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.

The answer.

I say first, that how dull soeuer our wits bee, yet doe wee [ 1] well perceiue your opinatiue diuinitie.

I say secondly, which is a receiued maxime in the schooles, [ 2] that nullum simile est idem; no similitude is the selfe same thing whereof it is a similitude. For to be a relatiue and the corre∣latiue of the same, at the same time, and in the same respect, is flat contradiction.

I say thirdly, that though Christ be the same substance with his father, as he is God: yet is he termed the figure of [ 3] his substance, as he is man; because the diuinitie is hid in the humanitie, as vnder a figure or vaile.* 1.1 So saieth the apostle in another place; For in him dwelleth the fulnesse of the godhead corporally. And the same answere serueth to your loafe. For it is neither idem numero with the other loaues,* 1.2 as you ima∣gine and affirme of your putatiue sacrifice; neither doeth the loafe of it selfe so signifie: but the people by the modification of the loafe, are brought into the notice of the sale of bread.

I say fourthly, (and this confoundeth you all, & your sottish imagination) that y^e veritie is more excellent then y^e figure; the

bodie, then the shadow: the thing signified, then the signe. For your owne selues labour by this means,* 1.3 to prooue the sacrifice of your idolatrous masse. These are the wordes of your Ie∣suite Bellarmine: Figurae necessariò inferiores esse debent rebus figuratis. Figures of necessitie must be of lesse value, then the thinges that are figured by the same.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Coloss. ••.••.
• * 1.2

  Idem n••me•••• sacrifici••••▪
• * 1.3

  De eucharist. lib. 1 ••. 3. col. 474.