A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning, Book 4 · Chapter 7
CHAP. VII.
IRenaus, Anno Dom. 180. 161. Helv. Chron.
Bishop of Lions, the Disciple of Polycarpus who was a hearer of Iohn, mostMagnus ille Ecclesiae propugnator ac pro sui nominis augurio pacis Ecclesiasticae, vindex. Spirant illius scripta priscum illum Evangelii vigorem; ac phrasis arguit pectus martyrio paratum. Habent enim martyres suam quandam dictionem seriam, fortem ac masculam. Fuit vicinus Apostolorum temporibut, qu…m adhuc martyru… triumphis floreret Ecclesia. Nam puer audivit Polycarpum in Asia, Polycarpum autem Ioannis Evangelistae fuit discipulus, à quo & Episcopus Smyrnae is datus. Eras. Epist. l. 28. Epist. 5. Vide plura ibid. famous among the Fathers.
His nature well agreed with his name, for he ever loved peace, and sought to set agreement when any controversie rose in the Church.
He was martyred with a great multitude of others more, for the Confession and Doctrine of Christ, about the fourth of fifth year of S…verus.
Io. Isaacus. He was a Jew, but turned Christian.
He hath put out an Hebrew Grammer.
Isidorus Hispalensis, Anno Dom. 632.Archiepiscopus Hispalensis quem ad alterius differentiam Iuniorem nuncupant. Fuit hic omnium litterarum cognitione tinctus. Hispan. Biblioth. Tom. 2▪
He was called the younger to distinguish him from the senior Bishop of Corduba, or from another Bishop of Siville his Predecessor.
He was the Archbishop of Sivill, the President of the Councel of Sivill in Spain, one of the most learned Writers which have been in the Church within this thousand years. B. Down. Defence of his Serm. l. 3. c. 4.
He hath learnedly interpreted almost all the Old and New Testament. He hath written twenty Books of Etymologies, wherein he hath not only shewed himself a Grammarian, but a compleat Artist.
Isidorus *Th…odofi… juniore imperatore regnante claruit monachorum Pelusiaci montis in Aegypto abbas, Chrysostomi Discipulus, & Cyrilli familiaris. Illyr. Catal. Ver. l. 5.Pelufiota, floruit anno 482. Bell. de Script. Eccles.
For his famous sanctity he was called by a peculiar name foreign, that is, carrying God in him.
Isocrates.Nitidus & Comptus, & Palaestraequam pugnae magis accomodatus▪ in inventione facilis, honesti studiosus: in compositione adeò diligens, ut cura ejus reprehendatur. Quintil. Instit. l. 18. c. 1. Omnium oratorum elaboratissimus. Scalig. orat. 1. cont. Eras. Quo simplicius aut purius cogitari nihil potest. Lud. Viv. de trad. disc. l. 3.
He was very bashfull, and never spake in publick but once.
Tully cals him the father of eloquence, Dilher that Attick Syren.
Isocrates quidem suavitatem habuit, vim Demosthenes.
Notae Dounaei in 36. Hom. Chrysost. in Epist. prim. ad Corinth.
Henricus Isselburgius Professor and Pastor of Brema, Doctor in Divinity.
There is a Book of his published, styled
Digeries praecipuarum quarundam Controversiarum Theol.
Iohn Iuel Bishop of Salisbury, exile in Queen Maries time for the ProfessionIewellus Anglice sonat Gemmam, vel potius moni… gemmis consertum: Et certe qui in illo viro insignes animi dotes quibus tanquam immensi pretii Gemmis ornatus est, spectarit; fateatur necesse est, tarò cuiquam nominis significata aptiùs convenisse. Godw. De Praesul. Ang. Comment. Apologia ejus ab exteris piis summopere in pretio habita est, & in varias linguas, Germanicam, Hispanicam, Italicam, Gallicam transfusa. Humphred. in vita Iuelli. Si specte…ur ordo, nihil distributi…s: si perspicuitas, nihil lucidius: si stylus, nihil tersius: si verba, nihil splendidius: si res, nihil nervosius, Id. ibid. Apologia tua Ecclesiae Anglicanae non tantum mihi, cui omnia tua probantur & mirificè placent, omnibus modis & numeris satisfecit, verùm & jam Bullingero, ejusque filiis & generis, nec non Gualther…, & W…lphio, tam sapiens, mirabilis & eloquens visa est, ut ejus laudandae nullum modum faciant, nec arbitrantur hoc tempore quicquam perfectius editum fuisse. & Mart Iuell…. of the Gospel.
