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John Trapp on 2 Corinthians 11:20

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2 Corinthians11:20

Verſe 20. For ye ſuffer, if &c.] As the Popiſh penitentiaries, thoſe miſerably miſled and muzzled creatures. They write of out King Henry the ſecond, that going to Canterbury to viſit the ſepulchre of his own Martyr Thomas Becket, coming within the ſight of the Church, he alighted, and went three miles on his bare feet,Daniels hiſt. fol [illegible: 1 letter]02. which with the hard ſtones were forced to yeeld bloudy tokens of his devotion on the way. Clemens the fifth, Pope, cauſed Dandalus the Venetian Embaſſadour to come before him tied in chams,Incl p. 379. Gab. Powell of Tolerat. and to wallow under his table with dogs, whileſt his Holineſſe ſat at ſupper. The Pope laſhed Henry 4. of France (in the perſon of his Embaſſadour at Rome) after the ſinging of every verſe of Miſerere, untill the whole Pſalm was ſung out. Sed exor to jam Evangely yubare, ſagaciores (ut ſpero) principes ad nutum Romani Orbily non ſolvent ſubligacula, ſaith a great Divine.

If a man take of you] By way of gratuity, but not of wages: or by their followers, and not by themſelves. No Cappucine among the Papiſts may take or touch ſilver. This mettall is as very Anathema to theſe,D. Hallſ; epiſt. 5. Decade. 1. as the wedge of gold to Achan: At the offer whereof he ſtarts back, as Moſes from the Serpent. Yet he carries a boy with him that takes and carries it, and never complains of either mettall or meaſure.

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