John Trapp on Matthew 9:3

Verse 3. This man blasphemeth.] True, had he been but a man, and had taken upon him to forgive sins by his own authority, asM. Ley his patern of [illegible: 1 word]. 145. Popish Priests do, to the subverting of some mens souls. I have known one (saith a reverend Divine) who neither by education nor affection was disposed to Popery; who having the ill hap (when his conscience was perplexed) to fall into the hands of a Popish Priest, became a Papist upon this reason, because (as the Priest suggested) that religion afforded more comfort for the conscience then ours; and therefore more comfort, because it had, and exercised a power to pardon sin, which our Ministers neither did, nor durst assume unto themselves.