John Trapp on John 9:24-26

Verſe 24. Give God the glory.] It appears Joſh. 7.19. and 1 Sam. 65. that this was ſome ſolemne forme, in uſe among that people when they required an oath of delinquents: This the hypocrites made uſe of, as when the devils adjured Chriſt by the living God not to caſt them out. So their fore-fathers would perſecute godly men, and moleſt them with Church Cenſures, and then ſay, Let the Lord be glorified. Iſa. 66.5. With like honeſty as the Conſpiratours in K. Richard the ſeconds time here in England indorſed all their Letters, with Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, good will towards men: This poor man might have anſwered as Rob. Smith the Martyr did, when Bonner began the ſentence of death againſt him, Act and Mon. In Dei nomine, Ye begin in a wrong name, ſaid he.