Synopsis papismi, that is, A generall viewe of papistry wherein the whole mysterie of iniquitie, and summe of antichristian doctrine is set downe, which is maintained this day by the Synagogue of Rome, against the Church of Christ, together with an antithesis of the true Christian faith, and an antidotum or counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: deuided into three bookes or centuries, that is, so many hundreds of popish heresies and errors. Collected by Andrew Willet Bachelor of Diuinity.

About this Item

Title: Synopsis papismi, that is, A generall viewe of papistry wherein the whole mysterie of iniquitie, and summe of antichristian doctrine is set downe, which is maintained this day by the Synagogue of Rome, against the Church of Christ, together with an antithesis of the true Christian faith, and an antidotum or counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: deuided into three bookes or centuries, that is, so many hundreds of popish heresies and errors. Collected by Andrew Willet Bachelor of Diuinity.
Author: Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.
Publication: At London :: Printed by Thomas Orwin, for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Talbot,; 1592.
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15422.0001.001
Cite this Item: "Synopsis papismi, that is, A generall viewe of papistry wherein the whole mysterie of iniquitie, and summe of antichristian doctrine is set downe, which is maintained this day by the Synagogue of Rome, against the Church of Christ, together with an antithesis of the true Christian faith, and an antidotum or counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: deuided into three bookes or centuries, that is, so many hundreds of popish heresies and errors. Collected by Andrew Willet Bachelor of Diuinity." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15422.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.

Pages

The Papists.

THey doe beleeue that Christ according to his soule went downe to hell, to [error 101] deliuer the Patriarkes and all iust men there holden in bondage til his death, Rhemist. Act. 2. sect. 12.

Argum. 2. He that ascended, is he that descended first into the lowest parts of the earth, Ephes. 4.9. that is, into hell, the which is the lowest place in the earth, Bellarm. cap. 12.

Ans. 1. The earth it selfe is in respect of the world, the lowest part, so that here one parte of the earth is not to be compared with another: but the whole earth in respect of the high heauens hath the name of the lower partes: so is it taken Psal. 139. ver. 15. Thou hast fashioned me beneath or in the lower partes of the earth: But Dauid (I trust) they will not say, was borne in hell, because he spea∣keth of the lower partes of the earth, consul. Bez. in hunc locum. So that by the descending of Christ into the lowest partes of the earth, is meant nothing els, but the lowest and extreamest degree of his abasing and humiliation, Fulke an∣not. in hunc locum, as S. Paul saith, That he made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant, Philip. 2.7.