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 ...

CHAP. VI.

[ I]

Dr THomas Jackson a learned Divine, as his Commentaries upon the Apo∣stles Creed, and other Works shew.

Mr. Arthur Jackson, a Reverend Divine, and good Expositor of Scripture.

He hath commented on the Pentateuch, on the Historicall Part, and five Poeti∣cal Books.

* 1.1King James a learned and wise Prince.

His several Works shew his great Learning. I finde in the Appendix of the Oxford Catalogue these words, Opera Regis Lat. manu propria inscripta & Acade∣miae suae Oxoniensi dono data, in perpetuam Regiae munificentiae memoriam, in Archivis reposita.

In the Catalogue it self his Poeticall Exercises, and other particular Works are enumerated.

He died in March.

Non miror regem si Martius abstulit Anglis; Pacificis semper Mars inimicus erat. Arth. Jonstoni Epig.

Jacobus De a 1.2 Voraigne. He wrote the golden Legend.

Richard James.

M^r Selden speaks of him and Patrick Young, as his Assistants in his Work of Marmora Arundelliana.

Sed ut expeditiùs res absolveretur, rogo ut in operae societatem adsciscerentur amici communes, eruditissimus Patricius Junius, & multi jugae doctrinae studiique indefati∣gabilis vir Richardus Jamesius.

For this Richard James, there is this censure of him, that he preached three Sermons, one without a Text, another against his Text, and a third be∣sides it.

D^r Thomas James. He was a laborious man. As

His Corruption of Scriptures, Councels and Fathers.

The Downfall of Jesuites.

Bellum Papale, and other Works shew.

Jamblychus b 1.3 a famous Philosopher, and Porphyrius his Scholar.

He hath written a Book of the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assy∣rians, and three Books of the Sect of Pythagoras, with Commentaries of Simplicius the Philosopher.

Jo De c 1.4 Janduno.

Cornelius Jansenius. He was born at Hilstane in Flanders.

One of the Papists learnedest and best Expositors of the Gospel.* 1.5

He was sent by King Philip the second King of Spain to the Councel of Trent.

Fuit in hoc viro praestans ingenium, exacta linguarum trium Latinae, Graecae & Hebraicae cognitio, singularis prudentia, eximius rerum usus, inprimis verò summum religionis ac pietatis studium. Quantus Theologus fuerit, clamant doctissimi in Con∣cordiam suam Evangelicam orbis judicio probatam Commentarii; qui & aequales aliquot, in his Salmeronem & Beauxamamum in eadem arena desudantes, à suis tunc edendis deterruerunt. Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg.

He was uncle to the other Jansenius Bishop of Iper,* 1.6 who wrote Sanctus Augu∣stinus. This Jansenius wrote another Book also against the French, and styles it Patricius Armachanus, whence Petavius cals the Jansenians Armachani, or be∣cause Jansenius was so much beholding to the Archbishop of Armaghs Goteschalci Historia for his Book.

Rabbi Salomon Jarchi a learned French Jew,* 1.7who hath commented on the whole Bible, and to whom Lyra is much beholding for what he hath of the Hebrew.

Jason d 1.8 Maynus.

His Works are in six Volumes.

Jesuitae. The Iesuites.

* 1.9In the fifth year of Pope Vrbane the fifth began first the Order of the Je∣suites.

Men of famous industry and excellent reach in all subtill and profound Arts, but ignorant and besotted in matters of faith and mysteries of salvation. D^r Jacks. on the Creed, Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 1.

Thuanus and Pasquier (though Papists) speak against the titles of Jesuites, as proud and blasphemous. Novo atque ut plerisque visum est superbo nomine appelati sunt. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 15.

See Thuan. Hist. tom. 2. l. 36. at the beginning, and Pasquiers Recherches de la France, l. 3. c. 42, 43. against them.

A Book called the Jesuites Rule, discovers what they are.

See also Monarchia Jesuitica, Arcana Societatis Jesu, Mysteria Patrum Jesuita∣rum. De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus, and the Jesuites Catechism.