He was born in Devonshire. Iohn comes from the grace of God. Iuel is the same in our Language with Gemma in Latine, as lately a learned Writer was called Gemma Frisius.
The Jewel of Bishops, the worthiest Divine that Christendom hath bred for some hundreds of years, saith incomparable Hooker. Doctor Hackwell. Apol. lib. 5.
Hardly is there any Controversie of importance handled at this day, of which in his Works is not to be found some learned and probable resolution.
His Apology was esteemed not only by the Tigurines, but by all Protestants. It was translated into the Germane, French, Italian, Spanish Tongue, and into the English by the Lady Anne Bacon, wife to the Lord Chancellour Bacon.
The first part of it is an illustration of the true Doctrine, and a certain paraphrastical Exposition of the twelve Articles of our Christian faith. The second a succinct and solid Refutation of Objections.
He had at hand a great paper-book, as it were a rich treasury of Sciences, in which he wrote his divine and humane collections out of Poets, Philosophers and Divines. We call it a Common-place book.
Doctor Rainolds in his Letter to his friend concerning his advice for the study of Divinity, saith thus,
Touching noting, you know, I do not like the common custom of Commonplace Books. The best in my judgement is to note in the Margent, or in some paper-book for that purpose the Summe and Method of that which you reade.
In other little Books which he carried about with him (an Ephemerides or Diary) he diligently wrote all the Apophthegmes and witty speeches, or jests which he heard from others, or observed any way, by which means he much increased his knowledge yearly.
He was very affable and courteous, amiable in his whole life, in speech witty and pleasant; in his writings he is solid and yet facetious. He fled in Q. Maries dayes, and returned when Q. Elizabeth ruled.
Iulian the Emperour, a Learned Prince, but an Apostate.Et genere nobilissimo, & forma liberali, & ingenio ad literas & ad arma accommodato celebris statim à pueri…ia fuit. Christianos non tam violentis per…ecutionibus quam dolis & persuasionibus à veri…ate fidei abducere conatus est. Pezel. Mellific. Histor. part. 2. p. 273. Vide plura ibid. Cum oblata essent ei aliquando scripta Christianorum, quibus defendebatur doctrina Evangelii, deridens eam, subscripsit haec verba foreign, legi, intellexi, damnavi; sed respondit, nomine aliorum Episcoporum Basilius, foreign. Legi…ti, sed non intellexisti, si enim intellexisses non damnasses. Pezel. ibid. Vide Crinitum De honesta Disciplina. l. 5. c. 10. Et Crakanth. De Provid. Dei.
Quo tetrius magisque Deo simul & hominibus exosum animal orbis vix vidit. Crak. De Provid. Dei.
He was given to Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia to be instructed, of whom also he learned the Doctrine of the Church, and was made a Reader in the Church of Nicomedia. But he was a hearer secretly of Libanius the Rhetorician, and was familiarly acquainted with the most famous Philosophers of that time. He was drawn back by these by degrees to the Heathenish Religion.
He wrote Books against the Christians, and reproved their Doctrine, especially the prohibitions of revenge delivered, which, though they properly belong to private revenge, yet he wrested them for publick revenge, and he said by these, Magistrates, punishments, lawfull warres were taken away, and all the sinews of retaining humane Societies.
