THESE we range in alphabetical Order, according to the Authors Names, that they may be found more easily in the great Number which has been made of them.
Joan. Alesii Concordia Evangel. Lichæ, 1605, in 8vo. Croveus informs us that there was a second Edition of it in 1631. M. Du Pin, in his Tables, adds that there is a Chronology belonging to it; and tells us that the Author was a Catholick of Saltzburg, who lived in the beginning of the 17th Century.
Christopher Althofer, a German Lutheran, wrote a Latin Harmony; printed at Jena, in 1653. and 1658, in 4to.
Joan. Avenarii Concord. Evang. Basileæ, 1588. in 12mo. There is a second Edition of Avenarius’s Concord, printed at Basil, 1588, in 8vo. He was of Bohemia, a Lutheran, Professor of Eloquence in the University of Wittemburg, and Doctor of Divinity. He died in 1590.
The Harmony of the Gospels, by F. Benj. Beauport, a Franciscan. He joined an Exposition with his Harmony, printed at Paris, 1552, 1560, in 8vo.
Thomæ Beauxamis Carmelitæ Commentar. in Concord. Evangel. Paris, 1590. in two Volumes, ibid. 1590. 1593, at Lyons, in three Volumes. The last Edition is at Paris, 1650. He was of Paris, Curate of St. Paul’s, and turned Carmelite. He died in 1589.
Cæsaris Becilli Urbinatis Connexio Evangeliorum, &c. Rom. 1625. and Paris 1631, and 1651, in 12mo. He has particularly endeavour’d to be short, without confusion. He distinguishes what is said in particular by every Evangelist, and what they have in common. He was of Urbino in Italy, became Priest of the Oratory; and flourished about 1630.
Jani Bircherodii Series Chronologica annorum J. C. Hafniæ, 1679, in 4to. This Author, different from another of the same Name, and from James Bircherod; was a Dane, a Lutheran, a Doctor of Divinity at Copenhagen; and died in 1686.
Joan. Bourghesii Historia & Harmonia Evang. Montib. Hannon, 1644, in fol. His Harmony is all Historical; explained by Tables, and Questions. According to Croväus, the first Edition is of Antwerp, 1622, in 8vo. with Figures, Meditations, and devout Breathings upon the Mysteries of Jesus Christ; which F. le Long has not taken notice of. He was of Hainault, a Jesuit; and died in 1653.
Antonii Brockevii Concord. Evang. Colon. 1539. The Author goes by several Names; Broeckwey, Bruichi, Bruch. He was of Flanders, a Cordelier; and died in 1541. He was a good Divine, and a great Preacher, according to Swertius. His Harmony, indeed, is useful only to Preachers.
Joan. Bugenhagii Concord. Evang. Historiæ Christi; Wittemburg, 1524, in 8vo. He has made an Harmony of so much only in the four Gospels as relates to the Passion, and Glory of Jesus Christ. And Croveus does not place it among his Works, nor Lipenius in his Biblioth. Theologica. We have already spoken of him. See his Title in the Index.
That of Laurence de Bruin goes no farther than the first Passover, mentioned by St. John. He was a Fleming, a Calvinist, and Minister about 1690.
Henrici Buntingi, Magdeburg. 1589, in fol. Bunting’s Harmony, printed at Magdeburg, is in German, of the Year 1589, and in 1594, in Latin, ibid. 1591. in Swedish, at Stockholm, 1617, in fol. He was a German, a Lutheran, and Minister in the Dutchy of Brunswick; a Man of Wit and Learning, and very much addicted to Study. Croväus does not speak of this Work. Lipenius says it was reprinted in Germany, in 1672.
Georg. Calixti Concordia Evangelistarum; Halberstad. This is not Calixtus’s but some unknown Author’s, who took it out of his Lectures, and published it under his Name. It was printed last at Helmstadt, in the Year 1664. This is the sixth Edition.
Abr. Calovii Harmonia, Germanicè*, Witteberg*, 1680. He has a Comment too before his Harmony. It is also in the Latin Bibles, printed in four Volumes in fol. at Lipsick, 1719. the second Edition. We often mention this Author. See his Title in the Index.
Joan. Calvini Harmonia ex Matthæo, Marca, & Luca; Genev. 1553, in fol. He has a Comment with his Concord. He thought it was not proper to include the Gospel of St. John; because, says he, there are few Things in it common with the rest. Which Charles Du Moulin, in the Preface to his Concord, condemns with justice; as we may read in him. Calvin has likewise joined a Comment with his Harmony. He is so well known, that there is no necessity to say more of him.
