John Trapp on 3 John 1:9

Verſe 9. Diotrephes, who loveth, &c.] Ambition is like the Crocodile, which groweth as long as it liveth. What ſtirs made proud Paulus Samoſatenus in the Primitive Church? What continuall quarrellings were there between the Biſhops of Couſtantinople and of Rome for the primacy? and between the Arch-biſhops of Canterbury, and of York for precedency? What a deal ſuffered learned Zanchy at Argentina from his ambitious colleagues, and divers of our Engliſh Divines and others, from the lordly Prelates? Pareus was wont to ſay, That the chief cauſe of all the Churches troubles was the Church-mens affectation of dominion. This trouble-town if we could caſt out of the Church, ſaid he, great hopes there were that we ſhould all, [non-Latin text not transcribed], concur and conſent in one and the ſame truth.Iſidor. Peluſ. [illegible: 1 letter] 4.[illegible: 2 letters] 55. [non-Latin text not transcribed]