BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY; CONTAINING An Hiftorical and Critical ACCOUNT OF THE- LIVES and WRITINGS OF THE Most Eminent Perfons In every NATION; Particularly the BRITISH and IRISH; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the prefent Period. WHEREIN Their remarkable ACTIONS or SUFFERINGS, VO L. VII. LONDON: Printed for T. OSBORNE, J. WHISTON and B. WHITE, MDCCLXII. 2101. c. 80. ΑΝ Univerfal, Historical, and Literary DICTIONARY. J J. ABLONSKI (DANIEL ERNEST) a learned Polish proteftant divine, was born November 20, 1660, at Dantzick, and had the first part of his education in Germany, after which he travelled into Holland, and thence crof fed the water to England, for further improvement in his studies. Thus accomplished, he became fucceffively minister of Magdebourg, Liffa, Koningsberg, and Berlin, and was at length ecclefiaftical counsellor and prefident of the fociety of sciences in this laft city. His zeal againft infidelity, both in the Atheists and Deifts, fhewed itself on all occafions, and he took a deal of pains to effect an union betwixt the Lutherans and Calvinifts, but I need not fay to no purpose. The truth is, confidering the rooted prejudices on each fide, fuch a comprehenfion, like that between the church of England and the diffenters, how defirable foever, is more the object of a good man's wishes, than of a fenfible man's expectations. No wonder then that Mr. Jablonski died in May 1741, without being able to compass his defign. We have a Latin tranflation by him of dr. Bentley's fer- Diction. mons at Boyle's lectures, and feveral Latin differtations upon Portat. the land of Geffen; Meditationes de divina origine fcripturæ VOL. VII. B facræ ; Biblioth. Moreri. Ibid. facræ; alfo a piece intituled Thorn affligée, and fome other works in good esteem. JABLONSKI (THEODORE) counsellor of the court of Pruffia, and Secretary of the royal fociety of iciences at Berlin, was also a man of diftinguished merit. We faw in him the moft exact probity, and a ftrict piety, united to a sweetness of temper, a polite urbanity, and an inclination to oblige all that applied to him. He loved the fciences, and did them honour, without that ambition which is generally feen in men of learning. It was owing to this modefty that he did not put his name to the greateft part of his works; the chief of which are Dictionaire Francois - Allemand & Allemand - Francois, printed in 1711; A course of morality in the German tongue, 1713; Dictionaire univerfel des arts & des fciences, 1721; A tranflation into High Dutch of Tacitus De moribus Germamorum, with remarks, 1724. 1 JACETIUS, or DIACETIUS (FRANCIS DE CATANEIS) a learned Italian writer, was born at Florence, in November 1466, and was the difciple of Marfilius Ficinus, under whom he ftudied the Platonic philofophy, and became a great mafter of it. He was alfo a good orator, and fucceeding Ficinus in his profefforfhip, held it till his death, which happened in 1522, at Florence, where he was buried among his ancestors, in the church of the Holy Crofs. We have of his writing a treatife of beauty, and another of love, according to the doctrine of Plato, befides feveral others, which were all printed together at Bafil in 1563. JACHIADES, or RABBI JOSEPH. Ben Jofeph Jachaia, a famous rabbi in the fixteenth century, was born at Lifbon, and died at the age of 45 years, anno mundi 5299, i. e. an. Chrift. 1539. He taught in the fynagogue of Imola, and, it is faid, fhortened his days by too intenfe application to his ftudies. He wrote Derech Chajim, in which he explains feveral allegorical paffages in the Gemara; an Explication of the commandments of the law; Torat Or, a treatise of Paradife and Hell; feveral Commentaries upon the five Megillot, upon the Hagiographey, &c. and a paraphrafe upon Daniel, wherein he made the Jews hope a speedy deliverance; his piece was tranflated into Latin by Conftantin l'empereur, who added remarks, in which he refuted the falfe gloffes of the Jew, and published the whole at Amfterdam in 1633. ЈАСК JACKSON (THOMAS) a learned English divine, was defcended of a worthy family in the bishopric of Durham, in which he was born at Willowing, on the river Were, in 1579. Many of his near friends and relations being rich merchants in Newcastle, he was defigned to have been bred that way, bat his great inclination to learning being obferved by Ralph lord Gore, baron of, Malton, his lordship prevailed with his parents to fend him to Oxford, where he was admitted into Queen's college in Midfummer term, 1595; but having notice of a vacancy in Corpus-Chrifti college, he offered himself a candidate; and though he had not heard of it till the day before the election, yet he acquitted himself, upon the examination, so much to the admiration of the electors, that he was chofen unanimoufly into a scholarship, March 24, 1596, against a competitor of great intereft; he proceeded to take his degrees in arts at the ftated times, and May 10, 1606, became probationer fellow, being then well grounded in arithmetic, grammar, philology, geometry, rhetoric, logic, philofophy, the oriental languages, hiftory, &c. with an infight into heraldry and hieroglyphics. But he made all his knowledge fubfervient to the ftudy of divinity, to which he applied with great induftry and vigour, and became fo much distinguifhed therein, that he not only read a divinity lecture in his college every Sunday morning, but another on the week-day at Pembroke college (then newly founded) at the request of the mafter and fellows there. He was alfo chofen vice-prefident of his college for many years fucceffively, by virtue of which office he moderated at the divinity difputations, with remarkble learning, and no less candour and modefty; he commenced D. D. in 1622, and quitted che college two years afterwards, being preferred to a living in his native country, and from thence foon after to the vicarage of Newcastle. In that large and laborious cure, he performed all the duties of an excellent parish priest, and was particularly admired for his excellent difcourses from the pulpit. At this time he was a rigid Calvinist, and was first convinced of the errors of abfolute predeftination by dr. Richard Neile, bishop of Durham, who took him for his chaplain, and joined with dr. Laud in bringing him back to his college, where he was elected, by their intereft, prefident, in 1630. Upon this promotion he refigned the vicarage of Newcastle, and, being collated to that of Whitney, he procured it for mr. Thomas White, proctor of the univerfity, and late chaplain of his college, after he had been at great pains and expence to clear the title of the rectory. In 1635 |
