A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning, Book 4 · Chapter 6
CHAP. VI.
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Dr THomas Iackson a learned Divine, as his Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed, and other Works shew.
Mr. Arthur Iackson, a Reverend Divine, and good Expos…or of Scripture.
He hath commented on the Pentateuch, on the Historicall Part, and five Poetical Books.
King Iames a learned and wise Prince.Iacobus Rex. Vide Vossii Epist. ad artem Grammaticam. Quis doctus (& quotidiè ad eum conflu…nt) non stupuit tanti ingenii miraculum Rerum incredibilis varietas, mirabilis antiquitatis peritia, selecta oratio, & nihil ab iis abhorrens qui perpetua aetate deduxerunt studium velut ad robustam maturitatem. Cryptaei Britannia Triumphans.
His several Works shew his great Learning. I finde in the Appendix of the Oxford Catalogue these words, Opera Regis Lat manu propria inscripta & Acadomiae suae Oxoniensi don… data, in perpetuam Regiae munificentiae memoriam, in Archivis reposita.
In the Catalogue it self his Poeticall Exercises, and other particular Works are enumerated.
He died in March.
Non miror regem si Martius abstulit Anglis;
Pacificis semper Mars inimicus erat. Arth. Jonstoni Epig.
Iacobus De aSic dictus quod esset quasi vorago Bibliorum, propter Crebras allegorias. Alfled. Encycloped. lib. 32. cap. 7.Voraigne. He wrote the golden Legend.
Richard Iames.
Mr Selden speaks of him and Patrick Young, as his Assistants in his Work of Marmora Arundelliana.
Sed ut expeditiùs res absolveretur, rogo ut in operae societatem adsciscerentur amici communes, eruditissimus Patricius Iunius, & multi jugae doctrinae studiique indefatigabilis vir Richardus Iamesius.
For this Richard Iames, there is this censure of him, that he preached three Sermons, one without a Text, another against his Text, and a third besides it.
Dr Thomas Iames. He was a laborious man. As
His Corruption of Scriptures, Councels and Fathers.
The Downfall of Jesuites.
Bellum Papale, and other Works shew.
Iamblychus bMagnae vir apud Graecos authoritatis. Pier. Valer. Hier. l. 33. c. 41.a famous Philosopher, and Porphyrius his Scholar.
He hath written a Book of the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians, and three Books of the Sect of Pythagoras, with Commentaries of Simplicius the Philosopher.
Io De cGandavensis, vir longè eruditissimus, circiter ante 270 annos primatum Papae oppugnavit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 8.Ianduno.
Cornelius Iansenius. He was born at Hilstane in Flanders.Vigilantissimus sacrarum literarum Interpres. Montac. Apparat. Cornelius Iansenius in omnibus, quae scripsit, praesertim in Concordiam Evangelicam, & in Proverbia, ut etiam Psalmos, se magno valentem judicio, uti & eruditum ostendit. Possev. Biblioth. Select. Tomo 10. l. 2. c. 49. Theologus Egregius, cui exacta trium linguarum cognitio. Swertii Athen. Belg.
One of the Papists learnedest and best Expositors of the Gospel.
He was sent by King Philip the second King of Spain to the Councel of Trent.
Fuit in hoc viro praestans ingenium, exacta linguarum trium Latinae, Graecae & Hebraicae cognitio, singularis prudentia, eximius rerum usus, inprimis verò summum religionis ac pietatis studium. Quantus Theologus fuerit, clamant doctissimi in Concordiam suam Evangelicam orbis judicio probatam Commentarii; qui & aequales aliquot, in his Salmeronem & Beauxamamum in eadem arena desudantes, à suis tunc edendis deterruerunt. Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg.Hoc ipso tempore plurimi Sorbonistae Jesuitarum dogmati palam adversantur excitati ad id opere quidem posthumo, egregio tamen Cornelii Iansenii Yprensis Episcopi, quod Augustinum inscripsit. Videatur Apologia pro Iansenio à Doctissimo Sorbonista anonymo, D. Arneldum esse putant, conscripta. Mares. Exeg. Confess. Belg. Art. 16.
He was uncle to the other Iansenius Bishop of Iper, who wrote Sanctus Augustinus. This Iansenius wrote another Book also against the French, and styles it Patricius Armachanus, whence Petavius cals the Jansenians Armachani, or because Iansenius was so much beholding to the Archbishop of Armaghs Goteschalci Historia for his Book.
