John Trapp on Jeremiah 11:19

Ver. 19. But I was like a lamb or an Ox] Harmleſſe and blameleſſe, buſied in my function, and not in the leaſt ſuſpecting any ſuch evil deſigne againſt me.M[illegible: 1 letter]t. 10. I ſend you forth as lambs amongſt wolves, ſaith Chriſt; who himſelf being the Lamb of God was ſlain from the beginning of the world; his ſervants alſo are ſlain all the day long, and counted as ſheep to the ſlaughter; Rom. 8.

Let us deſtroy the tree with the fruit thereof] Let us poiſon his food, ſo the Chaldee ſenſeth it, Ponamus lignum taxi in ſorbitiunculam. Others, let us deſtroy the Prophet and his prophecyes together. Others, let us make an end of him either by ſword or by famine, as the puniſhment threatned ver. 22. pointeth us to.

That his name may be no more remembred] Sic veritas odium peperit. So the Papiſts have given order that whereſoever Calvins name is found, it ſhall be blotted out: and by a moſt malicious Anagram they have turned Calvin into Lucian. One of them lately took a long journey to Rome, only to have his name changed from Calvin to ſome other: and that out of deviliſh hatred of that moſt learned and holy man, Ipſa à quo virtus virtutem diſcere poſſet.