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. 1637 Approx. 212 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 199 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A14345 STC 24660 ESTC S119100 99854307 99854307 19721 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A14345) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 19721) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1120:3) 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. [32], 364 p. : ports. (metal cuts) Printed by N. and Iohn Okes [are to be sold by Andrew Crooke at ye Bare in Paules church yard], London : 1637. A translation of "Imagines et elogia praestantium aliquot theologorum" by Jacob Verheiden. The section on English writers was drawn from "Heroologia Anglica" by Henry Holland. Translator's dedication signed: Donald Lupton. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Theologians -- Bio-bibliography -- Early works to 1800. Theologians -- Portraits -- Early works to 1800. Reformation -- Bio-bibliography -- Early works to 1800. Reformation -- Portraits -- Early works to 1800. 2003-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-09 Andrew Kuster Sampled and proofread 2004-09 Andrew Kuster Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion 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 . Faithfullv translated out of Latine by D. L. The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance . LONDON : Printed by N. and John Okes , 1637. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Knights , Sir PAUL PINDAR , Sir IOHN WOLSTENHOLME , Sir ABRAHAM DAVVES , Sir JOHN JACOB , Farmers of the Custome-House to the Kings most Excellent Majesty , all happinesse wished Right Worshipfull ▪ THAT my Intention was devoted to your Worships , appeares by this Presentation , and that my Intention hath rightly directed my Presentation , will easily bee seene ; for where could these faithfull Witnesses that are dead , have had fairer hopes of Tuition , than by you who are living Witnesses of the same Truth most of them have constantly suffered for : some of them were Exoticke , some Natives , all of the same Faith : GODS Word commends the protection of the former ; Grace and Nature both pleade for the other : Some of them that were Strangers , had faire protection and good provision in this Kingdome , and were publickly grac'd & allowed in the famous Schooles of our Vniversities ; and some of ours , upon the change of Religion , found presently a Reciprocall requitall in their chiefest Hans towns : Both one and the other were worthy Agents in the Church of GOD ; and their Workes ( the never dying Monuments of their Fame ) will praise them in the Gates ; they were so eminent Lights , that my Encomium will rather séeme to lessen than augment their lustre ; however , I have striven ( as much as I could ) to revive their Memories from the grave of Oblivion . And ( Right Worshipful ) if you but receive as much comfort by Reading of their Workes , as I have done by the Edition , I am fully perswaded , your Worships will rest satisfied , and I shall not be taxt for presumption : Disdaine not therefore , I pray you , to Patronize those , whom I doe beleeve ere this , GOD , the Father of the Faithfull , hath registred for his own Sonnes in the Booke of Life . I neede not blazon your Worthy and Religious actions to the World , when as both Church and State adorned , and greatly beautisied by them , doth , and will , for ever eternize your Pietie and Vertues to succeeding posterity . I onely wish the rich men of this age , either to imitate your doings , or be ashamed that they follow not such Eminent examples : Goe on still I exhort you , and in due time you shall reape the recompence of reward . Your Worships that so much love GODS Temple , I hope , will vouchsafe to receive and entertaine these famous men , who have been the Lords Embassadors in his Church here , and are in the Celestial Temple with him in Glory : So wishing all your Worships the like happinesse with his Saints , when you shal be dissolved : and praying for your prosperity on earth , with length of dayes ; I referre my selfe , and all my endeavours to Him and your worthy selves , being , Your Worships in all Christian Offices , Donald Lupton ▪ To the Christian Reader . I Have here sent to the view of the World , the lives of these Reverend Moderne Writers , whose Actions in their Studies do sufficiently declare what they did ; and what they suffered in the cause of our Saviour JESUS . I found them in Latine , and I thought it might bee some profit to our times to make them speake English : They were in their times great Antagonists to the Roman cause , and it is pitty their Memories should perish , or that they should not bee generally knowne , who generally did so much good in the Church of God , against all oppositions in their dayes . For their Effigies or Icons , they are not of my Invention , but taken to the Life : Some by Albertus Durerus , and the others by that Famous Henry Hondius : onely I desired to have them done in lesser Plates , for the profit of the Buyer . Reade their lives without prejudicate Opinion , admire their Diligence and Vigilancy , imitate their Vertues and Pious performances , praise GOD for raising such stout Champions for defence of the Truth , and blame not mee , who have laboured thus much for your sakes , and will ( with GODS Blessing ) doe more for your profit : Who am Yours , D. L. A CATALOGUE of all the names of the Moderne Divines mentitioned in this Booke . Out-landish Writers . BErengarius . pag. 1 Iohn Hus. p. 1 Hieronymus Pragnensis . 8 Erasmus Roterodamus . 14 Martinus Lutherus . 21 Philippus Melancthon . 30 Hulricus Zuinglius . 40 Iohannes Eoculampadius . 50 Paulus Fagius . 60 Martinus Bucerus . 68 Andreas Gerardus Hyperius . 81 Wolfgangus Musculus . 90 Ioannes Calvinus . 99 Augustinus Marloratus . 108 Petrus Martir . 115 Hieronimus Zanchius . 122 Martinus Chemnitius . 132 Aretius Benedictus . 140 Henricus Bullingerus . 147 Rodolphus Gualterus . 158 Theodorus Beza . 166 Franciscus Junius . 178 The English Writers follow . IOhn Wickliffe . pa. 190 John Bale . 197 John Collet . 207 William Tindal . 214 John Bradford . 221 Hugh Latimer . 226 Nicholas Ridley . 231 Thomas Cranmer . 237 Edwine Sands . 246 Alexander Noel . 251 John Juel . 258 Matthew Parker . 269 John Foxe . 276 Edmond Grindal . 286 Laurence Humphrede . 293 Gervase Babington . 299 Thomas Holland . 304 Robert Abbat . 311 John Whitguift . 319 Thomas Becon . 330 James Montagu . 339 William Perkins . 347 William Whitakers . 356 BEREN GARIVS BEhold the Effigies of this great and worthy Scholler , whose hand and eye poynt towards Heaven , whither his Saviour Jesus is ascended , in the sight of his Apostles , and shall be there untill his second appearing to iudgement : he is placed first , in time , amongst these famous witnesses : this is that Berengarius , a French man , and Arch-Deacon of Gant , who was powerfull in the Scriptures , and expert in the writings of the ancient Fathers of the Church , and who with admirable wit and wisedome did prove , that Christ was not carnally in the Blessed Sacrament , and so hindred mainly that grosse error of Popish Transubstantiation , which Doctrine hee confuted out of Gods Holy Word , and by the authority of the sincere Fathers , so that his writings went farre and neare , with approbation and admiration , to wit , into Italy , Germany , France , and other Territories ; and this was in the yeare of our Lord , 1020. Whereupon , Leo the ninth cald a Councell at Vercellis , and did in it condemne this Doctrine of Berengarius , so also when Nicholas the second was Pope , he was cald to a Councell held in Rome , where by the bitter menacings of that Pope , he was compel'd to a recantation : which did mightily reioyce the Pope : insomuch , that he sent his recantation to the Cities of Italy , Germany , France , as it plainly appeares in that noted Chapter , which beginnes , Ego Berengarius de consecratione distinct secunda . Wherein , these words , full of Blasphemy , are by the consent , iudgement , and prescipt of that Councel to be read , I doe beleeve , that the Body of our Saviour Jesus Christ is sensibly in the Sacrament . Et in voritate manibus sacordotum tractari & frangi , & fidelium dentibus a●teri . But it is not the malice of thy Adversaries ( oh Berenga●ius ) that can wrong thy innocence , for thou hast by holy Scriptures and Fathers confirmed thy words , and convinced their madnesse ; the purity of it appeares , even in the writings of thy Adversaries , even by Lanfranck himselfe , that Longobard , who was a man so full of subtilty and policy , especially in Schoole Divinity , that it tooke name from him : nay , he was so eminent in learning , that the learning of St. Augustine and Hierome , was not esteemed of , and so this Lanfrank proved the Popes Champion , in this question of Transubstantiation , which is the soule , as it were , of the Masse , and thereupon he had the Arch-Bishopricke of Canterbury given him ; nay , for defending this so stif●ely , Pope Alexander the second , the successor to Nicholas , did rise up to honour this Lanfranck , and indeede the upholders of the Romish cause doe all mainly bustle to defend this : so that Pope Urban the fourth , in the yeare 1264 did appoynt a solemne Feast for it , with Processions , Torches , Banners , and all other solem●ities , and did give upon that ●ay many Indulgences , and ●ut Thomas Aquinas to prove ●t to be necessary by Tipes , Figures , and shadowes out of the Old Testament . But Berengarius testified sufficiently his griefe and wonderfull sorrow , and assumed new courage , and so defended to the last what formerly he had written , and so departed this life a famous champion of Christ Iesus : hee sleepes in peace till the last Trumpet shall awake him to meete our Lord at his comming to Iudgement . And his Effigies as you see , was had by the helpe of Master Francis Molineus , who was a Deane , a learned man , and studious of Antiquities . Berengarius writ a Booke of the Body and the Blood of Christ in the Sacrament , in which he defends and confirmes his Tenents by the Scriptures and Fathers ; and in the same booke hee doth write of the Antichristian Church , and renounces his former yeelding absolutely , and tearmes that Councell plainely , Consilium vanitatis . For so Benno a Cardinal in Hildebrands life , saith , that then the Romish Clergy , was full of treachery and avrice . IC●ANNES HVS . THIS Famous instrument of GODS Church , seemes to have taken his first vigour and courage from our English Wickliffe : he was borne in Prague , the Metropolis of the Kingdome of Bohemia , and proved a famous preacher in that slourishing Vniversity , he was Pastor of a Church in that towne , called the Bethleemish Kirch , where his Doctrines did iudicially oppose the Popes proceedings ; hence Pope Alexander the fifth , condemned him for an Heretique . In his time things tooke not good successe in the Church of Rome , for the Cardinals falling out amongst themselves , they chose three Popes : divers Kings tooke it ill that the Church of Rome should be thus divided . Then in the yeare of Grace , 1414. there was a Councell held at Constance , for the redresse of these mischiefes , which now were got into the Roman Church . To this Councell was Iohn Hus called , by the Authority of the Emperor Sigismund , who had past his word faithfully for his safe comming thither , and for his returne from thence ; he obeyd the Emperor , and trusted to his promise ; but comming thither , neither was the Emperor Sigismunds promise availeable for his safety ; for it was contradicted by that Councell , and he cast into prison , with this censure . First , that faith in promises was not to be kept with Heretiques , and that though Sigismund promised him safe conduct thither , yet he promised not to safe guard him at his departure , and if he had , it was of no validity or force . The Bohemians intercede for him , but in vain ; with such eagernes and zeale did those Roman Agents prosecute their cause , and therefore adiudged both his person and his workes to bee burned : and when some of them would have had him shaven , and others denyed it ▪ so that they could not agree : Hus pleasantly turning to the Emperor Sigismund , said , Though all these my Adversaries bee cruell enough , yet they cannot agree in the manner of the performing it . At the last , they set a triple Crowne of Paper upon his head , and so upon the sixth day of Iuly , the yeare following being 1415 , this great scholler was burned . The Bohemians upon his death rose in Arms , and their Generall was Ziska , a slout and valiant Captaine , and they had admirable successe . This John Hus did write divers workes . They are Printed at Nurenburgh , in Montanus and Nuberiis Shop . 1558. 1. An explication of the Lords Prayer , the Creed , the ten Commandements , of Sinne , Marriage , of the Knowledge and Love of God , of the seaven deadly finnes , of the Lords Supper , &c. 2. Of Peace , 68. Epistles written a little before the Councell of Constance . 3. A Treatise of Tithes . 4. A Treatise of the Church . 5. A booke of Antichrist . 6. Of the Kingdome , people , life , and manners of Antichrist . 7. Of the unity of the Church , and of Schismes . 8. An History of the Acts of Christ , out of the 4 Evangelists . 9. An History of the passion of Christ , with Notes . 10. Explication of the 7 first Chapters of the 1 Ep. to the Cor. 11. Vpon the Canonicall Epistles of the Apostles , 7 Commentaries . 12. Of worshipping of Images . He spoke at his death , that within a hundred yeares , God would call them to account for his sufferings . HIERONYMVS PRAGENSIS THIS worthy Instrument , hath his name from the place of his birth ; for hee was a Bohemian by birth , and as you view the Effigies , so may you conclude of his Physiognomy ; there is one that commends him deeply , and yet not without cause ; the words he useth of him , after he had praised his outward livelinesse , are , Erat Hieronymus vir animo , Corpore , forma , eruditione , virtute , & eloquentia insignis , id est , Hierome was a man famous for spirit , Comlinesse , Learning , Vertue , Eloquence : His place of abode was at Iberling , not past a Dutch mile distant from Prague : When hee stood in defence of Hus and his Country , hee could not get protection from the Emperor , but in his travaile was taken by one Croft , & so bound was carried to Constance ; here the whole troope of his adversaries being met , furiously set upon him . 1. Gerson , that noted Chancelor of Paris , publickly produc'd many things , and obiected some new tenents and propositions , which he had formerly delivered in the City of Paris , and that by those his new conclusions , he had disturbed the whole Vniversity . 2. The Chancellor of the Vniversity of Collen obiected ●ginst him , an Oration which ●e had formerly delivered in ●hat place . 3. The Master of the V●iversity of Heidelbergh , carrying himselfe loftily in his Chaire , declared that he had uttered some strange opinions in that Accademy , and so did divers others . This Hierome of Prague thundered against the ill lives of the Romish Monkes and Friars , demonstrated their Pride , Covetousnesse , Lusts , &c. of that state : whereupon he was condemned to be burned , for which he was resolutely prepared , as it appeared by his valou● and contempt of death , ( eve● at the stake it selfe ) for stan● ding at the stake bound , the Executioner kindling the fir● behinde him , Hierome cald to him , and bade him kindle i● before his face , for ( said he ) I am not affraid of it ; for had I , I had not come hither at this time , having had so many opportunities offered mee to escape it . The whole City of Constance admired this mans constancy , and Christian-like magnanimity in the suffering this death . It is not certaine , whether he set out any thing in print or not , but certaine it that many brave Manu●ipts , and worthy Orati●s , had in sundry Vniversi●s , with his Letters , and ●nclusions , went to the fire ●s wel as tho Author , who de●ivered up himselfe a pleasant ●acrifice into the hand of his Saviour Iesus , whom hee so dearely loved , for as one sung of him , that he should say at the giving up of the Ghost . Hanc animam in flammis offero Christe tibi . ERASMVS ROTERDAMVS H●e was borne at Roterodam , upon St. Simon and Judes Eve , and lived 57 years ; his Mothers name was Margaret , at Zevenbergen : His fa●hers name was Everard : He had two unckles almost ninety yeares old a peece : his education was at Deventer Schoole nine yeares ; Peter Winchell being his Tutor , once chiefe Schoole-master at Goud , so sent to St. Hertogen Bosch : here he was solicited to enter into a Cloyster to turne Monke , they gave him time to resolve , he answered , Hee was too young to know the world , un●itter ▪ to know a Cloyster , because as yet , hee knew not himselfe : yet at last he had bound himselfe to that life , being drawne by the strong perswasions of one Corneliu● his Chamber-fellow at Deventer , living then at Stein , nere Goud ; hee told him the holinesse of that kinde of life , rich furniture and copiousnesse of Bookes , the rest and tranquility of minde , with the Angel-like society of the Brethren : The first that tooke notice of him , was Henry Bishop of Bergh ; but this Bishop missing ( for want of meanes ) a Cardinalship , gave leave to Erasmus to travell to Paris , with promise of yearely maintenance , but failed , a fault too frequent in great men . Here falling sicke by ill dyet , hee returned to his Lord Bishop , and was nobly entertained , and recovering health , hee went amongst his owne friends againe into Holland , but staid not , but departed againe for Paris : he was afraid to study Divinity , least mistaking the grounds , hee should be termed Heretique . But the Plague raging in Paris a whole yeare , he went to Lovaine : but he had seene England before , and his noble Maecenas , the Lord Montioy , where he was wonderously entertained , and writ a Booke in the praise of the King and all England , he● he had the favour of th● Arch-bishop of Canterbury but from hence he went into Italy , and stayed at Bononia Now hee was almost forty yeares old ; hence he went to Venice , where he printed his Adagies , so he passed to Patavia , thence to Rome , where he was much esteemed of by Raphael Cardinal of St. George ; he had meanes enough if Henry the 7. K. of England had lived : at last hee returned for Brabant , and was admitted into Charles the 5. Emperors Councell , by the helpe of Iohn Silvagius great Chancellor . All his workes are printed ●t Basil , sold by Hierome ●roben . 