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

After this conception in the thoughts, she knew not how to be delivered but by consent: she did take and eat. Now the child is borne, lest it should perish for want of keeping, Lust puts it forth to nurse. Dame Custom takes it to keeping, and promiseth to bring it up. And she hath been so good as her word; so nurse it, and nourished it, that it is now past a tender stripling: Paul calls it an old man, Eph. 4.22. Put off the old man; above 5000 years old, and yet it is not only alive, but lively and lusty to this day.

After this conception in the thoughts, she knew not how to be delivered but by consent: she did take and eate. Now the child is borne, lest it should perish for want of keeping, Lust puts it forth to nurse. Dame Custome takes it to keeping, and promiseth to bring it up. And she hath beene so good as her word; so nurse it, and nourisht it, that it is now past a tender stripling: Paul calls it an old man, Eph. 4.22. Put off the old man; above 5000 yeeres old, and yet it is not only alive, but lively and lusty to this day.

First, for the father of sin, whom all confess to be the devil,^p When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. CHRIST calls him the father of lies, not of liars, for all men are liars. Now as Omne mendacium est peccatum, every lie is a sin; so some have observed that Omne peccatum est mendacium, every sin is a lie: because it is done against the truth. If so, then he that is the father of all lies, is the father of all sins. And by a lie he engendered all sins. GOD had said, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt^q surely dye: Eve first, receiving Satan's seed, reporting this, corrupts it; and says only, ye shall not touch it,