John Trapp on Matthew 17:21

Verse 21. This kinde goeth not out] Some devils then are not so [illegible: 1 word], politike, vile, villainous, as others: so neither [illegible: 2 words] men all alike wicked; Some stigmaticall [illegible: 1 word] face the heavens, burden the earth, please not God, and are contrary to all men. Others are more tame and tractable, as the young1 [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. 15. man on whom Christ looked and loved him. Yet, as when one commended the [illegible: 1 word] Legate at the Councel of Basil, Sigismund the Emperour answered, Tamen Romanus [illegible: 1 word]: So though the devil or his slaves seem never so fair conditioned, they are neither to be liked nor trusted: he is a devil still, and will do his kinde: they are wicked still, and [illegible: 1 word] proceedeth from the wicked, as saith [illegible: 1 word] Sam. 24. 13. the Proverb of the Ancients. I have read of one that would [illegible: 1 word] the [illegible: 1 word], theatres and whore-houses in London all day, but he [illegible: 1 word] not go forth without private praier in the morning, and then would say at his departure, Now devil do thy worst: andM. [illegible: 3 words], p. 23 a. so used his praiers as charms and spels against the weak, cowardly devil. This was not that praier and fasting our Saviour here speaks of; men must not go forth to this spirituall fight, [non-Latin text not transcribed], with their break-fast, as the Grecians in Homer, but praying and fasting from sin especially: for otherwise they do but light a candle afore the devil, as the Proverb hath it.