in this University a Student The famous Didacus Covarruvias professed the Canon Law here Franciscus à Victoria was Professour of Divinity here Dominicus à Soâ—o l. 1. de Iustitia jure cals it his University Saragossa In this ancient City the Kings of Arragon are usually accustomed to be Crowned By Pope Iohn the 22 d the priviledges of this University were restored and ratified Signenca Little is said in Authors concerning the Foundation of this University or donation of priviledges thereto Lerida In this City flourisheth an Academy of great Antiquity wherein Pope Calixtus the 3 d before he obtained the Papacy proceeded Doctor of either Law who afterward became a publick Professor of the Civil Law in the same place Also Vincent a Dominican Frier was there made Doctor of Divinity Huesca Osca or Isca It is a goodly City of Arragon containing an University of great Antiquity which is said to have been erected before the coming of Christ as a Nursery for the Institution of Noble mens children Lisbone It is the Metropolis of Portugall A most renowned University was by the bounty of their Kings erected in this City where even untill this day the liberall Sciences are prosessed with great profoundness to the incredible benefit of Christendom Conimbra It is a most pleasant and goodly City in Portugall An University was therein Founded in these later daies by Iohn the 2 d King of Portugall Iacobus Payva Andradius studied in this University There is Collegium Conimbricense upon a good part of Aristotle his Logick and Physicks Evora It is another famous City of Portugall An University was herein lately erected by Henry Cardinall of Portugall who was Bishop of that place He was a man endued with abundant wealth and exceedingly affected to the Muses Majorica In this City is an ancient priviledged and authorized University where the Arts generally are publikely with great Learning professed Among the Students of this Academy the memory of Raymundus Lullius is with great admiration retained because he received therein his birth and education in so much that even untill this present time a Learned man is there with liberall exhibition entertained to maintain and teach the doctrine professed by Lullius in times past CHAP. XIII Of the Universities of England BRittain which comprehends England and Scotland is the greatest Isleland of Europe it was in times past called Albion say some ab albis montibus primùm ad eam navigantibus apparentibus See Bish. Usher De Britan. Eccles. primord Some of the chief things for which England is famous are comprehended in this verse Mons Fons Pons Ecclesia Famina Lana England is termed by some the Paradise of women the Purgatory of servants the Hell of horses England hath been famous for Learned men and for her Seminaries of Learning as well as other things Renowned Scholars amongst us Alcuinus one of the Founders of the University of Paris Beda styled Venerabilis Anselm and Bradwardine Archbishops of Canterbury Alexander of Hales Tutor to Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure Iohn Wiclef Since the times of the Reformation Iohn Iewell Bishop of Salisbury D r Iohn Reynolds and M r Richard Hooker D r Whitaker Bishop Bilson and Andrews both Bishops of Winchester Bishop Mountague of Norwich D r Iohn Whitgift Papists D r Harding Nicholas Sanders and D r Thomas Stapleton Campian and Parsons and William Rainolds For other studies Lindwood the Canonist Cosins and Cowell eminent in the study of the Civil Laws Bracton and Briton of old times Dier and Cooke of late daies expert in the Laws of England Iohannes de Sacro Bosco the Author of the book of the Sphere Roger Bacon a famous Mathematician Sir Francis Bacon an excellent Philosopher Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor a witty and Learned man Sir Henry Savill a great Grecian Sir Henry Spelman a Learned Antiquary Camden the Pausanias of the British Islands Sir Thomas Bodlie Sir Isaac Wake M r Selden Matthew Paris Matthew of Westminster Roger Hoveden Henry of Huntingdon William of Malmesbury and Thomas of Walsingham all known Historians For Poetry Gower Chaucer Spencer Sir Philip Sidnie Daniel and Draiton Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Iohnson As the messenger of Pyrrhus long since called Italy a Conntry of Kings and Egypt was wont to be called the Country of Physitians so may this blessed Island of ours justly merit the title of The Region of Divines D r Hals Preface to the married Clergy Stupor mundi Clerus Britannieus whence many outlandish men have learned English that they might reade those Books of our Divines which were printed in our Language Ioseph Scaliger findes fault with our English men for speaking Latine Some think they pronounce the a too little and the i too big and broad Caius in his Book De pronuntiatione Graecae Latinae linguae saith that he learned by experience that variety of pronuncing did hinder mutuall commerce mens society and understanding of things He saith that a Greek Patriarck being at London in the Reign of Edward the 6 th did not understand Sir Thomas Cheeke nor Sir Thomas him the Knight using the new kinde of pronouncing the other the old he addes pleading for the old and barbarous pronunciation Quo omnes Graeci ad huc utebantur cum ego essem Venetiis tum è Cathedra Graecas literas profitendo tum in templis sacra celebrando Audiebam enim data opera saepius At si ego tacerem norit Oxoniensis schola quemadmodum ipsa Graecia pronunciarit ex Matthaeo Calphurnio Graeco quem ex Graecia Oxonium Graecarum literarum gratia produxerat Thomas Wolsaeus de bonis literis optimè meritus Cardinalis cum non alia ratione pronunciarit ille quà m qua nos jam profitemur Id si ita sit nos Britanni docebimus ipsos Graecos in ipsa Graecia oriundos sua verba sonare suas voces atquè literas pronuâ—tiare plus in aliena lingua sapiens quà m ipsa gens atquè natio cui lingua Graeca familiaris atque etiam vulgaris est successione temporum continuata tanquam per manus esse tradita Nam privata haec pronunciatio paucorum hominum in Britania est eorum juvenum alibi minimè recepta gentium There are in England many triviall Schooles in Towns and Cities Amongst which the most famous are That of Eaton and Westminster founded by Henry the 6 th Edward the 4 th and Q. Elizabeth and of Winchester Schola certè Augusta ante 200 ampliùs annos erecta ut adolescentes suavioribus disciplinis imbuti ad artes Academicâ—s meliori genio animum intendant Europaei orbis Academiae There are also in London that of Pauls and Merchant Taylors The two Universities of England may equall many beyond Sea Ubi tot Academiae quot Collegia Scultetus de curriculo vitae Magnae in Collegiis Angliae opes vectigalia verbo vobis dicam unum Oxoniense
desolatam civitatulam asserat Caius the Physician styled himself Londinensem when he wrote De Antiq. Cantab. Acad. though he was of Cambridge and only a Londoner by birth ne si Cantabrigiensis videretur affectum quoque suum in scribendo prodidisse videretur That passage of Caius's De Antiqu. Cantab. Acad. lib. 1. therefore might well have been spared Caeterum ad has discordias rumpendas atque finiâ—ndas sanctamque pacem componendam atque statuendam cum neque Oxâ—niensis Cantabrigiensem nec Cantabrigiensis ferat Oxoniensem in controversia judicem quòd pro sua cujusque affectione rem tractatam iri uterque indicet ex libidine magis quà m ex vero celebratam aut obscuratam existimet res suasit commiseratio jussit ut ego homo Londinensis medio loco inter utrumque positus eodem animo in utrumque affectus cui longa triginta annorum absentia à gymnasiis nisi subinde invisendi gratia charitatis studio omnem affectum juvenilem in Gymnasia sustulit hanc controversiam ut inutilem imo verò rem damnosam alioqui tanquam communis amicus definirem ac componerem Vide librum ejus de libris propriis My worthy friend Sir Simonds D'Ewers in his Speech touching the Antiquity of Cambridge saith If I should lose time to reckon up the vain allegations produced for the Antiquity of Oxford by Twyne and of Cambridge by Caius I should but repeat deliria senum At the present Cambridge consists of sixteen Colledges and Hals for there is little difference there between them erected and maintained with the Lands and Revenues of their several Founders Kings Colledge Chappel being founded by Henry the sixth is all of free-stone a very curious structure and from its form called the University Cradle Trinity Colledge founded by King Henry the eighth one of the compleatest Colledges in Europe A Colledge for stately greatnesse for uniform building and beauty of rooms scarce inferiour to any other in Christendom saith Camden Next to it is S t Iohns Colledge S t Peters Colledge or House Founded 1280. Hugh Basham Bishop of Ely began the foundation of this Colledge about Anno 1257. He setled not the endowment till anno 1284. Clare-Hall Founded 1280. Richard Badew Chancellour of the University first founded this Hall by the name of the University-House or Hall Afterwards the first foundation was resigned into the hands of Elizabeth Countesse of Clare widow which Lady by the licence of King Edward the 3 d established and finished the same and changing the name thereof willed that for ever after it should in memory of her family from whence she was descended be called Clare-Hall D r Butler the famous Physician was sometimes Fellow and President of this House Pembroke Hall Founded 1343. Mary de S. Paul Countesse of Pembroke daughter to Guido Chastillion Earl of S t Paul in France procured Licence from King Edward the 3 d to found this House by the name of the Colledge of Mary Valence after called Pembroke Hall Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester Edmond Grindall and Iohn Whitgift Archbishops of Canterbury William Fulk Doctor of Divinity were all Masters of this House and have by gifts of Lands Money Plate Books augmented the same and Lancelot Andrews Doctor of Divinity late Master and Bishop of Winchester hath given a thousand pounds with three hundred seventy four folio Books well bound M r Bradford Martyr was Fellow of Pembroke Hall and first lived in Katherine Hall and the Masters of those Colledges strove which should have him as himself relates in one of his Letters not to boast of himself but to shew Gods goodness towards him Bishop Ridley was also of Pembroke Hall and there in the Orchard learned without Book almost all Pauls Epistles yea and all the Canonical Epistles save only the Apocalypse So he saith of himself Corpus Christi Colledge Founded 1351. Henry of Monmouth sirnamed Torto Collo ordained this Colledge It hath been since much inlarged Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were of this House and great Benefactors to it Trinity Hall Founded 1353. William Bateman Bishop of Norwich founded this Hall Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and Chancellour of this University was of this House Gonvill and Caius Colledge Founded 1353. Edmond Gonvill Parson of Terrington in Norfolk obtained License of King Edward the 3 d to erect this Colledge Afterward Iohn Caius Doctor of Physick Anno 1557. was made a Co-founder by Letters Patents who caused it to be called Gonvill and Caius Colledge King Iames being in Caius Colledge presented with Caius his Antiquitates Cantabrigiensis Academiae he said What should I do with the Antiquities of Cambridge Give me Caius de Canibus Kings Colledge Founded 1441. King Henry the sixth in the nineteenth year of his Reign began this royal Foundation In which Colledge at this present is standing one of the fairest Chappels in the world which only he finished but intended to have made the Colledge conformable thereunto D Goade was of this House Queens Colledge Founded 1448. Queen Margaret wife to Henry the sixth laid the Foundation of this Colledge but leaving the same imperfect Queen Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth obtained Licence to finish the same which she accomplished Bishop Davenant was Master of this Colledge Sir Thomas Smith principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth was Fellow of this Colledge Katherine Hall Founded 1475. Robert Woodlork Chancellour of Cambridge founded this Hall it hath been since inlarged by many other Benefactors D. Sibbes and Gouge were of this House Iesus Colledge Founded 1496. Iohn Alcock Bishop of Ely and Lord Chancellour of England procured Licence of King Henry the 7 th to found this Colledge Christs Colledge Founded 1505. It was first begun by King Henry the sixth and after his decease brought to perfection by the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond and mother of King Henry the 7 th This is called by D. Willet Collegium Theologorum the Colledge of Divines M. Perkins M. Bains and D. Ames were all Fellows of this Colledge S t Iohns Colledge Founded 1508. The Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond founded this Collenge which hath been much inlarged since by other Benefactors D. Whitaker was Master of this Colledge There is a fair Library in it founded by Bishop Williams Magdalen Colledge Founded 1519. Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham founded this Colledge it is since much inlarged by divers Benefactors Trinity Hall Founded 1546. It was founded and erected by King Henry the eight it is since much inlarged by divers Benefactors Emanuel Colledge Founded 1584. Sir Walter Mildmay Privy Councellor to Queen Elizabeth obtained Licence of the said Queen to found and erect this Colledge It hath since been much augmented by the liberality of divers Benefactors Doctor Preston was first Fellow of Queens Colledge and the Master of Emanuel Sidney Sussex Colledge Founded 1598. Frances Sidney Countesse
