A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning, Book 4 · Chapter 8
CHAP. VIII.
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BArth. Keckermannus.
He hath written almost on all ArtsVir caetero quin eruditus, sed novellorum scriptorum, quam antiquitatis studiosior. Voss. De Hist. Graec. lib. 2. cap. 13.
All his Works are in two Volumes in Folio.
Thomas de Kempis, or Kempensis.Nascitur circa annum M. CCC. LXXX. De imitatione Christi. l. 4. verè aurei, non Latinè solum sed Germanicè, Belgicè, Hispanicè, Gallicè, & Graecè saepius excusi. Nullus post sacros codices tam crebro fui… excusus libellus, nullus tam cupidè ab omnibus expeti…us & lectitatus, a summis, mediis, & infimis. Swertii Athenae Belgicae. Valeri Aud. Biblioth. Belg.
His Book De Imitatione Christi is translated into sundry Languages.
He is translated into the Turkish Language. A Merchant going to Algiers in Mauritania to redeem some Captives from their miserable slavery, found this Authour translated, and by the King wonderfully enriched with pearls, and kept (as he saith) in a more glorious Cabinet then ever Alexander kept his Homer in.
Liber quotidianarum pagi…arum erat ei Thomae à Kempis divinum opusculu… de Imitatione Christi, de quo in libro de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, Ego, inquit, ab adolescentiâ mea, & usque ad senectam hoc Opusculum saepissimè volvi & revolvi usum per mihi novum apparuit, & nunc etiam mirificè cordi meo sapit. Fuligattus in vitae Bellarmini.
Aureus ille De Christi imitatione libellus, & non modò de manibus nunquam deponendu…, sed & ad verbum ediscendus, tanquam pietatis myrothecium, ut jure omnium gentium linguis hodiè legatur. Aubert. Miraei Elog. Belg. Vide plura ibid.
Ioh. Keplerus a famous Mathematician.
He hath put out many Works that way.
Vir ingenio, industria, & (quod omnium instar) foelicitate inventorum, Admirabilis, saith Dr Ward of him in his Preface to the Reader before his Inquisitie in Bulliald. Astronomiae Philolaicae Fundament….
Iacobus Kimedoncius, he was Professour at Heidelberg in the Palatinate.
He wrote De verbo Dei.
De Redemptione generis humani.
De Divina Praedestinatione.
Oratio lugubris in obitum Io. Casmiri.
R. David Kimchi, a most learned Rabbin, and deadly enemy to Christians.Vir talis, qui, quod litteram, quod Historiam, quod denique idiomata vocum attitinet, plurimum lucis ac utilitatis V. T. adferat. Nonne ex solo ipsius libro Radicum sole clarius ipsius Ebraica eruditio solidissima refulget? Certè suo Michlol omnem laudem est supergressus. Dilber. Disput. Acad. Tom 1. David Kimchius, author, ut doctus, ita (nisi ubi nimio in Christianos zelo praeceps rapitur) sobrius & gravis. Pocock. Not. Miscel in Portam Mofis cap. 4. Nomen est familiae quae tres viros insignes habuit, Iosephum, viz. Patrem & Davidem Mo…emque filios: quorum uterque grammaticam edidit, sed ille plenissimè scripsit de hac arte, quem Christiani doctores plurimum sequantur. Drus. Not. in Tetrag.
The King of Grammarians. Broughton of the ten first Fathers.
He hath styled his Grammatical Work Michlol.
Liber Radicum, that Book of his roots or Hebrew Lexicon is Hebraicae literaturae locupletissimus thesaurus.
Comment in Psalmos 10. priores.
There is he and other Rabbins upon the lesser Prophets.
Adversus Christianos.
R. Moses Kimchi.
There is his Introductio ad sapientiam cum Exposit. D. Eliae & annot. Const. L'Empereur Hebraicè & Lat. 80.
Athanasius Kircherus, a learned Germane Jesuite now living at Rome.Athanasius Kircheus Germanus vir è Societate Jesu eruditionis oppido magnae. Is perhibetur eximiè callere Hieroglyphicorum mysteria. Gassend. De vita Peireskii▪ l. 4.
He hath written these Works,
Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta.
Prodromus coptus sive Aegyptiacus.
Consule eruditissimum de magnete opus Athanasii Kircheri. Musaeum Wormianum l. 1. Sect. 2. c. 9.
Conradus Kircherus.
His Greek Concordance of the Old Testament is much esteemed, entitled
Concordantiae Veteris Testamenti Graecae Hebraeis vocibus respondentes.
Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany.
He hath published divers things about the Arabick Tongue.
Iohn Knewstub a Learned Divine.
There are his Lectures on Exod. 20. 7. first 17. vers. on 1 Cor. 13. v. 4, 5, 6, 7. on Gal. 3. v. 10. on 3 Ioh. v. 16. on Mat. 6. v. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Answer unto certain Assertions.
Confutation of monstrous and horrible heresies taught by H. N. and embraced of a number, who call themselves of the Family of Love.
Iohn Knox a learned Scotch Divine.The King of Scotland said, He was a good man and that he was more afraid of his prayer then of a great Army.
Iohannes Major a famous Scotchman also was his Master.
Beza and Calvin write several Epistles to him; Calvin three, and Beza two. Calvin cals Knox and Goodman his Brethren, and excellent men.
He had a Prophetick Spirit, by which he fore-told many things that came to passe afterwards, as*De Eccles. qu. 5. c. 13. Whitaker observes.
He was the Restorer of the Gospel among the Scots.
His Sermons and other English Works are mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue.
Albertus Krantzius, or Crantzius.Decessit eodem anno quo Lutherus nundinationem indulgentiarum reprehendere coepit. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.
A man, as of an excellent Spirit, so of farre greater Place and Authority in Germany then Luther was, and one that from as earnest detestation of the Romish Churches pride and insolencies, notified as great a desire of Reformation, as Luther, yet thought he should have but lost his labour in oppugning the greatnesse whereto it was grown. The same Bishop a little before his death being made acquaiuted with Luthers purpose; after approbation of his good intents to reform the abuse of Indulgences, burst into these despairing speeches of his good successe, Frater, frater, abi in cellam, & dic, miserere mei Deus. Dr Iacks. on the Creed first Vol. l. 1. c. 30.
There are his Works in two Volumes mentioned by Melch. Ad.