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

he divided her into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel▪ so poor Faith hath been cut into twelve thousand pieces, and scattered all over the world.

he divided her into twelue peeces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel▪ so poore Faith hath beene cut into twelve thousand peeces, and scattered all over the world.

The Papists exclaim so far as the world is Christened, that the variety of faiths sprung from us. Ex uno Luthero multae fides; Out of one Luther came many faiths: as out of the belly of the Trojan horse, an army of soldiers. They call us Novangelicos, new-Gospellers; and Quinti Evangelii professors; Protestants of a fifth Gospel. All their malice is to black and grime the face of our Church: which still, maugre all their spite, looks fair in the eye of her Husband Jesus Christ. All their aspersions and calumnies are but rubbish to scour us, and make us Gods brighter vessels. A fifth Gospel, say ye? No, remember your own book, which the monks of Paris wrote, and called it Evangelium Aeternum, the Everlasting Gospel: there was a fifth Gospel. But the want of our union with the Pope, or unity with our selves, doth not disprove the truth of our faith. Sicut Dei una Jerusalem, sic Diaboli una Babylon, August. As Jerusalem is at one, so Babylon is at one; the children of hell are at peace. Satan divides not his kingdom; one crow will not peck out another crows eyes. Omnis unitas non est veritas, omnis dissensio non est falsitas. As every union is not truth, so every dissension is not falshood. Melius est dissidium pietatis, quàm pax iniquitatis; Better are the troubles and differences of righteousness, than the peace of wickedness. Non est veritas unitatis, ubi non est unitas veritatis; There is no truth of unity, without unity of truth. Agreement in evil is not unity, but conspiracy. Indeed our neighbours of Rome are subtle, their quarrels are not in the streets, all their jars keep within doors. The Inquisition keeps Papists in the unity of heresy; Yet some of them secretly know their own errors, their own distractions. Ludovicus Vives writes of a great one among them, persuaded to go to one of their conventicles; who answered, Come, Eamus ad communes errores, quia sic vultis: Let us go to the common errors, seeing you will have it so. Where was their union in the time of their Anti-popes; when there were three at once? which was the Head? Was it a body without a head? or a body with three heads? The one were defective, the other monstrous. What was the unity of their faith, when their heads were condemned heretics? some of them sacrificers to devils? Yea, even now they agree not in the Faith.