Rabbi Salomon Iarchi a learned French Jew, who hath commented on theRabbi Salomon Iarchi, quasi lunaris dictus. Is à nostris Judaeis Salomo foreign vocatur. Natione Gallus erat & patria Trecensis; contrivit tamen aliquam aetatis partem in Germaniâ, commoratus aliquandiu Wormatiae ad Rhenum, cujus Synagogae Judaei etiamnum ipsius praesentiae monstrant vestigia. Authoritas porrò hujus Iarchaei tanta est apud Rabinos, ut quamvis Interpretum numero abundent, hunc tamen unum caeteris longè praeferant cunctis, non tantum quod tempore antiquior sit & clarorum inter medios ferè primus, sed quia in utroque Bibliis & Talmud laboraverit, & illa subinde cum hoc conferat. Schickard. Bechinath Happeruschim. Potius Ierarchi. Obiit anno Servatoris nostri 1105. Quia scripturam & pleraque Talmudis explicavit, ideoque magnae inter Judaeos est authoritatis. Constant. L'Emperour. Not. in Benjaminem, whole Bible, and to whom Lyra is much beholding for what he hath of the Hebrew.
Iason dPatricius mediolanensis, eques auratae militiae & Senator Duealis. Vir corporis habitu eleganti, moribus facilis, in colloquiis familiaribus facetus & hilaris, in rebus magnis gravis, acutus, & perspicacissimi ingenii: prudens in consiliis, cujus autoritas maxima fuit apud Fridericum & Maximilianum Imperatores Romanorum: ad quos missus est legatus à Ludovico sfortia duce Mediolanensium excellens Philosophus, in juris prudentia nulli suo tempore …e…sit. Mortuus est Papiae 84. aetatis anno, Christi verò 1519. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog.Maynus.
His Works are in six Volumes.
Iesuitae. The Jesuites.1521. Ignatius Loyola Hispanus societatis Jesu fratribus initium dedit. Decem alios sibi adjunxit, quibus comitatus Lutetia Romam obtinuit an. 1540. ut suae religionis institutum à Pontifice confirmaretur. Geneb. Chronol. lib. 4. Ordo Societatis Jesu à Paulo, tertio P. P. primum approbatur an. 1540 & ab eodem confirmatur 1543. Post eum Iulius tertius, Paulus quartus, Pius quartus & Tridentinum Concilium Ses…. 9. cap. 15. Eum ordinem iterum confi…marunt.
In the fifth year of Pope Urbane the fifth began first the Order of the Jesuites.
Men of famous industry and excellent reach in all subtill and profound Arts, but ignorant and besotted in matters of faith and mysteries of salvation. Dr Iacks. on the Creed, Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 1.
Thuanus and Pasquier (though Papists) speak against the titles of Jesuites, as proud and blasphemous. Novo atque ut plerisque visum est superbo nomine appellati sunt. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 15.
See Thuan. Hist. tom. 2. l. 36. at the beginning, and Pasquiers Recherches de la France, l. 3. c. 42, 43. against them.
A Book called the Jesuites Rule, discovers what they are.
See also Monarchia Iesuitica, Arcana Societatis Iesu, Mysteria Patrum Iesuitarum. De studiis Iesuitarum abstrusioribus, and the Jesuites Catechism.
The best Expositors amongst the Papists, are Pererius, Ribera, Tolet, Maldonate, Estius, all which (except Estius) were Jesuites.
The ablest for controversies, are Bellarmine, Stapleton, Gregory De Valentia, two of which were also Jesuites.
The best Philologers, are Sirmondus, Andraeas Schottus, Fronto Ducaeus, Serarius, all Jesuites.
Some of the Papists are very bitter and malicious, as Genebrard, Gretzer, Scioppius.
Others more candid and ingenuous, Schottos, Frontones, Acostas, Petavios, Rosweydos, & aliquos alios viros eruditos & modestos excipio. Montac. Appar. 7.
Ignatius, Anno Dom. 102. 96. Helv. Chron.Patriarcha Antiochenus, vir, quod in orientis partibus perrarum est, singulari eruditione. Scalig. Canon. Isag. l. 3. Solus Ignatius est intra primum Christi saeculum, & quidem sub finem. Est enim occisus anno secundo Tra…ani, qui incidit in annum Christi centesimum secundum circiter. Irenaeus vixit circa annum centesimum sexagesimum, Tertullianus circa ducentessimum. Cham. De Occum. Pont. l 2. c. 12. Antiochenae Ecclesiae Episcopus praefuit Ignatius vir magni spiritus, fidei, & zeli, de quo testari possunt ejus Epistolae Graecae plenae fidei ac par…hesiae Concionantes de pectore pro Christo cuncta impendere parato. Neand. Geog. part. 2. Vide De ejus Epistolis. Albertinum De Sacramento Eucharistiae. l. 2. c. 1.
