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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

liue sufficiently To liue long wee haue need of fate to liue sufficiently a minde Life is long if it be full and it is full when the mind hath gotten the maisterie o● good and into its owne hands power over it selfe What availe a man 80. yeares passed in sluggishnesse Such a man hath not lived but made a stay in life nor is he late dead but long He hath lived 80. yeares all the matter i● from what day you count his death He hath lived 80. yeares rather he hath beene 80. yeares vnlesse you meane he hath lived so as trees are said to liue Let vs not measure our life by time but facts As in little stature a perfect man may be so in a little terme of time a perfect life may be Age is an externall thi●g how long I am is anothers but how long I am good is mine To liue vnto wisedome is the space of mos● ample life Idem lib. 1. de tranquilitate vita● cap. 10. There is no viler thing then an aged ould man that hath no other argument bu● yeares to proue that he hath lived long Lin. 21. IT SHALL PLEASE GOD TO APPOINT Man purposeth and God disposeth Therfore saith S. Iames the Apostle Epist cap. 4. Say if our Lord will or if we liue we will doe this or that because we know not what shall be to morrow So the soule bee safe it is no great matter where the bodie lye many a holy bodie lyeth in the sea many burned to askes many devoured by wild beasts c. Yet every man ought so much to esteeme of Christian buriall as he ought to seeke for it by all lawfull meanes and is bound to ordaine as providently as he can and a good reason why is giuen in the leafe here before out of S. Maximus Pag. 17. § 2. RVFVLL DECAY OF THE CATHOLIKE RELIGION Begunne in England by Henrie 8. breaking obedience with the sea of Rome by act of Parlament 1533. and made more full by Q. Elizabeth AS A TRVE FATHER A true father is he that according to the law of nature provideth for those whom he hath gotten into the world not only bodily but spiritually which law is so firmely engraffed in nature as it needs no expresse law writtē to command it as the children haue to honours their parents the care of providing corporally for childrē is in some parēts over much and the provision for their soules the chief part too little These are not true fathers that care not to leaue to their children a true inheritance but false fathers leaving inheritāce of false riches such as vvhen they haue slept their sleepe they shall find nothing in their hands The true father hath his principall care to instruct his children in the law of God that as not only the earthly goods but celestiall doctrines vvere by his forefathers delivered to him so he keeping them in the customes and maners of his life deliver the same to his posteritie at his death The sonnes most commonly follow the steps of their fathers and thinke all lawful to doe that they see them vse Great is the obligation of parents in the education of their children Ioan. 5.19 The sonne can doe nothing of himselfe but vvhat he seeth his father doe for vvhatsoever he doth the sonne likevvise doth Isaias 38. Mat. 10.32 Marck 8.38 Luc. 9.26 12 8. Pag. 18. § 3. BE IT KNOWNE TO THEM AND TO ALL THE WORLD The father to his children shall notifie thy truth Every one tha● shall confesse me before men I vvil● also confesse him before my Father vvhich is in heaven And he that shal● denie me before men I vvill also denie him before my Father vvhich is in heaven S. Aug. serm 181. de tempore Vide supra §. ● by faith confessing Tom. 10. Heb. 11. Sine fide Without faith it is impossible to please God this faith he acknowledgeth in our hearts that searcheth reines and hearts but for conserving of the Churches vnitie for the dispensation of this time with faith of heart is also necessarie confession of mouth because vvith the heart vve beleeue to iustice and vvith mouth vve make confession to salvation not only of preachers but also of those that are instructed Otherwise one brother of another could not have notice nor the Churches peace be conserved nor one teach another nor learne of another necessarie things to salvation vnlesse vvhat he hath in his heart with signes of voice as it were with certaine chariots he sent to the hearts of others Faith is therfore both to be kept in the heart and brought forth with the mouth for faith is the foundation of all good things and beginning of humane salvation without this no man can come to the number of the sonnes of God and without it neither doth he obtaine the grace of iustification in this world nor shall he possesse life everlasting in the world to come And if one walke not by faith he shall not come to vision The holy Apostles having regard to this delivered a certaine rule of faith which according to the Apostolicall number comprehended in 12. sentences they called the symbole by which the beleevers