morte Joh. Buxtorfii Georgius Trapezuntius He was born in Crete but took his name from Trapezunte a City in Cappadocia because his Fathers stock came from thence a most learned Interpreter of the Greek and Latine Tongue He died very old at Rome Et literarum penitus oblitus His Works are mentioned by Boissard Walter Travers a learned and pious Divine There are his Vindiciae Anglicanae Ecclesiae or A Justification of the Religion now professed in England His Answer to a supplicatory Epistle of G. T. for the pretended Catholicks written to the Right Honourable Lords of her Majesties Privy-Councel Lucas Trelcatius He was Francis Iunius his Colleague and had one sonne of his own name He was wont to call Iohn Mercer and Peter Ramus honoris causa his masters He was in England a long time and taught School There is his Locorum Communium Sacr. Theol. Institut Immanuell Tremellius He hath put forth a Commentary on Hosea A Chaldee and Syriack Grammer He professed Hebrew at Heidelberge where he turned the Syriack Interpretation of the New Testament into Latine and afterward with the help of Iunius he translated all the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Latine and illustrated it with most learned Notes Iac. Triglandius There are his Dissertatio de civili Ecclesiastica potestate Meditationes in opiniones variorum de voluntate Dei gratia universali de scientia media Io. Trithemius Anno Dom. 1462. Calv. Chron. He was a subtil Philosopher an ingenious Mathematician a famous Poet a compleat Historian a very eloquent Oratour He was very skilfull in Magick Michael Rothardus in his Crâ—x Saulitica p. 70. tels a notable Story of him Vide Naudaeum de Studio militari l. 1. p. 425 426. He hath written De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis De viris illustribus ordinis S. Benedicti Epistolae familiares Opusc. quaedam Theologica And many other Works Mart. Trostius He hath put out Novum Testamentum Syria Latinum Lexicon-Syriacum Adrianus Turnebus the King of France his Professour of Philosophy and Greek in Paris Grande nostri seculi ornamentum Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 35. He was admirable both in the Greek and Latine Languages and in knowledge of all Antiquity as his Books entitled Adversaria do evidently testifie Illa aeternitate digna Adversaria Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 36. Utinam non tanta brevitate in suis Adversariorum libris esset usus Paulo enim luculentior plenior quorundam locorum explanatio majorem illi eperi gratiam laudâ—mque conciliasset lectori multo magis satisfecisset Henr. Stephani Pseudo Cicero Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones saith thus of him Quicquid in arcano condebat avara vetustas Turnebus tacitis eruit è latebris He hath mended Plinies Preface to his Natural History by ancient Copies and added Annotations upon it He hath commented also upon Horaces first Book of Verses and upon his obscurer places Benedict Turretine a learned Frenchman These Books of his are published in the French Defense de la fidelité des traductions de la S. Bible faictes à Geneve Recheute du Iesuite Plagiaire Profit des Chastiments Franciscus Turrianus Famous in Theological Antiquities and for his skill in the Greek and Hebrew Languages Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and Appendix Iacobus Tusanus a singular Grecian D r William Twisse a learned Divine of our own famous beyond Sea for his excellent writings against the Arminians Vindiciae Gratiae Potestatis ac Providentiae Dei Dissertatio de Scientia media contra Penottum Suarez c. Animadversiones ad Arminii Collationem cum Junio ad Corvini defens sententiae Arminianae contra Tilenum And many English Tracts that way also Pontus Tyardaeus Bissianus Episcopus Many of his Works are mentioned by Ludovicus Iacobus De Claris Scriptoribus Cabiolâ—nensibus and his French Works by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque I finde in Oxford Catalogue Tyard Discours 1587. Philosophiquez William Tyndall an exile for his Religion and a Martyr under Charles the fifth He was brought up from a childe in the University of Oxford where he by long continuance grew up and increased as well in the knowledge of Tongues and other liberal Arts as specially in the knowledge of the Scriptures whereunto his minde was singularly addicted Insomuch that he lying then in Magdalen-Hall read privily to certain Students and Fellows of Magdalen-Colledge some parcell of Divinity instructing them in the knowledge and truth of the Scriptures Whose manners also and conversation being correspondent to the same were such that all they that knew him reputed and esteemed him to be a man of most virtuous disposition and of life unspotted Fox Act. and Monum vol. 2. p. 361 c. He translated the New Testament into English and five Books of Moses He wrote also divers other Books which are all published in one general Volume as also the Works of Iohn Frith and Barns He was put to death in Flanders at Filford Anno Dom. 1536. crying thus at the Stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice Lord open the King of Englands eyes He is drawn with a Bible in his hand and this Distick Hac ut luce tuas dispergam Roma tenebras Sponte extorris ero sponte Sacrificium CHAP. IV. V JOach Vadianus the chiefest Cosmographer of his time Qui tam foelix est in describendis regionibus ut non scribere sed pingere videatur His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and many of them in Oxford Catalogue Matthaeus Vayerius a learned and eloquent Frenchman but a patron of Pelagianism He hath put out a French Book De virtute Ethnicorum Petrus Valadanus P. de la Vallada a learned French Minister He hath put out Apologie pour l' Epistre de messieurs les Ministres du S. Evangile de l' Eglise de Paris Greg. de Valentia a very learned Jesuite He hath written A Commentary in summam Aquin. Tom. 4. De rebus fidei controversis Apol. de Sacrificio A Bookseller seeing him passe by one day said Hic est ille qâ—i suis libris saepius impressis bibliopolas plures magnas ad divitias opesque perduxit Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca secunda Vide plura ibid. Valerius Maximus His History is a good Book for Themes Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these Verses of him Et brevitas me variè commeâ—dat acumen Haec Emblemata tu vermiculata pâ—â—â—â—s Laurentius Vâ—lla Proprietatis Latini sermonis 〈◊〉 Scriv. in Mart. He was a Senator of Rome The Prince of Grammarians in his Age. Trithemius cals him Theologâ—â—â— praestantissimum a most excellent Divine He preferring Latine eloquence before the Greek hath composed many things for its ornament though he was most skilfull both in the Greek and Latine Languages Carpis majores te quoque Valla minores
by those who most improved the light of nature and revealed Christ by the Gospel to those who were more wicked and perverse then they Deut. 32. 28. Ezek. 3. 16. 5. 6. Matth. 11. 21. not to Socrates Plato Aristides Cato laudatissima inter Gentiles nomina but to more wicked But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness 1 Cor. 1. 23. The Jews mock us because we had such a Messiah which cried out My God my God why hast thou saken me If he was God say they why did he so cry out did not all troubles come to him by his own will Wisdom is justified of her children We have those famous Apologies of Iustin Martyr who dedicated his first to the Roman Senate and his second to Antoninus Pius Augustus and that of Tertullian who in the time of Severus the Emperour seeing Christians persecuted only for the Name as a sufficient crime wrote his Learned large and accurate Apology dedicating it to the Emperour and his Sonne He is styled by Pierius Valerianus Acerrimus Christiani nominis propugnator The wiser Heathens did call the Christians Idiots and reproached them as illiterate But the Atheist cannot name any age wherein the Heathen had an Oliver to oppugne our Christian profession but we had a Rowland to defend it If they had a Porphâ—rie or Celsus to oppose Philosophy against it we had an Arnobius an Origen to maintain and follow Christianity If they had a Symmachus we had an Ambrose and Prudentius If they had a Iulian we had a Gregory Nazianzon Those Atlasses of Christian Religion equalled the most renowned Heathens in all Learning as well as they exceeded them in true Religion Such among others were Iustin a Philosopher and Martyr Tertullian Irenaeus Cyprian Origen Learned to a miracle Clement of Alexandria Eusebius Epiphanius the three Learned Gregories Nazianzene Nyssene Thaumaturgus both the Basils Athanasius Cyrill Minutius Faelix Arnobius Chrysostom Ierom Ambrose Lactantius Austin Prosper Hilary Prudentius and others of most eminent Learning piety and courage who defended the Christian Religion against proud Heathens and pestilent Hereticks of those daies D r Gaudens Defence of the Ministry pag. 407. Of all the Countries subject to the Papall Empire England suffered the most hard and shamefull servitude especially in the reign of Henry the 2 d and Iohn and Henry the 3 d. Some say England was the first Kingdom in all the world which received the Gospel with the countenance of Supream Authority it was prima provinciarum quae amplexa est fidem Christi so Sabellicus and others By whom the Christian Religion was first brought hither is disputed some say by Iames the brother of Iohn some Simon Zelotes some Peter and Paul others Ioseph of Arimathea some Gregory the Pope See Camdens Prefat ad Britan. Godw. de praesulibus Angliae Antiquitates Britannicae Episc. Usser de Britannic Eccles. Primord cap. 8. Bed Hist. l. 1. cap. 23. B. Mort. Appeal l. 1. c. 4. 9. Rivii Reg. Anglic. in Hiber def p. 44 c. The first Christian King that ever was in the world was King Lucius a Britain and the first Christian Emperour was born in England even Constantine the Great Habemus optime vir Dei saith Zanchius in his 2 d Book of Epist. to Bullinger upon the relation of the burning of Archbishop Cranmer pro quo gratias aga mus Deo quod tot tantorumque virorum sanguine cùm alibi tum praesertim in illo Anglicano Regno sacro sanctum Filii sui Evangelium quotidie obsignare dignatur ad confirmandam fidem nostram ad instaurationem sanctorum Fieri non potest quin solum illud tanto Martyrum sanguine irrigatum laetas Domino segetes ferat ex quibus Ecclesia Christi coalescat Fieri etiam non potest quin tantus sanguis è terra clamet ad Dominum O barbaram impiam omnis humanitatis expertem meretricem Perdat illam Deus quam citissimè sua in illam judicia patefaciat Thuanus reporteth of Ludovicus Marsacus a Knight of France when he was led with other Martyrs that were bound with coards to execution and he for his dignity was not bound he cryed Cur non me quoque torque donas insignis hujus ordinis militem creas Give me my chain to let me be a Knight of the same Order CHAP. III. The second great false Religion is Mahometism IN the Year of our Lord 666 the detestable Sect of Mahumet began to take strength and place Moamed or Machumed an Ishmaelite being a poor man till he married a widow wealthy and of high countenance having the falling sickness whereby the widow was sorry that she matched with him perswaded her by himself and others that his fits were but a trance wherein he talked with the Angel Gabriel The woman made women beleeve that her husband was a Prophet afterwards men by help of certain Heretiques set the false Prophet forward From Iudaism Arius Nâ—storius and his own brain he frameth a Doctrine He prevaileth so by force of his wilde company and guile deceiving the simple that before his death he winneth Arabia and the Countries about Euphrates The sonnes of Ishmael ashamed of Agars name borrow from Sara the term of Saracens Brought Concent He gave sundry Laws to his followers patched of many Sects and Religions together He taught them to pray ever to the South and as we keep the Sunday so they keep the Friday which they call the day of Venus He permitted them to have as many Wives as they were able to maintain to have as many Concubines as they list to abstain from the use of wine except on certain solemn daies in the year to have and worship only one God omnipotent saying that Moses and the Prophets were great men but Christ was greater and greatest of all the Prophets as being born of the Virgin Mary by the power of God without mans seed and at last was taken up to heaven but was not slain but another in his likeness for him Fox's Act. and Monum Vol. 1. p. 161. See 963 964. The Persians beleeve in Mahomet yet the Turks and they differ in opinion about him the one pursuing the other with most deadly hatred insomuch that there is almost continuall Warre between them The Alcoran is given out for the Word of God it is written in Arabick verse in form of a Dialogue between the Angell Gabriel and their Prophet it is prohibited to be translated which both preserves the Arabick tongue and conceals the Religion M r Henry Blunt's Voyage into the Levant p. 146. The Alcoran is stuft with obsceanness lies miracles visions morall and naturall Philosophy such trash as may wonderfully provoke the silliest Student to a height of laughter It is in Volume twice so big as the Psalmes of David divided into a hundred and fourteen Chapters He denies Christ to be the
