Balthazar king of Babylon, when hee was drinking wine, commanded the golden vessel••es which his father had brough from the temple in Hierusalem, to be set before him, that hee, his princes, his wiues, and his concubines might drinke there∣in: they drunke wine, and praised the gods of gold, siluer, brass•• and stone. But what followed al this idololatricall ioy? in the very same houre, there appeared fingers of a mans hand wri∣ting vpon the wall of the kings pallace, so that the kings coun∣tenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him. The ioynts of his loynes were loosed,* 1.1 his knees smote one against the o∣ther, and he cried mightily, Dan. 5. verse 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. Behold here, the end of idolatrie and superstition. Balthazar foorth∣with, after he had adored his false gods, was tormented as is said; the same night he was staine, and Darius the Mede in∣ioyed the kingdome, verse 30, 31. A wonderful example for al kings and monarkes, euer to serue the liuing God, and to set foorth his pure religion.
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.
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- 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.
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- Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.
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- 1596.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07919.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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The third section, of Balthazar.
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* 1.1
A wonderful pu∣nishment for idolatrie.