the Church and all its members 1 Cor. 14. He which shall professe to be an absolute learned Divine without the knowledge of three tongues at the least may think well of himself but hardly he shall get and retain the credit he seeketh among learned men in this learned age Doctor Fulk against Martin Non exigua fuit pars eruditionis in Origene Epiphanio Hieronymo linguae Hebraicae cognitio Cham. Corp. Theol. l. 2. c. 2. Ierom Reuchline Oecolampadius were famous for their skill in Hebrew Greek and Latine Melchior Adam saith of Caspâ—r Cruciger Ad priora exercitia linguae Latinae Graecae adjunxit studium linguae Hebraeae ac omnes ita didicit ut adeò familiariter ei notae essent â—o si nativa ipsi non insititiae fuissent It hath been the custom in the Reformed Churches to try the sufficiency of young Ministers by their skill in the original language Sequimini laudabilem Gallicarum Ecclesiarum consuetudinem ubi Theologiae Candidato in utriusque Testamenti originali textu illud quod Praesidi Codicem aperienti se primò exhibet caput legendum interpretandum proponitur An minor in Anglia Germania Dania Belgio Helvetia caeterisque Provinciis linguas illas discendi commoditas Sixtini Amam Paraen de excitandis SS Linguarum studiis See Erasmus his Ecclesiastes How do the Schoolmen out of ignorance of the Tongues erre in the exposition of the Old and New Testament written in Hebrew and Greek and what barbarisms do they use in the Latine Tongue This is the eighth of the eleventh famous nullities which Gentilletus in his Examen chargeth the Councel of Trent with viz. the illiteratenesse of many of their Bishops and other Presidents of their Councel in whom was the power of deciding Controversies which the Papists cannot justly object against the members of the famous Synod of Dort The ignorance of the Monks is grown to a Proverb Monacho indoctior Belluae immanis vox est quòd Licinius Imperator nominis Christiani persecutor literas dixit virus publicam pestem Bibliand de ratione communi omnium linguarum cap. 6. The Grounds of the Greek and Hebrew tongue too are well taught in some Grammer Schools Fundamenta linguae Graecae in-trivialibus docentur quarum novi aliquot fic constitutas ut quot quot ex iis prodeant Novum Testamentum Graecum Grammaticè possint resolvere novi Scholas ubi fundamenta linguae Ebraeâ— magno Ecclesiae juventutis bono jaciuntur Sixt. Am. Paraen de excitandis SS Linguarum studiis But saith M r Webster in his Academiaerum Examen It is not yet infallibly concluded which are the true original Copies especially concerning the Hebrew and the oriental Languages the Jewish tongue having been often altered and corrupted by their several intermixtures with and transmigrations into other Nations or that they have been purely and sincerely preserved unto our hands For Languages change and alter as fashions and garments Neither have we any thing to assure us in this point but bare tradition and history which are various perplex dubious contradictory and deficient To this I answer Who but the ignorant deny that the Hebrew Copies are the Original of the Old Testament Were not the Scriptures of the Old Testament committed to the Jews And was not the Hebrew the Jewish language Indeed the Jews by their Captivity in Babylon learned the Chaldee tongue and so some of the Old Testament as Ezra and Daniel were written in that language Secondly What if the Jewish tongue hath been often altered and corrupted and generally languages change and alter like fashions and garments Is that any reason why we should doubt of the sincerity of the Hebrew Copies By this reason we must question the works of Demosthenes Cicero and generally all others because the languages wherein they wrote was since altered Thirdly Is there nothing but bare tradition and History to inform us of the originals when as the originals themselves are extant before our eyes And we may know them to be sincere because generally all Copies throughout the world though written at several times in several places do accord He objects further Pag. 7. Knowledge of Tongues can but teach the Grammatical Construction signification and interpretation of words propriety of phrases deduction of Etymologies and such like all which tend to no farther then the instamping of a bare literal understanding and all this may be the mystery of the Gospel being unknown for the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life To this I answer with Melancthon If we understand not the signification of the words how can we know the things signified by them Whereas he
