Treatise of Religion and Learning, Book 3 · Chapter 8
CHAP. VIII.
JOhn Bodin, a Papist aMr Gatak. in his Vindicat. of his Annotat. on Jer. 10.2. Haeresim sapit apertè, quod Lutherus, Calvinus, Melancthon, & reliqui ejus farinae homines honorificè in eo libro nominentur. Historici verò ii usurpentur ad faciendam Historiae fidem qui & haeretici fuere, & in Historia turpiter sunt lapsi. Possev. Biblioth. Sel. l. 16. c. 9 Opus magnum de Republica Gallicè publicavit, in quo ut omni scientiarum genere non tincti, sed imbuti ingenii fidem fecit, sic nonnullis, qui rectè judicant, non omnino ab ostentationis innato gentis vitio vacuum se probavit. Thuanus Hist. Tom. 5. l. 117. Vide plura ibid. Illud velim ex te scire, quare Pontisicii tam acerbe quotidie in Bodinum declament. Certè quod mancipium ambitionis fuerit, propterea odio illis esse eum non crediderim. Aliam subesse causam necesse est, quam ex te scire velim. Scalig. Epist. l. 4. Epist. 354. Vide Scaev. Samarth. Elog. Gall., but an ingenuous and judicious Writer, of great and good note, as well among Protestants as Papists.
Scriptis ad posteritaetem victuris satis clarus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63.
Possevine dislikes his Methodus Historica, because he makes such honourable mention of the Protest…s there.
Voetius in his Biblioth. l. 2. Sect. prior. c. 1. condemns Possevines Bibliotheca, as maimed, because out of his envy and pretended hatred against heresie, he passeth by many excellent Authors.
Joannes Bodinus homo multiplici eruditione notus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 94.
Olim Protestantium doctrinae addictus, nec ab ea multum unquam postea aelienus.
Some commend his Theatrum Naturae for a choice piece, a Book full of natural curiosities.
Tycho Brahe l. 1. De nova Stella. c. 10. chargeth him with grosse errours in matters of History.
Sir Thomas Bodlie, a great Scholar and prudent Statist.Illa Bodlei industria piusquam humana; illa tot linguarum artiumque infinita comprehensio, doctos tantùm egit in stuporem: at illa incredibilis morum suavitas, ille in congressibus gestuque toto lepos & veluti. Articismus quidam doctos indoctosque juxta coepit. Orat. Funeb. Johan. Hales. in Colleg. Merton.
His Parents were rather good then great. What liberal Education they bestowed on him, he shews in his own Life written in English by himself, which is put into Latine by Dr Hackwell, and is in Oxford Library. He living in the troublesome times of Queen Mary, his Parents took him beyond Sea.
At Genevah he heard Beroaldus for Greek, Cevallerius for Hebrew, in Divinity Calvin and Beza.
He was very skilfull in the Oriental Tongues. Linguarum Orientalium callentissimus vir Thomas Bodlaeus. Drus. Not. in Tetragram. He was the great Founder of our famous Oxford Library, which is therefore called Bibliotheca Bodleiana. He gave many Hebrew Books to the Library, and was imployed in many honourable Embassies to the Kings of France and Denmark, the Lantgrave of Hesse, the Duke of Brunswick, Quae libuit ludere in poesi divina planè sunt, nihil illis cultius, nihil gravius, neque densitas sententiarum venerem, neque acumen abstulit candorem, equidem censeo paucos cum illo compari posse. Valla docet cum Latinè loqui: at vallam Boetius bene sapere. Hyper. Scalig. l. 5.the States of Holland.
He gave for his Arms three Crowns, with this Inscription, Quarta perennis erit.
Boetius Severinus. Anno Dom. 520.
Thevet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 6. mentions the several names given to him, and the reasons of them. He was called Severinus, to shew his Cato like severity and integrity. He was very famous in his dayes, being Consul a long time at Rome, and a man of rare gifts and abilities. Some say, in prose he gave not place to Tully, and had none that exceeded him for Poetry; a great Philosopher, Musician, Mathematician.
He was put to death by King Theodoricus King of the Gothes.
He was a most excellent Peripatetick, after he was slain Peripatetick Philosophy decayed, and almost all Learning in Italy. Barbarism wholly invaded it, and expelled good Arts and Philosophy out of its borders, saith Heereboord Epist. Dedicat. ad Disputat. ex Philos. select.
Albertus Magnus and Aquinas have commented upon him.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius, vir & dignitate & opulentia & virtute & eruditione longe maximus, Aristotelicam Philosophiam Romae docuit. Coring. de Antiq. Acad. Disser. 3.
