John Trapp on Matthew 18:15

Verse 15. If thy brother shall trespasse] As trespasse he will, for it must needs be that offences come, vers. 7. such is humane [illegible: 1 word]. Two flints may [illegible: 1 word] smite together, and not fire come out, as two or more men converse together, and not trespasses in one kind or other fall out. A Heathen could say, Non amo [illegible: 1 word] nisi offendam: for so, I shall know whether he love me or no, by his forbearing of me. And Augustine saith Qui desinit [illegible: 1 word], desinit amare. He that ceaseth to bear with me, ceaseth to love me. Here therefore our Saviour, after he had deterred his from doing wrong, instructeth them how to suffer wrong. If it be not considerable, it must be dissembled. As if it be, Go and tell him] [non-Latin text not transcribed] Get thee gon to him presently, lest else the soreLevit. 19. 17. [illegible: 1 word], and thou hate him in thy heart: [illegible: 1 word] not, he should come to me, &c. but get thee to him with speed. Lech lecha, as God said to Abraham, up and be packing: [illegible: 1 word] not to strain courtesie with him, when both have haste: but seek peace and ensue it; it is best to be first in a good matter. Remember, said Aristippus to [illegible: 1 word] (with whom he was fallen out) that though I were the elder Nae [illegible: 2 words] vir me longe melior es, &c. Plutar. de [illegible: 1 word]. ira. [illegible: 1 word]. l b. 2. mao, yet I first sought to thee. Verily, said [illegible: 1 word], thou [illegible: 1 word] not only an elder, but a better man then I: for I was first in the quarrell; but thou art first in seeking reconciliation. Tell him his fault.] Gods little ones are so to be loved, as not to be let alone in their trespasses: but freely and friendly admonished, that they may see their sinne, and amend their way, as Denkius did when admonished by Oecolampadius. He being a learned man held this heresie, that no man or devil should be damned eternally, [illegible: 5 words] but all saved at last, &c. But, being withall an humble man, he repented; being converted by Oecolampadius in whose presence he died at Basil of the plague, but piously, [illegible: 1 word] Dom. 1528. Thou hast gained thy brother] To God and thy self; and if to God, to thy self surely for ever, as Philemon, (how much [illegible: 1 word] Onesimus?) to Paul, to whom they therefore owed themselvesPhilem. 19. also. St Anthony Kingston thus spake to Mr Hooper a little before his Martyrdome: I thank God that ever I knew you, for God did appoint you to call me being a lost childe. For by your good admonitions and wholsome reproofs, whereas I was before both an adulterer and [illegible: 1 word], God hath brought me to forfakeAct and Mon. and [illegible: 1 word] the same.