He was the Scholar of St Iohn the Evangelist, Bishop of the Church of Antioch, a man of great Sanctity, and a most ardent lover of our Lord Jesus Christ, he was was wont to say of him, My love was crucified.
Bishop Usher and Vedelius shew which of his Epistles were genuine.
Matth. Fl. Illyricus was somewhat heretical, but yet was usefull to the Church inMatthias Flac…s Illyricus, haeresi infamis, alioqui de Ecclesia non malè meritus, edito Catalogo testium veritatis, & adornatis sua ipsius, Iohannis Wigandi, & Matthai Judicis opera Centuriis Ecclesiasticis Magdeburgensibus. Pezel. Mellific. Histor. part. 3. Testes veritatis à Christo ad nostram usque aetatem: id est, qui puram religionem amplexi fuerint, prolixè & accuratè descripsit Matthias Flaccius Illyricus in Catalogo Testium veritatis, quam Simon Goulartius recensuit & auxit. Alsted. Encyclopaed. l. 32. c. 7. Quanquam verò cum aliis, tum imprimis paradoxo illo de peccati substantia, non exiguas in Ecclesia Christi turbas dedit: tamen sua etiam laude defraudandus non est, ob egregia scripta quibus aut Antichristi regnum oppugnatum, aut Theologiae studia studiososue ivit adjutum Commendantur enim ex illis primùm Clavis sacrae Scripturae, deinde Centuriae Ecclesiasticae historia congesta Flacii potissimum consilio, opera autem Wigandi & aliorum. Tertium locum obtinet Catalogus Testium veritatis. Melch. Ad. in vita Flacii. Homo vehemens, & quocun que loco pedem fige…et acerrimus turbarum incentor. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 38. Vide ejus Tom. 3. l. 6…. some of his Works, his Clavis, the Centuries, in which he had a great share, and Catalogus testium veritatis.
Dr Iackson indeed in Christs everlasting Priesthood, l. 10. c. 12. seems to justifie Illyricus his definition of original sinne, and chap. 13. labours to shew, that Calvin and Peter Martyr consent with him in the description of original sinne. Yet I have elsewhere refuted his opinion, of original sins being the essence and substance of a man, and it is generally disliked by the Orthodox.
Denegarunt ei coenam ministri propter doctrinam de peccata originali, ita sine viatico, quia aberrarat è viae, abiit ex hac vita: utinam pius & bonus. Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Lavater.Vir politioris literaturae, & S Theologiae studiosissimus, edidit suis impensis Librum introductionum Apotelesmaticarum in Chiromantiam, Physiognomiam, Astrologiam naturalem, cum Periaxiomatibus de faciebus signorum, & Canonibus de aegritudinibus, nusquam fere simili compendio tractata. Liber Argentorari est impressus in folio au…o 1522. Cum viva authoris effigie in titulo praeformata Boissardi Icones.
Ioannes De Indagine.
He flourished Anno 1522.
He was a great Astrologer.
Indices Expurgatorii.…eritos scillos Chirurgos imirantes, qui expurgationionibus suis sanguinem emit…unt saepius saniorem. Pro…llum imprimis, ut prohibitae lectionis librorum usus omnino interdiceretur, itaque Lovaniensibus Theologis id negotii datum, ut librorum censura dignotum loca notarent, eorumque diligentia & Benedicti Ariae Montani inprimis qui tunc in Belgium ex Hispania Philippi mandatu venerat, ut Bibliorum regiorum editioni praeesset, index expurgatorius est Concinnatus, ac sequenti anno regia auctoritate publicatus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 45.
There are two Expurgatory Indices, one new, the other old, one set out by Cardinal Quiringa in the year 1584 the other by the Cardinal of Squidoval and Roxas in the year 1612. B. Ush. Answ. to the Jesuit. Challenge.
There be some Authors so purged, as Georg. Venetus, Erasmus Roterodamus, and Carolus Molinaeus Works, that their depravations being diligently noted, would amount unto whole Volumes. D. Iames his Remedy against all manner of Popish Corrupt. Part. 5th.
They have put as much out of Cajetane as would make a pretty Book.
The purpose of these Indices is to corrupt the writings, and raze the records of the world, to make all Authors to become the Popes Proctors, and such as (having spake for the truth) now (being dead) must plead for the Pope. Their practise is so soon as an Author is purged, to burn all the old ones as farre as they can. Crashaws Preface to his Romish Forgeries and Falsificat.
