Treatise of Religion and Learning, Book 4 · Chapter 4
CHAP. IV.
GEorge Hackwell Doctor of Divinity. A very Learned and Pious man.
There are these Works of his published:
An Apology of the Power of God in the Government of the world.
King Davids Vow for Reformation.
His Answer to Carrier.
And some Sermons.
Theodoricus Hackspanius, Professor of the Hebrew at Altdorph.
He hath put out
Quadriga Disputationum, and other Tracts.
Gualterus Haddonus, Walter Haddon, an Eloquent and Learned Doctor of the Civil Law.Civilis Doctor, orator dulcis & facundus. Humphred. in vita Juelli.
There are published his
Lucubrationes.
Poemata.
Oratio in Funere Mart. Buceri.
Responsio contra Hier. Osorium. Continuata per Jo. Foxum, l. 3
Hadrianus the Cardinall.
A man of profound Learning, as appeareth by what he hath written of the Fundamentals of Christian Religion.
There is a Book also of his published, De Sermone Latino & modis Latinè loquendi.
Thaddaeus Hagecius, ab Hayck Bohemus, Aulae Caesareae medicus, most skillfull in Physick, Philosophy and Astronomy.Cujus in Mathematicis excellens cognitio, & judicium profundum, tum ex aliis ejus scriptis, tum inprimis è Dialexi de Nova Stella omnibus in propatulo est. Tych. Brah. L. 2. De Cometia Anni 1577. c. 10. membrum secundum.
Sunt sanè hi quatuor viri (D. Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayck, M. Bartholomaeus Scultetus Gorliciensis, D. Andreas Nolthius. Embecksensis, D. Nicolaus Winklerus, Halae Suevorum Physicus) tum in aliis Doctrinarum generibus, tum praesertim in Mathematicis scientiis excellenter periti, quorum duo priores mihi ex facie noti sunt, & Amicitia diuturna conjunctissimi, Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1577. l. 2. c. 10. membrum secundum.
John Hales, a great Grecian, one who when he was young wrote Notes on Chrysostom, and is often honourably mentioned by Andrew Downes the Greek Professor of Cambridge.
He hath printed a Sermon concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture.
Joseph Hall Bishop of Exceter, a Learned and pious man.
He hath written
Three Volumes of Contemplations on the Old and New Testament.
An Explication of all the hard Texts of Scripture.
And divers other Treatises.
Natus anno 1492. Primus suasor & persuasor fuit, Evangelicae doctrinae in patria suâ amplectendae, in quo negotio Hulricum Zwinglium simul collegam habuit. Boissardi Icones.Bertholdus Hallerus, a Learned Helvetian Divine.
Dionysius Halycarnasseus, a grave Historian.
Omnium Confessione, Scriptor, Gravissimus, & in Romanis Antiquitatibus pervestigandis, de scribendisque accuratissimus perhibetur. Whear. Method. leg. Hist. parte 1a Sect. 16. Vide plura ibid.He lived under Augustus Caesar.
He hath written
De Rom. Antiq. Gr.
Praecepta Rhetorica.
Opuscula varia.
De Thycididis historia Judicium.
Dr Henry Hammod, a Learned Divine, of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford.
He hath published severall Works.
Large Annotations on all the New Testament.
A practicall Catechism.
And divers other Works in English.
And a Latine Tract against Blondell, of Church-Government.
Thomas Harding.
A Doctor of Lovane, an English man, the Target of Popery in England, as he is styled by Peter du *In his Amibarbarian, ch. 3.Moulin.
He wrote a Confutation of the Apology, and Replied severall times to Bishop Jewell.
John Lord Harrington.
He was both Learned and pious, Mr Stock the Divine hath written his Life.
William Harvey Doctor of Physick.
Gassendus makes honourable mention of his book De Circulatione Sanguinis. De vita Peireskii, l. 4. p. 323.
And other outlandish men mention him with great respect.
The Anatomicall part of Physick seems to be rising toward the Zenith of perfection, especially since our never sufficiently honoured Countryman Dr Harvey discovered the wonderfull secret of the blouds circular motion. Webst. Exam. Acad. c. 6.
