John Trapp on Matthew 14:19

Verse 19. And looking up to heaven, he blessed] Heathens [illegible: 1 word] their cates before they tasted them, as appears by many passages in Homer and Virgil. Some say that the Elephant ere [illegible: 1 word] eats his meat, turns up with his trunk the first sprig towards heaven. The Scripture, we are sure, sayes, that men eat to God when they give thanks, Rom. 14 6. To whom then do they eat that give none? And the Disciples, to the multitude] They grudged not of their little to give others some, and it grew in their hands, as the widdows oyl did in the cruse. Not getting, but giving is the way to thrive. Nothing was ever lost by liberality.