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A14345	The history of the moderne protestant divines containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant. Faithfully translated out of Latine by D.L.; Praestantium aliquot theologorum. English	Verheiden, Jacob, fl. 1590.; Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Heroologia Anglica.	1637 (1637)	STC 24660; ESTC S119100	56,783	398

of celebrating the Lords Supper 3. A friendly farewell to his loving friends and favourers being in Prison at Oxford 4. With a mournfull Lamentation of the deplored estate of the Church of England being falne to Popery His writings could not be many because his time was but short and he imployed it most in preaching THOMAS CRANMER THIS reverend and grave Arch-bishop was borne in the County of Notingham sprung from an ancient and worthy family He was brought up to study in the Vniversity of Cambridge in Jesus Colledge in which he made a wonderfull progresse in learning and prov'd in a short time an excellent and usefull member in the Church for his rare endowments he was by that potent Prince Henry the eight King of England made Arch-bishop of Canterbury after the death of his predecessor Warran in the yeare 1532. All the time of King Henry his Reigne he shaved his beard but that King dying hee let it grow greatly as you see him here lively presented he was the first Archbishop except onely one which was Richard Scroope Archbishop of Yorke that was adiudged to death in England by formall course of Law But this Cranmer was and underwent two yeares and an halfe imprisonment with much sorrow in darknesse nastinesse and want Certaine it is that he was a man devoted wholly to Religion and Godlinesse for he in the time of King Edward procured many Divines to repaire from forraine parts into this Kingdome and saw that they were supplyed with necessa ries among whom was M● tine Bucer Paulus Fagius Io hannes Lascus and Peter Martin If he had not loved the Go● spell of Jesus he would no● have so friendly relieved and cherished his followers He needes no other commendations than those which are given him by Andreas Osi●der Peter Martir in K. He● the eighth his reigne Osi●der in his preface to his Evangelicall harmony thus speaks of him Amote c. I love your Grace not onely for those endowments which are common to others as greatnesse of birth comlinesse of person sweetnesse of carriage charity to all especially ●o Students and professors of Gods Word but much more for those Abstrusiores ac plane ● leroicas animi tui virtutes those are his very expressions in English Abstruse and plainely Heroicall vertues of your minde together with your Visedome Prudence Fortitude Temperance Justice care for your Countries good Loyalty to your Soveraigne contempt of worldly wealth love of heavenly riches love of the truth Gospell and professors of it This Encomium is large and true proceeding from the penne of such a Divine and Peter Marter gives him as much praise in his Epistle to his booke of the Eucharist Quem enim potuissem c. Whom could I finde so true a Bulwarke for the truth and especially Huius Eucharistici Sacramenti For the Sacrament of the Eucharist than your sacred selfe nay he saith Q●is sanctior firmior Doctior Who so holy whose stedfast who so generally learned● It is your Grace that are expert in all the Writings of the Fathers Councels Canons Popes Decrees Controversies of these saith he I am an eye witnesse or else I should scarce have believed ●t Ye for all these parts this famous Father of the English Church was adiudged to the sire and suffered it at Oxford 1556. the 21. of March and of his age 72. in which weighty charge of governing the affaires of the Church He writ many things which are here to his eternall praise truely registred 1. A Catechisme of Christian Doctrine 2. Ordinations of Churches reformed 3. Ofordaining Priests 4. Of the Eucharist with Luther 5. A defence of Catholicke doctrine 6. To the professors of the Truth 7. Ecclesiasticall Lawes in Edward the sixth his reigne 8. Against Gardners Sermon 9. Doctrine of the Lords Supper 10. 12 Bookes of common places out of the Doctors of the Church 11. Christian Homilies 12. To Richard Smiths Calumnies 13. Confutations of unwritta● truths 14. Of not marrying one● sister two Bookes 15. Against the Popes primary two bookes 16. Against Popish Purgatory two bookes 17. Of Iustification two Bookes 18. Epistles to Learned Men. Out of Prison hee writ these 1. Against the sacrifice of the Masse 2. Against adoring the Host. 3. To Queene Mary with others 4. Emendations of the Translation of the English Bible and added Prefaces to it EDWIN SANDES ARCHBI THIS Worthy Doctor of the Church of England proceeded of a good house and family and tooke his degree of Doctor in the famous Vniversity of Cambridge he was Master of Katharine Hall and Vice-Chancellor of the said Vniversity the same time When Iohn Duke of Northumberland passed by that way with his Army to oppose the proclaiming of Mary Queene of England he caused this Sands to preach for and in defence of the Lady Jane Grey which