John Trapp on Matthew 27:63

Verse 63. Sir, we remember, &c.] They that had forgotten so many sweet and savoury sayings of our blessed Saviour, and written them all in the sand, could remember (but for no good purpose,) that which his Disciples could not so readily call to minde for their good and comfort; no nor [illegible: 1 word] it, when plainly told them, Mark 9. 32. The soul should be as an holy Ark, the memory as the pot of Mannan, preserving holy truths, for holy uses. But most men have memories like nets, that [illegible: 1 word] goe the [illegible: 1 word] water, catch nothing but sticks, and [illegible: 1 word]-[illegible: 1 word]; or like sieves, that retain the chafte, let go the good corn: like the creature Cervarius, that if he but look back, forgets the meat he was eating, though never so hungry, and seeks for new: Or [illegible: 1 word] in [illegible: 1 word], who never in all his life could get by heart those three names of Homer, Ulisses and Achilles. Old songs, old wrongs, &c. they can retain sufficiently; but in matters of God, their memories serve them not. This deceiver said] Men [illegible: 1 word] as they use. Quis tulerit [illegible: 1 word]? who can endure to hear the devil taxing God of envy, as he did to our first [illegible: 1 word]? or these deceitfull [illegible: 2 words] the Faithfull and true witnesse, a deceiver, a cheater, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. one who doth [illegible: 1 word] an [illegible: 1 word] of cosening men to their faces? forEust ath. iu Hom. so the Greek word signifieth. We must look to hear all that naught is, either whiles alive, or when dead. [illegible: 1 word] mor tuits, [illegible: 3 words] in deum, cruci affigitur, saith Zanchy: and all because he pleased not, in all points, the [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] M [illegible: 2 words], [illegible: 1 word]. Lutherans.