The best Expositors amongst the Papists, are Pererius, Ribera, Tolet, Maldo∣nate, Estius, all which (except Estius) were Jesuites.

The ablest for controversies, are Bellarmine, Stapleton, Gregory De Valentia, two of which were also Jesuites.

The best Philologers, are Sirmondus, Andraeas Schottus, Fronto Ducaeus, Serarius, all Jesuites.

Some of the Papists are very bitter and malicious, as Genebrard, Gretzer, Scioppius.

Others more candid and ingenuous, Schottos, Frontones, Acostas, Petavios, Rosweydos, & aliquos alios viros eruditos & modestos excipio. Montac. Appar. 7.

* 1.10Ignatius, Anno Dom. 102.96. Helv. Chron.

He was the Scholar of S^t John the Evangelist, Bishop of the Church of Antioch, a man of great Sanctity, and a most ardent lover of our Lord Jesus Christ, he was was wont to say of him, My love was crucified.

Bishop Vsher and Vedelius shew which of his Epistles were genuine.

* 1.11Matth. Fl. Illyricus was somewhat heretical, but yet was usefull to the Church in

some of his Works, his Clavis, the Centuries, in which he had a great share, and Catalogus testium veritatis.

D^r Jackson indeed in Christs everlasting Priesthood, l. 10. c. 12. seems to justifie Illyricus his definition of original sinne, and chap. 13. labours to shew, that Cal∣vin and Peter Martyr consent with him in the description of original sinne. Yet I have elsewhere refuted his opinion, of original sins being the essence and substance of a man, and it is generally disliked by the Orthodox.

Denegarunt ei coenam ministri propter doctrinam de peccata originali, ita sine via∣tico, quia aberrarat è via, abiit ex hac vita: utinam pius & bonus. Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Lavater.

Joannes De Indagine.* 1.12

He flourished Anno 1522.

He was a great Astrologer.

Indices Expurgatorii.* 1.13

There are two Expurgatory Indices, one new, the other old, one set out by Cardinal Quiringa in the year 1584. the other by the Cardinal of Squidoval and Roxas in the year 1612. B. Vsh. Answ. to the Jesuit. Challenge.

There be some Authors so purged, as Georg. Venetus, Erasmus Roterodamus, and Carolus Molinaeus Works, that their depravations being diligently noted, would amount unto whole Volumes. D. James his Remedy against all manner of Popish Corrupt. Part. 5^th.

They have put as much out of Cajetane as would make a pretty Book.

The purpose of these Indices is to corrupt the writings, and raze the records of the world, to make all Authors to become the Popes Proctors, and such as (having spake for the truth) now (being dead) must plead for the Pope. Their practise is so soon as an Author is purged, to burn all the old ones as farre as they can. Cra∣shaws Preface to his Romish Forgeries and Falsificat.

Arias Montanus was sometime a chief Inquisitor in the Low-Countreys, and had more then a finger in printing of the Antwerp Index, long since, and often re∣printed by Junius: yet now his own Works (as his learned Commentaries) upon Isay, the lesser Prophets, the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles, upon the Epistles and Apocalypse, and other writings of his, are purged and purged again in the Roman Index. D. James his Mysteries of the Indices Expurgatory.

Jo. Philippus Ingrassias, a learned Physician.* 1.14

His house was called eruditionis emporiam, the mart of Learning.

These of his Works are celebrated.

De moribus praeter naturam. Tomus 1.

Quastio de purgatione per medicamentum, & de sanguinis missione.

Jatrologia.

Synopsis Commentariorum de peste.

Commentaria ••n Galeni librum de ossibus.

Comment. in Artem medic. Galeni.

Ingulphus a Learned English Abbot.

He lived Anno 1050. as he witnesseth in the end of his History.

He wrote a History of the Monasteries of England. See more of him, lib. 2. cap. 13. pag. 93.

Innocentius tertius Papa, Anno Dom. 1200.