1540 in Folio , being ● . Tomes . 1. Containes those things which ●onduce to the Latine and Greeke tongues . Divers Translations of Greeke Orators , Poets , Tragedians , Morals , Similes , Colloquies ; Declamations , Epigrams . 2. 1000 of Proverbs , his Attica Musa , and Cornucopia full of all manner of learning . 3. His Epistles . 4. Containes institutions of Manners , Apothegmes , Institutions of princes , with divers others . 5. Enchyridion of a Christian souldier : his Commentaries upon some Psalmes , Prayers , institution of Christian marriage : many Treatises Theologicall . 6. The New Testament , with Annotations . 7. Paraphrases upon the New Testament . 8. Some things translated out of Greeke into Latine out of St. Chrysostome , Athanasius . Origen . Basill . 9. Many Apologies against detractors of his workes . Fabricius . Clauditur exigua Rotorodomus Humo . MARTINVS LVTHERVS THis Luther was borne in a Dorpe in Saxony , named Isleben , his parents were not eminent , either in wealth or honour ; he was brought up carefully in the liberall Arts , and being of an excellent wit , and a great courage and magnanimous spirit , he left the Cloystered life , being graced with the stile , of Doctor in Divinity , ( not unworthily ) having a charge of soules in Saxony : he preached Gods Word constantly and zealously : He spoke much against Indulgences and Popes Pardons , and Bulls sold by Teccelius : He received his degree of Doctor , by the intreaty of the Duke of Saxony , and the Vniversity , being then of the Order of St. Augustine , by the hands of Doctor Stupitius , who seeing Luther something willing to refuse that degree , told him , that God had much worke to be performed by the wisedome of Learned men , and intended to use his labours in that kinde . Maximilian the Emperor reading with great delight the disputations of Luther against Teccelius , gave speciall command to Doctor PfEfinger , that hee should defend this man safely : for he saw that his Labours and workes would in short time be very necessary and usefull against the iniuries and contrivings of the Bishop of Rome ; but Luther going on , did write couragiously and sharply against that See ; insomuch , that he is reputed of many to bee carried with too much zeale : I lee was called to appeare at Wormes , but being disswaded from the iourny by some of his friends , in regard the Adverse part were strong , he answered resolutely , that he would appeare in that place , Though all the Tiles of Wormes were Divels . Luther spoke some things , which he said should come to passe , and so indeed they fell out . Onewas , which he writ to Scnepfius Doctor of Theology , that after his death , many of his followers would fall away ; and that , what neither would bee done against the Church of God , by the Turke nor the Pope , should be done by some of his followers : who hating those of the Reformed Religion , did maintaine thar vaine Idoll of Vbiquity with Brentius and Smedelinus , and leane to the Romish cause : Another was , that when Charles the Emperor should oppose against the Gospell of Christ , that then he would lose all his domiminions in Low Germany , and so it came to passe in his son Philips reigne , who striving to advance the Roman cause , lost the Spread Eagle , for thereupon the united States revolted , and defended their owne liberties against the houses of Spaine and Austria . Well , after a great deale of labour to advance the Gospell , and to abate the power of Rome , this great Heroicke spirit , gave up his Spirit into the hands of his Maker . All or the most part of his works are printed in High Dutch & Latine by Sigismund Sueve : most of those that are extant , are here numbred . 1. Proposition of Penitents and Indulgences . 2. A disputation of the Popes power . 3. An Epistle to Silvester Cajetan . 4. Epistles to them of Breme , to the Brethren in Holland , Brabant , Flanders , and to Charles the fift , Duke of Saxony 5. An Appeale from the Pope to a Councell . 6. Of the freedome of Monks . 7. The difference betwixt true Bishops and those of the Romish Church . 8. Of the Priest hood , Lawes , and Sacrifices of the Pope , against Henry the eight King of England . 10. Against those who deny marriage to Priests . 11. Axiomes of Erasmus for Luthers cause . 12. Confession of faith exhibited to the Emperor at the Commencement at Augusta . 13. An Apology for the Augustan confession . 14. Epistles to his Friends , to Princes , to divers Common-weales , to Cities , to Churches . 15. To Councells . 16. Disputations . 17. Sermons . 18. The whole Bible tran●ated out of Hebrew into high Dutch. — — Mens quêis , Impura venite , Hic etenim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sordida corda lavat . PHILIPPVS MELANCTHON FITLY may this man follow Luther , being both at one time famous ; and indeed Luther could never have found a more faithfull and trustier friend , than this Melancthon : For Luther was vehement , Melancthon milde ; Luther couragious , Melancthon warily fearefull ; Luther was fit for the Pulpit , Melancthon for the Schooles ; Luther onely for plaine Divinity , Melancthon was excellent in all manner of Philosophy ; so that his fame was onely among such as were full of zeale that way , but Melancthon was renowned of all that heard him , or reades his workes : For his learning was not onely Theologie , but Philosophy , and even an Encuclopaedia of all variety of learning : By these two Wittenbergh was as famous as Rome it selfe : These Learned men fetcht Students from severall quarters to heare them : Melancthon bred up many a rare Schoolemaster , and excellent Theologues , which furnished most part of Germany : his fame was not onely great for Learning in the City of Wittenbergh , but also in forraine parts , nay with his very Adversaries , who not onely praised him for that , but also for moderating his spirit , and for his dexterity in the managing all his actions and Disputations , so that King Francis , the first King of France , ( whose name will bee ever fresh among the Learned ) sent an Embassador and Letter , in which , and by whom , hee earnestly desired Melancthon to come into France , that by his Conference and Councell , matters pertaining to the Church and Religion might bee fairely decided , and determined , where he used such affability and sweetnesse of behaviour and carriage , that he wrought there very effectually , and gaind the love , even of his opponents : he was the most earnest against that poynt of Transub●tantion , and no waves favoured that poynt of the Lutherans , either of the Vbiquity , or Consubstantiation . So when this learned light had laboured hard to reform both Doctrine and Discipline of the Church ; and when hee had exercised his Pen to the publishing of many rare and profitable works to the Church of Christ , hee yeelded up his soule to God : All his writings were printed at Basil , in the yeare of Grace , 1544. and 1545. by Hervagius , being 5. Tomes , the names of which , I have here inserted . Tome 1. 1. Commentaries upon Genesis . 2. Vpon the Proverbs of Salomon . 3. Briefe explications upon some Psalmes . 4. Annotations up St. Matth. upon St. Iohn . 5. Vpon the first Epistle to the Corinths . 6. An apologie for Luther , against those Parisians . 7. Against Anabaptists . 8. Sentences of the Fathers of the Lords Supper . 9. Of the qualification of Princes , of the Law-suites of Christans . 10. Of the Tree of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Church of Synods , and of Ecclesiastique writers . Tome 2. 1. Commentaries on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans . 2. Another on the same . 3. Schoole notes on the Colos. 4. Common places of Divinity . Tome 3. 1. A Confession of Faith. 2. A Catechisme . 3. A briefe method of Preaching : of the office of a ' Preacher , and of attaining to skil in Divinity . 4. Theologicall disputations . 5. An Epistle to Carthusianus of vowes . 6. An Epitome of the Doctrine of the ' Reformed Church . 7. An Epistle to Iohn Earle of Weda . Tome 4. 1. Philosophicall workes . 2. Commentaries upon the soule , cald De Anima . 3. Vpon Aristotles Ethicks . 4. Epitome of Morall Philosophy . 5. Vpon Aristotles Politiques . Tome 5. 1. A Latine Grammar . 2. A Greeke Grammar . 3. Logicke . Rhetoricke . 4. Enarrations on Hesiods workes . 5. Words fit for measures and Arithmetique . 6. Epigrams . These were Printed by Hervagius ; but there are divers others set forth by Christopher Pezzelius professor of the Schoole of Breme . 1. An Admonition and Premonition to those that reade the Alcoran . 2. A defence for the Marriage of Pri●sts . 3. Commentaries on Daniel . 4. A discou●se on the Nicene Creed . 5. Vpon Luthers life and death . 6. Many Schoole notes on Cicero's Epistles . 7. Translations of Demosthenes and P●utarch . 8. Greeke and Latine Epigrams . 9. Two Tomes of Epistles . 10. Cario● his Chronologie enlarged , with many Histories . By these it is evident , that this worthy Instrument did not hide his Talent , but did imploy it to the glory of God , and the profit of his Church , and so dying in the Lord , hee rested ●om his labours . HVLRICVS ZVINGLIVS . AS all Germany admired their Luther , so all Sw●zerland this Zuinglius : He was as famous at Tigurum , as the other at Wittenbergh . Zuinglius , as himselfe testifies in his worke of Articles , which is full of learning , began to preach the Gospell in the yeare of Christ , one thousand five hundred and sixeteene : he spoke much against the Popes Pardons and Indulgences : This poynt hee learned well of his Tutor Doctor Thomas Witenbach of Biele , when hee read upon it , at a publicke Session of Divines at Basil. Zuinglius was solid in all manner of learning hee was a diligent searcher of the Scriptures , which he might the easlier doe , because he was so expert in the Holy Tongues : he was admirable for refining his owne language ; he was such an Engine against the Popes uniust proceedings , that their side wanting ability to hurt , did as to Luther , by great gifts and presents , as so many baites , strive to allure him to their side and cause , and these enticements proceeded not from meane persons ▪ but from Cardinals themselves , who lay at Basil as Embassadors : There fell betwixt Luther and Zuinglius a sharp contention , about the Vbiquitary presence of Christ in the Eucharist . Zuinglius constantdenyed : and it is thought since , it had beene better for the Church of God , if Luther in that poynt had wanted a pen to write , or a tongue to speake ; but such insirmities accompany the best of men . This Zuinglius feared neither dangers nor death , so that hee might preach the Word of God. He stir'd up the courages of the souldiers for the cause of Christian liberty , maintaining at that time a sharpe warre : h● put them in good hope of immortality ; he exhorted , he comforted them , nay , hee accompanied them , and dyed in the head of the battell . So that one truely saies of him , Quod pro Aris & focis sanguinem profuderit . But his Enemies cruelty towards his carcase , is remarkable , that when he was kild , they tooke his body and cut it in foure pieces , and committed it so to the fire . This Battell in which Zuinglius fell , was on the 11. of October , in the forty fourth yeare of his age , and of our Lord , 1531. His workes are contained in foure Tomes , which are large witnesses for him , and will in all ages speake to his commendation , which are here reckoned . Tome 1. 1. A worke of Articles . 2. An exhortation to the whole state of Switze●land . 3. A supplication to the Bishop of Constance . 4. An Epistle to the Senate , people , and Church of Toggia . 5. Of the certainty and purity of Gods Word . 6. An answere of the Tigurines , to the Bishop of Constance , of Idols and Masses . 7. An answere to Valentine of the authority of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church , of Images and Purgatory . 8. Institutions for youth . 9. A good shepheard . 10. Of two-fold Justice , Divine and Humane . 11. Of the choyse and free use of meates , and of scandall . 12. Of the Virgin Mary . 13. Some treatises of GODS providence . Tome 2. 1. Of Baptisme against Anabaptists . 2. Epistles to Ecchius Faber , and Balthazar Hubmeir . 3. Of Originall sinne , to Vrbanus Regius . 4. Of the Authors of Tumults and Seditions . 5. To Matthew Albert of the Lords Supper . 6. Of true and false Religion to King Francis. 7. A sermon of the Confession of his faith . 8. Another to perswade to perseverance . 9. An account of his faith to Charles the 5. 10. An Epistle to the Princes of Germany , of the reproaches of Ecchius . 11. An Exposition of Christian Faith , written to Francis the French King , a little before his death . 12. Acts and Conclusions of some Disputations . Tome 3. 1. Commentaries upon Genesis , Exod , Isaiah , Ieremiah . 2. Psalter , out of Hebrew into Latine . 3. An Apologie for translating of it . Tome 4. 1. Annotations upon the 4. Evangelists , and the history of our Saviours passion . 2. Vpon the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans , Corinthians , Philippians , Colossians , Thessalonians , Hebrewes , 3. Vpon St. Iames , and first Epistle of St. Iohn . These are the Catalogue of this Famous instruments labour : his time was short , but he put it out to the best use : so that though his yeares were but few , yet they were well imployed : One gives him this Eulogie . Pastorem piet as fletque virum patria . 〈◊〉 OECV●AMPADIVS . I Should here have placed Zuinglius , but I doe not strictly observe the Series of time ; as the one , so this was famous in the City of Basil in Switzerland : Hee was a German by birth , in the towne of Winsperg , which is a City of note in the Francs : he tooke the degree of Master of Arts in Heydelbergh , and applyed himselfe to the study of the Civill Law in Bononia : hee learned Greeke of Capnio or Ruetline , who is not much affected , and he got his Hebrew from a certaine Spaniard : when he supplyed the place of a faithfull Shepheard in Germany , he was called to Basile : Erasmus of Roterodam in making the Annotations upon the Now Testament , tooke his advice , and used his helpe much in that worke , and thus much he doth ingenuously confesse , that by the helpe and industry of a great Divine , ( viz. OEcolampadius ) not onely eminent for piety , but also excellently well seene in 3 languages , did he set forth to the world that booke . OEcolampadius being urged much by his friends , admitted that degree of Doctor in Divinity . Some Roman Sophisters at Basil could not affect him : he read publicke Lectures in that City , at the desira of the Senate upon the Prophet Isaiah : when he applyed himselfe to preaching , he did performe that office with singular meeknesse and learning : He turned St. Chrysostome into Lat●e in this place , and Theophylact , whom he stiles , Chrysostomes little Bee , for gathering such choice Flowers and sweet sentences , from that Mellifluous Father of the Church . he defended the truth against Ecchius and Faber ; in which controversies , he gained love and commendation , even from his Adversaries : many famous Cities sent to him for advise in the ordering of the Churches affaires : witnesses of this , are the Cities of Berne and Vlmes ; hee was admirable successefull in appeasing Sects and Contentions that arose in the Church : ●ake in particular , these commendations of him , for godlinesse of life , and sweetnesse of behaviour , for writing , for his Commentaries , for his Preachings , for confutations & translations ; he got not onely a great renowne to himselfe , but also brought singular profit to the Church of God. This OEcolampadius so holy for life , so learned , so qualified in affaires Ecclesiasticall lived not long , but at the age of 49. yeares , within a few weekes after Zuinglius departed from Earth to Heaven , and dyed at Basil in the end of November , in the yeare of Grace , 1531. his workes are these that follow . 