John Trapp on Matthew 24:12

Verse 12. And because iniquity shall abound] In these last and worst times, as Bernard yoketh them, and as the Scripture oft describeth them. There was never but one Noah, that with two faces saw both before and behinde him. But loe that Ancient of daies, to whom all times are present, hath told us, that the last shall be the loosest, the dregs of time, the sink of sinnes of all former ages. The love of many shall wax cold] Conversation with cold ones will cast a damp, and make one cold, as our Saviour here intimates: there is no small danger of defection, if not of infection by such; they are notable quench-coals. This both David and Esay found, and therefore cried out each for himself, Woe is me, Psal. 120. 5. Isa. 6. 5. There is a compulsive power in company to do as they do, Gal. 2. 14. Why compellest thou, &c. It behovethRev. 2. 5. us therefore to beware, upon whom the ends of the world2 Pet. 3. 17. are come, least we suffer a decay, least leaving our first love, and De vita Christi lib. 2 cap 87. led away with the errour of the wicked, we fall from our former stedfastnesse. The world, saith Ludolfus, hath been once destroyed with water for the heat of lust, and shall be again with fire for the coldnesse of love. Latimer saw so much lack of love to God and goodnesse in his time, that he thought verily doomes-day was then just at hand.