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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07880	The Popes funerall Containing a plaine, succinct, and pithy reply, to a pretensed answere of a shamelesse and foolish libell, intituled, The forerunner of Bels downfall. VVhich is nothing else indeede, (as the indifferent reader shall preceiue by the due peruse thereof,) but an euident manifestation of his owne folly; with the vtter confusion of poperie, and all popish vassals throughout the Christian world.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1605 (1605)	STC 1825; ESTC S101478	72,528	132

THE POPES Funerall Containing a plaine succinct and pithy reply to a pretensed answere of a shamelesse and foolish Libell intituled The Forerunner of Bels downfall VVhich is nothing else indeede as the indifferent Reader shall perceiue by the due peruse thereof but an euident manifestation of his owne folly ith the vtter confusion of Poperie and all popish vassals throughout the Christian world 2. Reg. 9. V. 34. Visit yonder cursed woman and burie her for she is a Kings daughter Psal. 58.10 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance of the wicked he shall wash his feete in the blood of the vngodly LONDON Printed by T. C. For William Welby and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Grayhound 1605. ❧ To the most puissant wise vertuous learned iudicious and religious Monarch Iames by Gods holy prouidēce and eternal purpose King of great Britain France and Ireland most constant defendor of the auncient Christian Catholike Apostolique Faith and supreme gouernour within his said Realmes Kingdomes territories and Dominions next and immediately vnder the King of heauen ouer all persons and ouer all causes aswell Ecclesiasticall as ciuill GReat is the deepenesse most gracious Soueraigne of the wisedome and knowledge of the euerliuing God vnsearchable are his iudgements his waies past finding out Hee bindeth the waters in his Clouds and the cloud is not broken vnder them He so limiteth the floods that they neither doe nor can ouerflowe He shut vp the Sea with doores when it issued forth as out of the wombe His decree staied her proud waues appointed her bounds whether she should come but no farther He doth great vnsearchable and maruellous things without number Yea his mercies and fauours towards my sillie selfe a most wretched creature and vnworthie for any desert in my selfe to tread vppon the ground are so many so great and so wonderfull that I stand amazed at the remembrance thereof being farre vnable with Penne and Inke to expresse the same The rehearsall of one may suffice for the present Being student at Rome in the English Colledge not long afore my arriuall in this Kingdome and on a time walking abroad to take the ayre with many other of the same Colledge when we came without one of the Posterne gates of the Citie we espied certaine Bufloes with their Keeper at the Riuer-side Which spectacle as vnpleasant to the eye so also most terrible to the heart my fellowes and countrey-men no sooner behelde but they betooke themselues to their best speede My selfe more bolde therein then wise would not amend my pace and so remained bird alone Sodainly the furious raging and cruell Bufloes brake from their keeper and with great violence rage and furie came vpon me My fellowes standing a farre off vpon the toppe of an high mountaine durst not for their liues approach to afford me any comfort helpe aide or succour They neither did nor could expect any other thing saue onely present and moste cruell death Howbeit most gratious Soueraigne the wilde cruell raging and furious Bufloes a thing very strange rare and wonderfull if a miracle let the Reader iudge did no hurt vnto me at all but sported with mee as one childe playeth with another After a while the furious Bufloes left mee and departed in peace from mee At the last my fellowes beholding the departure of the Bufloes and perswading themselues that I was most cruellie slaine came with conuenient speede to visite my corpes But finding me aliue and as liue-like as I was afore we al returned to the Colledge with great ioy and speede The rector of the Colledge could no way be perswaded but that I was very grieuously wounded albeit neither my selfe felt any neither could their eyes or wits discerne any hurt at all saue onely that my face was something bloody by reason of the sodaine fall I gotte while I made hast to haue escaped from the imminent daunger For it had neuer bin knowne or heard among them that euer any man woman or childe escaped with life being once in that kind of daunger to witte in the curtesie of the furious Bufloes Many gaue their censures concerning the fact and euent The generall resolution was this viz. That I might fight with Bufloes in England and haue the vpper hand My selfe did deeme it probable this day me thinketh the same is brought to passe though Gods name be blessed for it in a farre different sense and meaning from that which either they or my selfe did then imagine I thought then to fight against the true professors of Christs Gospell whō I deemed heretiques spiritual Bufloes but God whose wisedome reacheth from end to ende mightily and disposeth all things sweetely ordained me in his eternall purpose to a farre more honourable and sacred Warfare viz. to encounter the trayterous Iesuits and Iesuited popelings and valiantly to fight the battell of Christs Church against those most furious brainlesse cruell Bufloes of mens soules When Saul breathing out slaughter against the Saints of God desired of the high Priests letters by vertue whereof he might bring all to Hierusalem that professed the name of Christ Iesus then our Lord himselfe appeared to him opened his eyes enlightened him with the knowledge of the truth Semblably when my selfe was drowned in the depth of superstitious and erronious Poperie and therein so blinded that I could not discerne trueth from falshood it pleased the same God so to opē the eies of mine heart and soule that I foorthwith beheld as cleerely as the Sunne-shining at noone day late vpstart Poperie farre dissonant from the olde Romane Religion to be battered ouerthrowne and cleane turned vp-side downe and that euen by the cleere euidence plaine verdict and constant doctrine of the best learned Doctors and most renowned writers in the Church of Rome Which metamorphosis and right Christian alteration being wrought in my soule I foorthwith bewayled my former dayes of ignorance very ioyfully embraced the truth in my heart publiquely acknowledged Gods wonderfull operation in mee and most humbly yeelded and submitted my selfe to the mercie of most noble Queene Elizabeth This was the Lords doing and it is wonderfull in our eyes I protest vpon my saluation that I haue at this houre a good testimonie of a well setled conscience and vnspeakable comfort in my soule God make me euer thankfull for this and all other his manifold mercies as I haue also euer had since I first renounced frō my heart the late vpstart Romish Religion For this nowe professed Romish Religion is not as the sillie seduced Papists imagine the old Romane Religion but a new no Religion patched like Mahomets Alcoran and by little and little crept into the Church as I haue prooued elsewhere at large But the Papists being condemned in their own consciences dare not for their liues publish any direct and full answere either to my Motiues