Abel redevivus: or, the dead yet speaking. The lives and deaths of the moderne divines / Written by severall able and learned men (whose names ye shall finde in the epistle to the reader.) And now digested into one volumne [by Thomas Fuller, who wrote some of the lives. With verses by F. and J. Quarles] For the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of pieti and virtue.

  • Thomas Fuller
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1651
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Credit: Abel redevivus: or, the dead yet speaking. The lives and deaths of the moderne divines / Written by severall able and learned men (whose names ye shall finde in the epistle to the reader.) And now digested into one volumne [by Thomas Fuller, who wrote some of the lives. With verses by F. and J. Quarles] For the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of pieti and virtue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    = 64 The Life and Déath of Era miftaking him'for a Tryer, after infinuation by fignes, (but by him not underftood)to get him out of their way; ‘they tooke up ftoties, wherewith they had undoubtedly pelted him, ifothers invited by the noyfe into their Balconies, whence they beheld both themiftake and danger, had not {peedily runne downe and puld off his Scapular:To prevent fuch morning falucations for the future, by a Difpenfation from Fulivs 2. confirmed by Leo 10. he changed his Regu- ‘jar Habit of Frier, into that of a Secular Prieft. I feeno great reafon he hadto ufurp the Habit, fince hedefpifed | the Profefion, or why hetroubled two Popes, about fucha crifle ; but he is paft twice one and twenty, let him anfwer for himfelfe. Bee. After a yeer and three mounths flay at Bononia, he falut- | ed Venice ; where he printed his Adages, gave us a new editi- i ae | on of Plautus and Terence, with the diftin&ion and ftru&ure | of their verfes, reprinted his Hecuba and Iphigenia two iat Tragedies of Euripidessand added to his numerous acquain- r tance Ambrofius Nolanus, Baptifta Egnatius, Paulus Canalisa {mus, oe i | | Patrician, and Hieronymus Aleander Mottenfts, who for his a | . i skill in the Tongues, was afterwards promoted to a Car- I ie a dinalfbip x he lodged at the houfe of Andreas Alulanus and a fay | was fupplyed with all things neceflary by Aldus Manutins, th a who likwife fupplyed him with divers Greek Manufcripts, ay i but extreamly corrupted, all which, at his better leafure he Ito vii red over and corre&ted at Padua: the principal were Paufa- ha aa | nius, Euftathius,the Interpreters of Licophron, Euripides,Pinda- Al i | | rus, Sophocles, and Theocritus ; being therein affitted by Mar- in ‘| | cas Mufurus Cretenfis, and Scipio Carteromachus ; the one in- the | comparable for his skill in Hiftory and Mythology,the o- re ] i ther for his ingenuity : His {pare houres he beftowed upon ‘toh his pupil Alexander the young Archbifhop of Saint Andrews, ‘the and Brother: to Iames King of Scots whom he accompanied, en i me to Senz, in He truric, and there leaving him fora fhort il i Fee | time, went to Rome : where fame as his Harbinger. had al- ta | ' ready taken up his lodging inthe affe&tion of moft ef the | Inhabitants. Ic is incredible with how great applaufe of