for good Catholic doctrines at Romet; that is to say, in the year 1534: wherein, (writing upon the Prophets, and having gone no further than the third chapter of Esay,) he died, when he was most likely to have been chosen Pope", after Clement the Seventh, if he had outlived him. I know how hot and angry both Catharin and Canus were in this matter against Cajetan; but, (as Homer said of Hector,) they barked, and insulted over him, as dogs over a dead lion. And yet it is observable, that, as no man wrote any thing herein against him while he was alive and able to answer for himself, so the Sorbonne, or the faculty at Paris, that afterwards censured Bellarm. de Script. Eccl. [tom. vii. col. 194.-Thomas de Vio, patria] Cajetanus, [Ordinis Prædicatorum Prior Generalis, ac postea Cardinalis presbyter a Leone decimo creatus,] vir fuit summi ingenii, nec minoris pietatis. [Vivebat anno Domini 1500, et obiit anno Dom. millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo quarto, ætatis 66.]-Soto, in 4 dist. v. quæst. Unica, art. 2.-Excellentissime Catholicus. [Vid. Dominici Soto Comment, in Quartum Sententiarum, ed. Duaci, 1613. tom. i. p. 135, where Card. Cajetan is mentioned, and exception taken against his judgment on the subject, Utrum sine Baptismo aliquis possit salvari;' but the words above quoted have not been met with in any part of Soto's Comment., nor have they been found cited in the life or works of Cajetan.]-Perer. in cap. i. Gen. [vers. i. § 40. ed. Col. Agrip. 1601. tom. i. p. 16.] Vir de mysteriis Fidei bene sentiens, et de Theologia optime meritus.-Et in cap. xix.-Vir admodum Catholicus. [Vid. vers. 24. disputat. iv. § 40.-Quis enim facile credat Tostatum et Cajetanum, viros maxime Catholicos et doctos, fuisse obnoxios anathemati?]-Sixt. Senens., lib. iv. Bibl. [tom. i. p. 330.] Incomparabilis Theologus, et inter doctissimos [eruditissimos doctissimi] sui seculi [longe] eruditissimus. t Cajetan. in Ecclesiasten, cap. xii. ad fin. [tom. iii. p. 633. ed. Lugd. 1639.] Et sic finitur Ecclesiastes cum omnibus Salomonis et Sap. libris, Salomonis quidem, [quia Parabolas exposuimus: et Canticum Canticorum, juxta germanum sensum, fateor me non intelligere.] Reliquos autem qui vocantur libri Sapientiales, quoniam Hieronymus extra canonicos ad authoritatem Fidei supputat, omittendos ■ Orator, qui eum post mortem laudavit. [Vid. Orat. de vita D. Thomæ de Vio, Cajetani, Card. S. Xysti, auctore Joanne Baptista Flavio Aquilano, ejusdem a secretis familiari, ad princip. tomi i. Cajetani Op. omn. quotquot in S. Scripturæ expositionem reperiuntur; ed. Lugd. 1639. (prope finem orationis.) -Anno igitur ætatis ejus sexagesimo sexto, tot ac tantis rebus præclarissime gestis, cum divus Clemens Pontifex Maximus graviter ægrotare cœpisset, omnes in Xystum oculos conjiciebant, omnes illum Pontificem Maximum designabant.] Homo ad carpendum promptulus.'-Canus, Loc. Theol., lib. ii. cap. 11. [Vid. Melch. Can. Op. ed. 8vo. Col. Agr. 1605. p. 70.-In hujus vero confirmatione argumenti Ambrosius Catharinus Cajetanum affirmat tot peccata admisisse, quot verba pæne effudit. Sic enim ille loquitur. Nec advertit homo ad carpendum promptulus se quoque in reprehendo Cajetano sæpe ac multum errasse. Hoc certe loco ter erravit. Sed istius errores coarguere nec meum est, nec hujus temporis. Quid ergo? Nonne hic peccavit Cajetanus? Peccavit sane: primum, in eo quod temere et inconsiderate, (ne superbe dicam, et arroganter,) ... ait, &c.] y Bannez, tom. ii. q. xcii. art. 3. [Vid. F. Domin. Bannes Mondragonensis Comment. in prim. par. S. Thomæ, ed. Duaci, 1614. p. 450.]