John Trapp on Matthew 22:25

Verse 25. When he had married a wife, deceased.] Thus they that will marry shall have trouble, I, and that in the flesh, wherein they haply promised themselves most comfort and contentment. How many are there that seek an happinesse here: and, when to enjoy it might seem an happinesse indeed, they die, and [illegible: 1 word] all their thoughts perish. [illegible: 1 word] we have in Alexander the great, Iulius Caesar, Tamberlain, who making great preparation for the Conquest of the Turkish Empire, died of an ague in [illegible: 1 word] hist s. 236 the middest of his great hope, and greatest power. The like might be shewed of many learned men, that died, when they might have been most usefull, as Keckerman, Perkins, Preston, Pemble, young Drusius, &c. All our learning is soon refuted with one black Theta, which understanding us not, [illegible: 1 word] us unrespectively without distinction, and putteth at once a period to our writing and to our being.