was declar'd Queene which he performd with that modesty gravity and wisedome that hee satisfied Northumberlands Duke and did not much incense the other party for when there was a suddaine change of things so that the next day the great Duke and himselfe were both taken Prisoners this worthy Sands at the intercession of many friends was acquitted and fully set free and so together with his wife went into Germany a good policy to shun a comming threatning storme where he kept himselfe close during the reigne of Queene Mary but that Queene dying hee was cald home into England in Queene Elizabeths Reigne and was declared Bishop of Worcester and was consecrated ●e one and twentieth of December in the yeare of our Lord 1559. Hee did succeed that famous Arch-bishop Grindall in two places to ●it in the Bishopricke of London and the Archbishopricke of Yorke the one in ●570 and the other in sixe yeares after and when he had enioyed that spirituall promotion of Arch-bishop 12. yeares he departed this life the eighth of August 1588. about the age of threescore and lies buryed in the Collegiate Church of Southwel●in ●in Notingham shire a man of whom it is hard to be said whether more famous for his singular vertues learning or for his Noble Parentage and Of-spring which hee left behinde him for he left many Children of which three were Knights and excellently well qualified gentlemen either for body or mind But his sonne Sir Edwine Sands prov'd the learneder more famous and deare to his Countrey There is a booke of famous sermons extant in Print of this Prelates which is counted a worthy piece of work doth sufficiently declare his Piety and Schollership to succeding Ages ALEXANDER NOWELL THis Effigies speaks Christian Meekenesse and gravity and he was as this shewes him to be borne he was in Lancashire of an ancient family of the Nowels Hee tooke the degree of Doctor in Divinity in Queen Maries dayes he as many other famous Divines were forced to doe departed this Land to shunne the troubles of those times and to secure their owne persons from their Adversaries Hee

Grammar 10. Ecclefiasticus Latine and French 11. A Looking-glasse of Tremelius against Genebrard 12. Twelve Orations for the reading of the Old Testament 13. An Oration of Vrsinus life 14. Upon Gregory 13. his Cursings against Gebbard Bishop of Colen 15. Upon St. Iudes Epistle 16. Foure Speeches for reading the Old Testament 17. Upon the 4 first Psalmes 18. A Catholicke Apology in Latine 19. An Hebrew Lexicon 20. His table of Purgatory 21. A Christian admonition against Iohn Haren in French 22. A book called the Academy 23. His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greeke and Latine 24. Translation of 2. Epistles of the Kings and one of Plessis in Latine 25. His sacred Paralels 26. Upon the Prince of Anhalt his death 27. Notes upon the three first Chapters of Genesis 28. A confutation of some Arguments of the Creation 29. Notes upon the Apocalyps 30. Second Edition of his Lible 31. Manilius with corrections and Notes 32. His first defence of the Catholicke Doctrine of the Trinity 33. A Commentary on Daniel 34. The King of France his confession in French 35. Upon the Death of Iohn Cassimeire Count Palatine 36. Commentary on Psal. 101. 37. Exposition upon the Apocalyps in French 38. Commentary on Ionah the Prophet 39. An Analysis upon Genesis 40. Ciceroes Epistles to Atticus and Q. his brother with Corrections and Notes 41. A defence of the Catholick Doctrine of Nature and Grace 42. A praise of Peace 43. The peaceable Christian in French 44. Of the observation of Moses policy 45. Of Divinity 46. An Oration against the Iesuites in Latine 47. Notes upon Tertullian 48. Notes and Animadversions upon Bellarmine of the Translation of the Roman Empire These be this painefull Labourers fruits more he writ which are not come forth and some things by the iniury of times are lost these be sufficient to shew his paines and labour and will for ever eternize his Name These are the Names and Lives of the Forreigne Divines those that follow are of our owne Nation 〈◊〉 WICKLIFEE AMongst many famous Writers of this Nation as Beda Alckvine John Carnotensis Girald Nigellus Neckam Sevall Bacanthorpe Ockam Hampoole of Armach this Wickliffe is not the least of worth hee was famous both for Lifes and Learning he was brought up in the famous Vniversity of Oxford in Merton Colledge he gave himselfe after hee was Maister of Arts to the study of Schoole Divinity wherein having an excellent acute wit he became excellently well qualified and was admired of all for his singular Learning and sweetnesse of behaviour He preached the Gospell under that famous King Edward the third who alwayes favoured and protected him from his raging Adversaries The Bishop of Rome lost by his Doctrine the power of making and ordayning Bishops in England and the Tenths of spirituall promotions and also the gaines of his Peter-pence The Popes ever since pretending to bee Imitators of St. Peter have still desired to fish in this Iland knowing how profitable this Kingdome hath beene to that See of Rome In