John Trapp on Matthew 22:17

Verse 17. Is it lawfull?] They make it a case of conscience. [illegible: 1 word] sanctity is double iniquity. Covetousnesse goes cloaked or coloured, 1. Thess. 2. 5. So doth malice [illegible: 1 word] times: but God will wash off it's varnish with rivers of brimstone. To give tribute] [non-Latin text not transcribed], a kinde of coyn proper to this purpose. Sands his Surv. The Jews paid then to the [illegible: 1 word], as now they do to the Pope, and other Princes of Italy, a yearly [illegible: 1 word] for the very heads they wear. And yet how they brave it to our Saviour, and say, Joh. 8. 33. We were never in bondage to any man. And there is notAlst. Chronol p. 432. a more vain-glorious people this day under heaven, then the Jews, saith Alsted.