* 1.15A learned man but a great persecutour of the Church.

When he had great store of money, he said to Thomas Aquinas, Dost thou not see Thomas, that the Church cannot now say as in times past when it first began, Aurum & argentum non habeo, I have not gold and silver, Thomas presently an∣swered, Holy Father, this is true, but the Church cannot now say, as the Primitive Church did by the same man, Arise, walk, be whole.

His Works are contained in two Tomes.

* 1.16Alanus Insulensis, vel de Insulis.

There is his

Ante-Claudiani, & de Anti-Ruffino.

Abbas Joachimus.

* 1.17He was an heretick, he held a distinction of the Deity from the Persons, and so a quaternity, mistaking a passage in Peter Lombard.

Arthur Ihonston a Scotch Doctor of Physick before he was full twenty three years of age, he was laureated Poet at Paris, his Paraphrastick Translation of the Psalms is commended.

Jernandes, he was called Jordanus, he flourished Anno Domini DXXX, under the Emperour Justinian.

He being a Monk was made Bishop of the Gothes.

* 1.18Josephus Judaicus Clarissimus Judaeorum Historieus. Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 3. most learned in the Greek and Hebrew.

He is a diligent Historian, yet since he wrote the Antiquities of his own Nation, with an intention to communicate them to others, he described them as stately as he could, and when he thought the simplicity of the Scripture did not suffice to the commendation of things done amongst the Hebrews, he invented and added many

things himself, therefore in those things he is to be prudently read, left he deceive the unwary Reader. This fault Luther on Gen. 34. and Rivet on Exod. 2. and Chamier and others tax him with. Vide Cornel. à Lap. in Gen. 29. & in Numb. c. 11. v. 34.

There was a Jew in latter times who out of the true Josephus translated into La∣tine by Ruffinus (he himself understanding no Greek) and Hegesyppus (or rather Ambrose) his Latine History of the destruction of Jerusalem, set out an H••brew History under the false name of Joseph Ben-Gorion, whom he thought to be the same with Josephus the Historian, for whom he would be taken. The Epitome of this Hebrew History is entitled, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Josiphon, whence the name of Josippus was taken up.

Paulus Jovius.* 1.19

Some commend him, and others much dislike him.

I have heard wise and learned men say, That his whole study and purpose is spent on these points, to deface the Emperor, to flatter France, to spite England, to help Ger∣many, to praise the Turk, to keep up the Pope, to pull down Christ and Christs Reli∣gion, as much as lieth in him. Aschams Discourse of the State of Germany, p. 15.

Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him.

••aenal•• cui penna fuit, cui gloria flocci, Vix quid ut ille fide scripserit historicâ.

Thuanus cals him Luculentum historiarum Scriptorem Hist. Tom. 1. l. 11. Neand. in the third part of his Geography, saith Paulus Jovius in opere ejus doctissimo & elo∣quentissimo historiarum nostri temporis.

Hic situs est Iovius Romanae gloria linguae: Par cui non scripto non Patavinus erat.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Jacobus Rex. Vide Vossii Epist. ad artem Grammati∣cam.

  Quis doctus (& quotidiè ad eum confluunt) non stupuit tanti ingenii miraculum Rerum incredibilis varietas, mirabilis antiquitatis peritia, selecta oratio, & nihil ab iis abhorrens qui perpetua aetate deduxerunt studium velut ad robustam maturitatem. Cryptai Britannia Triumphans.
• a 1.2

  Sic dictus quod esset qua∣si vorago Bibliorum, propter Crebras allegorias. Alsted. Encycloped. lib. 32. cap. 7.
• b 1.3

  Magnae vir apud Graecos authoritatis. Pier. Valer. Hier. l. 33. c. 41.
• c 1.4

  Gandavensis, vir longè eru∣ditissimus, circiter ante 270 annos primatum Papae oppugnavit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 8.
• * 1.5

