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A88705	Speculum patrum: A looking-glasse of the Fathers wherein, you may see each of them drawn, characterized, and displayed in their colours. To which are added, the characters of some of the chief philosophers, historians, grammarians, orators, and poets. By Edward Larkin, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now minister of the Word at Limesfield in Surrey.	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L444A; ESTC R230373	42,396	106

was a Greek Writer as well as Theophylact but when he likewise flourished it s controverted by many Authors some say be lived about 900 years after Christ others 1000. Sixtus Sinensis tells us that it must be after the 800 year in regard of those Authors he makes use of in his Works This man collected out of the Commentaries of the Fathers Expositions on the Acts the seven Canonical Epistles and all Saint Pauls which were rendred into Latine by Maximus Florentinus It s said That after this man had set out his Comments Theophylacts were not so highly valued the one being so much preferred in that way before the other and he also borrowed most of his Expositions from Chrysostome Sixtus Senensis speaking of this Writer calls him Graecum autorem valde doctum a Greek Author very learned and further he addes In explicandis divinis scripturis brevis apertus elegans in unfolding or expounding the divine Scriptures brief clear and elegant One Theodulus a Priest of Coelosyria has some Annotations on the Epistle to the Romans but they are all taken out of this Oecumenius Lanfrancus LAnfrancus an Italian by nation borne at Papia was Arch-bishop of Canterbury and in great esteem for his profound learning with our William the Conquerour he was Berengarius his great Antagonist and writ against him maintaining the errour of Transubstantiation which the said Berengarius had so stifly opposed he was one of those 113. Bishops which were convened by Pope Nicholas the second at Rome for the rooting out of that Sacramentall truth Berengarius had published It s a thing observed by the Orthodox learned that before this age of Lanfrancus the Doctrine of Augustine was universally received and followed first published by Egyppus Fulgentius his equal afterward by Fulgentius himself then by Primasius all of these being African Divines and eminent for their learning And so it continued to be maintained by Isidore Hispalensis Maximus Taurinensis and Prosper of Aquitane Nay ratified it was likewise by Council as the Aurasicane and the sixth Constantinopolitane and before that Charles the great governed the Roman Empire it was stoutly defended by Bede a Saxon and his Disciples Alcuinus Claudius Rabanus Maurus and by many other learned Doctors for the space of 500 yeers and upwards But now began men to swerve from that good and pure doctrine of Augustine and especially about that Article of the Sacrament Satan by his instruments promoting as Pareus expresseth it immanem illum Transubstantiationis errorem infinitorum aliorum fontem that huge errour of Transubstantiation the fountain of many others This Lanfrancus though he had so great an interest in the favour of the Conquerour as that he ordered all his Affaires both in Church and State yet when Rufus came to enjoy the crown he had not that influence for the Nobles of the Realme out of emulation and envy had alienated the young Kings affections from him which occasioned his sicknesse whereof he soon dyed Ranulphus relates this of him that it was his serious and frequent desire he might dye of no other disease then a Feaver or Dysenterie because in those distempers the use of speech would continue to the last breath he sate in his Archiepiscopal Chaire about nineteen yeers and dyed in the third yeer of the Raign of King Rufus Sixtus Senensis calls this man omnium suitemporis in omni literarum genere doctissimum of all men of his time the most learned in all kindes of learning and speaking of those works which he hath written he saith this of them Quod inter alia praestantis ingenii monumenta reliquit pios atque eruditos in totum psalterium commentarios That among many other monuments of his excellent wit he left behinde him pious and learned Commentaries on the whole book of Psalms He flourished when Henry the third enjoyed the imperiall diadem about the yeer of our Lord 1060. So saith Sixtus Senensis Anselmus ANselmus succeeded Lanfrancus in the Archiepiscopall See of Canterbury who for a Popish Writer was a man of great fame in the times he lived and of no mean repute for his learning even in the reformed Churches He was by birth a Burgundian and advanced from an Abbot to that eminent Ecclesiasticall dignity by William Rufus then King of England betwixt whom and this Bishop there happened afterwards hot contentions because the King had put up in his coffers some rents of Defunct Bishops which the Prelat would ever have peculiar and appropiate to the Church hereupon he was twice banished out of England but at last returning upon a solemne friendly invitation from the said King he was received by the people with high acclamations and great joyes This Bishop was very much against the marriage of the Clergie which it seems was in use till his time in England and he is said to attribute the honour to the Virgin Mother as he did to our Lord her Son He fell sick