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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07625	The testament of William Bel. Gentleman Left written in his owne hand. Sett out above 33. yeares after his death. With annotations at the end, and sentences, out of the H. Scripture, fathers, &c. By his sonne Francis Bel, of the Order of Freers Minors, definitor of the province of England: guardian of S. Bonaventures colledge in Dovvay: and professor of the sacred Hebrevv tongue, in the same. Electo meo fœdus excidi	Bell, William, d. 1598.; Bell, James, d. 1643.	1632 (1632)	STC 1802; ESTC S113723	71,054	197

inheritance communicateth with the holy Angels Whosoever he be and of what condition soever he be he is no Christian that is not in the Church of Christ Our Lord IESVS CHRIST like a whole perfect man both head bodie Aug. in Psal 90. Cōcio 2 Tom. 8. the head wo acknowledge in that man which was borne of the Virgin MARIE suffered vnder Pontius Pilate was buried arose ascended in to heaven sitteth at the right hand of the Father from thence we expect him iudge of the living and the dead this is the head of the Church the bodie of this head is the Church not which is in this place but which is in this place and over all the world nor that which is in this time but even from Abel vnto those which are to be borne and to beleeue in Christ even till the end all the people of Saints pertayning to one citie which citie is the bodie of Christ whose head is Christ Whosoever separated from the Church is conioyned to an adulteresse is separated from the things promissed to the Church neither doth he appertaine to the rewards of Christ that leaueth the Church of Christ he is an Alien he is prophane he is an enemie he cannot now haue God his father which hath not the Church his mother If hee could escape that was without the arke of Noe then he shall escape that is without the church Cyprianus tract de simplicitate Praelat sive de vnitate Ecclesiae I following no first but Christ am consociated to thy beatitude that is to the chayre of Peeter I know the Church was built vpon the Rocke whosoever out of this house eateth the lambe is profane If any one be out of the arke of Noe while the floud rageth he shall perish Hieronymus epist 1. ad Damasum tomo 2. The Roman Church in all I seeke to follow Ambros lib. 3. de Sacramentis cap. 1. post ●edium parte 1. No man blotteth out of heaven the constitution of God no man blotteth out of earth the Church of God Aug. epist 162. in fine That is the holy Church the one Church the Catholike Church the true Church fighting against all heresies fight it may bee vanquished it cannot All heresies haue gone out therof as vnprofitable sprigs cut from the vine but shee remaineth vpon her roote vpon her vine vpon her charitie the gates of hell shall not overcome her Aug. lib. 1. de symb ad cathecum cap. 5. in fine The sunne is easier extinguished then the Church obscured Chrysost hom 4. in 6. Esaiae Theodosius the great Aug. de Civitate lib. 5. cap. 26. gloried more that he was a member of the Catholike Church then that he reigned vpon the earth What is more honorable then the Emperour to be called a child of the Church Ambro. de Eccl. nō trad Haereticis Heb. 11. this is that Moyses preferred before the Aegyptian treasures denying himself to be Pharaos sonne and choosing rather to be afflicted with Gods people then to haue the pleasure of temporall sinne Gregor Naz. epist ad 150. Episc For before God there is nothing so magnificent and illustrious as pure doctrine and a soule instructed and made perfect with divine opinions Pag. 28. § 3. lin 11. I acknovvledge God the Father my maker God the Sonne my redeemer c. Matth. 28.19 Going teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Aug. l. 1 de fide ad Petrū c. 1. Tom. 3. The faith of the Trinitie In what place soever thou beest constitute because according to the Rule promulgated by the cōmand of our Saviour thou knowest thy selfe to be baptized in one name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost principally and without doubt retaine with thy whole heart that the Father is God the Sonne God and the holy Ghost God that is the holy and ineffable Trinitie to be naturally one God Deut. 6. Mat. 4. of whom in Deuteronomie it is said Heare Israel thy Lord thy God is one God And thou shalt adore thy Lord God and serue him alone Yet because this one God who only is naturally the true God we haue said to be neither Father alone nor Sonne alone nor holy Ghost alone but together Father Sonne and holy Ghost we must beware lest as we truly say the Father and Sonne holy Ghost in that belongeth to their naturall vnitie to be one God so we dare say or beleeue which is altogether vnlawfull that he which is Father is the same that the Sonne or holy Ghost Or ●e that is Sonne either Father or holy Ghost Or he that is holy Ghost called properly in the confession of this Trinitie to say or beleeue that he is personally the Father or the Sonne For that faith which the holy Patriarchs and Prophets received from God before the incarnation of the Sonne of God which also the holy Apostles heard from our Lord him selfe in flesh and by the magisterie of the holy Ghost instructed not only preached in word but also to the healthfull instruction of posteritie left in their writings preacheth the Trinitie to be one God that is Father Sonne and holy Ghost But it were no true Trinitie if one and the same person were called Father and Sonne and holy Ghost For if as the substance of the Father and Sonne and holy Ghost is one so the person were one there were nothing wherin it might be truly called a Trinitie Againe it were indeed a true Trinitie but that Trinitie should not be one God if as the Father and Sonne and holy Ghost are in proprietie of persons distinct from one another so they were distinguished in diversitie of natures But because in that one true God Trinitie not only that it is one God but also tha● it is a Trinitie is naturally true therfor● that true God is in persons a Trinitie and in nature one By this naturall vnitie all th● Father is in the Sonne and holy Ghost al● the Sonne in the Father and holy Ghost all the holy Ghost in the Father and Sonne none of these is without any one of them because none is before another in eternitie or exceedeth in greatnesse or surpasseth in power because in as much as perteineth to the vnitie of the divine nature the Father is neither before nor greater then the Sōne nor holy Ghost nor the eternitie and immensitie of the Sonne as it were before or greater can naturally precede or exceed the eternitie and immensitie of the holy Ghost Aug. de Trin. cap. 4. Tom. 3. All that ever I could reade of that before me wrote of the Trinitie which is God the Catholike handlers of the divine bookes both new and old haue intended to teach this out of the Scriptures that the Father and Sonne and holy Ghost of one and the same substance with inseparable equalitie doe insinuate the divine vnitie therfore they be not three Gods but