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

The time then, is not idly spent, that calls to mind fore-recited principles. If you ask us, Quousque eadem? how often shall we hear the same? we would to God there were no need of repetitions. But it is true what Elihu speaks in Job. ^eGod speaketh once, yea twice, but man perceiveth it not. Yea, Ver. 29. God doth work it twice and thrice, often times with man. Let us answer, as Augustine did the Donatists; being enforced to some iteration; Let those that know it already pardon me, lest I wrong them that are ignorant. It is better to give him that hath, than to turn him back that hath not. If it were true of Homer, or may be true of any man formed of clay; One Homer never cloyed any man that read him. Then certainly it must be true of truth it self; One JESUS CHRIST in his Gospel never satiated any that read him. To conclude, for your part;^f Let the word of CHRIST dwell in you plenteously. The word of grace hath been often offered unto you: whither it hath gotten house room in you or no, I cannot tell. Perhaps it is but in the Nature of a Passenger to you; and your bosom the Inn to give it only a bait and away. Perhaps as the Levite, that sate in the streets, and no man received him to house, Judg. 19. it hath sounded in your Churches, but none bade it to dinner in their consciences. Perhaps it hath gotten admission by force, as they let down the sick man by the tiles of the house: the doors of your hearts being pestered with a throng and crowd of worldly business. But now let it be no stranger, but like a brother dwell with you, never to depart: not in a corner, as if it were pinched for want of room, but Plenteously: not with in-mates and chamber-fellows, as lusts and evil affections; but in your hearts, alone. Yea in cord cordis, in the very heart of your heart. Psal. 40.8. The law is within my heart, in the midst of my bowels. Not unconceived or misconceived, unapplied or misapplied, but in all wisdom. And the God of all wisdom bring you by it to the end of your faith, even the dear salvation of your souls!

The time then, is not idly spent, that calls to mind fore-recited principles. If you aske us, Quousque eadem? how often shall we heare the same? we would to God there were no need of repetitions. But it is true what Elihu speakes in Iob.