John Trapp on Isaiah 5:20

Ver. 20. Woe unto them that call evil good, &c.] that can make Candida de nigris, & de candentibus atra, and go about to invert the nature of things, and to change the very names of them: whileſt they call (not out of ignorance or infirmity, but out of baſe calumny, or groſs flattery) evil good, and good evil; cleping drunkenneſs good fellowſhip, covetouſneſs good husbandry, prodigality liberality, ſwearing with a grace a gentleman like quality, fornication a trick of youth, adultery an enjoyment of the fellow-creature, as Ranters call it, &c. Thus the Athenians flattered their own vices calling [non-Latin text not transcribed],In Catll. &c. Cicero ſaid it was an ill omen of the overthrow of the Commonwealth, that the true names of things were loſt. And in Divinity it is a rule. Qui fingit nova verba, nova gignit dogmata, David. Par. vlta. He that affecteth new terms would bring in new opinions. That ſaying of Luther was oft in Pareus his mouth, Theologus gloriae dicit malum bonum, & bonum, malum. Theologus Crucis dicit id quod res eſt. Not long before our late unhappy troubles, the Martyrs of the Proteſtant religion were diſgraced, the Conſpiratours in the Powder-treaſon excuſed in a Sermon at St. Maries in Cambridge by one Kemp of Queens Colledge. The ſchools, preſs, and pulpit began to ſpeak Italian apace,Myſt. of iniq. p. 15. and to perſwade to a Moderation, to a Reconciliation with Rome, which now was ſaid to be a true Church, the Pope not Antichriſt, &c. The great Elixar called State-policy, hath, with ſome at leaſt, ſo tranſmutative a faculty, as to make copper ſeem gold, right wrong, and wrong right. But let us pray with good David, Pſal. 119.66. Teach me good judgment, and knowledge: give me ſenſes habitually exerciſed to diſcern betwixt good and evil, Heb. 5. Ʋlt. and then take heed that we neither make Cenſures whip, nor Charities cloak too long: we may offend in both.