John Trapp on Matthew 27:55

Verse 55. And many women were there] More hardy then the Disciples, who all, save John, were fled and hid. Oh stand (saith a Divine,) and behold a little, with those devout women, the body of thy Saviour, hanging upon the crosse. See him afflicted from top to [illegible: 1 word]. See him wounded in the head, to heal our vainD. Suttons Disce mori. [illegible: 1 word]. See him wounded in the hands to heal our evil actions. See him wounded in the heart, to cure our [illegible: 1 word] thoughts. See his eyes shut up, that did enlighten the world: See them shut, that thine might be turned from seeing of vanity. See that countenance so goodly to behold, spetted upon and [illegible: 1 word], that thy face [illegible: 1 word] shine glorious as the Angels in heaven, &c. See the Note on, Job. 19. 25. [illegible: 1 word] afarre off] Either out of womanly modesty, or [illegible: 1 word] of faith; which, when it is in heart, is able by its [illegible: 2 words] to pull the very heart as it were out of hell, and with [illegible: 1 word] and conquest to look even death, and the devil in the [illegible: 1 word]; as we see in Anne Askew, Alice Driver, and other brave women, that suffered stoutly for Christ.