Th. Cartwright, Harmonia Evangelica Amstel. 1630, in 4to. He has improved his Harmony with the addition of an analytical, metaphrastical, and practical Comment. It was printed in English, at London, 1650, in 4to. We have already said something of this Author upon the Old Testament.
Matthæi de Castro Epitome Concordiæ Jansenianæ; Antwerp, 1593, in 8vo. He was of Flanders, as well as Jansenius of Ghent, whose Harmony of the Gospels was abridg’d by him at Antwerp.
Martini Chemnitii Harmonia Evang. 1593. & alibi sæpius. Several Persons had a hand in this Harmony. Chemnitius began it, Polycarp Lycer continued it from the 52d Chapter; John Gerhard from the 141st, and finished it. There have been many Editions of it under the names of these three Authors, in Greek; and translated into Latin by Erasmus. The last Edition is that of Hamburg, 1704. in three Volumes in fol. There has been likewise an Epitome of it at Wittemburg, 1594, in 4to. He put out likewise the History of our Saviour’s Passion, according to the four Evangelists, in German, which is a kind of Concord, at Frankfort, 1595, in 8vo. He was a German of Brunswick, a Lutheran; and died in 1586.
Joan. Christiani Speculum Harmonicum precipuarum Harmoniarum; Bernæ, 1642, in 4to. This is no more than a Synoptical Analysis of the four Gospels, in German, the second Edition; at Bremen, 1643, in 4to. He was a German Calvinist.
John le Clerc printed his Harmony of the four Gospels at Amsterdam, in 1699, in fol. In it he has published the Greek Text intire with the Latin Version, and a Paraphrase of his own making. This Harmony was printed likewise in Latin only at Franckfort, 1700, in 4to. and in English at London, in the same Year and Form. In the Edition of 1699, there are Dissertations on the Year of Christ, on the Concord, and Authority of the Evangelists. This is the best part of the whole Composition. For, as to the Paraphrase, latet anguis in herba. The Author, from time to time, steals in something of Socinianism. He himself informs us, in his Bibliotheque Choisie, tom. 8. p. 315. that he had spent several Years in bringing this Work to perfection. He promised likewise Notes, whereof there is mention made in the Memoirs of Trevoux, for the Year 1702. part 1. p. 157.
Joan. Cluverii Harmonia Evangelistarum; Rostock, 1628. This is properly a chronological Supputation only, according to the three Passovers, and the Journeys of Jesus Christ. There was a third Edition of it at Hamburg, 1701. He too was a German Lutheran, and Minister-General of Dithmar. He died in 1633.
Brunonis, Cognati Carthusiani Harmonia.
Alani Copi Harmon. Lovan. 1572. Duac. 1603. This of Alain Cope, of both the above-mentioned Editions, is in 4to. It is only the History of our Saviour’s Life, digested according to the order of Years, and written so as the four Evangelists relate it. He follows, notwithstanding, the Method of Jansenius; and has divided his Harmony into four Columes. There were several of this Name; but he whom we speak of was an Englishman of London, Canon of the Vatican Church, about 1560. and died in 1578, or 1580.
Simonis du Corroy Cælestin. Consonantia Evang. Lugd. 1547. Antwerp, 1591, in 16. This is the third Edition of it. He entitled it, Pandectes de la nouvelle Loy; that is to say, a continued Series of what is related in the four Evangelists, according to the order of Years, and Things. He was of Beauvais, a Cælestine; and died in 1569. Adriani Crommii S. I. Harmon. Lovan. 1633. This is altogether Historical, in 4to. He was a Fleming and a Jesuit; and died in 1651. He understood Greek, Hebrew, and Arabick.
Jacobi Dornkrellii ab Eberhertz Harmonia, Germanicè*; Luneburg*, 1686, in fol. This is not only an Harmony of the four Gospels, but a Concord of the Old and New Testament. It was printed likewise in 8vo. in 1688. He was a German of Lunenburg, a Lutheran; and died in 1704.
Thomæ Draxi Harmonia. It was printed at Geneva, in fol. It is not said in what Year. It was his design to oppose his Harmony to that of Calvin. He was an Englishmen, of Warwick; and died a Calvinist, in 1616.
