John Trapp on John 9:39-40

Verſe 39. For judgement I am come. To judge, much otherwiſe then thoſe unjuſt judges have done, that have caſt out this poor ſervant of mine, for a blaſphemer. B. Bonner having a blinde harper before him, ſaid, that ſuch blinde abjects, that follow a ſort of hereticall preachers, when they come to the feeling of the fire, will be the firſt that will flee from it. To whom the blinde man ſaid, Act and Mon. fol.1821. that if every joint of him were burnt, yet he truſted in the Lord not to flee. A blinde boy, that had ſuffered impriſonment at Gloceſter not long before, was brought to Biſhop Hooper, the day before his death. Mr Hooper, after he had examined him of his faith, and the cauſe of his impriſonment, beheld him ſtedfaſtly, and the water appearing in his eyes, ſaid unto him: Ah poor boy, God hath taken from thee thy out ward ſight, for what conſideration he beſt knowith, but hath given thee another ſight much more precious: for he hath endued thy ſoul with the eye of knowledge, and faith, Ibid. 1321. &c. It is a worthy ſpeech of Mr Beza upon this Text, Prodeant omnes Phariſaeorum noſtri temporis Academiae. Let all our Univerſity-Phariſees come forth together: That blinde and hereticall Church (as they call it) hath, by the bleſſing of God, Habet eccleſia illa caca & boreticaſeprennes pueros, qui teſte un[illegible: 2 letters]er o mundo, &c. children of ſeven years-old, that can, before all the world, confute and confound their erroneous doctrines: witneſſe the children of Merindall and Chabriers, John Fettyes childe of eight years old, that told Bonners Chaplain (who ſaid Fetty was an heretick) My father is no heretick; but you are an heretick, for you have Balaams marke. This childe they whipt to death, &c. Alice Driver Martyr, Act. and Mon. fol. 1864. nonpluſt all the Doctours that examined her: and then ſaid, God be honoured; you be not able to reſiſt the ſpirit of God in me a poor woman. Ibid. 1857. I was never brought up in the Univerſity as ye have been: but I have driven the plow many a time before my father, and yet I will ſet my foot againſt the foot of any of you all, &c.