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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams ...,; 1656.
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CHAP. VIII.

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BArth. Keckermannus.

* 1.1He hath written almost on all Arts

All his Works are in two Volumes in Folio.

Thomas de Kempis, or Kempensis.

* 1.2His Book De Imitatione Christi is translated into sundry Languages.

He is translated into the Turkish Language. A Merchant going to Algiers in Mauritania to redeem some Captives from their miserable slavery, found this Au∣thour translated, and by the King wonderfully enriched with pearls, and kept (as he saith) in a more glorious Cabinet then ever Alexander kept his Homer in.

Liber quotidianarum paginarum erat ei Thomae à Kempis divinum opusculum de Imitatione Christi, de quo in libro de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, Ego, inquit, ab adolescentiâ mea, & usque ad senectam hoc Opusculum saepissimè volvi & revol∣vi usum per mihi novum apparuit, & nunc etiam mirificè cordi meo sapit. Fuli∣gattus in vita Bellarmini.

Aureus ille De Christi imitatione libellus, & non modò de manibus nunquam depo∣nendus, fed & ad verbum ediscendus, tanquam pietatis myrothecium, ut jure omnium gentium linguis bodiè legatur. Aubert. Miraei Elog. Belg. Vide plura ibid.

Joh. K••plerus a famous Mathematician.

He hath put out many Works that way.

Vir ingenio, industria, & (quod omnium instar) foelicitate inventorum, Admira∣bilis, saith D^r Ward of him in his Preface to the Reader before his Inquisitio in Bul∣liald. Astronomiae Philolaicae Fundamenta.

Jacobus Kimedoncius, he was Professour at Heidelberg in the Palatinate.

He wrote De verbo Dei.

De Redemptione generis humani.

De Divina Praedestinatione.

Oratio lugubris in obitum Jo. Casmiri.

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R. David Kimchi, a most learned Rabbin, and deadly enemy to Christians.

The King of Grammarians. Broughton of the ten first Fathers.* 1.3

He hath styled his Grammatical Work Michlol.

Liber Radicum, that Book of his roots or Hebrew Lexicon is Hebraica litera•••••••• locupletissimus thesaurus.

Comment in Psalmos 10. priores.

There is he and other Rabbins upon the lesser Prophets.

Adversus Christianos.

R. Moses Kimchi.

There is his Introductio aed sapientiam cum Exposit. D. Eliae & annot. Const. L'Em∣pereur Hebraicè & Lat. 80.

Athanasius Kircherus, a learned Germane Jesuite now living at Rome.* 1.4

He hath written these Works,

Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta.

Prodromus coptus sive Aegyptiacus.

Consule eruditissimum de magnete opus Athanasii Kircheri. Musaeum Wormianum l. 1. Sect. 2. c. 9.

Conradus Kircherus.

His Greek Concordance of the Old Testament is much esteemed, entitled

Concordantiae Veteris Testamenti Graecae Hebraeis vocibus respondentes.

Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany.

He hath published divers things about the Arabick Tongue.

John Knewstub a Learned Divine.

There are his Lectures on Exod. 20.7. first 17. vers. on 1 Cor. 13. v. 4, 5, 6, 7. on Gal. 3. v. 10. on 3 Joh. v. 16. on Mat. 6. v. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Answer unto certain Assertions.

Confutation of monstrous and horrible heresies taught by H.N. and embraced of a number, who call themselves of the Family of Love.

John Knox a learned Scotch Divine.

Johannes Major a famous Scotchman also was his Master.* 1.5

Beza and Calvin write several Epistles to him; Calvin three, and Beza two. Calvin cals Knox and Goodman his Brethren, and excellent men.

He had a Prophetick Spirit, by which he fore-told many things that came to passe afterwards, as * 1.6 Whitaker observes.

He was the Restorer of the Gospel among the Scots.

His Sermons and other English Works are mentioned by Maunsell in his Ca∣talogue.

Albertus Krantzius, or Crantzius.

A man, as of an excellent Spirit,* 1.7 so of farre greater Place and Authority in Germany then Luther was, and one that from as earnest detestation of the Romish Churches pride and insolencies, notified as great a desire of Reformation, as Lu∣ther, yet thought he should have but lost his labour in oppugning the greatnesse whereto it was grown. The same Bishop a little before his death being made ac∣quainted with Luthers purpose; after approbation of his good intents to reform the abuse of Indulgenees, burst into these despairing speeches of his good successe, Frater, frater, abi in cellam, & dic, miserere mei Deus. D^r Jacks. on the Creed first Vol. l. 1. c. 30.

There are his Works in two Volumes mentioned by Melch. Ad.

Notes

* 1.1

Vir caetero quin eruditus, sed novello∣rum scriptorum, quam antiquitatis studiosior. Voss. De Hist. Graec. lib. 2. cap. 13.

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* 1.2

Nasnitur cir∣ca annum M. CCC. LXXX. De Imitatione Christi. l. 4. verè aurei, non Latine solum sed Ger∣manice, Belgicè, Hispanicè, Gallicè & Graecè saepius excusi. Nullus post sacros codices tam crebro fuit excusus libellus, nullus tam cupidè ab omnibus expetitus & lectitatus, a summis, mediis, & infimis. Swertii A∣thenae Belgica. Valeri And. Biblioth. Belg.

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* 1.3

Vir talis, qui, quod litteram, quod Histori∣am, quod de∣ri••ur idioma∣•••• ••••cum a••••••∣tinc•• pluri∣mum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 an militatis 〈…〉〈…〉 adferat. Nonne ex solo ipsius libro Radicum sole clarius ipsius Ebraica eruditio solidissima refulget? Ce•••••• suo Michlol omnem laudem est supergressus. Dilbor. Disput. Acad. Tom 1. David Kimchius, author, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 doctus, ita (nisi ubi nimio in Christianos zelo praeceps rapitur) sobrius & gravis. Pocock. Not. Miscel in Porta•••• Mosis cap. 4. Nomen est fa∣miliae quae tres viros insignes habeit, Josephum, viz. Patrem & Davidem Mosemque si••ius: quo••um ute••que gram∣maticam edidit, sed ille plenissimè scripsit de hac arte, quem Christiani doctores plurimum sequantur. Drus. Not. in Tetrag.

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* 1.4

Athanasius Kir∣cheus Germa∣nus vir è Soci∣etate Jesu eru∣ditionis oppido magnae. Is per∣hibetur exi∣miè callere Hieroglyphi∣corum myste∣ria. Gassend. De vita Pei∣reskii. l. 4.

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* 1.5

The King of Scotland said, He was a good man, and that he was more afraid of his prayer then of a great Army.

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* 1.6

De Eccles. qu. 5. c. 13.

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* 1.7

Decessit eo∣dem anno quo Lutherus nun∣dinationem indulgentia∣rum reprehen∣dere coepit. Melch. Ad. In ejus vita.

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