1. Annotations on Genesis . ▪ 2. Exegesis upon Iob. 3. Commentaries upon Isaiah . 4. Commentaries upon Ieremiah . 5. Enarrations upon the Lamentation of Ieremiah . 6. Homilies upon the same in high Dutch , translated into Latine . 7. Commentaries on Ezekiel . 8. On Daniel . 9. Annotations on Hosea , Ioel , Amos , Ionas , and on 2 Chapt. of Micha . 10. Commentaries on the three last Prophets . 11. Certaine Sermons on the Psalmes . 12. Annotations on Mathew , Iohn , Epistle to the Romans . 13. Explanations on the Hebrewes . 14. 21. Sermons upon the 1. Epistle of St. Iohn . 15. A booke of the Genuine sence of these words , This is my Body . 16. An exhortation to the reading of Gods Word . 17. Of the dignity of the Eucharist . 18. Of the ioy of the Resurrection , and the Mystery of the Trinity . 19. A speech to the Senate of Basil , for the reducing of Excommunication . 20. Divers Sermons upon severall occasions . 21. That the masse is not a Sacrifice , against Images . 22. A Catechisme . 23. Annotations upon St. Chrysostome . 24. Little Treatises of Prosper . Augustine and St. Ambrose against free-will . 25. Enchyridion to the Greek Tongue . 26. Treatises against Anabaptists , as Charles N. Balthazar Hubmeir . 27. Genesis turn'd out of the Septuagint . 28. 66. Homilies of St. Chrysostome upon Genesis . 29. Annotations upon the Acts , Corinthians . 30. A Treatise of Almse-deeds . 31. A Treatise against Iulian the Apostata . 32. Of true faith in Christ. 33. An Epistle of Gennadius the Patriarch of Symony . 34. Of the praises of St. Cyprian , of the love of the poore , of the praise of the Machabees . 35. Gregory Nyssen of the life of Moses . 36. An Epistle of Nicephorus , of the power of binding and loosing . 37. Enarrations of Theophylact upon the foure Evangelists . 38. A Tract of St. Basil against Vsury . 39. A Metaphrase of Gregories Bishop of Neo-Caesaria , upon Fcclesiastes . Most of these latter works were translations out of Greeke : all these do lively shew , that this O Ecolampadius was a painfull labourer in the Lords Harvest , during the time of his pilgrimage ; and so having finished his worke , he went to rest in the Lord. PAVLVS FAGIVS . IT is very sit , that Paulus Fagius should bee reckoned amongst the Famous Protestant writers , having done and suffered so much for the cause of Jesus : He was Bucers collegue , they both came out of one and the same City into England at one and the same time , he was borne in a Towne of smal repute in ▪ the Palatinate , and both Bucer and hee had but low estates ; but by study and labour this raised his name ▪ and maintained himselfe : He got the skill of the Hebrew admirably well , by the frequenting of Capnioes Lectures , and afterward became excellent in it , by the meanes of Capito , publicke professor of the same tongue in the famous Vniversity of Strasburgh ; he prov'd so rare in this language , that few hitherto have gone beyond him : this Fagius was cald from Strasburgh to Heidelbergh by the Count Palatine of the Rhine , to order the Churches affaires , and to preach the Gospell , which hee performed with good successe ; but in those civill turmoyles , in which the Emperor had the upper hand , all came to nothing ▪ at which time the face of the Church was disconsolate in Germany , but in England it did flourish wonderfully ; the Emperor bringing that Idolatry and superstition into his Land , which was driven forth of England , so that those Doctors which the Emperor disliked and hated , were welcome and ioyous to King Edward the sixth , and to his Nobility and people . This Fagius teaching in Cambridge , but even a short time , was admired of the whole Vniversity , for this Fagius when he had long bin Pastor in Strasburgh , came with Martin Bucer into England 1549. and dyed in November , whom presently after Bucer followed , not without the great griefe of all learned and pious men ; there are some who thinke them both to be poysoned , but as they both liv'd alike , so they were both alike in their deaths ; and in Queene Maries Reigne they were both digd out of their graves , and were burnt , finding the cruelty of the Romish sect , even when they were laid to rest . This Fagius dyed at forty five yeares of his age , whose losse both Church and Common-wealth felt , and mourned for : His workes which hee writ , are these that follow . Out of the Hebrew Tongue Imprinted , translated by Fagius , are these following . 1. A worke call'd Thisbi , from the Authour This bites Elias , contayning 702. words , explained in this worke . 2. Two short Chap. or Apothegmes of the Fathers , which containe godly and profitable Sentences of the old wise Hebrews , with some Schoole-notes . 3. Morall Sentences of Ben-Syra Alphabetically , the Nephew ( as the Iewes beleeve ) of Ieremy the Prophet , with a Commentary . 4. Tobias the Hebrew sent new from Constantinople , translated . 5. Hebrew Prayers used by the Iewes at solemne Feasts , by which wee may see the old Rites of that people , which both Christ , and the Evangelists have performed . A little Treatise of Faith , of a certaine Iew turned to Christianity , 200. yeeres since . 7. A Literall exposition of the Hebrew sayings in the foure first Chapters of Genesis , with a Chaldaick Paraphrase of Onkel on the same . 8. A Booke of the truth of Faith , full of Learning , written by an ▪ . Israelite many yeeres since , to shew the perfection ▪ of Faith of Christians . 9. The 4. first Chapters of Genesis , with the German Version for yong Hebricians with Schoole-notes . 10. Commentaries on some of the Psalmes by R. David Kimhi . 11. An Hebrew Preface to Elias a Levite , his Chaldee Lexicon . 12. Thargum , or a Chaldaick Paraphrase upon the five Bookes of Moses , translated with short and learned Annotations . 13. A Collation on the chiefe translations which are in use upon Genesis . 14. An Isagoge , or short Introduction to learne the Hebrew Tongue . These are the Labours of this learned man , which are great , if you either weigh the Languages , or the shortnesse of his life . MARTINVS BVCERVS ALthough Luther in his time was very eminent in the Church , yet this Bucer for his Piety , Learning , labour , care , vigilancy , and his writings , is little inferior to him ; both of them were singular Ornaments to the Gospel ; both High Dutch , the one of Isleben , the other of Selestadt ; both of them Monkes , the one of the Order of Saint Augustine , this a Dominican . He was stiri'd up first by Luthers Sermon , preach't before the Emperor at Wormes , and so of a Dominican , was turned to a famous Protestant : What labours he sustained in . propagating the Gospell of Jesus Christ , those that read his Bookes , ( the never dying Monuments of his Care ) may easily iudge : his Workes and his Ecclesiasticall History doth declare how farre he excell'd in Judgement for writing , for Prudence in counselling , for his happinesse in setling Churches , for Dexterity in compounding controversies , for his Moderation in Disputations : who , although hee was Pastor of a Church in Strasburgh , and taught Divinity there for the space of twenty yeeres , yet other Churches , Meetings , Commencements , and publicke Acts did experimentally feele his Wit. I would to God , he could have taken away that contention betwixt Zuinglius and Luther , which he did strive to effect ; and I wish , that those of Collen ( at the earnest , and often intreaty of Herman Veda Arch-Bishop ) had admitted this man to have taught Theology there , it would certainely have proved to the overthrow of the Roman cause in that City ; which thing had beene effected , had that Westphalian Gropper kept his Coop , and had not beene admitted into the Court of that Prince ; for hee could not endure either the Arch bishop , or Bucer , and so did endeavour to betray them both : but what the Arch-bishop of Colen desired , but could not effect , was done by our Reverend Arch-bishop of Canterbury , Tho. Cranmer , Primate , and Metropolitane of all England , a man singular for Learning and Piety ; for hee endeavoured greatly by often sending of Letters , to bring first Bucer , and then Paulus Fagius from Strasburg into England , Edward 6. that pious Prince , being then King of England , of whom an Historian hath given this Encomiasticke Line , Tantae Regem expectationis Europa saeculis nunc aliquot nullum habuit : That is , That Europe in long time had not such a King for great hopes . Well , that Bucer which Colen reiected , England entertained , and the famous Vniversity of Cambridge with great applause admitted into her Schooles , in the yeere of our Lord , 1549 who , when hee had for the space of two yeeres , with the generall approbation of all learned Divines , professed in publicke Commencements , the last but one of February he departed this fraile life , being in the yeere 1551 , and of his age 61. Hee was bravely interr'd , and had many learned Epitaphs made of him ; his body after it had beene buried 5. yeeres , was taken up , and burned in Q. Maries Reigne at Cambridge . The Church of God felt , and lamented this mans losse , if we may beleeve Calvine in his Epistle to Viretus , writing thus of him , Quam multiplicem in Bucero iacturam fecerit Ecclesia Dei , quoties in mentem veni● , cor meum prope lacerari sentio : As often as I doe thinke what a manifold losse came to the Church of Christ by losing this Bucer , my heart almost doth rent in pieces . This Testimony proceeding from such a Man as Calvin , doth sufficiently declare the worth of this Bucer . I have here to his life , set downe his Labours in writing , Arguments sufficient , and strong enough to proove his worth and Wit , which if all were put together , would make Nine large Tomes . 1 The 〈◊〉 translatidon● of Hebrew into Latine , with a double Exposition of matter , and words : wherein so●e ●ommon places are handled ou● of the Scriptures , and Fathers . 2 Enarrations upon the 4. Evangelists . 3. Metaphrases upon the Epistles of St. Paul. 4. Decisions , and reconcilement of hard places of Scripture , and of those that seem● to be rep●gnant o●e to another . 5 Commentaries on the Romans , and Ephesians . 6 Sophonias out of H●brew , with a Commentary . 7 A Preface to the fourth Tome of Luthers Postills . 8 Of the true Doctrine , and Discipline , and Ceremonies of Churches . 9 Acts of the conference had at a Commencement at Ratisbone . 10 A Defence against the Bishop of Abrince . 11 Writings of Bucer and Bartholmew Latonius . 12 Things disputed at Ratisbone , in the yeere 1546. 13 Treatises of the reconciling of the Churches had at Ratisbone , 1541. at Spires , 1544. at Wormes , 1545. and at Augusta , 1548. 14 A Gratulatory Letter to the Church of England . 15 An answer to two Epistles of Stephen Gardiner , Bishop● of Winchester , concerning the single life of Preists . 16 Answer● to the Objections of Murnerus , and some others , concerning the Lords Supper . 17 Of the best way to have Councells . 18 A Treatise of restoring Church-goods . 19 Translation of the greater Postill of Luther , and Pomeranius his Commentaries on the Psalmes into Latine . 20 An Apologeticall Epistle to those of East Frisland , and other parts of Low Germany . 21 An Apology against Brentius of the Lords Supper : that Images are not to b●e had in Churches , out of the Scriptures , Fathers , and the Edicts of the most Religious Emperors . 22 An Epistle to the University of Marpurgh , of Heresies , and Hereticks . 23 The Confession of the foure Cities of Stra●burgh , Constance , Menning , and Lindare . 24 Of the Baptisme of Infants . 25 Of the mystery of the Eucharist . 26 Of a Nationall Synod . 27 Of a Councell against Coccleius , and Gropperus . 28 Of the false and true administration of the Lords Supper . Of offering Masses . Care of the dead . Of Purgatory against Latomus , 2. Bookes . 29 Causes of the absence of famous Divines from the Councell of Trent . 30 Of the Kingdome of Christ to King Edw. 6. 31 Lestures at Cambridge upon the Ephesians , set forth by Tremelius . 32 Of the power and use of the holy Ministery . 33 A Treatise that none ought to liv● to themselves . 34 Answers to his Adversaries Objections . 35 An exposition of the Disputation betweene 〈◊〉 Tegerius , and the Ministers of Strasburgh . 36 An 〈◊〉 to the Ministers of Switzerland . 37 Psalter translated into Dutch. 38 The Causes of the Reformation a● Stra●burgh , with an admonition to Frederick Count Palatine . 39 An admonition to the Ministers of Strasburgh , to beware of the Articles of James Cautius , which t●nd to Anabaptisme . 40 Acts of the Disputation of those of Strasburgh , against Hofman . 41 A pr●paration to a Councell . 42 A greater Catechisme . 43 A lesser 〈◊〉 into Latine by by Sleidan . 44 A 〈◊〉 to the Book● of the Office of Magistrates . 45 Colloquies of the Ministery of the Church . 46 Of the true office of a Pastor , and of the cure of Soules . 47 Three S●rmons upon the Gospell , Come unto me all , &c. 48 Colloquies upon the peace of Religion at Nurrenburgh , and Francford . 40 Of the Jewes , whether , and how far to be suffered among Christians . 50 Of Church-goods , and who are the right Possessors of them . 51 An Answer to a Dialogue against Protestants . 52 All the Acts and writings for the reconcilement of controversies in Religion , from the Emperor , o●her Princes , and the Popes Legats , faithfully collected , and expounded . 53 The Reformation at Colen . 54 A first and second defence of the ●eads of Religion , handled at Bonna , and other places in the Archbishoprick of Colen . 55 A Consutation of the new Faith set forth at Lovaine , in 32. Articles . 56 A defence of the Colenish reformatiō . 57 A defence against Gropperus . 58 Against the Bull of Paule 3. and his Legats demands . 59 A godly admonition to the Emperor , Princes , and other States of the Empire assembled at Wormes , about reformation of the Church . 60 Against the restoring the Masse , and the other Sacraments , and Cerem●nies of the Roman Church . 61 Impediments of reformation . 62 Against the Sophisters of Colen . 63 Of the Conference of Ratisbone . 64 An exposition upon the 120. Psal. 65 A Treatise of afflictions of our times . 66 A refutation of Calumnies . 67 A Sermon at Berne . 68 Of the Ministers , and Sacraments . 69 Luthers Commentaries upon the two Epistles of Peter , translated into Dutch. 70 Some writings of Sturmius , of the Eucharist in Latine . 71 Retractations with Commentaries on the Gospell . 72 Other Manuscripts of his which hee writ in England . All these his Workes doe shew , that he was a painefull Wo●kman in Gods Vineyard , and did all he could , to propagate the Gospell of our Saviour . ANDRE●S GERARDVS HYPERIVS . THis Gerard takes part of his name from the place of his birth , being Hyperia , a faire and strong Towne in Flanders , amongst the Dutch Divines he is one of the most elegant , when he was a youth hee was of an excellent wit , and addicted to study , he left not , till he had the Encuclopaedia of Sciences and Arts : his father was a Lawyer : hee got much by ●oachim Ring●lbergh of Antwerp , a youth of excellent endowments , whose praise this Gerard set forth in a speech made to the Parisians ; when this Gerard had studied at Paris and Lovaine , he tooke a view of Italy , France , Germany , Spaine , and England : at last being appoynted Professor of Marpurgh , hee there setled himselfe , which Vniversity first found him an excellent Philosopher , and afterwards a rare Divine : his skill in Philosophy , is seene by his succinct , perspicuous , and learned Exposition upon Aristotles Aethicks , pleasant and profitable , to be read both of Divines and Philosophers : he propounded it to the Students of Marpurgh . Even as Melancthon was for Saxony , so was Hyperius for Hassia , he was well read in the Histories Ecclesiasticall and Polyticall , both of Fathers , Schoole-men , Sophisters , but most of all , hee gave himselfe to the reading of St. Chrysostome , in whose sentences , examples ; figures hee tooke singular pleasure , and made singular profit : He is commended for his mode●y , patience , and constancy , which doe appeare in his writings , for he seemes not to be at any time carryed away with ●pleene or affected zeale ; and these three he termed his Warlicke Engines , by which he did resist his Adversaries , defend himselfe , and conquer them , TACEO , FERO , SPERO . He dyed at Marpurgh , in the yeare of the Worlds Redemption , 1564 , and of his life 53. in the Calends of February , when he had professed 22. yeare● in that City : One hath wittily cut his Epitaph in this verse . Flandria quem genuit , Hassia n●stra tegi● . His writings which he left to the World , as a rich Legacy , are these here set down . 1. A Commentary on the 20. Psalme , of the honour ▪ due to Magistrates . 2. On the 12. Psalme . 3. A Method for a Preacher and study of Divinity . 4. Vpon the Romans . 5. Of the reading and meditation of the Scriptures . 