John Barnes (monk)
John Barnes (died 1661), was an
Benedictine monk
.
Life
Barnes was a
Lorraine, he read a divinity lecture there, and he was next similarly employed in Marchienne College
at Douai.
Venturing again into England, Barnes resided privately at
heretic
; but they gave him Christian burial because they accounted him rather a madman".
By the reformed party Barnes is described as the good
Irenæus
, a learned, peaceable, and moderate man; but catholic writers, particularly of his own order, condemn his conduct in the severest terms. For example, Dom Bennet Weldon says: "I have gathered many letters which show him to have tampered much with the state of England to become its pensioner, to mince the catholic truths that the protestants might digest them without choking, and so likewise to prepare the protestant errors that catholic stomachs might not loathe them. He was hard at work in the prosecution of this admirable project in the years 1625 and 1626. He took upon him in a letter to a nobleman of England, which is without date of year or month, to maintain out of true divinity the separation of England from the court of Rome as things then stood, and the oath of fidelity of the English communion, to be lawful and just according to the writers of the Roman church. And he says at the beginning of this wonderful letter, that he had been about eight years at work to get an opportunity of insinuating himself into his majesty's knowledge".
Works
Barnes wrote the following works:
- Examen Trophæorum Congregationis Prætensæ Anglicanæ Ordinis S. Benedicti Rheims, 1622, 8vo. It is a reply to Father Edward Mayhew's Congregationis Anglicanæ Ordinis S. Benedicti Trophæa, Rheims, 1619. An answer to Barnes is found in some copies of Reyner's Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ but without a name to it or any mention of Barnes.
- Dissertatio contra Æquivocationes, Paris, 1625, 8vo. He attacks the arguments of Parsons and Lessius.
- The Spiritual Combat Translated into Latin from the Spanish of John Castaniza
- Catholico-Romanus Pacificus, Oxford, 1680
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barnes, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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