John Trapp on John 15:20

Verſe 20. Remember the Word, &c.] Elſe all is loſt, 1 Cor. 15.2. [non-Latin text not transcribed], H[illegible: 2 letters]. [illegible: 1 letter]. 1. Naturally the word runs thorow us as water thorow a riven veſſel: Pleni rimarum ſumus, huc at que illuc diffluimus. Our memories are as ſeives that retain the chaff, let goe the good corn: or as ners, that keep the pelf, let goe the clean water: or as hourglaſſes, that are no ſooner full, but running out again. Beſeech we God to put his finger upon the hole, and to make his Word an engraffed word unto us, to ſettle it upon our ſouls, &c.

If they have kept my ſaying, &c.] But they will doe neither. Holy Melancthon, being himſelf newly converted, thought it impoſſible for his hearers to withſtand the evidence of the Goſpel: But after he had been a preacher a while, 'tis ſaid he complained, that old Adam was too hard for young Melancthon.