6. Method of Theologie . 7. Theologicall Topicks . 8. Chatechisme . Workes in two Tomes . Tome 1. 1. Of the study of the Scripture . 2. Of the Institution of Colledges anew . 3. A tryall of Students in Divinity . 4. Of Chatechising . 5. Of iustification by faith , and of the faith and workes of a man iustified . 6. Of Beneficence to poore . 7. Of ●easts , their lawfulnesse , and unlawfulnesse . Tome 2. 1. Of the duty of hearers . 2. Of Gods providence . 3. Of examining our selves . 4. Of the marriage of Ministers . 5. Whether their opinion be to be received , that hold Babylon in the Apocalips to be 〈◊〉 . 6. The opinion of the 〈◊〉 , Greekes and Latines , of the digestion of the Decalogue . 7. Some things of the truth of Apostleship , Doctorship , and other degrees . 8. Of the Sacraments . 9. Vpon that of the Romans 1. God gave them up to a reprobate sence ; and how God punisheth one sinne with another . 10. Schoole notes upon 10. books of the I thicks of Aristotle . 11. Physicks . 12. Logtcke , Rhetoricke , Arithmeticke , Geometry , Cosmography , Opticks , Astronomy . After his death , his sonne Lawrence Hyper and John Mils put forth these in Print . 1. Short Annotations on the Prophet Isaiah . 2. Commentaries on the Gallathians , Ephesians , Philippians , Colossians , and Theslalonians . 3. Vpon Timothy , Titus , Philemon , Iude , upon the Hebrewes . So that he prosited not onely the Church of God in his life time , but he also is usefull being dead , so that both in life and death I may say of of him , that he lived and dyed to the glory of God , and the good of his Church . WOLFGANGVS MVSCVLVS . AMongst other famous Lights of GODS Church , this Musculus is not of least ranke or dignity : his Parents were but o● meane conditions , and low fortunes ; he was borne at Dusa , a Town of Lorraine , neare to Alsatia : by labour , study , and industry he became excellently qualisied in the knowledge of the Scriptures , and so entred into the ministery . From 15 yeares of age to thirty , he lived in the Palatinate : in his first proceedings , he was protected as it were , under the wings of Reinhard of Rotenbergh , chiefe Governour of Litzelstein ; those his adversaries had then crush'd his hopefull proceedings , by the authority of the Elector of Mentz , but that they durst not then meddle in the iurisdiction of the Palatinate , for which he gives thankes , in his Dedicatory Epistle to his common places , which he writ in his old age to Fredericke Count Palitine of Rhene , being for holinesse and piety , called by the name of Pius : hee was called to exercise his Ministery in the City of Strasburgh ; he was a most welcome colleague to Bucer : Thence hee went to preach at Augusta : Hee was much supported by Vrbanus Regius a learned Divine , in the yeare 1531. which was the next yeare after the declaration of the Augustan Confession ; in this Church of Augusta he exercised his gifts , and gave himselfe to the study of sacred Letters , and Ecclesiasticall Histories , by turning those ancient Doctors and Fathers out of Greeke into Latine , and also by setting forth Commentaries , which in those times gave much light to the ignorant . But Musculus , by the command of the Emperor , was forced to leave Augusta , and by reason of civill warre , in which turmoyles hee came to Berne ; here hee had most Christian entertainement , and was received courteously : here he was a publick professor of Divinity for 14 years ; he was alwaies either writing or printing some things which did conduce to the enlargement of Christs Kingdome , till at last , in the yeare of his age 66. and of the Incarnation of Christ. 1563. he changed this life for a better , not dying without sufficient testimony both of great labour and learning in his never dying workes . A catalogue of them , I have here presented to your view . 1. Commentaries on Genesis . 2. Enarrations on the Psalmes . 3. Commentaries on Mathew in ●hree Tomes . 4. Vpon Iohn . 5. Vpon the Romans and Corinthians . 6. Vpon the Philippians , Colossians , Thessalonians , and the first of Timothy . 7. His Common places . 8. Vpon the Commandements . 9. A Booke against Coccleius . 10. A Treatise whether a raw Christian may Communicate with the Papists or not , in 4 Dialogues . 11. How farre iniury is to bee suffered of a Christian. 12. Of Oathes against Anabaptists . 13. Of the Germane warre 1546. Translations of Greeke Authors . 1. Commentaries of St. Chrysostome upon Saint Paules Epistles . 2. Epistles of St. Basil , and Nazianzen , and some other Fathers . 3. Ethicks of Basil. 4. Of solitary life . 5. Many Homilies . 6. Schoole notes of Basil upon all the Psalter . 7. Thirty nine Epistles of Cyril . 8. A Declaration of those 12. Anathemaes in the Ephesine Councell . 9. Opinions of Nestorius confuted by Cyril . 10. Synopsis of the Scriptures , out of Athanasius . 11. One hundred and forty questions out of the old and new Testament . 12. A Synopsis of Theodore Bishop of Tyre . Ecclesiasticall Histories . 1. Ten bookes of Eusebius of Ecclesiasticall affaires . 2. Five bookes of Eusebius of the life of Constantine . 3. Eight bookes of Socrates , the Ecclesiasticall Historian . 4. Nine bookes of Zozomen . 5. Two bookes of Theodore . 6. Sixe bookes of Euagrius the Monke . 7. Out of prophane Histories , five bookes of Polybius . Berna professor publicus occubuit . IOANNES CALVINVS . HE was born in France , the breeder of many great wits , & was endued with excellent parts , both of Nature and learning , which appears by his indefatigable Labour , Cares , Studies , Watchings . The sirst piece that gave the World notice of his ability , was his Institutions , dedicated to Francis the first , King of France : Philip Melancthon cald him The Divine , by way of excellency : at first he addicted his studies to the Civill Law , under the government of Peter Stella at Aurelium , who was then counted the ablest professor of that way , in the study of this Calvine prosited exceedingly , so that h●e might have had faire preferment by it : but he intended another course , for he was bent to study Divinity , which he did at Biturigum , under Volmarus a Germane , who lov'd Religion , and favoured the professors of it : hee also learnd the Greeke tongue and the Hebrew at Basil , by the company of Symon Grynaeus , and Wolgangus Capito ; you shal have his commendation , in a few lines bestowed upon him by a ▪ great Divine : For a piercing ludgement , for stating Divinity questions , for experience in Church affaires , for Readinesse and Purity in his Writings & Preachings , for Labour and Study , for resolving of doubts , for his Disputations , for Constancy in Adversity , Humility in in Prosperity ; for despising Honour , Promotions , for Parsimony , Continency , Sobriety , Piety , few , or none have paralleld , or out-stript this man. His labours are so well approved of in the Church , that his writings are extant almost in most parts of the Christian World : Witnesse France , Germany , Italy , Transilvania , Poland , England , Scotland , Spain , and other Kingdomes , Provinces , & Common-wealths : hee did stiffely write against the Papists , so that it is said of him , as St. Augustine was famous in the old Church , so Calvine in the moderne . Campian the Iesuite was a bitter adversary to him , he wanted not divers others , for it hath alwayes beene knowne , that the upholders of truth never wanted enemies . He dyed of a Consumption , contracted by extraordinary fastings and watchings , in the yeare of Gra●e 1564. and of his age 54. being borne in the yea●e 1509. on the tenth of July , his workes are here registred . Commentaries on the Old Testament . 1. Vpon Genesis . 2. Harmony upon the foure Books of 〈◊〉 . 3. Vpon Iosuah . 4. Vpon all the Psalmes . 5. Vpon Isaiah . Lectures . 1. Vpon Ieremiah . 2. Vpon the 21 Chapt. of Ezek. 3. Vpon Daniel . 4 Vpon the lesser Prophets . Vpon the new Testament . 1. His harmony on the Evangelists , upon Iohn , Acts : all the Epistles , to the Hebrewes , Peter , Iohn , Iames , Iude. Sermons . 1. Vpon Deuteronomy , upon the Decalogue , Iob , 119. Psalme , Canticles , Isaiah , 38. Chapters , on the eight last Chapters of Daniel , upon 10. 11. Chapters of the Epistle to the Corinthians , upon the Galathians , Ephesians , Timothy , Titus . Of the Nativity , Passion , Death , Resurrection Ascension of our Saviour Christ : Vpon Gods Election and Providence : Vpon Genesis , upon 1. and 2. of Samuel , upon the 18. Chapt. of the 1. of the Kings . Vpon many Psalmes , upon Iosuah , Isaiah , Ieremiah , Ezekiel , and lesser Prophets : upon 123. Psalmes . Other Workes . 1. Institutions . 2. Of the Eucharist . 3. Vpon the victory of Jesus 4. Genevas Chatechisme . 5. Of Reforming Churches . 6. Of scandals , a forme of confession of Faith : his answer to Sadolets Epistle : Of Free-wil against Pighius : Against the Articles of the Sorbonists . Acts of the Synod of Trent . Against Anabaptists . Against Libertines . Of superstition . 4. Sermons of flying Idolatry , of bearing Persecution , of the beauty of Gods House . Of Gods Worship . Against Judiciall Astrologie . A defence of the Orthodox Faith , ●oncerning the Trinity ; of Pre●estination : the Ministers of Tigurium and Geneva their agreement about the Sacrament , a meanes to preserve Concord , a true Communicant . Epistles , Answers , Councels . Seneca of meeknesse enlarged with a Commentary . AVGVSTINVS MARLORATVS THis famous Scholer was borne in the Dukedome of Lorraine , and was a Monke of the Order of St. Augustine , but at length comming from that profession , he proved a very famous Shepheard in the Church of Christ Jesus ; his manners , modesty , piety , watchfulnesse , learning , were singular ornaments : hee having studied the body of Divinity in France , came to Lausanna , which is a famous Towne of the Lords and States of Berne , scituated hard by the Lake of Lemana , and is a place famous for Divinity , and excellent rare Printing . This place Marlorate thought very convenient to settle in ; then entring into the Ministery , he preached hard by that famous Lake of the Allobroges , in the Towne of Geneva : he profited much in the knowledge of Sacred Letters , as appears by his studies and writings : who almost knowes not that hard piece of worke ? his Commentaries , or a Catholicke exposition upon Genesis , Psalmes , Isaiah , and the whole new Testament , including the sentences of the Ancienter Fathers of the Church with wonderfull Skil , Order , Brevity , and perspicuity ; so that his labours may be termed , as one saith not unfitly , A Library for Divines . He brings in so many of the Fathers opinions , as ornaments , and at last adds his owne : the Gospell was preached by him all along the River Rhodanus , and the Lake Lemana , and the west parts of France : This Marlorate ( amongst other Divines ) was cald to the conference of Possen , 1561. which though it did not work that reformation in the Church , which was wished , yet it made the cause of the professors of the Gospell , not to be so odious as formerly it was , & many did love the truth , being by these meanes discovered , which ignorantly before hated it , and the professors of it . In the yeare 1562. the City of Roan was besieged by the Adverse part and wonne , wherein Marlorate was planted ; but he , with three other principall Citizens were put to death , not unworthily deserving the name of a Martyre . This was done the thirtieth of October . , of his age the 56. whose workes being ever living Monuments , are preserved to the benefit of the Church of God , and are here set downe . 1. A Catholicke and Ecclesiasticall Exposition of the new Testament . 2. An Exposition upon Genesis . 3. An Exposition on the Psalmes of David . 4. An Exposition upon the Prophecy of Isaiah . 5. His Thesaurus , or Treasure-house of the whole Canonicall Scripture , digested into common places : Also the hard Phrases Alphabetically Printed , which usually are met withall in the Scriptures , by the care and industry of William Feugerius of Rohan professor of Divinity , to whom Marlorate left this Worke , being not altogether perfected at the time of his Dissolution . And thus this famous Scholler , having beene a painefull Writer , and afaithfull Preacher , finished his course , and expects the second comming of his Lord Jesus . PETRVS MARTYR . THis Martyr was a Florentine : his Fathers name was Stephen Vermilius , and Mary Fumantine was his Mothers name , both of ancient extraction , and good meanes : So also they both had a great care that his youth should be well seasoned with Letters , being their onely childe : His Mother understanding the Latine , interpreted Terences Comedyes to him : imitating those worthy Matrons of Rome , as the Gracchi , Lelii , Catuli : so also others of latter yeares have beene renowned for this act , as Olympia Morata an Italian , Jane , Dutchesse of Suffolke : but especially the Lady Bacon , who turn'd into English the Apologie of the Church of England made by worthy Iewel Bb. of Salisbury . This Martyr in his youth followed not the vaine pleasures and delights of Italy , but followed vertues Lore , and addicted himselfe to a Monkes life which then was held holy and blamelesse . So he was admitted into the house of the Cannons Regular of the Order of St. Austin , which for Learning and discipline was at that time held the purest in all Italy , he studied at Patavia , and was very able in Philosophy , Schoole Divinity , Greeke and Hebrew : being a Monke Regular hee preached at 26. yeares of his age at Brixia , then in the most famous Cities of Italy and France on this side the Alpes , at Rome , Bononia , Pisa , Venice , Mantua , Bergom , in the Colledges of his order he expounded Philosophy , and sometimes Homer , and Divinity also . He was made Abbat of Spoletto for his learning , then Pr●efect in St. Peters Colledge at Naples , then Visitor Generall of his order , and last hee was designed Prior of of St. Fridrian at Luca. But leaving Luca hee came to Tigurum , where Bullinger , Pellican and Gualter , did give him free intertainment . Then he was called to Strasburg , at the intreaty of Bucer , where hee professed Divinity five years . Thence at the instance of Archbishop Cranmer , and by the will of King Edward 6. hee was admitted into England , and so to Oxford , where hee read the Divinity Lecture . Here he did great good while he stayed , but in the daies of Queene Mary , hee was expeld England , and returned to Strasburg ; but contentions arising there also , he with Iuell went to Tygurum , and at the last there as in a Haven hee laid himselfe to rest . 1562. 11 , of November . of his age 63. What he was , his workes will declare to all that will read them , which I here have placed . 1 A Cathechisme or exposition of the Creed . 2 Commentaries on the first Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians , at Oxford . 3 Vpon Iudges . 4 Vpon the Romans . 5 A defence of the Doctrine of the Eucharist , as it is approved by Gods Word , ancient Fathers Councels . 6 A disputation of the Eucharist at Oxford . After his death these Bookes are extant . 1 Commentaries on the first of Kings , and on the 12. first Chapters of 2. Kings , 2 On Genesis . 3 A little booke of Prayers out of the Psalmes . 4 A Confession of the Lords Supper to the Senat of Strasburg 5 His Common places , distributed into foure Classes . 6 Orations , Sermons , Questions and Answers . 7 Epistles Theologicall . 8 Commentaries on Exodus . 9 Commentaries on the lesser Prophets . 10 Commentaries upon the 3 first bookes of Aristotles Ethicks , with some reserved Manuscripts . HIERONYMVS ZANCHYVS . THis Zanchy followed Peter Martyr , being bred in the same Colledge , this Martyr was so Eminent for his gifts , that hee drew by his Example and Piety many worthy men , to leave that state of life under Popery , and to embrace the Gospell . Amongst other , Lacisius , first Professor of Latine in Italy , afterwards of the Greeke Tongue at Strasburgh : that worthy Gentlman Celsus Martingen , being extracted from a noble family , having had Earles of that Name , which professed the Greek tongue in his Colledge , and after governed the Italian Church in Geneva discreetly : and so Emanuel Tremelius , that famous Interpreter of the Hebrew Tongue . And this Zanchy , who together with Peter Martyr taught the Word of God in the City of Strasburgh , was excellently well seene in the writings of the Ancient Fathers of the Church , and in Philosophy ; which , when hee prooved against the Omnipresence of Christs Body against the Ubiquitarians , was not approoved by some of that Sect ; for which cause Zanchy , as well as Martyr , left this City , and came unto the famous Vniversity of Hydelbergh , where the whole Vniversity , together with the godly Prince Frederick , shewed their love and favour . But this point of Ubiquity then prevayling , those that withstood it , were forc't to remove . So Zanchius came to be Pastor of Clavenna , which is a Towne of Rethia , indifferently famous , not farre off from the Lake of Comen , through which the Merchants of Italy , and other places , bring their Wares , and expose them here to sale . Which place lying neare to Italy , and pleas nt for its scituation , many Italians , who quitted themselves from the See of Rome , lived here . At last he preach't the Word of God at Newstadt , a Towne of the Palatinate , under the protection of that Religious Prince Cassimere : At length Age and infirmities accompanying it , comming on , this Prince provided fairely for Zanchius his maintenance : A Prince he was addicted to Religion , and the quiet of the Churches . Zanchius and Sturmius mainly oppos'd Ubiquity , and strongly defended the Augustan Confession ; they were both very old , and a little before Zanchius dyed , he used this speech to Sturmius : Oh worthy Sturmius , if ever , now is the time for us to open our eyes , and turne to the Lord ; and looke up to Heaven , where our blessed Redeemer Iesus reignes with the blessed spirits , knowing , and hoping assuredly , that shortly we with those Saints , shall also be with the Lord Iesus . A worthy Divine Speech , and fulfilled shortly after in Zanchy ; for hee dyed in the yeere of Christ , 1590. in the Calends of November , in the City of Heydelbergh ; being aged 76. and Sturmius was 80. whom he followed . Zanchies Workes are these that follow . 