John Trapp on Matthew 2:19

Verse 19. But when [illegible: 1 word] was dead] Not long after this butchery at Bethlehem, he fell into a foul and [illegible: 1 word] disease, whereof he died: so did Sylla that bloudy man before him: so did Maximinus [non-Latin text not transcribed]. [illegible: 1 word]. and others after him; Iohn de [illegible: 1 word] a cruell [illegible: 1 word] and Inquisitioner, (who used to fill [illegible: 1 word] boots with boyling grease, and so putting them upon the leggs of those whom he examined, to tie them backward to a form with their leggs [illegible: 1 word] down over a small fire, &c.) was smitten by God with an incurable disease, so loathsome, that none could come nigh him, so swarming with vermine and so rotten, that the slesh fell away from the bones by peece-meal, &c. Twiford (who was executioner of Frith, Bayfeild, Act. and [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. 860 Bainham, Lambert and other good men) died rotting above Ibid 11 46. ground, that none could abide him. So did Alexander the cruell [illegible: 1 word] of New-gate, and Iohn Peter his son in law, who commonly, when he would affirm any thing, used to say, If it be not true, I pray God I rot ere I die. Stephen Gardner rejoycing upon the news of the Bishops burnt at Oxford, was suddenly ceized by the terrible hand of God as he sate at meat; continuing, for the space of 15 daies, in such intolerable torment, that he could not void by ordure, or otherwise, any thing that he received; whereby his body being miserably inflamed (who had inflamed so many good Martyrs before) was brought to a wretched end; his tongueActs and Mon. hanging out all black and [illegible: 1 word], as Archbishop [illegible: 1 word] did [illegible: 1 word] fol 10 22. him, But to return to Herod: when he saw he should die indeed; that there might not be no mourning at his funerall, he commanded the [illegible: 1 word] Nobility (whom he had [illegible: 1 word] for that purpose in the Castle of [illegible: 1 word] ) to be all [illegible: 1 word] as soonIosephus. as ever he was dead. And being at point of death, he [illegible: 1 word] his son Antipater to be executed in the prison, whom but a [illegible: 1 word] afore, he had declared heir of the Kingdom. In November 1572. appeared a new Star in Cassiopeia, and continued 16 [illegible: 1 word]. Theodor Beza [illegible: 1 word] applied it ([illegible: 1 word] Mr [illegible: 1 word] ) to that Star at Christs birth, and to the infanticide there, and warned Charles [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. transl. fol 165. [illegible: 1 word] 9th to beware in this verse, Tu verò, Herodes sanguinolente, time. The fifth moneth after the vanishing of this Star, the said Charles, after long and grievous pains, died of exceeding bleeding. Constans Act. and Mon. [illegible: 1 word]. fama [illegible: 1 word] illum, dum è varijs corporis [illegible: 2 words] emanaret, in lecto saepè volutatum, inter horribilium [illegible: 1 word] diras, tantam sangninis vim projecisse, [illegible: 2 words] post hor as mortuus [illegible: 1 word]: [illegible: 1 word] (as they say of the Devil) go out with a [illegible: 1 word]. Arius (saith one) voiding out his guts, sent his soul, as a Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 15. harbinger to hell, to provide room for his body: He was brought to confusion by the prayers of Alexander the good Bishop of Constantinople, and his death was precationis opus, non morbi. So, likely, was [illegible: 1 word]. Behold, an Angel] Glad of an office to serve the Saints, Heb. 1. 14. They rejoice more in their names of office, then of honour: to be called Angels, Watchmen, &c. then Principalities, powers, &c. Dan. 4. 23. It was long [illegible: 1 word] Ioseph heard from [illegible: 1 word], but Gods time, he knew, [non-Latin text not transcribed] was the best, And allthough he leave his people, to their thinking, yet he forsakes them not. Not [illegible: 1 word] he doth [illegible: 1 word], saith the AuthorHeb. 13. 5. to the Heb.