John Trapp on Matthew 8:29

Verse 29. What have we to doe with thee?] Horrible impudence? As if Christ were not concerned, when his members are [illegible: 1 word]. David felt his own coat cut, and his own cheeks [illegible: 1 word] in the coats and [illegible: 1 word] of his servants: And shall not Christ be as sensible of the abules done to his? The [illegible: 1 word] suffers in the [illegible: 1 word]: neither is it other then just, that the arraignment of mean malefactours, runs in the stile of wrong to the Kings Crown and dignity. [illegible: 1 word] thou Son of God] The devil speaks Christs fair, but only to be rid of him: so [illegible: 1 word] many by Christs Ministers, that rip up their [illegible: 1 word], and so put them into an hell above-ground. St Mark tells us, that they worshipped our Saviour: St Luke, that they adjured him. Satan (saith one) doth not alwaies appear in one and the same fashion. At Lystra he appeared like a Comedian, at [illegible: 1 word] like a Philosopher, at Ephesus like an Artificer, and here like an [illegible: 1 word]: as to Saul he appeared like the old [illegible: 1 word], who could not have spoken more gravely, severely, divinely then the fiend did. But as, when one commended the Popes Legat at the Councel of Basile, Sigismund the Emperour answered, [illegible: 1 word] Romanus [illegible: 1 word]: So when the devil comes commended unto us under what name soever, [illegible: 1 word] us cry out, yet he is a devil; and remember still to [illegible: 1 word] him, [illegible: 1 word] in the faith, 1 Pet. 5. Art thou [illegible: 2 words] to torment us?] To dispossesse us. Lo it is another hell to the [illegible: 1 word] to be idle, or otherwise then evil-occupied. Should not we hold it our heaven to be well-doing. Learn for shame of the devil (saith Father Latimer) to be busie about the [illegible: 1 word] jugulent homines, surgunt, &c. Hor. salvation of your own and other mens souls, which he so studiously seeks to destroy. Athanasius [illegible: 1 word] a conceit, that the [illegible: 1 word] may be driven out of a body by repeating the 68 Psalm. Origen saith of devils, No greater torment to them, then to see men addicted to the Scriptures: In [illegible: 1 word] eorum omnis flammaest, in hoc uruntur incendio. Orig, in Num. Hom. il. 27. Chrysostom saith, we may [illegible: 1 word] and scourge the devil by fasting and prayer, which the Prophet Isaiah calls a charm or inchantment, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Isa. 26. 16. Before the time] For they are respited and reprived as it were, in respect of full torment, and suffered, as free prisoners, to flutter in the aire, and to course about the earth till that great day; which they tremble to think on, and which they that mock at, 2 Pet. 3. or make light of, are worse then devils.