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A06472	The glory of their times. Or The liues of ye primitiue fathers Co[n]tayning their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 16943; ESTC S108921	238,060	544

Apologeticall booke to Euoptius against Theodoret 7 Exposition of the Nicen Creed 8 Schoole Notes on Christs Incarnation 9 Two Epistles to Succensus the Bishop 10 Twelve Synodall Epistles 11 Nestorius Tenets gathered out of his owne Works 12 A speech of the going out of the soul of the second comming 13 A famous Worke called Thesaurus containing fourteene books 14 Seven bookes of Dialogues with Hermias 15 Of worshipping in spirit and in truth 17 books 16 Against Julian the Apostate ten books 17 Of the right Faith to Theodosius and his Queens 18 Against the Anthropomorphites 19 Of the Trinitie Besides these there are extant printed at Ingolstadt his Commentaries on the lesser Prophets Greeke and Latine in Folio and five Books against Nestorius Greeke and Latine in the end of the first Tome of the Generall Councell of the Roman Edition And there shortly are expected thirty Paschall Sermons In these Workes you may finde Learning Wit and Eloquence in all which this Father excelled So that if a man call him the Magazine and store house of divine perfection hee shall not mistake himselfe nor transcend the bounds of modestie But of him ne me Crispini scrinia lippi Compilâsse putes verbum non amplius addam An. Christi 440. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus S. PETRVS CHRISOLOGVS THis Worthy Fathers Birth-place was at Imola a village neare Revenna in France sprung from Parents who are commended for their uprightnesse and sincerity not of meane or dejected fortunes but having ability of meanes to support them with credit and reputation and they are prayse-worthy for their great care that they had to see their sonne vertuously brought up in study and good Arts. This Chrysologus had institution for good manners and learning from Cornelius who was Bishop of that City so likewise from the same Bishop he received holy Orders and was found wondrous able for that holy function insomuch as not long after hee was by Sixtus the third of Rome chosen to bee Arch-bishop of Ravenna and was the two and twentieth that had successively managed the affaires of that Sea Hee deserves high commendation for his rare parts and indefatigable paines and various studies Hee was present at two Councels the one was held at Ravenna the other at Rome by the authority of Caelius Symmachus then Pope of Rome and Theodori●ns King of the Ostrogoths He sent Letters full of learning to the Synod of Calcedon against Eutiches the Heretique which are yet extant but what a copiousnesse of wit he did enjoy may easily be perceived as also what a measure of Eloquence he possessed by the number of his Homilies and Sermons full of Elegancy and matter being above 176. He sate Bishop the space of sixty yeares and governed the Church of God with admirable wisedome and industry Trithemius amongst his Ecclesiasticall Writers speakes thus of this Chrysologus Petrus Archiepiscopus Ravennas vir eruditus atque Sanctissimus c. that is Peter who was Arch-bishop of Ravenna a man full of learning and holinesse performed many worthy actions in the Church of Christ. He was so powerfull in Eloquence especially in his Sermons to the people and so holy in his conversation that he by both these did daily bring some to the imbracing the truth and did set forth many rare pieces pro edification● fidelium that is for the edification of the Faithfull You have this Father sufficiently commended for his excellent parts in an Epistle set before his Workes which were printed at Paris with the Workes of Leo the Great the first of that name Pope of Rome as also of Maximus the Bishop of Taurinum and Fulgentius Bishop of Ruspa with the Workes also of Valerianus Bishop of Cemelium in one Volume where this Chrysologus is commended with these words En tibi Chrysologum c. that is behold this Chrysologus not onely famous for his Divine Eloquence and solidity of Learning but also for his honour'd antiquity and faithfulnesse in the Episcopall function He lived within a while after Saint Chrysostome and other famous pillars of the Church He got this name as Chrysostom got his for he is termed of all Divines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Golden spoken man for who wil but reade his Workes shal finde a lofty Majesty of stile and phrase absolute and profound Learning such purity of Divinity not stained or tainted with any vaine affectation nor any rigid and harsh Interpretation no obsolete deductions or conclusions but direct and even Natural so that if you compare Neotericks either Commentators or as my Author speakes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Homily Writers with this man you shall finde them as Pigmies to another Atlas for where have you a more modest Interpreter of the sacred Scriptures Where can you finde one so conspicuous for pious Eloquence or Eloquent PIETIE Who opens the most obscure places of the Text with a more apt