the time of King Richard the second this Wickliffe was banished in which misery and affliction hee shewed a singular spirit of courage and constancy wheresoever hee ●vent or whatsoever he suffered At last returning from Exile he died in the yeare of our Saviour Iesus whom he had Preached 1398. and was buried the last day of December in his Parish Church of Lutterworth in Leicester-shire But in the yeere 1428. which was 41. yeeres from the time of his death his dead body was by the Decree of Pope Martin the fifth and the Councell of Sene dig'd up and burned with the Execrations of that fiery Pope thus he found the cruelty of them being dead whom he had being living taught to be so He writ as Pius Aenaeas testi fies more than two hundred faire volumes most of which were burned by Subinck Archbishop of Prague in Bohemia The Catalogue of his Works you may reade in the Centuries of John Bale some of them I have here set downe 1. Of Christ and Antichrist 2. Of Antichrist and his members 3. Of the truth of the Scriptures 4. Of the fountaine of Errors 5. A booke of Conclusions 6. 7. Of Ecclesiasticall and Civill government 8. Of the Impostures of Hypocrites 9. Of Blasphemy 10. Lectures on Daniel 11. On the Apocalyps 12. Of the marriage of Priests 13. The Divels craft against Religion 14. His policy to overthrow faith 15. Of Apostacy 16. Two bookes of Metaphy sickes one containing 12. Bookes 17. Glosses upon the Scripture 18. Of falling away from Christ. 19. Of truth and lying Besides these he writ many of Philosophy and tra●slated the Bible into the English tongue making Prefaces and Arguments to euery Booke he also tra●slated the twelve Bookes of Clement the Parson of Lan●hon containing the harmony of the Evangelists And thus went out this Lampe of England of whom one thus hath said Mortuus est p●sthàc ●ssa cremata sua IOHN BALE HEE was an Englishman borne in Suffolke fitted and furnished with all maner of learning at Cambridge His Parents had many Children and were Papists This Bale being a boy was shut up 12. yeares in a Cloyster of Friars Carmalites hee was first brought from that darknes to light by the Right Honourable the Lord Wentworth but he was troubled first under the government of Leo at Yorke and afterwards under Stokesley at London being Arch-bishops But Bale got his freedome by the meanes of Cromwell who was privy Councellor to King Henry the eighth for some dain●y and elegan● Comedies which he compos'd yet he was forced to flye and remained in Lower Germany eight yeares in which hee writ many workes He was called home by King Edward the sixth and was made Bishop of Ossar in Ireland where he preached But in Queene Maries dayes Ireland was too hot for him and so left it but after many dangers he was taken by Pirats stript mocked and vncivilly handled at last was sold but his ransome being paid he returned into Germany which was at that time the safest receptacle for distressed Christians living at Ba●ile he compiled that work of his 13 Cen●uries of all the famous writers of Great Britains in all ages to the yeare of Christ 1557. Hee was much helped by Leland living in Germany his special friends were Alexander Alerius a Scotish man where hee writ the like Catalogue of the famous men of that Nation likewise Gesner Simler and Lycosthenes loved him dearely He was a powerfull engine against the Roman Church as appeares by that Distiche of Lawrence Hum●hred 〈◊〉 Lutherus patefecit Platina multa Quadam Vergerius Cuncta Balaeus habet Englished thus Full much did Luther Platin● did well So did Vergerius Bale doth all excell This worthy Scholler dyed in Ireland in the yeare of our Redemption 1558. and of his troublesome life 67. His workes are these that follow 1. His Heliads of English 2. His British writers 3. 3 Tomes upon Walden 4. Vpon the

Spanish rests yet unanswered by any of that side This Divine was lame of his right hand so that it was unfit to write withall but what famous things hee did write with his left hand not onely the Corporation of Christs Colledge but also the whole Vniversity of Cambridge afford long and sufficient testimonies But alas he was taken from us in the vigour and strength of his age being indeede more fit for heaven than earth hee sickned and dyed at Cambridge in the yeare of Grace 1602. not without many teares and the griefe of all good men being but aged 44. and had all the funerall solemnities and rites of the Vniversity as did befit so learned a man His Workes are here in order set downe 1. A foundation of Christian Religion 2. His Golden chaine or a description of Divinity 3. An Exposition on the Apostles Creed 4. An Exposition of the Lords Prayer 5. A Declaration of the state of Grace and Condemnation 6. Cases of Conscience 7. A discourse of the Tongue done into Latine by Thomas Draxe 8. Of the nature and practice of Repentance 9. Of the meanes to dye well in all states and times 10. Of the combate of the flesh and spirit into Latine by Drax. 11. Of the course to live well 12. A Treatise of Conscience 13. The Reformed Catholicke 14. Of the true meanes to know Christ crucified and