— Certe potest dici de istis, quod de Græcis insultantibus Hectori jam mortuo dixit Homerus, quod leoni mortuo etiam lepores (et canes) insultant. TEST. CENT. XVI. XVII. CHAP. him for some other matters, (for they took upon them to censure all writings that displeased them,) yet in this particular had nothing to find fault with him. A.D. 1535*. A.D. 1535. CLXXIV. But, for Catharin's opposition and heat against him, (which brake forth not long after his death,) it was presently abated by another learned doctor of his own order", and one of Catharin's great friends, (much loved, and much honoured by him;) who both reprehended and derided that new opinion, which Catharin first began to set out against Cajetan and all the doctors of the Church before him. For Catharin had nothing herein to shew or produce for himself, but the pretended and uncertain authorities of three Popes; who, to make the best of them which can be made, will never make up a Church; and to whose decrees, as likewise to the canon of the council at Carthage, we have already given a full and sufficient account. CLXXV. About the same time John Driedo, a professor of Louvain, was employed to write against Luther; and yet in his book of Ecclesiastical Scriptures", which he dedicated to the King of Portugal, first, he acknowledgeth, that the histo monem. b Catharin. ibid., p. 39. edit. 2.-Etsi aut scripserunt confuse tamen, non opinor hujusmodi hominum auctoritatem, Pontificum decretis, ac expressæ sedentis docentisque Ecclesiæ voci, et de Petri cathedra personanti, præferri, sed longe postponi debere. At, inquies, ubi sunt decreta hæc, et concilia? Equidem brevitati olim studens produxeram Innocentii primi, et Gelasii, et Eugenii quarti manifestas sanctiones. -(Rursus.)... Videamus ergo nunc, in quo ordine Scripturarum collocavit hos libros Gelasius, de quibus agimus, in primo, an in secundo? Certe in primo... Mitto concilia reliqua, et illud Carthaginense tertium, ubi affuit Augustinus, in quo palam hæ omnes Scripturæ canonica vocantur. Illud certe, quod sub Eugenio IV. celebratum est Florentiæ, hac parte clarum et evidens est.] C [Vid. Trithem. de Script. Eccl. addit. ii. pp. 466, 467.-Vid. etiam Possevin. Appar., tom. ii. p. 168.] d Miræus de Script., sæcul. xvi. [Biblioth. cap. 43. p. 28.]-Edidit et de Ecclesiast. Dogm. (et Scripturis) libros quatuor, canonicis voluminibus asserendis apprime utiles. ries of Judith and Tobite, &c., were not numbered in the time of the Old Testament among the canonical books of Scripture, but some of them accounted apocryphal, as the writings of unknown authors, and other some no true histories at all; and, secondly, he confesseth, that under the New Testament the Christian Church hath not received these books into the same, equal, or like authority with the canonical Scriptures: which is a pregnant testimony against the council of Trent, that will follow by and by. CLXXVI. Not long before this council met, John Ferus, a very learned man, and a most diligent preacher, set forth his book, which he entitled-The Examination of those that were to be Ordained for the Sacred Ministry of the Church :' and, howsoever in after times the Master Inquisitors put his works into their expurgatory index, yet, while he lived, and had the general approbation of all sorts of men both for life and learning, there was no exception made against him. In this book he instructeth his scholars, as a known and ordi e Driedo de Eccl. Script. et Dogm., lib. i. cap. iv. ad Difficult. iii. [Op. ed. Lovan. 1556. tom. i. fol. 19.]