consonant ingenuous sincere interpretation so that he doth not wrest the sence nor corrupt it nor unfitly expound it but with judgement integrity exact Learning and industry so that in these respects hee doth well deserve to bee ranked with the most eminent Fathers he doth not rashly or childishly heape together a few places of Scripture but doth where the place or matter wants testimony wisely and discreetly exhibit his proofs for confirmation As hee was studious in his preachings so always before he pend any thing he would with great ardencie and humilitie set himselfe to prayer Cardinall Baronius in his Annalls doth commend this Petrus Chrysologus for his Epistle writ to Eutyches dignam plane tanto viro Episcopo Epistolam that is An Epistle indeed worthy such a great Bishop and it doth begin in these words Tristis legi tristes literas tuas with grief of heart I have read thy heavy and dolefull Letters as the peace of the Churches the concord of the Priests the tranquillitie of the common people makes our joy to abound so no lesse doth the dissention of brethren arising out of such causes deeply afflict and torment us oh now why should the actions of Christ done so long since allowed and approved in all ages by your pen be calld to question How Origen too nicely searching into Divinity and how Nestorius disputing too curiously of the Natures fell your wisedome cannot but know the Wisemen c●nfesse him to be a God though at that time laid in a Cratch by presenting their Mysticall presents the Priests do acknowledge him that should be borne of a Virgin the heavenly Army of Angels sing at his Nativitie Glory to God in the Highest And when as at the Name of JESUS every knee should bow both of things in heaven in earth and under the earth what a strangenesse is it that your pen should move a question of his beginning we do Beloved with the blessed Apostle safely conclude that though we have knowne Iesus after the flesh yet now know wee him no more nor

as occasion served How full of Hospitality was he to strangers How humble how cheerfull and how liberall not onely refreshing their bodies but comforting likewise their soules with spirituall directions Did not all men knowing his excellencies send in reliefe to the Brethren either by shipping out of England or by Wills of men dying still was this Monastery supplyed There did likewise belong faire revenues to this Abby out of England to bring in which to the Cloyster this Anselmus came over in the first yeare that he was ordained Abbot and not onely for that reason but also to see and speak with Lanfrancus who was from being an Abbot preferred to the Arch-bishopricke of Canterbury Whither when Anselmus was come with what a confluence of all sorts of people was hee entertained at Canterbury so there was Discourse had betwixt Lanfranck and himself and this is said of them both to their commendations Non erat ullus eo tempore qui aut Lanfranco authoritate vel multiplici rerum scientiâ aut Anselmo praestaret in Sanctitate vel Dei sapientiâ that is There was none at that time that did exceede Lanfranck in authority and variety of knowledge nor Anselme in holinesse nor heavenly wisedome He proceeds now to effect that for which hee came and takes an account of all the meanes which did belong to their Monastery but it is to be wondred at with what expressions of joy and love was he every where entertained what grave Counsells and directions hee gave to all sorts of people especially to the Clergy there was not a Lord or a Lady in England at that time but did strive to expresse their loves to him by presenting him with rich presents nay William the Conquerour though otherwise sterne and rigid yet how did hee expresse his love to this great man So having beene joyfully received of all sorts in England he intends his journey for his Monastery againe having gained large meanes for his fellowes But now the Conquerour dying and leaving his sonne William King of England Lanfranck also the Arch-bishop being dead this William began fearfully to waste the Churches throughout England which Anselme having with griefe heard of did he not at the solicitation of Hugh Earle of Chester and other Nobles come againe into England and comming to the Court did hee not modestly and divinely tell the King what wrongs he had done and how such things would draw downe Gods heavy judgements upon him and his posterity but the King was for the present unflexible so this Anselme went to this Hugh Earle of Chester but the King falling sicke all men cryed up this Anselmes fame and that hee was the onely man to bee Arch-bishop of Canterbury By the Kings authority and the whole Kingdomes love he was consecrated the first Sunday in Lent in the yeare of Grace 1093. But he found this place at that time to bee full of troubles and cares yet he being sent for to Court did meekly beseech the King to cease from afflicting the Churches did not this man performe his charge with patience industry and with expressions of learning and fidelity he was not any wayes addicted to pride not ensnared with covetousnesse neither was he