John Trapp on Matthew 8:24

Verse 24. And behold there arose a great tempest] Stirred up, likely, by the devil, to drown Christ (that male-childe of the Church, Rev. 12. 5.) and his Disciples; as he brained Iobs children with the fall of the house. This is still the indeavour of Satan and his instruments: but to such we may, as Pope Pius 2. wrote to the great Turk. Niteris incassùm Christi submergere navem: Fluctuat, at nunquam mergitur, illaratis. And as the Poet said of Troy, so may we of the Church, Victa tamen vinces, eversa que Troiare surges: Obruit hostiles illa ruina domos. Ovid. Fast. Ambrose hath a remarkeable speech to this purpose: The devil Diabolus [illegible: 3 words] movet: sed ipse [illegible: 1 word] fragium facit. Ambr. stirs up a tempest against the Saints, but himself is sure to suffer shipwrack. The Church, as a bottle, may be dipt, not [illegible: 1 word]: as the Diamond, it may be cast into the fire, not burnt by it: as the Chrystall, it may be fouled, but not stained by the venome of a toad: as the Palm-tree in the Embleme which though it have many weights at top, and [illegible: 1 word] at the root, yet it saith still Nec premor, nec perimor. Lastly, as the North-Pole, semper versatur, [illegible: 2 words], as St [illegible: 1 word] observeth.