  Vigilantissi∣mus sacrarum literarum In∣terpres. Montac. Apparat. Cornelius Jausenius in omnibus, quae scripsit, praesertim in Concordiam Evangelicam, & in Proverbia, ut etiam Psalmos, se magno valentem judicio, uti & eruditum ostendit. Possev. Biblioth. Select. Tomo 10. l. 2. c. 49. Theologus Egregius, cui exacta trium linguarum cognitio. Swertii Athen. Belg.
• * 1.6

  Hoc ipso tem∣pore plurimi Sorbonistae Jesuitarum dogmati pa∣lam adversan∣tur excitati ad id opere quidem posthumo, egregio tamen Cornelii Jansenii Yprensis Episcopi, quod Augustinum inscripsit. Vi∣deatur Apologia pro Jausenio à Doctissimo Sorbonista anonymo, D. Arneldum esse putant, conscripta. Mares. Exeg. Confess. Belg. Art. 16.
• * 1.7

  Rabbi Salomon Jarchi, quasi lunaris dictus. Is à nostris Judaeis Salom•• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vocatur. Natione Gallus erat & patria Trecensis; contrivit tamen aliquam aeratis partem in Germa∣niâ, commoratus aliquandiu Wormatiae ad Rhenum, cujus Synagogae Judaei etiamnum ipsius praesentiae mon∣strant vestigia. Authoritas porrò hujus Jarchai tanta est apud Rabinos, ut quamvis Interpretum numero abun∣dent, hunc tamen unum caeteris longè praeferant cunctis, non tantum quod tempore antiquior sit & clarorum inter medios ferè primus, sed quia in utroque Bibliis & Talmud laboraverit, & illa subinde cum hoc conferat. Schickard. Bechinath Happeruschim. Potius Jerarchi. Obiit anno Servatoris nostri 1105. Quia scripturam & plera∣que Talmudis explicavit, ideoque magnae inter Judaeos est authoritatis. Constant. L'Emperour. Not. in Benjaminem.
• d 1.8

  Patricius me∣diolanensis, eques auratae militae & Senator Ducalis. Vir corporis habitu eleganti, moribus facilis, in colloquiis familiaribus facetus & hi∣laris, in rebus magnis gravis, acutus, & perspicacissimi ingenii: prudens in consiliis, cujus autoritas maxima fuit apud Fridericum & Maximilianum Imperatores Romanorum: ad quos missus est legatus à Ludovico sfortia duce Medio∣lanensium excellens Philosophus, in juris prudentia nulli suo tempore cessit. Mortuus est Papiae 84. aetatis anno, Christi verò 1519. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog.
• * 1.9

  1521. Ignatius Loyola Hispa∣nus societatis Jesu fratribus initium dedit. Decem alios sibi adjunxit, quibus comitatus Luteria Romam obtinuit an. 1540. ut suae religionis institutum à Pontifice confitmaretur. Ge∣neb. Chronol. lib. 4. Ordo Societatis Jesu à Paulo tertio P.P. primum approbatur an. 1540 & ab eodem con∣firmatur 1543. Post eum Julius tertius, Paulus quartus, ••ius quartus & Tridentinum Concilium Sest. 9. cap. 15. Eum ordinem iterum confirmarunt.
• * 1.10

  Patriarcha Antiochenus, vir, quod in orientis parti∣bus perrarum est, singu ari eruditione. Scalig. Canon. Isag. l. 3. Solus Ignatius est intra primum Christi saeculum, & quidem sub sinem. Est enim occisus anno secundo Trajani, qui incidit in annum Christi centesimum secundum circiter. Irenaeus vixit circa annum centesimum sexagesimum, Tertullianus circa ducentessimum. Cham. De Oecum. Pont. l 2. c. 12. Antiochenae Ec∣clesiae Episcopus praesuit Ignatius vir magni spiritus, fidei, & zeli, de quo testari possunt ejus Epistolae Graecae ple∣nae fidei ac parrhesiae Concionantes de pectore pro Christo cuncta impendere parato. Neand. Geog. part. 2. Vide De ejus Epistolis. Albertinum De Sacramento Eucharistiae. l. 2. c. 1.
• * 1.11