continent all his life time yet being obstinate in his opinion he often swerved from the truth and doctrine of Christ and rather loved the glory and vain fame of Christian praise then truth it self He first in England forbad Priests marriage He flourished in the year of our Lord 1080. For his witty inventions forecastings policies disputations and other laborious affairs about the overthrow of princely Authority and uprearing of Antichrists tyranny Pope Urbanus appointed both him and them that should afterward succeed in the Patriarchal seat of Canterbury to sit at his right foot in every general Councel and that he also ratified by a special decree Thus it was proclaimed when that place was given him in the open Synod Includamus hunc in orbe nostro tanquam alterius orbis Papam Marcus Antoninus Emperor He was the greatest Philosopher of his time When he was going to make warre upon the Germans the Philosophers generally came with Questions to him to answer least he dying in that expedition they should be unresolved For his clemency and modest behaviour he had the name of Pius and is for the same in Histories commended Antoninus of Florence Anno aerae Christianae 161. He hath written three Tomes of Chronicles and four Parts of Summes in great Volumes Marcus Antonius de Dominis His Books De Republica are much commended Marcus Antonius Genuae cui veterum doctrinarum arcana patent quo nemo peritior Aristotelis interpres Manut. Epist. l. 4. Epist. 5. Alex. Aphrodisaeus One of the first Interpreters of Aristotle Petrus Apianus a famous Mathematician Mathematicus superioris aetatis celeberrimus Tych. Brah. Petrus Aponensis seu Aponius a chief Physician in his time He wrote Commentaries upon Aristotles Problems Vir Philosophiae Medicinae famâ tam clarus ut ab discrepantes in iis disciplinis sententias in consonam aptamquâ— unius sensus concordiam revocatas vulgò Conciliator appelletur Castellanus De vitis Medicorum Apollinaris the Father and Son both Hereticks Apollinaris the Syrian was excellently skilled in the Greek Language Sâ—â—â—men â—aith He wrote in Heroick verse the Antiquity of the Hebrews after the imitation of Homer even to the times of King Saul after the number of the letters in 24 Volumes He translated also the Psalms in Heroick verse which are yet extant He also imitating Menander is said to have written Comedies and Euripides Tragedies and Pindar Lyricks Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Histor. Dial. 5. This Apollinaris brought in a new Heresie those which follow him are called Apollinarists he held that Christ took the body but not the soul of a man but when he was urged with reasons he somewhat changed his opinion saith Ruffinus He lived from Constantine to the time of the elder Theodosius Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Hist. Dial. 5. Sidonius Apollinaris a Frenchman anno Christi 557. About 450. saith Peter du Moulin in his Antibarbarian cap. 12. He was Bishop of Cleruant in Aâ—vernie He married the daughter of the Emperour Avitus by whom he had children Apollonius being a Roman Senator wrote and recited in the Senate his Apology for the Christians and was after crowned with Martyrdom Apollonius Pergaeus a great Mathematician Magnus Giometra nulla ratione Archimede inferior quam mira quam abstrusa in suis conicis in lucem profert Blancani Dissertat De Natura Mathemat Apollonius Rhodius He only of the Greek Poets after Pindar wrote Argonautica of which subject there are four Books of his He was Callimachus his Scholar although Alexandria was his Countrey yet he was called Rhodius after he came from Alexandria to Rhode and lived there long in great honour Appianus Alexandrinus He is called deservedly by Ios. Scalig. animad Euseb. p. 163. Alienorum laborum fucâ—s yet is a profitable writer because many of those whom he exscribes are lost He lived in the time of Adrian and hath written De Bello Civilli Romanorum Apuleius a Platonick Philosopher anno Domini 161. Scriptor eruditissimus Casaub. de Satyr poesi a most learned writer There are twelve Books of his De aureo asino ex Graco Asino Luciani descripta orationis genere tali ut rudere verius quam loqui ibi Apuleius viris eruditis videatur Neand. Geog. parte 3. Aquila a Translator of the Bible He was converted from Judaism to the faith afterward being again made a Proselyte he translated the Old Testament