John Trapp on John 18:2
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Verſe 2. And Judas alſo which betrayed him] No ſuch danger to Chriſts Church by any, as by Apoſtates and falſe brethren, Gal. 2.4. Julian, of a for ward Profeſſour became a furious perſecutour, and drew more from the faith by fraud and craſt, then all the Heathen Emperours before him had done, by their force and cruelty. Eo tantum fine ut ipſi ob mutuam inter ſe contentionem bello inteſt ino oppuſnarent eccleſiā. S. zom. Jac. Reu. de vit. Ponuf p. 176. He perſecuted by his perſwaſions, as Nazianzen witneſſeth, and called back the Biſhops that were baniſhed by Constantine, that, by their mutuall wranglings amongſt themſelves, they might embroyl and overthrow the Church. About the year of grace, 1240. One Robert a Bulgarian fell off from the Waldenſes, and turning to be a Dominican, he proved to be a ſore enemy to the Church of Chriſt, in Flanders eſpecially. Biſhop Bonner was at firſt advanced by Cromwelol, and ſeemed muck to diſlike Stephen Gardiner for his Popery. Act. and Mon. Jol. [illegible: 2 letters]87. His words to Grafton at Paris, when he was newly made Biſhop of London, were theſe, Before God, the greateſt fault that I ever ſound in Stokeſly (who was his Predeceſſour) was for vexing and troubling of poor men for their Religion, as Lobley the Book-binder and others, for having the Scripture in Engliſh: And (God willing) he did not ſo much hinder it, but I will as much further it, &c. Baldwin the renegado, and Bolſecus (that was hire by the Papiſts to write Calvins life) were deſperate enemies to the truth they had formerly profeſſed. Harding, that had conference with Jewell, was once a zealous Proteſtant, Camd. Eliz. fol. 115. and Chaplain to Lady Jane Gray. Campian of S. Johns Colledge in Oxford, Proctour of the Univerſity, 1568. diſſembled the Proteſtant Religion, which he afterwards oppoſed to his utmoſt. So did Parſons, who was of Balioll Colledge, till he was for his diſhoneſty expelled with diſgrace, and fled to the Papiſts. Chriſts greateſt enemies are uſually thoſe of his owne houſe. He was of the ſociety of Jeſus, that betrayed him.
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