John Trapp on Matthew 27:3

Verse 3. Then Iudas which had betrayed him] Might not Iedu have sang care away, now that he had both the bag and the price of blood, but he must come and betray himself? Whiles he playd alone, he wonne all: but soon after, his own wickednesse corrected him, and his backslidings reproved him. Sin will surelyJer. 2. 19. prove evill and bitter, when the bottom of the bag is once turned upward. A man may have the stone, who feels no fit of it. Conscience will work once: though, for the time, one may feel no fit of accusation: Laban shewed himself at parting. Knowest2 Sam. 13. [illegible: 1 word]. thou not that there will be bitternesse in the latter end? But [illegible: 1 word] devil deals with men as the Panther doth with the beasts; he [illegible: 1 word] his deformed head, till his sweet sent have drawn them into his danger. Till we have sinned, Satan is a parasite: when we have sinned he is a tyrant. But it is good to consider that of Bernard. [illegible: 1 line] At the day of judgement, a pure conscience shall better bestead one then a full purse. When he saw that he was condemned] He hoped, belike, that Christ would, as at other times he did, have delivered [illegible: 1 word] by [illegible: 1 word] miracle. Let no man flatter himself, as if there were no such hurt in sinne; for, like dirty dogs, it doth but defile us in fawning: and like a treacherous Host, though it welcome us into the [illegible: 1 word] with [illegible: 1 word] countenance, yet it will cut our throats in our beds. He repented] That is, he changed his minde, from thinking [illegible: 1 line] well of his former actions. So those miscreants in Malachi are said to return and discern, &c. [illegible: 1 word]. 3. 18. So [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 line] Duke of Suevia, when, at the Popes instigation, taking up arms against Henry the Emperour, he had lost his right hand in the battel,Hic [illegible: 1 word] ille [illegible: 1 word] Papa [illegible: 5 words], [illegible: 3 words], [illegible: 2 words]. he sent for his Bishops, and other his confederates and said unto them: Loe this is that hand wherewith I swore that allegiance to my Soveraign, which by your means and motion I have [illegible: 1 word]. Videte an rectà viâ me duxeritis, &c Consider whether you have [illegible: 1 word] me on in a right way or not. And brought again the thirty peeces] So did Iames Abbes bring to the Bishop of Norwich, his forty [illegible: 1 word] fastened upon him by the Bishop: which when he had [illegible: 1 word] (saith [illegible: 1 word] Fox) and was gon from the Bishop, who had prevailed with him to recant, his conscience began to throb, and inwardly to accuse this fact, how he had displeased the Lord, by [illegible: 1 word] to [illegible: 2 words] illusions. In which combat with himself, being [illegible: 2 words], he went to the Bishop again, and there threw him his mony [illegible: 1 word] and [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. and said, It repented him that he ever consented to their wicked perswasions in taking of his mony. Hereupon the Bishop with his Chaplains laboured afresh to winne him again. But he was better resolved, and crying out to God for [illegible: 1 word] of his sinne (which Iudas did not) he obtained mercy, and suffered [illegible: 1 word].