230 ANDREAS. In 157, ne went to Mifnia and Prague, where the em- peror Maximilian II. had a converfation with him upon an Ibid.p. 647. agreement in religion. In 1573, he was fen t to Memming, 48 ' an imperial town, to flop the progrefs of the Zuingiian doSrine, propagated by Eufebius Cleber; who being ad- moniihed by Andreas, before the fenate, and continuing in- flexible, was removed from his miniftry. In 1506, he was engaged in a conference, at Mompelgard, wiih Theodore Beza, concerning the Lord's fupper, the perfon of Chillr, predeftination,baptifm, the reformation of the popifh churches, and other things ; but this had the ufual event of all other n;rt or> conferences, which, though defigned, as Thuanus obferves, J it. xxxv. to put an end to difputes in divinity, are often the occafion of ftill greater. In 1587, he was fent toNordiin:, as he had been to feveral other places, on church-affairs, and failing fkk on his return, publi{hed his " Confeffion of Faith," to obviate the imputations of his adversaries : hut he afterwards re- covered, and was ftnt for again to Ratifbon, and then to Onolfbach, by Frederick marquis of Brandenburg. Upon the publication of the conference at Mompelgard above-men- tioned, he was accufed of having faliely imputed fome things to Ijeza, which the latter had never after ted ; he therefore went to Bern, to clear himfelf of the charge. His laft public adt was a conference at Baden, in November 1589, with John Piftorius. When he found death drawing near, he made a declaration to feveral of his friends, of his conftancy in the faith which he had affeitcd, and (he.vcd the rnoft un- doubted figns of a finceie devotion till he expired, on the 7th of January, 1590, being lixty-one years, and nine months old. He wrote a areat number of books, the mcft remarkable of r? which was " On Concord." ANDREAS (JoHN), a famous canonift of the fourteenth century, born at Mu.gdlo, near Florence. He was very young vhen he went toRologna to puriue his ftuches. Heie he would have found great difficulty to maintain himlc'f, hud he not got a tutor's place, by which rp.e,.ns he v.-as en .blcii to apply himfl-lf to the fiudy of the canon law, in which he made great progrefs under the profefibr Guy Je b'a'if. He had always a particular refpeft for this proffiu.-r, paying as great deference to his gloffes as the (ext itielf. Guy de B/if perceiving that Andreas, for want of money, could not de- mand his doilor's decree, procured it him gr.uis, which Andreas himfclf acknowfedges. The f^me proffcfTcr pufhcd him on to ftand for a prufeflurthip, which he obtained. An- dieas
