John Trapp on Matthew 15:18

Verse 18. Come foorth from the heart] That source of sinne, and fountain of folly: for as a fountain casteth forth her waters, so doth the heart of man cast out it's wickednesse, Jer. 6. 7. and if the [illegible: 1 word] be a world of wick dnesse, Jam. 2. what is the heart, [illegible: 1 line]. that seminary of sinne, wherein is a [non-Latin text not transcribed] as Empedocles saith in Aristotle. In this sea are not only that Leviathan the devil (who there sets up his forts and strong holds, 2 Cor. 10. 4. and doth entrench and incage himself) but creeping things innumerable, Psal. 104. 26. making that which should be the Temple of God a den of theeves, a pallace of pride, a slaughter-house of malice, a [illegible: 1 word]-house of [illegible: 1 word], a raging sea of sinne, Isa. 57. 20. a little hell of black and [illegible: 1 word] imaginations. The [illegible: 1 word] man [illegible: 1 word] rotting in the grave of corruption, wrapt up in the winding-sheet of hardnesse of heart, and blindenesse of minde; and ([illegible: 1 word] a [illegible: 1 word] crawleth with wormes) swarming with those [illegible: 1 word] lusts, that were able to poison up an honest heart.