1. Divine Miscellanies , with with the explication of the Augustan Confession . 2. His Judgement of the controversies about the Lords Supper . 3. Of the Sacred Trinity , Bookes 13. in 2 parts : in the first , the Orthodox Doctrine of this Mystery is proved , and confirmed by Gods Word . In the latter ▪ all Oppositions of the Adversaries are answered . 4. An Answer to a little booke of an Arrian . 5. An Answer of William Holdet , of the visions of Christ to St. Stephen and St. Paul after his Ascension . 6. Of opening Schoolemen in the Church , with a Speech to the study of the sacred Scriptures . 7. Of Christian Religion and Faith , to Vlysses Martengius , Earle of Barch ; and Patritius Venetus . 8. A Compendium of the chiefe points of Christian Doctrine . 9. A perfect Treatise of the sacred Scriptures , proved succinctly out of the Ancient Fathers . 10. Of the Incarnation of Christ , wherein both his Omnipresence is handled , and Vbiquity confuted accurately in two Bookes . 11. Of the Divine Nature , and of his Attributes . 12. Of the Workes of God in sixe dayes . 13. A worke of Mans Redemption . 14. A Commentary upon the Prophet Hosea . 15. Commentaries upon the Epistle to the Ephesians , Collossians , Theslalonians , and Saint Iohn . 16. Some observations of Physicke , Printed with Aristotles Workes in Greeke , found in that part which treates of Hearing . And thus after many labours , and diligent travell in the Worke of the Lord for many yeeres together , did this Noble Zanchius commend himselfe to his Saviour Jesus Christ. His Motto upon his Coate was , Sustine , & abstine . MARTINVS CHEMNICIVS . THis Name of Martine hath oppos'd the proceedings of the Church of Rome much , especially three ; viz. Martine Luther , Martine Bucer , and this Martine , who did chiesly oppose the proceedings and determinations of the Tridentine Councell . In his first proceedings hee followed Luther and Melancthon ; hee was well furnished in the knowledge of the Liberall Sciences ; by the study of the Mathematicks and Philosophy , hee found an easier passage to Theology . Hee was much addicted to a Kinsman of his , George Sabine , who professed at Regio Montane , where hee made this Chemnitius Chiefe over the Library of the Prince of the Borussorum . When hee had exercised himselfe a while at Wittenbergh , hee was called to Brunople , a free and famous City of Saxony . This man by his Learning and Preaching made the City of Brunople as famous for Piety , as Trent was for her Councell . This was hee that examined the Decrees of the new Fathers of Trent , by the writings of those Ancient Fathers of the Church , and layd them to be tryed by the rule of Gods Word : This worke made him famous , and disparaged the Adversaries proceedings and conclusions . Many others have done well upon that Subiect , but his it was that most wounded and galled that side . Hence they have beene striving to answer it , but have not beene as yet able ; but have left it off , as too hard a taske for them to performe . This was hee that stood up among the first , to discover the Nature , Arts , and plottings of the Monkes and Jesuites of Germany , as may appeare by his writing to Joachim , Marquesse of Brandenburgh , Elector of the Roman Empire , Interest Principum Germaniae , &c. It stands the Princes of Germany in hand to looke well what new Sect of professors the Bishop of Rome doth send into their Dominions and Territories , and well to consider what will be the issue and end of their proceedings . And a little before , hee speakes that these were at first onely busied in building , and making their nests and holes : and lest that great Sorcerer should bewray himselfe before he was well placed , and setled ; he , and his followers writ nor printed any thing ; or if they did , they set it forth with so many generall ambiguities & doubts , that it was very hard to say what was peculiar to this Sect alone ; but now they have disclosed themselves fully . So this Chemnitius having proved himselfe an undaunted Soldier of Jesus Christ , departed this life at Brunople , in the yeere of Christ , 1586. and in the 64. of his age , not without the great griefe of that City . I have heere set downe his workes . 1. Of the Originall of the Iesuites , and by what policy that Sect came first up . 2. The chiefe heads of their Divinity set forth by themselves at Collen , 1560. with Kemnitius his addition of Annotations on the same . 3. An Explication of the Doctrine of the two Natures in Christ. 4. The Grounds of the true Doctrine of the Substantiall presence , exhibition , and taking of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Lords Supper . 5. A Forme , or Index ; or rather an Enchyridion of the chiefe points of Heavenly Doctrine by questions and answers declared out of the Word of God. 6. Of Originall sinne against the Manichees . 7. A Sermon of Baptisme . 8. A tryall of the Decrees of the Councell of Trident , explicating the chiefe places of Christian Doctrine in 4. parts . And so hee having fought the Lords battailes couragiously , layd downe himselfe quietly , expecting a ioyfull Resurrection . ARETIVS BENEDICTVS THough this famous and strong City of Berne may bee iustly commended for many worthy actions of Peace and Warre , yet neither of those makes it so renowned as Piety , and Love shewed , and afforded to the professors of it : For this is the Basis , and sure ground-worke of all policies , and State-affaires , which will soone fall , if not maintained by this supportment . It so fell out , that in the yeere of Jesus Christs Incarnation , 1528. there was a great Disputation at Berne , performed by many grave Divines , approved for Learning , and truely Orthodoxe , about some cōtroversies in Religion ; by which meanes those of Berne were greatly enlightned in the points of Religion and the Word of God 〈◊〉 preached not onely in 〈◊〉 City , but in the 〈◊〉 Countries . Amongst other Divines 〈◊〉 Note , this Aretius was not 〈◊〉 least ; who was publicke Professor of Divinity in that City : Hee is famous for his Endowments of Meekenesse , Piety , Learning , Labour , and especially for his dextrous Method in Reading , and Preaching , so that hee did truely divide the Word . Divers other Theologues tooke their Method from him , and would not make tryall in licke of their owne parts , before they had heard his publicke Exercises . Hee was so famous for his writings , that his Labours in Divinity brought no small gaine to the Printers . One of his Bookes was printed in the space of three yeeres , twelve times , called his Examen Theologicum , which doth shew not onely the profit of it , but also the Excellency ; being a worke fit for all who int●nd the study of Divinity . When this Aretius had continued his Labours in the Schooles and Pulpits of Berne for many yeeres , with singular approbation and profit , he left this City , and was enrolled a Citizen of Heaven , not without the griefe of his Auditors , nor without a sufficient testimony of his paines and travailes , as may witnesse these Workes of his now extant in Print , and here Registred . 1. A forme for Students . 2. Two Tables of the Hebrew Grammar . 3. His Tryall for Divines . 4. The History of Valentine the Gentile , beheaded at Berne , with an Orthodoxe Defence of the Article of Faith , concerning the Trinity , against his blasphemies . 5. A censure of the Propositions of the Catabaptists of Poland , denying that Baptisme succeeded Circumcision . 6. Two Treatises , one of the reading , the other of the interpreting the sacred Scriptures . 7. His common places , containing all the heads of Divinity explaind . 8. Eight Lectures on the Lords Supper . 9. Commentaries on the foure Evangelists . 10. Upon the Acts of the Apostles . 11. An Introduction to the reading of St. Pauls Canonicall Epistles . 12. Commentaries on all Saint Pauls Epistles . 13. Commentaries on the Apocalyps . 14. Some Physicall Workes of compositions , and their degrees . HENRICVS BVLLINGERVS . ABout the same time that Zurich lamented the death of Zuinglius , God brought this Bullinger into place : Hee was a Switzer of the County of Bremogarts . There is also a Towne called by this name , seated two great Miles from Lucerne , and hath beene in former Ages , one of the Cities tyed to the Roman Empire , which appeares ( as Simler testifies ) by the large priviledges which it hath ; Bullinger was borne hee●e , who being a youth , was excellently well qualified in the Liberall Arts , and taught them with profit and commendation to divers others ; but he leaving the Schooles , entred into the Church , ●nd exercised his Gifts in ●is owne Countrey . But Zuingliu● being dead , hee was sent for to Tigurine , where he preached the space of so many yeeres as Zuingliu● was borne , except onely one . These Churches flourished in his time , and were happy by his Iudicious Government ; many famous Doctors were not ash●med to follow his Method in his Lectures , Sermons , Writings , Commentaries , controversies ; he was beloved of his Adversaries for the moderating of his spirit at all times . Hee laboured chiefly to procure the Churches quiet , and for this purpose was very able in the Ecclesiasticall Histories , and Ancient 〈◊〉 , w●ose steps he approved , and imitated . This famous Bullinger , when he had faithfully , painefully , and dextrously ma●aged the affaires of the Church of Zurich the space of 44. yeeres , and instructed them in all manner of Learning , having made himselfe also renowned in the Churches abroad , departed hence , giving his Soule to his Creator . Hee dyed in Zurich , having exercis'd his gifts 50. yeeres , and being aged 71. in the yeere of Grace , 1575. September 17. ●nd lyes ingrav'd by Peter Martyr , as one expresses it ●n an Epitaph . — . — — quiescit Contiguus Petri Martyris exuvijs . His Workes are contained in 8. Tomes , which doe sufficiently commend their Author : they are heere digested orderly . Tome 1. 1. A Catechisme for the Tigurine Schoole-masters . 2. An Epitome of Christian Religion in 10. Books , to William Landgrave of Hessen . 3. Decads of Sermons upon the chiefe heads of Christian Religio● in three Tomes . Tome 2. 1. Confession and Exposition of the Orthodoxe Faith. 2. Declaration proving the Protestant Church to be neither Hereticall , nor Schismaticall . 3. Comp●ndium of the Popish , and Protestants Tenents . 4. The old Faith and Religion . 5. Instruction to those that shall be examined by the Inquisitors . 6. A Treatise of Gods eternall Covenant . 7. An Assertion of the two Nain Christ. 8. Five excellent Bookes of Vigilius , Martyr , and Bishop of Trent , five hundred yeeres since written against Eutiches , with Bullingers Notes . 9. Institution of Christian Matrimony . 10. Institutions for sicke men . 11. Declarations of Gods great benefits to the Switzers , and Exhortations to Repen●ance . Tome 3. 1. A Treatise of the Sabbath , and Christian Feasts , 24. Sermons . 2. Two Sermons , of the Office of Magistrates , and of an Oath . 3. Three Homilies of Repentance . 4. Sixe Sermons of conversion to God , out of Act. 8. 5. Daniels Prophecy explained , with the excellency of Gods Word . 6. Of the Office Propheticall , and how to be performed . 7. Exhortation to Ministers , to leave controversies and contentions . 8. Of the Originall of Mahometanisme . 9. Of the persecutions of the Church . Tome 4. 1. A Preface to the Latine Bible , Printed at Zurich 1544. 2. Sixty six Homilies on Daniel . 3. Epitome of the times , from the Creation , to the destruction of Hierusalem . Tome 5. 1. One hundred and ninety Homilies on Esay . 2. One hundred sixty Sermons on Ieremy . 3. A briefe exposition on Ieremies Lamentation . Tome 6. 1. Twelve Bookes , Commentaries on St. Mathew . 2. Sixe Bookes on St. Marke , on St. Luke , 9. on St. Iohn 10. on the Acts of the Apostles . 3. A Series of times , and Actions of the Apostles . Tome 7. 1. Fourteene Commentaries on the Epistles of St. Paul. 2. Seven more Commentaries on the same . 3. Sermons on the Apocalyps , translated out of Latine into Dutch , French , English , Polish . Tome 8. 1. A Demonstration of Christian perfection to Henry 2. King of France . 2. Of the Authority of the Scripture , certainty , absolute perfection , stability , and of the Institution of Bishops , and their Function , with some others . Thus this glorious Ornament of the Church having finish'd his course , and kept the Faith , after long travell and labour in Gods Vineyard , was layd downe to rest . RODOLPHVS GVALT●ERVS UErtue and Learning are attained unto by diligence , as appeares in this Man : He was richly adorned with abilities in all Sciences , especially Latine , and Greeke ; he was a very exquisite Orator , and a dainty Poet : so being furnished with these endowments , hee entred into the study of Divinity . He was holy in life , and grave in his carriage , and singular for his Learning ; hee was Pastor of the Church of Zurich above 40. yeeres , which hee supplyed faithfully , and with good successe , not onely to the benefit of the Tigurines , but also to many strangers who came to heare him . So it doth appeare , that he desired to doe good to the Church of God by his Homilies , which hee set forth upon all the Prophets , Apostles , Evangelists , whose labours serve Students to this day as a Library ; Printed by Froschover with great paines and diligence . Well , when this Gualter had raised up the the Cause of Christ , and oppos'd that See of Rome , having painefully discharged his Office in the Church of the Tigurines a longtime , he gave up his Spirit to God , and lyes buried in this City , having lived 74. yeeres , and in the yeere of Christ , 1586. His workes are many , and those profitable to be read : a Catalogue of them I here present to your view . 1. The combate of David and Goliah , set forth Allegorically in Heroicke Verses . 2. Epiceds of Marg. Blaurer , upon Peter Martyr , Bullinger , Parkhurst , Bishop of Norwich , Symler , Gualter . 3. Arguments of all the Chapters in the Old and New Testament in Verse Elegiack . 4. A Collation of the New Testament to the Greeke Copy . 5. An Apology to the Catholick Church for Zuinglius . 6. Orthodox confession of faith by the Ministers of the Church of Zurich . 7. A sacred Comedy of Nabal . 8. Of the Offices of Ministers . 9. Of the antiquity of Schooles , with the praise of their Founders . 10. Five Homilies of the last times , and of Antichrist . 11. Homilies on St. Iohns Epistles , upon Zacharies Song , of the Nativity of Christ : of the slavery of sinne , and freedome of the faithfull . 12. Of the Originall , Dignity , and Authority of the Holy Scriptures : of Christs comming , and of our preparation : upon the 113. Psalme . 13. Three Homilies upon the Ascension of Christ , and sending the Holy Ghost . 14. The Christians Looking-glasse . Two Homilies . 15. Homilies upon the twelve 〈◊〉 Prophets . 16. Homilies upon St. Math. Marke , Luke , Iohn , Acts , Rom. Corinth . Galath . 17. Nineteene Homilies on ●entations . 18. Tenne Homilies of the Bread of Life . 19. Three hundred and twenty Homilies on Esay . 20. Translation of the five Bookes of Moses . 21. Twenty foure Bookes of Zuinglius , translated out of Dutch into Latine . 22. The Psalter into Dutch. 23. Ten Sermons of Theodoret of Divine Providence . 24. Upon Ciceroes Workes de Lege Agraria . in Verrem . 25. Of the quantity of Syllables and Verses . 26. An Elegy on the studies of the German Nobility . 