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John Trapp on Job 41:11

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Job41:11

Verſe 11. Who hath prevented me that I ſhould repay him?] Who can tax me with injuſtice, who am bound to no man, but Owner of all things? If any one can ſay, I am beholding to him, let him prove it, and I ſhall readily requite it: he ſhall have no cauſe at all to complain of me as ungrateful, Rom. 11.34, 35.

Whatſoever is under the whole heavens is mine] The Divel told our Saviour that all was his, and to whomſoever he would, he gave it, Luke 4.6. The Pope alſo, (that firſt born of the Divel) takes upon him, as Lord of all, to diſpoſe of Spirituals or Temporals in all Countries, as Boniface the VIII wrote to Philip King of France, who anſwered him with a Sciat fatuitas tua, &c. And as the Pope that then was, gave our Henry the Eighth's Kingdome, prime occup[illegible: 1 letter] turo, to him that ſhould firſt take it; but he ſlighted him with Os Pupae & culus Diaboli in eodem ſunt praedicamento. It is for God alone to ſay, as Dan. 4.32. I rule in the Kingdome of men, and give it to whomſoever I will. How then can I do any man wrong who am obliged to none, but all are engaged to me for all they have?

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