John Trapp on Matthew 11:4

Verse 4. Jesus answered and said, &c.] Our Saviour rated them not, chased them not away from his presence, though zealously Gal. 4 17. affecting their master, but not well, (Joh. 3.) and envying for his2 Tim. [illegible: 1 word]. 24. sake. The man of God must not strive, but be gentle, apt to teach, patient: In meeknesse instructing those that oppose themselves, &c. Frier Alphonsus a Spaniard, reasoning with Bradford Act. and Mon the Martyr, was in a wonderfull rage, and spake so high, that the whole house rang again, chasing with om & cho, &c. So that if Bradford had been any thing hot, one house could not have held them. Go and shew John what things, &c.] He gives them a reall testimony, an ocular demonstration. This was the ready way to win upon them, who might have suspected a simple assertion, not seconded with such undeniable arguments. Let our lives as well as [illegible: 1 word] lips witnesse for us: Vivite concionibus, concionamini moribus, saith one. Nos non eloquimur magna, sed vivinous, said the Church of old. This is the way to slaughter envy it self, and to [illegible: 1 word] in the hearts of the righteous.