John Trapp on Amos 4:5

Verſe 5. And offer a ſacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,] which I have flatly forbidden to be done, Lev. 2.11. Neither leaven nor honey (which hath a leavening property in it) might be burnt in any offering made by fire: to ſhew how God hateth hypocriſie; which, as leaven, ſowreth, ſwelleth, impureth, both us and our ſervices. Out with it therefore, 1 Cor. 5.7. God indeed permitted his people to offer leavened bread with the peace-offerings, Lev. 7.13. ut offenderetur, Deum ferre noſtram infirmitatem, ſaith Alſted, to ſhew that God beareth with our infirmities. But thoſe leavened loaves were not to be burnt upon the altar: they were onely for food to be eaten.

and proclaim and publiſh the free-offerings,] that you may not ſeem in any thing to come ſhort of my moſt forward worſhippers: nor to be without your holy convocations ſolemnly proclaimed. Atque ita omnino in caepta idololatria ſtrenuè pergite, and ſo ſhew your ſelves thorow-idolaters:Tarnou. as the Hiſtorian ſaith of our Rich. 3. that knowing it was no good policie to play the villain by half-deal, he reſolved to ſuffer never a rub to lie in his way, that might hinder the true running of his bowles.Dan. Hiſt. 218.

for this liketh you.] Heb. ſo ye love. Idolatry is marvellous pleaſing to corrupt nature: as is to be ſeen in little ones delighting in babies. The whole world wondered after the beaſt. The Papacie with its pomp and pleaſure is an alluring, tempting, bewitching religion.Rev. 13.3. The great whore with her cup of fornications may eaſily boaſt,Aelian. hiſt. as that harlot in Aelian did, that ſhe could ſoon get ſcholers from Socrates; not he from her. But what an odde or rather ſad thing is it, that men ſhould ſo like that which will be their bane? and that God ſhould be put to complain, as here, and Jer. 5.31. My people love to have it ſo: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Polybius ſaith, that whereas man is counted the wiſeſt of all creatures here below, to him he ſeemeth to be the fooliſheſt: for other things love and ſeek their own preſervation, Solus homo ab aevo ad aevum peccat ferè in ijſdem & punitur. Man onely perſiſteth in ſin, and is puniſhed, as if he were ambitious of deſtruction.