Scientiam humani Corporis, Physicae partem utilissimam, in libris suis de motu Sanguinis, & de Generatione Animalium, mirabili sagacitate detexit & demonstravit. Gulielmus Harvaeus R. R. Jacobi Caroli que medicus primarius; solus (quod sciam) qui doctrinam novam superata invidiâ vivens stabilivit. Hob. Praefat. ad Elem. Philos. Sect. 1. De Corpore.
He hath put out
Exercitatio Anatomica, de motu Cordis & Sanguinis, in animalibus.
814. Helv. Chron. Vir in divinis Scripturis eruditissimus & in secularibus literis nulli suo tempore secundus, ingenio acutus, sermone disertus, vita & conversatione devotus, in declamandis ad populum Omeliis celeberrimae industriae fuit. Trithem. Catal. Illust. Vir.D. Haymo, a Monk of Fulda, Anno Dom. 840. One of the learnedest of his time.
He hath written upon all the Scriptures, De varietate Librorum, and other things besides.
Casparus Hedio.
He was a most faithfull and diligent Pastor of the Church of Argentine for 23 years, and a good Historian.
His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.
Alexander Hegius.Primus Graecas in Belgio litteras excitavit, exemplo Rod. Agricolae, praeceptoris sui, qui Germaniae easdem restiturrat. Valeri Andreae Bibliotheca Belgica. Erasmus XIV. annorum adolescens, sub Hegio praeceptore, studia literarum Daventriae colebat. Cum autem Rudolphus Agricola in Hegii Scholam venisset, & Hegius ei aliquot adolescentum scripta monstrasset: his consideratis, cum Erasmicum caeteris anteferret videre adolescentem voluit. Accersitus é sua classe Erasmus adolescens ad Hegium accedit. Ibi Rodolphus arreptum Capillo in vertice tacitus intuetur, & quasi considerata indole ex lineamentis, adiecit hanc vocem, Tu cris magnus. Chytraeus Orat. de Westphalia. Vit. Profos. Gron. in Rodolph. Agric.
Erasmus was his Scholar.
He first brought the Greek learning into the Low-Countries, as Rudolphus Agricola did restore it to Germany.
Daniel Heinsius.Gandavi nascitur anno M.D.LXXXII, Incredibiie quanto amore illum prosecutus fuerit Josephus Scaliger, Janus Dousa, aliique viri doctissimi. Naturâ ipsa instructus ad Poeticam facultatem, patrio etiam rythmo excellit, ut paucis agam. Quaecunque ab eo profecta sunt limam sapiunt politiorem: Phrasis tersa & elaborata: Conceptus sublimes: ita ut cum illis prisci sermonis scriptoribus certare velle videatur. Swertii Athenae Belg. Cum versus Graecos tuos lego, Homerum non Heinsium puto me legere: Cum Latinos Ovidium, aut Propertium. Casaub. Epist. 52. Tam severiorum quam amaeniorum litterarum …ol. Seld. Praefat. ad lib. De Dis Syris.
Publick Professor of History at Leyden, Secretary and Bibliothecary of the same University; appointed to be Notary in the Synod of Dort.
He hath published Exercitations upon the New Testament, and many Philologicall Works.
Heliodorus, a most eloquent and sweet Greek Writer,Magna semper infamia flagravit Heliodorus Episcopus, qui praeelegit Episcopatu abire, quam libros suos amatorios perdere, ut scribit Nicephorus l. 12. c. 34. Raynaudi Erotem. de malis ac bonis Libris, partit. 1. Erotem 7. whose ten Books of the Ethiopick History in Greek being snatcht out of the fire of the Library of Buda (Buda being burnt by Soliman) were Printed at Basill.
Christ. Helvicus.
His Chronology of the last edition is much commended, as most compleat and very usefull for any sacred or prophane Story.
There are also other Works of his,
De Chaldaicis Bibliorum Paraphrasibus.
Lexicon. Heb. didacticum.
Vindicatio locorum V. Testamenti à corruptelis Pontificiorum.
Tr. Historicus & Theologicus.
De Chaldaicis Bibliorum phrasibus.
De Carminibus atque Dialectis Graecorum.
Hieronymus Henninges, a godly and Learned Divine.
He hath put out Theatrum Genealogicum in 4 Volumes.Vir praestaus pietate, doctrin…, cognitione rerum sacrarum & historiarum, aetatum, temporum atque gentium omnium. Neand. Geog. parte 1a.