Arias Montanus was sometime a chief Inquisitor in the Low-Countreys, and had more then a finger in printing of the Antwerp Index, long since, and often reprinted by Iunius: yet now his own Works (as his learned Commentaries) upon Isay, the lesser Prophets, the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles, upon the Epistles and Apocalypse, and other writings of his, are purged and purged again in the Roman Index. D. Iames his Mysteries of the Indices Expurgatory.Pestem in Siciliâ longè latéque grassantem extinxit, unde Siculus Hippocrates vulgo appellabatur. Et, quod de Li…i… legimus, illi etiam accidit; ut ex ultimis terrarum finibus ad eum visendum eujuscunque ordinis venirent. Castellan. Vit. Illust. Med.
Io. Philippus▪ Ingrassi…s, a learned Physician.
His house was called eruditionis emporiam, the mart of Learning.
These of his Works are celebrated.
De moribus pr…ter naturam. Tomus 1.
Quaestio de p…rgatione per medicamentum, & de sanguinis missione.
Iatrologia.
Synopsis Commentarior… de peste.
Commentaria in Galeni librum de ossibus.
Comment in Artem medic. Galeni.
Ingulphus a Learned English Abbot.
He lived Anno 1050. as he witnesseth in the end of his History.
He wrote a History of the Monasteries of England. See more of him, lib. 2. cap. 13. pag. 93.
Innocentius tertius Papa, Anno Dom. 1200.
A learned man but a great persecutour of the Church.Unus ille omnium teterrimus Evangelicae veritatis hostis, qui 1215. in Synodo Lateranensi omnium ferè turbarum, quibus hodiè orbis concutitur Christianus, seminaria in Ecclesiam profudit. Quum primum non ante auditam transubstantiationem invexit, confessionem auricularem à Christianis extorsit: criminum remissionem non aliter quam à sacerdote accipiendam mandavit: Laicis alteram sacrae Communionis partem eripuit: Exurendi tartaream hanc consuetudinem eos maximè qui hiscere adversus Romanam sedem auderent, induxit. Cui potissimum Pontifici acceptum debetur, quicquid hodiè vel clad…s vel dissidii inter Protestantes, & Pontificios in Ecclesia deflagret. Foxus contra Osorium l. 3. p. 23.
When he had great store of money, he said to Thomas Aquinas, Dost thou not see Thomas, that the Church cannot now say as in times past when it first began, Aurum & argentum non habeo, I have not gold and silver, Thomas presently answered, Holy Father, this is true, but the Church cannot now say, as the Primitive Church did by the same man, Arise, walk, be whole.
His Works are contained in two Tomes.
Alanus Insulensis, vel de Insulis,Vir in divinis ac saecularibus disciplinis nulli suo tempore secundus per annos multos. Sorbonae Parisiensi praefuit, ubi scientiarum omnium cognitione Clarissimus Universalis cognomen est adeptus. Anton. …anderus De Script. Fland. l. 1.
There is his
Ante-Claudiani, & de Anti-Rusfino.
Abbas Ioachimus.Calaber, homo eruditionis & etiam sanctitatis vitae nomine cum primis celebris, qui floruit anno 123. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 17. Magister sententiarum in libro primo dixit. Quaedam summa res est, Pater, Filius & Spiritus Sanctus, & illa non est generans, nec genita, nec procedens. Haec magister, ex quibus verbis, Abbas Ioachim hujusmodi doctrinam haud recte percipiens, quaternitatem colligebat: & quartam in divinis rem adstruebat, hujusque generis errorem & notam magistro impingebat. Ang. Roc…ha Biblioth. Vatic. Concil. 2. Lateran.
He was an heretick, he held a distinction of the Deity from the Persons, and so a quaternity, mistaking a passage in Peter Lombard.
Arthur Ihonston a Scotch Doctor of Physick before he was full twenty three years of age, he was laureated Poet at Paris, his Paraphrastick Translation of the Psalms is commended.
Iornandes, he was called Iordanus, he flourished Anno Domini DXXX, under the Emperour Iustinian.
