A treatise of religion & learning and of religious and learned men consisting of six books, the two first treating of religion & learning, the four last of religious or learned men in an alphabetical order ... / by Edward Leigh ...

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A treatise of religion & learning and of religious and learned men consisting of six books, the two first treating of religion & learning, the four last of religious or learned men in an alphabetical order ... / by Edward Leigh ...
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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1656.
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CHAP. V.

HJeronymus, Anno Aerae Christi 375. Helv. Chron. 390. say others.

* 1.1He matched any of his time in Learning in the Tongues, skill of hu∣manity, and knowledge in holy Scripture, yet was that time so plenti∣full of Learned men, as almost no time since.

Linguarum, Historiarum, & locorum situs peritissimus vir. Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 8. Vide c. 11. & 15.

He was mainly taken with Origen, so that he called him by way of praising him, Suum, his own.

His Epistles are approved of in Italy, France, Spain, all Germany and Africk: he was honoured and sought to farre and near by Bishops, by Noble Matrons, by great Rulers, many great personages came farre, having seen his Works, to see the Author. He had excellent skill in the Hebrew, which he got of a Jew Bar∣hanin ah, as Erasmus relates in his Life.

Vir perfecto omnium doctrinarum genere praeditus, Hebraeam prae terea linguam, Syram, Chaldaicam, Graecam, & Latinam callens. Ang. Roch. Bibl. Vatic.

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He was over-sharp and vehement in his Epistles with Austen and with others in his Controversall Writings.

Vt ubique vehemens, ita in Eristico contradicendi genere parum interdum atten∣dendus. Montac. Appar. 9.

Omnium Traditionum Curiosissimus explorator. Id.

Hilarius Pictaviensis Antistes, Bishop of Poictou in France.

Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him,* 1.2

Et nos exhilaras, Hilari sanctissime Praesul, Et monitis victa est Arria secta tuîs.

Hilarius Arelatensis Episcopus.

He lived in the time of Pope Leo about the year 458.

Hildefonsus * 1.3 Toletanae sedis Episcopus.

There are Opuscula varia of his.

Arthur Hildersam, a Learned and Judicious Divine; who quotes Scripture Texts pertinently.

His Comment on the 51 Psalm, and his Lectures on the 4th of John, and other Works are excellent Treatises.

Hincmarus, Anno Dom. 850.

There are his Opuscula & Epistolae.* 1.4

Admonitio de potestate Regia & Pontificia.

Hipparchus, a great Astronomer.* 1.5

He lived about 125 years before Christ was born.

Pliny much commends him in the 2d Book of his Naturall History, c. 26.

There are his Enarrationes Gr. Lat. Ad Arati & Eudoxi Phaenomena.

Hippocrates.* 1.6

He was the first that wrote Methodically the Art of Physick, all Greece admi∣ring him because of his knowledge.

His Works are in Greek and Latine in two Volumes.

His Aphorisms are much esteemed and quoted by Physitians.

Hippolytus.* 1.7

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He hath written some Homilies, and De Consummatione mundi, de Antichristo, & secundo adventu Christi.

* 1.8David Hoeschelius, a very Learned man, to whom we owe many good books.

* 1.9Rob. Holcot, an English man, a Learned Dominican Monk.

He hath written

On the Proverbs.

Questions and Speeches upon the Sentences.

De imputabilitate peccati quomodo longa.

Determinations of other Questions.

Jacobus * 1.10 Hollerius.

Magni illius Hollerii dignissimus filius. Jacobi Augusti Thuani De vita sua. l. 1.

He hath written

De morbis internis, Observat. ad Consilia curandi.

* 1.11Lucas Holstenius, a Learned Papist.

* 1.12Franciscus * 1.13 Hottomannus, a Learned Lawyer, well skilled in History and all An∣tiquity, and a Protestant.

Divers of his Works published Concerning the Law, and other things, for the illustration of Antiquity and politer Learning, are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

* 1.14Homer. Seven Cities contended about his birth.

Leo Allatius hath written a book de Patria Homeri.

Homers Poetry is twofold, his Iliades and Odysses. In the Iliades he represents the strength of his body, in his Odysses that of his minde, both is described in an Heroick verse, the most absolute of all Meeters.

Amongst all Homers verses his Iliades and Odysses are especially celebrated, in which the light of all Philosophy, Oratory and Poetry is seen. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Hist. l. 2.

Est perfecto regium quid Homeri poesis, & praesertim Ilias, & paraemia quidem ait malorum Ilias, haec vero omnis boni Ilias. Possev. Biblioth. Select. Tomo 2do, l. 17 c. 10.

Homer and Virgill, the two Poets that have been the admiration of all ages, which have afforded men of judgement.

Philosophers and others ascribed little less then Divine authority to Homer.

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Alexander the Great put Homers Iliades in a curious Casket which he took from Darius, and laid it still under his pillow when he slept.

Homero vati haec est propria, peculiarisque tribuenda lans, quod neque, ipse de patria sua quicquam prodidit, & pleraeque illum nobilissimae civitates suum quaeque fuisse alumnum contendunt. Polit Orat. in Exposit. Hom. Vide plura ibid.

Alcibiades the Athenian coming into a School, commanded them to bring him Homers book, when they answered they had him not, he struck the Master and went away, counting it an unworthy thing for a Schoolmaster to be without Homer.

Festus Hommius.

He was in the Synod of Dort, and opposed the Arminians.* 1.15

There is his Specimen controversiarum Belgicarum.

And his Disputationes Theologicae.

Petrus Cornelius a 1.16Hoofduis, a Learned Dutch Knight.

Richard Hooker.

