John Trapp on James 2:1

CHAP. II. Verſe 1. The Lord of glory]

OR, Have not the glorious faith of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, &c. Faith is a glorious grace indeed.

With respect of perſons] i. e. Of their outward quality or conditions, as rich, poor, of this ſide or that, &c. Zanchy relates of a certain Frenchman, a friend of his, and a conſtant hearer of Calvins at Geneva, Zanch Miſcel. praeſat. that being ſollicited by him to hear Viret an excellent Preacher, who preached at the ſame time that Calvin did, he anſwered, If S. Paul himſelf ſhould preach here at the ſame hour with Calvin, Ego, relicto Paulo, aud[illegible: 1 letter]r[illegible: 1 letter]m Calvinum, I would not leave Calvin to hear Paul. This is not only partiality but anthropolatry or Man-worſhip, ſaith he. Grynaeus reports a ſpeech of George Duke of Saxony: Although I am not ignorant,Lect. in Hag. p. 41. ſaid he, that there are divers errours and abuſes cr[illegible: 1 letter]pt into the Church, Nolo tamen amplecti Evangelium quod Lutherus annunciat, yet I will no[illegible: 2 letters] of that Goſpel-reformation that Luther preacheth, Compertum eſt, It is for certain, ſaith Eraſmus, that many things are condemned as hereticall in Luthers writings, Eraſm epiſt. ad Cardin Mogunt that in Austins and Bernards books are approved for ſound and pious paſſages.