Ammianus Marcellinus commends his Temperance in meat and drink, and his continual watching, and the partition of the night into private, publick and divine offices.
He took away the great Gifts and holy Vessels which Constantine the Great had given to the Churches use, and Ministers maintenance, with this scoff, See in what goodly vessels this N…zarite is served.
It was one of his scoffs when he robbed the Churches and the Christians, He did it that the Galileans (so he contumeliously called the Christians) might go more readily to heaven.
He not onelyonly killed the Christians, but scoffed at Christ himself and the Scriptures.
He had scarce raigned two years, when warring against the Persians, he was struck and mortally wounded with a Spear in that warre, as Nazianzene, Theodoret, Socrates, Sozomen, and others uno ere docent, and filling his hand with bloud, casting it into the air, he cried out, Vicisti Galilae…, Ita simul & victoriam confessus est, & blasphemiam evomit, saith Theodoret.
Franciscus Iunius.Translatio illa Veteris Testamenti edita saeplus, & qua …odie utuntur multi, inagnum ipsi nomen peperit. Verheiden.
The glory of Leyden, the oracle of Textual and School-Divinity, rich in Languages, subtil in distinguishing, and in Argument invincible. Dr Halls Dec. of Epist. Epist. 7.
He saith in his own Life written by himself, that he being once in the times of trouble very hungry, came by accident into the house of a Countreyman, and desiring some food, he entertained him most courteously. Hic (ô sapientiam Dei admirabilem) saith he, optimam scholam Christianitatis Dominus meus mihi paraverat. There they discoursing together about the troubles for Religion. Sic effecit Deus admirabiliter (saith Iunius) ut bonus rusticus sanctissimum Zelum, quem habeb…t, operante Domino, mihi quasi insti…ar…, ego verò malus Christianus, siquidem Christianus, ei scientia praelucerem. Una & eadem hora suam gratiam in utroque explicavit & ostendit▪ Deus: à me scientiam rustico, ab illo Zeli semina qu…dam mihi ingenerans. And so being each of us some way bettered by the other we departed, saith Iunius.
He is censured by Doctor Twisse *Nihil ferè Iunio magis familiare quam obscurita. Twissus Animadvers. in collat. cum Iun.as too obscure, but by Thuanus overharshly, Vir desultorio ingenio, qui multa conatu…, an adsecutus sit quod moliebatur, doctorum erit judicium. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 79. from whom he is vindicated by Vossius.
His Works are in two Volumes in Folio.
Migravit ad Christum anno 1602.
His Son Francis Iunius (whom I know well) hath written a learned Book De Omnifatiâ doctrina & gene…is splendore ornatissimus, Franciscus Iunius Francisci filius affinis meus. Voss. De Orig. & Progressu Idol. l. 3. c. 5. 7.Pictura veterum.
Hadrianus Iunius a Physician.Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 61. Vir in quo omnia excellerent, Medi cinae, Historiae, Antiquitatis peritia, ingenium ad Poeticem factum. Linguas praeter vernaculam septem tenuit, Graecam, Latinam, Italicam, Gallicam, Hispanicam, Germanicam, Anglicam. Meursii Athenae …atavae. Horrenda lectione sua, eruditione, & tot elegan…ssimis scriptis, quibus Latinas Graecasque litteras illustravlt, meritus est Hollandiae & litterarum post Erasmum Phoenix appellari. Obiit anno M. D. LXXV. Middelburgi. Box…orn. Theat. Holland.
One of the great Lights of Holland, as Erasmus also was.
Vir eruditissimus variaeque lectionis. Ful. Miscel. l. 4. c. 5.
Fuit Medicus, Criticus, Poeta, Historicus exactissima antiquitatis cognitione egregiè clarus; linguarum plurium peritus. Melch. Ad. vit. Germ med.
Many Monuments of his wit full of Learning witnesse his great ability.
His Nomenclator, six Books of Animadversions, Copiae Cornu, and other Works.
