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. III.

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RIchard Pacio Dean of Pauls.* 1.1

He was Secretary for the Latine Tongue to King Henry the eighth. He was of great ripenesse of wit, learning and eloquence, also expert in for∣raign Languages. He was sent in the Kings affairs Embassadour to Venice, which function there he so discharged, that it is hard to say, whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians, for his dexterity of wit, and specially for the singular promptnesse in the Italian Tongue. For opinion and fame of Learning, he was accepted, not onely here in England with Linacre, Gro∣cinus, Mere, and others, but also known and reported abroad in such sort, that in all the great heap of Erasmus his Epistles, he wrote almost to none so many, as to him. Foxes Acts and Monum. Vol. 2. p. 247. c. 1.

He was after distracted, but he prettily well came to his wits, and began to study the Hebrew Tongue with Wakefield.

He hath written upon Ecclesiastes.

He begins his Book De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur, thus, Ric. Pac. Ad Sci∣ent. Profes. Epist.

Librum doctissimi viri, non adeo brevem, unius spatio mensis scriptum mira∣bimini.

He saith further, that it was composed Constantiae in publico hypocansto.

Fabius * 1.2 Pacius.

His several Works are mentioned by Tomasinus in his Elogia virorum Literis & Sapientia Illustrium.

Julius Pacius his younger brother.

* 1.3An M.D.L. in lucem editus, ingenium politiorum literarum studiis pari cum fratre contentione excoluit: esque profectu. Vt juvenis nondum exacto tertio decimo aetatis anno Arithmetica libellum magnâ facilitate conscripserit. Thomas. Elog.

He was an excellent Grecian, he illustrated Aristotles Organ with most copious Notes, and published many learned Commentaries upon many of his books of Philosophy, and elucidated many books of the Civil-Law with Commentaries or Notes.

Besides his knowledge of the Civil and Canon-Law, he was skilled with know∣ledge of all Learning, the Mathematicks, History, Poetry, much given to the reading of the ancient Fathers, and Ecclesiastical History, skilfull in the Latine, Greek and Hebrew Languages.

Marcus Pacuvius,* 1.4 a famous Tragaedian.

There are some fragments of his remaining.

John Paget,* 1.5 a learned Divine, as his Arrow against the Separation of the Brownists shews.

Santes Pagninus, an Italian, and a Dominican Frier, a man excellently learned in the Hebrew Tongue.* 1.6

There is his

Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae cum recognit Merceri. Fol.

Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

And other Works.

Petrus de Palude, vel Paludanus, Anno Dom. 1320.

He hath written upon the Gospels, on the third and fourth Book of the Sen∣nces.

De Causa immediata Eccles. potestatis.

De audientia Confessorum.

Jacobus Pamelius.* 1.7

He was born at Bridges in Flanders, Anno 1536.

He was excellently versed in both prophane and sacred History.

He hath not only made Cyprian and Tertullian better, but also illustrated them with learned Commentaries.

Guido Pancirolus.

He hath published,

Com. in notitiam utramque dignitatum tam Orientis quam Occidentis.

Thesaurus variarum lectionum utriusque juris.

And other Works.

Franciscus Panicarola.

Three at that time in concionibus dicendi laude florebant, Panicarola, Tolet & Lu∣pus. There being three things required of an Orator, Vt doceat, ut delectet, ut moveat, it was commonly said then, Lupus movet, Toletus docet, Panicarola delectat.

Anton Panormita Privy-Councelour to Alphonsus King of Spain and Naples.* 1.8

He hath published his memorable sayings and deeds in four Books.

A most famous Poet and Oratour.

Abbas Panormitanus, Anno Dom. 1440. The most learned of the Canonists.* 1.9

He hath put out

In Libros Decretalium tomos 4.

Consilia & Quaest.

Repertorium Juris.

Henricus Pantaleon, Anno Christi 1522.

* 1.10He wrote Prosopographiae illustrium virorum Germaniae, & Diarium Historicum.

And divers other Works mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.

Paphnutius.* 1.11 Famous in Ecclesiastical History.

