John Trapp on Matthew 24:8

Verse 8. All these are the beginning, &c.] q. d. There yet remain far worse matters then warre, famine, pestilence, earthquakes.Adhuc restant [illegible: 3 words]. And yet warre is as a fire that feeds upon the people, Isa. 9. 19, 20. Famine is far worse then that, Lam. 49. Pestilence is Gods evil Angel, Psal. 78. 49, 50. Earthquakes are wondrous terrible, and destructive to whole cities, as to Antioch of old, and to Pleurs in Italy alate, where fifteen hundred men perished Anno 527. Anno. 1618. together. A conflux of all these abides the contemners of Christs Gospel. The holy Martyrs, as Saunders, Bradford, Philpot, Act. and Mon. &c. The Confessours also that fled for Religion in Q. Maries daies acknowledged (as Ursinus relates) that that great inundation of misery came justly upon them for their unprofitablenesse under the means of grace, which they had enjoyed in K. Edwards daies. When I first came to be Pastour at Clavenna, saith Zanchy, there fell out a grievous pestilence, that in seven-monethsspace consumed 1200. persons. Their former Pastour Mainardus, Zan[illegible: 2 letters]. Miscell. epist ad Lantg. that man of God, had often foretold such a calamity for their Popery and profanesse: But he could never be believed, till the plague had proved him a true Prophet: and then they remembred his words, and wisht they had been warned by him.