Rhemist Testament and the Notes are well confuted by Cartwright and Fulk Casaubone hath written learned Exercitations against Baronius Bishop Morton Doctor Fulk and Whitaker have answered the Treatises of several Papists Rivet and Blondel and Moulin have answered Cardinal Peroon Bishop Usher Bishop Andrews Bishop Abbot Doctor Prideaux and others of our Divines have stoutly opposed other Papists The Reformed Religion is well defended by the English and French Divines Some much commend three Epistles that Epistle or Preface of Calvins to his Institutions That of Casaubons to his Exercitations against Baronius and that of Thuanus or Guicchardine before his History That of Calvins is a succinct and pithy Apology for the Protestant Religion Iâ—els Apology was generally liked by the Reformed Churches Daillè Croyus Blondel Iacobus Capellus Amyrot and Gentilettus have written in French or Latine in Defence of the Reformed Religion 4. They diligently compiled the Histories of those times and actions and especially Martyrologies of such as rendred by their deaths a testimony to that truth which was perfecuted in them As we ought highly to reverence the Fathers for their Antiquity so in our times we owe much respect to many famous Writers because by their most learned Labours they have given great light to the right understanding of the holy Scripture We have the same instruments which they had viz. the holy Scriptures and far greater help Zuinglius Luther Calvin all those learned men are to be loved and highly honoured as those that have well deserved of the Church their Books are also to be diligently read and to be preferred before the Volumes of many of the Fathers as those which have more truly interpreted the minde of the holy Ghost then the Fathers which have illustrated the Christian Doctrine brought out of darknesse with wonderfull perspicuity have comprized it with wonderfull brevity and explained it in an excellent method Zanch. Prolegom in Esaiam Illustres illi viri nec unquam sine summa honoris praefatione nominandi quorum Deus in religione restauranda opera usus est Upon the view of the Doctrine of the Church of England compiled by them in the XXXIX Articles translated into Latine in the dayes of King Edward the 6 th and sent abroad into the whole Christian world it was said abroad Puritas doctrinae viget in Anglia For the first ten years of Queen Elizabeth most of the Papists of England came to our Churches prayed our prayers heard our Sermons and received our Sacraments untill by the instigation of the Jesuites Pope Pius Quintus excommunicated Queen Elizabeth and enjoyned all the Papists not to resort to our Churches So they did in Ireland till 88 some Spanish Priests then landing there told them it was condemned in the Councel of Trent This is that Religion which since the first Reformation of it Anno 1. Edw. 6. above one and twenty several Sessions of Parliament as learned as wise as religious as ever were in this Kingdom have allowed and approved M r Baxter in his Confession of Faith Sect. 41. saith thus of the late Assembly of Divines at Westminster I so highly reverence that Assembly that I think this Nation since the Apostles dayes had never any that excelled it for Piety and Ability and Sect. 3. he much magnifies both the Confession of Faith and the Shorter Catechism put out by the Assembly I truly professe saith he Sect. 5. I take the Labours of the Assembly especially these three Pieces the Confession of Faith the larger and lesser Catechism for the best Books next my Bible in my study What Kingdom in Europe is there which hath not yielded eminent Scholars and famous Martyrs of the Reformed Religion France had Calvin Farel Viret Sadeel Daneus Marlorate Beza Mornee Chamier Rivet Peter du Moulin Daillè and many others Italy brought forth and cast out because it was unworthy of them Peter Martyr Zanchy also Immanuel Tremelius and Deodate Spain had Iohn Diaz Austen Cacalla and also other Martyrs Germany had Luther Melancthon Ioachim Camerarius and Chemnitius Zuinglius Oecolampadius Martin Bucer Wolfangus Capito Caspar Hedio Musculus Hyperius Foster Avenarius Mollerus Pezelius Helvetiae had Bullinger Gualter Pellicane Leo Iudae Aretius Wolfius Simler Bibliander Stuckius England was fruitfull of Martyrs and great Scholars Barns Rogers Cranmer Latimer Ridlie Hooper Philpot Haux Bradford Iuel Rainolds Whitaker Fulk Perkins Morton Davenant Twisse Prideaux and divers others Denmark brought forth Palladius Hemmingius and many others Polonia brought forth Iohannes à Lasco Servavit te huc usque Deus ut sicut Lutherus suae Germanias Zuinglius suae Helvetiae Calvinus suae Galliae ita tu tuae Poloniae sis Apostolus Zanch. Epist. l 2. ad illum Scotland was made famous by the Martyrdom of Patrick Hamilton and by the Doctrine of Iohn Knox and Robert Rollock Andrew Melvin Cameron Baronius Forbes This may suffice to answer that calumny of the Jesuites as if the Protestants had no Scholars amongst them The Papists call us Hereticks This was ever an old and cunning trick of Papists and their fore fathers if any did complain of their errours and faults and desired to have true Religion restored to condemn such for Hereticks as men new-fangled and factious They reproachfully nick-name us Lutherans Zuinglians Calvinists whereas we maintain not any private or proper Doctrine of theirs They called us in England heretofore Lollards either because they cried Lord Lord unto their God as M r Fox saith in his Acts and Monuments or rather from Lolium which signifies Cockle and such like weeds whereas indeed they endeavoured to extirpate all pernicious weeds And them in France Huguenots of which term see Thuanus his History Tom. 4. lib. 24. and Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 8. c. 55. I will not rehearse the several opinions about the original of that word because Heraldus a learned Frenchman saith Unde Huguenoti appellati fuerint nec nos ad huc satis liquido scimus Animad ad Arnob. adversus Gentes l. 1. As the Jews were in times past called by the Gentiles Sabbatarians in contempt the Christians Galileans by Iulian the Apostata so now they which imbrace truth of Doctrine began to be called Huguenots They term us those of the pretended Reformed Religion whereas it is truly Reformed according to the word of God They acknowledge themselves to be Papists and from the Pope and glory in the title Luther saith Primum oro ut nomen meum taceatur nemo Lutheranus sed Christianus appelletur They suffer Turks and Iews which deny and persecute Christ but put to death those of the Reformed Religion who believe in Christ. They say that the Heathens which had no knowledge of Christ by their morality may be saved and yet deny that Protestants who have a knowledge of Christ and exceed them in their morality may be saved Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-bishop of Spalato said
in the hearing of some of our Bishops Before God and Christ Jesus my Redeemer I will acknowledge from my heart and professe openly That the Church of England is a true and orthodoxal Church of Christ. His shiftings in Religion The Papists urge two things much against the Reformed Religion 1. Our divisions and differences amongst our selves as Fitz Simons in his Britannomachia ministrorum in plerisque Fidei fundamentis Articulis dissidentium Secondly The Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther To the first I might answer with Zanchy That this is rather an Argument that we are the true Churches of Christ. For there are saith he three kindes of Churches 1. Where God onely reigns without contradiction This is the Triumphant Church in Heaven 2. Where Satan only reigns This is the Church of the wicked and Idolaters such are the Turkish Jewish Popish Churches 3. Where God truly reigns but not without the snares and assaults of Satan This is the true Church of Christ which is called Militant This alwayes fights with the flesh the world Hereticks and the Devil The Confessions of Faith of the Churches professing the Gospel having been long ago exhibited to the several Princes of the Countreys States and Kingdoms where these Churches are are now of late very profitably published to the conviction of all such as slander the Reformed Churches to be variably distracted and rent in sunder with infinite differences of Faith Travers answer to a Popish Treatise written to the LL. of the Councel Amyraldus de Secessione ab Ecclesia Romana pag. 67. saith The chief controversies inter Evangelicos may be reduced to four heads 1. Concerning the Nature of the Sacraments 2. About the Person of Christ and the Properies of both Natures in it 3. How the Doctrine of Predestination is to be explained 4. What is to be held concerning the Providence of God especially as it is conversant about the ill actions of the reasonable creature and shews there also how far yet they agree in all these D r Hall in his Peace of Rome shews That Bellarmine acknowledgeth and numbers up above three hundred differences of opinions maintained in the Popish Church and that Navarre confesseth near threescore differences amongst their own Doctors in one only point of their Religion There are many Sects risen since the Gospel was first published but none are so guilty of division as the Papists though they extoll their own Church for Unity They unchurch all the Churches of Christ through the world besides themselves the Greek Church and divers others What a State were all former ages in before the Popes Supremacy was acknowledged The pure and primitive times The reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is condemned amongst them as a capital crime in Spain and Italy but allowed in England and France Albertus Pighius dissents from Cajetane Thomas from Lombard Scotus from Thomas Occam from Scotus Alliacensis from Occam Their nominals disagree from their reals What difference is there between the Franciscans and Dominicans concerning original sinne in the blessed Virgin What difference among the Jesuites and other Papists concerning Councels being above the Pope The Jesuites hold that the Pope is above a Councel Bellarmine confesseth lib. 2. de Concil cap. 17. parag 1. that Proposition That the Pope is absolutely above a Councel is not simply de fide and those are not Hereticks properly who hold the contrary The Pope in two Councels those of Constance and Basil was declared to be inferiour to a Councel 2. For the other Objection of the Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther I answer there are books written to refute this calumny The Waldenses for divers hundred years before Luther successively opposed Popery professed the truth of the Gospel and sealed it with their bloud Campian in his third reason cals them Majores nostros Vide Gerhard Epist. Ded. ad Confess Cathol Illyricus in his Catalogus Testium veritatis and Wolfius in his Lectiones Memorabiles Reconditae And Gerhard in his Confessio Catholica sufficiently refute this Objection Errours often lie hid under the venerable Cloak of ancient custom Matth. 5. 21 27 31 33 38 43. But on the contrary sound and orthodox Doctrine is undeservedly taxed with the crime of novelty Mark 1. 27. Act. 17. 19. therefore judgement is to be made of both by Scripture Act 17. 