at Edmondbury and and on the 28th day of Aprill in the yeer of Christ 1109. being aged 76 yeers he dyed at Canterbury whether he had been removed in the time of his sicknesse and was buried at the head of his Predecessor Lanfrancus Though afterwards he was taken up and interred in the eastern part of the said Cathedral which he had in his life-time adorned with a most sumptuous structure This man because by his notable writings he had advanced the Papal Tyranny and depressed as much on the other side the Kingly Soveraignty therefore did Pope Urban Order and Decree That he and his successors should sit at his right Foot in every General Council and thus it was proclaimed when that place was given him in the open Assembly Includamus hunc in orbe nostro tanquam alterius orbis Papam Sixtus Senensis thus describes him Anselmus vir tam divinis quam humanis disciplinis nobiliter excultus stylo mire simplici puro sed non in jocundo His life was written by his intimate friend Edinerus He wished when he was dying that he might have had a little more time here allowed him till he had perfected that most obscure Problem of the Souls Original which it seems he had in his life-time taken in hand to determine but sayes one of him Hoc tempus datum ei non est ut majus bonum in aeternitate ei daretur This time was not given him that a greater good might be given to him in Eternity Bernardus BErnardus Abbot of Claraval flourished in the time of the Schoolmen and yet is reckoned as one of the Fathers for his sanctity of life and soundness of Doctrine Chemnitius saith of him this Recentissimus est vixitque post confirmatam Episcopi Romani Tyrannidem He is the latest Father and lived after that the Tyranny of the Roman Bishop was established Yet he did much inveigh against the impiety of the Pope his Cardinals Bishops and all that Antichristian Clergy Bishop Carleton sayes Utinam tales papistas multos imo vel unum talem hodie haberemus in toto regno Pontificio qualem Bernhardum fuisse constat I would to God we had this day many such Papists nay but one such as it is manifest Bernhard was ●e solidly disputes as the foresaid Bishop further doth observe of the chief Fundamentals and Heads of Faith as of the Scriptures of the Church of Mans Misery of free Justification of Grace of New Obedience all of these against the Fables of the Trent Council And saith Carleton Is he a Papist that follows the Catholick Church and the consent of the ancient Fathers against the Jesuites and the Trent Impostors Hence it is that many Princes made use of him for decision of controversies and composing of contentions in the Church This was he which advised Count Theobald when he saw him at great expences in the building of Temples that he would rather supply the houshold of Faith and build up the living Tabernacles of the most High He died in the 64 year of his age This is Erasmus his character of him Bernhardus festivus jucundus nec segnis in movendis aeffectibus Bernhard is pleasant sweet and not slow in moving the affections And again sayes the same Author Bernhardus vir Christiane doctus sancte facundus pie festivus in cap. 1. Rom. p. 243. This is Bishop Mortons Elogie which he gives him In atro Romanae Ecclesiae nocte fere solus ●ffulsit Bernhardus qui tam doctrinae quam vitae fuae lumine in multis articulis tenebras pontificias dispulit In the dark night of the Romish Church almost onely Bernhard shined forth who as well by the light of his doct●●●e as his life hath in many Articles scattered the Popish darkness I will adde no more but that of Sixtus Senensis who saith thus of him Oratio ubique dulcis ardens ita delectat ardenter incendit ut ex suavissima lingua ejus mel lac verborum fluere ex ardentissimo ejus pectore ignitorum affectuum incendia erumpere videantur His speech every-where sweet and ardent doth so delight and fervently inflame that there do seem to flow from his most sweet tongue honey and milk of words and out of his most ardent breast fires of burning affections to break out FINIS

w●ites of him Prosper Episcopus Rhegiensis vir in divinis Scripturis eruditissimus in secularibus nobiliter doctus carmine excellens prosa eloquio disertus sensu profundus ingenio subtilis assertione nervosus vita conversatione sanctissimus apparuit Prosper the Bishop of Rheims appeared to be a man most learned in the divine Scriptures and nobly instructed in things that were Secular excellent both for verse and prose eloquent in speech profound in sense subtile in wit sinewous in assertion and holy in life and conversation He wrote a book de Ingratis Of Unthankeful men by which name he alwayes meant the Pelagians which sprung up out of the ashes of that Arch-heretick Pelagius So Bishop Usher writes in his eighth Chapter de Primord Britan. Eccles Bellarmine saith this of him to his honour Quod multa praeclara scripsit pro gratia Dei contra Pelagianos That he wrote many excellent things for the grace of God against the Pelagians Seque Augustini discipulum defensorem acerrimum demonstravit and proved himself to be a disciple and most sharp defender of Augustine Sixtus Senensis styles him Virum acris ingenii dictionis pressae nervosae elegantis A man of a piercing wit of a brief sinewous and elegant elocution Petrus Chrysologus PEtrus Chrysologus was Archbishop of Ravenna born of Noble Parentage styled by Sixtus Senensis Vir