John Trapp on John 9:31-33

Verſe 31. We know that God heareth not ſinners,] Their incenſe ſmels of the hand that offers it: The lepers lips ſhould be covered according to the Law: the wicked compaſſe God with lies, when they cry, Hoſ. 11.12. My father, my father &c. This is one of thoſe naturall notions that the devil could never blot out of mans minde, that God heareth not ſinners, Hine Achilies Homericue,[non-Latin text not transcribed]. he will never accept of a good motion from a bad mouth, as that ſtate in ſtory would not. He ſilenced the devil acknowledging him; and of witches good prayers one ſaith, Si magicea, Dius non vult tales: ſi piae, non per tales.