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A07919	The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1596 (1596)	STC 1829; ESTC S101491	430,311	555

The suruey of Popery Wherein the reader may cleerely behold not onely the originall and daily incrementes of Papistrie with an euident Confutation of the same but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension contained in the first and second Part thereof and throughout the third Part Poperie is turned vp-side downe 1. Cor. 13.11 When I was a child I spake as a childe but when I became a man I put away childish things LONDON Printed by Valentine Sims dwelling on Adling hill at the signe of the white Swanne 1596 To the right Honourable Lords Iohn the L. Archbishop of Canterburie his Grace one of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie counsell Matthew the L. Archbishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitane of England Sir Thomas Egerton Knight the L. Keeper of the great Seale of England and to the right reuerend father in God Tobie the graue and learned Bishop of Durham Grace and peace from God our Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ. IF manie haue laudably emploied much time and studie right honourable and my very good Lordes and that onlie to attain skil in prophane stories much more doubtlesse are their studies commendable who haue spared no time no labour no watchinges no lucubrations to atchieue exact knowledge in the holie scriptures and histories ecclesiasticall verie necessarie for the accomplishment therof In which kind of neuer enough commended exercise sundrie vertuous learned men haue so profited the church of God as their worthie monumentes haue gotten thē immortal fame before God and al mortal men Yet such is the condition of our state during this pilgrimage of mortalitie that the best learned neither haue said neither can say so much but stil more very fruitfullie may be said therein For which cause very wisely wrote S. Austen that he did learn would learne daily euen to the last houre While I reuolued these matters deeplie with my selfe I found some writers tedious some obscure some confuse some abounding some wanting no one answerable to al desires In regarde whereof albeit I cannot bring gold siluer pearles hyacinths and pretious stones yet am I verie desirous to carrie morter to the building vp of the walles of Gods Sion not for that I thinke I can saie better then is alreadie saide by others as who acknowledge my selfe the meanest of manie thousandes but because I couet to supplie for the measure of my small talent such wantes for the common good of the simple sorte and of others who haue not store of bookes as heretofore I finde omitted in farre more learned workes What varietie what confusion what obscuritie what vncertaintie is amongst historiographers and Chronographers none doth know or can know sufficiently but he that doth studie the same seriously What is more necessary for the vnderstandig of the prophesie of Daniel then the perspicuous and exact enumeration of the 70 weeks thē the ready explicatiō of the 2300 daies thē the liuely purtra●te of the foure monarchies what helpeth more for the true vnderstāding of the former latter prophets then to know when where of what matter and before whom they did pronounce their prophes●es What is more expedient then to know the two captiuities When where by whom and for what causes the Israelites and the Iewes were so afflicted what can y●eld greater solace to a christian heart then to behold as in a glasse of christal the original and daily incrementes of poperie liuely discouered before our eies when where and by whom and vpon what occasion al popish errors heresie and superstitions haue crept into the church what shal I saie of the time reignes and acts of the Emperours of Rome of their kings their Consuls their Dictators what of the kings of Babylon Ashur Egypt Macedonia Persia Syria what of the kings of Iuda and of Israel What of the birth of our sauiour Christ of his baptisme of his corporal conuersation among vs what of other infinite memorable actes recorded in the old and new testament what of manie excellent and golden lessons specified in the histories of the church All which and manie other important matters are compendiously and yet sufficientlie handled in this small volume and so contriued I hope as obscure things shal seeme plaine with such breuitie as nothing can be thought tedious with such plentie of matter as no necessarie point will be found wanting and with such methode as euerie childe maie with facilitie beare the same awaie The vsual maner is in al such kinde of exercises to make choise of some worthy personages for the honest and lawful protection of the same You my L. of Canturburie did harbour me a long time in your owne house There I enioyed euerie thing not as a prisoner but as a brother not as a stranger but as a deere friend not as a meane person but as one of farre better accompt then I either was then or yet am indeed You my L. of Yorke for rare curtesies receiued both of old and late daies haue made me greatly bound vnto your grace You my L. Keeper to speake nothing of your great zeale for the free passage of Christes gospel for the sincere preaching of his sacred word and for the common good of this realme haue aswel for your rare honourable fauour towards mine owne seelie selfe as for your late kinde acceptance of my treatise of vsurie deserued a far better thing at my hands You my L of Durham although as yet ye neuer saw my face haue neuerthelesse affoorded me such christian affection and rare benignitie as I haue not often found the like I therefore present vnto you my reuerend fathers and honourable Lordes all foure these fruites of my late studies as an infallible argument of my vnfeined good will for your honourable and manifold courtesies countenances and other benefites receiued at your handes Accept the present my honourable Lordes in good part respect not so much the person that giueth as the thing it selfe that is giuen not the value of the gift so much as the minde of the giuer not so much what is done as what the partie was willing to haue done who if it shal so please the Almightie will hereafter present larger giftes as time place and other circumstances shal affoord God vouchsafe to encrease his manifold good graces in you all and to multiply your daies vpon the earth for the free passage of his holy gospel and the peace of his church From my studie this tenth of August 1595. Your Lordships in all dutifull maner THOMAS BELL. To the Seminarie Priests in Wisbich Castle and else-where dispersed in this Realme TWo yeres are fully complete and expired since my booke of Motiues came abroad and was in your hands In it I promised to subscribe if either any one among you or other Papist in Europe whosoeuer could effectually confute the same Your owne Papists here at home greatly wonder at your silence in that