Vide plura ibid. Fuit in omni disciplina egregiè doctus, quod liquido ex ejus monumentis constare potest: sed in pangendis versibus mira usus est facilitate. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Hist. Dial. 5. Anitius Manlius Severinus Boethius Patricius & Consul, vir eruditissimus, Philosophus & Theologus insignis, à Theodorico Gothorum Rege in exilium immerito pulsus, bonis omnibus fuit exutus, ac tandem Tyrannice interemptus est. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 6.Quis Boetio, vel in dialecticis acutior, vel subtilior in Mathematicis, vel in Philosophiae locupletior, vel in Theologia sublimior. Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. cap. 1.
There are also some observations of his in manuscript upon some part of the New TestamentJohn Bois, both a good Grecian and Divine.
He hath published some Notes upon Chrysostome, which are in the eighth Volume upon Chrysostome, put out by Sir Henry Savill, who cals him, Ingeniosissimum & doctissimum Boisium, and styles his Notes, Doctissimas ejus Observationes.
He saith thus to Sir Henry Savill in his Notes, upon Chrysostoms Homilies upon Genesis, Emendationes enim omnes quas affero, meae sunt conjecturae, & fortasse multis in locis parùm probabiles nec satis scitè confictae. Sed ut non omnes dignas existimo, quae eruditorum calculis approbentur: ita nonnullas, tametsi paucissima eae sunt, meliore sidere natas credo, quas ne emunctissimae quidem naris Critici sint prorsus aspernaturi.
Daniel *Fortè per id temporis Venetias profecturus erat amicissimus mihi Daniel Bombergus, vir sic de literis Hebraicis meritus ut nomen suum omnium seculorum memoriae consecraverit sempiternae. Clen epist. l. 2.Bombergus a famous Printer, who alone almost hitherto hath printed at Venice great and large Volumes in Hebrew with invaluable expences.
Those Hebrew Books which he printed at Venice are conveyed into all the parts of the world where the Jews are, into Africk, Ethiopia, India, Aegypt, and other places.
He printed,
1. The Hebrew and Chaldee Bible with Commentaries of divers Rabbies upon all the Books of the Old Testament in royal paper.
2. The Talmud, an immense and stupendious work divided into some Volumes.
3. The Volumes of Rabbi Moses which contain both his own Expositions, and also those of other Rabbins upon the Talmud, with other Hebrew Books.
Bonaventure first a Monk, and then a Cardinal. He was called Doctor Seraphicus, a Seraphical Doctor.Quo nemo in magistrum sententiarum, cum tamen ferè innumeri in illum sint Commentati, scripsit copiosius, cum ejus Commentationes in quatuor magnos tomos sint distinctae. Neand. Geog. parte 1a. Floruerunt Bonaventura & Thomas circa annum millesimum ducenresimum sexagesimum. Scotus florebat anno Dom. milesimo trecentesimo. Durandus circa annum Domini millesimum trecentesimum vigesimum. Nicolaus Panormitanus florebat anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo trigesimo nono. Forbes. Instruct. Histor. Theol. l. 9. c. 5. Natione Thuscus, vir magni ingenii & disciplinarum capacis, multa scripsit, quae extant, & infoelicitatem seculi sapiunt: ita tamen, ut nonnulla in eis occurrant, pontificiis traditionibus recentioribus non convenientia. Illyr. Catal. Test. verit. l. 16.
His Works are in seven Tomes.
His Notes on Lombard are good, Gerson commends his Opuscula for devotion.
He joyned together so much sanctity of life, and integrity of manners with his great knowledge of Scholastical Divinity and Philosophy, that Alexander of Hales his master, was often accustomed to say of him, That Adam seem'd to him not to have sinned in Bonaventure. Sixt. Senens. Bibliothec. Sanct. l. 4.
Anno 1265. About this time flourished Thomas of Aquine, Reader at Paris among the Dominick Friers, and Bonaventure among the Franciscan Friers. Foxes Act. and Monum. Tom. 1. p. 433.
Thomas Aquinas coming to him to salute him, and finding him writing the life of St Francis (as the Papists term him) he called him a Saint though living, saying, Sinamus Sanctum pro Sancto laborare, Let us suffer a Saint to labour for a Saint. Ang. Roch. Biblioth. Vatic.
He was canonized by Pope Sixtus the 4th anno 1482. for a Saint in the Kalendar.
Franciscus Bonamicus.Bembus, Sadoletus, Bonamicus, quorum Nomina per orbem terrarum celebrata sermonibus & scriptis. Manut. Epist. lib. 1. Epist. 3.
There are some of his Works published.
