John Trapp on Matthew 27:4

Verse 4, I have sinned, &c.] Here was [illegible: 1 word], Confession, Restitution (most men go not so far, that [illegible: 3 words] hopes of heaven) there was wanting that [illegible: 1 word], Conversion, Obedience of faith that should have completed his repentance. He died in the birth, as that foolish childe Ephraim. He confessed to men, and not to God: and by his confession he sought no more then to ease his heart, as drunkards by vomitingMelanct in Chronico p. 5. rid their stomacks. So Latomus of Lovain confessed inter horrendos [illegible: 1 word], se contra conscientiam adver satum esse veritati, roaring and crying out, that against his [illegible: 1 word] he had persecuted the truth of God. In trouble of minde all will out. Conscience, like Samsons wife, conceals not the riddle: like Fulvia a whorish woman, [illegible: 1 word] in bel. Catil. who declared all the secrets of her foolish lover Cneius a noble Roman. What is that to us? See thou to that] Miserable comforters, Physitians of no value. To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend: but he for saketh the fear of the Almighty. The devilJob 6. 14. and his imps love to bring men into the briers, and there leave them: as familiar devils forsake their witches, when they have brought them once into fetters. Thus the old Bethelite, that had been at pains to fetch back the Prophet, would not go back with him. Thus the Papists burnt Cranmer recanting, and the present Prelates cast off their great Antisabbatarian White, when they had served their turns on him. David when he was hunted from Samuel the Prophet, he fled to Ahimelech the Priest: as one that knew that justice and compassion should dwell in those brests that are consecrated to God. But Judas met with no such matter in the Priests of his time. Those mischievous men left him, when they had led him to his bane.