the Graine of Mustard-seed into Latine by Thomas Drax. 15. Of true VVealth 16. Of the Idolatry of the last times 17. Of GODS free grace and of free will in Men. 18. Of mens callings 19. Of Predestination in Latine by the Author 20. His Bible harmony 21. A Dialogue of the worlds dissolution These that follow were set forth after the Authors death 1. Three bookes of the cases of Conscience translated into Latine by Thomas Drax and Meyer 2. Commentaries on the five first Chapters on the Galathians 3. Of Christian Equity by Crashaw 4. Of Mans Imagination set forth by Thomas Peirson 5. Problemes against Coxe in Latine by himselfe set forth by Samuel Ward 6. The key of Prophesie set forth by Thomas Tuke 7. Commentaries upon the fifth sixth and seventh chapters of Matthew set forth by Thomas Peirson 8. Commentaries on the three first chapters of the Apocalyps by Robert Hill Tho. Peirson 9. Of the tentation of Christ Matt. from the 1. ver to the 12. of the 4. chapter 10. An exhortation to repentance 11. Two excellent Treatises of Ministers calling set out by Master Crashaw 12. A commentary on Iudes Epistle by Thomas Pickering 13. Of poysoning a Treatise 14. Against Prognosticks an answer to a Countrey fellow 15. Of the houshold Discipline in Latine by the Author now Englished WILL WHITAKER ALthough those of the Church of Rome have had many rare Schollers which have confuted their erronious and superstitious Tenents yet of late scarce any have so convinced them as Iuel and VVhittakers He was borne in Lancashire and was sent to the Vniversity of Cambridge and was admitted into that famous society of Trinity Colledge where hee proved a famous Scholler both in Tongues and all manner of Theology and so was made the Kings Professor of Divinity and Master of Saint Johns Colledge which preferment he long held and in that space he had often combatings with many great Romish Priests and Iesuits as Stapleton Sanders Reinolds and Campian with what successe any man of iudgement or discretion can easily discerne and not daunted with these combatants hee set upon their chiefe Goliah and Champion himselfe even great Bellarmine the Cardinall whose Arguments and Obiections he hath so succinctly and solidly answered that all the Divines of Europe give him great praise and if he had not beene taken away by death hee had answered all the Tomes of Bellarmine exquisitely However I have heard it confest of English Papists themselves which have bin in Italy with Bellarmine himselfe that hee procured the true Portraicture and Effigies of this Whitaker to bee brought to him which he kept in his study for hee privately admired this man for his singular learning and ingenuity and being asked of some of his friends Iesuites Why hee would have the picture of that Heretique in his presence hee would answer quod quamvis Hereticus esset Adversarius esset tamen Doctus Adversarius That although he was an Heretique and his Adversary yet he was a learned Adversary To which I may iustly say that hee was a pious man and a solid Teacher and dyed in peace and quietnesse of Conscience to the griefe of all England and especially of the Vniversity of Cambridge in the yeare of our Lord 1595. and of his age forty seaven and was buryed at Cambridge in St. Iohns Colledge with great solemnity and funerall ornamenns befitting so great a learned man as he was where in the same place you may reade his Epitaph engraven and set in Golden letters upon the Wall by his Sepulchre in the Chappell of St. Iohns Colledge His workes are famous and follow here truely registred 1. Against Thomas Stapleton a Papist his defence of Ecclesiasticall authority in three Bookes with an authority of the Scriptures 2. A solid refutation of Nicholas Sanders his forty Demonstrations that the Pope is not Antichrist because hee is but one man and there ha●ing beene two hundred Popes 3. A Christian Answer to the tenne reasons of Edmund Campian the Iesuite 4. A defence of Iohn Harding the Iesuite answered and the tenne reasons of Edmund Campian which hee offered to the Ministers of the Church of England 5. Fragments of the old Heresies which helpe to make up the Romane Church 6. Theses propounded and defended at the Commencement at Cambridge 1582. The summe of which was that that the Pope is the Antichrist spoken of in Scripture 7. A disputation of the ●ly Scripture against the papists of this time especially against Robert Bellarmine and Stapleton 8. Certaine Lectures of the controversies of the Church distributed into seven questions a worke set forth after his death by Iohn Allenson 9. A controversie of councels against Iesuites especially Bellarmine in sixe questions 10. A Treatise of Originall sinne in three bookes against three bookes of Thomas Stapleton of Universall Iustification 11. Lectures upon the controversie of the Romane Bishop di●ibuted into eight questions chiefely against Bellarmine 12. His Cygnea Cantio or his last Sermon to the Clergie at Cambridge 1595. with a true description of his life and death 13. A translation of a booke of Iuel against Harding in Latine FINIS Tabernis Rhenanis