John Trapp on John 15:25

Verſe 25. They hated me without a cauſe] So they dealt by David, ſo by Chriſt, and ſo ſtill by his members. There is but the ſame Pageant acted over again, as of old: In moribus compoſiti, & modeſti ſunt, was the worſt the perſecutours could ſay of the Waldenſes, B. Ʋſh[illegible: 1 letter]r. thoſe ancient Proteſtants: They are good in their lives, true in their ſpeeches, hearty in their affections, &c. Sed fides eorum eſt incorrigibilis & peſſima, Hiſt. of Coua. Trent 7, 8. Tanta eſt morii integritas, ut nee boſtes reperiant quo lealumnic tur. Eraſm. de Lu[illegible: 1 letter]h. ſaid the Dominican Inquiſitour concerning the Huſſites. So the Biſhop of Aliff in the Trent-councel ſaid, That as the faith of the Catholikes was better; ſo the Heretikes exceeded them in good life. Hominis vim magno omnium conſenſu probatur, ſaid Eraſmus of Luther: And yet a Fryer of Antwerp wiſhed that Luther were there, that he might bite out his throat with his teeth, as the ſame Eraſmus teſtifieth.