Treatise of Religion and Learning, Book 3 · Chapter 14
CHAP. XIV.
CHristophorus Crinesius, Anno Christi 1548.Professour of Divinity at Altdorph in Norimberg.
He was well skilled in the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriack. He died of an Apoplexy.
These Works of his are published,
Gymnasium Siriacum.
Lexicon Syriacum.
Babel sive discursus De Confusione Linguarum.
Analysis Novi Testamenti tabulis 27. comprehensa Exercitat. Hebraic.
Pars prior Gymnasii Chaldaici.
Petrus Crinitus.Jucundo eruditoque ingenio juvenis, cum à Crispa patris Coma Etrusco nomine Riccius. vocaretur, idque nomen fastidiret, Crinitus appellari maluit. Is non iniquo judicio habitus est inter Politiani discipulos disertissimus. Extant enim praeter non illepida poemata, libri de honesta disciplina supraviginti, peramoena & copiosa varietate delectabiles: ac item quinque de Poetis Latinis laboriosè eruditéque perscripti. Paul. Jov. Elog. Doct. vir.
He hath written five Books De Poetis Latinis, though he be held inferiour to Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus, who hath written also of that Argument. De honesta Disciplina peramaena ac copiosa varietate lib. 25. delectabiles posteris reliquit. Neand. Geog. part. 1.
Ludovicus Crocius, Doctor in Divinity, and Professor at Brema.
He hath written an excellent instruction De Ratione Studii Theologici.
His Syntagma Theologiae is very well approved.
He hath published divers other Works:
Commentarius in Titum, in Ephesios.
Apologeticus pro Augustana Confessione.
Assertio Augustanae Confessionis De perseverantia Sanctorum.
Paraeneticus de Theologia Cryptica.
Apodixis paeraenetica de Messia ad Judaeos per orbem dispersos.
Orator Ecclesiasticus. in Nahum Prophetam.
Jo. Croius. His book against Morinus not yet published is commend…d and quo…d by those that have per used it. He in his Observat in N. …. c. 20. p. 163 quotes his own Tract de nominibus Messiae, which I cannot purchase.John Croy, a Learned French Divine.
He hath written a Treatise entitled Observationes Sacrae & Historioae in novum Testamentum, which title, though a Learned Writer of our own reprehends, and in the book he seems somewhat too sharp against Heinsius, yet that book, and his Specimen conject…raerum & observationum in quaedam loca Origenis, Irenaei, Tertullia…i & Epiphanii, &c. and his French book entitled, la veritè de la Religion Reform…e, declare him to be a good Linguist and an able Scholar generally.
Hannibal *Vit raris ingen…i & doctrinae … mentis excultus, quod vel Achilles Tatuis ab eo Latinitate donatus ad posteritatem non ingratam testabi…ur. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 64.Cruceius.
Gasparus Craciger a Learned Divine. He was born Anno 1504. His Works are mentioned by Boissard.
He was very swift in writing, so that of him that of the Epigrammatist might be used,
Currant verba licet manus est velocior illis:
Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.
Therefore when in the year 1540. there was a conference at Wormes amongst those which differed in Religion, he was the Notary, and received Melancthons and Eccius his words with incredible swiftness, and often admonished Melancthon what he had not answered; of Eccius his subtilties, therefore Granvelbane Caesars Deputy at that Conference said, Lutherani scribam habent omnibus Pontificiis doctiorem. Melch. Adam. in ejus Vita.
Henry Cuffe, a Learned man, and of …xford.
He hath written a book of the differences of the ages of mans life.
Jurisconsultorum Phoenix, doctor meus multis nominibus de me optimè meritus. Jos. Scalig. in Varr. De re Rustica. Nullus adhuc tam desertus in tota legum vastitate angulus fuerit, quem non ingenii doctrinaeque luce perlustrarit. Ram. Scol. Mathemat. l. 2. Quo doctiorem, acutiorem, aut judicii sincerioris jurisconsultum nulla aetas vidit, nulla opinor videbit. Casaub. Not. in Ael. Lamprid. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. l. 99.Jacobus Cujacius, a great light of France.
His Life is written by Papyrius Massonus.
He is celebrated by Peter Faber (whose Master he was) and Casaubon, and others, as the greatest Lawyer of his time.
Pasquier Recherch. de la France saith, in many Universities of Germany, when those in the Chair alleadge Cujacius and Turnebus, they put their hands to their hats, for the respect and honour they bear them. He cals him the great Cujacius.
A Protestantium partibus non alienus.
He was thought to be somewhat inclinable to the Protestant Religion, but when any Theologicall question was asked him, he was wont to answer, Nihil hoc ad edictum Praetoris.
Vir Latinè Graecè, Hebraicè scientissimus, arque idem eloquentissimus & jurisconsultissimus. Voss. de Hist. Graec. l. 2.Petrus Cunaus.
There are his Animadversions in Nonni Dionysiaca.
Satyra Menippea in castrata.
D. Juliani Imperatoris Satyra.
His three Books De Repub. Hebraeorum are much valued.
Caelius Secundus Curio. Omnia tua scripta sunt ingeniosè inventa, prudenter disposita, subti…iter & acurè tractora. Ubique Clarissima atque illustratissima tum sententiarum gravitate, tum verborum pondere, tum denique rebus personisque aptissima. Cael. Sec. Cur. Epist. l. 1. Beatus Comes Medicus ei.He was born Anno 1503. a very Learned Protestant.
