John Trapp on Luke 23:43-46

Verse 43. Verely I say unto thee] See the infinite love of Christ to penitent sinners, in that when he hung upon the tree, and was paying dear [illegible: 1 word] mans sin, he rejected not this malefactors petition. Shall he not hear us now that all is paid and finished? To day shalt thou be with me] This is not every mans happinesse. A pardon is sometimes given to one upon the gallows: but who so [illegible: 1 word] to that, the rope may be his hire. It is not good to put it upon the Psalm of Miserere, and the neck-verse (saith one:) for sometimes he proves no clark.