John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 4:7

Verſe 7. For who maketh thee] He directeth his ſpeech to thoſe Theologi gloriae, as Luther uſually called ſuch, thoſe vain-glorious, ſelf-aſcribing Paſtours at Corinth, that ſought to bear away the bell from Paul; and would not ſtick to anſwer this demand of his,Greenincbonius. Quis te diſcernit? As that inſolent Arminian did, Ego meipſum diſcerno, I make my ſelf to differ.

And what hast thou, &c.] There are that would hammer out their own happineſſe, like the Spider, climbing by the thred of her own weaving, with Motto accordingly, Mihi ſoli debeo

Why dost thou glory] As great a folly, as for the groom to be proud of his maſters horſe, the ſtage-pla[illegible: 1 letter]er of his borrowed robes, or the mud wall of the Sun-ſhine. Of all the good that's in us, we may well ſay as the young man did of his hatchet, Alas, maſter, it was but borrowed.