Vir doctus literarum humaniorum apud Basilienses Professor. Zanch. Epist.
He hath put out Miscellanies, a Book De amplitudine regni Dei.
De utilitate legendae Historiae, and other Works. Vide Boissard. Icones.
His sonne also Caelius Aug. Curio hath published Hieroglyphicks and other Works.
Quintus Curtius *Q. Curtius diligens, verus Candidus, & prorsus integerrimus scriptor si integrum haberemus. Sub Vespasiano floruisse Curtium & Historiam suam edidisse prolixa disputatione probabiliter ostendit doctissimus Vossius. Whear. Method. leg. Hist. parte 1, sect. 12. Probus est legitimusque historicus, si quisquam suit. Mira (ut rectè testatur Lipsius) in Sermone ejus facilitas, in narrationibus lepos: astrictus idem & profluens; subtilis & Clarus; sine cura ulla accuratus, verus in judiciis, argutus in sententiis, in orationibus mirificè facundus. Possev. Biblioth. Sel. Tomo 2do, l. 10. c. 5. Lips. Not. ad 1. Lib. Polit. idem & plura habet. Latinorum historicorum, qui exstant, post Trogum (unum si Velleium Patercu um excipias, qui Tub Tiberio vixit) antiquissimus. Vossii Ars Histor. c. 21.writes pure Latine.
He flourished under the Emperour Vespasian.
Petrus Curtius.Petrus Curtius in omni literarum genere apprimè eruditus. Ringelbergius De Ratione Studii.
He hath published a Work, De Civitate Castellana Faliscorum.
Nic. de Cusae or Cusanus, a Germane by Nation, Doctor of Divinity and afterward Cardinall.Vir apprimè eruditus, floruit ante Annos 120. Primùm reprehendit quosdam errores & crimina Papae, postea factus Cardinalis eundem tueri caepit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19. In omni disciplinarum genere diligentissimè versatus scripsit praeclara opuscula saepius typis admota tribusque voluminibus distincta. Nomenclat. Sanctae Roman. Eccles. Cardinal.
He is commended by Trithemius for the most skilfull in the Scriptures of all the Divines of his time.
D. Cyprianus, Anno Dom. 250.244 saith Helvicus. 240 Illyricus.Inter Latinos ad Apostolici pectoris vigorem propius accedit ubique sentias loqui pastorem, ac Martyrio destinatum. Eras. Epist. lib. 1. Epist. …86. Vide etiam l. 28. Epist. 6. Origenis aequalis, nam & ipse quatuor post hunc extinctum annis Martyrio consummatus est. Dallaeus de Pseudep. Apostol. l. 2. c. 6. Versus scripsit Cecilius Cyprianus Afer Pontifex Carthaginiensis, qui Valeriano Imperatore pro Christo neci traditus est, Cujus opera soluta oratione omnibus no…, nec commendatione indigent. At versus, quia parum cogniti vobis, tantum judicare volui. Sunt verò quos ego legi, sexaginta novem heroici, do sanctae Crucis ligno, quos si semel legaris, iterum & saepe legetis. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Hist. Dial. 5. Carthaginienses fuere Tertullianus & Cyprianus Ecclesiastici scrip…ores valde eruditi, quarum etiamnum extant scripta Theologica varia, singula in uno opere conjunctim edita. Neand. Geog. parte tertia. Vi…e Manut. Praefat. In Cyprianum.
He was Bishop of Carthage, and Crowned with Martyrdom.
He wrote a famous Treatise of Mortality to comfort men against death, in the time of a great plague.
His Book de Vnitate Ecclesiae is most cited and commended.
Eruditissimus Cyprianus tam vitae sanctitate quam facundia clarus. Pier. Valer. Herog. l. 22. c. 4.
His Deacon Pontianus wrote the story of his Life and Sufferings.
Cyrillus Alexandrinus. Cyrill Bishop of Alexandria, 430.Cyrillus Episcopu… Alexandrinus, magis bonus Theologus, quam vir bonus, Johannis Chrysostomi viri innocentissimi disertissimique in vita & post mortem hostis infensissimus. Savil. Lectura 1a in Euclidem. Cyrillus Alexandrinae Ecclesiae Episcopus, acumine ingenii, subtilitate judicii, eruditionis varietate, docendi facilitate, copiaque differendi celebris, & pietate syncera conspicuus. Sixt. Senens. Biblioth. Sanct. l. 4. Circa annum Christi 415. Cyrillus vir ingenii excellentissimi, & in omni doctrinarum genere praeclarè instituti, electus Episcopus, & per multos annos tum viva voce gregi suo, tum variis scriptis quorum nonnulla extant, Christi Ecclesiis eximiam operam navavit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Ver. l. 5.
He is styled Fortis Athleta by Photius, that valiant Champion of the Church: nay he is styled Beatus Cyrillus twice for condemning the Nestorian Heresie. Lives of the Primitive Fath.
He wrote ten Books against Julian the Apostate, which being joyned to his other works are full of Learning.
Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus, Cyrill Bishop of Jerusalem, Anno Dom. 370.
His Catechism is yet extant.
Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople.
There is his Confessio Fidei.