John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 9:23

Verſe 23. That I might be partaker] i. e. That I might be ſaved together with you. For the bell may call men to the Church, though it ſelf never enter. The field may be well ſowed with a dirty hand; the Well yeeld excellent water, though it have much mud. Noah's builders were drowned: and the ſign that telleth the paſſenger there is wholſome diet, or warm lodging within, may it ſelf remain in the ſtorms without. See 1 Tim. 4.16. Nihil turpius eſt Peripatetico claudo.