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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

his dayes be measured whose verie substance is as nothing in the sight of God LONG ACCOVNT Long and strict Mat. 12.36 when of every idle word which men haue spoken they shall render an account therof in the day of iudgement Every one of vs shall render to God an account for himselfe Rom. 14 12. § 1. Pag. 17. A TRVE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIKE MAN By this title did S. Augustine stile himselfe Sed de me quid dicam Lib. de vtilitate credēdi qui iam Catholicus Christianus eram But of my selfe what shall I say who was now a Catholike Christian The name of Christian was given to the Disciples first at Antioch in the very beginning of the Apostles preaching of Christs Gospell Act. 11.26 The Apostles themselves in their symbole called the Church Catholike and the members therof Catholiks As many as being baptized haue put on Christ are called Christians this the vse of the name hath obtained although with some nations he is not holden in common vnderstanding for a true Christian that is not also a Catholike and the one name comprehendeth as much as the other and they be convertible Besides these so ancient names wherby ever since Christs time those of the true Religion haue beene knowne whosoever bringeth in another doth iniurie to the catholike cause which the Hereticks of our times haue laboured much in to haue vs called Roman Catholikes that cōsequently themselves might also be called catholikes of other particular Churches suppose of Amstelrodam Geneua or the like This they doe pricked on by the sting of envie seing vs alone to beare away from thē that most ancient and glorious name while they therby shut out of the whole must of necessitie remaine sects and by one name whatsoever they be be called Heretikes This fraude and the poyson of their malicious intention some Catholikes not perceiving take vpon them the addition of Roman Which although it be good in it selfe because the Roman Church is the Catholike Church yet more glorious it were for vs and more confusion to our adversaries to stand fast to that our first name of Catholike which we haue prescribed from them and never suffered to goe out of our hands Aug. de vera Religione Tom. 1. Taking Catholike in the true sense it signifieth a man that professeth the only true Religion wherin one God is worshipped and with most purified pietie knowne and acknowledged for the beginning of all nature by whom all the vniverse is both begunne and perfected and conteined in the one onely and vniversall Church which is called Catholike and not tyed to one place but diffused into all places and all times We Saith S. Augustine Aug. de vera Religione c. 7. must hold the Christian Religion and the communicatiō of that Church which is Catholike called Catholike not only of those that are her owne but also of all her enemies For whether they will or noe the verie Hereticks themselves and nourtured in schismes when they speake not with their owne cōpagnions but with strangers they call Catholike nothing else but Catholike for otherwise they can not be vnderstood vnlesse they discerne her by this name by which shee is called of all the vniversall world Of vniversall Saith S. Augustine Aug. contra litteras Petiliani c. 38 Tom. 7. Act. 1. Catholike tooke the name our Lord himselfe saying It is not for you to know the times which my Father hath kept in his owne power but you shall receiue the vertue of the holy Ghost comming vpon you and ye shall be witnesses for me in Hierusalem all Iudea Samaria and through all the earth Behold frō whēce Catholike is called A Christian I am and a Catholike I am of the same Christian faith that the Disciples were at Antioch and the same Catholike faith that was founded vpon saint Peter and continueth in his successours the vicars of Christ at Rome which is to be a Christian Catholike man simplie and absolutely He that calleth himselfe a Roman Catholike doth like him that calleth a man a risible reasonable man giving no more distinction in the last then at the first for all that they will haue a Roman Catholike to signifie is but the same that is signified by a Catholike A Roman Catholike soundeth in some sense as if one should say a particular vniversall Augustine Aug. contra Gaudēt lib. 5. tom 7. Marke a little what Church Cyptian called Catholike when he defended the vnitie therof the Church sayth he spread through with the light of our Lord streacheth out her beames through the whole world Yet it is one light which is everie where diffused and the vnitie of the bodie is not separated Shee extendeth her branches over the vniversall earth with copious plentie her large spread streames more broad shee layeth forth yet the head is one and the origin one and one mother copious in successions of fecunditie ...... if yours be ●he Catholike Church shew her stretching ●er beames over the whole world Shew ●hat shee extends her branches with co●ious fertilitie over the vniversall earth For hence is Catholike of the Greeke ●ord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 named and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 holon in Greeke maketh in English the whole or ●niversall so that through the whole or ●ccording to the whole is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Catholon from whence Catholike ●s called To be a Christian is glorious and may suffice vs in as much as he that is a good Christian must necessariely be a good Catholike for he is a Christian that being baptized professeth the whole doctrine of IESVS CHRIST in his Church and the same is also a Catholike which name was given to distinguish betweene some and others of the baptized that not professing the whole doctrine of Christ did sticke to parts and making a doctrine of their owne leaving the whole are therfore Heretikes which only name is condistinguisht against Catholikes that whosoever is not a Catholike is by the same an Heretike and not a Luthers Catholike as the Germans call it nor a Calvins Catholike nor no Catholike for no other sort of Catholike is there or can b● then a Christian Catholike S. Peeter Ma●men dyed a Martyr at Damascus about th● yeare of our Lord 742. Slaine by the Ar●bians for saying Everie one that embrace● not the Christian Catholike faith is da●ned like as Mahomet your false proph● is Mart. Rom. 9. Kal. Mart. Theophan in hi● Miscell lib. 22. Anno 2. Constant 6. Imp. Aug. l. 1 Quaest ex Mat. Good Catholikes and evill Catholike S. Augustin admitteth Calling those evi● Catholikes who although they beleeu● those things to bee true which appertain● to the true doctrine of faith and if the● be any thing that they doe not know the● thinke it is to be sought out and withou● breach of pietie doe discusse it withou● any preiudice to the truth it selfe and in a●