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

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

invention of things by Polydore 5. Vpon Capgraves Catalogue 6. Vpon the lives of Bishops 7. An Epitome of Leland 8. The acts of the Rom. Bishops Two Comedies in severall sorts of verse● 1. The life of St. Iohn Baptist. 2. Of Christ. 3. Of his Baptisme a●d Tentation 4. Of Lazarus rais'd 5. Of the high Priests Councell 6. Of Symon the Leper 7. Of the Lords Supper and washing his Disciples feete 8. Of the Passion of Christ. 9. Of his buriall and Resurrection 10. Vpon the marriage of Kings 11. Of the Popish sects 12. Against Detractors 13. Papists treacheries 14. Against ad●lterating Gods Word 15. Of Ioh. King of England 16. Of the impostures of Thom. Becket 17. Of the promises of God 18. Of the preaching of St. Iohn 19. Corruptions of Divine Lawes 20. Pammachius translated Bookes in prose in English 1. Vpon the Apocalyps 2. Against Standish 3. Against the custome of swearing 4. Mystery of iniquity 5. Against Antichrist 6. The triall of Sir Iohn Old-Castle 7. Some Dialogues 8. Against Baals Priests 9. Apology for Barnes and Gray against Smith 10. Against perswasion to Popery 11. Vpon Anne Askew 12. To Elizabeth after Queen 13. Vpon the single life of Clergie men 14. Lelands Journall 15. Of true Heretiques 16. Expostulations of Popery 17. Vpon Mantuan of death 18. Against the Popish masse 19. Of the calling to a Bishopricke 20. Against Bonners Articles 21. Vpon Luthers death 22. Iohn Lambards Confession 23. A weekes worke to God 24. Thorpes Examination ●ranslated into Latine 25. Iohn Pomers Epistle to ●he English men 26. Of the writers of England and Scotland enriched with 500 Authors 26. Abreviations of Leland While hee lived among the Papists he collected these and writ them 1. A bundle of all writers 2. Writers f●om Helia 3. Writers from Bertholde 4. Additions to Trytemiu● Germane collections Fren● collections and English 5. The spirituall warre 6. The Castle of Peace 7. To the Synod of Hull 8. The History of St. Br● chard Of Symon an English man 9. Prefaces upon Mantua● It doth by all these appear● what an industruous labourer Bale was in his time whose memory is yet fres● amongst us IOHN COLLET THIS Collet was sonne to Henry Collet Knight and twice Lord Maior of London he was Doctor of Divinity in the Vniversity of Oxford and Deane of St. Pauls in London hee was a great Scholler living in the darke time of Popery he embraced true Religion in the reignes of Henry the 7. and 8. Kings of England His sincerity was seene in his extraordinary and laborious Sermons but specially in that which hee preacht to Henry the eighth at his siege of Tournay His Argument was stiled Christianus Miles or the Christian Soldier whereupon hee being called to tryall by the Kings Councellors The issue proved happy for he gave great content to the King insomuch that the King taking a cup of Wine said Deane I drinke to you let every man take whom he will for his Confessor you onely shall be my Doctor And truely this great Deane of St. Pauls taught and lived like St. Paul Hee was expert in St. Pauls Epistles and illustrated them with his Commentaries He preacht against the worshiping of Images concerning Iustification by the Merits of Christ freely against idle Priests against those that were marryed and yet lived inordinately His nature was against those which persecuted the professors of truth Hee derided one that thought St. Paul meant by those words an Heretique after the first and second admonition Devita that he should be cut off taking the verbe to be a substantive De vita ac si de vit â tollendu● He founded and built that famous Grammar schoole called Pauls Schoole where an hundred fifty and three poore mens sonnes should be taught freely and a fine house of dwelling for the Schoolemaster which Schoole beares this inscription in Latin Schola Catechisationis puerorum 〈◊〉 Christi Opt. Max. side bon●●tteris Anno Christi M. D. X. ●hich doth evidently prove ●at hee was a true Religious ●an Hee assigned a large ●nnuall stipend to the head ●choole-master and Vsher he ●ft rents and houses which ●e committed to the care of ●e Worshipfull company of ●ercers in London That lear●ed William Lylly the Author ●f the Latine Grammar was ●e first Schoole-master of ●is place Doctor Collet lies ●mously buried in the Ca●drall Church of St. Paule ●pon whose Tombe Lyly hath engraven Latine verses and this Motto Disce muri mundo Vivere disce Deo His writings were these 1. Of the institution of youth 2. Of Manners Lib. 1. 3. Foureteene bookes upon St. Paul 4. One booke on the Proverbs 5. One booke of St. Matthew 6. One booke of the feare of Christ. 7. One booke of the twelve Articles of Faith 8. Vpon the Lords Prayer 9. Ordnary Sermons 10. Extraordinary sermons upon speciall occasions 11. Of the sayings of Christ. 12. Disputation against Erasmus Roterdamus 13. One Sermon to the Clergy in English WILLIAM TINDALL THIS famous Scholl● was borne in the co●fines or borders of Wales 〈◊〉 had his youth trained 〈◊〉 in Oxford in Magdalen Colledge in the liberall Sciences where hee attained to great skill in the Tongues when he had gathered great knowledge of Gods Will as it was revealed in his Word He dedicated his first fruits of learning to the Colledge and then entred into holy Orders In that darke time of Popery having embraced the Truth he also instructed his wife and div●rs others in the knowledge of it Furthermore hee turn'd many famous bookes and writings into English and namely Erasmus his Enchyridion of a Christian Souldier But his name being growne somewhat famous he was vext by his adversarie the Adherent● of the Bishop of Rome and whereas he studied the quiet of his owne Conscience h● left this Land and went into Germany and had great conference with Martin Luther and Iohn Frith in Saxony by whose helpe hee set upon the translation of the Scriptures into English tongue for the go●d and prosit of the rude and ignorant people and having translated the New Testament and the Pentateuch or five bookes of Moses caus'd them faithfully to bee imprinted at Hamburg with learned Prefaces to each of them and sent them into England He writ many other famous pieces in English and when hee had staid a good while in Germany he came downe to Antwerp in Brabant where hee did much good by instructing the Merchants and enduing them with the knowledge of the truth but hee had not travelled long before his adversaries had laid him out for the fire therefore being by Letters and Messengers sent out of England taken he was led as a Prisoner to Filford Castle in in Flanders where for the testimony of Iesus Christ and for the Profession of the Gospell hee suffered constantly a cruell Martyrdome being burnd to Ashes His last words hee spake were these Open oh Lord the Kings eyes of England Hee was through the whole