John Trapp on Matthew 24:17

Verse 17. Not come down to take any thing] See here the miseries of war, which now, alas, we feel and can [illegible: 1 word] to; being glad to flee for our lives with the losse of all, lest with [illegible: 1 word], seeking to save our goods, we lose [illegible: 1 word] and all; glad if we may [illegible: 1 word] with the skin of our teeth: And how like [illegible: 1 word] our present [illegible: 1 word] to end in a deadly consumption! Warre is called evil by a specialty, [illegible: 1 word]. 45. 7. Sin, Satan, and war have all one [illegible: 1 word], Evil is the best of them. The best of sin is deformity, of Satan [illegible: 1 word], of war misery. God yet offereth us mercy, as [illegible: 1 word] did those he warred against, whiles the lamp burned. O let us break off our sins by repentance, and be [illegible: 1 word] in it, lest we should seem to come [illegible: 1 word], Heb. 4. 1.