into Greek Aquila Ponticus ex Gentili Christianus posteaque Iudaeus factus cum Hebraicè didicisset sub Caesare Hadriano anno 129. veteris instrumenti libros Graecè ita transtulit ut verbum verbo redderet Vossius De Arte Grammatica l. 1. c. 3. Tho. Aquinas born at Aquinus a Town in Abruzza in Italy He is the great Dictator of the Schools For his profound Learning and great piety he is commonly called in the Popish School Divus Thomas because he was canonized by Pope Iohn the 22. Doctor Angelicus ob acumen ingenii He was a great maintainer of the Authority of the Bishops of Rome Upon whose Scholastical Works by Popish Divines are published as many Commentaries as upon the holy Scripture and his Summes are more frequently read in their Schools and Academies then the Bible it self yet he when he was near his end taking the Bible is said to have uttered this speech Credo quicquid in hoc libro scriptum est I believe whatsoever is written in this book It is said he got his knowledge rather by prayer then labour and industry therefore he would still pray before he did write reade or dispute He was so intent upon his studies that supping at Court with Lewis the French King whilst others were discoursing of pleasant matters he was so deep in his Meditation that forgetting himself he strook the Table with his hand saying Iam conclusum est contra Manichaeâ—s Now it is concluded against the Manichees Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of Thomas Aquinas Cedite Pythagorae qui dogmata vana putatis Redditus in terris alter Aristoteles He was more then 1200 years after Christ and was both overwhelmed with the corruption of his time and wholly wedded to the See of Rome B Bils Differ betw Christ. Subject and unchrist Rebel Aratus an ancient Poet there is nothing of his but his Phoenomena which Tully translated into Latine Archimedes the Syracusan Mathematician See of him Plin. Natural Hist. l. 7. c. 37. and Plutark of Marcellus and himself God would have some singular Idea as it were to be in all Arts which all that are studious of that Art should propound to themselves to imitate as Demosthenes and Tully in eloquence Hippocrates and Galen in Physick Archimedes in the Mathematicks He had an admirable Genius or wit for the Mathematicks and by study he perfected it He did so bend his thoughts that way that he almost neglected other necessaries If he were at
Haec uno obtutu conspicienda patent Evagrius Scholasticus Nic. Everardus Several of his Works are published Ordo studendi Consil. in materia monetaria loca legalia which last is much commended by Aubertus Miraeus Also Theses Iuridicae ex ministeria de regalibus collectae and other things He left four Sonnes Everardum Nicolaum Nic. Grudin Hadr. Marium Io. Secundum partim Iuris Civilis partim Poeticae tractatione clarus Euclide He was of Megara He fitly answered to one asking many things of the gods Caetera quidem nescio illud scio quod odè resos There hath not been any thing of any worth added to his Labours in Geometry by posterity in so many Centuries of years since he flourished God hath raised up certain singular and heroical wits in all Sciences Demosthenes and Tully excelled in eloquence Aristotle in Philosophy Euclide Archimedes and Ptolomy in the Mathematicks Therefore the Profession of the Mathematicks is is called Professio Euclidea Archimedea Ptolemaica Alsted Eucyclop l. 4. c. 14. Euclides Artis elementa continuo ordine magna solertia ita tradidit ut à quovis mediocris ingenii acumine praedito non difficulter percipi possent Tych. Brahe Orat. De Disciplinis Mathematicis Euripides It is a great Question Which was the better Poet he or Sophocles though they went a different way Quintilian determines it after a sort There is all moral Philosophy in Verse in him Eusebius Anno Domini 330. He was made Bishop of Caesarea in Palestina He flourished under Constantine and his Son Eusebius Pamphili not Pamphilus as he is commonly called He had that name from Pamphilus the Martyr whom he dearly loved He is taxed for an Arian Gerhard in his Patrologia saith he was so and alledgeth authority for it yet he is justified by others he is therefore to be read with the greater caution as to that partcular for he much favoured that opinion though he subscribed the Nicene Councel It is the ancientest Ecclesiastical History now extant See a commendation of him in Crakanth Defence of Constantine c. 6. p. 107. and several Elogies of him in Gerhards Patrologia