John Trapp on Matthew 8:17

Verse 17. Himself took our infirmities] The Prophet speaketh of spirituall infirmities, the Evangelist applieth it to corporall. And not unfitly: for these are the proper effects of those: we may thank our sins for our sicknesses, Rev. 2 22. She had stretcht her self upon a bed of security, she shall be cast, another while, upon a bed of sicknesse. Asa had laid the Prophet by the heels; and2 Chron. 16. now God layes him by the heels, diseasing him in his feet. Sin is an universall sicknesse; like those diseases which the Physitians sayIsa. 1. 5, 6. are [illegible: 1 word] totius substantiae. And our lives are fuller of sins then the firmament of stars, or the furnace of sparks. Hence all our bodily distempers; which when we groan and labour under, let us reflect and revenge upon fin as the mother of all misery. And when we are made whole, fin no more, left a worse thing come upon us.