John Trapp on Matthew 2:8

Verse 8. And he sent them to Bethlehem.] It was a [illegible: 1 word] he went not himself, or sent not some Assassine under hand, to dispatchDeus quem [illegible: 1 word], demen [illegible: 1 word]. the childe immediatly. But God befoold him. The [illegible: 1 word] have a proverb, Where God intends to blinde any man, he first closeth [non-Latin text not transcribed]. up his eyes. So the Apostle, 1 Cor. 3. 19. He taketh the wise, the [illegible: 1 word]. finest and choicest wits of the world, the rare and pickt peeces: [illegible: 1 word] Cor. 3. 19. exp. Mentem que habere que is bonam Et esse corculis datum est: [non-Latin text not transcribed], [illegible: 3 words], & [illegible: 2 words] These he taketh; he catcheth and keepeth as beasts in a gin (so the word signifieth) and that in their own craft: when they have wrackt their wits, and wrackt their fortunes, to effect their fetches; [non-Latin text not transcribed] when they have done their utmost (as the word imports) to bring about their devillish devices. In [illegible: 2 words]. E. [illegible: 1 word] That I may come, and worship him] When he meant to worry him. O base dissimulation! such was that of those Incendiary [illegible: 1 word] Iesulum non [illegible: 1 word] sed tollere, non [illegible: 2 words], sed [illegible: 2 words]. sugitives of Rhemes, Giffard, Hodgson and others: who at the same time, when they had set up, and set on Savage to kill Q. Elizabeth, they put forth a book, wherein they admonished the English Catholikes, not to attempt any thing against their Prince. InCambden. like sort Rob. Parsons (that Arch-traitour) when he was hatching [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. an horrible treason against his naturall Prince, and native countrey, he set forth his book of Christian Resolution; as if he had been wholly made of devotion. So Garnet (a little afore the Powderplot was discovered) wrote to the Pope, that he would lay his command upon our Papists, to obey their King, and keep themselves quiet. Herod here, when he was whetting his sword, yet promisedQuando gladium [illegible: 1 word], devotionem pro [illegible: 1 word]. devotion, saith Chrysostom. A fair glove upon a foul hand. The Panthers skin is fairest, but his friendship is fatall, and his breath infectious. The above-mentioned Garnet, upon a treatise of Equivocation [illegible: 1 word]. cap. 27. plaistered on this title, A Treatise against lying, and fraudulent dissimulation.