CA r. ti . ARevelatto;uftbe Apocalypfe. 529 outofa live body. Firfl therefore this Sea is tLe Councellof Trent, which is. no lefle compiled out of the whole pack of all Popish errours, then the naturall Sea hath his being of the gathering toge- ther ofmany waters that flow into it. Now this Councell was begun fome yeares before,as we have Chewed, Chapter i i. 7. But it was brought to the finali conclufion,and . confirmed by the definitive fen- tence of Paul the 4. at the requeft of Maropua, and Simoneta the Cardinalls, in the name ofthe rcff of the Councell in the yeare 1 564. MartinChentnitiva ; was .tbe feco d eAngell that poured out his Viaupon this Seaof.Errours the next yeare after, and the next eighty yeares that enfued immediatly ; for he made and fet forth an examinationof this, Conned ofTrent, the which he found to be no- thingelfe but an horrible Chaos of many monftrous; opinions. By ortcafion hereof there arofe prefently, many,flout ,Champions for the Pópülrcaufe, who quitted and carried themfelves.fo luckily and manfully in this exploit, that they turned that blood into rottenmat- ter by defending; it, that is, they added an heape of many more, and morepeflilent errours unto the former. Among the refit there role uphandlers ofControverfies at Rheimer, DoWay, and Lovaine, as it were certaine Captaines appointed to their feverall bounds.; thorough whole diligence and paines it was brought about, that all that mire, which lay ftinlGing fcatteredly .here and there in many ditches, wasgathered together,into one large Channel', that fo this corruptfilthy Seamight have his being from thence. But this con- joyning offwaters, that made this carrion/7 Sea of filthy matter, was then made in fpeciall manner to lye open to the view of all the world, when as Gregory the 13. tooke order for the building of two very great and large Colledges at Rome for the corrupting of the Youth beyond the 4lpes, and when he made Robert Bellarmine the chide agent in this peece ofService, whofework it was to open and handle controverfies about thefaith, to thofe who were nourrlhed as Students in thofe Colledges. For this man, to the end that he might providebetter, for the inflrueling,' that is, for the moreready, poifoning and fpoilingofhis Schoners, thought it his -bell not to la- bour in one or twoheads, which many other had done before him, but tobesag all the Controverfies intoone body, as it were, which thing he law to bewanting as he himfelf confeffeth in his Epiflle to his. high Prief#,the Popes unholineffe. Whereupon it came to paffe by Gods fingular providence, that theentire .and perfea body of Po- pifiaMotttrin abfolute in all points being ñnifhed,fhould be moft. largely
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