John Trapp on John 9:16

Verſe 16. This man is not of God.] True, if he had indeed made no conſcience of keeping the ſabbath. Sanctifying the Lords day in the primitive times was a badge of Chriſtianity. When the queſtion was propounded, Chriſtianu[illegible: 1 letter] ſu[illegible: 2 letters]intermittere non poſſum Servaſti Dominicum? Haſt thou kept the Sabbath? the anſwer was returned, I am a Chriſtian, and may not do otherwiſe. The enemies and hinderers of ſanctifying the Sabbath, are called unbeleevers, vagabonds and wicked fellows, Acts 17.2, 5. B. White. Act and Mon. Sometipſum deteſtatus eſt, quòd Regi poitùs quam Deo ſtuduiſſet placere. S[illegible: 1 letter]uitet. Sueton Dio in Ve[illegible: 1 letter]paſ. That late great Antiſabbatarian Prelate, ſo much caſt off by the reſt, after he had ſerved their turns, might well have cryed out with Cardinal Wolſey, Surely, if I had been as carefull to ſerve God as I was to pleaſe men, I had not been at this paſſe.

How can a man that is a ſinner.] Yes that he may, by divine permiſſion, or at leaſt he may do ſomething like a miracle; as the falſe prophets, and Antichriſt. Suetonius tells us, that Veſpaſian cured a blinde man by ſpetting upon his eyes. And Dio teſtifieth that he healed another, that had a weak and withered hand, by treading upon it. And yet Voſpaſian lived and died a Pagan. This therefore was no convincing argument, that the Jews here uſed.