John Trapp on Matthew 23:6

Verse 6. And love the uppermost rooms] Which is a singular vanity, and yet hath bred greatest contestation in the Church; as between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York justling in Parliament for precedency, even unto blows and bloodshed: what dolefull effects followed upon the contention between the Lord Protectour and his brother in K. Edward the sixths daies, raised by their [illegible: 1 word] wives, who could not agree about place? The Apostles rule is, in honour to pre [illegible: 1 word] one another, Rom. 12. 10. And true humility is like true balm, that still in water sinks to the bottome: like the violet, the sweetest but lowest of flowers, which hangs the head downwards, and hides it self with its own leaves.