Ruperti Erytrophili Catena aurea in Harmoniam Evang. Magdeburg. 1604, in 4to. & Germanicè, 1608, in 4to. Of the six Tomes which should be contain’d in Erytrophilus’s Catena, we have the first only. Lipenius questions whether the other five were printed: They were not, in 1616. as Erytrophilus himself assures us in his Preface to the Theologia Apostolica. The first includes the Life of Jesus Christ, from his Birth, to his thirtieth Year. The Author has supplied the rest with a methodical Comment upon the Passion; printed at Magdeburg, 1647, in 8vo. He was a German Lutheran, and Minister of Hannover.
Andreæ Fabri Syntagma Histor. Evang. Harmonicum, Germanicè*; Ulm*, 1652, in 4to. This Faber, or le Fevre, whose Harmony we have mentioned, was a German Lutheran; and lived in 1652. F. le Long places the Edition of his Work in 1642. Lipenius, as we have done, in 1652.
Henrici Gartwaithi Harmon. Evang. Anglicè Lond. 1630, in 4to. There was a second Edition of this Harmony in 1657, in 4to. in English, as the first was. He was an Englishman, and lived about the Year 1630.
Roberti Goulet. Harm. Evang. Paris. 1535, in 8vo. He was a Doctor of the Divinity-Faculty at Paris, about 1535. There is a Mistake in F. le Long, who mentions the Edition to be in 1635, instead of 1535. Joan. de la Haye Historiæ Evangelicæ Dispositio ipsis Evangelistarum verbis ordinata; Duaci, 1667, in 4to. There was a second Edition of it in two Volumes in fol. at Doway, in 1609. a third in 1611. together with an Apparatus to the Gospel. He proposed not to confound the Text of the Gospels with one another; and has separated what each Evangelist related, without adding to, or taking any thing from it.
He is not the same Person with him who put out the Biblia magna, & maxima. He was of Hainault; turned Jesuit at the age of 25. and died in 1614. of his age 74. There are some, however, who suppose John de la Haye, the Cordelier, to be the Author of this Harmony. If it be so, he must have composed it at the age of 13. since he was born in 1593. and this Work was printed in 1607. It must therefore have been written by some older Person.
Protasii Henriet. Harm. Gallicè; Paris, 1667, in 4to. It was printed first in Latin, at Paris, 1660, in 4to. and 1665, in 12mo. afterwards he put it into French, ibid. 1667, in 4to. and added to it literal and moral Annotations. He divides it into as many Parts, as there are Seals mentioned in the Revelations, that is to say, seven; and into as many Chapters, as there are Psalms, namely, 150. The Thought is very singular. He was by nation a Frenchman, and a Recollet. He died in 1688.
The Tetrateuch of Jansenius of Ypres, is not so much an Harmony as a Comment, since he therein explains the four Evangelists successively: but he has inserted, at the end, a chronological History of our Saviour’s Life, which may be esteemed a real Concord, shorter indeed than others, and for that reason more convenient. The Louvain Edition of it is the first. There was a second at Paris, in 1667, in 4to. The Comment is valued by all Men of learning for the Brevity of it; for the natural way wherein the Author explains the Scripture, and the judicious Choice which he has made of Passages from the holy Fathers. However, M. Simon, in his Critical History of the New Testament, chap. 44. p. 684. finds fault with some Places in it. We have heretofore spoken of this Bishop upon the Pentateuch.
Petri de Irurosqui Series Evangelii, Stellæ Navarr. 1577, in fol. He was of the Kingdom of Navarre, turned Dominican; and flourished in 1597. when he was admitted Doctor of the Divinity-Faculty of Paris. He lost his Sight, before his death, by too much application to Study. Crovæus calls him Irusque.
Eilhardi Lubini Harmonia Græco- Latino-Germanica; Rostock, 1606, in 4to. The last Edition of it is of 1640, in 4to. at Rostock. The second is of 1614. and the third of 1615. It was also published in Greek and Latin only, at Rostock, 1626, in 4to.
He was of Oldemburg in Germany; born at Ammerlande in 1565. was Professor at Rostock, and died in 1621. He had Wit and Judgment, as appears in the learned Works he published.
Joan. Henrici Maii Harmon. Giessæ. 1707, in 4to. This Harmony includes all the Words and Actions of Jesus Christ, to the time of the last Passover; ending at the Resurrection of Lazarus. It is divided into five Parts, and every Part into several Chapters, which the Author begins with a long Discourse concerning the Text of the Evangelists, whose Words he inserts at proper Distances; and this he calls a Paraphrase. He adds a train of Propositions, which, in his opinion, are so many Truths; but contain nothing but pure Lutheranism. He concludes with what relates to practice and christian Behaviour; keeping still, as he goes along, within the Limits of his Lutheranism. His Style is diffuse; and the length of it is such, as makes one lose sight of that Agreement which he promised to shew between the Evangelists. He was a German of Suabia, a Lutheran, and Professor at Giessen. He died in 1719. in the 66th year of his age; being born in 1653. See his Life; and the Catalogue of his Works in the Bibliotheca Philologica, t. 5. p. 298, 508.