De alimento, De motu.
Lazarus Bonamicus.
A most famous Professour of Eloquence, and the Greek Tongue at Padua.
He hath put out some learned Orations and Poems.
It is reported of him, that when he once asked the Devil in a possessed woman,Neand. Geog. what verse in Virgil he judged to be best? he answered, Discite justitiam moniti, & non temnere divos.
Cardin. Borromaeus.Nomenclat. Sanct. Rom. Eccles. Card. Illustrissimi Cardinalis Borromai literae argumento sunt, non prorsus humanitatem ex rebus sublatam & superesse animas. Queis meliore luto finxit praecordia Titan. Jos. Scalig. l. 2. Epist. 140. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tomo tertio l. 80.
He was of Millain, he had Francis Alciate a most famous Lawyer his Master. Pope Paulus Quintus made him a Saint.
He escaped a great danger from some loose Friers, as Thuanus relates. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 38. p. 627.
He hath put out a Tract, De Concionatorum Pastorumque Instructione, oum aliis Opusculis.
There are also Epistolae cum ejus vita.
Franciscus Bosquetus a learned Lawyer.
He hath written a History of the Popes of Rome which were Frenchmen, thus entituled, Pontificum Romanorum, qui à Gallia oriundi sunt, historia.
Arnold Boot Doctor of Physick, a Dutchman, lately dead.Arnoldus Boetius Belga, cujus peritiae in linguis orientalibus, adeóque & Arabica testimonium perhibent doctissimae ejus aliquot in V. T. loca animadversiones. Hotting. Analect. Histor. Theol. Dissertat. 6.
He hath written a learned Book, entituled, Animadversiones Sacrae ad Textum Hebraicum Veteris-Testamenti.
He wrote also two Tracts against Ludovicus Capellus his Sacra Critica.
I received this passage from a learned Friend of mine (whom I informed of his death) in a Letter,
The losse of that man is great, for he was well furnished with that kinde of learning, and besides very judicious, very industrious, very zealous. He wrote as yet in a more general way, but so as he hath indeed cut the sinews of that Sacra Critica.
Henricus Bracton, a learned Lawyer.
Henry de Bracton, a Judge of the Court of Commonpleas in the Reign of K. H. 3. and a writer of the Laws.
John Bradford.
He was a zealous profitable preacher, a man of a humble and melting spirit. See my Saints Incouragements.As holy a man as any lived in his time, and learned also, as Mr Fox shews in his Book of Martyrs.
He wrote two Sermons, one of Repentance on Mat. 4.17. the 2.d of the L. Supper.
I finde also in the Oxford Catalogue, mentioned,
His holy Meditations upon the Lords-Prayer, Belief, and ten Commandments.
A Dialogue of Predestination and Free-will.
Two Letters for men afflicted in Conscience.
William Bradshew.
He hath written well of Justification. Mr Gataker cals it, Aureum quantivis pretii libellum.
There are also Meditations of his upon the Psalms.
Thomas Bradwardinus Anglus. Floruit hic longe, doctissimus vir circiter 1330. Domini annum, pugnavit acerrimè pro gratia Dei contra liberum arbitrium, & Pelagianos ejus patronos, nempè Scholasticos Theologos, idque nec sine approbatione multorum bonorum, nec sine multorum seductorum gravissima offensione suoque periculo: tamen exoratus à piis doctisque viris, quae de ea con…roversia in publicis disputationibus disseruerat, tribus libris justum volumen explentibus complexus est. Laudatur hic scriptor nomine eximae eruditionis etiam ab illustribus viris, Raphaele Velaterano, & Joanne Pico. Illyr. Catai. Test. Verit. Natus fertur Hatfeldiae in Comitatu Suffolciensi, Oxoniae verò educatus, ubi cum bonarum literarum studiis aliquot annos incubuiller, Academicorum suffragiis procuratorum …us cr…atur an. 1325. postea que Doctoris in Theologia gradu honestatur. Mathematicus fuit insignis, Philosophus egregius, in Theologiae verò studiis cousque versatus, ut apud doctos illorum temporum, Doctoris profundi appellatione innotuerit; eamque non immerito de…atam ilii satebuntur credo, qui libros ab illo conscriptos persegerint. Verum in hoc homine nihil erat quod potius laudaver is, quam morum vitaeque sanctimoniam ob quam caeterasque virtutea, à Straffardo delectus est, ut Regi esset à confessionibus. In quo munere ita se gossit, ut optimi simul ac prudentissimi viri laudem retulerit. Regem siquidem à rect… deflectentem increpare consuevit audacter, ea tamen prudentia verborumque lenitate, ut animum Principis nunquam offenderit. Non desunt certe inter scriptores qui insignes illas Edwardi Victorias, hujus potius sanctitati ac virtutibus acceptas ferendas existiment, quam cujuspiam seu fortitudini, scu prudentiae. Godwini de Praesul. Angl. Comment. Vide Antiq. Eccles. Britan. p. 44.Tho. Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury King Edward the thirds Confessor.