11. Secondly We may retort this Question on them Where was your Religion before the Councel of Trent Cardinal Contarenus holding the same with us for substance in point of Justification and many of those learned and modest men which are reckoned for Papists groaning under the corruptions of their Church and desiring a Reformation of many abuses as well as we Bishop Iewels challenge of the Papists is commonly known with which Peter du Moulin also accords There is rather a conspiracy amongst the Papists then true union as on the contrary the difference amongst us is rather a diversity then a division in circumstances or things of lesse moment and among persons rather then generally We are reproached beyond Sea for our unsettlement in matters of Religion and for the diversity of opinions and sects now in the Land Some amongst our selves also will be ready to object That there are so many religions and opinions that they know not which course to take 1. Such should therefore take the Scripture onely for the rule of their faith and life 2. They should study faithfully to know the plain meaning of the Scripture they should reade it diligently seek Gods direction come to it not with forestalled conceits but with love of the truth 3. They should resolve to obey what they shall finde upon such diligent inquiry to be the plain minde of God beyond dispute They should practice what all Christian Sects agree in they all confesse that God is above the creature and to be preferred before it that the pleasures and profits of this world are far short of the glory to come CHAP. VII Of the Syncretisme of Religion or of a friendly Reconciliation of the different parties amongst themselves THey are Christians which professe Christian Religion therefore those which either know not Christ as the Pagans or deny him to be the Saviour of the world as the Mahometans or that contemn and blaspheme him as the Iews are excluded There are several opinions about this matter The first is of those who hold That whosoever they be who differ about Religion so they be Christians they may and ought to be reconciled and agree together in an Ecclesiastical Syncretism so the Socinians Libertines Polititians Machivillians The second opinion is of those which denieth that Christians differing in Religion can or ought to be so reconciled So the Papists especially the Jesuites think and teach requiring a full consent with the Church of Rome as that which cannot erre and out
him Hebrew Bibles were printed first at Pisauna after at Venice and in Italy Faelix Pratensis Daniel Bombergus his master in the holy tongue the Author and Moderator of his famous printing in the Hebrew much adorned this Language by publishing Hebrew Bibles which are called Veneta Bombergiana Augustinus Iustinianus Nebriensis Episcopus put forth Psalterium octaplum Petrus Galatinus flourished in Spain also Franciscus Ximenes Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal who procured the Edition of Opus Complutense Benedictus Arias Montanus Hispalensis who being helped together with his Collegues by the munificence of Philip the second King of Spain promoted that kingly work the Spanish and Plantine Bible In France Sanctes Pagninus Lucensis professed this tongue The Author of the Treasury of the Hebrew tongue Franciscus Vatablus which incouraged and furthered Robert Stevens in printing so elegantly the Hebrew Bible at the charge of Francis the first King of France Iohn Mercer who together with Bonaventure Cornelius Bertram and Antonius Cevallerius inriched Pagnines Treasury with Annotations To these may be added William Postell and Nicholas Clenard who travelled far out of their love to the Hebrew and Oriental tongues In Germany after Capnio or Reuchlin Conradus Pellican Sebastian Munster Iohn Oecolampadius Luther Aurogallus Forster Zigler Iohn Albert Widmanstadius Andraeas Masius Paulus Fagius Iohn Avenarius Iohn Drusius Waser Iohn Buxtor◠the Father and Sonne George Cruciger and others bestowed their pains to good purpose in this Language Wakefield of old taught Hebrew in England Of later time Edward Livelie in Cambridge Hugh Broughton and Nicholas Fuller did also excell in that Language The Hebrew Language in a few words comprehends much matter is very significant it hath a gravity sweetnesse vivacity and marvellous efficacy in its words periods The way to learn the Hebrew tongue is to inure ones self to one methodical and compleat Grammer Some much commend Martinius his Hebrew Grammer Of the Chaldee Language During the seventy years Captivity of the Jews in Babylon there was a mixture of the Hebrew and Chaldee Language as is evident by the writings of the Prophet Daniel composed of both as Ierom hath well observed in his Preface upon that Prophet as also by the writings of Ezra and more evidently in the Chaldee Paraphrases The Syriack and Chaldee are as it were but dialects of the Hebrew differing not much more then Northern and Western speech from plain English and though they be nearly allied to the Hebrew yet they are nearer one to the other insomuch that some reckon them both one Those Christians are a terrour to the Jews who are indifferently skilled in the Thargum and the Rabbins for they know that many pillars of Judaism are most vehemently shaken yea overthrown in them The more the pity that these most profitable studies are so neglected in those places where the Jews most resort Many Christians in Syria use this Language in Grammaticis sacris about the mountain Libanus The Samaritan Language It hath no other letters and characters proper to it but the Hebrew letters and characters yet most ancient Many Jews at this day dwelling in Syria and chiefly in the Town of Sichem use this Samaritan Language which are called Samaritans The Syriack tongue which is very like to the Hebrew witnesseth that the Hebrews have two and twenty letters for they also have two and twenty in sound alike but divers characters The Samaritans also write the Pentateuch of Moses in so many letters and it is certain that Ezra after the taking of Hierusalem and the restauration of the Temple under Zorobabel found out other letters which we now use when to that time the characters of the Samaritans and the Hebrews were the same Of the Syriack Language It is called also Lingua Aramaea Esa. 36. 11. The new translation hath the Syrian Language the old The Aramites Language The Syriack tongue is certainly thought to have had beginning in the time of the Captivity of the Iews in Babylon while they were mingled among the Chaldeans In which long revolution of seventy years the vulgar sort of the Jews forgot their own language and began to speak the Chaldee but yet pronouncing it amisse and framing it somewhat to their own Countrey fashion in notation of points affixes conjugations and some other properties of their ancient speech it became a mixt Language of Hebrew and Chaldee Brerewoods Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions through the chief parts of the world ch 9. Guido Fabricius clearly demonstrates the vulgar tongue of Iury in the dayes of our blessed Saviours pilgrimage here upon earth to be Syriack which saith Masius grew out of the mixture of the ancient Chaldee and Hebrew and was so different from the latter that the one could not be understood by the other The Preface to Brerewoods Enquiry Crinesius commends the Syriack Grammer of Masius Mercer Tremellius and especially Wasers But De Dieu's is an excellent one Of the Arabick It is 1. a very ancient Language as Ierom shews in his Commentaries upon the Prophet Esay and in his Preface to Daniel and Iob and Erpenius in his first Orat. De ling. Arab. 2. It is of larger extent now then any other Language almost the third part of the habitable world acknowledgeth it Although I be farre from their opinion which write too overlashingly that the Arabian tongue is in use in two third parts of the inhabited world or in more yet I finde that it extendeth very farre and specially where the Religion of Mahumed is professed Brerew Enquir ch 8. Ejus beneficio valebimus sine interprete conversari cum Mauro Aegyptio Syro Persa Turcho Tartaro Indo ut semel dicam ferè in toto terrarum orbe Postellus 3. It is an elegant Language whether we consider the plentie of words and the force of signification or the sweetnesse of the phraseology or the facility and gravity of the whole Language All these particulars Erpenius proves in his first Oration De Ling. Arab. and M r Greaves saith it exceeds both the Greek and Latine in number of words 4. It is a profitable Language He that hath the knowledge of this Language may travell without an Interpreter almost all over Africa and Asia There are many words in the Hebrew Bible and the most ancient and profitable Chaldee Translation of it and many manners of speaking whose signification and sense cannot be had but out of this Language Without the knowledge of this Language how shall the impious opinion of Mahomet be either fully known or refuted It gives great light to the Syriack Aethiopick Persian and other Languages to the Mathematicks they having invented the Algebra and having Mathematicians more acurate then Ptolomy to Physick Avicenna Mesua Serapio Rasis were famous Physicians Averroes Avicenna and others much adorned Philosophy They have very many famous Poets Historians Ingentes Historiarum copias habent obscurae
another Kingdom who holds Oxford to be the ancienter Oxford also hath been famous for Learned Scholars Mathematicians and Schoolmen for the later there is no question and I shall mention divers of them when I speak of Merton Colledge For the first Roger Bacon Bradwardine Simon Bredon and Oddington were famous The first Professor in Civil Law in England viz. Vacarius was of Oxford Oxford lies in a Champion plain It is a fair and goodly City whether a man respect the seemly beauty of private houses or the stately magnificence of publick buildings together with the wholesom sight or pleasant prospect thereof It is formed in the figure of a Cross two long streets thwarting one another each of them near a mile in length containing in that compass thirteen Parish Churches and a See Episcopall founded here by King Henry the 8 th Anno 1541. For the Stateliness of the Schools and publick Library and Gallery the bravery and beauty of particular Colledges all built of fair and polished stone the liberall endowment of those houses and great incouragements of Industry and Learning in the salary of the Professors in most Arts and Sciences it is say some not to be paralleled in the Christian world D r Iames hath set out two Catalogues of the publick Library in Oxford One published in the year 1605 which mentions the Books Alphabetically distinguished according to the four Faculties The other 1620. in which there is only a care had of the Alphabeticall order by this more exact Catalogue one may readily finde any Authour and all the Works of that Authour uno intuitu If the Library be inferiour to the Popes Vaticane in sumptuous building yet in Printed Books if not in Manuscripts there being many choice ones given by Sir Thomas Bodlie and of late by my Lord of Pembroke and Archbishop Laude in almost all Languages it may well contend with it for a Superiority Reckon the number of Volumes in the publick Library whereof the greatest part are in Folio which amount to 11 or 12 thousands of divers Authours the plurality of Languages the diversity of Sciences wherein these Books are written the condition of the Books whether written or printed by Protestants or Papists or any other the use for six hours every day throughout the whole year Sundaies and Holydaies excepted and we shall finde that the like Library is no where to be found D r Iames of the Corrupt of Script Counc and Fath. part 5. In Oxford there are 18 Colledges endowed with Lands besides 7 Halls where Students live at their own charges in both of them Professors of the Arts and Sciences as also of Divinity Law Physick and the learned Languages with Liberall Salaries University Colledge Founded 872. Alfred or Allured King of the West Saxons being addicted to Religion and good literature for the increase and study of Divinity Philosophy and other Arts in the 2 d year of his reign founded this Colledge by the name of University Colledge George Abbat Archbishop of Canterbury was of this Colledge Baliol Colledge Founded 1262. Iohn Baliol born at Bernads Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham a worthy Warriour to King Henry the 3 d in his civil Warres against his Barons with his wife Dervorgilla a Lady of Honourable Parentage Parents of Iohn Baliol King of the Scots Founded this Colledge giving thereunto both Lands and Revenews for the maintenance of a Master 10 Fellows and 11 Scholars which is Recorded to be the first and most anciently endowed Colledge in this University as some late Historians constantly affirm Iam Fundatoris imprimis Balioli Regis Scotiae nomen jactat quasi tum olim Scotia suos Reges