John Trapp on Matthew 26:55

Verse 55. Are ye come out as against a thief?] Secretly, and by night, with all this clutter of people, and clashing of arms, so to make the world believe strange matters of me? whereas, had your [illegible: 1 word] and conscience bin good, you would [illegible: 1 word] taken a fitter time. and I should have had fairer dealing. ANd ye laid no hand on me] Ye wanted no will, but ye could never finde [illegible: 1 word]: and which of you now accuseth me of sinne? It is doubtlesse very lawfull, and in some cases needfull for Christians to defend their own [illegible: 1 word], and [illegible: 1 word] their wronged credit, as did Moses, Samuel, Paul, [illegible: 1 word]: I never have sought profits, pleasures, nor preferments, saith he, [illegible: 1 word] was I ever moved with emulation or envy against any man, [illegible: 1 word] conscientiam aufero, quocun que discedo. This conscience I carry with me [illegible: 1 word] I go. [illegible: 1 word] of all that ever lived, might best challenge his [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 word]: For of him it might be truly affirmed, what Xenophon [illegible: 2 words] Socrates, what Paterculus Velleius. l. [illegible: 1 word] doth of Scipio, Quod [illegible: 1 word] in [illegible: 1 word] nisi laudandum aut fecit, aut dixit, aut sensit, that he did all [illegible: 1 word] well, as the people testified of him, and never said or thought any thingamisse.