Ptricius Iunius, Patrick Young a Scotchman, a great Grecian.Patritius Iunius homo ad literatu…ae omnis, duntaxat G…aecae beneficium natus. Pric. Not. in Apol. Apulaei.
There is his
Catena Pat. Graec. in Iob Gr. Lat.
Clementis ad Corinthios Epistola, cum ejus notis.
Fr. Iuretus.Limati judicii multaeque lectionis vir Franciscus Iurct…. Blondel. De Formul. Regnant Christi In vet. Monum. usu.
He hath put out Notes on Seneca.
Christ. Iustellus a learned Protestant.
He hath published these two excellent Works.
Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Affricanae.
Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Universa.
Iustinian the Emperour.Iustinia…ne Imperator magnus, vir magni & excellentis ingenii, locum inter Ecclesiasticos scriptores meritò acquisivit. Omnes Constitutiones principum quae in multis voluminibus habebantur ad 12. libros redigens codicem appellavit, Quatuor etiam institutionum, libros composuit, in quibus nucleus legum comprehenditur & exponitur. Trithem. De Script. Eccles. Imperium adeptus anno Christ… 5…7. imperavit annis 38, sicut de illo scripserunt Evagr…us l. 4. c. ult. & Marianus Scotus, ac Sigebertus Gemblacensis ad annum 527. Hic est ille Iustinianus Imperator, cujus jussu collectae sunt leges, & volumina illa edita sunt Institutionum, & Pandectorum, & Codicis, & Novellarum. Hic Italiam à Gothicis, & Africam à Vandalis recuperavit. Forbes. Instruct. Hist. Theol. l. 3. c. 1. Vide Geneb. Biblioth. Pezel. Mellif. Hist. part. 2. & ult.
He was born at Prisdena in Sertia. He was most Orthodox in Religion, a most constant Defender of the true Doctrine against the Arians, Nestorians Eutychians and Manichees.
He wrote four Books of Institutions, in which the Summe of all the Romane Laws is briefly comprehended.
Of these Melancthons Distich is memorable.
Continet hic tenuis legum praecepta libellus.
Primaque Romani semina juris habet.
Augustinus Iustinianus Episcopus Nebiae.Iustinianus Genuensis si…e dubio Romanensium omnium doctissimus est. Vedel. Epist. Dedicat. ad Comment. de …empore utriusque Episcopatus S. Apostoli Petrl. … Episcopus Nebiensis, qui Psalterium octapsum anno Christi 1516 in magno folio excusum Genuae edidit, ut inter p…ae…ipuas linguas ibi essent Hebraea, Chaldaea, Arabica, & Graeca Fuerat autem in totidem linguis daturus, aliquando tota Biblia, nisi calamitosa morte ante tempus fuisset praereptus. Neand. Geog. part. 1.
Paulus Iovius saith, when he passed from Genua into the Corsick Island, he was thought to be drowned, or to be intercepted by Pyrates.
Sodalitatis praedicatorum eximius theologus, Graecis, Hebraeis, Arabis, Chaldaeisque literis ornatus, qui ex Graecis Hebraicisque Latinitati plurima donavit. Ingensque volumen historiarum Genuensium lingua vernacula, cum insulae Corsicae descriptione condidit. Leand. Albert Descript. tot. Ital. in Liguria.
Laurentius Iustinian the Patriark of Venice was also of the same house.
Leonardus Iustinianus.Fuit vir maximi consilii parisque facundiae. Juvenis adhuc versus lingua vernacula plurimos arte magna panxit: aetate vero confirmata dein eloquen…ssimus at litteratissimus evasit: n…que solum oratione soluta, verum etiam rec…tatione carminis sermone ve…culo mi…ifice delectatur, usque adeò ut inter aetatis suae doctissimos homines sit habitus, prae…rquam quod eximius reipublicae consiliatius erat. Albert. Leand. Descript. Ital. in V…net.
