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A13839	A synopsis or compendium of the fathers, or of the most famous and ancient doctors of the Church, as also of the schoolmen Wherein is clearely shewed how much is to be attributed to them, in what severall times they lived, with what caution they are to be read, and which were their perfections, which their errors. A treatise most necessary, and profitable to young divines, and delightfull to all such whose studies in humanity take from them the leisure, though not the desire of reading the fathers; whose curiosity this briefe surveigh of antiquity will in part satisfie. Written in Latin by that reverend and renowned divine, Daniel Tossanus, chiefe Professor of Divinity in the University of Heidelberge, and faithfully Englished by A.S. Gent.; Synopsis de patribus. English	Tossanus, Daniel, 1541-1602.; Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 24145; ESTC S118496	31,571	108

be our rule Also in his definitions quaest 98. Eos qui praesunt extra Scripturae Canonem nihil praecipere debere ne falsi Dei testes et sacrilegi inveniantur They saith he who rule the people ought to command nothing beyond the Canon of the Scriptures lest they befound false witnesses of God sacrilegious And in his Epistle of Apostasie to the Bishops of the West he complaines Semen Apostasiae spargi in illis ipsis Ecclesiis inquibus Evangelii doctrina primum per orbem manavit that the seed of Apostacy was sown in those very Churches whence the Doctrine of the Gospell was first spread through the world His works extant at this day are comprehended in three Tomes and are either doctrinall as Hexameron or of the world made in six daies eleven Homilies of the Divinity of the Sonne and that the holy Ghost is not a creature against Eunomius Where is to be understood that there were three Families of the Arians Arius held the Son to be equall to the Father but by grace not by Nature The Macedonians companions of the Arians affirmed the Sonne to bee like the Father but not the holy Ghost Eunomius held the Sonne to bee totally unlike the Father because the creature can by no meanes be like the Creator Saint Basil also wrote Sermons of the humane generation of Christ also of Baptisme Or his workes are expository as Sermons upon some of the Psalms a glosse upon the whole Psalter and the sixteene first Chapters of Esay Other of his works are Morall as his Sermons against drunkennesse of Wrath of Humility of Envy Also his Sermons called Asceticos or of the manners of Monks of those who aspire to an Angelicall Life The errours of S. Basilius are that hee too Hyperbollically extols fasting and a Monkish life though indeed hee describes such Monks as peculiarly exercise themselves in piety and good workes to whom the Monkes of our times are as much unlike as Crowes to Swans By the singular providence of God it came to passe that the heresies of the Arians and Pelagians beginning to spring up in the same time almost there arose famous Doctors to confute them For Hieronymus Stridonensis Pannonius lived in part of the time of Saint Ambrose and Saint Basil He was brought up at Rome and was famous in the yeare 390. He travelled over the greatest part of Europe to conferre with learned men and at length chose himselfe a place of abode in Iudaea in the fields of Bethlem where he wrote many of those things which at this day wee enjoy Hee is painted with a Cardinals Hat whereas hee rather led a Monasticke life and those red Hats were given in ages long after to some certaine Priests of the Roman Church by Pope Paul the second ann 1460. as Platina testifieth The stile of S. Hierome is elegant for he was learned and a great Linguist Hee wrote many things whereof some are Expositions upon the Psalms and upon the greater and the lesser Prophets also upon Saint Matthew and some Epistles of Saint Paul as to the Galatians and Ephesians For the Commentary which goes under his name upon the Epistle to the Romans savours too much of Pelagianisme which hee ever opposed Other of his writings are Controversiall and Apologeticall as against Helvidius concerning the perpetuall Virginity of the Virgin Mary against Iovinianus and Vigilantius Also against the Pelagians and an Apology against Ruffinus Some againe are Paraeneticall or instructive as of the life of Clergy men and concerning the Institution of a mother of the Family Hee seemeth to have a wit somewhat Arrogant and fiery which appeareth not onely by his sharpe writings and Epistles against Saint Austin but also that sometimes hee accuseth the Apostle Saint Paul himselfe of rudenesse of stile and ignorance in the Greeke tongue Beza often complaines of his wresting the Scriptures especially against Wedlocke See the Annotations of Beza on 1 Cor. 7. 1 Tim. 3. 