John Trapp on Isaiah 30:2

Ver. 2. That walk to go down into Egypt] This they were flatly forbidden to do. But State-policy doth ſometimes carry it againſt expreſs Scripture, to the formalizing and enervating of the power of truth, till at length they have left us an heartleſs and ſapleſs Religion, as One well obſerveth. This is no thriving courſe certainly: here we have a dreadful Woe hang'd at the heels of it. The Grecian Churches firſt called in the Turks to their help, who diſtreſſed them, and then, through fear of the Turks, Anno 1438. ſent, and ſubjected themſelves to the Biſhop of Rome, that they might have the help of the Latine Churches: but ſhortly after they were deſtroyed, their Empire ſubdued, &c. teaching all others by their example, not to truſt to carnal Combinations, not to ſeek the aſſociation of others in a ſinful way.