His Family had the same felicity that the Curios had, that there were three famovs Orators of it, two Leonards, the Grandfather and the Grandchilde, and Bernard the Grandchildes sonne. Volat. Anthropel. l. 21.
Iustin Martyr.Est vir ille ad Philosophiae tum nostrae, tum potissimum profanae summum e…ectus fastigium, multiplicisque eruditionis, & historiarum Copia circumfluens. Photii Bibliotheca. p. 309.
A famous Philosoph… and a great Defender of Christian Religion, who first exhibited unto the Emperour Antoninus Pius, and to the Senate, an Apology in the Defence of the Christians, and afterward himself also died a Martyr.
He flourished in the Church after Christ about the year 150, so Zanchy Others say 163.
He is the ancientest of the Fathers (whose writings remain) except Clement.
He lived in the very next Age to the Apostles, and Tertullian lived the next Age to him.
He was first allured to the Faith by the cruelty of Tyrants, and by the constancy and patience of Gods Saints.
In the year of Christ 163. he suffered Martyrdom for the faith under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Philosopher, and Lucius Verus Emperours.Apologiam scripsit, eamque Imperatori Pio obtulit, anno Christi centesimo quinquagesimo. Et in ea genus & nomen suum, religionemque Christianam profitetur, Iustinum se esse dicens, Prisci Batti filium, …laviae (quae nova civitas est Syriae Palestinae) ortum. Antequam verò Christianus fieret, sectator fuerat disciplinae Platonis, ut ipse de se testatur, in altera Apologia ad Senarum Romanum. Ubi etiam qua occasione adductu, fuerit, ut dè Christianis benignius sentire inciperet, tandemque iis se adjungeret, commemorat his verbis. Nam & ego ipse (inquit) Platonis Disciplinae sectator, cum calumniosè deferri Christiano… …udirem, intrepi…è au…em ad mortem & alia quae terribilia aesse censentur, omnia adire conspicerem, statui ipse mecum, fieri haud quaquam posse, ut illi in vitiorum p…avitate & voluptate amore viverent. Forbes. Instruct. Hist. Theol. l. 1. c. 3. Vide R. Episc. Usser. De editione LXX. …nterp. p. 30.
His Works were printed in Greek and Latine by Co…imelinus Anno 1593.
Iustin the Historian.
He lived under the Emperour Antoninus.
Iunius Iuvenal.*Anno Aerae Christianae 138. Helv. Chron.
He is commended by learned men for the best Satyrist. That Censor Anno Aerae Christianae 96. Helv. Chron. Candidus, ac Satyrorum facile princeps. Nam ejus versus longe meliores quam▪ Horatiani: sententiae acriores phrasis apertior. Scalig. Hypercrit. c. 6. In taxandis moribus, nostrorum pat…um memoria, primum locum habere putabatur adeo, ut is tunc doctior existimaretur, qui plures ejus versus memoriter …ecitaret. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Histor. Dial. 4.morum liberrimus. He is a rare Poet, is testified by his Verse, flowing like a River, when the winde breaths gently, smooth besides the banks, strong in the current.
He was a true Philosopher, who with inimitable sweetnesse of Language, and majesty of Sentences, sets before our eyes the lovelinesse of virtue, and the deformity of vice. So the learned Sir Robert Stapleton in his Preface to his exact Translation of Iuvenals Satyrs.
Iuvencus Presbyter a Spaniard.Vir nobilis atque doctissimus: Philosophus, Poeta, Rhetor & Theologus insignis, & non minus conversatione, quam scientia Scripturarum Ecclesiae venerabilis. Biblioth. Hispan. Tom. 2. Sacerdos Hispanicus nobili genere natus, Constantini magni temporibus. Scripsit quatuor Evangelia hexametris versibus, penè, ut ait Hieronymus, ad verbum transferens. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Histor. Dial. 5.
He flourished in Constantines raign, Anno Dom. 330.
He wrote four Books of Verses, in which he hath comprized the Evangelicall History.