A man reputed so pious in those dayes, that the Kings prosperous successe then was chiefly imputed unto his piety, who followed him in his warres in France, as Preacher in the Camp.
Above three hundred years ago he valiantly defended the truth against the Arminian Doctrine. Gratiae Dei strenuissimus assertor, Dr Ward in Phil. 2.12.
Henricus Brandius, a learned and Pious Divine.
He hath written a Book entituled, Examen Consulationis Lessianae religionis capessendae. And Analysis in Catechesin religionis Christianae, Quae in Ecclesiis & Scholis tum Belgii, tum Palatinatus traditur.
Florente aetate ad Caesarem accitus, honores ejus au…ae sibi oblatos constanter sprevit, speratos respuit, Mathematicarum studiis accensus, ob quae ab omnibus immortalitati nomen ejus meruit consecrari. Tomasin. Illust. Vir. Elog. Vide plura ibid.Tycho Brahe a Dane and a Knight, a great Astronomer.
Stellae describuntur à Ptolomaeo, Alphonso & Tychone Brahe, triumviris reipub. Astronomicae. Alsted. Eucyclop. l. 7. part. 1. c. 15.
There are divers of his Works published,
Astronomiae illustratae Progymnasnatum Liber 1.
Mechanica.
Oratio de Disciplinis Mathematicis.
De mundi Aetherei recentioribus. Phaenomenes liber secundus. Epistolae Astronomicae.
Edw. Brerewood. He was the first Astronomy Lecturer in Gresham Colledge.
He hath written Enquiries touching the Diversities of Languages and Religions through the chief parts of the world, an excellent piece.
De ponderibus & pret. vet. nummorum.
Elementa Logicae.
Treatises of the Sabbath.
John Brentius. He was born Anno 1499. A Divine of great name amongst the Protestants, saith Thuanus. Vir est gravis, & modestus & doctus: sed desiderari in eo nonnihil potest. Zanch. Epist. l. 2. ad Bezam.
His Works are printed in several Tomes in Folio.
Guido de *Sanctus Dei Martyr.Bres.
He hath written against the Anabaptists in French.
Of the Authority of the Magistrate, and Immortality of the soul.
Henry Brigges, a famous Mathematician, and a pious man.
His Works are Arithmetica Logarithmica, & Triganometria Britannica.
Thomas Brightman, a learned and godly man.
Bishop Andrews in his Answer to Bellarmines Apol. ad cap. 9. is too sharp and bitter towards him.
I have heard that Mr Thomas Cartwright counted him a bright Star in the Church of God.
He hath put out a Comment in Latine on the Canticles and Revelation. And Disputatio de Antichristo, & Refutatio de Bellarmini Antichristo.
Jo. Brinsley, A learned man.
He hath published,
Ludus Literarius, or, The Grammar-School.
The posing of the Accidens.
The true Watch and Rule of Life in four parts.
The Calender Reformation.
Barnabas Brissonius, the learned Chief Justice of France, whom aB. Andrews. Doctissimus Barnabas Brissonius in eruditissimo Commentario de regio Persarum statu. Montac. Appar. 2. Equidem à Rege ipso audivi cùm diceret nullum in orbe Christiano principem esse qui haberet quem Brissonio suo in literarum gloria opponeret. Scripsit de verborum quae ad jus pertinent significatione ingens & eruditum opus, itemque de formulis & solennibus populi Romani verbis alterum, ac opuscula plurima, quorum optimam partem edidit, partem indigna morte praeventus, imperfectam reliquit. Scaev. Samarth. Gallorum doctrina illust. Elog.one calleth Varro Galliae.
Jos. Scaliger. l. 1. Epist. Epist. 8. & 9. speaks somewhat against his book De Regno Persarum, and de formulis, &c. but that De formulis is an excellent work.
Stephanus Paschasius in the second Book of his Epigrams, hath these Verses to him.
Mirantur eunctis animum te intendere caussis,
Cùm tot pervoluas noctè dieque libros.
Queis ego sic Balbus; nihil est mirabile factu:
Plurima nam dicit, plurima qui didicit.
John Briton Bishop of Hereford of profound judgement in the Common-Law.