1 Pet. 3. But it is remarkeable that although hee was an enemy to Wedlocke yet in his Age both Bishops and Priests were married for so he writeth in cap. 6. ad Ephes Legant haec Episcopi et Presbyteri qui filios suos saecularibus libris erudiunt Let those Bishops and Priests saith hee read these things who instruct their children in secular bookes But he often with too much bitternesse inveighes against Vigilantius and Iovinianus for contending with him that Wedlocke and single Life were of equall merit as also that the Rewards of the Just were alike in that life and that no choyce was to be made of Meats if they were received with thankes-giving that the ashes of Martyrs were not to be adored nor the Vespers to bee celebrated at their Scpulchers that the Saints deceased pray not for us Hee contended unseasonably with Saint Austin concerning Saint Peter that he never erred and that hee was reprehended by Saint Paul not seriously but in jest Gal. 2. How much the state of the Church was disturb'd in those Times appeares by that Learned booke of Epiphanius Bishop of Cyprus which he wrote against 80 Heresies which worke is worthy the perusall for the variety of story contained in it Then also lived Theodoret Bishop of the City Cyrus in Persia who wrote five bookes of the history of the Church and Polymorphum where in three Dialogues most worthy the reading he defends the truth of both Natures in Christ against the Hereticks of his time In the time of Arcadius and Honorius Emperours lived Iohannes Chrysostomus whose Eloquence and Zeale farre exceeded his knowledge in the Scriptures Wherefore he excels more in morals than in Doctrines and Expositions For oftentimes hee philosophizeth too subtilly Yet is hee often cited by our Divines in the interpretation of Greeke words especially in the Epistles of Saint Paul Vulgarus Theophilactus was afterward his imitator and abreviator but an Authour lesse pure It was reprehensible in Saint Chrysostome that hee was too chollericke and free of speech by which hee incurred the great displeasure of many Aurelius Augustinus by Nation an African ought not to be accounted the last amongst the Doctors of the Church Hee was instructed in Rhetoricke at Carthage and was a follower of the Maniches nine yeares together Hee relates a great part of his owne life in his Confessions Afterward being often admonished by Saint Ambrose or rather converted by God upon the abundant teares and prayers of his mother hee turned into the right way and succeeded Valerius Bishop of Hippona in Africa about the yeare 390. He sustained many sharpe Conflicts with the Maniches Arians Donatists and Pelagians whom he confuted by learned writings and personally by word of mouth Hee dyed a little before the first Ephesine Councell when Hippone was besieged in the yeare of his Age 76. Gregory 1. Bishop of Rome had his workes in so great esteeme that hee thus writes lib. 8.

refici possint Quid quod filio Dei quaedam tradita sunt quae non habeat ut homo fieret All things are given him as a Physician that should heale the biting of the Serpent as to the life that quickeneth as to a light illuminating this is spoken in regard of his office God saith hee hath granted that as by him all things are made so by him all things may be refreshed What if wee say that some things are given to the Sonne of God that he had not before that he should be made man Moreover against Schwenckfeld in the same Treatise Vtrumque de Christo est credendum illum esse Deum et omnia creasse et esse hominem et ita creatum et creaturam qualis est homo Hominum enim proprium est creari Both saith he are to be beleeved of Christ that he was a God and created all things and that he was a man and so created and a creature such as manis for it is proper to men to be created Also against the Papisticall canonization of impious men in his Epistle To all the godly founded and sanctified in Christ Hinc quoq Heresis agnosci et convinci potest quòd quisquis ipsis charus est et eiusdem impietatis socius etiam si aliis delictis et infinitis sceleribus obnoxius et adversus se habeat argument a scelerum suorum probus apud eos et in pretio habetur quin imo statim Imperatoris amicus efficitur commendabilis scilicet sua impietate Qui vero corum impietatem redarguit et quae Christi sunt sincere procurant isti tametsi puri in omnibus modo crimen in eos confingatur in exilium abripiuntur Hence may Heresie be knowne and convinced that whosoever is deare to them and a companion in the same Impiety although he be guilty of sundry crimes and infinite vices and hath arguments against himselfe of his owne hainous acts yet he is approved and had in great esteeme amongst them yea and is forthwith made the Emperours friend and is commendable for his Impiety But those who reprove