tainted with idlenesse He committed the administration of his houshold affaires to one Baldwine Hee did mainly lament the abuse that was offered to the Church by prophane covetous men who took the meanes of them into their owne possession The King return'd from forraine parts Anselmus humbly intreats of his Majesty that hee might have licence to go to Rome but at this the King was incensed and told him there should no Pope have any Authority over his subjects nor any power within his dominions hereupon there was a generall meeting of all the Bishops and Lords at Rothingam to decide this Here most to gaine the Kings favour were directly against this Arch-bishop onely the Bishop of Rochester stood with him But the King was so vexed that he told him he would not hold him as an Arch-bishop unlesse forthwith he would deny the Popes authority and again at Winchester desiring of the King the same thing the King told him that hee should never have that liberty nor any other if he did persist in that minde So Baldwine was driven out of England and Anselmes servants misused and his lands alienated and hee himselfe derided and hated yet in the depth of this storme hee retained his piety and said that of our Saviour By patience possesse your soules at last he was forced by secret meanes to flye and so came to a place called Whitsands and so to Saint Bertine being glad that hee was out of England but then the King hearing presently ceized upon all his lands and goods and so Anselme came to Lions and was kindly entertained by the Arch-bishop of that place and so being weake in body and unfit to travaile to Rome hee sent his cause thither but stay'd in Lions till they returned They comming backe told him all excuses laid aside hee must himselfe goe in person to Rome So they came to Secusium and presented themselves to the Abbat of that place there were three of them Anselmus and Baldwine and Edinerus which writ this his life So after much travaile and danger we came to Rome and it was bruted abroad of this Fathers approach and all men desired to see him but it being extreame hot in the City of Rome this Anselme lived in a Village seated pleasantly called Schlavia a great deale of time was spent in deliberating for the Churches good but it was thought safest for Anselme not to returne into England while William lived neither did he but his successor Henry came into Normandy hearing that Anselme was there and did reinvest him into all his state and honours againe and he came into England and was entertained with great reverence of all the Lords of the Kingdome and the love of all the Common people So King Henry was very glad that hee had gained the peace of Anselme but hee was even spent with age labour and watching for age brings to us experience in one hand and death in the other and so did not live long after his return but with a great expression of holinesse and comfort did commend his spirit to God Time deales with man Arithmetically First he addes to beauty multiplies his graces and then he subtracts all these and makes a long lasting division between him and Nature And now he is dead it is high time to cover this sweet and heavenly Father with his first mother the Earth who being honourably attended to the grave with the Rose and the Violet is laid to sleepe in the bosome of the earth and shall enjoy though not so suddenly yet as certaine a Spring as they and which is more an everlasting one His Sayings S. Anselm de Malitia foeditate peccati Cap. 190. Saint Anselme was wont to say that if hee should see the shame of sinne on

Haymo lib. 7. c. 8. N●ceph lib. 9. Beda Ruffinus Suidas speaks of him also Factus Episcopus signis c. that is Being made Bishop he exceld for signes and wonders above humane power He was full of holinesse Phedinus Bishop of the Amassensians ordained him a Bishop Hee flourisht under Aurelianus and he reigning this Gregory died At his death he thanked God that hee left as many faithfull Christians in that City as hee found Infidels at his comming The Roman Breviary stiles him Sanctitate doctrinaque illustris c. famous for sanctitie and doctrine and much more for miracles At this death hee asked how many Infidels there were in Neocesarea it was answered but seventeene thanks be to God said he for at my comming there were just seventeen Orthodoxe Christians in this place Bellarmine and Baronius declare his worthy parts and say that he was famous for Learning and Miracles and that hee flourisht in the Reigne of Alexander Severus and Baronius testifies in his second Tome that hee was made Bishop in the tenth of Severus hee suffered so much for the Truth that in the Greek Churches he is reputed a Martyr S. Gregorius Thaumaturgus in Ecclesiast cap. 12. It will be worth thy labour whilst thou art in the prime of thy youth to be affected with the feare of God before thou give up thy selfe unto sinne and wickednesse and so that great and terrible day of the Lord steal upon thee at unawares when thou art unprovided for it Ibid. Cap. 11. If thou feed the hungry and cloath the naked what though others thinke all 's lost