Ecclesiastical history epitomized containing a faithful account of ye birth life & doctrine, crucifixion & ascension of ye holy Iesus : with the lives of ye apostles evangelists & primitive fathers & other famous men in ye Christian Church both antient & modern who have couragiously confessed & suffered glorious martyrdomes & persecutions under several tyrannical governours both heathenish and Romish : faithfully continued to ye reformation and since deduced to this present age / carefully collected by J.S. ... ; in two parts.

The Life of Aquinas.

HE was by Birth an Italian Born in the King∣dom of Naples, Anno 1223, and was brought up in the Cassine Monastery in all manner of Learning, especially in the Knowledge of Divine things being very Zealous for the pro∣motion of the Faith of Christ, and when he was perfected in the Study of Divinity, he went to Paris, where he became very profitable to the Church in Teaching and Instructing Youths and Students in Divine Learning. He was always Stu∣dious, and was seldom seen to laugh; but when others were at their Merriment he would be Meditating, Insomuch that once Supping with King Lewis of France, he whilst the rest were making merry, fell into a deep Meditation, and forgetting himself, struck the Table, saying, That now the Manichees were foiled.

When any one offered him promotion he was wont to say, I had rather have Chrysostom's Com∣mentary upon the Gospel of St. Matthew. In all his Sermons, he framed his Speech to the Peoples Ca∣pacities; and hated Vice in any, though he lov∣ed their Persons never so well. He died as he was going to the Council summoned at Lyons, An∣no Christi 1274.

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