A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

When we hear an excellent lesson on an Instrument, we call for it again, and again. If Gods peace dwell in our hearts, we love the songs of Zion rehearsed; Decies repetita placebunt. All our Sermons are but Rehearsals of that old Sermon. Gen. 3.15. The seed of the woman shall break the head of the Serpent. All the sum of the new Testament is but the repetition of that one Prophecy. What are the Father writings, but expositions of the Apostles? the Schoolmen, but abridgements of the Fathers? It is an usual adage in the School, that the soul of Augustine was pythagorically transfused into the body of Aquinas. The Jesuit is nothing else but a• old School-man bound up in a new cover. As one observed wittily; The School-man is Philosophical in his Theology; the Jesuit. Theological in his Philosophy. As Augustine wrote of his bastard Adeodatiu•; Ego in illo puero prater delictum […] h•bebam; I had no share in that boy, but only sin. So the Jesuits may confess of their books; that there is nothing in them of their own, but that which is had▪ The good stuff is the fathers, only the lace and pinking is their own. As it is said of a Simnel, that it is but bread upon bread: so we may say of the Jesuit; it is but Aquinas they lick him over, and let him go. As Galaton painted Homer vomiting; ⟨p. 285⟩reliquos verò poetas ea quae ipse evomuisset haurientes; and all the rest of the Poets licking up what he had vomited, Aelian.

When we heare an excellent lesson on an Instrument, we call for it againe, and againe. If Gods peace dwell in our hearts, we love the songs of Sion rehearsed; Decies repetita placebunt. All our Sermons are but Rehearsalls of that old Sermon. Gen. 3.15. The seed of the woman shall breake the head of the Serpent. All the summe of the new Testament is but the repetition of that one Prophecie. What are the Father writings, but expositions of the Apostles? the Schoolemen, but abridgements of the Fathers? It is an usuall adage in the Schoole, that the soule of Augustine was pythagorically transfused into the body of Aquinas. The Iesuite is nothing else but a old Schoole-man bound up in a new cover. As one observed wittily; The Schoole-man is Philosophicall in his Theologie; the Iesuite. Theologicall in his Philosophy. As Augustine wrote of his bastard Adeodatiu; Ego in illo puero prater delictum hbebam; I had no share in that boy, but onely sinne. So the Iesuites may confesse of their bookes; that there is nothing in them of their owne, but that which is had The good stuffe is the fathers, onely the lace and pinking is their owne. As it is said of a Cimnell, that it is but bread upon bread: so we may say of the Iesuite; it is but Aquinas they licke him over, and let him goe. As Galaton painted Homer vomiting;