tam vitae sanctitate quam omni eruditionis genere excellens A man excelling as well for sanctity of life as for all kinde of learning He was instructed in Christian literature by Cornelius a certain Bishop and advanced by Pope Sixtus the third to that eminent dignity at Ravenna In this mans time there were two Councils summoned the one by Coelius Symmachus the Pope the other by Theodoricus the King of the Ostrogoths the one sitting at Rome and the other at Ravenna This Prelate was called to both And besides he delivered Letters to the Council of Chalcedon against the heretick Eutyches which Letters are yet extant He had the name of Chrysologus given him because he was so near in conformity to Chrysostome there being in both of them par phrasium majestas a like majesty of phrase In the Epistle prefixed to this mans Sermons you have this commendation bestowed upon him Si cum hoc quosdam Neotericos aut commentatores conferas Pigneum Atlanti comparare videaris If you confer any of your Neotericks or late Commentators with this Author you may seem to compare a Pigmy to Atlas Sixtus Senensis speaking of those hundred two and twenty Sermons preached by this Prelate he doth thus expresse them Breves quidem sed sensus gravitate venerandes candore sermonis venustisque verborum flosculis amaenos argutis quibusdam sententiolis naturali quadam facilitate fluentibus jucundos validis quibusdam affectibus interdunt verbis tragicis expressis admirandos Short Sermons indeed but yet for the gravity of sense venerable for candor of speech and beautiful flowers of words delectable and for witty sentences flowing with a natural facility pleasant and for strong affections exprest sometimes with tragical words admirable He dyed about the year of our Lord 500. when he had governed the Church of Ravenna 60 years Fulgentius FUlgentius an African a Citizen of Carthage appeared soon after Prosper about the year of Christ 500. He was Bishop of Rusp in Africk and in his time had hot contentions with the Arians condemned long before by the General Council of Nice He confuted those which asserted the doctrine of Free-will approving himself a puissant maintainer of the servitude of mans will to Sin and Satan which he had received from Augustine or rather from the Scriptures He was Bishop of that Church near twenty five years and dyed piously in the year of his age 65. He flourished under Anastasius the Emperour and Thrasimundus the King of the Vandals In his life he shined with transcendent humility and sincerity detesting nothing more than pride luxury He abstained from flesh feeding altogether upon herbs and eggs He did wear only one garment both in Summer and Winter this being a usual saying with him Corda potius quam vestimenta mutanda esse That mens hearts were rather to be changed than their garments He was so far from harbouring of wrath against any of his enemies that being extremely injured by one Felix an Arian and thereupon counselled by his friends to seek a remedy at Law he sweetly replied to them Christiani esse non ulcisci sese Deum enim ulturum injuriam suis illatam That its the Christians duty not to avenge himself for God is the avenger of his children In the time of his sickness his Physicians advising him to bathe much he replied Putatisne balnea hominis mortalis fata impeditura Do you think that baths will hinder the death of a man by nature mortal And he would have these words very often in his mouth Domine hic da mihi poenitentiam postea indulgentiam Lord give me here repentance and afterwards indulgence Vossius calls this man in allusion to his name Fulgentissimum Ecclesiae sydus The most brightsome star of the Church It s said of him by Gomarus Quod sententiis Augustini adeo delectatus erat ut eas pluribus in locis non tam imitatus sit quam expresserit That he was so far forth delighted with the sentences of Augustine that he did not so much imitate them as to the very life express them One takes notice of some of his writings that they are thorny sharp and piercing quasi aculeos in verbis inservisse visus esset as if he had implanted stings in his words This is noted chiefly in his Mythologie whereas as the same author well observeth alia pie quidem Christiane scripta non tam horrida sunt other of his Works being piously and Christianly written are not so rough He was banished with an hundred more African Bishops into the Island of Sardinia by Thrasimundus the King of the Vandals which might be the occasion of so much gall in some of his Treatises Gregorius Papa GRegorius Papa called Gregory the Great he was constituted Bishop of Rome after Pelagius drawn as it were into the Chair by constraint He was a Roman by birth the first of the Popes saith one that discovered an humble and lowly minde who would be called Servus servorum Dei The servant of those which serve God He was wonderfully averse to that great and proud Title of Oecumenical or Universal Bishop boldly saying In istud scelestum vocabulum consentire nihil aliud esse quam fidem perdere That to agree to that wicked denomination were nothing else but to destroy the Faith He ever did acknowledge himself the Emperour Mauritius his Subject He maintained disputes with the Jews and against Hereticks He confirmed by publick Decrees these four Councils of Nice of Constantinople of Ephesus and of Chalcedon He sustained many afflictions by