John Trapp on Matthew 7:29

Verse 29. For he taught them as one having authority.] Never man spake as he spake, said those Catch-poles that came to take him, but were taken by him. For matter, his doctrine was not his own, but his Fathers that sent him. For manner, this Prince [illegible: 1 word]. 7. 16. of Preachers had the tongue of the learned: yet without [illegible: 1 word] of learning, he delivered himself so plainly, that the simplest [illegible: 1 word] 50 4. might conceive him, and so powerfully that his enemies could not but confesse, that he was true, and taught the way of God [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. 22. 14. And for end, he [illegible: 1 word] sought his Fathers glory, in the salvation of mens souls. A fair president for Preachers: who should Optimi ad [illegible: 1 word] bi sunt [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] Lutherus, qui pueriliter, trivialiter, populariter & simplicissime [illegible: 1 word]. Melch. Ad. in vita. thus seek to get within the people, and to maintain the credit of their ministry, that their words may carry an authority, and command attention. And not as the [illegible: 1 word]] Who first stuck in the bark of the law, and pierc'd not into the heart and sense of it. 2. Delivered for doctrines the commandements of men about washings, tithings, &c. 3. They sought not the glory of God, but praise of men: and were therefore mad at our Saviour, as one that bare away the bell from them, for a powerfull preacher. 4. They rejected [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Publicans and sinners, though penitent: So did not Christ. 5. They taught coldly and carelesly: but he zealously, and imperiously, as the Law-giver, and not as an Interpreter onely: as that Prophet like unto me, saith Moses: yea farre beyond him.Epiphan lib. 1. [illegible: 1 word]. or any other that ever spake with a tongue. For he could, and did speak to the hearts of his hearers: Together with hisScribarum doctrina erat [illegible: 1 word], elumbis [illegible: 1 word]. word there went forth a power, as to heal the bodies of those, Luk 5. 17. so the souls of his elect: he was a Minister of the spirit, and not of the letter onely, &c. Heb. 2.