John Trapp on Matthew 1:19

Verse 19. Then Joseph her husband [illegible: 1 word] a just man] And yet withall a mercifull tender man of the Virgins credit. Hence that conflict and fear within himself, lest he should not doe right. And not willing to make her a publike example] That is, to [non-Latin text not transcribed]. wrong her, as the same word is used and expounded by the Authour to the Hebrews of the Son of God, as here of the mother of [illegible: 1 word] ipse eam [illegible: 1 word] paenis, nec [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 2 words] risui exponere. Aret. in loc. God. Heb. 6. 6. with Heb. 10. 29. Was minded to put her away privily] Which yet he could hardly have done, without blame to [illegible: 1 word], and blemish to her. So farre out we are (the best of us) when destitute of divine direction. How shamefully was that good Josiah miscarried by his passions to his cost, when he went up against Pharaoh Necho, without once advising with Ieremiah, Zephany, Huldah, or any other prophet of God then living by him?