[That Villaine and Secretary of Hell, that composed that miscreant piece of the three Impostors.]] It was Ochinus that composed this piece; but there was no less a man than the Emperour Frederick the Second, that was as lavish of his tongue as the other of his pen; Cui sæpe in ore, Tres fuisse insignes Impostores, qui genus humanum seduxerunt: Moysem, Christum, Mahumetem. Lips. monit. et exempl. Politic. cap. 4. And a greater than he, Pope Leo the Tenth, was as little favourable to our Saviour, when he us'd that speech which is reported of him, Quantas nobis divitias comparavit ista de Christo fabula.
Sect. 21. Pag. 34.
[There are in Scripture, stories that do exceed the fables of Poets.]] So the Author of Relig. Laici. Certè mira admodum in S. S. plus quam in reliquis omnibus Historiis traduntur; (and then he concludes with the Author) sed quæ non retundunt intellectum, sed exercent.
[Yet raise no question who shall rise with that Rib at the Resurrection.]] The Author cap. 2 l. 7. Pseudodox. sheweth that it appeares in Anatomy, that the Ribs of Man and Woman are equal.
[Whether the world were created in Autumn, Summer, or the Spring, etc.]] In this matter there is a consent between two learned Poets, Lucretius and Virgil, that it begins in Spring.
At novitas mundi nec frigora dura ciebat,
Nec nimios æstus, nec magnis viribus auras.
Lucretius
Which he would have to be understood of Autumn, because that resembles old age rather than Infancy. He speaks expresly of the Fowls.
Principio genus alituum variæq; volucres