John Trapp on Isaiah 29:21

Ver. 21. That make a man an offendor for a word] when he meant no hurt: or by perverting and miſconſtruing his ſpeeches. Thus they ſought to trap Chriſt in his ſpeeches: and thus they dealt by many of the Martyrs and Confeſſors. To ſay, The Lord, Act. & Mon. fol. 1116. and not Our Lord is called by Stephen Gardner, ſymbolum haereticorum, a note of an Heretick. Dr. Stories rule to know an heretick was, they will ſay, The Lord, and We praiſe God, and The living God.] Robert Cook was abjured for ſaying that the bleſſing with a ſhoo-ſole was as good as the Biſhops bleſſing:Ibid. 1803. Another for ſaying, that Alms ſhould not be given untill it did ſweat in a mans hand. Mrs. Catiſmore for ſaying that when men go to offer to images,Ib 952. Ib. 765. they did it to ſhew their new geare; and that images were but Carpenters Chips; and that folks go on pilgrimage more for the green way then for devotion.Ib. 763. Philip Braſier for ſaying that when any miracle is done, the Prieſts do noint the images, and make men believe theſe images ſweat in labouring for them,Ib. 952. &c. Every day they wreſt my words, ſaith David of his enemies, Pſal. 56.5. As the ſpleen is ſubſervient to the liver, to take from it only the moſt putrid and feculent blood: ſo do Detractors pick out the worſt of every thing, to lay it in a mans diſh, or alledge it againſt him.

And lay a ſnare for him that reproveth] See the Note on Amos 5.10. Freedom of ſpeech uſed by the Waldenſes in blaming and reproving the vices and errors of great ones,Girard. offecit ut plures nefariae affingerentur eis opiniones, à quibus omnino fuerant alieni, made them hardly thought and ſpoken of.