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

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of celebrating the Lords Supper 3. A friendly farewell to his loving friends and favourers being in Prison at Oxford 4. With a mournfull Lamentation of the deplored estate of the Church of England being falne to Popery His writings could not be many because his time was but short and he imployed it most in preaching THOMAS CRANMER THIS reverend and grave Arch-bishop was borne in the County of Notingham sprung from an ancient and worthy family He was brought up to study in the Vniversity of Cambridge in Jesus Colledge in which he made a wonderfull progresse in learning and prov'd in a short time an excellent and usefull member in the Church for his rare endowments he was by that potent Prince Henry the eight King of England made Arch-bishop of Canterbury after the death of his predecessor Warran in the yeare 1532. All the time of King Henry his Reigne he shaved his beard but that King dying hee let it grow greatly as you see him here lively presented he was the first Archbishop except onely one which was Richard Scroope Archbishop of Yorke that was adiudged to death in England by formall course of Law But this Cranmer was and underwent two yeares and an halfe imprisonment with much sorrow in darknesse nastinesse and want Certaine it is that he was a man devoted wholly to Religion and Godlinesse for he in the time of King Edward procured many Divines to repaire from forraine parts into this Kingdome and saw that they were supplyed with necessa ries among whom was M● tine Bucer Paulus Fagius Io hannes Lascus and Peter Martin If he had not loved the Go● spell of Jesus he would no● have so friendly relieved and cherished his followers He needes no other commendations than those which are given him by Andreas Osi●der Peter Martir in K. He● the eighth his reigne Osi●der in his preface to his Evangelicall harmony thus speaks of him Amote c. I love your Grace not onely for those endowments which are common to others as greatnesse of birth comlinesse of person sweetnesse of carriage charity to all especially ●o Students and professors of Gods Word but much more for those Abstrusiores ac plane ● leroicas animi tui virtutes those are his very expressions in English Abstruse and plainely Heroicall vertues of your minde together with your Visedome Prudence Fortitude Temperance Justice care for your Countries good Loyalty to your Soveraigne contempt of worldly wealth love of heavenly riches love of the truth Gospell and professors of it This Encomium is large and true proceeding from the penne of such a Divine and Peter Marter gives him as much praise in his Epistle to his booke of the Eucharist Quem enim potuissem c. Whom could I finde so true a Bulwarke for the truth and especially Huius Eucharistici Sacramenti For the Sacrament of the Eucharist than your sacred selfe nay he saith Q●is sanctior firmior Doctior Who so holy whose stedfast who so generally learned● It is your Grace that are expert in all the Writings of the Fathers Councels Canons Popes Decrees Controversies of these saith he I am an eye witnesse or else I should scarce have believed ●t Ye for all these parts this famous Father of the English Church was adiudged to the sire and suffered it at Oxford 1556. the 21. of March and of his age 72. in which weighty charge of governing the affaires of the Church He writ many things which are here to his eternall praise truely registred 1. A Catechisme of Christian Doctrine 2. Ordinations of Churches reformed 3. Ofordaining Priests 4. Of the Eucharist with Luther 5. A defence of Catholicke doctrine 6. To the professors of the Truth 7. Ecclesiasticall Lawes in Edward the sixth his reigne 8. Against Gardners Sermon 9. Doctrine of the Lords Supper 10. 12 Bookes of common places out of the Doctors of the Church 11. Christian Homilies 12. To Richard Smiths Calumnies 13. Confutations of unwritta● truths 14. Of not marrying one● sister two Bookes 15. Against the Popes primary two bookes 16. Against Popish Purgatory two bookes 17. Of Iustification two Bookes 18. Epistles to Learned Men. Out of Prison hee writ these 1. Against the sacrifice of the Masse 2. Against adoring the Host. 3. To Queene Mary with others 4. Emendations of the Translation of the English Bible and added Prefaces to it EDWIN SANDES ARCHBI THIS Worthy Doctor of the Church of England proceeded of a good house and family and tooke his degree of Doctor in the famous Vniversity of Cambridge he was Master of Katharine Hall