For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Ver. 20. For thou bringest certain strange things] Or, new, never heard of, ξενιζοντα. Yet now so new neither as they thought for; seeRomans 11:2,4; Romans 16:25,26. Papists upbraid us with the novelty of our religion, and ask us where it was till Luther's time? We answer (as one once did), "In the Bible, where their religion never was." See Catalog. Test. verit., and Mr Bernard's Look beyond Luther, Dr Featlie's Conference with Fisher, &c. They boast much of antiquity, as once the Gibeonites did of old shoes and mouldy bread. We refer them to Alex. Cook's Abatement of Popish Brags, and Guild's Popish Boasting of Antiquity; besides abundance of other good authors.