John Trapp on Matthew 2:20

Verse 20. For they are [illegible: 1 word], which [illegible: 1 word] the young [illegible: 1 word] Isa. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. life] God hid him as it were, for a litle moment, untill the indignation was [illegible: 1 word]. So he did [illegible: 1 word], Baruch, [illegible: 1 word], Luther in his Pathmos, (as he used to call the [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 word],) where when the Pope [illegible: 1 word] excommunicated him, and the Emperour proscribed him, the Lord put into the heart of the [illegible: 1 word] of Saxony to hide him for [illegible: 1 word] moneths. In which [illegible: 1 word] the [illegible: 1 word] dyed, the Emperour had his hands full of the French wars, and the Church thereby obtained an happy Halcyon. At which [illegible: 1 word] a pretty spectacle it was to behold Christ striving with Antichrist for [illegible: 1 word]. For whatsoever the Pope and his Champions could do to the contrary, all fell [illegible: 1 word] rather, as [illegible: 1 word] Philippi, unto the [illegible: 2 words] ofPhil. 1. 12. the Gospell. So was it here in Q. Maryes time: do what they could, the Christian Congregation in London were, sometimes fourty, sometimes a hundred, sometimes two hundred. I have heard of one (saith M. Fox) that being sent to them to take their [illegible: 1 word], Act. and Mon. 1881. and to espy their doings, yet in being among them was converted, and cryed them all mercy. [illegible: 1 word] hearing that the [illegible: 1 word] lay Ibid. [illegible: 1 word]. a dying, hasted home from London to burne those six that he had in his cruel custody. Those were the last that were burnt. Many others escaped by the Queens [illegible: 1 word].