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The Fifteenth Note of the CHURCH EXAMINED, VIZ TEMPORAL FELICITY.
Ʋltima Nota est Felicitas Temporalis, divinitàs iis collata qui Ec∣clesiam defenderunt.
Bellarm. de Notis Ecclesiae. Cap. 18.
IMPRIMATUR.
August 12. 1687.
Guil. Needham.
WE are now come to the Last of those Notes, by which the Cardinal would perswade us the true Church may be easily known. He had laboured hard to make them up so many; but he was resolved never to leave raising of Notes, till he had his full Complement of Fifteen. And in this he seems to have been put to such a Shift, as some Generals some∣times are; who finding themselves in Streights, draw out their Front to a great Length, and fill up their Ranks with Suttlers Boyes, and other weak Atten∣dants on the Camp, meerly to make a Shew, and a∣muse the Enemy with a vain appearance of Numbers, when they have reason to dread the Issue of the Battel. It is certain no Man before him ever counted up so many