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John Trapp on Luke 3:14

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Luke3:14

Verse 14. Do violence to no man] Shake no man by the shoulders, [non-Latin text not transcribed] tosse no man to and fro, to put him into a fright, smite no man with the fist of wickednesse. Tamerlaine took such order with his Souldiers that none were injuried by them: If any souldier of his had but taken an apple or the like from any man, he died for it. One of his souldiers having taken a little milk from a country woman, and she thereof complaining, he caused the said souldier to be presently killed, and his stomack to be ript, where the milkTurk. hist f. 213 that he had of late drunk being found, he contented the woman and so sent her away: who had otherwise undoubtedly dyed for her false accusation, had it not so appeared. Neither accuse any falsely] Get nothing by sycophancie. Oppresse [non-Latin text not transcribed] no man either by force or fraud, and forged cavilation, as it is rendred, Luke 19. 8.

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