might hould the Catholike vnitie and by which they might convince hereticall pravi●ie c. A MEMBER OF CHRISTS TRVE CATHOLIKE AND APOSTOLIKE CHVRCH Signes of the true Church are that it is one holy Catholike and Apostolike therfore he adioyneth OVT OF THE VNITIE AND FELLOWSHIP WHEROF THERE NEVER WAS NOR IS NOR CAN BE SALVATION No more then was for those that were without the arke of Noe. The true Church can be but one in as much as truth is one and can be but one errour manifold and in a manner infinite A man that going a iourney bent to one place if he leaue the right way which can be but one it is no more matter which way he take of so many wayes as lie round about him for in all he erreth and shall not come to the place intended because he hath left the way that only leades therunto Aug. serm 181. de tēpore prope finem Tom. 10 Symbol Apost The holy Catholike Church It is to be knowne that we must beleeue the Church and not beleeue in the Church because the Church is not God but the house of God Catholike he saith diffused over all the whole world because the Churches of diverse Heretiks are therfore not called Catholike because they be contained in places every one in their owne Provinces but this even frō the Sun rising to the setting of the same is diffused with the splendour of one faith There are no greater riches no treasures no honours no greater substance of this world then is the Catholike faith which saveth men sinners illuminateth the blind cureth the infirme baptizeth Cathecumēs iustifieth the faithfull repayreth penitents augmenteth the iust crowneth martyrs ordeyneth clerks consecrateth Priests prepareth for the kingdome of heaven and in the everlasting

THE TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM BEL. GENTLEMAN ●EFT WRITTEN IN HIS OWNE HAND SETT OVT 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. BONAVENTVRES Colledge in Dovvay and Professor of the sacred Hebrevv tongue in the same Electo meo foedus excidi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vulgat Psalm 88. Disposui testamentum electis meis Permissu Superiorum AT DOWAY ● BALTH●●●● 〈…〉 TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MR. EDWARD SHELDON of Beoley c. SIR Anciently when after the rihgt of nature the earth was Cōmon and all the gooddes therof ●hat a man Could say to his neighbour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hast thou not all the earth before thee Genes 13.9 separate thy selfe from mee if thou go to the lef● hand I will keep the right i● thou go to the Right hand ● will howld the left Men gau● in theyr testaments to they● children only coelestiall doctrines that to whom they had given being they migh● also giue well-being Psalm 77 By thee● meanes wee haue heard an● knowne so manie things declared to vs by our fathers which in the next generatio● were not hid from they● children declaring the prayses of our Lord his virtues and mervailes done by him ●hat reised vp testimonie in ●acob and gaue a lawe to ●sraël how manie things did hee commande our fathers ●o make knowne to their ●onnes to the end that the ●ext generatiō might know ●hem that the children that ●hould arise and bee borne of ●hem might tell them againe ●o theyr children and all ●hat they might sett theyr ●ope in God not forget his ●orckes and search out his ●ommands Moyses Deut. 32. Re●ember the dayes of oulde thincke vpon everie severall generation aske thy father hee will declare thy elders and they will tell thee Men gaue I say from hand to hand the lawe of God his feare loue with benediction to the keepers malediction to the breakers of it Commending vertue condemning vice foretelling payne and glorie the reward● of both Epist Iud. ca. 1.14 Such testament the seaventh man from Adam Gen. 48 49. Enoch made Such wa● the Patriarch Iacobs testament disposed to his 12. sonnes such also those of thes● 12. Patriarches themselves A most ancient Hebrev booke called the testamēt of the 12. Patriarchs But of that new everlasting testament of IESVS-CHRIST the sonne of God what shall I say therin is all knowledge of the heavenly kingdome the aeternall beatitude and foelicitie of man After this incomparable Testament in which are all the treasures of the riches and wisedome of God I may bring in that godly testamēt of my holy Father S. Francis which after he was signed with the sacred stigmats of our Sauiour IESVS CHRIST full with fervour and the holy ghost neer the end of his life he left to vs his children that more sincerely and catholickly we might keep his Evangelicall rule Divers pious testaments haue been by sundrie devout persons at severall times ordained And not among the last doe I accoumpt this testament of my father a man knowne and esteemed of your worship no less then of M. r Raphe your father of happie memorie It hath been kept in his owne manuscript thees 44. yeares and more By divine providence it hath at last come to