John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 13:4

Verſe 4. Though I beſtow all my goods] Unleſſe I draw out my ſoul as well as my ſheaf to the hungry, Iſa. 58.10. Many ſhrink up charity to an handbreth to giving of alms.

And though I give my body, &c.] As Servetus the heretike did at Geneva, anno 1555.Calv. opuſc. So Manzius the Anabaptiſt gave his body to be drowned at Tigure, anno 1527.Scultet. Annal. Fiſher Biſhop of Rochester to be beheaded, for holding the Popes ſupremacy. Frier Forreſt to be hanged,Act. and Mon. fol. 1005. for the ſame cauſe. And how many of our Popiſh Martyrs (malefactours or traitours, I ſhould ſay) have worne the Tiburn-tippet, as Father Latimer phraſeth it? And more of them muſt; for they be ſome of them knaves all, as the L. Audley Chancellour of England once ſaid to the 13. Callice priſoners for religion,Act. and Mon. fol. 1117. whom he diſcharged: and like bels they will never be well tuned, till well hanged.

Verſe 4. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. And is kinde] Or, is eaſie to be made uſe of, ready to any good office. Charity is no churl.

Vaunteth not it ſelf] With the ſcorn of others. Arrianus ſaith,In Epictet. lib. 3. that he is [non-Latin text not transcribed], that blameth others, and is reſtleſſe in himſelf. Such an one was Timon of old, and Laurentius Valla alate.

Is not puffed up] Hence charity is pourtraied as a naked childe with a merry countenance, covered in a cloud, with a bloudy heart in the right hand, giving honey to a Bee without wings.