182 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Was esteemed a match for Bellarmine, the Goliah of the church of Rome ; and that he was styled a living library, or a third university.. His Wonxs.-1. Two Orations, 1576.-2. Six Theses, 1579.- 3. A Sermon on the. Destruction of the Idumeans ' 1581.-4. A: Sermon to the Scholars of the University, 1586.-5. The Sum of a Conference between John Rainolds and John Hart, 1588.-6. De Ronianse Ecclesiw Idolatria, 1596.-7: The Overthrow of Stage- plays, 1599.-8. An Apologie of his Theses, 1602.-9. An Epistle to Thomas Pye, 1606.-10. A Defence of theJudgment of the Reformed Churches, 1609.-11. Censura Librorum Apocryphorumveteris Tes- tamenti, 1611.-12. The Prophesie of Obadiah opened and applied, 1613.-13. Letter to his Friend, concerning the Study of Divinity, 1613.-14. Orationes Duodecem, 1638.-15. The Discovery of the Man of Sin, 1641.-16. A Letter to Sir. Francis Knollys, 1641.- 17. The Original of Bishops and Metropolitans briefly laid open, 1641.-18. Judgment concerning Episcopacy, 1641.-19. The Pro- phesie of Haggai interpreted and applied, 1649.-20. Commentarii in tres bib. AristOt. 'De Retorica.-21. Answer to Nich. Saunders his Books, De Schismate Anglicano, in Defence ofour Reformation. - 22. A Defence of our English Liturgy against Rob. Browne his Schismatical Book.-23. ATreatise of the Beginning and Progress of the Popish Errors.-He also published severalTranslations of the works of other.learned hien. THOMAS BRIGHTMAN was born at Nottingham, in the year 1556, and educated in Queen's college, Cambridge, where he became fellow. Though he was a champion in the cause of nonconformity, he did not despise those of the contrary sentiments, but was charitable to all who differed from him in matters of discipline and ceremonies.i. Upon his leaving the university, he was presented by Sir John Osbourne, a man of great learning and piety, to the rectory of Hawnes in Bedfordshire, where he spent the remainder of his days in hard study, and a constant appli- cation to his pastoral duties. Sir John was his constant and liberal benefactor. He was a man of a most angelical life, and uncommon learning, which was acknowledged even by his enemies. He lived so much under the influence of divine grace, that he was never known to be angry ; and always carried with him his Greek Testament, which he read through regularly once a fortnight. His daily conversationwas against the episcopal government, which he declared would shortly come down.t Though Mr. Biographical Hist. vol. i. p. 212. He is, by mistake, called William.- Fuller's Worthies, part ti. p. 319, 320. t Fuller's Church Hist. b. x. p. 49,50.
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