For his solid Writings he was sirnamed the Judicious, and entitled Theologorum Oxonium.

He hath published a Learned Book Of the Laws of Ecclesiasticall Polity, written in Defence of the Government then established, against the new desired Discipline.

John Hooper, the Learned and godly Bishop of Glocester and Worcester, and Martyr.

These are his Works,

His Answer to my L. of Winchesters book, entituled, A Detection of the devils Sophistry wherewith he robbeth the unlearned people of the true Belief in the Sacrament of the Altar.

Confession of the Christian Faith.

Declaration of the 10 Commandments.

Sermons on Jonas.

And other Tracts mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue.

Joachimus Hopperus.

He hath written divers Works.* 1.17

Paraphrasis in Psalmos.

De usu Psalmorum.

De vera Jurisprudentia

Isagoge in Iurisprudentiam.

De Juris Arte.

Dispositio Lib. Pandectarum.

More of his Works are mentioned by Suffridus Petrus De Scriptoribus Frisiae.

Horatius Flaccus,* 1.18 an ingenious Poet.

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Qui unus plura Criticorum judiciò, quam caeteri omnes innovavit. Dilher. Dispu∣tat. Acad. Tom. 1.

Robert * 1.19 Horne, sometime Bishop of Winchester.

Et bene sonantem Hornum. Dr Humph.

There is his Answer to Fecknam.

Conradus Hornaeus Lutheranus. Vedelius terms him Virum doctissimum, and com∣mends his book De processu disputandi.

* 1.20Lambertus Hortensius.

Divers of his Works are published.

De Anabaptistis, De Bello Germanico, Explanationes in Lucanum, in Virgilii Aeneida, Dissertatio de Trajecto & Epistolis, Rerum Vltrajectinarum.

Stanislaus Hosius.

* 1.21He was imployed by three Emperours successively, Charles the 5th, his Brother Ferdinand, and Maximilian the sonne of Ferdinand. He was President in the Councell of Trent.

All his Works are in one Volume.

Rod. Hospinianus.

He hath written

De Festis Judaeorum & Ethnicorum.

De Templis.

De Monachis.

Michael Hospitalius.

* 1.22Vnicum aevi nostri decus. Grot. Praefat. ad Poem. Chancellour of France un∣der Charles the 9th, but removed from the Court and made a prisoner as it were, only because he opposed those wicked counsels against the Protestants in the Mas∣sacre at Paris.

Beza mentions him in his Icones Virorum illustrium.

There are these of his Works published,

Six Books of Epistles in Latine verse.

De Caleto expugnato.

Epistola & carmen, cum. aliis.

In the Preface to his Epistle one saith, it appeared by a most ancient Coin, that he much resembled Aristotle. Summum illum omnium Philosophorum principem Aristotelem sic ore toto retulit, ut alterius ex altero imago expressa videri posset.

Jo. Howson, Bishop of Oxford, a Learned man. He hath written De Divortiis, and Sermons.

* 1.23Rogerius de Hoveden, a famous Historian, who flourished about the year 1190.

He wrote two Books of Annals.

Robert Hues.

He hath written well of the Celestiall and Terrestiall Globes and their use.

Hermannus * 1.24 Hugo.

He hath written a good Book de Origine scribendi & rei literariae antiquitate.

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Hugo * 1.25 Cardinal, a Dominican.

He hath written learnedly on all the Scripture.

Antonius Hulsius, a learned man.

He hath put out

Theologia Judaica, and Notes on the Psalms in Latine.

Humbertus a 1.26 Episcopus.

Whom Leo the 9th made Cardinal for the rare Learning and vertue which was in him, and sent him to Constantinople to suppresse the andaciousnesse of another Leo Bishop of the Bulgarians.

Laurentius Humphredus.

Laurence Humfrey Doctor of Divinity and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, a learned and pious man.* 1.27

He hath written Bishop Juels life in Latine, and Jesuitismus.

De Interpretatione Linguarum.

He hath written in English

Of Civil and Christian Nobility, shewing the Original, Nature, Duties, Right and Christian Institution thereof.

Also a Treatise by Philo a Jew, of the same Argument, translated.

Seven Sermons.

John Hus a Bohemian born in a Town named Hassenitz.* 1.28

He died as a Martyr of Christ at Constance Anno 1415. His Works are mentio∣ned by Boissard in his Icones.

He and Jerom of Prague were condemned in the Councel of Constance against the publick faith given them. Hus in the year 1415. but Jerom in the year follow∣ing, which Bodin (though a Papist) disliked De Repub. l. 5. c. 5.

The people which were present at the execution of Hus, so admired his constan∣cy and pious death, that they said, What that man taught or did before we know not: certainly those things are great evidences of true piety, for he prayed most fervently to God a little before his death.

Hulrichus Huttenus a Knight and Poet laureate, born Anno 1488.

He was Luthers good friend, and encouraged him to constancy.* 1.29

His Works are mentioned by Boissard.

In Vallam de donat constant.

Huttenus captivus, Huttenus illustris Satyra nemo.

De Schismate extinguendo.

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Exhortatio in Concil. Basil. contra decimas.

De lande Germanorum.

De morbo Gallico.

Arminius, Dialogus.

His Poetical Works are in one Volume.

There was this Epitaph made of him.

Hic eques auratus jacet oratorque disertus, Huttenus vates carmine & ense potens.

C. Julius * 1.30 Hyginus.

* 1.31Hypatia or Hypathia, a most learned woman, daughter to Theon the Geome∣trician, she taught publickly at Alexandria, many flocking thither to hear her.

Andreas Gerhardus Hyperius a most learned and diligent Divine. Anno 1511.

* 1.32His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

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