Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Ver. 8. Behold a door.] A secret door, by which they entered into their idol chapel. Such privy passages there are in the Popish monasteries, and in the whole Romish religion not a few. Ante paucos annos suaviter convivebant monachi et nonnae, a &c. The Council of Trent was carried by the Pope with such infinite guile and craft as that themselves will even smile at the triumphs of their own wits, when they hear it but mentioned, as at a master stratagem. But the author of the history of that Council hath found a hole in the walls of Rome, and many of our worthy champions have digged and discovered their detestable practices.
a Oecolamp.