John Trapp on 1 Timothy 6:1

CHAP. VI. Verſe 1. Count their own masters]

ANd not under a pretence of Chriſtian liberty, and becauſe in Chriſt Jeſus there is neither bond nor free, ſeek to ſhake off the yoke of obedience that God hath hung upon their necks, See 1 Pet. 2.28.

That the name of God and his doctrine, &c.] Be traduced as a doctrine of liberty. Heathens[illegible: 1 letter]ly at the catch, 1 Pet. 2.12. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. ſpying and prying (as the word there ſignifies) and imputing all publike judgements to Chriſtians miſcarriages. Nunc malè audiunt castigantur que vulgò Christiani (ſaith Lactantius) quod alitèr quàm ſapientibus convenit vivant, & vitia ſub obtentu nominis celent. Lactan de opiſ. Dei ad Demet. Chriſtians are very hardly ſpoken of at this very day, becauſe their converſation is not as becometh the Goſpel of Chriſt, but they think to cover their faults with the fig-leaves of profeſſion.