John Trapp on Matthew 25:9

Verse 9. Lest there be not enough, &c.] The best have nought to spare, what ever Papists fancy of the Church-treasury. The righteous is scarcely saved; at death he findes all he could do little enough: though he began betime, and [illegible: 1 word] himself to his [non-Latin text not transcribed] utmost, hard and [illegible: 1 word] gets he to heaven, though he hath instantly served God day and night (Act. 26. 7.) with a kinde of [illegible: 1 word] and vehemency. But go ye rather to them that sell] Salsa est derisio non cohortatio, like that, Isa. 47. 13. As if God should say to Papists, Go to your Indulgencers, pardon-mongers, Aneylers: or to carnall Gospellers, Go to your parasiticall-preachers, that have soothed you up in your sinnes (and ye loved to have it so) or at the best, have shot off a few potguns only against grosse sinnes, and licked you whole again presently with, I hope better things of you, &c.