my hands who hauing been aboue 18. yeares out of my countrie in forraine lands neither sought for nor thought of anie such thing although seing it now I remember that in my younger yeares I haue seen it before when a graue father of our seraphicall order venerable for his well spent yeares from his infancie till 67. so ●owld he is at this day and no ●ess for his profownde iudgement and eloquence both in ●peach and style lighting ●pon it sent it out of England to mee with no small commendations therof His censure animated me to put it in print And for a patrone to whom I might dedicate it I had not farre to seeke your Constant Christianitie and professing of the Catholike Religion who like the great Patriarch Abraham to follow God haue gone out of land and Countrie and fathers house and friends and kinred and familiars or like Saint Peeter out of all doth Chalenge so christianlike a testament especially from mee who as appeareth in the 34. § of it am severely charged to bee serviceable towards you and yours That service together with my selfe I offer here to your worship for vs all that haue the charge there layde vpon vs that we be not chalenged with the vile vice of ingratitude or breach of the dead mannes will my selfe haue had part of my education frō M. r Frācis Daniel my vncle of whom mention is made in the 32. § who now liveth not on earth Of the Throckmartōs of Coughton or Fekenhā mentioned in the 33. § I haue yet no knowledge nor of Sir Ihon Littletons house spoken of in the end of the 34. § I may liue to doe them service your selfe only remaines the man that most extended his godnes towards vs in accomplishing this wil in bringing vp my brother Edmund together with your owne sonnes to learning to musicke to the vniversitie of Oxforde as was required your sister also the Religious Ladie Russell gaue educatiō successiuely to two of my sisters Margarit Dorothe Receiue therfore from me this last will of my father as my first will to serue you which with my life shall last and bee my last so shall I fulfill that iterated precept of the holy ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proverb 1.8 hear o my sonne the instruction of thy father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proverb 6.20 keep o my sonne the precept of thy father God praeserue your worship long to his highest glorie the good of our familie and chiefly of our seraphicall order to which you haue alwaies shewed a charitable affectiō and finally chosen in our Convent at Namur Abrahams double caue for buriall to your happilie decessed wife and you From our celle● in S. Bonaventures Colledge in Doway this 7. of Ianuarie 1632. Your worships obliged Br. FRANCIS BEL● ●N THE NAME of God Amen THE twentith day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fowerscore and seaven and in the nine and twentith year of the reigne of our sove●igne Ladie Elizabeth I Williā Bell alias ●ellne of Temple-Broughton in the Countie of Wigorne Gentleman being 〈◊〉 good health of bodie of soūd perfe●● memorie our Lord be bless●d thank● therfore calling to my remembrance th●● all fleshe is grasse according to the sayi●● of the Prophet Esaia and borne to di● and that in this decaying age of the wo●● and triumphing time of sinne besides t●● course of nature manie new and dang●rouse diseases doe arise manie malitio●● complottes and practises of

beleeved of vs they are no other thing then hoped for Now what shall I say of loue without the which faith profiteth nothing and hope without loue cannot be To conclude as S. Iames saith the divelles beleeue and tremble and yet they doe not hope or loue but rather that which b●leeving wee hope for and loue they feare shall come vpon them Wherfore the Apostle Paul approoveth commendeth the faith which worcketh by loue which verily cannot be without hope nor hope without loue nor both without faith D. Thom. 2.2 quaest 17. Eternall beatitude is the proper obiect of hope For we may not hope for lesse of God then himselfe in enioying of whom consisteth life everlasting And supposing our vnion to our neighbour by loue a man may by the vertue of Theologicall hope hope for beatitude for him as well as for himselfe Psalm 145. Hierem. 17.5 but to confide in Princes or the sonnes of men concerning salvation or to set our hope in man the holy Ghost forbiddeth and giues a curse to him that doth it That faith being old will I keep in which a childe I was borne Hieronymus ad Pammachium Oceanum paulo ante finem Tom. 2. Now doth faith swimme in many mens lippes when in their heart there is either none at all or that that is doth vehemently languish For who doth not professe that which we reade in the Deuteronomie Heare Israel Deut. 6. 