John Trapp on Matthew 28:19

Verse 19. Go yee therefore] In this my strength, as Gideon did against the Midianites; and, though but a barly cake, courseJudg. 7. 13. and contemptible, yet shall ye overthrow the worlds tents, yea the strong holds of Satan: though you have but lamps and [illegible: 1 word] in your hands, yet shall ye acheive great matters The Apostles were those white horses whereupon the Lord Christ [illegible: 1 word], went forth conquering and to conquer. Britannorum [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. advers. Iudeos. cap. 7. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. pag. 425. Romanis loca, Christo patuerunt, saith [illegible: 1 word]. The Burgundians, much afflicted by the Hunnes, sled to [illegible: 1 word] the God of the Christians: whom after a long dispute, they [illegible: 1 word] World encomp. pag. 59. to be a great God, and a great King above all Gods. St Francis Drake tells us of twelve Martyrs burnt for Religion at Lima in Mexico, not two moneths before his coming thither. And he that set forth New-Englands first-fruits, assures us of some of those Natives, that being converted to the faith, lived [illegible: 1 word], and died comfortably. [illegible: 2 words] all nations] [illegible: 1 word]. Disciple them, make them [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Christians first, and then teach them to observe, &c. vers. 20.Disciputate. as in Baptisme they have promised: for otherwise it was pity that font-water was ever spilt upon their faces. In the kingdom of Congo in Afrike, diverse of those Heathens, by the [illegible: 1 word] of the Portugals, arriving there, were content to become Christians, and to be baptized: allowing of the principles of Religion, and professing Christ, till the Priests pressed them to lead their lives according to their profession: which the most Abois his Geog. pag. 79. part of them in no case induring, they returned back again to their Gentilisme. As for the [illegible: 1 word] Converts in Mexico, they so litle remember their covenant made with Christ in Baptisme, that [illegible: 1 word]. Enq. many times they forget [illegible: 1 word] very names, soon after they have been baptized. Baptizing them into the name of, &c.] That is, consecrating them unto the sincere service of the sacred [illegible: 1 word], and confirming them by this holy Sacrament, in the faith of the forgivenesse of their sins, and in the hope of life eternall. This is the end, use and efficacy of Baptisme: which, Piscator saith, few of the Fathers rightly understood: Those Popish Asles certainly did not, who moved this foolish question, An asinus bibens ex baptismo [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 2 words]. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. pag. [illegible: 1 word]. bibat aquam baptismi, & sic asinus dicendus sic baptisatus? Pity but these questionites had been present, when the young scollar reading publikely the fifth of the first of Corinthians for probation-sake, at the Colledge of Bamberg, when he came to that passage, Expurgate vetus fermentum, &c. Sicut estis azymi. He, not understanding the word Azymi, read [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. Sicut estis asini. The wiser sort of Prebendaries there present said among themselves, Cum a sapientioribus nolumus hujusmodi audire, a pueris audire cogimur. Children and fools usually tell the truth.