He composed a learned Work of the Law, and published it in 5. E. 1. by the commandment of Edward the first, our Justinian.
Erasmus Brockman, a learned Lutheran. He hath put out Theologiae universae Systema. vol. 3. De speculo veritatis Pontificiae. Controversiarum sacrarum quae in salutari Religionis negotio intercedunt orthodoxis cum schola Pontificia partes duae.Huic viro quicun que summae doctrinae, acerrimique & ingenii & judicii laudem denegant, illi cettè aut planè indocti nulloquo indicio praediti aut impudenter sunt invidi. Eum enim sua scripta talem fuisse clamant, & quidem cum alia, tum ea quae in Euripidis tragaedias edidit. Steph. Praefat. ad Annotat in Eurip. Vide plura ibid.
Joan. Brodaeus, a man of stupendious and wonderfull reading, of incredible memory and industry. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 34.
He hath written divers Miscellanies, and learned Commentaries upon Euripides his Tragedies, and Xenophon.
Sir Robert Brook Chief-Justice of the Court of Commonpleas.
His Abridgement was first published in Anno 16. Reg. Eliz. long after his decase; a worthy and painfull work, an excellent Table for the year Books of the Law.
Hugh Broughton, well skilled in Hebrew and Greck, if he had been as judicious and humble.Greek and Hebrew were almost as familiar unto him as English.
He hath put forth several works, his Concentus Sacrae Scripturae is best liked.
He said, it was portended by his Arms that he should be a Grecian, for he gave the fowl *That is, the Owl, Noctuas Athenis.of Athens for his Arms.
Christoph. Browerus a learned man. He hath written,
Fuldensium Antiquitatum. l. 4. and other works.
Apud Rostochienses medicinae Galenicae & Philosophiae Aristotelicae professor imprimis celebris, Mathematicarum etiam rerum, praesertim Geometricarum apprimè peritus. Tych. Brah. l. 1. Epist. Astron. Christ. Rothman.Henricus Brucaeus.
Fr. Lucas Brugensis, a famous Divine. He hath written Notationes in sacra Biblia, and Commentarios in quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia, and other works.
Petrus Brunellus.
Nihil cultius aut Politius fingi potest. Manutius fatetur se rectam Latinè scribendi rationem à Brunello didicisse. Samarth. Elog. Gal. l. 1.There are Epistles of his published.
Guil. Bucanus. Dr Prideaux was wont to say, sive Buchanus sive Buchananus, they being both ours.
These are his Works, Institutiones Theologicae.
In Orat. Dominicam.
Meditationes & Aphorismi de controversiis de Religione determinandis.
Georgius Buchananus, A most famous Poet and good Historian for the Scottish affairs.
Anno salutis Christianae 1506. Quem mihi liceat omnis liberalioris eruditionis ac praesertim poetices parentem appellare. Bez. Epist. ad Icon. Vir. Illust. Quo nemo diligentius antiquitates patrias est persecru. tatus. Episc. Vsser. de Brit. Eccl. primord. c. 16. Utile in quavis gente erit unum aliquem seligere, qui potissimas in ejus gentis historia obtinere videatur. Ut in Gothicis Jornandem, in Long obardicis Paulum Diaconum: in Slaevicis Helmoldum Francicis Paulum Aemilium: in Hispanicis Marianam: in Scoticis Buchananum: in Flandricis Meierum: in Burgundicis Heuterum: in Austriacis Lazium: in Saxonicis Crantzium: in Danicis Saxonum Grammaticum: in Boicis Aventinum: in Hungaricis Bonfinium: in Polonicis Cromerum: atque ita in aliis. Voss. De Ratione Studiorum. Vir qui nec Coelo, nec solo, nec seculo erudito, ut ille cecinit, natus, ad summum tamen Poeticae facultatis culmen tam foeliciter ascendit, ut Poetarum hujus seculi princeps meritò habeatur. Gambdenus in Annal. Eliz. an. 1582. Neminem existimo in Gallia paulo humaniorem, cui Georgius Buchananus non sit notus, non solùm eximius Poeta: verùm etiam vir omni liberali eruditione non leviter tinctus, sed penitus imbutus. Turuchi Adversaria l. 1. c. 2.Namque ad supremum perducta Poetica culmen
In te stat, nec quo progrodiatur, habet.
Imperii fuerit Romani Scotia limes:
Romani eloquii Scotia finis erit.
Jos. Scalig. in Epitaphio Buchanani.
Vir ingenii felicitate & scribendi facultate, quod ejus scripta ad omnem aeternitatem victura vel fatente invidia testantur, nostra aetate incomparabilis. Thuanus Hist. Tom. 3. l. 76.
