John Trapp on John 4:18

Verſe 18. He whom thou now haſt, &c.] Here he comes home to her conſcience; ſo muſt all that will do good on it, ſtriving not ſo much to pleaſe, as to profit. Bees are killed with honey, but quickned with vineger. The Eagle, though ſhe love her young ones dearly, yet ſhe pricketh and beateth them out of the neſt; ſo muſt Preachers drive men out of the neſt of pleaſure. Iohn Speiſer, preacher at Auſborough in Germany, did his work ſo well at firſt, that the common ſtrumpets left the Brothel-houſes (then tolerated) and betook themſelves to a better courſe, Scultee. Annal. 118. Anno 1523. Yet afterwards he revolted to the Papiſts, and miſerably periſhed.