John Trapp on Matthew 9:23

Verse [illegible: 1 word]. But Iesus turned him about.] To take notice of it himself, and to notifie it to others, for these reasons, saith Chrysostome; 1. To free the woman from fear, lest her conscience should call her Recreant, as one that had stole a cure. 2. To make up in her what was wanting to her faith, if she should have any such thought to do so. 3. To manifest her faith, for other mens imitation. 4. To make known his omnisciency, and so his Divinity. 5. To confirm the Rulers faith, and so fit him for further mercy. 6. To teach her and us, that, not his garment, but himself did the cure. This makes against that Popish foppery in worshipping reliques, as the Syndon wherein Christs body was enwrapped, of the vertue whereof Paleottus Archbishop of Bonony, set [illegible: 1 word] a great book, An. Dom. 1617. And the woman was made whole, &c.] That fable recorded by Eccles. bist. l 7. cap [illegible: 1 word]. Eusebius is scarce worth relating; that this woman should set up at her door in Cesarea Philippi, a statue of brasse in honour of our Saviour; near whereto grew a certain herb good for all diseases. Irenaeus (far ancienter then Eusebius) reproveth the hereticks, Act. and Mon. fol [illegible: 1 word]. called Gnostici, for that they carried about them the Image of Christ made in Pilates time, after his own proportion: using also for [illegible: 1 word] of their affection towards it, to set Garlands upon the head of it. And in Epiphanius his time (who lived soon after [illegible: 1 word] epist. ad [illegible: 2 words]. Sands his survey. Eusebius) images and statues of Christ or the Saints were abhorred by [illegible: 1 word]. The Turks will not endure any image, no not upon their coyn, [illegible: 1 word] of the second Commandment: and the Papists for their imagery, they call Idolaters.

Verse 23. He saw the minstrels, &c.] An Heathenish custom [illegible: 2 words] is [illegible: 2 words]. [illegible: 1 word]. l. 4. Fast. crept in among the [illegible: 1 word], as many the like are now amongst the Papists, who are therefore called Heathens, Revel. 11. 2. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.] Death is but a sleep to the Saints: and as the [illegible: 1 word] of the labouring man is sweet unto him, so Plato [illegible: 4 words] [non-Latin text not transcribed] in Apol. [illegible: 1 word]. is death most welcome to such, as have most suffered. See my Notes on Ioh. 11. 11.