John Trapp on Matthew 17:12

Verse 12. [illegible: 1 word] I say unto you that Elias is come] [illegible: 1 word] that is likely to come, however the Papist (as it were to thwart. Christ) by depraving that Prophesie in the Revelation touching the two witnesses, which they say are Henoch and Elias, will needs perswade [illegible: 1 word] and others, that Elias the Thisbite must come ere Antichrist [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] P. R. [illegible: 1 word] 3. cap. [illegible: 1 word]. be revealed. Their arguments I recite not; their Authour is Papias, who [illegible: 1 word] devised and divulged this fable. Now Papias that ancient Millenary, scholar to St Iohn, was a man much respected for opinion of his [illegible: 1 word] and learning, but yet homo [illegible: 2 words], saith Eusebius, not much opprest with wit. But had he been never so absolute otherwise, he was surely out in this. And [illegible: 5 words]. herein we may truly say of him as the Papists fasly [illegible: 1 word] of another, Berengarius cum esset multùm peritus, muliùm erravit. But if Patias or any other Ancient or modern Writer should have said so much against the Popish dotages, as this man hath done for them, Bellarmine, likely, would have answered, as in like case he did, to [illegible: 1 word], Tertullian, Eusebius and Luther, I answer, They are all arrant hereticks. And they knew him not] As neither did they the Lord of glory, because God had hid him under the Carpenters son. Christians are all glorious within, like the Tabernacle, which was gold within, and goats-hair without: like Brutus his staffe, which as [illegible: 1 word] reporteth, was gold within, horn without. They are Princes in all lands, but as Princes in forrain land, they are [illegible: 1 word] and therefore unkist, as the Northern proverb hath it. But as, had they known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory: so, did [illegible: 5 words]. the world know the worth of a Saint, of such a one as was the Baptist especially, they would have given him but too much honour, as Cornelius did Peter, as Chrysostom did Babylas, and as Tertullian did some other Martyrs, to whom writing he sayes, [illegible: 2 words] sum ut vos [illegible: 1 word], I am not worthy once to [illegible: 1 word] unto you.