* 1.12Papinianus. A famous Lawyer, he lived under Septimius Severus.

* 1.13Joannes Pappus, a learned Lutherane. He was born in the year of Christ, 1549.

He published many Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.

He died in the year which he expressed in this Verse, familiar to him in his In∣scriptions,

Ad fine M sI qVis se parat ILLe sapit.

* 1.14Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus. Bombast. ab Hohenheim, a learned Physician. He had divers names.

He held there were three principles of things, Sulphure, Salt and Mercury. He said Physick was supported by four pillars, the first of which is Philosophy or Phy∣sick, which is a knowledge of earth and water, and all things thence begotten, the second Astronomy, which is a knowledge of the other two Elements, and all hea∣venly bodies. Thirdly, Alchimy, which demonstrates the Compositions and dis∣solutions of all Bodies. The last is Vertue, which requires that a Physician should be pious toward God, just, constant and faithfull toward men, and a lover of all good.

He often censures and reproves the Ancients, Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle not excepted.

Daniel Pareus.

He hath written

Vniversalis Historiae Profanae Medulla.

Mellificum Atticum.

David * 1.15 Pareus his Son, a learned Divine of Germany.

He hath written Commentaries, and Adversaria upon all the Books of the Scripture.

Jo. Philip Pareus his Sonne.

He hath written

Thesaurus linguae Latinae.

Electa Plantina, & Lexicon Plantinum.

Musae fugitivae.

Theatrum Philosophiae Christianae.

Narratio historica de vita & obitu D. Parei patris ejus.

A Commentary upon Philemon and Jude.

And other Works.

Matthaeus Paris sive Parisius, Anno Dom. 1250.* 1.16

A Benedictine Monk of the Monastery of S^t Albane here in England, a very faithfull and diligent Authour.

He wrote Historiam Anglicanam the English History, from the year of the Lord 1066, even unto the year 1201.

Vir omnium citimae aetatis historicorum Anglorum (nisi cui placeat Willielmum Malmesburiensem excipere) eruditissimus. Casaub. ad Front. Ducaeum Epist.

Gul.* 1.17 Parisiensis.

His Works are in two Volumes.

Robert Parker a Reverend Divine.

There are these Works of his,

De Descensu Christi.

De Politia Ecclesiastica Christo & Hierarchiae opposita.

A Scholastical Discourse about the Sign of the * 1.18 Crosse.

John Parkins an Utter-barister of the Inner-Temple.

He put forth a little Treatise in the Reign of King Edward the sixth, of certain Titles of the Common-Laws, wittily and learnedly composed.

Rob. Parsons an English Jesuite.

He was most skilfull in railing and reviling, able to put Shimei, Rabshakeh and Thersites himself to school. See Charles Paget his Book against him, and Watsons Quodlibets fourth Answ. to second Artic. and Quodlibet 3^d Answ. to the sixth Artic.

There is a a 1.19 Book commonly called b 1.20 Resolutions, which goes under his name, which the Papists much magnifie, as also his Treatise of the three Conversions of England. But Doctor James somewhere denies the first to be his.

Protestants have published some Books of Papists (as Parsons Resolutions, Granadoes Meditations, with some altering of the Sentences, though if these Books had never come out, the scandal had been lesse. Doctor James his myst. of the Ind. Expurgat.

Carolus Paschalius a learned man.

He hath written,

Legatus.

Ceusura animi ingrati.

De optimo genere elocutionis.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Richardus Pa∣caeus vir prae∣claris animi dotibus praedi∣tus, multiplici doctrina ex∣cultus. Ha∣bebat ingeni∣um acre, judi∣cium matu∣rum. Con∣stans, solidum, memoriam foelicem, lin∣guam promptam & expeditam. In peritia linguarum Latinae, Graecae & Hebraicae, cum doctissimis sui saeculi viris de palma merito contendere potuit. Pitsaeus Relat. Histor. de rebus Angliae. Scripsit librum de fructu & utilitate artium ac scientiarum, diversas ad Erasmum Roterod. Epistolas, ac orationes varias ad principes Gesn. Biblioth.
• * 1.2