that goes that way and no better then bread ●ast upon the waters yet let mee tell thee that in processe of time thou shalt have it returned ten-fold into thy bosome againe Idem Cap. 10. Listen to the voice of the King and of those that are set in authority over thee doe them no harme nor be thou too free in thy speeches against them for assuredly know that whatsoever thou doest or sayest against them though never so secretly it will appeare against thee when thou shalt least think of it Idem Cap. 10. This World 's at no certainty now it is all warre anon all peace this yeere comes famine the next brings plenty nay such is the inconstancie of things sublunary that hee which we knew one day abounding in prosperity the next day we saw dejected by adversitie His Works extant are these according to Bellarmine 1 A Metaphrase on Ecclesiastes 2 A Panegyricke of Origen 3 A briefe Confession of Faith which hee learned of St. Johns Revelation 4 An exposition of Faith against Elianus 5 A Canonicall Epistle To these Vossius hath put twelve Sentences Greeke and Latine with Anathematismes 6 Three Sermons of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin 7 Of the Baptisme of Christ. Of the Epiphany 8 A dispute of the soule against Tatianus Hee was borne of Gentile parents but had good education at Alexandria he cast out a Devill from a woman which would have tempted him and did accuse him of lust to the wonder of all So after great paines endured for the Truths sake he died peaceably Read more of him in Baronius Annals Tome 2. I cannot omit to speake some things of him in briefe 1 His patience when a Strumpet reviled him 2 Divine revelation and receiving the Articles of the Faith so effectually 3 His erecting of a Church his flight in the persecution by Decius 4 He cured divers of the Plague and so also converted them to the Faith 5 He frees himselfe from the calumnies of Sabellius 6 Hee was at the former Councell at Antioch and opposed Paulus Samosatenus 7 Before his death he visits the Churches 8 Gave away all his possessions and yielded quietly his spirit to God An. Christi 250. Sanctus Cyprianus S. CIPRIANVS IT hath always beene the providence and goodnesse of God to raise up and finde men of parts and gracious endowments to mayntaine the cause of his Church amongst which this Saint Cyprian merits a place whom so many of the ancient Fathers of the Church doe highly commend as Gregory Nazianzen Hillarius Ambrose Prudentius Saint Augustine Fulgentius Maximus Isidore Petrus Chrysologus Beda and R●banus Maurus as also Eusebius Zonaras Nicephorus and Divine Saint Ierome who bestowes this Encomium of him Quam purissi●i fontis instar dulcis incedat placidus ingenio sit facili copioso suavi quae sermonis maxima est virtus aperto ut discerni nequeat ut rumne ornatior in eloquendo an facilior in explicando an potentior in persuadendo fuerit When as this Father runs like a Fountain sweetly and calmly of an apprehensive copious delicious note and that which adds grace to him of an holy wit so that it is hard to distinguish whether he was more rich in eloquence or facile in his explication or more powerfull in perswasion Pontius his Deacon writing of him stiles him thus Cyprianus religiosus Antistes Testis Dei gloriosus Saint Cyprian that Religious Prelate that Glorious Witnesse and Martyr to passe by therefore the part of his life as he was a Rhetorician wee will onely describe him as a Christian. At this first ingresse to Christianitie he chiefly studied to keepe his body continent and cleane from lusts and occasions provoking saying Tunc enim posse fieri pectus idoneum sensum ad plenam veri capacitatem pervenire si con●●piscentiam ●arnis robusto atque integro sanctimoniae vigore rigore calcaret That then his heart would be truly fit and his spirits to come to the full capacitie of the truth if that once he could with a strong and entire vigour and rigor of Holinesse trample down his concupiscence of flesh And not onely eminent for his austeritie but also in the reading of the Scriptures hee chiefly aimed how hee might improve his labours to Gods glory Hee at his initiation to Christianity gave and distributed all his estate to the poore ut ambitionem saeculi sperner●t that hee might avoid worldly ambition and performe an act of mercy well pleasing to G●d A strange thing and not to be paralleld by any of the Fathers Upon this hee entred into the Priesthood Where how worthily hee did behave himselfe is manifest hee was not daunted with any oppositions nor frighted with any persecutions so that as Pontius saith well Non illum penuria non dolor fregit It was not want or sorrow that startled his noble heart not his Wifes disswasions not the worlds frownes not the malice of his adversaries could affright him He stood firme unshaken in all estates and conditions keeping his faith and devotion and blessed God in his deepest sufferings His house was free to all commers he never turn'd widow empty away from him he was the blinde mans eye and the lame mans legs and the naked mans garment Haec debent facere dicebat qui Deo placerent These things