and Vice-Chancellor of the said Vniversity the same time When Iohn Duke of Northumberland passed by that way with his Army to oppose the proclaiming of Mary Queene of England he caused this Sands to preach for and in defence of the Lady Jane Grey which was declar'd Queene which he performd with that modesty gravity and wisedome that hee satisfied Northumberlands Duke and did not much incense the other party for when there was a suddaine change of things so that the next day the great Duke and himselfe were both taken Prisoners this worthy Sands at the intercession of many friends was acquitted and fully set free and so together with his wife went into Germany a good policy to shun a comming threatning storme where he kept himselfe close during the reigne of Queene Mary but that Queene dying hee was cald home into England in Queene Elizabeths Reigne and was declared Bishop of Worcester and was consecrated ●e one and twentieth of December in the yeare of our Lord 1559. Hee did succeed that famous Arch-bishop Grindall in two places to ●it in the Bishopricke of London and the Archbishopricke of Yorke the one in ●570 and the other in sixe yeares after and when he had enioyed that spirituall promotion of Arch-bishop 12. yeares he departed this life the eighth of August 1588. about the age of threescore and lies buryed in the Collegiate Church of Southwel●in ●in Notingham shire a man of whom it is hard to be said whether more famous for his singular vertues learning or for his Noble Parentage and Of-spring which hee left behinde him for he left many Children of which three were Knights and excellently well qualified gentlemen either for body or mind But his sonne Sir Edwine Sands prov'd the learneder more famous and deare to his Countrey There is a booke of famous sermons extant in Print of this Prelates which is counted a worthy piece of work doth sufficiently declare his Piety and Schollership to succeding Ages ALEXANDER NOWELL THis Effigies speaks Christian Meekenesse and gravity and he was as this shewes him to be borne he was in Lancashire of an ancient family of the Nowels Hee tooke the degree of Doctor in Divinity in Queen Maries dayes he as many other famous Divines were forced to doe departed this Land to shunne the troubles of those times and to secure their owne persons from their Adversaries Hee
Grammar 10. Ecclefiasticus Latine and French 11. A Looking-glasse of Tremelius against Genebrard 12. Twelve Orations for the reading of the Old Testament 13. An Oration of Vrsinus life 14. Upon Gregory 13. his Cursings against Gebbard Bishop of Colen 15. Upon St. Iudes Epistle 16. Foure Speeches for reading the Old Testament 17. Upon the 4 first Psalmes 18. A Catholicke Apology in Latine 19. An Hebrew Lexicon 20. His table of Purgatory 21. A Christian admonition against Iohn Haren in French 22. A book called the Academy 23. His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greeke and Latine 24. Translation of 2. Epistles of the Kings and one of Plessis in Latine 25. His sacred Paralels 26. Upon the Prince of Anhalt his death 27. Notes upon the three first Chapters of Genesis 28. A confutation of some Arguments of the Creation 29. Notes upon the Apocalyps 30. Second Edition of his Lible 31. Manilius with corrections and Notes 32. His first defence of the Catholicke Doctrine of the Trinity 33. A Commentary on Daniel 34. The King of France his confession in French 35. Upon the Death of Iohn Cassimeire Count Palatine 36. Commentary on Psal. 101. 37. Exposition upon the Apocalyps in French 38. Commentary on Ionah the Prophet 39. An Analysis upon Genesis 40. Ciceroes Epistles to Atticus and Q. his brother with Corrections and Notes 41. A defence of the Catholick Doctrine of Nature and Grace 42. A praise of Peace 43. The peaceable Christian in French 44. Of the observation of Moses policy 45. Of Divinity 46. An Oration against the Iesuites in Latine 47. Notes upon Tertullian 48. Notes and Animadversions upon Bellarmine of the Translation of the Roman Empire These be this painefull Labourers fruits more he writ which are not come forth and some things by the iniury of times are lost these be sufficient to shew his paines and labour and will for ever eternize his Name These are the Names and Lives of the Forreigne Divines those that follow are of our owne Nation 〈◊〉 WICKLIFEE AMongst many famous Writers of this Nation as Beda Alckvine John Carnotensis Girald Nigellus Neckam Sevall Bacanthorpe Ockam Hampoole of Armach this Wickliffe is not the least of worth hee was famous both for