John Trapp on Matthew 22:24

Verse 24. [illegible: 1 word], Moses said] They pretend Scripture: so did the devil, Mat. 4. So do heretikes all; Sed sensum afferunt, [illegible: 2 words], but they fetch not the meaning from the Scripture, but [illegible: 1 word] a sense (even that of their own devising) on the Scripture: Cadem [illegible: 1 word] faciunt ad materiam [illegible: 1 word], saith [illegible: 1 word], They taw the text, as Shoemakers do their over-leathers, saith Polydor Virgil, that they may bring them to serve their [illegible: 1 word]: They lay the dead childe of their own corrupt glosses in the bosom of holy Scripture, and then cry out, It is hers, and not [illegible: 1 word]. If a man die, having no children] This Law these Sadduces [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] to approve, when indeed they [illegible: 1 word] it, as the mother of much [illegible: 1 word] confusion, if there ever be a resurrection. So deals the devil and his Janizaries ([illegible: 1 word] I should say) at this day, by both Scriptures and Fathers, whom they [illegible: 2 words] or [illegible: 1 word], further then they serve their turn, to confirm their [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] up seed [illegible: 3 words]] Our children are a principall part of our selves, even the seed; as though now there were nothing left in us, but the chaff.