I Shall promise a few words concerning both the Author and work. For the Author of it, it was Doctor JOHN RAINOLDS, a man eminent both for learning and piety. No man me thinks (saith *one) is happy on Earth to him that hath grace for substance and Learning for ornament. This verse is written about Dr. Rainolds Air picture, In•ertum est fuerit, doctior an melior. It is doubtful whether He were more learned or pious. When Bellarmine came out first, both the Universities chose one in each Academy to confute him. Oxford (for I must ever give that the preeminence) chose Doctor Rainolds for their Champion. Cambridge, Doctor Whitaker for theirs. Whitaker was more nimble, for he went over a great part of Bellarmines Controversies, and so solidly confuted him, that it is credibly related by some English-men that travelled into Italy, that Bellarmine himself procured his Picture ⟨image 3⟩out of England, & placed it in his study, secretly admiring him for his great learning; and when he was asked by another Jesuit his friend and companion, why he would have the Picture of that Heretic, he was wont to answer, that although he was an Heretic, and an adversary, yet he was a learned Adversary. Whitaker, that Honour of our Schools, and Angel of our Church, Learned Whitaker, then whom our age saw nothing more memorable; 2what clearness of judgment? what sweetness of stile? what gravity of person? what grace of carriage was in that man? who ever saw him without reverence, or heard him without wonder? Doctor Rainolds (whom a very reverend Divine compares to a pen too full of ink) thought at the first, that in two or three years he should have been able to have gone over all Bellarmine Controversies, but he was 7 years about the very fir•• of […] de • bris Apocryphis, which yet he finished not neither, insomuch that one Mr. Walter Travers jested with him, and told him, he was so long in reading the Apocrypha here, that he would read the Canon•cals in Heaven. Yet his conference with Hart▪ & that work together, do amply discover his great abilities, and he 3is justly styled by one of our own writers, Pontificiorum malleus, & patriae suae dulcissimum decus, the hammer of the Papists, and most sweet ornament of his own Country. Doctor Rainolds alone was a well furnished Library, *full of all faculties, of all studies, of all learning:
I Shall promise a few words concerning both the Authour and worke. For the Authour of it, it was Doctor JOHN RAINOLDS, a man eminent both for learning and piety. No man mee thinkes (saith *one) is happy on Earth to him that hath grace for substance and Learning for ornament. This verse is written about Dr. Rainolds Air picture, In•ertum est fuerit, doctior an melior. It is doubtfull whether He were more learned or pious. When Bellarmine came out first, both the Vniversities chose one in each Academy to confute him. Oxford (for I must ever give that the preheminence) chose Doctor Rainolds for their Champion. Cambridge, Doctor Whitaker for theirs. Whitaker was more nimble, for hee went over a great part of Bellarmines Controversies, and so solidly consuted him, that it is credibly related by some English-men that travelled into Italy, that Bellarmine himselfe procured his Picture ⟨image 3⟩out of England, & placed it in his study, secretly admiring him for his great learning; and when hee was asked by another Jesuite his friend and companion, why hee would have the Picture of that Heretick, hee was wont to answer, that although hee was an Heretick, and an adversary, yet hee was a learned Adversary. Whitaker, that Honour of our Schooles, and Angell of our Church, Learned Whitaker, then whom our age saw nothing more memorable; 2what clearnesse of judgment? what sweetnesse of stile? what gravity of person? what grace of carriage was in that man? who ever saw him without reverence, or heard him without wonder? Doctor Rainolds (whom a very reverend Divine compares to a pen too full of inke) thought at the first, that in two or three yeares he should have been able to have gone over all Bellarmin• Controversies, but he was 7 yeares about the very fir•• of 〈…〉 de • bris Apocryphis, which yet he finished not neither, insomuch that one Mr. Walter Travers jested with him, and told him, he was so long in reading the Apocrypha here, that he would read the Canon•cals in Heaven. Yet his conference with Hart▪ & that worke together, doe amply discover his great abilities, and he 3is justly stiled by one of our owne writers, Pontificiorum malleus, & patriae suae dulcissimum decus, the hammer of the Papists, and most sweet ornament of his owne Country. Doctor Rainolds alone was a well furnisht Library,
- *Dr. Hall De Cade First Epist. 7.
- 2Dr. Hall ibid.
- 3Parkerus in praefat. ad lib. de descensu C•• ad Inferos.
- *Dr. Hall ubi. supra. Rainoldus fuit, doctrinae & omne genus eruditionis Oazophylacium dix•ris. Scriptores opinor omnes, prophanos Ecclesiasticos, sacros▪ concilia, Patres, Historias evolver•t; Li•guarum quae cunque Theologo, vel adjumento sunt, vel ornamento, callentissimus: Ingenio acer agilisque, judicio gravis & maturus: labore magis quam Adamantius ipse in defatigabi•is: sic in omni disciplinnarum genere versatus, quasi in singulis operam suam omnem posuisset. Crakanth▪ Defens. Eccles Anglic. C. 69.