their wickednesse and teach the things sincerely which are of Christ such though pure in all things upon any feigned crime layd to their charge are presently hurried into banishment To Athanasius we may joyne Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine who got the sir-name of Pamphilus from his friend Pamphilus the Martyr and in the Nicene Synod joyned himselfe to the Orthodox although in the beginning he wavered a little as saith Sozomen lib. 1. hist cap. 20. He was very learned in the Languages History and Philosophy Hee wrote a History from the Nativity of Christ to the time of Constantine the great inclusively which Socrates the Schooleman and Hermias Sozomenus continued from Constantine to Theodosius the first and Honorius and Evagrius to the time of Maurice the Emperour vulgarly called the Tripartite History Eusebius wrote also a Chronicle which is yet extant and a booke of Evangelicall demonstration and preparation in which he compares the Evangelicall Doctrine with Philosophy and other Religions and solidly demonstrates no Doctrine to be more perfect than the Evangelicall as also that in the Gospell many things better and more certaine are contained than in any other Doctrine whatsoever He was suspected indeed by some to have privily favoured Arius but an Apology for him is extant in Socrates lib. 2. cap. 17. Yet in the beginning of the same History Socrates doth not dissemble this fault of Eusebius that writing the life of Constantine which is comprehended in foure bookes he lightly blamed the deeds of Arius and that hee predicated the vertues of that Emperour concealing his vices and that he studied more to render his Oration illustrious wherein he highly praised him and to adorne it with Majesticall words than diligently to explaine the things done He had another blemish common with him and many Greeke Authors which Bodin not undeservedly imputes to him in his method of History which is that retaining somewhat of the Grecian vanity hee relates not a few fabulous things which have little or no appearance of Truth As of an Epistle of Aglarus King of the Edisseni to Christ and of Christs answer to him of Saint Iohn the Apostle and a certaine young man by him recalled from the society of Theeves also of the finding out of the Woodden Crosse and of its vertue of Saint Peter who desired a certaine kinde of death to wit Crucifying and governd the Roman Church 25. yeares which how farre it is from Truth Calvin amongst others sheweth lib. 4. Instit cap. 6. sect 14. But as Gelasius admonisheth in cap. 3. lib. 3. Irenaei it is very likely those great men were deceived by a certaine vulgar opinion not enquiring into things diligently neither could they imagine what Engines Satan was then preparing to raise up the kingdome of Antichrist After Eusebius and Athanasius who died under Valentinianus in the yeare 379 Hilarius is rightly placed He was Bishop of the Picts in France and lived in the time of Constantine the sonne of Constantine the Great and his life extended even to the reigne of Valentinian Saint Hierom preferres him before other Doctors of the Church and although younger was his familiar friend His stile is such as rightly warnes Erasmus that it is hard to be understood easie to be deprav'd yet Saint Hierom calls him the Trumpet of the Latine tongue perhaps because hee was the first that confuted the Arians in that Language His workes are extant publish'd at Basil anno 70. by Eusebius Episcopius and are partly controversiall partly expository He wrote 12. bookes of the Trinity against the Arians also an Epistle against Constantine being then dead who was the chiefe favourer of the Arian Faction and against Auxentius the Millanist a fautor of the Arian party as also of divers Synods against the Arians which booke hee translated for the most part out of Greeke from the Synodicall decrees His expository bookes are a Commentary upon Matthew but a short one as also upon many Psalmes all which are comprehended in one Tome Hee hath many faults For first hee hath many hard and unusuall words as disfrocit for degenerate Zabolus for Diabolus and many more of the like kind Next he affirmes the holy Ghost to be from the Father by the Sonne lib. 10. de Trinit and upon the 8. Psalme he attributes a soule and a body to Christ not subject to any molesting affections and averres that thirst and hunger were not natural in him He seemes to maintaine the body of Christ to bee borne and brought forth by the Virgin Mary not to be made of her substance lib. 10. de Trinit In his commentary upon Saint Matthew he too much inclines to the Allegories of Origen Next Hilarius wee may rightly place Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millan who lived in the times of Valentinianus Gratianus Theodosius and Honorius