Eusebius Emissenus Anno Christi 330. There are Homilies abroad in the name of another Eusebius Emissenus which is said to have flourished about the year 430. upon the Gospels of the whole year and also fifty most eloquent Homilies of divers subjects Though some Question Whether the man be the same Author of those short Homilies upon all the Gospels who is of those fifty Homilies of divers arguments seeing the style in both is very different Eustathius He lived under the Emperour Andronicus in the year about 1180 from Christs birth He was Archbishop of Thessalonica He hath written Commentaries upon Hâ—mers Books and on Dionysius his description of the world From Aristarchus old Didymus made his Commentary upon Homer and Eustathius from both and many more ancient Brought Exposition of the 21 th of the Revel Valde inclinata jam magnas mutationes passa Graeca lingua erat aetate Eustathii Steph. De Bene Instit. Ling. Graec. Stud. Eustochium a learned woman of whom Ierom makes honourable mention Euthymius Zigabenus Anno 1080. He wrote Commentaries on all the Psalms and the four Gospels and Panopliam adversus omnes haereses Eâ—tropius He lived under Valentinian the elder Aben Ezra a most learned Grammarian He lived about the year of Christ 1140. The sharpest and best learned that ever ye bred Broughtons Require of Consent Schickard in his Bechinath Happeruschin shewing how the Jews magnifie Rabi Salomon Iarchi addes At si me arbitro res ista disceptaretur palmam ego deferrem sequenti Aben Ezrae quia non tantùm magis perspicuus est methodicus in stilo multùm elegantior Scripturaeque idiotismorum tenax sed etiam prudentior cantior nugarum parcior Cum vicissim ille à fabulis abstineat minus obscurior sit in Orthographiam alicubi impingat ut cum Kimchaeo interdum non agat mitius quam nostrates pueri cum Prisciano CHAP. XIX F JAcobus Faber Stapulensis skilled in all Learning especially in Divinity Farel and Calvin were his Scholars He was very low of a modest countenance and a sweet disposition his minde wholly estranged from all injustice Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Petrus Faber Iacobus Cuiacius was his master His Agonisticon and Somestria are well esteemed Ioan. Faber He hath written several Works Quod studiis primus lucem intulit omnibus artes Et doctum cunctum haee regit urâ—a Fabrum Heu tenebrae tantum potuere extinguerâ— lamen Si non in tenebris lux tamen ista micet Buchanan Epig. l. 2. Nic. Faber Master to Lewis the. 13 th King of France Guido Nicolaus Fabricii Boderiani fratres Bibliorum Veteris Testamenti Hebraicorum Latina interpretatio opèra olim Santis Pagnini nunc vero Benedicti Ariae Montani Hispalensis Francisci Rafelengii Guid. Nicol. Fabriciorum fratrum collato studio ad Hebraicam dictionem expensa There is also Dictionarium Syrochaldoicum Guidono Fabricio Boderiano collectore auctore He was a famous French Poet. Divers Works of his in French are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Georgius Fabritius Chemnicensis M. Laurentius Fabricius There is a Book of his called Partitiones Codicis Hebrai Steph. Fabricius He hath put out Conciones in Proph. Minores in Decalogum Barth Facius Alphonso Aragonicae Siciliae ac Neapolis regi ab Epistolis fuit vitam res gestas Alphonsi conscripsit Ubert fol. Elog. Paulus Fagius born Anno 1504. a great Hebrician As the Jews say of Moses Ben Maimon à Mose usque ad Mosen non surrexit sicut Moses viz. Maimonides so the Germanes may say of Paulus Fagius à Paulo ad Paulum non surrexit sicut Paulus viz. Fagius There is a Catalogue printed of all the Books published by him many excellent ones His Annotations upon Oukelus his Targum on the Pentateuch which he turned into Latine are a special Work Anton. Faius a French Divine He hath written these Works In Epist. ad Romanos In priorem ad Timotheum In Ecclesiastem Enchiridion Theologicum De vita obitu Theod. Bezae Emblemata Epigrammatâ— Miscel. Abraham Faius his Sonne hath put out Linguae Gallicae Italicae hortulus amaenissimus Horarum subcisivarum libri duo Gabriel Fallopins He hath published both Commentaries De rebus metallicis and also Anatomical Observations and Institutions with other Works Guliel Farel a learned and godly Minister of Genevah He hath written De Uray Usage de la Crâ—ix Of the true use of the Crosse and Summaire ou brifue declaration â— aucuns lieux fort necessaires à vn Chacun Chrestien pour mettre sa confidence en Dieâ— a ayderson pro chain Salvus sit optimus