Academiae nostrae propitios in Baliolo suo sposponderit quod in Iacobo nostro jam faeliciter appropinquante praestitit Wake Rex Plat. Iohn Wiclefe was of this House Wiclefus ille Restaurator Religionis cui non notus Baliolensis Alber. Gent. Laud. Acad. Perusin Oxon. Merton Colledge Founded 1274. Walter de Merton sometimes L. Chancellour of England Counsellour to King Henry the 3 d and Edward the first Bishop of Rochester Founded this Colledge by the name of Merton Colledge endowing it in effect with all the Lands and Revenews which at this present are belonging thereunto ordaining in the same a Warden and no definitive number of Fellows It may be styled Collegium Scholasticorum Bacon Burlie Occham Scotus Bradwardine Gatisdene Dumbleton Nicholas Gorrham Suitzaeus great lights of Europe were of this Colledge What one Colledge ever yielded at one time and from one Country three such Divines as Iewell Raynolds and Hooker or two such great Wits and Heroicall spirits as S r Thomas Bodley and S r Henry Savill D r Hackw Epist. Dedicat. to Oxford before his Apology Of this Colledge also were Bishop Carleton S r Isaac Wake the University Orator Excester Colledge Founded 1316. Walter Stapleton being descended of Noble Parentage for his Wisdom Gravity and Learning was often employed in Embassages from King Edward the 2 d who made him Bishop of Excester Lord Treasurer of England and one of his Privy Councell Founded this Colledge it was much augmented by Sir William Peter D r Hakewell Fellow of this House erected and finished the new Chappell D r Prideaux was Head of this House D r Holland was of this House Orial Colledge Founded 1337. King Edward the 2 d erected it it was so called because it was indeed a work which might beseem a King Queens Colledge Founded 1340. Robert Eglesfield Batchelor of Divinity Chaplain to Queen Philippa wife to King Edward the 3 d founded this Colledge in his own ground by the name of Queens Colledge commending the Patronage thereof to his Lady the Queen and to the Queens of England successively which he endowed with Lands and Revenews They are called to Dinner and Supper by the sound of a Trumpet Doctor Ayrie who wrote so well upon the Philippians was Provost of this Colledge Learned D. Langbane is now the Provost of it and worthy M. Barlow the Publick-Library-Keeper a Fellow of it New Colledge Founded 1375. William Wickam principal Secretary to King Edward the 3 d Keeper of the Privy-Seal Bishop of Winchester Lord High Treasurer and Chancellour of England founded this Colledge He also founded a Colledge at Winchester wherein he established one Warden ten Fellows two Schoolmasters and seventy Scholars with Officers and servants which all are maintained at his charge out of which School he ordained should be chosen the best Scholars alwayes to supply the vacant places of the Fellows of this Colledge Thomas Chaundlerus librum de Wiccami vita rebus gestis sane perelegantem conscripsit Waynfleti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wickamus celebratur ab erudito Iurisconsulto Martino Of this Colledge was Philpot the famous Martyr and S r Thomas Rives Bishop Lake D r Twisse and D r Iames. Lincoln Colledge Founded 1420. Richard
senex optimè meritus de Ecclesia D. Farellus primus istarum partium Apostolus Calv. Epist. Bullingerus Calvino There is Beza's Epigram In tres eximios aetatis nostrae Ecclesiastas Gallia mirata est Calvinum Ecclesia nuper Quo nemo docuit doctins Est quoque te nuper mirata Farelle tonantem Quo nemo tonuit fortius Et miratur adhuc fundentem mella Viretum Quo nemo fatur dulcius Scilicet aut tribus his servabere testibus olim Aut interibis Gallia Fasciculus Temporum A Book full of complaints against the Popes and grosse things in Popery The Fathers They were eminent for Learning holinesse of life and eloquence Antiquos Patres nos amplectimur ita accipimus ut nec sine justa evidenti ratione ab uno pluribusve nec ad unanimi ipsorum consensu unquam in causis fidei dissentiamus Crak Log. l. 4. c. 26. In the division of the Decalogve four precepts and one of those about not worshipping Images are rehearsed in the first Table by Philo Iosephus Origen Athanasius Ierome Gregory Nazianzen Chrysostom but six in the second Only Austen propter Trinitatis mysterium puts three in the first Table and seven in the second dividing the last precept into two and referring the second which forbids worshipping of Images to the first D r Daniel Featly a learned Divine and a most acute Disputant as his Grand Sacriledge several Conferences and Answers to the Papists and other Works shew Minutius Felix an eloquent Father Lucius Fenestella a famous Historian of whom Plinie Plutark Gellius make mention He lived in the time of Tiberius Caesar. Dominicus Floccus Florentinus was the Author of the little Book De Magistratibus Sacerdotiis Romanorum ascribed to him Dudlie Fenner a learned Divine Thomas Cartwright and Walter Travers were his Scholars There is his S. Theologia methodicè digesta and several English Tracts His Commentary on the Canticles The order of Houshold Government An Interpretation of the Lords Prayer An Interpretation upon the Epistle to Philemon A short Table orderly disposing the principles of Religion out of the first Table of the Law A Treatise of the Sacrament A profitable Treatise of lawfull and unlawfull Recreations Art of Logick and Rhetorick plainly set forth with examples for the practice of the same c. Answer unto the Confutation of the Recantation of Iohn Nicols especially in the matters of Doctrine of Purgatory Images c. Ioannes Fernelius a learned French Physician to Henry the second of France Medicinam universam doctissimis politissimis scriptis complexus est Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 21. Arnoldus Ferronus Iohn Ferus He is no suborned or counterfeit Authour but the famousest Preacher that was in Mentz or in Germany in all his time His Commentaries upon Iohn were eight times at least printed in ten years Crashaws Prolegom to the English Papists before his Romish Forger and Falsificat Iacobus Fevardentius That railing Franciscan answerable to his name Ioannes Fichardus He was born at Francford ad Moenum Anno 1512. Decus ornamentum eorum quibus cumvixit patriae imò Germaniae totius saeculi sui Boissardi Icones He hath written De vitis Iurisconsultorum recentiorum and other Works mentioned by Boissard Marsilius Ficinus of Florence a famous Philosopher Physician and Divine He wrote many excellent Works Tu Platonem quanquam alios veteres sed Platonem tamen ipsum maxime Platonicosque omnes Latinè loqui doces uberrimis Commentariis locupletas Polit. Epist. l. 9. Ep. 13. Polit. Marsil Fic Eo saltem facto meritus ut qui tot clarorum virorum memoriam in occulto latere passus non est ipse quoque oblivioni minimè sit tradendus Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Richard Field a learned Divine He hath written learnedly of the Church and in defence of such parts of his Book as have been excepted against Thomas Fienus a very learned Physician who hath published a very rational and scholastical Treatise Concerning the Power of the Imagination Io. Filesacus a learned Writer as his Books shew Opera varia De sacra Episcoporum auctoritate De Idololatria De Politico legitimo Principis cultu Comment Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester Vir singulari pietate eruditione Eras. Epist. l. 290. Epist. 42. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert His Abridgement was painfully and elaborately collected and published in the 11 th year of K. Henry 8. by him then Serjeant at Law and he wrote also another Book called his Natura brevium an exact Work exquisitely penned and publishin the 26. year of Henry 8. When he was Knight one of the Judges of the Court of Common-pleas about the same time he wrote his Treatise of Justices of the Peace L. Florus He lived in the Raign of Trajane and Hadrian Ubertus Folieta He hath published divers Works One De Latinae Linguae usu praestantia And Clarorum Ligurum Elogia Patrick Forbes a learned Scotch Divine Iohn Forbes his Son He put out Instructiones Historicae Theologica a Book well esteemed of and Irenicum Iohn Ford or Foorth a learned English Divine He hath written several Works Synopsis Politica In Apocalypsin The Necessity and Antiquity of catechizing and on Heb. 6. 1. The Covenant between God and man Franciscus Forerius He said as much as possibly could be said in the Defence of the Vulgar Translation altering the Hebrew Vowels for this purpose at his pleasure yet it seemeth the errours discovered by him in his Comment upn Esay hath hindered the setting forth of his other Commentaries upon the Prophets which he had finished as appears by the later part of his Epistles to the Trent Fathers so the Church would have approved them D r Iackson on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 31. He that wrote the Spanish Bibliotheque in the second Tome saith He is said to have written besides that on Esay which I have not seen upon the other greater Prophets the twelve lesser Iob Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles Sixtus Senensis saith He wrote upon all the Prophets Petrus Forrestus a learned Physician He read the first Lecture in Physick and made the first Oration for its praise in the University of Leyden then restored He hath published many learned Works CHAP. XX. JOannes Forsterus He was Professour of the Hebrew Tongue at Wittenberg and very much illustrated and amplified it with a Lexicon published at Basil in folio Sir Iohn Fortescu◠an excellent Antiquary and of profound knowledge in the Common-Law He hath written a book De laudibus Legum Angliae This Book was written in the Raign of K. H. 6. in commendation of the Laws of England containing with all much excellent matter worthy the reading Iohn Fox sometime exile for the profession of the Gospel that Saint-like Historian M r Fox D r Hall He studied
Bodies c. 20. Learned Peireskius was wont to lament that when he was in England he was not acquainted with this William Gilbert the Author of the Book de Magnete nor Thomas Lydiat the famous Mathematician Gassend de Vita Peiresk l. 2. Gassendus l. 4. de vita Peiresk makes honourable mention of his Book de Magnete p. 378. We had not any certain or satisfactory knowledge of Magneticall properties untill such time as it pleased God to raise up one of our Countrymen D r Gilbert who to his evelasting praise hath troden out a new path to Philosophy and on the Loadstone erected a large Trophy to commend him to posterity Carpent Geog. first Book chap. 3. See more there Pet. Gillius a most Learned man Aquitanus Duo magna hujus saeculi lumina Petrus Gillius Gulielmus Philander Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 82. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 16. Sylvester Giraldus a man elegantly Learned for those times Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis a Britain by birth though by descent rather an Englishman or a Norman as he makes himself but a very Learned man for those times There is published of his Itinerarium Cambriae cum Annotat. Descriptio ejusdem De rebus Hybernicis Victor Giselinus Besides divers Poems he wrote Learned Notes upon Prudentius the Christian Poet Noteâ— and a Chronology upon the Works of Sulpitius Severus Ranulphus Glanvile de Glanvilla Chief Justice in the reign of King Henry the 2 d wrote Learnedly and profoundly of part of the Laws of England He wrote a Book De Legibus consuetndinibus Regni Angliâ— Henricus Glareanus an excellent Mathematician He hath written well of Musick upon Livy Salust and divers other Works Salomon Glassius a Learned Lutheran and the great ornament of Germany for sacred Philology His Christologia Mosaica Philologia Sacra and other Works are very Usefull Rodolphus Goclenius He hath written Learnedly of divers subjects in Humanity Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Conradus Goclenius He was first Professor of the Latine tongue at Lovain Annos ipsos XX. quibus publicè professus est auditoribus suis adeo gratus fuit ut eos nec assiduitate satiarit unquam nec diuturnitate lassarit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Fr. Godwin Bishop of Landaff His Rerum Anglicarum Annales and his Tract De Praesulibus Angliae shew his Learning Thomas Godwin His Roman and Jewish Antiquities are very usefull Dâ—mianus A Goes Lusitanus It happened to him as to Homer heretofore for the excellency of his wit severall Cities strove for his birth as those of Paris would have Christophorus Longolius to be theirs the Romans challenged him for theirs those of the Low-Countries for theirs because of his great Eloquence Iacobus Golius well skilled in the Orientall Tongues Admirabilis ille Arabizantium Phoenix Hotting Analect Histor. Theol. Cl. V. Iacobus Golius in