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 sixt Canon.

* 1.1About an hundreth yeares after S. Cyprian, (which was about 350. yeares after Christ) some of the fathers by rhetori∣call apostrophees, did applie their orations to the dead, as if they had been liuing. Of which sort were S. Basill and saint Gregory Nazianzene,* 1.2 who though they did but inuocate the saints figuratiuely, and of a certain excessiue zeale, yet did such their inuocations minister occasion to the papistes, of all their superstition in that behalfe. These are the wordes of S. Gre∣gory Nazianzene; Audite populi, tribus linguae, homines om∣nes cu••usuis generis & aetaetis, quicunque & nunc estis, & exi∣stetis Infra, audiat quoque Constantini magni anima, si quis mortuis sensus est, omnes{que} eorum qui ante eum imperium tenue∣runt, piae Christi{que} amantes animae. Heare O people, kinreds, tongues,* 1.3 nations, ages, whosoeuer are now liuing, or shalbe borne hereafter. Let also the soule of Constantine the Great heare, & all the christian godly soules of the Emperors before him, if the dead perceiue any thing at all. And againe in another

place, he thus writeth; At ô pascha, magnum inquam & sacro sanctum pascha, totiusque mundi piaculum! te enim quasi vita praeditum alloquor. But O Passeouer, the great I say, and sa∣cred Passeouer, and the purgation of the whole world. For I call vpon thee, as if thou hadst life. Thus writeth Nazianzene, by whose wordes we may measure both the rest of his sayings, and of the other fathers. First therefore I note, that hee doth [ 1] inuocate aswell senselesse thinges, as reasonable soules. Se∣condly, [ 2] hee calleth vpon the soules of all the people in the world, whereof some were damned in the bottome of hell, and so could not heare, as euery learned papist will admit. Third∣ly, he inuocateth those that are yet vnborne. Vpon these sandie [ 3] foundations, are built all popish superstitious inuocations.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Anno Dom. 350
• * 1.2

  Na••ianz. orat. 1. ••n Iulian, in initio, tom. 2.
• * 1.3

  Nazianz. orat. 2. in Pascha, in ipso ••••ne.