John Trapp on Matthew 19:17

Verse 17. Why callest thou me good?] And if I be not good, much lesse art thou, what good conceits soever thou hast of thy self. Here then our Saviour learns this yonker, [illegible: 1 word], and selfannihilation. [illegible: 1 word]. There is none good but one, that is God] He both is good originall, [illegible: 1 word]. 119. [illegible: 1 word]. (others are good by participation only) and doth good abundantly, freely, constantly, for thou Lord art good, and ready to for give, saith David, Psal. 86. 5. And let the power of my LordNumb. 14 17. be great, saith Moses, in pardoning this rebellious people. In the Originall there is a letter greater then ordinary in the word jigdal [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 5 words]. &c. (be great) to shew, say the Hebrew-doctours, that though [illegible: 1 word] people should have tempted God, or murmured against him ten times more then they did, yet their perversnesse should not interrupt [illegible: 1 word]. Tiberias [illegible: 1 word]. the course of his ever-flowing overflowing [illegible: 1 word]. If thou wilt enter into life, keep the Commandments] That is (saith Luther) Morero, die out of hand: for there is no man lives that sinnes not. It [illegible: 1 word] storied of Charles the fourth, King of France, that being one time affected with the sense of his many and great sinnes, he fetcht a deep sigh and said to his wife, now, by the help of God, I will so carry my self all my life long, that I neverS. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. Christ. [illegible: 1 word]. offend him more: which word he had no sooner uttered, but he presently fell down and died. It is not our Saviours [illegible: 1 word] here to teach, that heaven may be had or earned by keeping the law: for Adam in his innocency, if he had so continued, could not have merited heaven, neither do the Angels, nor could Christ himself, had he been no more then a man. None but a proud Luciferian would have said, as Vega the Popish Perfectionary did, Coelum gratis non accipiam, I will not go to heaven for nought or on free-cost. But our Saviour here shapes this young Pharisee an answer, according to his question. He would [illegible: 1 word] be saved by doing, Christ sets him that to do, which no man living can do, and so [illegible: 1 word] him his errour. He sets him to school to the law, that hard schoolmaster, that sets us such lessons as we are never able to learn, ([illegible: 1 word] Christ our elder-brother teach us, and do our exercise for us) yea brings us forth to God, as that schoolmaster in Livy did all his scholars (the flower of the Romane Nobility) to Hannibal: who if he had not been more mercifull then otherwise, they had all perished.