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* 1.1ARistotle he was born at Stagira in Macedon. He was Plato's Scholar, and the chief of the Peripateticks.
Sectam condidit omnium longè nobilissimam, quam Peripateticam voca∣runt, eo quòd inter ambulandam artes commentationesque suas discipulis tra∣doret. Castellanus de vitis Medicorum.
He was not only the Master and Patriark of Philosophy, Logick and Rhetorick, but also especially learned in Poetry, both in respect of the Art, and the composing of verses. Lil. Gyrald. de Poet. Hist. Dial. 3.
He was Master to Alexander the great, of whom he was much esteemed, for his sake he repaired his Countrey Stagira, being much decayed.
He alone both invented and perfected the whole Art of Logick. Vide Crakanth. Log. l. 4. c. 4. & 16.
Crakanthorpe in his Treatise De Providentia, proves, that Aristotle did not deny Gods Providence, and that the Book De mundo is his.
He is called the Philosopher by an excellency.
Richard Fitzrauf, or Fitzraf Armachanus. 1350.
* 1.2Among those famous Clerks that lived in the family of Richard Angervill Bi∣shop of Durham in the dayes of Edward the third, Thomas Bradwardine, who was afterward Bishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzrause afterward Archbishop of Armagh, and Robert Holcot the Dominican were of special note. Richard of Ar∣magh my Countrey-men commonly call S. Richard of Dundalk, because he was there born and buried. B. Vsh. Answ. to the Jes. Challenge, of Merits.
He wrote against the Mendicant Friers, and should have been canonized, but for them.
A man for his life and learning so memorable, as the condition of those dayes then served; that the same dayes then as they had but few good, so had they none almost his better. He was first brought up in the University of Oxford in the stu∣dy of all liberal knowledge, wherein he did exceedingly profit under John Baken∣thorp his Tutor. There were thirty thousand Students in Oxford in his time. Foxes Act. and Monum. Vol. 1. p. 532. to 543.
He wrote seven Books De paupertate Salvatoris, wherein he proves that Christ was not a beggar.
Iacobus Arminius.
He was a learned man, and (as some say) of a strict life for a Dutchman.
He hath written Disputat. 24. de diversis Christianae Religionis capitibus.
Orationes & Controversiae Theologicae.
Examen libelli Guil. Perkinsii. De Praedestinatione & amplitudine gratiae divinae a∣nalysis cap. 9. ad Romanos. De gemino sensu cap. 7. ad Romanos.
Amica cum Fr. Junio per literas habita collatio de Pradestinatione.