Gerardi Mercatoris Harmonia; Duisburgi, 1593, 1603, in 4to. The design of the Author was to set his Harmony in opposition to that of Du Moulin. He was of Ruremonde; born in the Year 1512. studied Mathematicks at Louvain; and died in 1594. of his age 82.
Theobaldi Meuschii Tabula nova Harmoniæ Evangelicæ; at Hanover, 1612, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, Minister at Altorf about 1612. Crovæus says he was a Calvinist; and that he is the Author likewise of a Chronology of the Old Testament, printed at Spire, in 1612, in 4to.
Caroli Molinæi Collatio & unio Evangelist. Hannov. 1565, in 4to. His Concord was reprinted in the great Collection of his Works: It is in the 5th Volume, p. 430. in fol. at Paris, 1681. He has annexed some considerable Notes to it; and follows Calvin’s Method, with this difference, that he has added the Gospel of St. John with the three others. Each Evangelist has his particular Column; so that we may read one without reading the others.
Du Moulin was of Paris, born in 1500. After his first Studies he went to Orleans, afterwards to Poitiers, to study Law there; was made Advocate to the Parliament of Paris in 1522. married in 1538. turned Lutheran in 1542. which drew upon him all the Misfortunes and Uneasinesses, whereof he died in 1566. He, however, died a Catholick; and was buried in the Church of St. Andrew des Arcs. He excelled in the knowledge of the Law, and has written very learnedly upon it.
A Andreæ Osiandri Harmonia, Græcè & Latinè*, libris 4. Basil*, 1573, in fol. His Harmony was printed first of all in Latin, in 1537, and 1540. at Antwerp, in 8vo. afterwards in German, at Frankfort, 1545, in 8vo. lastly, in Greek and Latin, at Basil, in 1561, in fol. the second Edition, by Frobenius. It is divided into four Books: but in endeavouring to avoid the Confusion which is generally in other Harmonies, he falls into the same himself; for how can any one retain all the Marks made use of by him in describing the Passages of every Evangelist? Du Moulin professes an esteem for his Work, by reason of the great Application used by him in composing it. We have spoken of him upon the Old Testament.
Pauli de Palatio, de Salazar, Harmon. Constantiæ, 1605, in 4to. He composed likewise Enarrations upon St. Matthew; printed at Coimbra, 1564. in two Volumes in fol. He is the same Palazzo of whom we have said something upon Ecclesiasticus.
Vincentii Regis, S. I. Dilucidatio Concordiæ & Historiæ Evangel. lib. 8. Colon. 1615, in fol. It is in three Volumes in fol. We have, however, the five first only of the eight Books he was to publish, if Death had not prevented him. There are Scholia, Theories, and Digressions, which have very much enlarged the Work. He was of Palermo in Sicily; and died in 1614.
Joan. Richardson Harmonia exhibita ab Usserio ad calcem Annal. Veteris Testamenti. His Harmony relates only to the four Passovers of our Saviour, according to the four Evangelists; and we find it at Page 539. of Usher’s Annals. He was an Englishman of Chester, and Bishop of Ardagh, in the Province of Armagh in Ireland. He died in 1653. He made likewise Select Observations upon the Old Testament in English, printed after his death at London, 1655, in fol.
Joan. Roberti, S.I. Sancta Evangelia Historiarum & Temporum serie vinculata, Græcè & Latinè*; Mogunt*. 1615, in fol. John Roberti published his kind of Concord under the Idea of Ezekiel’s mystical Chariots. He was a Fleming; was born at St. Hubert des Ardennes in 1569. turned Jesuit in 1592. and died in 1651. He wrote abundance of other Works mentioned by Valerius Andreas, in p. 553. of his Bibliotheca Belgica.
Franc. de Roxas Commentaria in Concordiam Evang. Madriti, 1621, in fol. The Explanation which he has joined with his Concord is literal, anagogical, moral, and allegorical. It was again published under the Title of Catena, at Lyons, in 1651. in three Volumes in fol. There were three Writers of this Name, all Spaniards. He whom we speak of was of Toledo, of the Order of St. Francis.