Which Work Neander styles Opus rarum, egregium, spissum atque stupendum, and shews the heads of every Tome.
Henry the first of that Name for his knowledge and science in the seven liberall Arts, was sirnamed Clerk or Beau Clerk.After the Conquest King Henry the first the Conquerors sonne, a man excellently Learned, because he abolished such customs of Normandy as his father added to our Common Laws, is said to have restored the ancient Laws of England. Sir Edw. Cooks Prof. to his 3d Rep.
Henry the *He wrote some thing… with his … hand on Austen …e Civit. Dei. In tanto numero adversariorum Lutheri, Britanniae Rex, Henricus octavus, illum etiam oppugnat, & primò quidem judicium illius de indulgentiis convellit & pontificatum defendit: post omnem illam disputationem de Sacramentis Ecclesiae reprehendit, sumpto scribendi argumento ex libro de captivitate Babylonica. Lutherus, ubi cognovit, acerrimè respondet, in ejusque causae, defensione, nullius hominis dignitatem aut splendorem quicquam apud se valere, demonstrat. Leo Pontifex honorificum regi cognomen idcirco tribuit, defensorem appellans Ecclesiae. Sleid. De Statu Relig. & Reipub. Comment. l. 3. Vide Vossii Epist. ad Artem Grammat. Prodiit libellus ille, ad eo provectioris aetatis, & exercitato aliquo Theologo dignior quam adolescente Rege (cui quanquam maximè voluerit, non licuerit tamen in literarum studio aetatem terere) ut alii Thomae Mori, alii Fisheri Rostensis, plurimi verò alterius alicujus summi viri opus id fuifle haud sine causa suspicatentur. Ut ut fuerit, edito libello sic respondit Lutherus, ut multi sanè, qui sanctum hominis Zelum laudarent, modestiam tamen Spiritu sancto dignam, in eo haud immerito desiderarent, regiaeque dignitatis magis reverentem Scultet. Annal. Dec. 1. Henricus octavus princeps omnibus naturae donis cumulatissimus, & in quo, si in voluptates solutior non fuisset, nihil merito desiderare posses: nam post divortium, nisi quod Pontificiam autoritatem execratus, se caput Ecclesiae constituit, nihil in Religione mutauit, & Episcopos ferè bonos & doctos toris illis XIII. annis, quibus ab R. E. se separavit in regno ordinavit, doctorum & literatorum fautor eximius, ingravescente demum aetate multi succi ab domine adeo gravis & iners evaserat, sanguine in pinguedinem verso, ut vix posset per ostia ingredi, ac neque scalas posset conscendere, sed in Cathedra positus machinis in superiora aedium subveheretur, tandem vehementi febre correptus propter inflammationem virulenti in crure herpetis, cum LVII aetatis annum ageret, & 37 annos, LX menses, VI dies regnasset, è vita de migravit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 3.8th.
He set forth a book entitled, A necessary Doctrine and erudition for any Christian man.
See a commendation of his Learning and Severity, Eras. Epist. l. 6. Epist. 1…. …o him. Of his Learning also in Epistola Thomae Mori ad Academ. Oxon.
Amongst the most famous Contradictors, which the Doctrine of Luther found, was Henry the 8th King of England, who not being born the Kings eldest son, had been destinate by his Father to be Archbishop of Canterbury, and therefore in his youth was made to study: But the eldest being dead, and after him the father also, he succeeded in the Kingdom. Esteeming it a great honour to imploy himself in so famous a Controversie of Learning, he wrote a Book of the seven Sacraments, defending also the Popedom, and oppugning the Doctrine of Luther: a thing so gratefull to the Pope, that having received the Kings book, he honoured him with the title of Defender of the Faith.
But Martin suffered not himself to be scared with that most illustrious glittering name of a King, but answered his Majesty with as much acrimony, vehemency, and as small respect, as he had answered the petty Doctors. The Hist. of the Councell of Trent, l. 1. p. 16.
He drew many Learned men into England.
Desiderius Heraldus, a Learned Frenchman.
He hath written a Comment on Martiall.
Animadvers. in Salmas.
Observat. ad Jus Atticum & Romanum, and other Learned Works.
Herbert Lord of Cherbury.
