John Trapp on John 8:40

Verſe 40. A man that hath told you the truth.] Yea, but you tell them not toothleſſe truth, Hiſt. lib. 1. cap. 1. but ſuch as breeds hatred. He that prizeth (preacheth) truth, ſhall never proſper by the poſſeſſion or profeſſion thereof, ſaith Sr Walter Rawleigh. And, Truth is a good miſtriſſe, ſaith another; but he that followeth her too cloſe at heels, may hap have his teeth ſtruck out. The hearing of truth galles; as they write of ſome creatures, that they have fel in qure. Praedicare, nihil aliud eſt, quàm derivare inſe furorem mundi, ſaid Luther, who had the experience of it.