  Matthias Flac∣ous Illyricus, haeresi infamis, alioqui de Ecclesia non malè meritus, edito Catalogo restium veritatis, & adornatis sua ipsius, Johannis Wigandi, & Matthaei Judicis opera Centuriis Ecclesiasticis Magdeburgensibus. Pezel. Mell. sic. Histor. part. 3. Testes veritatis à Christo ad nostram usque aetatem: id est, qui puram religionem amplexi fuerint, prolixè & accuratè de∣scripsit Matthias Flaccius Illyricus in Catalogo Testium veritatis, quam Simon Goulartius recensuit & auxit. Alsted. Eu∣cyclopaed. l. 32. c. 7. Quanquam verò cum aliis, tum imprimis paradoxo illo de peccati substantia, non exiguas in Eccle∣sia Christi turbas dedit: tamen sua etiam laude defraudandus non est, ob egregia scripta quibus aut Antichristi re∣gnum oppugnatum, aut Theologiae studia studiososue ivit adjutum Commendantur enim ex illis primùm Clavis sacrae Scripturae, deinde Centuriae Ecclesiasticae historia congesta Flacii potissimum consilio, opera autem Wigandi & alio∣rum. Tertium locum obtinet Catalogus Testium veritatis. Melch. Ad. in vita Flacii. Homo vehemens, & quocun{que} lo∣co pedem sigeret acerrimus turbarum incentor. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 38. Vide ejus Tom. 3. l. 61.
• * 1.12

  Vir politioris literaturae, & S Theologiae studiosissimus, edidit suis im∣pensis Librum introductionum Apotelesmaticarum in Chiromantiam, Physiognomiam, Astrologiam naturalem, cum Periaxiomatibus de faciebus signorum, & Canonibus de aegritudinibus, nusquam fere simili compendio tractata. Liber Argentorati est impressus in folio anno 1522. Cum viva authoris effigie in titulo praeformata Boissardi Icones.
• * 1.13

  Peritos scillos Chirurgos imitantes, qui expurgationi∣onibus suis sanguinem e∣mitrunt saepius saniorem. Prorisum imprimir, ut prohibitae lectionis librorum usus omnino interdiceretur, ita∣que Lovaniensibus Theologis id negotii datum, ut librorum censura dignotum loca notarent, eorumque diligentia & Benedicti Ariae Montani inprimis qui tunc in Belgium ex Hispania Philippi mandatu venerat, ut Bibliorum re∣giorum editioni praeesset, index expurgatorius est Concinnatus, ac sequenti anno regia auctoritate publicatus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 45.
• * 1.14

  Pestem in Si∣cili•• longè la∣téquè grass••n∣tem extinxit, unde Siculus Hippocrates vulgo appellabatur. Et, quod de Livio legimus, illi, etiam accidit; ut ex ultimis terrarum fi∣nibus ad eum visendum cujuscunque ordinis venirent. Castellan. Vit. Illust. Med.
• * 1.15

  Unus ille om∣nium teterri∣mus Evange∣licae veritatis hostis, qui 1215. in Sy∣nodo Latera∣nensi omnium fe••è turbarum, quibus hodiè orbis concutitur Christianus, seminaria in Ecclesiam profudit. Quum primum non ante auditam transubstantia∣tionem invexit, confessionem auricularem à Christianis extorsit: criminum remissionem non aliter quam à sacer∣dote accipiendam mandavit: Laicis alteram sacrae Communionis partem eripuit: Exurendi tartaream hanc con∣suetudinem eos maximè qui hiscere adversus Romanam sedem auderent, induxit. Cui potissimum Pontifici acce∣ptum debetur, quicquid hodiè vel clad a vel dissidii inter Protestantes, & Pontificios in Ecclesia deflagret. Foxus contra Osorium l. 3. p. 23.
• * 1.16