praestantissimo illo linguae Arab. Thesauro Pocock Not. Miscel. in Portam Mosis c. 7. Vir summus in linguis orientalibus Mathesi Jacobus Golius Salmas de Annis Climactericis Whom the States of Holland for his excellent skill in the Arabick and Mathematicks have substituted to two famous Professors of the University Thomas Erpenius and Willebrord Snellius He travelled into the East and observed the condition and state of the Eastern people and got thereby knowledge of the Orientall Languages and affairs and brought divers Orientall Books thence which are now at Leyden He hath put out lately an excellent Arabick Lexicon Hubertus Golthzius a great Antiquary Dilher cals his Book De re Antiquaria libellum Aureolum Franciscus Gomarus a Learned and Judicious Divine All his Works Exegeticall and Polemicall are published together in one Volume in Folio Christopher Goodman a Learned Scotch Divine and according to his name good and holy Abraham Gorlay He had more then four thousand exquisite Medals of Gold more then ten thousand of Silver and more then fifteen thousand of Brasse all choice ones Ios. Scal. Lettre au Sieur De Bagar There is a Book of his styled Dactyliotheca published Io. Goropius Becanus A Physitian Philosopher and Historian He obtained an exact knowledge of the Hebrew Greek and Latine Divino planè vir ingenio qualem vix singulae aetates ferant seu Philosophiam seu Philologiam in utraque enim ad miraculum usque excelluit tractaret ut seculi sui Varra nominari meritò potuerit Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica Castellani Vitae Medic. Illust. Dionysius Gothofredus an excellent Lawyer He hath written short Notes upon all the Civil Law and all Tullies Works He hath written also upon Seneca and Notes ad Varronem Festum Nonnium Iacobus Gothofredus his sonne He wrote first de Ecclesiis Suburbicariis He set out some Orations of Libanius with Notes and his Oratio de Iuliane William Gouge Doctor of Divinity a Learned and Pious Divine He was counted whilst he lived the Father of the London Ministers A good Text-man as his Whole Armour Exposition of the Hebr. Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other Learned Works shew him to be and he is often Honourably mentioned by Voetins Streso and other outlandish Divines He was eminent for three graces his Humility Patience and Faith He would begin his prayer very audibly and distinctly which was the more commendable because of his great Congregation at Blackefriers Sim. Goulartius a Learned and godly French Minister There is his Morum Philosophia Historica and Histoires admirables de nostre temps and other Tracts mentioned in the Appendix of Oxford Catalogue Ioannes Goverus sive Gouerus a Learned English Knight and Poet Laureate Hic nomen suum extulit partim iis quae Gallicè eleganter Anglicè elaboravit Sane is Gualterus Chaucerus primi Anglicam linguam expolire caeperunt Vossius de Histor Lat. l. 3. c. 3. Io. Grammaticus He hath written upon divers books of Aristotle and de Differentiis Linguarum and other Works Saxo Grammaticus He was called Grammaticus for his elegancy in the Latine Tongue He hath written the History of the Danes in very elegant Latine for those times Lud. Granatensis His Works are in three Tomes He hath written De ratione Concionandi De frequenti Communione Sylva locorum Communium Dux peccatorum De Officio Pastorali Catechismus sive Introductionis ad Symbolum Fidei libri quatuor and other Works D r Edward Grant He was one of the Learned Schoolmasters of Westminster Camden was his Usher He hath put out a Greek Grammer styled Graecae Linguae spicilegium which Camden hath contracted He hath also published Aschams Epistles and Poems with his Life and Death Conradus Graserus He went some miles to the Jews to understand some Hebrew words Vide ejus ultima verba p. 31. in Praef. Exquisitissimus ille ac divinitus aetate nostra excitatus antichristo-mastix juxta doctrinae Christianae propugnator Conradus Graserus Francus
which of his Epistles were genuine Matth. Fl. Illyricus was somewhat heretical but yet was usefull to the Church in some of his Works his Clavis the Centuries in which he had a great share and Catalogus testium veritatis D r Iackson indeed in Christs everlasting Priesthood l. 10. c. 12. seems to justifie Illyricus his definition of original sinne and chap. 13. labours to shew that Calvin and Peter Martyr consent with him in the description of original sinne Yet I have elsewhere refuted his opinion of original sins being the essence and substance of a man and it is generally disliked by the Orthodox Denegarunt ei coenam ministri propter doctrinam de peccata originali ita sine viatico quia aberrarat è viae abiit ex hac vita utinam pius bonus Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Lavater Ioannes De Indagine He flourished Anno 1522. He was a great Astrologer Indices Expurgatorii There are two Expurgatory Indices one new the other old one set out by Cardinal Quiringa in the year 1584 the other by the Cardinal of Squidoval and Roxas in the year 1612. B. Ush. Answ. to the Jesuit Challenge There be some Authors so purged as Georg. Venetus Erasmus Roterodamus and Carolus Molinaeus Works that their depravations being diligently noted would amount unto whole Volumes D. Iames his Remedy against all manner of Popish Corrupt Part. 5 th They have put as much out of Cajetane as would make a pretty Book The purpose of these Indices is to corrupt the writings and raze the records of the world to make all Authors to become the Popes Proctors and such as having spake for the truth now being dead must plead for the Pope Their practise is so soon as an Author is purged to burn all the old ones as farre as they can Crashaws Preface to his Romish Forgeries and Falsificat Arias Montanus was sometime a chief Inquisitor in the Low-Countreys and had more then a finger in printing of the Antwerp Index long since and often reprinted by Iunius yet now his own Works as his learned Commentaries upon Isay the lesser Prophets the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles upon the Epistles and Apocalypse and other writings of his are purged and purged again in the Roman Index D. Iames his Mysteries of the Indices Expurgatory Io. Philippus Ingrassiâ—s a learned Physician His house was called eruditionis emporiam the mart of Learning These of his Works are celebrated De moribus prâ—ter naturam Tomus 1. Quaestio de pâ—rgatione per medicamentum de sanguinis missione Iatrologia Synopsis Commentariorâ—â— de peste Commentaria in Galeni librum de ossibus Comment in Artem medic Galeni Ingulphus a Learned English Abbot He lived Anno 1050. as he witnesseth in the end of his History He wrote a History of the Monasteries of England See more of him lib. 2. cap. 13. pag. 93. Innocentius tertius Papa Anno Dom. 1200. A learned man but a great persecutour of the Church When he had great store of money he said to Thomas Aquinas Dost thou not see Thomas that the Church cannot now say as in times past when it first began Aurum argentum non habeo I have not gold and silver Thomas presently answered Holy Father this is true but the Church cannot now say as the Primitive Church did by the same man Arise walk be whole His Works are contained in two Tomes Alanus Insulensis vel de Insulis There is his Ante-Claudiani de Anti-Rusfino Abbas Ioachimus He was an heretick he held a distinction of the Deity from the Persons and so a quaternity mistaking a passage in Peter Lombard Arthur Ihonston a Scotch Doctor of Physick before he was full twenty three years of age he was laureated Poet at Paris his Paraphrastick Translation of the Psalms is commended Iornandes he was called Iordanus he flourished Anno Domini DXXX under the Emperour Iustinian He being a Monk was made Bishop of the Gothas Iosephus Indâ—ious Clarissimus Iudaeorum Historicus Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 3. moâ—â— learned in the Greek and Hebrew He is a diligent Historian yet since he wrote the Antiquities of his own Nation with an intention to communicate them to others he described them as stately as he could and when he thought the simplicity of the Scripture did not suffice to the commendation of things done amongst the Hebrews he invented and added many things himself therefore in those things he is to be prudently read lest he deceive the unwary Reader This fault Luther on Gen. 34. and Rivet on Exod. 2. and Chamier and others tax him with Vide Cornel. à Lap. in Gen. 29. in Numb c. 11. v. 34. There was a Jew in latter times who out of the true Iosephus translated into Latine by Ruffiuus he himself understanding no Greek and Hegesyppus or rather Ambrose his Latine History of the destruction of Ierusalem set out an Hebrew History under the false name of Ioseph Ben-Gorion whom he thought to be the same with Iosephus the Historian for whom he would be taken The Epitome of this Hebrew History is entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iosiphon whence the name of Iosippus was taken up Paulus Iovius Some commend him and others much dislike him I have heard wise and learned men say That his whole study and purpose is spent on these points to deface the Emperor to flatter France to spite England to help Germany to praise the Turk to keep up the Pope to pull down Christ and Christs Religion as much as lieth in him Aschams Discourse of the State of Germany p. 15. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Vaeualis cui penna fuit cui gloria flocci Vix quid ut ille fide scripserit historicâ Thuanus cals him Luculentum historiarum Scriptorem Hist. Tom. 1. l. 11. Neand. in the third part of his Geography saith Paulus Iovius in opere ejus doctissimo â—loquentissimâ— historiarum nostri temporis Hic situs est Iovius Romanae gloria linguae Par cui non scripto non Patavinus erat CHAP. VII IRenaus Anno Dom. 180. 161. Helv. Chron. Bishop of Lions the Disciple of Polycarpus who was a hearer of Iohn most famous among the Fathers His nature well agreed with his name for he ever loved peace and sought to set agreement when any controversie rose in the Church He was martyred with a great multitude of others more for the Confession and Doctrine of Christ about the fourth of fifth year of Sâ—verus Io. Isaacus He was a Jew but turned Christian. He hath put out an Hebrew Grammer Isidorus Hispalensis Anno Dom. 632. He was called the younger to distinguish him from the senior Bishop of Corduba or from another Bishop of Siville his Predecessor He was the Archbishop of Sivill the President of the Councel of Sivill in Spain one of the most learned Writers which have
Verses of him De Volaterrano paucis sic Lector habeto Ille sui Plinius temporis alter erat Melchior Volmarus Beza's Master He was most studious of Elegancy in the Latine Tongue so skilfull in the Greek that he affirmed before his Duke of Wittenberge Malle se causam in foro Gaece quam Germanice agere quamvis ea lingua sibi vernacula esset yet he was so modest that though he excelled in writing Greek and Latine yet he published nothing but a very elegant Preface to the Greek Grammer of Demetrius Chalcondylas Conr. Vorstius He was learned but Heretical Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Gerard Iohn Vossius Professour of Eloquence Chronology and the Greek Tongue at Leiden and Prebend of Canterbury in England He was an excellent Grammarian and general Scholler One of the greatest Lights of Holland He hath written learnedly almost of all the Arts of Idolatry his Theological Theses are good His Treatise De Theologia Gentili c. is full of Learning Rivet often commends him Ego certè ita sentio neminem inter Theologos nostros repertum fuisse qui minùs jurarit in verba cujusquam magistri qui aliorum sententias aequiùs expenderit qui veritatis diligentior fuerit indagator And. Rivet Apologet. pro vera pace Eccles. His Historia Pelagiana is most disliked Our Arminians * most depend upon him touching the Authority of the Ancients Bochart Geograph Sac. l. 2. c. 17. saith thus of his Book De Historicis Gracis Opus mira eruditionis ex cujus lectione nos profecisse non parum ingenuè profitemur Urbanus VIII Papa a good Poet he published some Poems There is Naudaei Panegyricus dictus Urbano VIII Pont. Max. Ob beneficia ab ipso in magistrum Thomam Campanellam collata Fulvius Ursinus a most learned Antiquary Optimè de omni meliore Antiquitate apud bonos omnes promeritus Pignor. Symb. Epist. Epist. 