John Trapp on Matthew 11:7

Verse 7. And as they departed.] Due praise is to be given to the [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] parts and practises of others; but rather behinde their backs,Epist. then before their faces, lest we be suspected of flattery, then the which nothing is more odious: Aristobulus the Historian, wrote a slattering book, of the brave acts of Alexander the Great, and presented it to him. He read it, and then cast it into the river Hydaspes, telling the Authour that he had deserved to be so servedTu dignior [illegible: 3 words] precipitareris, qui [illegible: 1 word] me sic [illegible: 1 word] sa is. as his book was. A reed shaken with the winde.] A thing of nothing: A [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] person. So the Iews esteemed Iohn Baptist after a while, whom at first they so much admired. But he soon grew stale to them: and then they shamefully slighted him. And didJohn 5. 35. not the Galathians doe the like by S. Paul? Once they could have pulled out their eies for him: afterwards, they would have pulled [illegible: 1 word]. 4. 15. out his eies, if they could have come at him. Where is then the [non-Latin text not transcribed]. blessednesse ye spake of, saith he? q. d. Once you held and professed [illegible: 2 words]. your selves a people much blessed in me: how comes it, that I am now so fallen out of your hearts? But people are over-soon sated [illegible: 1 word]. with the heavenly manna, and their affections to godly Ministers are as Ioabs dagger, assoon in, and assoon out. Principes [illegible: 1 word] Anno. 1559. Luthero, sed jam iterum videtis ingratitudinem mundi erga Ministros, said Melancthon.