Lifes and Learning he was brought up in the famous Vniversity of Oxford in Merton Colledge he gave himselfe after hee was Maister of Arts to the study of Schoole Divinity wherein having an excellent acute wit he became excellently well qualified and was admired of all for his singular Learning and sweetnesse of behaviour He preached the Gospell under that famous King Edward the third who alwayes favoured and protected him from his raging Adversaries The Bishop of Rome lost by his Doctrine the power of making and ordayning Bishops in England and the Tenths of spirituall promotions and also the gaines of his Peter-pence The Popes ever since pretending to bee Imitators of St. Peter have still desired to fish in this Iland knowing how profitable this Kingdome hath beene to that See of Rome In the time of King Richard the second this Wickliffe was banished in which misery and affliction hee shewed a singular spirit of courage and constancy wheresoever hee ●vent or whatsoever he suffered At last returning from Exile he died in the yeare of our Saviour Iesus whom he had Preached 1398. and was buried the last day of December in his Parish Church of Lutterworth in Leicester-shire But in the yeere 1428. which was 41. yeeres from the time of his death his dead body was by the Decree of Pope Martin the fifth and the Councell of Sene dig'd up and burned with the Execrations of that fiery Pope thus he found the cruelty of them being dead whom he had being living taught to be so He writ as Pius Aenaeas testi fies more than two hundred faire volumes most of which were burned by Subinck Archbishop of Prague in Bohemia The Catalogue of his Works you may reade in the Centuries of John Bale some of them I have here set downe 1. Of Christ and Antichrist 2. Of Antichrist and his members 3. Of the truth of the Scriptures 4. Of the fountaine of Errors 5. A booke of Conclusions 6. 7. Of Ecclesiasticall and Civill government 8. Of the Impostures of Hypocrites 9. Of Blasphemy 10. Lectures on Daniel 11. On the Apocalyps 12. Of the marriage of Priests 13. The Divels craft against Religion 14. His policy to overthrow faith 15. Of Apostacy 16. Two bookes of Metaphy sickes one containing 12. Bookes 17. Glosses upon the Scripture 18. Of falling away from Christ. 19. Of truth and lying Besides these he writ many of Philosophy and tra●slated the Bible into the English tongue making Prefaces and Arguments to euery Booke he also tra●slated the twelve Bookes of Clement the Parson of Lan●hon containing the harmony of the Evangelists And thus went out this Lampe of England of whom one thus hath said Mortuus est p●sthàc ●ssa cremata sua IOHN BALE HEE was an Englishman borne in Suffolke fitted and furnished with all maner of learning at Cambridge His Parents had many Children and were Papists This Bale being a boy was shut up 12. yeares in a Cloyster of Friars Carmalites hee was first brought from that darknes to light by the Right Honourable the Lord Wentworth but he was troubled first under the government of Leo at Yorke and afterwards under Stokesley at London being Arch-bishops But Bale got his freedome by the meanes of Cromwell who was privy Councellor to King Henry the eighth for some dain●y and elegan● Comedies which he compos'd yet he was forced to flye and remained in Lower Germany eight yeares in which hee writ many workes He was called home by King Edward the sixth and was made Bishop of Ossar in Ireland where he preached But in Queene Maries dayes Ireland was too hot for him and so left it but after many dangers he was taken by Pirats stript mocked and vncivilly handled at last was sold but his ransome being paid he returned into Germany which was at that time the safest receptacle for distressed Christians living at Ba●ile he compiled that work of his 13 Cen●uries of all the famous writers of Great Britains in all ages to the yeare of Christ 1557. Hee was much helped by Leland living in Germany his special friends were Alexander Alerius a Scotish man where hee writ the like Catalogue of the famous men of that Nation likewise Gesner Simler and Lycosthenes loved him dearely He was a powerfull engine against the Roman Church as appeares by that Distiche of Lawrence Hum●hred 〈◊〉 Lutherus patefecit Platina multa Quadam Vergerius Cuncta Balaeus habet Englished thus Full much did Luther Platin● did well So did Vergerius Bale doth all excell This worthy Scholler dyed in Ireland in the yeare of our Redemption 1558. and of his troublesome life 67. His workes are these that follow 1. His Heliads of English 2. His British writers 3. 3 Tomes upon Walden 4. Vpon the
