It were no great Mastery, to charge the Chief Doctors of your side with some want of Learning. Ludovicus Vives saith, Ut quidque Jus superioribus saeculis minùs tittum fuit studentium manibus,1 ita purius ad nos peruenit: For the space of certain hundred years paste, the less any Book came into (your Learned) students hands, the purer, and better it came to us. Meaning thereby, that every thing was the worse for your Learned handling. Of Thomas, Scotus, Hugo, and others, of whom ye seem to make so great account, your own friend Catharinus saith, Scholastici multa ineruditè Comminiscuntur:2 These School Doctors imagine many m•ters unlearnedly. Erasmus saithe, Portenta, quae nunc passim legimus in Commentarijs Recention Interpretum, tam impudentia, & insulsa sunt, ut videantur suibus ea scripsisse,3 non Hominibus: The monstrous follies, that we commonly read in the Commentaries of the late Interpreters, (whereby he meaneth the very crop, and the worthiest of all your Scholastical Learned Doctors) are so far without shame, and so peevish, as if they had been written for Swine, and not for men. One of ⟨p. 572⟩your Doctors saith, 4Apostolus, dicitur ab Apos, quod est Argumentum, vel praeeminentia, & Stolon, quod est Missio: quasi praeeminenter Missus. An other saith, Apocrisarij, dicuntur Nuntij Domini Papae.5 Nam crisis dicitur Secretum: & Apos, dicitur Nuntius. An other saithe, Cathedra, est nomen Graecum, & componitur à Cathos, quod est Fides, & edra, quod est Sponda. An other saith, Eleemosyna, dicitur ab Eleis, quod est, Misereri, & Mois, quod est Aqua. Peter Crab in his late Scholia upon the Councils, saith thus, Mulieres [Greek or Hebrew], id est, Cohabitantes Sacculos: Likewise again he saith, Phrygium factum est ex Pénnis Pavonum. Of your Liberal Learned Clergy one saithe thus: Nec verba Canonis intelligunt, nec,6 quae sint verba Consecrationis sciunt. They understand not the words of their Canon: neither know they, which be the Words of Consecration. And therefore he, that forged the Rule of Monks, under the name of S. Hierome, chargeth them in any wise to pronounce every word distinctly, and warily, lest by their foolish utterance they should make the Angels to fall a laughing.
It were no greate Maisterie, to charge the Chiefe Doctoures of your side with somme want of Learning. Ludouicus Viues saith, Vt quidque Ius superioribus saeculis minùs tittum fuit studentium manibus,1 ita purius ad nos peruenit: For the space of certaine hundred yeeres paste, the lesse any Booke came into (your Learned) studentes handes, the purer, and better it came to vs. Meaninge thereby, that euery thinge was the woorse for your Learned handelinge. Of Thomas, Scotus, Hugo, and others, of whom yée seeme to make so greate accoumpte, your owne frende Catharinus saithe, Scholastici multa ineruditè Comminiscuntur:2 These Schole Doctoures imagine many m•ters vnlearnedly. Erasmus saithe, Portenta, quae nunc passim legimus in Commentarijs Recention Interpretum, tam impudentia, & insulsa sunt, vt videātur suibus ea scripsisse,3 non Hominibus: The monstrous folies, yt wee commonly reade in ye Commentaries of the late Interpreters, (whereby he meaneth the very croppe, and the woorthieste of al your Scholastical Learned Doctoures) are so far without shame, and so peeuishe, as if they had benne vvritten for Svvine, and not for menne. One of ⟨p. 572⟩your Doctoures saithe, 4Apostolus, dicitur ab Apos, quod est Argumentum, vel praeeminentia, & Stolon, quod est Missio: quasi praeeminenter Missus. An other saithe, Apocrisarij, dicuntur Nuntij Domini Papae.5 Nam crisis dicitur Secretum: & Apos, dicitur Nuntius. An other saithe, Cathedra, est nomen Graecum, & componitur à Cathos, quod est Fides, & edra, quod est Sponda. An other saithe, Eleemosyna, dicitur ab Eleis, quod est, Misereri, & Mois, quod est Aqua. Peter Crab in his late Scholies vpon the Councelles, saith thus, Mulieres 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, id est, Cohabitantes Sacculos: Likewise againe he saithe, Phrygium factum est ex Pénnis Pauonum. Of your Liberal Learned Cleregie one saithe thus: Nec verba Canonis intelligunt, nec,6 quae sint verba Consecrationis sciunt. They vnderstand not the woordes of theire Canon: neither knowe they, whiche be the Woordes of Consecration. And therefore he, that forged the Rule of Monkes, vnder the name of S. Hierome, chargeth them in any wise to pronounce euery woorde distinctely, and waily, leste by theire foolishe vtterance they shoulde make the Angelles to falle a laughinge.
- 1Ludovi Vives de Causis Corrupt. Artium, Lib. 5.Ludoui Viues de Causis Corrupt. Artium, Lib. 5.
- 2Catharinus aduerius Petrum à Sold.
- 3Erasm in Scholijs in Hieronym ad Mar•ellam.
- 4Comparison of Learning.
- 5Erasmus ad Archiepisc. Toleta. Extra de Elect. & Electi Potest. Signifi. in Gloss. Manipul. Curat. Pag. 101.
- 6Inter Decreta Felicis pp. Conc. Tomo. 1. Pag. 168 In Donation Constantini. Herma. Riddus. Hierony. In Reg. Monacho. Ne ad Risum Provocentur Angelici Spiritus.Inter Decreta Felicis pp. Conc. Tomo. 1. Pag. 168 In Donatione Constantini. Herma. Riddus. Hierony. In Reg. Monacho. Ne ad Risum Provocentur Angelici Spiritus.