  Vir in divinis ac saecularibus disciplinis nulii suo tem∣pore secundus per annos multos. Sorbonae Parisiensi praefuit, ubi scientiarum omnium cognitione Clarissimus Universalis cog∣nomen est adeptus. Anton. Sanderus De Script. Fland. l. 1.
• * 1.17

  Calaber, homo eruditionis & etiam sanctita∣tis vitae nomi∣ne cum primis celębris, qui floruit anno 123. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 17. Magister sententiarum in libro primo dixit. Quaedam summa res est, Pater, Filius & Spiritus Sanctus, & illa non est generans, nec genita, nec pro∣cedens. Haec magister, ex quibus verbis, Abbas Joachim hujusmodi doctrinam haud recte percipieas, quaternita∣tem colligebat: & quartam in divinis rem adstruebat, hujusque generis errorem & notam magistro impingebat. Ang. Roc••ha Biblioth. Vatic. Concil. 2. Lateran.
• * 1.18

  Hieronymus Graecum Livi∣um appellat, propter ingenii excellentiam •• Senatu & ••••∣pul•• Rom•• promeruit, u•• eo viven••e libri ejus publicae Bibliothecae trad••rentur, ipsi vero post mortem aenea statua poneretur. Amicus fuit Christiano∣rum, quanquam Judaeus esset: & Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum in 18. Antiquitatum libro insigni elogio celebravit, qua de causa D. Hieronymus eum in Catalogo Ecclesiasticorum scriptorum digna cum laude recenset. Sixt. Seneus. Biblioth. Sanct. l. 4. Is in omni Latinorum & Graecorum Scriptorum genere versatus, omnem Genti∣lium historiam & Chronologiam excussit & perdidicit, ideoque ab istorum Hebraeorum ineptiis remotissimus fuit. Possev. Biblioth. Select. Tomo 10. l. 2. c. 63. Vide 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Ceisuram Dub, Evang. & parte 2^da Dub. 2. & Ne••nd. Geog. parte 2^da. Decepti sunt Judaei post Josippum Josephi nomine. Item quòd uterque esset sacerdos, doctu••; no∣bilis, &c. quod uterque idem de Antiquitatibus Judaicis & de bello argumentum tractarit, unus tamen Hebraicè, alter Graecè. Geneb Chronol. l. 2. c. 4. Vide Bodin. Method. Hist. Flavius Josephus autor omni laude dignus, & cui post sacrorum voluminum scriptores prima esse debet fides. Etsi gravitate supra cunctos Judaeos eminet, tamen haud ubique à deliramentis abhorret popularium suorum. Cuneus de Repub. Heb. l. 3. c. 1. Vide Voss. De Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 8.
• * 1.19

  Vir mult••e e∣loquentiae, in∣gentique acer∣rum, medici∣nam primo ex••rcuit, non sine foelici suc∣ceslu. Scripsit historiam sui temporis, de rebus quae quinquaginta annis gestae erant in Italia, Hungaria, Asia, Af••ica, aliisque regionibus. Licet ejus Historiae libri sex primae decadis magna reipublicae literariae jactura per••erunt, dum Roma capta 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Hispanis duce Carolo Borbonio. Boissardi Bibliotheca, & Boxhorn Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog. Paulus Jovi•••• mu••••••tum judicia, magis acerba, quam libera experitur. Acriter valde in virum eunt. Ego de eo sic cen∣s••o. ••tylo bonum gravemque esse, & plane ad Historiam: judicio ac fide, ambiguum. Ubi affectus non detra∣h••••t, rectum; ubi illi adsunt, obnoxiom. Ad gratiam sudat & aurum. Laudationum nec caussam saepe habet nec 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ora••ionibus quoque aut frigidus interdum, aut ineptus. Laudandus tamen legendusque ab multi∣plicem & 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cu••um seriem quas redegit composite & dilucide in unum Historiae corpus. Lips. Not. ad 1. Lib. Polit. Vide Vherii Folietae Elog in Bendinelo Saulid. Card.