18. Celebris ille antiquitatum vindex Uâ—sinus Fulvius Scriv. Animadvers in lib. 10. Mart. There are his Notae in Polybium Dionysii Halyc 〈◊〉 Appiani Diodori Siculi Dionis fragmenta Notae in Tacitum Paterculum Notae in Historices veteres Appendix ad lib. Petri Ciaconii de Triclinio De Faemiliis Romanorum Zachary Ursin a learned and solid Divine He was born at Uratislania the Metropolis of Silesia one of the fairest Cities of Germany in the year of Christ 1534. His Works put out since his death are all collected together and distinguished into three Tomes Conr. â Liechthena Abbas Urspergensis Anno Dom. 1202. There is his Coenobii Chronicon Iacobus Armachanus Iames Usher Bishop of Armagh The hundredth Archbishop of Armagh from him whom some call S t Patrick as Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury told Queen Elizabeth he was the seventieth Archbishop of Canterbury from Austen the Monk Antiq. Brit. He hath a great name deservedly amongst the Reformed Churches for his skill in Ecclesiastical Antiquities his stout Defence of the Orthodox Religion frequent and powerfull preaching and unblameable Life and is likewise famous for his great Abilities with the Papists themselves though yet he be accounted haereticus primae Classis in their Index Expurg Fitz Simonds with whom he disputed about the Popes being Antichrist and was too hard for though the Bishop was then very young in one of his books saith he is Acatholicorum doctissimus And Moranez in his Anti-Iansenius Disp. 11. Sect. 2. hath these words Hanc divinationem de Haeresi Praedestinationis non ipse primus excogitavit sed à Lutheranis Calvinistis ejusdem haeresis recoctoribus accepit praecipuéque à Jacobo Usserio iusigni Calvinista Hyberno qui ann 1631. librum edidit Dublini hoc titulo inscriptum Gotteschalci c. Quo libro probandum suscipit eos qui pro Praedestinatianis haereticis habentur non alios fuisse quam doctrinae Augustinianae defensores Ad quod persuadendum iisdem utitur conjecturis argumentis quibus Jansenius ut recte notavit Antonius Ricardus l. 1. Disputat de lib. arbit c. 1. Sect. 6. relatiâ— utriusque verbis Neque onim sensum duntaxat sed verba fere ipsa transcripsit Jansenius Neque tamen quod aequum erat ullam ejus mentionem facere dignatus est He first got himself a name in the Church by that first and excellent Book of his De Christianarum Ecclesiarum successione statu His Book De Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Primordiis Vossius De vitiis Sermonis c. 10. cals laudatissimum opus and it is generally well esteemed wherein he sifteth to the branne the Brittish Churches Antiquities His other Latine Works are Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge Ignatianarum Epistolarum Sylloge Ignatiana Appendix De veterum Symbolis Annalium pars prima secunda Epistola ad Ludovicum Capellum De anno veterum Macedonum Syntagma de Editione LXX Interpretùm Dissertatio de Cainane His English Works Answer to a Jesuites Challenge The Religion of the ancient Irish and Brittish A Speech in the Starre-Chamber of the Kings Supremacy Two Sermons one before the King another before the Parliament A Treatise of the Incarnation of Christ. A Treatise of the Original of Bishops and Archbishops What Asia is that mentioned in the New Testament Carolus Utenhovius He was skilfull in the principal Languages Hebrew Greek Latine and also in the Germane French Italian English His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Bonaventura Vulcanius Brugensis He was the Greek Professour at Leyden Vir de bonis litteris optimè meritus Pignor. Symb. Epistol eruditissimo suâ— de literis linguâ Gothorum Commentariolo Olai Wormii literatura Danica c. 6. His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life CHAP. VII W LUc. Wadingus There are his Annales minorum in five Volomes in Folio there he speaks of all learned Fryers of that order He is much esteemed now at Rome Sir Isaac Wake The University Orator in Oxford There is his Rex Plaâ—onicus or Musâ— regnantes An Oration at the Funeral of D r Rainolds Robert Wakefield a learned Hebrician of our own He wrote Institutio Gramaticae Hebraeae De laudibus linguae Hebraeae De Hebraeorum câ—dicum incorruptione Paraphrasis in Ecclesiasten cum Praefatione Richardi Pacei Orationes quâ—dam cum aliis opusc Antonius Walaeus He was an orthodox and solid Divine as his several learned Works in one Volume in Folio shew Waldenses Our Historians confound the Albigenses and Waldenses though some learned men hold they are to be distinguished The Waldeâ—ses are famous for their Antiquity Universality and Innocency The first original of the Waldenses came of Waldus a man of great substance in the City of Lions About the year of our Lord 1160. divers of the best of the City of Liâ—nt talking and walking in a certain place after their old accustomed manner especially in the Summer time conferred together upon matters Amongst whom it
marg Alexander de Hales an Englishman of Glocestershire and a great Schoolman 112 He wrote a copious Summe of Divinity ibid. Alexander Alesius a Scotchman of later times and a great Divine ibid. Alexander ab Alexandro a Lawyer of Naples ibid. Alexandria famous for the profession of Physick 45 Alhazen a famous Writer of Opticks 112 Leo Allatius a natural Grecian and great Scholler ibid. Muhamedes Alfraganus a great Hebrew Astronomer 113 Alfred King of England learned himself and an encourager of learned men ibid. Algebra a famous invention in Arithmetique 41 Thomas Allen a learned man 113 Peter de Alliaco a Romish Cardinal a famous Mathematician and Divine ibid. All-Souls Colledge in Oxford 97 Alphonsus King of Arragon a great Astronomer and advancer of Learning 113 Petrus Alphonsus a Jew who turned Christian ibid. And why he was called Peter and why Alphonsus ibid 114 Iohn Henry Alsted industrious but a great Collector ibid. D. Henry Alting ibid. Escaped a great danger ibid. Henry Alting his Son ibid. Didacus Alvarez a famous Spanish Divine and orthodox for the most part about Predestination ibid. Sixtinus Amama a learned and modest Dutchman ibid. Ambrose Bishop of Milane ibid. His answer to Theodosius the Emperor ibid. A swarm of Bees setled on his face when he was an infant ibid. When he flourished ibid. Was a Christian and Divine together ibid. Dr. Ames a judicious and solid Divine 115 Amiraldus a learned French Divine ibid. Gulîelmus de Sancto Amore a valiant Champion of Christ ibid. Ammonius Alexandrinus a great Philosopher ibid. Amphilochius when he flourished ibid. Andcreon a famous French Poet ibid. Annals what they are and how they differ from History 46. m. Annals of Baronius usefull but faulty 128 Anastasius the Popes Library-keeper 115 Anastasius Synaita when he lived ibid. He had several names ibid. Petrus Ancharanus or Ancorananus when he flourished ibid. Bishop Andrews ibid Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury the first that forbad Priests Marriage 116 When he flourished ibid. Two Anselms one the author of the Interlineary Glosse ibid. Marcus Antoninus Emperor the greatest Philosopher of his time 116 Why he was called Pius ibid. Antoninus of Florence when he lived ibid. Marcus Antonius de Dominis 116 Marcus Antonius of Genua ibid. Alex. Aphrodisaeus one of the first Interpreters of Aristotle ib. Petrus Apianus a famous Mathematician 116 Petrus Aponensis or Aponius a great Physician and Philosopher 116 117 Apollinaris the Father and Son both Hereticks 117 Sidonius Apollinaris when he lived ibid. Apollonius a Roman Senator and Martyr 117 Apollonius Pergaeus a great Mathematician 117 Apollonius Rhodius why called Rhodius ib. He wrote Argonantica ibid. Appianus Alexandrinus when he lived ib. Apulcius a Platonick Philosopher and learned Writer ibid. Aquila converted from Judaism he translated the Old Testament into Greek 118 When he flourished ibid. Thomas Aquinas born at Aquinus in Italy ibid. His witty Answer to Pope Innocent 3. 232 A great Schoolman 118 Why called the Angelical Doctor 118 How he got his knowledge ibid. He was intent upon his studies 118 Verses of him ibid. When he lived ibid. Arabick Language 59 60 Very ancient of large extent elegant profitable and easie ibid. Near to the Hebrew Chaldee and Syriack 60 Aratus an ancient Poet. 118 Archimedes a famous Mathematician ib He was very much addicted to the study of the Mathematicks ibid. 119 His Sphere ibid. Peter Aretine called Divine Aretine yet a wanton Writer ibid. Leonardus Aretinus a learned Historian Orator and Philosopher ibid. Benedictus Aretius famous for three Works ibid. Architas Tarentinus the greatest Mathematician of his time ibid. Ioannes Argyrophylus a great Scholler ibid. Ioannes Argenterius a learned Physician but too censorious ibid. Aristophanes a great Comedian the first that called himself Philologus 119 An obscene Writer esteemed by Chrysostom ibid. Gregorius Arimineâ—sis sound in the Doctrine of Grace and Free-will ibid. When he lived ibid. Aristotle born at Stagira Plato's Scholler Alexanders Master a great Philosopher and the chief of Peripateticks 120 He invented and perfected the Art of Logick ibid. Arithmetique what it is its excellency and who first brought it into an Art 41 Armachanus a great Schollar and an enemy to Fryers brought up in Oxford 120 Why Petavius cals the Jansenians Armachani 229 Iacobus Arminius a learned man and of a strict life 120 Arnobius a great Rhetorician Lactantius his Master 121 When he lived ibid. Arnoldus de Villa-Nova a learned Spaniard ibid. When he lived ibid. Arrianus a faithâ—ull Greek Historian ibid. He imitates Xenophon ibid. Art what an Art is and how the Arts are distinguished 36 37 The Liberal Arts why so called and which are they ibid. What authors are to be read in all Arts 37 Arzabel a great Astronomer 121 Asconius Pedianus a famous Historian 121 Roger Ascham Secretary to Queen Elizabeth the only Englishman who hath written a Volume of Latine Epistles ibid. When he flourished ibid. Aspasia a learned woman ibid. Astrolabe by whom invented 221 Astrology distinguished from Astronomy and condemned 50 51 Astronomy 43 Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria the Maul of Hereticks 121 Why called Great ibid 122 When he lived 121. m. Athenagoras a Philosopher who wrote an Apology for Christians 122 Athenaeus when he lived ibid. Casaubone hath written learned Notes on him 122 Athens 67 68 Ioannes Aventinus when he was born 122. Commended ibid. Avignion 84 Averroes a Commentator upon Aristotle 122. When he flourished ibid. Avicenna a famous Philosopher and Physician When he lived 45. 122 Augustine Bishop of Hippo 122 The most accomplished that ever wrote since the Apostles times ibid When he was born ibid. Famous for two Works 123 He well confutes the Pelagians Papists Brownists and Socinians ibid. His Books De Doctrina Christiana and De civitate Dei commended but his Comment on the Psalms is most disliked ibid. Antonius Augustinus a great Scholler ibid Ioannes Auratus the Kings Professor for Greek in Paris and the chiefest Poet of his time 123 124 Decius Ausonius a learned French Poet Master to Gratian the Emperor 124 Azo a great Lawyer ibid. Azorius a learned Jesuite ib. Mart. ab Azpilzeuta a learned Casuist ib. B ROger Bacon a great Mathematician but no Magician 125 Sir Francis Bacon a great Philosopher ib. Iohn Baconthorp or Bacon a learned Englishman ibid. Iodocus Badius Ascensius a learned Philosopher Physician and Poet. ibid. Paul Bain a judicious Divine 125 Roger Bain a learned Englishman Professour of the Hebrew at Paris ibid. He hath written on the Proverbs of Salomon Francis Balduine a Protestant first but fell off afterward to Popery 126 An Epitaph of him ibid. Baldus Perusinus a famous Lawyer and Scholler to Bartolus 126 When he flourished ibid. Bernardinus Baldus Urbinas a great Artist and Linguist 126 Iohn Bale one of the first English Protestant Preachers in the time of King Henry the 8 th 125 D. Humfries Verses of him His Works ib. M. I. Ball a