27. Many sorts of Verses ancient and learned , to Iohn Frisius a Tigurine . And so having spent his spirits to the good of the Church , and terror of his Adversaries , and to the sweete content and comfort of his owne Soule , hee had his desire fulfill'd , which was , To be dissolv'd , and to bee with his Saviour ; free from further troubles and miseries , which this Life was full of . THEODORVS BEZA . BEhold the grave countenance of this Man , who seemes to bee alive , though dead : This Beza is famous through all the Christian world , borne of Noble Parents , who did enlarge Christs Kingdome wonderfully by his Vertue , Piety , writings , and holy labours ; he was excellent in Learning in his youth , especially for Latine , and Greeke ; as also for the Politiques , as appeares by those famous Monuments set forth by him . His Tutor which hee had first , was at Aurelium , then at Zurich , who was called Melior Volmarus , a German by Nation , a godly man , well learned , and excellent for the Greeke tongue ; to whom in the yeere of our Redemption , 1560. Beza dedicated the Confession of his Faith , a● unto a Parent , or Patrone ; with which also he expressed the whole course of his former life . At twenty yeeres of Age he was Licenciate in the Civill Law ; he had two Vncles , one of them was a Senator , or Alderman as it were of Paris ; the other was Abbat of Frigimontan ; both these did mainely desire to have this Beza , nay , this Abbat so greatly loved him , that he had design'd him next successor in that Abbey , which was worth five Thousand French Crownes yeerely : howsoever , he had two Benefices , of which hee had no skill to governe ; so that hee had full friends , Monies , and ease ; and being enticed with the fulnesse and splendor of these , he did suspect that Sathan had layd snares for him : Therefore being mindfull of Holinesse , and thinking of his good Tutor , and the change of his life , he fell into a Sicknesse , which was the cause of his spirituall Health and welfare ( as hee would say . ) So recovering his health , he forsooke all , and came to Geneva , as to the safest Haven for his goods , in the yeere , 1548. Hence within a while , hee went to Lausanna , a Towne of the Lords of Berne , where he was called to be publicke Professor of the Greeke tongue : but after 10. yeeres he returned to Geneva againe , dedicating himselfe wholly to the study of Divinity , and under-went the charge of a Shepheard of Soules faithfully and labouriously , to the great pro●it of the Church of Christ : but the Piece that made him most Eminent in the Church , was his Translation of the New Testament with Annotations . Hee lived to 83. yeeres ; he was reported by Clemens Puteanus a Iesuite , to be dead , and dyed a Romish Professor ▪ which accusation and lye was most excellently well answered by Beza himselfe ; in which answer this is one Clause , Vos autem , &c. but you in this one thing , when you report me to be dead , and that I renounced the Faith and Truth , doe manifestly shew , that your Father is the Devill , vvho is the father of lyes : and thou Puteanus , especially doest shew thy selfe one of those that come from that pit , Apoc. 19. So having laboured much in the Cause of Gods Church , he gave his Soule to his Creator in peace . His Workes are here registred . 1. Poems Printed by H. Stephan . 2. Psalmes printed with Buchanans . 3. Schoole-notes on the Greeke Alphabet , and of the Dutch pronunciation of the Greeke . 4. Abrahams Sacrifice , a Tragedy . In Theology . 1. New Translation of the New Testament , with Annotations . 2. Confession of Christian Faith , with comparing it with the Popish Heresies . 3. Another short Confession . 4. Of the punishing Hereticks by the civill Magistrates , against Martin Bellius . 5. The summe of Christianity . 6. The Doctrine of the Sacrament . 7. A plaine Treatise of the Lords Supper against Westphalus . 8. His Cyclops against Heshusius . 9. The Defence of the Church of Geneva , against his calumnies . 10. An Answer to Sebastian Castalio , concerning Predestination . 11. An Answer in defence of his Translation against Sebastian Castalio . 12. An Answer against the Renewers of Nestorius , and Eutiches Sect , of Omnipresence of the Flesh of Christ. 13. Of the Hypostaticall Union of the two Natures in Christ , against Iacob Andrees . 14. Of the Unity of the Divine Essence against Arrians . 15. Theses of the Trinity of Persons , and Unity of Essence . 16. A little Booke of Christian Questions and Answers . 17. Of the Sacramentall coniunction of the Body and Blood of Christ , with the sacred Symboles against Illiricus . 18. An Apology for the Calvinian and Bezan Doctrine of ●e LORDS Supper . 19. An Answer to the Reprohes of Francis Baldwin . 20. Against Selneuer . 21. A Treatise of Poligamy , ●nd Divorce . 22. Theologicall Epistles . 23. Calvins Life . 24. Dialogues of Athanasius , ●f the Trinity : of Anastasius and Cyrill , of the explication of Faith : of Basil against Eunomius . Foure Bookes in Latine , set forth both in Greeke and Latine , with Feobadius against Arrians 25. Psalmes of David , and five Bookes of the other Prophets with Latine Paraphrases . 26. French Psalmes to sing i● Metre . 27. Upon St. Pauls Epistles to the Rom. Galath . Philip. Colos. with Olevianus Notes . 28. Icones , or Pictures of many learned men , especially Protestants . 29. Pictures , or Emblemes . 30. Morall , Ceremoniall , Judiciall Law of Moses . 31. Of the Hypostaticall union of both Natures in Christ. A Dispute with Doctor Iohn Pappius . 32. A Preface to Hesiander , of the Omnipresence of Christ. 33. A Translation of Theodores Greeke Booke against Hereticks , denying the Hypostaticall Union , into Latine . 34. Questions and Answers of the Sacrament . 35. An Answer to Iodic Harch , of the Lords Supper . 36. Of the ▪ Pestilence , 2. questions : one of the con●agion of it , two of flying in that time . 37. Salomons Song in Latine verse . 38. Of the pronunciation of the French tongue . 39. Homilies on Christs Resurrection . Tertullian is expected to be set forth . FRANCISCVS IVNIVS . THough France hath abounded with many Professors of the Gospell , and those rare Schollers : yet there are very few that have out-stript this worthy Juni● . Hee was of the City of Biturigum , one who was well descended ; famous for Verue , holinesse of life , and learning : hee had through the whole course of his life severall crosses , as exercises of his Vertues , in which hee admired the singular providence of God , and his speciall mercies for his deliverances . He was borne in the yeere of Jesus , 1545. at thirteene yeeres old , he studied the Civill Law , ●n which hee spent 2. yeeres : In which time , in his owne Countrey , in the Vniversity of Biturigum , those famous and religious men of that Profession , Francis Duaren , Hugh Donellus , Antony Contius , and Lewes Russard did interpret the Civill Law unto him : when as the variety of severall ▪ Sciences invited this Junius to the study of them , hee determined with himselfe to set upon , and to follow that which was the most excellent . In the yeere of our Lord , therefore , 1562. hee came to Geneva , where when hee had exercised himselfe in the sacred Letters , and tongue , he was esteemed very able to take the Ministry upon him : Those then of Antwerp being destitute of a Minister for the French Congregation , Junius at the perswasion of Crispine , and the necessity of the Church so requiring , came to Antwerpe 1565. in which City there were many spirituall Merchants , that sought after those Celestiall Treasures : but with what hazard and danger he exercised his Ministry heere , and in other Townes of the Low Countries , it is to be easily seene in the Histories of those times . He preach'd a Sermon at Brussels , where the Sermon ended , they went into consultation , how to stop and pull downe the Spanish too too bloody Inquisition , whereat Junius held his peace ; these things were first determined in the House of the Earles of Colenburgh : Whereupon the House , two yeeres after was layd levell with the ground , not without fearefull cursings and execrations . That bloody Duke of Alva then swaying in those parts with his Spanish Tyranny , for all these tempests , Junius did great good in his Preaching , and was well approved of many of the Lords , who liked not the Spanish Servitude . This Junius taught long in the Palatinate under Fredericke Cassimeire , called Pius ; and his Nephew Fredericke 4. both in Church , and Schooles . That Translation of the whole Old Testament often printed , and now used , got him a great name . He had great knowledge in the Scriptures , and in Tongues , Philosophy , and History , as appeares in his Notes upon Bellarmine , of the translating of the Roman Empire . He taught , and writ in the Vniversity of Leyden for ten yeeres , and upwards . His Workes are many , and are here registred . 1. A Speech in French to the Spanish King for defence of the Low Countries . 2. An Answer to Sandwich his brethren in England , of Images . 3. The Translation of the Old Testament , with Immanuel Tremelius , out of Hebrew . 4. Acts of the Apostles , and Epistles to the Corinthians out of Arabicke . 5. Confession of Faith of Frederick Count Palatine 3. 6. Apocrypha translated with Notes . 7. Iohannes Tilly of Kings , and of the Kings of France , translated into Latine . 8. A Speech of the Hebrew Tongue . 9. An Hebrew 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 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 course of his life unblameable . Master Foxe in his History of Martyres saies , hee might be called Englands Apostle , the workes which he writ , besides the translation of the Scriptures , are these that follow . 1. A Christians obedience . 2. the unrighteous Mammon . 3. The practice ●f the Papists . 4. Commentaries on the seventh Chapter of St. Matthew . 5. A discourse of the last will and testament of Tracij . 6. An answer to Sir Thomas Mores Dialogues . 7. The Doctrine of the Lords Supper against More . 8. Of the Sacrament of the Altar . 9. Of the Sacramentall signes . 10. A foote path leading to the Scriptures . 11. Two letters to Iohn Frith . All these are extant together , with the workes of two Martyrs , Barnes and Frith , in English , in Folio , and thus after much labour and persecution , this worthy member of Christ , yeelded to the flames , expecting a ioyf●ll resurrection . IOHN BRADEFORD THIS Scholler was not inferiour in parts , either of doing or suffering to others , he was borne in the County of Lancaster : in that famous Marte Town of Manchester : He was by his parents brought up from his Cradle to learning , and he was singular for docility and diligence , so that he profited admirably , in his studies and exercises which hee undertooke , then hee was sent to Cambridge , and was admitted into Queenes Colledge , where hee tooke all degrees , so that hee was made Master of the same Colledge , which hee governed with great dexterity and sincerity . Afterwards in the reigne of King Edward the ●xth , he was appoynted Di●inity Lecturer in the Cathe●rall Church of St. Paul in London , which taske he performed not without admirable demonstration of la●our and learning . But in the time of Queene Mary , the state of Religion altering , and the Protestant professors being hated , this famous Bradford among the rest , for the love of Jesus and his Gospell , which hee had faithfully preached , was consumed in the fiery flames of Persecution , and so was crowned with that glorious name of Martyre . This he suffered the first of July 1555 , in that noted plac● called West Smithfield , Londo● the last words that hee wa● heard to utter , were , O● England repent , hee left behind him his famous disputation● which hee had with the Papists , which are extant at large in Foxes History of Martyrs . He had a famous Epitaph written of him : His workes which hee writ in English are these . 1. Two Sermons , the first of Repentance , the second of the Lords Supper . 2. Some letters to his fellow Martyrs . 3. An answere to ones letter , desiring to know whether one might goe to Masse , or not ? 4. The danger ensuing the hearing of Masse . 5. His examination before the officers . 6. Godly Meditations made in Prison , cald his short Prayers . 7. Truths Complaint . 8. Melancthon translated , of Prayers . HVGH LATYMER THis worthy Divine was borne in Leicester shire , brought up to learning from a youth , afterwards hee was ●laced in Cambridge , where ●e tooke ( not without de●ert ) the eminent Title of Doctor of Divinity : his as●ect did promise much sin●erity and ingenuity , and hee was of Candid manners , and ●f courieous and meeke car●iage : for his singular lear●ing , he was by King Edward●he ●he sixth , made Bishop of Worcester , where , while hee ●ate in that See , all good men ●erceived his singular care & dexterity , in managing that weighty function : He was alwaies ready and forward to propagate the truth . But he also in the time of Queene Maries Reigne , was both d● prived of his Bishoprick , an● ministeriall function , an● being cast into prison , w● condemned to the fire : H● was much like that old an● cient Father of the Primitive time , St. Polycarpus : 〈◊〉 either you looke upon th● forme of his Martyrdome ▪ or weigh well the saying 〈◊〉 them both at the time 〈◊〉 their sufferings . That old Polycarpus being fourescore and above , a little before his death , uttered that sweete● saying of St. James , Fideli● est Deus , qui non sinit nos tentari● supra quod possumus , that is , God is faithfull , who will not suffer us to bee tempted above our strength : And a little after he said , Pater Celestis suscipe spiritum meum , which is , Oh Heavenly Father receive my Spirit . In like manner , this Father Latimer , for so he was cal'd , was a constant and stout Martyr of Jesus Christ , and was burnd at Oxford , the sixeteenth day of October , in the yeare of Grace , 1555. hee left his Sermons behind him , wherein we may reade his sincerity and piety , many of them were preached before King Edward the sixth , and the Illustrious Lady Katharine Dutches of Suffolke , and a● now to bee had in any one● hands almost , having been● so many times imprinted ▪ with the Publicke approbation of all learned and iudicious Divines , and to the comfort of all well dispose● Christians , who may gathe● great profit out of them : Hi● life actions , and sufferings , are at large to be read , in Master Foxes History . NICOLAS RIDLY LEarning did not onely adorne this worthy Divine , but also parentage , being well descended , hee was borne in the Bishopri● of Durham : In his youth he was endued with many singular vertues , and his Parents spared no cost to have him well and Christian-like educated : well , knowing the power of good education to helpe much , hee was sent to Cambridge , to study where hee tooke degree of Batchelor of Divinity , and presently he was made Master of Pembrook Hall : but his parts and gifts were so eminent ( as appeared by his wife and religious deportment in that preferment ) that , that religious and pious King Edward the sixth took notice of him , and being ful●y certified of his integrity of life , and excellent schol●ership , made him Bishop of Rochester , nor did his hand stay , untill he had cald him ●rom that See , to the Bishoppricke of London , where hee shewed the parts of a true Bishop and shepheard of soules by his painfull watching , prayings , preachings . But these Halcyon dayes of the Churches peace , lasted not long , but King Edward paying Natures debt , and Queene Mary comming to the Crowne of England , this worthy Pr●late sate not long quiet , for religion being altered , and the Bishop of Romes authority comming in again , he was remov'd and cast both from his Ecclesiasticall dignity , and wholly from the Ministery , and was condemned to be burnd as an Heretique . This English Father might fitly be compared to that old Father of the Church , St. Ignatius , not onely for his famous writing upon the Lords Supper , but also for his suffering so constantly and zealously in the cause of Christ. Wel , this man was a choice flower of Christ his Church , and therefore is not unworthily stiled a Martyr , for in the same day , and same houre , was he , with Father Hugh ▪ Latimer burnd to ashes in the Vniversity of Oxford , over against Baliol Colledge : his last words in the flames that he was heard to utter were these , Into thy hands O Lord doe I commend my Spirit : His works , besides that Treatise of the Lords Supper , are extant in English , which follow . 1. A Conference with Father Latimer . 2. A right forme 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 was Deane of the Famous Church of St. Paul in London : Hee was the first that returned from Forreigne parts ; hee presently writ two bookes of true Religion against the Papists , and also of his first and last Lent Sermons . He was for thirty yeares together Preacher to Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory : Hee was likewise Patron of Middleton Schoole . Hee gave to Brazen-nose Colledge , in which hee studied from the thirteenth of his age , till twenty sixe , to thirteene Students to bee maintained , two hundred pounds of English money , being at the same time principall of the same Colledge . Hee was the Author of much good to Pauls Schoole : Hee did propagate godlinesse by his frequent Preachings , and Catechismes : Hee had the testimony for abilities and rare parts of both Vniversities and of Forreigne Churches , and of those happy Prince , King Edward the sixth , and Queene Elizabeth , as also of their true hearted Nobles . Hee was a speciall maintainer of the Poore , and more specially of learned Schollers . Hee was a comforter of the afflicted , both for their bodies and soules , and hee was an especiall reconciler of contentions and Law suites , witnes for ever to his praise ; that agreement and unity , which hee alone procured betweene Sir Thomas Gresham , and Sir Iohn Ramsey , being falne out , and fully intending to prosecute their causes at Law , but by this reverend Divines perswasion , and meditation , were made Friends , and so continued to their dying day . Hee sate long the Deane of St. Pauls , and lived till he was ninety yeares old , and yet then had his perfect sight . Hee dyed in the yeare of our Lord , 1601. on the thirteenth of February , and lyes buryed in the Famous Cathedrall Church of St. Paul in London , with this Epitaph upon his Tombe . 