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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