OF CHAP. 8.
So. knowledge in his sits was not extraordinarie as M. Dar. and his frendes haue falslye pretended: neither could he speake Greeke, Hebrew, or Latine, otherwise then he had learned.
That his knowledge was extraordinarie, I trust it is elswhere in the hi∣storie made manifest. Against it nothing is obiected worthy the answe¦ring. But alas poore Somers himselfe) who neuer fayleth the Disc. at a pinch) he good soule like an honest youth is as euery hand whyle so here brought vpon the stage to patch out this desperat cause, and to depose at large: now wheras to this end I haue alleadged that he (a boy scarcely vnderstanding one article of the Creeddid expound the Creed by the space of an houre togeither or their abouts, (a thing ac∣knowledged by two of the Discouerers owne witnesses) this is hand∣somly shad owed, glozed vpon and daubed ouer in these words: that he was in some sort enabled so to doe, by reason that almost euery minister, that came vnto him, had interpreted the Articles of the Creed diuers times vnto him. It had bene good and a most equall and indifferent course (seeing So. is knowne to be an impudent lying wretch) for the streng¦thening of this glozing deposition, so vnlikly to be true, to haue had these ministers knowne, and ther names, that did thus enable and in∣struct Som. in the articles of the Creede: or at least the depositions of some of those who were then present would then haue bene taken. It had bene no heard matter for the Commissioners to haue sifted out this vpon the taking of the depositions, if it had pleased them, seeing it is deposed (you see) that thes Ministers haue interpreted vnt•• him th•• articles of the Creed diuers times and that in the time of this his tro••••le he was se••ome or neuer alone. But admitt that such a cour••e ••ere ta∣ken by I know not how many ministers visitinge him in his sicknes, (a thing that I suppose no man of vnderstanding will easily beleiue) ••et it is a question whether So. were of himselfe able to lay vp so much, as somtimes he deliuered.