John Trapp on Galatians 4:16

Verſe 16. Am I there ſore become, &c.] Truth breeds hatred, as the fair Nymphes did the ugly Fawns and Satyrs. the hearing of truth galls, as they write of ſome creatures, that they have fel in aure, gail in their ears. It was not for nothing therefore that the Oratour called upon his Countreymen to get their ears healed before they came any more to hear him. to preach, faith Luther is nothing elſe but to derive upon a mans felt the rage of all the Countrey. And therefore when one defined the miniſteriall function to be Artom artium & ſcientiam ſcientiarum, the art of arts, and ſcience of ſciences. Melancthon ſaid, If he had defined it to be miſeriam miſeriarum, the miſery of miſeries, he had hit it.

Becauſe I tell you the truth?] He that prizeth truth (ſaith Sir Walter Raleigh) ſhall never proſper by the poſſeſſion or profeſſion thereof.Hiſt l. 1.0.1. An expectas, ut Quintilianus ametur? When we ſeek to fetch men out of their ſins, they are apt to fret and ſnarl & as when men are wakened out of ſleep, they are unquiet, ready to brawl with their beſt friends.