John Trapp on Matthew 18:7

Verse 7. Woe to the world, because of offences] [non-Latin text not transcribed], propriè [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. tendicula, hoc est, lignum illud curvum, quo moto decipula clauditur. The world, besides the [illegible: 1 letter]ff[illegible: 1 letter]nces they give to the Saints, they give and take much hurt one from another, and so heap up wrath; whiles, besides their own, they bring upon themselves their other mens sins to answer for. I have read of a woman, who living inM Wards happinesse of paradise. professed doubt of the God-head, after better illumination and repentance, did often protest that the vitious life of a great scholar in that town did conjure up those damnable doubts in her soul. When therefore corruption boiles, and thou art ready to run into some reproachfull evil, think the name of Christ, and thy poor brothers soul lies prostrate before thee. And wilt thou trample upon that, and thrattle this? It must needs be that offences come] By Gods permission, Satans Senec. de benif. lib. 2. cap. 18. malice, and mans wickednes: Venenum aliquando pro remedio f[illegible: 1 letter]it. God oft draws good out of evil, as wine draws a nourishing vertue from the flesh of serpents: as the skilfull Apothecary, of the poisonfull viper, maketh an wholesome triacle, 1 Cor. 11. 19.