There he commends his History also. Ego Psalmorum tuorum lectione incredibiliter delector, qui tales sunt quales à te uno proficisci potuerunt. Beza in Epist.
Carolus Vtenhovius saith thus of his Translation of the Psalms,
Tres Italos Galli senos vicere, sed unum
Vincer… Scotigenam non potuere virum.
The six Italians were Michael Hospitalis. Adrianus Turnebus, Joannes Auratus. The three French A. Sannazarins, H. Fracastorius, A. Flaminius, H. Vidas, A. Naugerius. P. Bembus.
Martin Bucer, born Anno 149. a great instrument of God as well as Martin Luther, both Germains and Monks formerly.
The two judicious Commentators *Dr Jacks first Volume of the Creed, l. 3. c. 2.Bucer and Martyr.
Quam multiplicem in Bucero jacturam fecerit Dei Ecclesia, quoties in mentem venit, cor meum propè lacerari sentio. Calvin in an Epistle to Viretus.
After the Assembly of Regenspurg…, when John Gropper Embassadour to the Archbishop of Collen, was returned home, he commended Bucer exceedingly, and said, he was meetest of all others to take in hand the Reformation of Religion, for he was both well learned, a lover of peace, and of pure life. Sleid. Comment. l. 14. p. 187.
Abraham Bucoltzer.
Opere Chronologico magnam gloriam adeptus. Thuanus.Eum virum magnum esse & excellentem ingenio, doctrina varia, ac lectione multa, docent tum quae nuper edidit scrip a Chronologica valde erudita, laboriosè & accuraté conscripta, tum & jam porrò melius docebunt, quae modò habet in manibus, & de quibus spem facit, superatutus sine omni dubio in illis omnium conatus, labores & studia qui h…ctenus in si…nils argumento voluerunt esse occupati. Neand. Geog. parte 1•.
Ludovicus Buccaferrous, a learned Philosopher of Bononia.
Many famous Scholars came from his School, Francis Piccolominie, and others.
Julius Caesar Scaliger in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his Subtilties, names him his Master.
Osorius in his learned Book De Gloria, saith, he diligently heard him.
He published Commentaries upon Aristotles first Book of Physicks, and other Books of his.
Jo. Buckeridge, Bishop of Rochester.Joanuem Roffensem habemus quem Joanni Roffensi opponamus, Fishero Buckerigium, cujus argumentis (si quid ego video) ne à mille quidem Fisheris unquam re…pondebitur. Godw. de Praesul. Ang. Comment. Vide plura ibid.
Guil. Budaeus, William Budey born at Paris in France, Anno 1467.His style is but rude and unpleasing to delicate ears, therefore Erasmus would not put him in the number of the Ciceronians. Gulielmus Budaeus utroque opere in pandectas & quinque libris de Asse plurimum opitulatus est rei Latinae elaborata illa scrutatione rerum ac verborum Linguae utriusque Lud Viv de Trad. discip. l. 3. Vide plura ibid. Certissima Gallorum gloria, qui jamdudum Italis utriusque literaturae palmam magno eruditorum omnium consensu praeripuit: sic caeteros omnes vincens in Romani sermonis eloquentia, ut in Graeca dictione vincat seipsum. Eras. Epist. l. 1. Epist 5. Vide ibid. Epist. 10. & 12. & l. 2. Epist. 29. & l. 3. Epist. 62. & l. 4. Epist. 8. & l. 11. Epist. 7. & l. 17. Epist. 10. & l. 22. Epist. 27, 28. & l. 28. Epist. 8. & 21. Gulielmus Budaeus omnium qui hoc patrumque seculo vixere, sine controversia doctissimus. Defuit quidem tanto viro perspicuus ille venustioris eloquentiae nitor quem recentiores uni Ciceroni ad dicti majore studio & religione coluerunt. Latinitatis cognitionis in Pandectis recensendis & Romanorum jure illustrando luculentum & nobile specimen dedit. In Graecis autem quis non miretur eo usque progrestum, ut (quod nullidum extra Graeciam nato contigerat) ipsius Jani Lascaris Graecorum doctissimi judicio veterem Atticorum facundiam adaequasse diceretur. Scaev. Samarth. Gallorum doctrina illust. Elog.
He was Secretary of Francis the first, King of France, and Keeper of his Library, and after his Counsellor and Master of Requests. His Commentaries upon the Greek Tongue, his Epistles, Philology, his excellent work De Asse, his Commentaries upon the Pandects, and others shew his great knowledge in the Greek and Latine Tongue.