He hath published a Book De Veritate & Causis Errorum, and hath written the Life of K. Henry the 8th in English.
Hermes Trismegistus, the most ancient Doctor of the Egyptians.
Suidas Trismegistum, sic appellatum tradit, quia de Trinitate quodam divini spiritus instinctu, locutus sit. Dickinsoni Delphi Phaeniciz.He hath written
De Lapidis Philosophici secreto, and other Miscellanies.
Conradus Herebachius *Dispeream si quiquam adhuc vidi illo juvene absolutius, sive spectes utriu…que linguae periti…m, sive f…elle…entem ingenii, sive morum comitatem integritati parem. Eras. Epist. l. 28. Epist. 18. In Germania proxima Conradus Heresbachius vir dignitate & doctrina praestans in majorum suorum Heresbachiano Castro in Clivensiditione natus, hoc anno in suo Lo…i…sul…no p…idie id. Octobr. ad Deum migravit, cum LXVII. annum exegisset. Commentarium in Psalmos eruditissimum …didit, & de re rustica in illo otio post alios scripsit, non minus morum suavitate de suis quam eruditione de republica bene …itus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. l. 62., Anno 1508. a Learned Papist.
He was a compleat Scholar, skilfull in many Languages, the Latine, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, Dutch. His friends were the Learned men of that time, Erasmus, Sturmius, and others.
He hath written a most Learned Commentary on the Psalmes, de re Rustica.
He put out two Books De institutione principis deque Republica Christiana administranda: Lexicon Graeco Latinum locupletavit.
Hermannus Contractus, a Germane, Anno 1032.1058 say some.
He was descended of a Noble Count of Swedland, and was crooked and lame from his infancy, which gave him the surname of Contractus. He spake Latine,Cum is omnibus membris contractus esset, ut hinc inde tantum de portaretur (unde etiam suum cognomen acquisivit) parentes eum in monasterio S. Galli collocarunt. Erat trium linguarum Graecae, Arabicae & Latinae peritissimus praeterea Theosogus, Philosophus, Astronomus, Rhetor & Poeta nulli suo tempore secundus, scripsit itaque carmine & prosa multa praeclara volumina. Pantaleon de Vir. Illust. Germ. Greek and Hebrew as his naturall Language.
He published all his Works with his contracted and paralytick hands. Membris planè erat contractis, unde & Contracti nom…n accepit, & fortasse ea propter monachus factus fuit. Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 2. c. 44.
He was the inventer of the Astrolabe.
Hermogenes. He was of Tarsus in Asia minor. Being scarce 18 years old he wrote the Art of Rhetorick in six books, but when he was old he forgat Learning. Thence they spake of him jestingly, that he was old in his childhood, and a childe in his old age.
Heredian, an eloquent and faithfull (yet free) Historian.Nam mihil vere persuadeo, Graecum virum Herodianum: qu…m ipse nuper Civitate Romana donasti: si in mille volumina diligenter impressus: transcriptusque ad manus literatissimorum hominum semel referatis carcerious pervenerit: de eo singulorum judicio expectationique satisfacturum: ut in eo libello nihil nisi candidum, nisi sublime, nisi luculentum: atque omni ex parte perfectissimum contineri omnes ingenue fateantur. Polit. Epist. l. 6. Epist. 6. Vide l. 8. Epist. Epist. 1.
He wrote 8 books of Histories.
Stylus Photio teste, est elegans, perspicuus, ac talis planè; ut vix historicorum ulli ulla virtute cedat. Veritati etiam studuit nisi quod fides ejus mutat in Alexandro & Maximino. Voss. de Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 15.
Herodotus.Herodotus Graecus, ne quid omisisse videretur, omnia sine delectu congessit, quorumque pleraque non ab antiquis scriptis, sed à vulgi fabulis accepit. Qui quanquam oratione concinnus sit atque elegans, eorum tamen qui sanè & incorruptè judicant avertit ab illa tam coacervata & referta narrationum multitudine fidem. Et quanquam à quibusdam quod videtur affectasse historiae pater dicatur, ab aliis tamen fabulatum pater meritò dictus est. Praefat. ad Antiquit. Eccles. Historiam multi scripsere praeclarè, sed nemo dubitar duos longe caeteris praeferendos, quorum diversa virtus laudem pene est parem consecuta. Densus & brevis & semper instans sibi Thucidides: dulcis & candidus, & fusus Herodotus: ille concitatis, hic remissis affectibus melior: ille concionibus, hic sermonibus, ille vi, hic voluptate. Quintil. Instit. Orat. l. 10. c. 1. Displiceant huic rosae, & balsama, cui non placet Herodotus, Hortus est ejus historia variis arboribus consitus, innumerisque florum distinctus areolis, ex quo aeterni spirant odores. S…il… certe is est, qui non nisi ab impetitis aut malevolis reprehendi possit. Totus est dulcis, candidus, fusus, sine illis salebris quasi sedatus: amnis fluens. Caussen. Eloq. Sac. & Human. Paralel. l. 1. c. 14.