religion which the prophet r●sed not Achior the Ammonite fel at Iudeths feet reuerenced her the Sunamite whose child Elizeus raised to life fel down before his feet adored him he reproued hir not the prophets at Iericho perceiuing the double grace of Elias to be in Elizeus fel down before him and adored him which hee reiected not The answere I answer to al these in general that for the greater part they speake of ciuil worship which I grant may be done to angels prophets magistrats holy men To y e seueral obiectiōs thus in particular I say first that y e Iews gaue such ciuil reuerence as was due to a godly pastour or Bishop but yeelded no religious worship vnto him I say secondly that your popish vulgar latin translation is false idolatricall albeit your late disholy synode of Trent anathematized al that wil not reuerence the same For you reade thus Iacob adored the top of his rod which if Iacob had done indeed as your guilefull edition saith he shuld haue cōmitted flat idolatry because as I haue proued out of your owne Pope Gregory it is not lawfull to worship images much lesse a naked piece of wood religiously But the text indeed is thus as your own deare doctor Arias Montanus granteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He adored on the top of his rod or staffe which is nothing else but staying himselfe vpon his staffe adored God So doth Saint Augustine expounde it whose expresse words are these Nam facile intelligeretur senem qui virgam fereba● eo more quo illa aetas baculum solet vt se inclinauit ad Deum adorandum id vtique fecerit super cacumen virgae suae quam sic ferebat vt super eam caput inclinando adoraret Deum For we might easi●y vnderstand that the olde man who carried a rodde in such manner as that age vsed to beare a staffe as he bowed himselfe to worship God he did it on the end of his staffe which he carrie● so as he might adore God by bowing his head vpon it In which words S. Austen sheweth plainely that Iacob when he worshipped god leaned on his staffe by reason of his age weakenesse Behold here gentle reader how our late papists do wrest the holy scriptures to build thereupon their superstitious and idololatricall adoration of stocks stones I say thirdly that it was Christ himselfe that appeared to Iosue in the likenes of a man therfore he both rightly required worship and Iosue of duetie adored him religiously This is euident in the verie beginning of the next chap. with the last end of the former I say fourthly that albeit the worship which Nabuchadonosor yeelded seemed to deserue cōmendation yet was it indeed very reprehensible because he ioyned Gods honor with the Prophets And if Daniel did not admonish him of his fault as it is verie probable hee did he sinned grieuously That which Abraham Achior the Sunamite the rest did was meere ciuil adoratiō The replie It is lawfull to adore holy things as the temple the arke the bread of proposition and the like for the Psalmograph saith adore ye his footestoole because it is holy The answere I say first that it is not lawful to adore religiously any saint in heauen no not the blessed virgin Marie the mother of God man much lesse is it lawefull to adore stockes and stones and other like sensles creatures as the papists would guilefully enforce vs to do Neither doe I barely say this of mine own head but with the vniforme consent of the holy fathers Thus writeth S. Epiphanius Sed neque Helias adorandus est etiamsi in viuis sit neque Ioannes adorandus quanquam per proprias preces suas dormitionem suam admirandam effecerit imò potius ex deo gratiam acceperit sed neque Thecla neque quisquā sanctus adoratur Non enim dominabitur nobis antiquus error vt relinquamus viuentem adoremus ●a quae ab ipso facta sunt Infra sit in honore Maria●pater filius spiritus sanctus adoretur Mariam nemo adoret non dico mulierem imò neque virum Deo debetur hoc mysterium neque angeli capiunt talē glorificationem deleantur quae male scripta sunt in corde deceptorū tollatur ex oculis cupiditasligni conuertatur rursus figmentum ad dominum reuereatur Eua cum Adam vt deum colat solum ne ducatur serpentis voce sed permaneat in dei praecepto ne comedes de ligno erat lignum non error sed per ipsum lignum facta est inobedientia erroris ne comedat quis de errore qui est propter S. Mariam nam etsi pulchrum est lignum sed tamen non ad cibū si pulcherrima est Maria sancta honorata at nō ad adorationem Neither is Elias to be adored though he be among the liuing neither S. Iohn must be adored though by his praiers his death was wonderful yea hee rather receiued grace from God but neither Thecla neither any saint is to be adored For the olde error may not ouerrule vs that we forsake the liuing god and adore the works of his hands Let Mary be in honor let the father the son the holy ghost be adored let no man adore Marie I do not say the woman but neither the mā This mistery is due to god neither are the angels capable of such glory let such errors be blotted out as are wickedly engrauen in the harts of deceiued soules let the concupiscence of the wood be taken out of our sight let the worke return again to the workeman let Eue haue reuerence with Adam let her worship onely God let her not be seduced with the voice of the serpent but let her abide in Gods commandement thou shalt not eate of the wood and it was wood indeede not errour but by the wood came disobedience of errour let none eate of that error which is for holy Mary For though the wood be faire yet is it not for meate although Marie be most beautiful and holy and honoured yet not for adoration Out of these golden words I note first that in the time of S. Epiphanius who liued more then 370. yeres after Christ it was reputed great superstition and flat paganisme to adore any Saint or angel in heauen much more to adore men yet liuing on earth and most of all to adore woode stones and sencelesse things I note secondly that religious honour or worship is due to God alone and that neither saintes nor images nor the mother of God is capable thereof I note thirdly that to thinke that Saintes or Angels may be adored is an old damnable error receiued from the gentiles wherewith some of the vulgar and common people were deceiued euen in the daies of Epiphanius I note fourthly that by the iudgement of this holy