10. thy Lord thy God is one Lord And thou shalt adore thy God and serue him alone Who doth not daily recite with mouth I beleeue in God the father Almightie notwithstanding he beleeveth not in God that doth not place in him alone all the trust of his felicitie neither hath he one God and Lord that by harlottrie by riotte and avarice doth the commands of Sathan nor doth he serue him alone that serveth his bellie that is given to this world which is set all vpon wickednesse The heathens thinke there be many Gods and dost thou seeme to thy selfe a perfect Christian because thou art persuaded that there is but one God What great matter doest thou the Iewes doe the same who daily blaspheme the Sonne of God in their Synagogues the same doe the divells beleeue and tremble at it If truly thou beleevest in God beleeue him to be iust and true Iust in rewarding the good and punishing the evill true in his promises beleeue that there is no hope of salvation but only in his Sonne whome he delivered to the crosse for all of vs and to death beleeve that no evill can fall to them that deliver themselues wholly over vnto his will and doe persever in the same this is to beleeue in God the Father this is to beleeue in his Sonne this is to beleeue in the holy Ghost Cyprian de duplici martyrio longe ante finem Tomo 4. Vnexercised faith soone languisheth and idle is tempted with frequent discommodities the craftie enemie breakes in vpon remisse sentinels but externe fraude instructs the man that 's exercised in warre and beares him gloriously to the palme of victorie Peace therfore to the faithfull is matter of corruption Ambros serm 11. in Psal 118. longius ante finē Tom. 4. Psalm 141. I haue cryed to thee O Lord I haue said thou art my hope my portion in the land of the living Psal 26 Abide our Lord deale manfully and thy heart shall be comforted and sustaine our Lord. Because the world what it promiseth seemeth here to giue in the land of the dying and our Lord what he promiseth is to giue in the land of the living many are wearie of expecting the true ioy and are not ashamed to loue the deceitfull of such the Scripture saith Eccle. 2 Woe to them that haue lost their patient sustayning and diverted into wicked wayes Aug. de verbis Apost serm 25. Tom. 10. Spe salvi facti sumus Spes non confundit by hope we are saved hope confoundeth not How hope should be without faith I doe not finde for no man hopeth that he can attaine that which he doth not beleeue to be It behooveth therfore that al three be in the minde faith hope and charitie that both a man beleeue the things be true to which he is called and hope that he may attaine to them and that he loue them Aug. lib. 21. sententiarum sent 8. One hope is of the eternall rewards another of comfort in the humilitie of tribulation Aug. enarr in Psalm 118. super Memor esto verbi tui servo tuo in quo mihi spem dedisti Tomo 8. Because the man that is converted to God hath his delight changed the things that he delights in are also changed and not taken quite away for all our delights in this life are not yet in deede but the hope it selfe is so certaine as it is to be preferred before all the delights of this world Aug. enarr in Psalm 74. Tomo 8. Pag. 17. § 1. lin 5. IN THE ONELY MERITS All our merits are founded in the merits of Christs incarnation life and passion which ground worke taken away no man hath or ever had or could haue since Adam any merits towards life everlasting which by his demerits he lost and merited damnation Aug. Cōfess cap 13. tom 1. Et de Trinit l. 13. c. 10. tom 8. Whosoever reckeneth vp his merits to thee what doth he but recken vp thy free guifts What was so necessarie to erect our hope and deliver mortall mindes deiected with the very condition of mortalitie from despairing of immortalitie as that it should be demonstrated vnto vs how much God weighed vs and how much he loved vs And what token of this more manifest and more excellent then that the Sonne of God immutably good remaining in himselfe what he was and taking of vs and for vs what he was not without detriment of his soules nature vouchsafing to enter into our fellowship first without any evill merit of his owne he would beare our evils and so now beleeving how much God loveth vs and hoping for that which before we despaired of with bountie no way due he would bestow his gifts vpon vs without any good merits of ours yea with many precedent euill merits for even those things that are called our merits are his gifts for that faith may worke by loue the charitie of God is diffused in our hearts by the holy Ghost given vs. Aug. enarr in Psalm 144. tom 8. Gratia salvi facti estis Where thou hearest grace vnderstand gratis if therfore gratis then thou hast brought nothing thou hast merited nothing For if any thing be rendred for merits it is wages and not grace by grace saith he you are saved through faith Expound that more cleerely for the arrogant for those that please themselves for those that are ignorant of Gods iustice and will constitute their owne And this selfe same thing more openly And this quoth he that you are made