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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London :: Printed by Valentine Sims dwelling on Adling hill at the signe of the white Swanne,
1596.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
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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 13, 2024.
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The answere.
I answere, that S. Iohn meaneth nothing els, then that which S. Paul hath vttered: he vseth the figure Prosopopeia, & after the vsuall course of the scriptures, causeth things sense∣lesse, and voide of reason, to sounde out the praise of God: so saith the Psalmograph Dauid; All thy workes praise thee, O Lord,* 1.1 and thy saints blesse thee▪ and in another place thus; The heauens declare the glorie of God,* 1.2 and the firmament sheweth the worke of his hands: yea, as the prophet saith, and as the three holy Hebrewes sang,* 1.3 fire, heate, winter, summer, frost, snow, light, darkenesse, the starres, the sunne, the moone, and creatures blesse the Lord.* 1.4