Carthusiensis 155 Thomas and Christopher Cartwright 155 Bartholomaeus and Iohn Casa 155 Iohn Case 156 Isaac Casâ—ubone a singular Grecian and an excellent Philologer 156 Dr. Merick Casaubone ibid. George Cassander 156 Cassandra Fidelis Veneta a learned woman 156 157 Iohn Cassian 157 M. Aurel. and Petrus Cassiodorus 157 Petrus Castellanus two of that name 157 Alphonsus à Castro one of the Doctors of the Councel of Trent ibid. Ambrosius Catharinus his difference with Dominicus Soto 157 Cato why called Censorius 158 A three-fold Elogy of him ibid. Catullus a most polite Poet 158 Iacobus Cavacius 158 Nicol. Caussinus an eloquent French Papist 158 Aurelius Cornelius Celsus a learned Physician the Latine Hippocrates 158 Conradus Celtes the first of the Germans who was adorned with a Poetical Lawrel 158 Centuries Ecclesiasticall commended 159 Iacobus Ceratinus 159 Ludovicus de la Cerda a learned and industrious man 159 Antonius Rodolphus Cevallerius and Petrus Cevallerius both Frenchmen and great Hebricians 15â— Demetrius Chalcondylas a diligent Grammarian 160 Chaldee Language 58 Daniel Chamier a very learned French Divine who hath written solidly against the Papists and was killed with a Canon-bullet 160 Peter Charron a French Rapist 160 Ieffery Chaucer born in Oxfordshire our English Homer 160 Verses of him ibid. Antoine de Chandieu a learned French Divine 160 Sir Iohn Cheek Schoolmaster to King Edward the sixth skilfull in Greek and Latine 160 The first Regius Professor of the Greek Tongue in Cambridge 160 Compared with Sir Thomas Smith ibid. A special instrument of propagating the Gospel in England ibid. How he died and his several Works ibid. Martinus Chemnitius when born 161. m. A famous Doctor of Divinity in the Church of Brunswick 161 His Works commended ibid Andreas du Châ—sne 162 Chiromancy what it is 51 Renatus Chopinus 162 Christ the true Messiah 11 102 Christ Church in Oxford 104 105 Christs-Colledge in Cambridge 102 103 Christians very numerous in Turky 9 Emanuel Chrysoloras of Constantinople brought the Greek and Learning into Italy 162 Was put to death at Constance ib. Petrus Chrysologus when Archbishop of Ravenna 162 Iohn Chrysostom the soundest Interpreter of all the Greek and Latine Fathers 162 David Chytraeus a good Mathematician 163 Petrus Ciaconius a very learned man 163 M. Cicero why so called and where born 163 The Prince of Orators 164 Some of his Works commended 164 His repetitions and vain-glory taxed 165 Iohn Claimund 164 Clare-Hall in Cambridge 101 Claudia Rufinâ— 164 Claudianus 164 165 Claudius the Emperour 165 Christophorus Clavius a Jesuite and famous Professor of the Mathematicks at Rome 165 Nic. de Clamangis when he flourished 165 Pious and learned ibid. Clemens Alexandrinus why so called and when he lived 161 Origens Master ibid. Clemens Romanus the most ancient of all Writers since the Apostles 165 Not the Authour of the Apostolical Constitutions ibid. Nicolaus Clenardus a great Linguist killed by his own slave and why 166 Cleobulina 166 Io. Climachus when he lived 166 Iohn Cloppenburg 166 Carolus Clusius a great Linguist 166 Pet. Cluniacensis when he lived 166 Philippus Cluverius 166 Iohn à Coch or Cocceius 166 Colen 68 Christ. Columbus an Italian a most skilful Cosmographer he found out America 166 Realdus Columbus a great Anatomist 163 Peter Comestor why so called 167. m. Philp de Commines where born 167 He hath written an excellent History ibid. The Speech of Catharine de Medioes of him and an Epitaph by Stephanus Paschasius 167 Hier. Commelinus 167 Annas Comnenas a learned woman Empresse of the East 167 Complute 89 Compostella 89 Confessions divers 169 Conformities a Book so styled 169 170 Confusion of Languages a great judgement 54 Constantine the Great and Robert Constantine 170 Gaspar Contarenus 170 Ant. Contins 170 Adam Contzen 170 Sir Edward Cook 170 Robert Cook 171 Copenhagen 74 75 Nicolaus Copernicus a great Mathematician 171 Maturinus Corderius 171 Corinnas three learned women of that name 171 Iohannes Cornarius 171 Cornelia a learned woman ibid Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford 104 Corradus 171 Corvinus a subtil Arminian 171 Fr. Costerus 172 Peter Cotton an eloquent French Jesuite ibid. Sir Robert Cotton a great preserver of English Antiquities ibid. Iohn Covel ibid. Bishop Coverdale an exile a long time for the profession of the Gospel ibid Didacus Covarruvias ibid. Councels divers 168 169 The Pope is to be subject to a General Councel 22 208 D r Crakanthorp 172 Archbishop Cranmer ibid. The first Archbishop of Canterbury that cast off Antichrist 172 173 Drew many learned men into England 172 Io. Crato when and where born 173 A great Philosopher Physician and Poet 173 Physician to Emperours ibid. Christophorus Crinesius a good Linguist ibid. Petrus Crinitus ibid. Ludovicus Crocius 174 Iohn Croy a learned French Divine 174 Hannibal Crucius 174 Gaspar Cruciger a learned Divine swift in writing ibid Henry Cuff a learned Oxonian 174 Iacobus Cujacius a learned French Lawyer 174 Petrus Cunaeus 174 175 Caelius Secundus Curio 175 Caelius Aug. Curio ibid. Quintus Curtius a pure Latinist and when he flourished 175 Petrus Curtius 175 Nic. de Cusa or Cusanus 175 Cyprian Bishop of Carthage and Martyr when he lived 175 Cyril Bishop of Alexandria 175 Cyril Bishop of Ierusalem and Cyril Patriark of Constantinople 176 D JOhn Daille a learned French Divine 176 Highly commended ibid. Iohn Damascene when born at Damascus 176 He laid the foundation of School-Divinity among the Greeks 176 Nicholas Damascene ib. Petrus Damianus 176 Damasus the first Pope 176 He appointed Gloria Patri ib. Lambertus Danaeus 177 Petrus Danesius a great Grecian 177 His witty speech at the Councel of Trent ib. Dante 's Aligherius a famous Italian Poet 177 Claudius Dausqueius 177 Iohn Davenant Bishop of Salisbury a judicious Divine 177 Daventer 74 Philippus Decius a famous Italian Lawyer 177 Iohn Dee a learned Englishman 178 Marcus Antonius Delrio 178 Demosthenes a famous Orator 178 He wrote out Thucydides eight times ibid. Thomas Dempster a learned Scotchman ib. Iohn Deodate an eminent Divine ib. Edward Dering ib Iohn Despauterius a great Grammarian ib. Verses of him ib. Antonius Deusingius a learned Physician ib. Paulus Diaconus 179 David Dickson a good Scottish Expositor ib. Didymus Coecus an excellent Mathematician ib. Ludovicus de Dieu a learned French Divine well skilled in the Oriental Languages ib. Sir Iames Dier a great Lawyer ib. Differences among the Papists in many things 22 Everard Digby 178 Sir Kenelm Digby 180 Leonard and Thomas Digges ib. Iohn Michael Dilher a learned Critick ib. Diodorus Siculus a famous Historian 180 Diogenes Laertius ib. Dio Cassius ib. â—ion Chrysostom called Chrysostom for his 〈…〉 loquence ib. â—ionysius falsly called the Areopagite 181 â—ionysius Halycarnassaeus a famous Historian ib. â—ioscorides an ancient Herbalist ib. Divine A competent knowledge of the Languages and Arts is requisite for a Divine 31 32 33 34 Rembertus Dodonaeus 181 Dole 86 Steven Dolet a learned Frenchman 182 Aelius
Salomon Glassius a great Critick ibid. Glocester-Hall in Oxford 99 Rodolphus Goclenius 210 Conradus Goclenius first Professor of the Latine Tongue at Lovain 210 Francis and Thomas Godwin ibid Damianus à Goes ibid Seven Cities strove for his birth ibid. Iacobus Golius well skilled in the oriental Tongues ibid. Hubertus Golâ—zius a great Antiquary ibid. Franciscus Gomarus a learned and judicious Divine ibid. Christopher Goodman a learned and pious Scotch Divine 211 Abraham Gorlay his many choice medals of Gold Silver and Brass 211 Io Goropius Becanus a good Artist and Linguist ibid. Gospel How it came into Polonia and the original of the custom of standing up at the Gospel 20. m. The everlasting Gospel or the Gospel of the holy Ghost 115 Dionysius and Iacobus Gothofredus 211 D r Gouge a learned and pious Divine 211 Commended ibid. Simon Goulartius a learned and godly French Minister ibid. Ioannes Goverus or Gouerus a learned English Knight and Poet Laureate ibid. Grammarians who the best 37 38 Io. and Saxo Gramaticus 212 Grammer what it is and whence derived 37 38 Granado 89 Lud. Granatensis 212 D r Grant ibid. Conradus Graserus went some miles to the Jews to understand Hebrew words ibid. Franc. Gratianus when he lived ibid. He compiled the Canon-Law ibid. 44 Gulielmus Gratarolus an excellent Philosopher and Physician 213 Gratius an ancient Latine Poet contemporary with Virgil and Ovid. 213 Iohn Graves ibid. Lady Iane Gray both learned and religious ibid. Greek Language 61 62 Who were the pure Greek Writers 38 Richard Greenham 213 Gregory the Great why so called and when he lived ibid. Bede cals him the Apostle of England and why 214 He first wrote himself Servus servorum Dei 214 Verses of him and two other Popes ibid. Gregory Thaumaturgus why so called ibid. Iohn Gregory of Oxford and Gregory of Tours ibid Iames Gretzer a learned Jesuite and good Grecian the great Defender of Bellar. mine 214 Grindall ibid. Gripswald 71 Groning 74 Iohannes Groperus would not be Cardinal 214 Hugo Grotius when and where born 215 Piscators Verses of him ibid. Learned but heterodox ibid. Ianus Gruterus a famous Critick ibid. Simon and Io Iac. Grynaeus ibid. Rudolphus Gualtherus Father and Sonne 216 Baptista Guarinus ibid. Steven Guichard a learned French Linguist ibid Francis Guicchardine a famous Historian ibid. Paschasius his Verses of him ibid. Melchior Guilandinus ibid. Iohannes Guinterius Andernacus a learned Physician ibid. Gyldas ibid Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus 217 H D r HAckwell 217 Theodoricus Hackspanius 217 D r Haddon ib. Cardinal Hadrian ib. Thaddaeus Hagecius ib. Iohn Hales ib. Bishop Hall 218 Bartholdus Hallerus ibid Dionysius Halycarnassaeus ibid. D. Henry Hammond ibid D. Harding ibid. Lord Harrington ibid. D. Harvey ibid. D. Haymo ibid. Harderwick 74 Hart-Hall in Oxford 99 Heathens called Pagani and why â—5 They are still branded in the Scripture ibid. Their knowledge imperfect and their conversation impious ibid. How the Heathens shall be judged 6 The Heathens worshipt many gods 6 They could not be saved by the light of nature ibid. Who defended the Christian Religion against the Heathens 6 7 Hebrew the first Language and most ancient of all 56 57 58 Who were skilfull in it 58 Gaspar us Hedio 218 Alexander Hegius He first brought the Greek learning into the Low-countreys 219 Heidelberg 69 Daniel Heinsius 219 Heliodorus ib. Helvicus ib. Henry the first King of England why called Beau Clerk ib. Henry the eighth 219 220 He was learned himself and drew many learned men into England 220 Desiderius Heraldus ib. Lord Herbert ib. Hereticks Reformers so called by the Papists and why 20 Hermes Trismâ—gâ—stus 220 Conradus Heresbachius ib. Hermannus Contractus why so called 221 Hermogenes ib. Herodian an eloquent and faithfull Historian 221 Herodotus ib. Verses of him ib. Hesiod ib. Iohn Hessels ib. Landgrave of Hessen 222 Helius Ebanus Hessus ib. Hesychius ibid Ioannes Heurnius ibid. Hieroglyphicks what they are 290 The Bee and Syren the Hieroglyphick of eloquence 39 Hieronymus a very learned Father 222 Hilary Bishop of Poicton and Hilary Bishop of Arles ibid. Hildefonsus 223 Arthur Hilder sham 223 Hiâ—cmarus ib. Hipparchus a great Astronomer ib. Hippocrates the first that wrote methodically the Art of Physick 223 Hippolitus 223 224 History what it is 46 It s double end ibid. The several kindes of History 46 Chronology and Topography the two eyes of it 47 Historians who the chiefest Greek and Latine 47 David Hoeschelius 224 Francis Hottoman a learned French Lawyer 224 Homer Seven Cities contended about his birth His Iliades and Odysses commended 224 225 Alcibiades struck a Schoolmaster for not having Homers Works 225 Festus Hommius 225 Petrus Cornelius Hoofdius 225 Richard Hooker 225 Iohn Hoâ—per a learned and godly Bishop and Martyr ib. Ioachimus Hopperus ib. Horatius Flaccus an ingenious Poet ib. Bishop Horn 226 Conradus Hornaeus ib. Lambertus Hortensius ib. Stanislaus Hosius he was imployed by three Emperours and was President in the Councell of Trent ibid. Rod. Hospintanus ibid. Michael Hospitalius ibid. Bishop Howson ibid. Roger de Hoveden a famous Historian 226 Robert Hues ibid Hermannus Hugo ibid. Hugo Cardinal 227 Antonius Hulsius ibid Humbertus Episcopus ib. D. Humfrey ib. Hulricus Huttenus a Knight and Poet Laureate ibid C. Iulius Hyginus 228 Hipatia or Hypathia a learned woman who taught publickly at Alexandria ibid. Andreas Gerhardus Hyperius a most learned and diligent Divine ibid. I Dr. IAckson and Mr. Arthur Iackson 228 King Iames ibid Verses on his dying in March Iacobus de Voragine the Author of the golden Legend 229 Richard Iames and Doctor Iames 229 Iamblycus a famous Philosopher ibid. Io de Ianduno ibid Ianizaries the great strength of the Turkish Empire 9 Cornelius Iansenius a learned Popish Expositor 229 Iansenius Bishop of Iper who wrote Sanctus Augustinus ibid. Rabbi Salomon Iarchi a learned French Jew who hath commented on all the Bible ib. Iason Maynus 230 Iesuites when their Order began 230 Their title disliked by Papists themselves ibid. Some of them good Expositors able for controversies good Philologers candid and ingenuous ib. Ignatius the Martyr ib. Matth. Fl. Illyricus heretical and wherin 230 231 Some of his Works usefull to the Church 230 231 Ioannes de Indagine a great Astrologer when he flourished 231 Indices Expurgatorii two of them ibid. The purpose of them ibid. Io. Philippns Ingrassius ibid. Ingulphus a learned English Abbot ib. Innocentius tertius Papa a learned man but a great Persecutor of the Church 232 Alanus Insulensis ib. Abbas Ioachimus ib. Arthur Ihonston a famous Scotch Poet ib. Iohns Colledge in Oxford 103 Iornandes 232 Iosephus a famous Jewish Historian 232 233 Iosippus who he was 233 Paulus Iovius commended by some and disliked by others ib. Verses of him ib. Irenaeus when he lived and when he suffered ib. Iohn Isaac a Jew who turned Christian ib. Isidorus Hispalensis and Pelusiota 234 Isocrates a famous Greek Oratour 234 Hâ—â—ricus Isselburgius