He being a Monk was made Bishop of the Gothas.Hieronymus Graecum Livium appellat, propter ingenii excellentiam à S…na… & po… pulo …oma prom…uit, ut eo vi…ente, libri ejus publicae Bibliothecae traderentur, ipsi vere post mortem aenea statua poneretur. Amicus fuit Christianorum, quanquam Judaeus esset: & Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum in 18. Antiquitatum libro insigni elogio celebravit, qua de causa D. Hieronymus eum in Catalogo Ecclesiasticorum scriptorum digna cum laude recenset. Sixt. Senens. Biblioth. Sanct. l. 4. Is in omni Latinorum & Graecorum Scriptorum genere versatus, omnem Genti…um historiam & Chronologiam excussit & perdidicit, ideoque ab istorum Hebraeorum ineptiis remotissimus fuit. Possev. Biblioth. Select. Tomo 10. l. 2. c. 63. Vide Spen…m. …suram Dub. Evang. & parte 2da Dub. 2. & Neand. Geog. parte 2da, Decepti sunt Judaei post Iosippum Iosephi nomine. Item quòd uterque esset sacerdos, doctus, nobilis, &c. quod uterque idem de Antiquitatibus Judaicis & de bello argumentum tractarit, unus tamen Hebraicè, alter Graecè. Geneb Chronol. l. 2. c. 4. Vide Bodin. Method. Hist. Flavi… Ioseph… autor omni laude dignus, & cui post sacrorum voluminum scriptores prima esse debet fides. Etsi gravitate supra cunctos Judaeos eminet, tamen haud ubique à deliramentis abhorret popularium suorum. Cuneut de Repub. Heb. l. 3. c. 1. Vide Voss. De Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 8.
Iosephus Ind…ious Clarissimus Iudaeorum Historicus. Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 3. mo… learned in the Greek and Hebrew.
He is a diligent Historian, yet since he wrote the Antiquities of his own Nation, with an intention to communicate them to others, he described them as stately as he could, and when he thought the simplicity of the Scripture did not suffice to the commendation of things done amongst the Hebrews, he invented and added many things himself, therefore in those things he is to be prudently read, lest he deceive the unwary Reader. This fault Luther on Gen. 34. and Rivet on Exod. 2. and Chamier and others tax him with. Vide Cornel. à Lap. in Gen. 29. & in Numb. c. 11. v. 34.
There was a Jew in latter times who out of the true Iosephus translated into Latine by Ruffiuus (he himself understanding no Greek) and Hegesyppus (or rather Ambrose) his Latine History of the destruction of Ierusalem, set out an Hebrew History under the false▪ name of Ioseph Ben-Gorion, whom he thought to be the same with Iosephus the Historian, for whom he would be taken. The Epitome of this Hebrew History is entitled, foreign Iosiphon, whence the name of Iosippus was taken up.
Paulus Iovius.Vir multae eloquentiae, ingeniique acerrimi, medicinam primò exercuit, non sine foelici successu. Scripsit historiam sui temporis, de rebus quae quinquaginta annis gestae erant in Italia, Hungaria, Asia, Africa, aliisque regionibus. Licet ejus Historiae libri sex primae decadis magna reipublicae literariae jactura perierunt, dum Roma capta est ab Hispanis duce Garol… Borbonio. Boissardi Bibliotheca, & Boxhorn Monum. Illust. Vit. & Elog. Paulus Iovi…s multorum judicia, magis acerba, quam libera experitur. Acriter valde in virum eunt. Ego de eo sic censeo. Stylo bonum gravemque esse, & planè ad Historiam: judicio ac fide, ambiguum. Ubi affectus non detrahunt, rectum; ubi illi adsunt, obnoxiom. Ad gratiam sudat & aurum. Laudationum nec caussam saepe habet nec modum. Orationibus quoque aut frigidus interdum, aut ineptus. Laudandus tamen legendusque ab multiplicem & variam rerum seriem quas redegit composite & dilucide in unum Historiae corpus. Lips. Not. ad 1. Lib. Polit. Vide Uberti Folietae Elog in Bendinelo Saulid. Card.
Some commend him, and others much dislike him.
I have heard wise and learned men say, That his whole study and purpose is spent on these points, to deface the Emperor, to flatter France, to spite England, to help Germany, to praise the Turk, to keep up the Pope, to pull down Christ and Christs Religion, as much as lieth in him. Aschams Discourse of the State of Germany, p. 15.
Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him.
Vaeualis cui penna fuit, cui gloria flocci,
Vix quid ut ille fide scripserit historicâ.
Thuanus cals him Luculentum historiarum Scriptorem Hist. Tom. 1. l. 11. Neand. in the third part of his Geography, saith Paulus Iovius in opere ejus doctissimo & …loquentissim… historiarum nostri temporis.
Hic situs est Iovius Romanae gloria linguae:
Par cui non scripto non Patavinus erat.