John Trapp on Matthew 14:22

Verse 22. Jesus constrained his Disciples] Who seem to have been full loth to leave his sweet company. The presence of friends (how much more of such a friend?) is so sweet, that death it self is called but a departure. Christ compelled them, which is no more then commanded them (say some) to get into a ship: 1. [illegible: 1 word] they should take part with the rash many-headed multitude, who would have made him a king, Joh. 6. thus he many times prevents sin in his, by removing occasions. 2. To inure them to the crosse, and to teach them, as good souldiers, to suffer hardship, which the flesh takes heavily. 3. To give them proof of his power, now prefected in their weaknesse, when they were ready to be shipwrackt, and to teach them to [illegible: 1 word] to him absent, whom present they had not prised to the worth, as appears, ver. 17. When we cast our precious things at our heels, as children, our heavenly father layes them out of the way another while, that we may know the worth by the want, and so grow wiser. He sent the [illegible: 1 word] away] That he might shun even theCant. 1. 7. suspition of sedition: We must not only look to our consciences but to our credits. Why should I be as one that turneth aside? saith the Church, or as one that is veiled and covered, which was the habit of an harlot? Why should I seem to be so, though I be none Quiequid [illegible: 1 word] malè coloratum. Bern. such? We must shun appearances of evil, whatsoever is but evilfavoured.