-Hieronymus in Prol. Gal. libros Judith et Tob. inter Apocrypha numerat, quos tamen in Prol. super Judith et Tob. dicit apud Hebr. inter Hagiographa numerari, et nihilominus de canone S. literarum esse separatos. Ad hanc difficultatem (si non placeat mendosum esse codicem) dicemus duplicia esse apud Hebr. Hagiographa, sicut et diximus duplicia esse Apocrypha. [Thus far this note gives the sense, rather than the words of Driedo's argument; q. v. p. 107, not. ad lit. t.] . . . Hagiogr. (i. e. Sanctorum scripta) quædam sunt, quorum auctoritas idonea est ad corroborandum ea, quæ sunt Fidei: hujus generis sunt Hagiogr, in canone Bibliæ. Alia vero sunt Hagiogr. [i. e. Sancta, vel Sanctorum scripta,] quorum auctoritas ad assertiones Fidei corroborandas non est idonea, quamvis habeantur vera et sancta, sicut [post canonem N. T. editum,] habentur Hieronymi et Augustini scripta, quæ vocantur Hagiographa (i. e. Sancta vel Sanctorum scripta.) Et hujus generis apud Hebr. sunt historie Judith, et Tobiæ, etiam Ecclesiasticus, et Maccab. primus: quos sane libros quamvis habeant et legant, non tamen inter canonicos libros connumerant, sed inter Apocrypha, non quod falsi sint, sed quod tales sint, quorum occulta origo non claruit toti eorum Synagogæ; 3. autem et 4m. Esdr., 2. Maccab., trium puerorum Hymnum, Susannæ, ac Belis Draconisque historias, aut non habent, aut prorsus rejiciunt, et confictas tradunt. . . . . Ecclesia tamen Christiana propter auctoritatem veterum quorundam Sanctorum, qui leguntur usi fuisse testimoniis ex hujusmodi historiis, easdem pia fide legit, et non prorsus rejicit, nec contemnit, tametsi non pari auctoritate recipiat illos libros cum Scripturis canonicis. f [Vid. Possevin. Apparat., tom. ii. p. 177.] [Vid. Indic. Librorum Prohibit, et Expurgand. novissim. pro Catholicis Hispaniarum Regnis Philippi IV. Regis Cathol.,-Antonii a Sotomajor. &c., Generalis Inquisitoris... jussu ac studiis, luculenter et vigilantissime recognit., &c. ed. Madriti, 1667. p. 706, et seq.-Johannes Ferus, fraude sectariorum vitiatus, &c... Examen vero Ordinandorum prohibetur, nisi fuerit ex impressis ab anno 1587.-Vid. etiam Indicem librorum prohibitorum Alexandri VII. Pont. Max. jussu editum, &c. Romæ, 1667. p. 46. Examen Ordinandorum Joannis Feri, nisi sit ex impressis ab anno 1587.] Ferus, in Examine Ordinand. [Vid. TEST. CENT. XVI. A.D. 1540. XVII. CHAP. nary account which they were to give of their Faith in those days, that, besides the twenty-eight canonical books of Scripture, (to furnish which number, they reckoned either book of Samuel, the Kings, and the Chronicles, with Ruth, Nehemiah, and the Lamentations, apart by themselves,) there were nine apocryphal: which nine of old time were not publicly read in the Church, nor was any man pressed with their authority. A.D. 1541 et 1545. CLXXVII. Lastly, the several translations of the Bible, set forth at these times with special Prefaces before them, made as well by Santes Pagninus the Dominican at Lyons, by Antonius Bruciolus in Italy, and by the author of Birkman's edition at Antwerp, as by Robert Stephen in the edition of Vatablus at Paris,—every one declaring the distinction, that was then commonly known and received, between the canonical and the apocryphal books of Scripture, -all these (being joined with the former authors whom we have produced in all ages) are most evident and sufficient witnesses, that neither we in the Church of England, nor the protestant Churches abroad, have herein transgressed those bounds, which the Prophets, and Apostles, and generally all our forefathers in the Faith, had set out and prescribed for us. CLXXVIII. And thus have we hitherto taken an exact and perfect view of what the Catholic Church of God hath Diaconandorum.'