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

while he was studying the point by the Sea-side, ⟨p. 308⟩he spied a boy very busy with a little spoon, trudging often between the sea and a small hole he had digged in the ground. Alanus asked him, what he meant: the boy answers, I intend to bring all the Sea into this pit. Alanus replies, why doest thou attempt such impossibilities, and misspend thy time? The boy answers; So doest thou Alanus: I shall as soon bring all the sea into this hole, as thou bring all the knowledge of the Trinity into thy head: All is equally possible: we have began together, we shall finish together: saving of the two, my labour hath more hope and possibility of taking effect. I conclude with Bern. Scrutari temeritas, credere piet••, praedicare securitas, noscere aeterna faelicitas. It is rashness to search, godliness to believe, safeness to preach, and eternal blessedness to know the Trinity, yet let us know to praise the Trinity. In the words of our Church; Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, And let all answer; As it was in the beginning, […] now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

while he was studying the point by the Sea-side, ⟨p. 308⟩he spied a boy very busy with a little spoone, trudging often betweene the sea and a small hole he had digged in the ground. Alanus asked him, what he meant: the boy answers, I intend to bring all the Sea into this pit. Alanus replies, why doest thou attempt such impossibilities, and mispend thy time? The boy answers; So doest thou Alanus: I shall as soone bring all the sea into this hole, as thou bring all the knowledge of the Trinitie into thy head: All is equally possible: we have began together, we shall finish together: saving of the two, my labour hath more hope and possibility of taking effect. I conclude with Bern. Scrutari temeritas, credere piet••, praedicare securitas, noscere aeterna faelicitas. It is rashnesse to search, godlinesse to beleeve, safenesse to preach, and eternall blessednesse to know the Trinitie, yet let us know to praise the Trinitie. In the words of our Church; Glory be to the Father, to the Sonne, and to the Holy Ghost, And let all answer; As it was in the beginning, 〈…〉 now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.