John Trapp on Malachi 1:13

Verſe 13. And ye have ſaid alſo, Behold what a wearineſſe is it, and ye have ſnuffed at i: &c.] At what? At the chiding you have had for your lame and lean ſacrifices. A little offenſive breath hath blown you up into rage: This is a kinde of blaſphemy, Ezek. 20.27. when graceleſſe men fall into a fuſtian-ſume, as they ſay, by hearing of their faults: and briſtle againſt a reproof, though never ſo juſt. Or thus, Ye have puffed and blown, as almoſt breathleſſe, by carrying ſome carrion ſheep for a ſacrifice: as if it were ſo fat and full of fleſh, that you could hardly bring it without breaking your winde; whereas ye might have blown it away, it is ſo thin and light.Bern. Hateful Hypocriſie! And it ſped accordingly. For ſhould I accept this at your hand? No, no; Sapiens nummularius eſt Deus: nummum fictum non reciptet. God is a wiſe mint-man: he will take no counterfeit coyn. He not onely detects the cozener, and deteſts him as here, but curſeth him bitterly in the next verſe. He rejects the hypocrites ſacrifice and plagueth ſuch Prometheuſſes; when as he wipes not out any of the good ſervices of his ſincere people, Neh. 13.4. but abundantly bleſſeth them.

Labour therefore for that truth in the inward parts, that we may be with Appelles approved in Chriſt, Pſal. 51 5 John 1 Rom. 16. and with Nathancel, an Iſraelite indeed. Be we the ſame that we would ſeem to be: and, if not as the windows of the Temple were, wider within the a without; yet to be no more in ſhew then we are in truth. It ſtands us in hand when to deal with God, to have the greater part of our ware in the inner part of the ſhop, and not all on the foreſide, on the board or ſtall: and to ſee, that though our work be but mean, yet it may be clean; though not fine, yet not foul; ſoyled and ſlubberd with the ſlur of a rotten heart. Sweet powders can make even leather an ornament, when the Sanies of a plague-ſore wil render a rich robe lothſom, and infections.