John Trapp on Matthew 17:11

Verse 11. And restore all things] viz. In Malachies sense, i.e. not simply, absolutely, perfectly: for the royalty of restoring all things so, was reserved for Christ alone, Acts 3. 21. but comparatively to the state of the old Church. So those renowned Reformers, Luther, Farellus, &c. abroad, Cranmer, Cromwell, &c. here at home, freed the Churches from many burdens and bondages, did (for their time) worthily in Ephrata, and are therefore famous in Bethlehem. But as ejusdem non est invenire & [illegible: 1 word] (it is a praise proper to Christ only, to be Alpha and Omega, Rev. 1. [illegible: 1 word] and Finisher of that he sets about) those brave men leftHeb. 12. 2. many abuses and disorders in the Church unrectified, unreformed, which either they did not see, or could not help. But now as more light is diffused, so great thoughts of heart, yea and great hopes are conceived, that God will finish the work and cut it short in [illegible: 1 word], Rom 9 28. that he will cut off the names of the Idols out of the land and they shall be no more remembred: yea that he will causeZech. 13. 2. the false Prophets, and with them the unclean spirit, to passe out of the land. We shall reade Neh. 8. 17, 18. of a feast of Tabernacles so well kept by the Jewes newly come out of captivity, with dwelling in booths, and reading every day out of the Law, &c. as had not been done in many hundred years before, no not [illegible: 1 word] the raign of David and Solomon.