Page:A new and general biographical dictionary; containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation v1.djvu/185

 A L E G A M B ]'.. i , " focictatis Jcfu, Rom* 1558," in " il 410. " ifa |, 4. " Mortcs illuflres ct ^tlta eouim " H,.L- 16,. ALEN1O (JuLlus), a Jefuit, born in UrH' i.i, in the re- public of Venice. He travelled into the eafti and arrived at Mica in 1610, where he taught matli. Sotud. From thence lie went to the empire of China, where h < tinued to propagate the Chnitian rcliai.m for thirty-fix J years. He was the firlt who planted the f.iith in the province of Xanfi, and he built leveral churches in the province of Fokien. He died in Auguft, 1649 [A]. [A] He left federal works in tlie " of St. IVmud hetwitt th* Soul nd Chinele bnyja^e: i. "The Lite of u Boty, in Chin-U- Vcrlr." p. "A " Jelus Chrilt," in eight volumes. 2. " I reatife on ih: Scientf ? of Europe." " The Incarnation of Jefus Chrift." 3. 10. " I'udiial (le.ii. ti, in four " Of tiie Sacrifice ot the M-fs." 4. " I. >k." n. " The Life of ('. " The Sarramrnt of Penitence." ' Mmhrw Ric<i." 17. < Thr 5. " The Ong-nal of the WorlJ." " of Dr. Micha?) Yam. a Chincie Con- 6. " Proof of th-j Exirtmce of a Deity." ' vert" 13. " The Theatre of the 7. " D.abg'jes." 8. " The Dialogue Woild, or ALES (ALEXANDER), a celebrated divine of the confef- fion of A'igfbourg, was born at Edinburgh April, 23, 1500. He (bon made a considerable progrefs in fcliool-divi- nity, and entered the lifts very early againft Luther, this being then the great controverfy in fjfhion, and the grand field wherein all authors, young and old, uled to difplay their abilities. Soon after he had a {hnre in the d.fputc, which Patrick. Hamilton maintained againft the ccclcfiaftics, in fa- vour of the new faith he had imbibed at Marpufgh< he en- deavoured to bring him back to the catholic rc.i^ion, but this he could not efFeft, and even began himfelf to doubt about his own religion, bein:r mnch aftecled by the difcourfe of this gentleman, and more flill by the conftancy he fhcxved at the ftake, where David Beton,archbifliop of St. Andrew's, caufed him to be burnt. The doubts of Ales would perhaps have been carried no further, if he had been left unmolefted to enjoy his canonry in the metropolitan church of St. An- drew's i but he was perfecuted with Co much violence [A], that [A] This perfection was raifrd very fevere frrmon apainfl priefls who before the provincial fynod, in 1529, a of St. AnJic^ whofc lewd ioi; JL,
 * ain!t him, bccaufe he had preached were guilty of fornication. Tliejrovoft