John Trapp on Matthew 15:9

Verse 9. But in vain doe they worship me] For they loose their labour, and which is worse, they commit sinne. Displeasing service is double dishonour, as dissembled sanctity is double iniquity. Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men] So do Papists.Host c. 4. The Pope can do all things that Christ can do, saith Hostiensis. HeBellar. de pont. can of [illegible: 1 word] make righteousnesse, saith Bellarmine, of [illegible: 1 word], Rom. l. 4. [illegible: 1 word], of nothing, something. His determinations are ipsissimum [illegible: 1 word] verbum, the very word of God, saith Hosius. Murders, treasons, thefts, &c. ther's no command of the morall Law, but they can dispence with it; but none of their ceremoniall Law. Let God, say they, look to the breach of his own Law, we will look to ours. Heathen Socrates and Cicero, shall rise up againstSocrat. ap. Xe. nophon. these Pseudochristians, and condemn them. God, said Socrates, will be worshipped with that kinde of worship only which himself [illegible: 1 word] non superstitione coli [illegible: 1 word] pietate. hath commanded. He will not be worshipped, said Cicero, with superstition, but with piety.