〈◊〉 os ●vestigia Evangeliza itium pacem . With some Verses also annexed , this being the last of them . Sic oritur , floret , demoriturque Deo. His Workes set forth , are as followe●h . 1. Against Thomas Dorm●n , an English Papist , in two bo●s in quarto English. 2. Another Booke against Dorman and Sanders of Transubstantiation in quarto English . 3. His greater Catechisme in Latine , in quarto . 4. His lesser Catechisme in Latine , in Oct● . 5. The same in Latine , Greeke , and Hebrew . IOHN IEVELL .. THIS famous Instrument may truely answer to his Name , for he● was a rich Iewell both t● Church , and Common-wealth : He was borne in Devonshire , and brought up to ripenesse in that flourishing Vniversity of Oxford , first in Merton Colledge , and afterwards in Corpus Christi Colledge , where , with the approbation of all the Learned hee tooke the degree of Batchelor in Divinity . In his time hee was a famous , and no lesse painefull Preacher of the Gospell of his Saviour . In the Reigne of Queene Mary , he fled into Germany , to enioy the liberty of his Conscience , and to avoide those snares th●t were laying for him , in which he had beene intrapped , had he stayed ; but the dayes of Queene Mary ending , and famous Queene Elizabeth comming to the Crowne , this worthy Scholler returned to England , and at his comming was ioyfully received of his Mother , the University ; who bestowed upon him the famous Title of Doctor of Divinity : And not long was it before that renowned Queene Elizabeth , for his singular learning , and knowledge in all the Sciences and Tongues , made him Bishop of Salisbury , which Diocesse he governed with wonderfull care and vigilancy , not onely feeding the soules of his people , but also at all times distributing food to the bodies of the poore and distressed : And as he was admirable for his dextrous and pious government of the affaires of the Church , so was he also renowned farre and wide for his learned works and writings , which foiled the Adversaries , and quite stopt their mouths , and rest yet unanswered , which did mightily disparage their Cause . Hee writ both in Latine , and English ; for hee was excellent in the knowledge of the Tongues : but that piece which most wounded the Roman Cause , was his Apology for the Church of England , which worke is piously reserved , as a memoriall of him , in all our Churches ; so that it may be sayd of him , hee is dayly read in our Meetings , and whose fame is through all the Churches . Peter Martyr for this his worke gave him great commendations in these words : Apologia tua Frater charissime , &c. Your Apology ( most deare Brother ) hath not onely afforded me content and satisfaction in all respects , but it is approved of for a learned , eloquent worke , of Bullinger , and his followers , also of Gualter ; so that they cannot praise you enough ; neither doe they beleeve that any worke in this time hath beene set forth fuller of all manner of learning , and entire perfection : those be Martyrs very expressions . This worthy and Reverend Juell of our English Church , did as it were foretell in part his Dissolution , as appeares by two Letters sent by him to the Reverend Father in God , the Lord Bishop of Norwich , which Doctor Lawrence Humphred doth set forth . This worthy Instrumēt yeelded to Death at his Palace in Monktonfarley , the Citizens of Salisbury did greatly bewaile his death ; it was in the yeere of our Lord , 1573 , and of his Age the 50th , and lyes buryed in the Cathedrall Church of Salisbury , in the middle of the Quire , under a fair● Marble-stone , with this Inscription in Latine , which I have Englished , because it sets forth his praise . To John Juell , an English man , in the County of Devon. sprung of the ancient Family of the Juels of Buden , of the University of Oxford : ex●ed in Queene Maries dayes into Germany , but ●n Queene Elizabeths Reigne , was Bishop of this Diocesse , where he sate Eleaven yeeres , and Nine Moneths , ruling faithfully , and with great Integrity ; a Man religious , learned , sharpe-witted , solid in Judgement , endued with Piety , and singular Humanity : An expert Divine , a Jewell of Jewels ; dyed at Monktonfarley , buried at Salisbury , being a Cittizen o● Heaven , Laurence Humphred hath consecrated this Monument , in witnesse of his favour and love , in the yeere of Salvation , 1573 , IX Kalends Octob. Psalme 112. The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance . He also made a Monument himselfe , which will last longer than that of Marble , which are his Workes that ●ollow . 1. A Synopsis of that seditious Bull of Pius quintus , sent into England 1569. in English. 2. A short treatise of the Scriptures . 3. A Treatise of the Sacraments . 4. A Sermon preached in King Edwards Reigne , upon 1. Pet. 4. 11. 5. Sixe Sermons before Queene Elizabeth at Pauls Crosse in English. 6. The Apology of the Church of England . 7. A Volume against Thomas Harding , wherein 77 q● stions are discussed , and decid● by Scriptures , Councels , and A● cient Fathers : translated into L● tine by William Whittaker . 8. His Reply against Harding , turned out of English in to Latine by Tho. Bradocke . John Wolley , Secretary to Queene Elizabeth , made some Verses upon his Death ; these are the two last of them , Moribus , ingenio ●octrina , relligione , Nulla ferent talē saecula longa virū ▪ For manners , 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 . 14. A Gratulatory to the English Church , and to her Pastors . 15. Of the Eucharist . 16. Of receiving those that are fallen . 17. Expostulation of Christ with Mankind . 18. Against the Calumnies of Del-Rius . 19. Of Excommunication . These be the fruits that this ●ighteous Tree , planted in Gods Church , did bring forth , which doe sufficiently declare him . WIL●IAM GRINDALL THis great Divine wa● borne in Cumberland ▪ he studied the Liberall Art● and Sciences at Cambridge i● Pembrooke-hall , of which Society hee was first made Fellow , and afterwards Master . After this he was taken of Nicolas Ridley , the● Lord Bishop of London , to be his Houshold Chaplaine , which worthy Prelate commended him to King Edward 6 , but the unwished ▪ for death of that King hastening , hee did misse of preferment that way . Then he , in the Reigne of 〈◊〉 Mary , went into Germany , and lived there till that Queene dyed ; but she being dead , hee returned home againe , and was chosen by Queene Elizabeth to that preferment , which King Edward the sixt had laid out for him , 1550. that was the Bishopricke of London ; which See he did wisely and religiously governe about 11. yeeres , and then 1570. hee was made Archbishop of Yorke , where he was Archbishop 6. yeeres ; from whence for his singular Piety and Learning , he was in the yeere 1575. installed Archbishop of Canterbury , where he ruled the affaires of the Church of England the space of 7. yeeres dextrously , and religiously : Two yeeres before his death hee lost his sight ; but Death comming , tooke away this glorious Lampe of our English Nation ; and hee lyes buryed at Croydon , 1583. and of his age 64. This Prelate was not void , but plentiful , and abounding in good works , and charitable actions : witnesses are first that free Grammar schoole , which hee built at St. Bees , or Bege in Comberland , a little towne , which schoole he endowed with the yearely revenewes of thirty pounds for ever . He tyed upon Pembrook-hall , lands worth twenty two pounds yearely for ever , for the maintenance of a Greek Lecturer , and for the sustenance of one fellow and two Schollers , which should be sent from Bees Schoole : He also gave to the same Hall divers worthy and rare bookes , and a piece of Plate , weighing forty ounces of silver . Hee granted likewise to Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge a yeerely pension for ever , for the maintenance of one Fellow , which should be taken from his Schoole at St. Bege in Comberland : He gave also to Christs Colledge in Cambridge , a place of excellent literature and piety , from which hath sprung many a famous Divine and Statesman , a piece of plate , weighing forty sive ounces : He gave likewise to Queenes Colledge in Oxford , the yearely revenewes of twenty pounds for ever , to the maintenance of one Fellow and two Schollers , to be chosen out of the aforesaid Schoole ; and at his death he bequeathed to the same Queenes Colledge in Oxford a great part of the bookes in their Library , and a piece of Plate , and forty pounds in money : He likewise gave to eight poore almes-men at Croydon , meanes valued yearely at 50 pounds : Lastly , he gave to the City of Canterbury 100 pounds of English money , to be for ever for a stocke for to set the poore of that City on worke , and to keepe them from idlenesse and beggery : And so having done such , and so many remarkable passages of Charity , this reverend Metropolitane is laid to rest in the Lord. There is a Sermon of his , which he preached at St. Pauls Crosse , when the Funeralls of the Emperor Ferdinand were celebrated , in English. LAVRENS HVMPHERDE THis Worthy Divine was borne in the County of Buckingham , studied in the famous Nursery , and seed-plot of learning , the Vniversity of Oxford , in Magdalen Colledge : hee departed this land , as many other great Divines , and Religious professors did in Queene Maries Reigne , but in the beginning of Queene Elizabeth , he returned home , and was excellent for the Pulpit , or the schools , and tooke his Degree of Doctor in Divinity ; hee by his great abilities of learning , set fo●th Gods glory , and mightily discovered that dangerous nest of Iesuites , with their close and politique practices against Princes and their settled governments , if they were not 〈◊〉 to the Roman Bishop . His Books which he hath ●et forth , doe evidently decla●e , and manif●ly prove , with what diligence and study hee found out the frauds & impostures of the followers of Rome , by ancient histories : hee was made publique professor of Divinity ; or else Doctor of the Chaire in Oxford , and President of Magdalen Colledge , which dignities and preferments , he did many yeeres with great commendation and approbation keepe and enioy : He ended his life at Oxford , and was there buried in the yeare of Christs Incarnation , 1589 , the whole Vniversity deploring and lamenting deepely the losse of so famous a governour , and did see that his funerall rites were with all solemnity duly pe●formed ● answerable to his place and office : Hee was intimate with Bishop Iuel , and grieved for his death ; and the Church of England missed them both : this Humphred was at the time of his death , little lesse than seventy yeares old : his works are here faithfully ●ecorded . 1. Of Nobility , and the ancient originall of it . 2. A little booke of the Conservation of true Religion . 3. Consent of the Fathers of Iustification . 4. Interpretation of Tongues . 5. Of Iesuitisme , 1. part of the practice of the Roman Court against Common-wealths , and Princes , with a premonition to English men . 6. Iesuitisme ; 2 part of Puritan-poperie , or the Doctrine Iesuiticall , against Campian , and Iohn Duraeus , also Harding , a confutation : Also Pharisaisme , old and new : a sermon in Oxford , Anno 1582. 7. Of the life and death of Iuell , with the defence of his Doctrine , and refutation of obiections of Harding , Sands , Cope . &c. 8. Origen of true faith translated , with a Preface to the same Author and Doctor . 9. St. Cyrills Commentaries upon Isaiah into Latine , translated . 10. An Index to Forslers He ▪ brew Lexicon , by him made . 〈◊〉 BA●INGTON THis Prelate as hee was excellent for his parts , so was hee of a very faire descent , being borne in the County of Nottingham , of the ancient family of the Babingtons in the said County , where hee drew in the first rudiments of Literature , till by his worthy Parents hee was sent to Cambridge , and was admitted into that worthy Society of Trinity Colledge , Doctor Whitguift being then Master . This Babington proved so famous in Schollership , that having his degrees , hee was made Fellow of the same Colledge ; and giving himselfe to the study of Divinity , he proved a worthy Preacher in that Vniversity . After , being Doctor in Divinity , he was called by Henry , that noble Earle of Pembrooke , to be his Chaplaine , by whose favour he was first made Treasurer of the Church of Landasse in Wales , after hee was elected Bishop of the same , 1591. and when he had sitten 4. yeeres in that See , for his singular Piety and Learning , he was by Queene Elizabeth translated to the Bishopricke of Exceter , where he scarce stayed 3. yeeres , but he was made Bishop of Worcester , and in the middest of all these preferments hee was neither tainted with idlenesse or pride , or covetousnesse , but was not onely diligent in preaching , but in writing bookes , for the understanding of Gods Word ; so that he was a true patterne of Piety to the people , of Learning to the Ministery , and of Wisedome to all Governours : Whereupon he was made one of the Queenes Councell for the Marches of Wales . He was Bishop of Worcester about the space of 13. yeeres : He dyed of an Hecticke Feaver , and so changed this fraile life for a better in the yeere of our Lord 1610. not without the great griefe of all , and had all funerall Rites bestowed on him , befitting so great and so grave a Governour , and Father of the Church ; and was buried in the Cathedrall Church of Worcester , in the Moneth of May. His workes extant are these that follow . 1. Consolatory Annotations upon Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , and Deuteronomy . 2. Upon the 10. Commandements , the Lords Prayer , and the Articles of the Creed . 3. A comparison or collation betweene humane frailty & faith . 4. Three worthy & learned Sermons . THOMAS HOLLAND . THis worthy Instrument of our Church , was borne in Shropshire , in the Marches of Wales , and studied in that flourishing Vniversity of Oxford in Exeter Colledge : I have placed him among these famous Divines for his excellent knowledge and learning , & admirable indowments of his minde : He was graced with the stile of Doctor in Divinity by the Vniversity his Mother : he long time professed Divinity in the same Academy , and at last , with the generall suffrages of all , he was placed Doctor of the Chaire , in which hee succeeded Doctor Humphred , which place , this Doctor for many yeare together held with the generall acclamations of all , as wel of our owne , as forraigne Divines : but his disputations in publicke , which are yet in Coppies in some Schollers hands , are demonstrations sufficient to set forth his Schollership : Hee that preached his funerall Sermon , doth praise him sufficiently , tearming him another Apollos powerfull in Scriptures . Hee was admirably well read in the Fathers : so that he was as it were familiar with them ; and hee was excellent for Schoole-men : so that he was of some , called the Seraphicke Doctor . He was subtile in his Arguments and disputations , and quicke at resolving doubts and questions , so that with great applause he was Doctor of the Chaire for twenty yeares together , how many famous glistering starres proceeded from him into our Church ? so that he was truely ( as Gregory Nazianzen spoke of his Father ) an Abraham , the Father of many children : to wit by scholasticall creation , and even to the highest degree that the Vniversity doth afford . I passe over many reverend Schollers , and some Bishops of this Kingdome , that were his sonnes this way , but yet I cannot passe over those two famous pillars and supporters of our Church , those reverend paire of Fathers , George Abbat , Arch-Bishop of Canterbury , and John King Bishop of London : In briefe , he was not onely a sincere preacher of Gods Word , but a faithfull and constant practitioner : he was zealous for Gods honour , and alwayes hated idolatry and superstition : as appeared by his speech to the fellowes of this Colledge , when he at any time went into the countrey , I commend you to the love of God , and wish you to hate Popery and superstition : hee was for holinesse of life a pattern to all . The whole time of his siknesse he was fervent in prayers and eiaculations , full of ardency : when his breath grew short hee uttered this speech in Latine , Veni , oh ! veni Domine Iesu , stella matutina veni Domine Iesu , cupio dissolvi & esse tecum : which is in English , Come , oh come Lord Iesu , the