John Trapp on Matthew 27:5

Verse 5. And he cast down the pieces of silver] That wages of wickednesse burnt in his purse, in his conscience; neither could it secure him in the day of wrath. See Zeph. 1. 18. Ezek. 7. 19. Obad. [illegible: 1 word]. Jam. 4. 1, 2. Omnia fui, & nihil mihi profuit, said Severus the Emperour, when he lay a dying. Most of the Emperours [illegible: 1 word] nothing by their advancement to the Empire, whereof they were so ambitious, but this, Vt citiùs interficerentur, that they were slain the sooner. All or most of them, till Constantine, died unnaturall deaths. Achans wedge of gold served but to cleave asunder his soul from his body; and the Babylonish garment but for a shroud. And went and hang'd himself] If you confesse your felf to a Priest, and not to God, said that Martyr, you shall have the reward Act. and Mon. [illegible: 1 word]. 1538. that Judas had. For he confessed himself to a Priest, and yet went and [illegible: 1 word] himself by and by. So did Pavier, TownClark of London, in Henry the eights time, who had before sworn a great [illegible: 1 word], That if the Kings [illegible: 1 word] would set forth the Scripture in English, and let it be read of the people by his [illegible: 1 word], rather then he would so long live, he would cut his own [illegible: 1 word]. But he brake promise: for shortly after he hang'd Ibid. 962. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 2 words] the same time Foxford, Chancellour to the [illegible: 1 word] of London, a cruell persecutour and butcher of the Saints, [illegible: 2 words] in his chair, his belly being burst, and his guts falling Ibid. 962. out before him; as likewise Judas his did, Cum [illegible: 1 word] singularicrepitus fragore, as the word imports, Act. 1. 18. [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. Christ. [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] makes mention of a covetous Bishop of Misna in Germany, who had the devil for his deathsman: And D. Morton, late Bishop of Durham, reports a story of his own knowledge,Institut. of the [illegible: 1 word]. l. 5. cap. 3. [illegible: 1 word] 5. of one Sir Booth, a bachelour of Arts in S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, who being Popishly affected, took the [illegible: 1 word] bread at the time of the Communion; and forbearing to eat it, conveyed and kept it closely for a time, and afterwards threw it over the Colledge wall. But, a short time after, not enduring the torment of his guilty [illegible: 1 word], he threw himself headlong over the battlements of the Chappel, and some few hours after ended his life. The spirit of a man may sustain his infirmity: some shift or other a man may make to [illegible: 3 words] calamities: But a wounded spirit who can bear? [illegible: 1 word] 18 14. [illegible: 1 word] no fighting with a mighty fire, no bearing up [illegible: 1 word] storm. Iob when once wet to the skin, [illegible: 1 word] the day of his birth, and thinketh it better to be strangled or hanged, then longer to endure it.Job 7. 15. And yet God was but in [illegible: 1 word], as it were, with Iob, in comparison of Iudas.