In those things which he wrote before the preaching of Luther, he doth roughly and largely accuse the Pope, Bishops and Priests, especially in his Book De Asse, which was published Anno 1513. Illyr. Catal. Test. verit. l. 19. Vide Montacu…. Analect. Exercit. 5. Sect. 4. Et Pauli Jov. Elog. Doctorum virorum. & meam Epist. Dedicat. ad Crit. Sac. Nov. Test.
He was a man of great learning, and worthy to be had in perpetual memory, for this cause only, that he and Cardinal Bellay Bishop of Paris, did counsel and perswade Francis the first, the French King, to do a most noble act, that is, to appoint great stipends, for the Readers of Tongues and good Arts at Paris.
Buchanan hath this Distich of him,
Gallia quod Graeca est, quod Graecia barbara non est:
Vtraque Budaeo debet utrumque suo.
Buch. l. 2. Epig.
Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him,
Et Latiae nobis debent Graiaeque Camaenae:
Laudem utram quaeras, magnus utraque fui.
He died at Paris Anno 1539.
Vir piissimus & doctissimus quo inter Germanos Theologos nemo in Italia judicatus fuit meo tempore doctior. Zanch. disceprat. cum Marbachio. Passim Ecclesias Saxonicas Brunsuigae Hamburgii, & tandem in regno Daniae reformavit. Pezel. Mellif. Histor. parte 3tia.Jo. Bugenhagius Pomeranus nascitur Anno 1485.
Moderato ingenio & eruditione rara excultus. Thuanus Hist. 1. Tom. l. 21.
He died at Wittenberg in the 73 year of his age.
Lutherus ut in Schola suum Melancthonem, sic in Ecclesia suum sibi Bugenhagium adjunctum habuit. Verheid. Prastant. aliq. Theol. qui Rom. Antich. praecip. oppugn. effig.
His Works are mentioned by Boissard.
Henry Bullenger *Vide Thuan. Hist. tom. 3. lib. 61. Placet recitare, quod mihi olim Montallinus ille Monachus, qui tandem Combustus fuit Romae, propter Evangelium, de tuo libro, qui est de Origine Erroris, dixerit, cum ego nunquam cum legissem aut vidissem librum, horrabatur ille ut emerem: & si, inquiebat, non habes nummos, erue tibi oculum dextrum, illoque persolvas, & lege sinistro. Dei beneficio mox reperi librum, servatis tamen oculi…, quia non peperci loculis. Nam emi Coronato, & mox succum totius expressi mea manu, quae ne ab Inquisitoribus quidem poterat legi. Deinde etiamsi legissent, non potuissent agnoscore, utrius essem sententiae. Nam redegeram to…um ad formam quaestionum scholasticarum, adjectis locis ex Conciliis, & Scholasticis, quid de iis rebus sentiret Romana Ecclesia. Haec volui recitare, ut intelligas quantam ceperam ego olim ex eo libro voluptatem & utilitatem, & quanti factus fuerit viris piis & doctis: Ignosce tamen meis ineptiis. Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Bulleng, born Anno 1504.
Some much commend his Book de Origine Erroris.
Henry Bunting *Vir eruditus, ingeniosus, sedulus & industrius. Neand. Geog. part. 2., Teacher of the Word of God in Saxony, in the Dukedom of Brunswicke.
Neander much commends his Chronicon Ecclesiasticum, and his Itinerarium Ecclesiasticum.
Aegidius Burd…nus, a learned Lawyer and an excellent Grecian. Vid. Scaev. Sam. Gallorum Elog.
Francis Burg…rsdicius famous for his Logick, Ethicks and Metaphysicks.
Paulus Bu…gensis was by birth and institution a Jew,Paulus Burgensis ex Judaeo & Christianus & Episcopus in Flandria extirit. Geneb. Chron. lib. 4. Episcopus Burgensis. and excellently versed in all the learning of the Rabbines, but by faith and conversion a Christian and a Bishop.
When he was a Jew he was called Salomo Levita.
Walter Burlie, a great light of Europe, and ornament of Oxford. The Learned Master of King Edward the 3d, and Scholar of Merton Colledge.
He hath written divers Works upon Aristotle.
Jo. Buridunus.
He hath written on the ten Books of Aristotles Ethicks.
Burgundius.Burgundio …ve Burgundius Jurisperitus Pisanus, qui floruit circa annum MCLX. Piguor. Symb. Epistol. Epist. 39.
He interpreted the Gospel of John.
This is part of his Epitaph,
Decessit senio propria Burgundius urbe,
Cui similis vivens vix fuit est vel erit.
Omne quod est natum terris sub sole locatum,
Hic plene scivit scibile quicquid erat,
Optimus Interpres Graecorum fonte refectus,
Plurima Romano contulit eloquio.