  Logicae pri∣mùm, mox Philosophiae o∣peram dedit, in qua à summis illius aetatis professoribus Pendasia, Franc. Piccolomineo, & Jacobo Zabarellā, quicquid notitiâ dignum desiderati potuit, fervore ingenii, affiduitate studii, & vigiliis hausit: Tomas. Illust. Vir vitae. Vide plura ibid.
• * 1.3

  His several Works are men∣tioned by To∣masinus in his Elogia.
• * 1.4

  Marcus Pacu∣vius Tragoe∣diis nobilis. Nepos fuit Quinti Enni, quod Eusebius ac Plinius referunt. Romae vixit in summa claritate nominis. Com∣mendatur maxime illius ingenium, & nativa quaedam facilitas in capiendis liberalibus disciplinis. Cicero hunc ex caeteris omnibus in Tragoedia facile praefert, carmenque ejus maximopere commendat. Boxhorn. Monum. Vir. Illust. & Elog. Vide Pet. Cri••it. De Poetis Latinis. l. 1. c. 5.
• * 1.5

  Johannes Pa∣getius Theo∣logus doctis∣simus & Ecclesiae Anglicanae apud Amftelredamenses Pastor. Sanfordus de Descensu Christi ad Inferos. l. 2. p. 40
• * 1.6

  Nostra memo¦ria Lucam ortu∣nobilitavit Sanctes Pagui∣nus, ex ordine Praedicatorum summus The∣ologus, & La∣tinè, Graecè, Hebraicè, Chaldaicè, Arabicéque, ut instrumenti utriusque versio ex Hebraeo Graecóque in Lati∣um, item Isagoge ad mysticos Scripturae sensus; Grammatica Hebraica Graecaque, ac alia multa litterarum mo∣numenta quae reliquit, abundè testantur. Fato concessit anno à Christo nato M.D.XXXVI. aetatis suae LXX. Lugduni in Gallia. Leand. Descript. tot. Ital. in Tuscia. Santes Pagninus vir ex D. Dominici familia ob insignem pietatem, sacrae Theologiae cognitionem & summam denique linguarum peritiam maximè conspicuus. Cujus viri Latina ex Hebraica veritate sacrorum librorum interpretatio non parum candidis Theologis ad sacrae Scripturae ar∣cana intelligenda adjumentum attulit. Ariae Montani Praefat. ad Bibl. Heb. Interlin. Santes Paguinus Dominicus Le∣xicon Hebraicum edidit, tanta eruditione refertum ut etiam Rabbinos in eo argumenti genere vicerit, & reliquos à praestantiore conficiendo deterruerit. Geneb. Chron. l. 4. Thesaurus linguaesanctae sive Lexicon Hebraicum: ex quo non solum vocularum significata, sed & abstrusiores quoque sacrae Scripturae sensus, è variis Rabinorum Com∣mentariis selectos haurire, licet. Gesn. Biblioth.
• * 1.7

  Vir & sacrae antiquitatis peritissimus, & cùm mul∣tis scriptis, quibus eam illustravit, tum una & altera Tertulliani & B. Cypriani Editione magnam gratiam à doctis & piis omnibus consecutus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. lib. 88.
• * 1.8

  Siculus, publi∣cè octingentis aureis annuis docuit studia literarum. Po∣stea, ut quoque est apud Volatteranum, Alphonso Regi Epistolarum magister fuit deque ejus dictis ac factis edidit libros quatuor. Eos verò Aeneas Sylvius, qui iisdem temporibus vixit; Commentariis illustravit. Voss. De hist. lar. l. 3. c. 7.
• * 1.9

  Panormitanus Juris Canoni∣ci sacrarumque literarum Callentissimus, ac inter Canonicos legistas cum primis celebris, non pauca rectè contra Papam Papistarumque errores dicit. De elect. cap. significasti, inquit. Uni fideli privato, si meliorem Scripturae authoritatem aut rationem habeat, plus credendum est, quam toti Concilio, vel Papae. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19.
• * 1.10

