John Trapp on Matthew 7:4

Verse 4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother &c.] How impudent are hypocriticall finde-faults, that can say such things to others, when themselves are most obnoxius? whence is this, but either from a secret desire of purchasing an opinion of freedome from the faults they so boldly censure in others, or that they may thereby the sooner insiouate and ingratiate with them they deal with? The Vulgar Translation reads here Frater sine, &c. Brother, [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 2 words]. let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, &c. [illegible: 1 word] lips and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard covered with silver [illegible: 2 words] 13. cap [illegible: 1 word] drosse. When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven [illegible: 1 word]. 26. [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word]. abhominations in his heart; but there lyes a great beam of hypocrisy between him and himself, that he cannot discern them. These are they, that by good words and fair speeches deceive the [illegible: 1 line] hearts of the simple, as the serpent did Eve. You would think, by their [illegible: 1 word], soothing hony-words, they were wholly set [illegible: 1 word] seeking your good: when they meerly serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies, as those Popish flesh-flies. Faithfull are the wounds of a friend, (fair they are and pleasant, saith the Chaldee here) but the kisses of an enemy are [illegible: 1 word], as were those of Ioab to Amasa, and Iudas to Christ. [non-Latin text not transcribed] non [illegible: 1 word]. 27. 6. [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed], saith Philo. Love is not alwaies in a kisse: there are that [illegible: 1 word] and kill. David would not taste of their dainties, nor endure that [illegible: 1 word] should pouer upon him the [illegible: 1 word] oyntments (as at [illegible: 1 word] it was the custome among that people, Luke 7. 46.) [illegible: 1 word] if the [illegible: 1 word] smite him, he would take it for a singular [illegible: 1 word]. Let him reprove me, saith he, it shall be an excellent oyle, and [illegible: 3 words], [illegible: 1 word]. shall soak into me, as [illegible: 1 word] oyle doth into wooden [illegible: 1 word]. It shall [illegible: 1 word] break my head; my heart it may; and so make way for the [illegible: 1 word] of Gods grace which is not poured, save onely into broken [illegible: 1 word]: for [illegible: 1 word] whole [illegible: 1 word] are full [illegible: 1 word], and so this precious [illegible: 1 word] would run over, and be spilt on the ground, as Bernard [illegible: 2 words].