John Trapp on John 4:39

Verſe 39. For the ſaying of the woman.] An unlikely means to effect ſo great a matter. But what's that to the Almighty? So Junius profeſſeth, that the very firſt thing that turned him from Atheiſme, was conference with a Countrey man of his, not far from Florence. The next was, the Majeſty of the Scriptures, which he obſerved in Joh. 1. So, for our fore-fathers in times of Popery, Act. and Mon. fol. 767. Mr Fox obſerveth, that by the reading of Chaucers books ſome were brought to the knowledge of the truth. And, in that rarity of books, and want of teachers, this the thing I greatly marvell at (ſaith he) to note in the regiſters, and conſider how the word of God did multiply [illegible: 1 word] exceedingly, as it did amongſt them. For I finde that one neighbour reſorting to, and conferring with another, Ibid 750. eftſoons, with a few words of their firſt or ſecond talk, did win and turn their mindes to that, wherein they deſired to perſwade them, touching the truth of Gods Word and Sacraments.