John Trapp on John 8:44-47

Verſe 44. Ye are of your father the Devil.] Who hath ſet his limbes in you: ſo that ye are as like him, as if ſpit out of his mouth. Satan is called the God of this world; becauſe as God at firſt did but ſpeake the [illegible: 1 word], and it was done: ſo if the devil do but hold up his finger, give the leaſt hint, they obey him.

The luſts of your father ye will do.] If the fruits of the fleſh (ſard that Martyr) grow out of the trees of your hearts, Bradford. Serm. of Rep. p. 70. ſurely, ſurely, the devil is at Inne with you: You are his birds, whom when he hath well fed, he will broach you and eate you, chaw you and champ you, world without end, in eternall wo and miſery, &c.

And abode not in the truth. Bu[illegible: 2 letters]olc. ] Si ſatan in conspectu Dei tantas res auſus est, quid apud nos non audebit?

When he ſpeaketh a lye, he speaketh of his own.] And ſo when we do evil, we worke de noſtro, & ſecundum hominem, 1 Cor. 3.3. It is as impoſſible for us naturally to do good, as for a road to ſpet cordials.

For he is a liar, and the father of it.] The devil did only equivocate to our firſt parents, and yet is here called a lyar, and 2 Cor. 11.3. a cozener. A lye hath been alwayes held hatefull: but equivocation is now ſet forth, of a later impreſſion. The Jeſuites have called back this peſt from hell, alate, for the comfort of afflicted Catholicks, as Arch-Prieſt Blackwell, and Provinciall Garnet ſhamed not to profeſſe. Est autem ſatanae pectus ſemper faecundiſſimum mendacijs, ſaith Luther. He began his kingdom by a lye, and by lyes he upholds it, as were eaſie to inſtance. See my Notes on Geneſis, chap. 3. ver. 5.