John Trapp on Matthew 3:15

Verse 15. Suffer it to be so now] Or, Let be, now: for the BaptistConsent [illegible: 1 word] est, [illegible: 6 words]. seems to have laid hands upon Christ, to keep him off. Our Saviour assents to that John had said, but yet shews cause, why he should suffer it so to be, for present. To fullfill all righteousnesse] Not legall only, and of equality, [illegible: 1 word]. but that of his present condition also, and of equity; to the end, that all kinde of sinners might have all kinde of comfort in Christ, an absolute and all-sufficient Saviour. Then he suffered him] The wisedom from above is gentle, and [non-Latin text not transcribed]. easie to be perswaded, when better [illegible: 1 word] is alledged: as in Peter, Jam. 3. 17. Joh. 13. 8. first peremptory, but, after conviction, pliable. An humble man will never be an heretick; shew him his errour, and he will soon retract it. Joannes Bugenhagius (a Reverend Dutch Divine) lighting upon Luthers book de captivitate Babylonica, and reading some few pages of it, as he sate at supper; rashly pronounced him the most pestilent and pernicious heretick, that ever the Church had been troubled with, since the times of Christ. But, a few daies after, having seriously read over the book, and well weighed the businesse, he returned to his Collegioners, and recanted what he had said amongst them; affirming and proving, thatScultet. Annal. Luther only was in the light, and all the world besides in grosse darknesse, so that many of them were converted by him to the truth. Ioannes [illegible: 1 word] (a learned Bavarian) held this heresie, That no man or Devil should be damned eternally, because God willeth that all should be saved; and Christ saith, There shall be one shepherd, and one sheep-fold. [illegible: 1 word]. But, being an humble minded man, he was convinced and converted by Oecolampadius, and died of the plague (but piously) at Basile, Anno [illegible: 1 word]. Of [illegible: 1 word] the heretick, becauseNon defuisse [illegible: 3 words], [illegible: 1 word] copul regula [illegible: 1 word]. he praid ardently, and lived unblameably, Bucholeerus the Chronologer was wont to say, that his heart was good, but his head not well regulated. But how that could be, I see not, so long as he lived and [illegible: 1 word] in his detestable opinions, and would not [illegible: 1 word] them. If the [illegible: 1 word] were gotten into the head, the Priest was to pronounce such utterly unclean, Levit. 13 44. And the Prophet pronounceth [illegible: 1 word] soul, that is lifted up with pride and pertinacy, not to be upright in him.Habak. [illegible: 1 word]. 4.