-Quæ sunt V. T. volumina? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numerorum liber, Deuteronomium, Josue, Judicum, Ruth, Regum libri iv., Paralipomenon libri ii., Esdræ libri iv., Tobias, Judith, Hester, Job, Psalterium, Proverbia, Ecclesiastes, Cantica Canticorum, liber Sapientiæ, Ecclesiasticus, Esaias, Hieremias, Threni, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, liber Duodecim Prophetarum, Machabæorum ii. Horum aliqui olim dicebantur Apocryphi, (id est, occulti,) propterea quod domi quidem et privatim, pro suo cujusque animo, fas esset eos legere in Ecclesia autem publice non recitabantur, nec quisquam eorum auctoritate premebatur.] Sunt (autem hi libri Apocryphi,) 3 et 4 Esdr., Tobias, Judith, liber Sapientiæ, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, et Macchabæorum libri duo. Omnes alii dicuntur canonici, quia sunt irrefutabilis auctoritatis etiam apud Judæos. Omnes (igitur) libri V. T. numero (sunt) xxxvii., (hoc est,) canonicorum xxviii., Apocryphorum ix(Olim vero in Ecclesia Apocryphi publice non recitabantur, nec quisquam auctoritate eorum premebatur; sed domi quidem et privatim, pro suo cujusque animo, fas erat illos legere.) [Vid. supr.; where these last words fall in their proper place and order.-Conf. ibid. p. 911.] i [Vid. Bibl. Lat. a Sancte Pagnino, &c. fol. ed. Lugd. 1542. Item, Bibl. Ital. per Ant. Brusciolum seu Bruciolum, fol. ed. Ven. 1532; et ed. alter. cum Comment. 7 voll. fol. Ven. 1540,44. Item, Bibl. cum notis, edit. a Rob. Stephan., 5 voll. 8vo. Lut, ex off. R. Stephani, 1545; et Bibl. utriusque Testamenti, ed. Rob. Stephani, 1557.] delivered, concerning the canon of Divine Scripture, in all times, and in all places: in Judea, by the ancient Hebrews, by Christ Himself, and by His holy Apostles: in Palestine and Syria, by Justin Martyr, Eusebius, S. Jerome, and Damascene: in the Apostolical Churches of Asia, by Melito, Polycrates, and Onesimus: in Phrygia, Cappadocia, Lycaonia, and Cyprus, by the Council of Laodicea, S. Basil, Amphilochius, and Epiphanius: in Egypt, by Clemens of Alexandria, Origen, and Athanasius: in the other Churches of Africa, by Julius, Tertullian, S. Cyprian, S. Augustine, the Council of Carthage, Junilius, and Primasius: in all the five Patriarchates, by S. Cyril, S. Greg. Nazianzen, S. John Chrysostom, Anastasius, S. Gregory, Nicephorus, and Balsamon in Greece, by Dionysius, Antiochus, Adrianus, Leontius, Zonaras, Philippus, and Callistus: in Italy, by Philastrius, Ruffin, Cassiodore, Comestor, Balbus, Antoninus, Mirandula, Cajetan, and Pagnin: in Spain, by Isidore, Hugo Card., Paulus Burg., Tostatus, and Ximenius: in France, by S. Hilary, the Divines of Marseilles, Victorinus of Poictiers, Charlemagne's Bishops, Agobard, Radulphus, Honorius, Petrus Cluniac., Hugo, and Richardus of S. Victor's at Paris, Beleth, Petrus Cellen., Hervæus Natalis, Faber, and Clichtoveus: in Germany and the Low Countries, by Rabanus, Strabus, Hermannus Contract., Ado, Rupertus, the Ordinary and Interlineary Gloss upon the Bible, the Gloss upon the Canon Law, Lyranus, Dionysius Carthus., Erasmus, Driedo, and Ferus; and in the Church of England, by Venerable Bede, Alcuin, Giselbert, Joh. Sarisburiensis, Brito, Ocham, Thomas Anglicus, and Thomas Walden: besides divers others, that are not here numbered. Of whom, it must not be denied, but that some there were, who in many other matters of religion were violently carried away with the abuses and streams of the times; but in this particular, which we have examined and followed through all the ages of the Church, the current ran clear and smooth among them. TEST. CENT. XVI. |