John Trapp on John 6:27-28

Verſe 27. Labour not for the meat, &c.] When Baſil was tempted with money and preferment, he anſwers, Pecuniam da quae permaneat, ac continuò duret, gloriam quae ſemper floreat. The faſhion of this world paſſeth away, as the water of a River that runs by a City, or as a fair picture drawn upon the ice, that melts away with it. Men come to the worlds felicities, as to a Lottery, with heads full of hopes, but return with hearts full of blanks.

Labour for the meat that endureth] We may not dream of a delicacy in Gods wayes, or think that good things will drop out of the clonds to us, Plut in Sylla. Revſ. Symb A [non-Latin text not transcribed] Luk. 13.14. as Towns were ſaid to come into Timotheus his toyls, whiles he ſlept. We muſt be at pains for Heaven. Laborandum was one of the Emperours motto, and may be every Chriſtians. Strive they muſt even to an agony, ere they can get into the ſtrait gate: together with our ſtooping, there muſt be a certain ſtripping of our ſelves.