Wit Learning Religion Like him these times will yeeld us few or none MATHEW PARKER This countenance speaks Gravity and hee was no lesse than he appeares He was borne in the City of Norwich furnished with Learning in the Vniversity of Cambridge Hee was BibleClarke in Corpus Christi Colledge and after he was made Fellow of the same Colledge but he was called from hence to be Chaplaine to Queene Anne Wife to Henry 8. King of England He tooke degree of Doctor in Divinity and first he was made Deane of Stoake and Queene Anne dying the King made him one of his Chaplaines and that King dying he was reputed worthy to be Chaplaine to King Edward the sixth he obtayned no meane preferments and dignities under both Kings as the Mastership of that Colledge in which hee was bred He was Prebend of Ely and Deane of Lincolne all which promotions in King Edwards dayes hee did quietly possesse untill the second yeere of Queene Mary then he was for marrying a Wife stript from all his preferments and lived an obscure and poore life But that storme being over and the Archbishopricke of Canterbury being voide by the death of Cardinall Poole Queene Elizab. iudged none fitter for this eminent preferment for Life and Learning than this Grave Prelate and so did bestow the Archbishopricke upon him He was installed the 17. of December and sate Primate and Metropolitane of all England the space of 15. yeeres in which space hee did many famous workes of Charity As first he gave to the City of Norwich the place of his birth a Silver Basen and Eure double guilt weighing an hundred and threescore and ten Ounces to this he gave 50. Shillings yeerely to be distributed to the poore of that City Hee tooke care also for sixe anniversary Sermons ●o be preached in five particular Parish-churches in Norfolke Hee built a faire Grammar-schoole at Rochdale in Lancashire he gave to Corpus Christi or Bennet-Colledge of which he was Head Thirty Schollerships hee builded the inward Library and furnished it with many faire Bookes printed and Manuscripts rare and scarce for worth and antiquity Moreover he gave to the Students of the same House a piece of Plate of 30. ●unces of Silver double guilt and withall gave the perpetuall Advouzon of the Parsonage of Saint Mary Abchurch to the Colledge these with many other deeds of Charity this Reverend Prelate freely did performe But one thing I cannot omit of him which was his great care for the preservation of ancient Histories whose names before this time had perished but that that fastened a Nomenclature or Catalogue of the Authors This Father of the Church deceased in the yeere of Jesus Incarnation 1574 being 70. yeeres old and lies buryed in the Ch●ppell at Lambeth covered with a Marble and an ingraven Epitaph his workes are these that follow 1. A Sermon when Mar. Bucer was buried out of Wisdome Cap. 4 ver 7. to 19. 2. A booke of the Antiquity of the Church of Canterbury and of 70. Archbishops of that See 3. The History of England of Mathew Paris 4. The flowers of the History of Mathew of Westminster 5. The History of Gyrald the Welchman of Tho. Walsin● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 famous Father of whom it is said Integer vera Relligionis amans IOHN FOXE BEhold this Man and thou canst not choose but wonder at his extraordinary labour and travaile to gather together so many of Gods servants in a bundle hee was borne in the County of Lancaster his young yeeres shewed that he was layd out for a Scholler and so he had education accordingly in a famous Schoole After being ripe he was sent to Oxford and was admitted into Magdalen Colledge where hee gave himselfe strictly to study and then profest Divinity hee attained to an excellent skill in the Latine Greek and Hebrew Tongues in King Edward 6. his Reigne and for his better safety and security left this Kingdome in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dayes and lived in the Low-c●untries But when the Date of that Q●eenes dayes were expired he cam● back● into England and p●oved a famous Divine H● had an exc●llent faculty in preaching and added ●o painefulness● constancy and willingnesse but that worke o● his called The History of the 〈◊〉 made his name fam●us in this Kingdome and else where and will for ev●r 〈◊〉 his praise He w●s a man of an humble spirit and h●d t●uely lea●n'd tha● Doctr●ne of St. Paul In what estate soever he was in therewithall to be content Hee was one that had as it seem'd crucified himselfe to the world and its vanities as it may