Although he relates stories that may seem fabulous, yet the whole body of his History is composed with singular fidelity and a diligent desire of truth, but he often prefaceth concerning other narrations, that he rehearseth them not because he thinks them to be true, but as he hath received them from others.
Hic pater historiae mendacia plurima finxit,
Quippe suam Musis dedicat historiam.
Steph. Paschas. Icon.
Hesiod 37 annis Hesiodus artis sua specimina publicè edidit ante Homerum, Seldem. Marm. Arund.Floruit ante Christum 944. Homerum ante Christum 907. Seldeni Marm. Arundel. Vide plura ibid.
It is an ancient and famous question of the age of Homer and Hesiod, and whether was ancienter. Accius the Poet, and Ephorus the Historian, make Hesiod the first. Vide Agellium l. 3. c. 11.
John *Professor Lovaniensis, quem Rex Hispan. Philippus misit ad Conclium Tridentinum. Gerh. Confess. Cathol. l. …. c. 5. Art. 2.Hessuls, he hath put out severall Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.
William Landgrave of Hessen was the first Protestant Prince in Germany.
He died of a burning Fever 1637.
Many of the Landgraves of Hessen were Learned men.
Vide Eras. Ep. l. 30. Epist. 6. Non injuria sui saeculi Poetarum princeps & Rex nuncupatus fuit. Is multis praeclaris ingenii sui elaboratis monumentis in quibus veluti gemma preciosissima eminet opus illud Psalmorum Davidicorum vere sacto sanctum, quo vel uno opere singularem sibi spem & fiduciam divinae gratiae atque benevolentiae comparavit, posteris verò admirationem sui & caritatem reliquit fragrantem. Boissardi Icones.Helius Ebanus Hessus. He was born in the year 1488.
His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.
Hesychius Grammaticus, Anno Dom. 400.
The most Learned aGlossographorum longè princeps. Casaub. in Athen. Grammaticorum Alpha Montac. Orig. Eccles. Tom. 1. parte posteriore. Omnium veterum criticorum, quos habemus hodiè, longe si quid judico doctissimus, & serio Graecantibus apprime utilis. Casaub. Epist. 49. Ex nuda indicis percursione structorem vocabularii illius (rem nondum omnibus creditam) patebit Christianum fuisse. Quis enim (ut novi Foederis tot foreign mittam) Evangelistas, Apostolos, Prophetas, Prophetarum expositores, à vera fide alienus suo operi inseruisset. Pricaeus praefat. ad Ind. Alphab. Scriptorum qui in Hesych. Graec. vocab. laudantur. Gregorii Nazianzeni auditor & discipulus H…sychius, vir in divinis Scripturis multum versatus, & Hierosolymitanae Ecclesiae Presbyter. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 5. Vide Suidam.Glossary but corruptly printed.
He was a Christian (though some seem to question it) as Casaubone on Athenaeus, Henry Stevens and Dr Price shew.
Learned Dr Langbane in his Notes on Longinus, styles Eustathius, Hesychius, and Pollux, Literaturae Graecae Triumviri.
Joannes Heurnius.
Primus in Academia Leydensi propriâ manu anatomiam administravit, efflagitantibus id studiosis cum insolens hoc exercitium patriae eo tempore esset. Melch. Adam in vita Heurnii.He was intimately familiar with the most famous men of that age, Janus Donsa, Franciscus Junius, Lucas Trelcatius, Hugo Donellus, Everard Brohorst, Joseph Scaliger, Justus Lipsius, Francis Raphelengius, and others.
His Works either published by himself or his son, are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.