  Basiliensis medicinae do∣ctor, Poeta laureatus, hi∣storicus & comes Palatinus. Gesn. Biblioth.
• * 1.11

  Anno gratiae 352. floruit Paphnutius Episcopus, virtutibus clarus. Matth. Westm. Flor. Hist. p. 73.
• * 1.12

  Vide Docto∣rem Duck De Authoritate Juris Civilis Romanorum. lib. 1. cap. 3.
• * 1.13

  Christianae Religionis nostrae capita ferè omnia di∣sputando de∣fendit, eorum{que} veritatem contra adversarios tam Pontificios quam Calvinianos publicè asseruit. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.
• * 1.14

  Natus anno Christi 1493. Ex famil••a no∣bili Paracelso∣rum. Pa••.is auxilio pri∣mùm, deinde pr••pria indu¦stria doctissi∣mos viros in Germaniâ, Italia, Galliâ, Hi••paniá, aliis∣qu•• Europae regionibus, nactus est prae∣ceptores: quo∣rum liberali doctrina, & potissimùm propria inquisitione, ut qui esset ingenio acutissimo ac ferè divino, tantum profecit: ut multi testati sint; in universa Philosophia, tam arcana & abdita eruiste mortalium neminem. Quin etiam alter velut Euclides aut Plato, ad ipsos usque Aegyptios atque Arabes transiit; ac discendi cupiditate aliquot annos apud illos permansit. Melchior Adam in ejus vita. Docuit autem praeter Academiarum morem, vernacula lingua: vel saltem mixtim, Latinis partim, partim Germanicis verbis: ut nimirum ab omnibus intelligeretur. Memoria adeò ruit felici: ut integra Galeni loca memoriter & expeditè recitarit. Id. ibid.
• * 1.15

  Erat Theo∣logus inter Reformatos magni nominis, Commentariis in S. Scripturam solide elaboratis, & disputationibus adversus Robertum Bellarminum, clarissimus. Laeti Compend. Hist. Universal. Vir inter nostros magni suô meritô nominis sacrarum litterarum in Heidelbergen∣si quondam Academia Professor celeberrimus. Dallaes Respons. Apologet.
• * 1.16

  Parisiorum cognomen olim apud Anglos erat, quemadmo∣dum & nunc celebre: nisi quis sentiat illum à vulgò Parisiensem nominatum, quod aliquando Lutetiae studuerit. Johan. Lel. Collectanea dè viris illustribus M.S. Matthaeus Parisiensis Anglicus historicus, floruit ante annos 350. & redegit in Compendium Historias Angliae, seu praecipuos flores inde decerpsit. In eo opere valde multa narrat de gravissima Papae tyran∣nide qui miris artibus omnia Ecclesiarum jura, electiones, investituras, seu confirmationes ad se rapuerit imò & quam miris ac multiplicibus artibus Angliam penitus sit depraedatus, expulaverit, & exuxerit. Narrat idem multa & de certaminibus Scholae Parisiensis cum Monachis. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 16. Vide Wolfii Lect. Memorab. Tom. 10. pag. 694.
• * 1.17

  Episcopus. Hic vir erudi∣tionis ac pieta∣tis nomine percelebris floruit circa 1230. Domini annum. Sensit tum de Articulo Justificationis, tum & de mul∣tis aliis religionis partibus, longè melius caeteris ejus temporis doctoribus, quemadmodum testantur ejusdem scripta Parisiis uno volumine edita anno 1516. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 16.
• * 1.18

  Provoco ad Apologeticum illum verè ga∣leatum, qui cae∣remoniarum syngraphum in Ecclesias no∣stras scriptum, affixit nuper cruce. Amos. Praefat. ad Pu∣rif.
• a 1.19

  A Christian Directory gui∣ding men to their salva∣tion.
• b 1.20

  Quo nihil vidit Lingua Anglicana ad excitandam pietatem aptius, aut quoad stylum ornatius. Biblioth. Scriptorum So••ietat. Jes. A Philippo Alegambe edita.