John Trapp on Matthew 15:27

Verse 27. Truth Lord] [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. This is particula assentientis & obsecrantis. How strangely doth God enable and enlarge his weak people many times in prayer? they are carried beyond themselves in a wonderfull manner, and though otherwise rude in speech and [illegible: 1 word], yet then they have words at will, far above naturall apprehension, and such as they are not able to repeat again: being for the time, lost in the endlesse maze of spirituall ravishments, and ascending, with the Church, in those pillars of incense, out of this wildernesse of the World. [illegible: 1 word]. 5. 6. Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs] Loe she picks an argument of speeding out of a repulse; she gathereth one contrary out of another by the force of her faith. See the like, Deut. 32. 36. 2 King. 14. 26. Going into captivitie was a signe of the Israelites returning out of captivitie. Be it that I am a dog saith this brave woman, yet some crumbs of comfort, Lord. Dogs, though they may not eat the childrens meat (if they offer to do it, they are shut out of doors) yet if children full-fed crumble their meat, and make wast of it, as they will, and as the Jews now do, may not the Gentile-dogs lick up those leavings? Thus she reasons it, and thus she makes use of any thing she can lay hold of, whereby she may hope the better to prevail. Those that are hunger-starved are glad to feed upon hedge-fruit, and will make hard shift rather then perish. So, faithfull hearers are not delicate, but can suffer an exhortation, bear a reproof, yea suck hony, with the bee, outHeb. 13. of bitter thime.