Commentor primus, Chrysostomus ille secundus,
Claruit, expositor, scripsit & innotuit.
Rob. Burhill.
He hath written contra Mart. Becani controversiam Anglicanam de Britann. and a manuscript in verse, De Britanniae rebus Scholasticis.Exclamat ingenti spiritus ardore in agone suo.
Anna Burgius.
Anne du Burg, a most learned Lawyer and holy Senatour was burnt at Paris for the true Religion: not so much by the inclination of the Judges,1559. Annas Burgaeus Hieromartyr Christi, ad spectatores quidem Martyrii sui. Non ego hic sum ut latro aut homicida, sed tantum pro Evangelii causa. Ad Deum vero agonothetem suum: Deus mi, ne me derelinquus, ne ego te derclinquam. Gryn. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 6. Vide Calv. Epist. Car. Blaudero. Hoc sacro igne, quo absumtus Martyr Burgius, Lamberti Danaei in pectore pietatis vera flamma accensa est. Discipulus enim Annae Burgii Eruditionem, autoritatem, gravitatem morumque sanctitatem suspiciens, non remere vel levibus argumentis Religionem illam à tanto viro, quem toties universa Gallia docentem esset admirata, defendi posse statuebat. Verheid Praestan…. aliquot Theol. qui Rom. Antich. praecipuè oppugnarunt. Effigies & Elogia. as by the resolution of the Queen, provoked against him, because the Lutherans did divulge in many Writings and Libels spread abroad, that the King had been wounded in the eye by the providence of God, for a punishment for his words used against du Bourg, that he would see him burnt. But the death and constancy of a man so conspicuous, did make many curious to know what Religion that was, for which he had so couragiously indured punishment, and made the number increase. Hist. of the Counc. of Trent. l. 5. p. 418.
Augerius Busbequius, a great Embassadour and a Learned man, skilfull in the Civil Law and all Philosophy.In legationibus enituit, quarum imprimis insignes fuere Constantino politana & Amasiana. Plurima cum Graeca tum Latina M. SS. volumina, media in Graecia collecta in Caesaream Viennae Austriae Bibliothecam intulit. Swertii Athenae Belg. Prandium mihi hodie apud heroëm (non enim virum dixerim) Busbequium, post prandium longiusculae etiam fabulae (sed de literis) ut apud illum soler. Lips. Epist. Cent. 1. Ep. 5. In Busbequii morte, & tali morte, in animo meo dolui servatum huic virum per tot discrimina apud exteros, apud barbaros ut in limine serè patriae lattonum manibus (ita audimus) periret. Lips. Epist. Cent. 2. Epist. 99. Abrah. Ortel. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 60. & Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica. Dec. 9.
He hath written most elegant Latine Epistles and most pleasant to reade concerning the Turks.
Besides the Greek and Latine tongue, he was so exactly skilled in the Italian, Spanish, French, German and Illyrick tongue, that any of them might seem to him vernacula.
Joannes Busaeus, a most Learned Papist.
John Buxtorf, Buxtorfius in admirādo opere Syntactico, quod Cl. Lud. de Dieu sibi Clavem Scripturae Biblicae esse adfirmat, ac omnibus Theologiae studiosis commendat. Dilh. Disput. Acad. Tomo 2do. Buxtorfie Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum & Rabbinicum, opus XXX annorum cui nihil tale sol unquam aspexit aut simile. So one, whose name I forgot to write. Buxtorsius in admirando Lexici Rabbinici & Talmudici opere. Dilh Disputat. Acad. Tom. 2.the Father and Sonne.
The Learned works of the Father discover his great abilities and skill in the Hebrew Tongue, and give great light to many places of Scripture.
Epistolarum decas, cum notis.
Tiberias, sive Comment. Masorethicus.
Biblia Sac. Hebr. & Chald. cum Masora.
Lexicon Chaldaicum & Syriacam.
Synagoga Judaica.
Concordantiae Bibliorum Hebr.
De Abbreviaturis Hebraicis.
Thesaurus Grammaticus Linguae Sanctae: and other Learned Works of the same nature.
Daniel Tossanus Orat. de Vita & obitu Johannis Buxtorfii mentions Commentarium Chaldaicum notas Criticas accuratissimas in paraphrasin Chaldaicam Bibliorum Hebraeorum continentem, which I hope his Learned Sonne will shortly publish, I having seen, or heard at least, something in a letter from him lately to that purpose.
Young Buxtorf is Paternae eruditionis ex asse haeres: as his Dissertations and Answers to Capellus shew.