bright morning Starre , Come Lord Iesu , I desire to bee dissolved and to be with thee , and having spoken these words , quietly surrendred up his soule into the Lords hands , leaving this life for a better● Hee dyed and was buried in Oxford , according to the honoured custome of the Vniversity , with all Funerall rites that were to bee performed for so famous a man in the moneth of March , 1612. being then littles lesse than threescore and thirteen years of age . ROBERT ABBAT THE place of this famous Schollers birth was Guilford in Surrey , a Towne of good repute ; and his Parents were honest and vertuous and not obscure . He was ●nished with Learning 〈◊〉 ●orts 〈◊〉 that ancient Colledge in Oxford , called B●l , because builded by one of that name , a King of Scotland . He was Doctor in Divinity , and Master of the said Colledge ; in w●ich government hee s●ed what a worthy Prelar● 〈◊〉 would prove to our English Church : he was not onely thus adorned , but he was made Doctor of the Chaire , which place Doctor Holland had kept with great praise the space of twenty yeares . This our learned Abbat , after that hee had 20. yeeres proved himselfe a famous and painfull Divine , and by his writings set forth , had learnedly opposed his Adversaries of the Romish Church ; hee was by King James of blessed memory , consecrated Bishop of Salisbury the third of December , in the yeere 1615. and in this regard hee may iustly be said to equallize Seffred once Bishop of Chichester , because that this as well as he , lived to see his brother Lord Archbishop of Canterbury , Primate , and Metropolitan of all England . While he sate Lord Bishop of this Diocesse , he brought forth that learned and solid piece of Divinity , concerning grace and the perseverance of the Saints , which was termed his Vox Cygnea , because he presently after dyed ; that speech which hee made to the Vniversity of Oxford , is also full of Schollership , which beginnes thus in Lattine : Salva veneranda Mater , Ac●demiarum decus & gloria , and so goes on with expressions of his care and love to her : All haite , oh reverend Mather , the glory and grace of all Vniversities : I cannot . containe 〈◊〉 selfe , but I must needes reioyce and be glad that I have suckt thy breasts , and not onely have had time to learne , but also to teach publickly in thy Schooles : I will never rest to wish thee ● thousand happinesses and blessings , and all successefull prosperities ; but the businesse that I am now to deliver , to thee from my Soveraigne , is , that thy Students would be carefull to avoyde those Bertians , Grevincovians , Thomsons , and the like writers , who never are content with the old pathes , but are inventing new ones , and thinke that they doe nothing well , unlesse they be singular : Oh I desire thee to retaine thy old piety and sincerity : I hope this of thee , and I wish that thou maist for ever flowrish and increase , and be a Pillar and ground-worke of truth , untill the second comming of the Lord Jesus . He lived not long in that See , till death took him from us , for he sate but two yeares & three moneths , but he did mainly imploy his time , both in publicke and private , and so by reason his life was sedētary , he was troubled with the stone , & 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 by his very many Treatises , worthily famous , and full of excellent Divinity , which are extant , and to be sold in English , the Catalogue of which , I have ioyned to his life ; there are none of his workes in Latine that are to be had , except on learned Disputation of the Lords Supper , which he composed in the time that he was ahroad : by which it doth easily and evidently appeare , how dearely hee embraced and loved the Protestant Religion : hee was chosen into the number of the Prebendaries of Canterbury , and kept it untill his dying day : He paied Nature her debt about the eight yeare , 1570. being 60 yeares old : John Parkhurst the Bishop of Norwich hath written verses in the Commendation both of this man , and of his works & writings . His works are contained in three Tomes , with study , diligence , piety , I have here set them in order . The first Tome containes . 1. Newes from Heaven . 2. A banquet of Christs birth . 3. A Quadragesimal feast . 4. A Method of praying . 5. A bundle or posie of Flowers . 6. An invective against swearing . 7. Discipline for a Christian Souldier . 8. Davids Harpe . 9. The government of vertue . 10. A short Catechisme . 11. A booke of Matrimony . 12. A Christians New-yeares guift . 2. Tome containes . 1. A Jewell of Mirth . 2. Principles of Christian Religion . 3. A Treatise of Fasting . 4. The Castle of comfort . 5. The soules solace . 6. The Tower of the faithfull . 7. The Christian Knight . 8. Homelies against Whooredome . 9. The Flowers of Prayers . 10. A sweete boxe of Prayers . 11. The sicke mans Medicine . 12. A Dialogue of Christs Nativity . 13. An Invective against Adultery . Volumes in English , full fraught with learning and iudgement , as they are divided . 3. Tome containes . 1. An Epistle to the distressed servants of God. 2. A supplication to God for the restoring his Word . 3. The rising of the Popish Masse . 4. Common places of Scripture . 5. A comparison betwixt the Lords Supper , and the Papall Masse . 6. Articles of Religion confirmed by the authority of the Fathers . 7. The monstrous wages of the Romane Priests . 8. Romish Reliques . 9. Difference betwixt Gods Word , and Humane inventions . 10. Acts of Christ and Antichrist , with their lives and Doctrine . 11. Chronicles of Christ. 12. An abridgement of the New Testament . 13. Questions of the Holy Scripture . 14. The glorious triumph of Gods word . 15. In the praise of death : all these were Printed in the yeare 1564. 16. Postills upon all the Sundayes Gospels , in quarto . 17. The Medicine for the Sicke , often Printed in octavo by it selfe . IAMES MOVNTAGV WHen you shall reade this worthy Prelate to be Bishop of Winchester , and Dean of the Kings Chappell , and Prelate of the noble Order of the Garter , and privy Councellor to King James , know that he obtained these Titles and honors by his vertue and learning . To passe by his noble descent from the Montacutes , Earles of Salisbury : His Father was a Knight , that famous Sir Edward of Boughton in Northampton shire . His Grandfather was Councellor to King Henry the Eight ; his Mother was the Sister of the elder famous Lord Harington : Hee had education in Cambridge answerable to his birth , where his learning was such , that the Vniversity bestowed both his Title , Master of Arts , as also Doctor in Divinity before the set time : And the Vniversity gained by him for that Sidney-colledge founded by Francis , Countesse of Sussex , his Aunt : he being Master of it , when as there were ill sents by the grounds lying about , dangerous and noysome , he brought Trumpinton water through a new-cut way into the Garden of the said Colledge , both to the health of that Colledge , and the whole Vniversity . His young yeeres were admirably well seasoned , which made him prove so famous afterwards : For King James taking notice of him , presently swore him Chaplain● in ordinary , and was made Deane of Liechfield , of the Kings Chappell , and presently after of Worcester , and not long after Lord Bishop of Bath , and Wells . In which while he sate for eight yeeres , he seemed to have those honours bestowed on him for the publicke good , rather than for himselfe ; so rev●rend was his carriage , and pious his life , and charitable his hands . The poore in that Hospitall lost a good maintainer , and all good men of that place a true Bishop . He repaired the Bishops Palace almost ruined , and furnished it with a Chappell , and gardens . His house at Banovell speaks his praise , and posterity wil never forget his charity to the Church of Bath , begun one hundred yeeres since by Oliver a Bishop , and chiesly now at his cost and charges finished . If death had not prevented , here hee had plac'd a Deane and Choyristers , and his two worthy brethren , Henry and Sidney did provide that his purpose should not be voyd . At last translated hee was to VVinchester , where he did not so much looke after new honours , as new burthens . The House called VVinchester-house on the Thames side , speaks his praise for her beauty , which hee bestowed on her almost decayed . Farnham Cas●le also is not filent of his worth and praise , which did so much partake of his bounty . He also adorned the Tower in the Castle of VVindsor , being his lot , as P●elate of the Garter ; so that it is easily knowne , that in these works hee l●id out above 5000. pounds sterling . He dyed at Greenwich of a Dropsie , being aged 49. on the 13. of the Kalends of August , 1618. leaving behind him foure famous brethren , Knights ; Sir Edward the eldest , Sir Charles , which buried him ; Sir Henry , and Sir Sidney now living , Master of the Requests . He was not unmindfull of Sidney Colledge , but gave a yeerely stipend to the Library . He desired to be buried in Bath , where his Tombe is to be seene of Marble , and Alabaster : his family did not onely misse him , but the Vniversities , the Court , and Church ; and his death grieved the King mainely , for he loved him dearely for his care , integrity , sweetnesse of carriage , and learning . In a word , having lived a Reverend Father of our Church , and alwayes imitating the Piety of those renowned Fathers , Bishops , before him in the Primitive times , hee is with them laid to rest , expecting the reward of the just , at that great day of Jesus comming . WILLIAM PERKINS . THe place of this Divines birth was Marf● , not farre from the City of Coventry , in Warwick-shire : he was brought up and polished in learning in the Vniversity of Cambridge , where he made in short space excellent proofe and demonstration both of learning and piety ; so that he was not onely an excellent and diligent Preacher , but also a quicke and dextrous writer of many Treatises and Commentaries , which , for their worth were many of them translated into Latine , and sent beyond Sea , where they were , and to this day are well approved of : so that his fame was not onely in this Kingdome , but also in France , Germany , and the Low Countries , and in some parts of Spaine : for his workes many of them are in French , in high Dutch , and low Dutch , and his Reformed Catholicke translated into Spanish , rests yet unanswered by any of that side . This Divine was lame of his right hand , so that it was unfit to write withall , but what famous things hee did write with his left hand , not onely the Corporation of Christs Colledge , but also the whole Vniversity of Cambridge afford long and sufficient testimonies : But alas ! he was taken from us in the vigour and strength of his age , being indeede , more fit for heaven than earth : hee sickned and dyed at Cambridge , in the yeare of Grace , 1602. not without many teares , and the griefe of all good men , being but aged 44. and had all the funerall solemnities and rites of the Vniversity , as did befit so learned a man. His Workes are here in order set downe . 1. A foundation of Christian Religion . 2. His Golden chaine , or a description of Divinity . 3. An Exposition on the Apostles Creed . 4. An Exposition of the Lords Prayer . 5. A Declaration of the state of Grace and Condemnation . 6. Cases of Conscience . 7. A discourse of the Tongue , done into Latine by Thomas Draxe . 8. Of the nature and practice of Repentance . 9. Of the meanes to dye well , in all states and times . 10. Of the combate of the flesh and spirit into Latine by Drax. 11. Of the course to live well . 12. A Treatise of Conscience . 13. The Reformed Catholicke . 14. Of the true meanes to know Christ crucified , and the Graine of Mustard-seed into Latine , by Thomas Drax. 15. Of true VVealth . 16. Of the Idolatry of the last times . 17. Of GODS free grace , and of free will in Men. 18. Of mens callings . 19. Of Predestination in Latine by the Author . 20. His Bible harmony . 21. A Dialogue of the worlds dissolution . These that follow , were set forth after the Authors death . 1. Three bookes of the cases of Conscience , translated into Latine by Thomas Drax and Meyer . 2. Commentaries on the five first Chapters on the Galathians . 3. Of Christian Equity by Crashaw . 4. Of Mans Imagination , set forth by Thomas Peirson . 5. Problemes against Coxe , in Latine by himselfe , set forth by Samuel Ward . 6. The key of Prophesie , set forth by Thomas Tuke . 7. Commentaries upon the fifth , sixth , and seventh chapters of Matthew set forth by Thomas Peirson . 8. Commentaries on the three first chapters of the Apocalyps , by Robert Hill , & Tho. Peirson . 9. Of the tentation of Christ , Matt. from the 1. ver . to the 12. of the 4. chapter . 10. An exhortation to repentance . 11. Two excellent Treatises of Ministers calling , set out by Master Crashaw . 12. A commentary on Iudes Epistle , by Thomas Pickering . 13. Of poysoning a Treatise . 14. Against Prognosticks : an answer to a Countrey fellow . 15. Of the houshold Discipline , in Latine by the Author , now Englished . WILL : WHITAKER . ALthough those of the Church of Rome have had many rare Schollers which have confuted their erronious and superstitious Tenents , yet of late , scarce any have so convinced them as Iuel and VVhittakers . He was borne in Lancashire , and was sent to the Vniversity of Cambridge , and was admitted into that famous society of Trinity Colledge , where hee proved a famous Scholler , both in Tongues , and all manner of Theology ; and so was made the Kings Professor of Divinity , and Master of Saint Johns Colledge , which preferment he long held ; and in that space he had often combatings with many great Romish Priests and Iesuits ; as Stapleton , Sanders , Reinolds , and Campian ; with what successe any man of iudgement or discretion can easily discerne , and not daunted with these combatants , hee set upon their chiefe Goliah , and Champion himselfe , even great Bellarmine the Cardinall , whose Arguments and Obiections he hath so succinctly and solidly answered , that all the Divines of Europe give him great praise ; and if he had not beene taken away by death , hee had answered all the Tomes of Bellarmine exquisitely : However , I have heard it confest of English Papists themselves , which have bin in Italy with Bellarmine himselfe , that hee procured the true Portraicture and Effigies of this Whitaker to bee brought to him , which he kept in his study ; for hee privately admired this man for his singular learning and ingenuity , and being asked of some of his friends Iesuites , Why hee would have the picture of that Heretique in his presence ? hee would answer , quod quamvis Hereticus esset & Adversarius , esset tamen . Doctus Adversarius : That although he was an Heretique and his . Adversary , yet he was a learned Adversary : To which I may iustly say , that hee was a pious man , and a solid Teacher , and dyed in peace and quietnesse of Conscience , to the griefe of all England , and especially of the Vniversity of Cambridge , in the yeare of our Lord , 1595. and of his age forty seaven , and was buryed at Cambridge , in St. Iohns Colledge , with great solemnity and funerall ornamenns befitting so great a learned man as he was , where in the same place you may reade his Epitaph , engraven , and set in Golden letters upon the Wall by his Sepulchre , in the Chappell of St. Iohns Colledge : His workes are famous , and follow here truely registred . 1. Against Thomas Stapleton a Papist his defence of Ecclesiasticall authority in three Bookes , with an authority of the Scriptures . 2. A solid refutation of Nicholas Sanders , his forty Demonstrations , that the Pope is not Antichrist , because hee is but one man , and there ha●ing beene two hundred Popes . 3. A Christian Answer to the tenne reasons of Edmund Campian the Iesuite . 4. A defence of Iohn Harding the Iesuite answered , and the tenne reasons of Edmund Campian , which hee offered to the Ministers of the Church of England . 5. Fragments of the old Heresies , which helpe to make up the Romane Church . 6. Theses propounded and defended at the Commencement at Cambridge , 1582. The summe of which was , that that the Pope is the Antichrist spoken of in Scripture . 7. A disputation of the ●ly Scripture against the papists of this time , especially against Robert Bellarmine and Stapleton . 8. Certaine Lectures of the controversies of the Church , distributed into seven questions ; a worke set forth after his death , by Iohn Allenson . 9. A controversie of councels against Iesuites , especially Bellarmine , in sixe questions . 10. A Treatise of Originall sinne , in three bookes , against three bookes of Thomas Stapleton , of Universall Iustification . 11. Lectures upon the controversie of the Romane Bishop , di●ibuted into eight questions , chiefely against Bellarmine . 12. His Cygnea Cantio , or his last Sermon to the Clergie at Cambridge 1595. with a true description of his life and death . 13. A translation of a booke of Iuel against Harding , in Latine . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A14345-e7390 Tabernis Rhenanis .