Daniel. Sachsii Concord. Evang. tribus Volumin. Germanicè*, Francofurti*, 1651, 1662, 1668, in fol. He was a German Lutheran; and join’d three hundred Discourses with his Concord, in order to explain it. The Edition of Frankfort mentioned by us, is the second. It had been before printed at Cathen, in the Principality of Anhault, in 1641.
Gasp. Herman. Sandhagen Harmon. Evang. Germanicè Luneb. 1684, in 8vo. This is not so much a Concord as a synoptical Introduction to the History of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, taken from the four Evangelists, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Revelations. With it he has join’d a Discourse upon the Temple of Jerusalem, and the Description of it. He was a German Lutheran, Minister-General of the Dutchy of Holstein; and died in 1712.
Justi Georg. Schotellii Harm. Evang. Brunswic. Germanicè, 1675, in 8vo. He was a Lutheran Minister of Hanover, Doctor of Law; and died in 1676.
Nicolai Selnecceri Explicationes Harmoniæ Evang. Lips. 1604, in 8vo. All that he published was only the History of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, taken from the four Gospels, together with Prolegomena; printed ever since the Year 1583. at Lipsick, in 8vo. in Greek and Latin. We have already said something of him upon the Old Testament. See his Title in the Index.
Gaspar Serrano Lusitani Compendium Concord. Evang. Jansen. Gandav. Colon. 1590, in 8vo.
Georgii Sigelii Historia Jesu Christi; Norimb. 1585, in fol. His Life of Christ is only an Abridgment of it, taken from the three first Gospels. He was a German of Nuremburg, a Lutheran, and Professor at Altorf in the 16th Century.
Roberti Stephani Harmon. Evang. at Paris, 1555, in fol. By this Title we are to understand his Comment upon the three first Evangelists, taken from the Calvinist Commentators, he himself becoming one after his Retirement to Geneva; where he died in 1559. as we have before observed. See his Title in the Index.
Salom. Van-Till Harmonia Evang. Dordrac. Belgicè, 1689, in 4to. We have already often spoken of him. See his Title in the Index.Joan. Mariæ Verrati Carmelitæ Concord. Evang. Venetiis, 1571. His Concord makes the second Tome of his Works, of the Edition mentioned by us. He was an Italian of Ferrara. He died in the Year 1563.
Abraham Couet du Vivier’s Evangelical History; at the Hague, 1706, in 4to. in French, from the French Version of Geneva, and translated into German by Hector Maximilian, Count of Geyersberg; at Ratisbon, 1711, in 4to. This Harmony contains 120 Stations, to which the Author refers every thing that the Evangelists have written. Before it is a Preface, wherein the Author gives very bad Reasons, in bad French, for his Design, and the Liberties taken by him in his Translation. He was a Frenchman, and Calvinist Minister at the Hague. He was living in 1721.
Ger. Joan. Vos’s. Harmoniæ Evang. lib. 3. Amstel. 1656, in 4to. and in the sixth Tome of the large Collection of his Works. He confines himself to what relates only to the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ. Colomesius does not think this Harmony so accurate as it should be; and in his Bibliotheque Choisie, p. 492. takes notice of some Faults in it. Vossius does not relate things in the very Terms of the Evangelists, but writes the History of our Saviour by Chapters and Articles; which Method has its usefulness.
He was called Gerard John, to distinguish him from others of the same Name. He was of Ruremonde, in the Dutchy of Guelderland; where he was born in the Year 1577. He studied at Dort, where he taught; and afterwards at Amsterdam. He died in 1650, a Calvinist; Et puer & juvenis chartis impalluit, & vir senexque. We are not therefore to be surprized that he published so many Books, and all so much and so generally esteemed. We shall again take notice of some of them in another Place. See his Title in the Index.
There was found in Usher’s Library a Harmony translated out of English into German, and printed at Frankfort, in 1672, in 8vo. Lipenius mentions the Title of it in German. We speak of this Author in another Place: See the Index.
Philippi Ziegler Concordia Evangelica, in German at Frankfort, 1620, in folio. He was a German Lutheran.
Of Bibliographers who treat of all the Harmonies.
We have a great number of Authors who have composed Concords or Harmonies of the four Gospels, in the third Volume of Fabricius’s Bibliotheca Græca, l. 4. c. 5. p. 215, & seq. and in the second Volume of F. le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra, in 8vo. p. 312, &c. to p. 325. and in tom. 1. of the new Edition in fol. at the end; in tom. 1. of Lipenius’s Bibliotheca Theologica, under the Title of Evangelium.