appeare in a kind and fatherl● reprehension of his eldest sonne who having a great mind to travel into forraigne parts which when hee had p●rformed he came to his Father in Oxford then being old and he being a●tired in a loose out-landish fashion who are you said his Father not knowing him to whom his sonne replyed I am your sonne to whom this Master Foxe answered Oh what enemy of thine hath taught thee so much vanity which speech of his shewed that his minde was weaned from the love of the world And indeed I cannot conceive how hee could have any liberty to addict himselfe to follow delights and pleasures doing so exquisi●ely such rare pieces of Schollership which tooke up all his time nay it is rather to be wondred how he performed so great labours in so short a time which he could not have done without long and tedious watchings and fastings which three study fasting and watching will subiect the flesh to the Spirit and this course tooke ●ee This man never sought af●er greedily any promotions or preferments but held and ●pproved of that estate in which he dyed He departed ●his life in London and lyes ●uried in the Church of Saint Giles without Cripple-gate upon whose Marble Monument his Sonne Samuel Foxe hath caused to bee ingraven this Inscription Christo S. S. To John Foxe his honoured Father the faithfull Martyrologian 〈◊〉 our English Church a mos● disert searcher into th● Antiquities of Histories a most stiffe Bulwarke and fighter for the Evan gelicall Truth which hath revived the Martyr● as so many Phoenixes from the dust of Oblivion is this Monument made He dyed 18. of Aprill 1587. and of his age 70. He writ and set forth these things that follow 1. Meditations on the Apoca●ps 2. A Treatise of Christ crucifi● Lat. 3. Of Christ try●mphing in 〈◊〉 4. The continuation of Willi● Haddon against Osorius 5. Against the Pope Lat. 6. Short and comfortable ex●rtations to the afflicted Angli● 7. Short notes of Election in English 8. The foure Evangelists in Saxon-English 9. His History of Martyrs 10. A Sermon made at the baptizing of a Iew the Text out of the 11. to the Romans in L● tine 11. Vrbanus Rhegius 〈◊〉 Faith translated 12. One hundred and fifty Ti tles and Orders of Common places 13. A supplication to the English Lords for the afflicted brethren
at 58. years of his age departed not without the griefe of the whole Clergy people but specially of the inhabitants of Salisbury at the instant houre of death he cald his servants and with great paines declared his faith and told them they should finde in his writings he sealed up his writings with these words That faith which I have set forth is the truth and in that faith I dye and so gave up the Ghost in March 1618. and lies buried in Sarisbury Cathedrall Church His workes are here set downe 1. The reformed Catholick in 3. Tomes in English against Wil. Bishop an English Papist in the defence of William Perkins 2. A demonstration of Antichrist against Cardinal Bellarmine other Papists in Latine 3. A defence of his bookes against the Cavils and Sophistications of Eudaemon-Iohn for Isack Causabon and against the Apologie of the said Iohn for Garner 4. The old way A Sermon in Latine at Oxford set forth by Thomas Drax. IOHN WHITGIFT LOoke upon and wonder at the Effigies of this reverend Prelate who was so eminent a governour of our English Clergy He was borne in York-shire of an ancient family of the Whitguifts and was the eldest sonne of Henry Whitguift of great Grimsbey in Lincolne-shire Merchant he had an unckle called Robert Whitguift Abbat of Wellow Monastery in Lincolnshire of which unckle he had education who was wont to say that neither he nor the Popish religion would long continue and used this saying of our Saviour Matth. 15. 13. Every Plant which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up His unckle seeing his forwardnesse to learning sent him to London to Schoole in St. Annes Schoole where prositing much by the advice of his said unckle hee was sent to Cambridge he was at first admitted of Queenes Colledge but not liking that house he removed to Pembrooke Hall Nicholas Ridley being then Master who being certified of Master Bradford of this Schollers forwardnesse and poverty for his Father was decayed by losses at Sea he gave him a Schollership in that Hall and 1555 he was made Fellow of Peter-house Doctor Pearne being then President or Master who favoured him in Queene Maries dayes He having before taken 3. Degrees went forth at last Doctor of Divinity and canvas'd this Question That the Pope is Antichrist