John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 9:1

CHAP. IX. Verſe 1. Am I not an Apoſtle. &c.]

THat is to ſay, Do I require you to do any thing more, then I my ſelf do daily, in parting with my proper rights? All things in a Miniſter ſhould be exemplary, and for imitation, Tit. 2.7. In all things ſhew thy ſelf a patern of good works. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. The word there uſed ſignifieth a thing that makes the ſtamp on the coyn, or the mould whereinto the veſſel is caſt and ſhaped.

Have I not ſeen the Lord?] viz. In viſions and extaſies. The falſe Apoſtles reported him no Apoſtle, becauſe he had not converſed with Chriſt in the fleſh. It is ordinary with ſeducers to detract from the truths Champions, that they may be the better eſteemed of. Thus Bellarmine rejecteth the Fathers and others that make not for him, as heretikes. To Irenaeus, Tertullian, Euſebius and Luther (ſaith he) I anſwer, Omnes manifeſti haeretici ſunt, De Chriſto lib. 1. cap. 9. they are all manifeſt heretikes. So Arminius his courſe was to detract from the authority and fame of Calvin, Zanchi, Beza, Martyr, Synol. Dordeo. [illegible: 1 word]. &c. that he might build himſelf upon better mens ruines. The Jeſuites ſpeak moſt baſely of St Paul, as making much againſt many of their tenets: and ſtick not to teach in their Pulpits, That he was not ſecure of his preaching, but by conference with St Peter: Nor that he durſt publiſh his Epiſtles, till St Peter had allowed them.Spec Europ.