being also a famous Preacher hee succeeded Doctor Hutton who was Arch-Bishop of Yorke from a Fellow to bee Master of Pembrooke Hall and was Doctor Coxes Chaplaine the Bishop of Ely He was likewise made the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond her Lecturer or Professor which hee performed with such praise that hee was made in short time the Queenes Doctor of the Chaire hee comming to preach before Queene Elizabeth was so well approved of her that she made him Master of Trinity Colledge was sworne her Chaplaine in the yeare 1567. Hee was for ten yeares master of that famous society with the approbation of all the Vniversity except Thomas Cartwright and some few others who did oppose the rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England which this Whitguift maintained The Queene cald him to be Deane of Lincolne which hee held 7 yeares while he staid in Cambridge by his excellent learning and moderation he bred up many brave Pupils of which he saw 5. come to the dignity of Bishops to wit Redman Bishop of Norwich Babington Bishop of Worcester Rudd Bishop of St. Davids Golsborough Bishop of Glocester and Benedict Bishop of Hereford As also many Lords as the Earles of Worcester and Comberland Baron le Zouch Baron Dunboyr of Ireland Nicholas Bacon and Francis Bacon and the Farle of Essex and divers others Having beene Deane of Lincolne seaven yeares the Queene gave him the Bishopricke of Worcester 1577. and he taking his farewell of the Vniversity chose those words of St. Paul to the Corinthians 2. Cor. 13. 11. Within a yeare after hee was made Vice-President of Wales Sir Henry Sidney Knight being then he Lord President In the yeare 1583. upon the death of Grindal Arch-Bishop of Canterbury he was by the Queene chosen for Arch-Bishop and presently one of the Lords of her Maiestics honourable privy Councell During the reigne of this Queene he was in high esteeme insomuch that the Queene would familiarly cal him Her blacke Husband and when this Queene was on her death-bed hee was admitted still to pray by her and when shee was speechlesse yet she showed by signes of her liking his prayers and departed March 24. 1602. Then King James of blessed memory comming to the Crowne he annoynted him and set the Crowne upon his head and was alwayes high in the Kings favour but he grieved inwardly for Queene Elizabeths losse and out-lived her but a few moneths for in February next 1603. hee dyed but his sicknesse King James hearing of came to Lambeth and visited his Arch-Bishop and after many sweet words spoken to him told him that he would pray to God to give him life The Arch-Bishop strove to speake in Latine to the King but his words could not bee understood onely he often repeated this pro Ecclesia Dei that is for the Church of God which were his last words and so within few dayes after dyed being aged 73. and Arch-Bishop more than 20 yeares He was buried in the south side of the Church at Croydon where there is a faire Tombe in memory of him He performed many worthy charitable deedes in all places where he lived as at Lincolne Worcester in the Marches of Wales in Kent and Surrey but the chiefe of all is that famous Hospitall or Almes-house at Croydon dedicated to the Sacred Trinity in which a Warden and 24. Brethren and sisters are nourished To which hee adioyned a faire Free-schoole with a house for the Schoole-master and endowed those places with a sufficient yearely revenew Many of his Chaplaines came to be Bishops hee set forth no bookes but onely one great volume in English of the Rises Ceremonies and Ecclesiasticall polity of our Church defended and one Sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth 24. of March 1574. Text Ioh. 6. ver 25 26 27. THOMAS BECON THE life of man upon Earth is a reall pilgrimage and seldome is so setled or certaine but each moment may and doth oftentimes induce a mutation and wonder not that he is placed here living so long before but then I had not his Effigies This worthy and reverend Clergy man had reall experience of changes for in the reigne of King Edward the sixth hee did professe Divinity in the flourishing Vniversity of Oxford without impeachment or molestation but in the time of Queene Mary he as well as divers others left this Kingdome to enioy the liberty of their consciences and to avoyd if possible they could a storme that fell in that Queenes government and so travelled into Germany but Queene Mary dying hee returned to this Land againe and prov'd a diligent Shepheard and an eminent Writer as may bee proved