John Trapp on Nehemiah 6:12

Verſe 12. And ſo I perceived that God had not ſent him] By my ſpiritual ſagacity I ſmelt him out: as having mine inward ſenſes habitually exerciſed to diſcern good and evil, Heb. 5. ult. Doth not the eare try words, as the mouth taſteth meat, Job 12.11? What though we have not received the Spirit of the World, (we cannot cog and comply as they can, yet) we have received a better thing, the Spirit of God, the mind of Chriſt, 1 Cor. 2.12, 16.

But that he pronounced this prophecy againſt me] To make my righteous ſoul ſad with his [illegible: 1 letter]yes, Ezek. 13.22. and to bring me to diſgrace, and danger. Luther was wont to adviſe Preachers, to ſee that theſe three Dogs did not follow them into the pulpit: Pride, Covetouſneſſe, and Envy.

For Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him] A mere mercenary he was then, and had Linguam Vaenalem: he could call good evil, and evil good, juſtify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteouſneſſe of the righteous from him, Iſa. 5.20. Such falſe prophets were Dr Shaw, and Frier Pinket in Rich. the thirds time, who made uſe of them as his Factours to obtrude baſtardy on his brother King Edward the fourth, and ſo to diſable his children for the Crown, that he might ſettle it upon his own head.Dan. Hiſt. What became of Pinket I know not, but Shaw (as aſhamed of his Sermon at Pauls croſſe) diſconſolately departed, and never after that was publikely ſeen. Like unto theſe, were Biſhop Bourn, and Cardinal Pool in Q. Maries dayes. The Cardinal, hired with the Archbiſhoprick of Canterbury, took for his Text, Eſay 66.8. and applyed it to England, as then happily reduced to the Popes obedience. Bourn, for the Biſhoprick of B[illegible: 1 letter]th, preached ſuch ſtaffe at Pauls-croſs, that the people were ready to tear him in pieces, They flang a Dagger at him in the Pulpit. Phlugius, Melch. Adam. and Sidonius, Authours of the Popiſh Book publiſhed in Germany by the name of Interim, Chriſma & oleum pontificium defendebant, ut ipſi diſcederent unctiores, defended Chriſme, and extreme unction, as being liquoured in the fiſts, and promoted to fat Biſhoprickes. But a Miniſter, as he ſhould have nothing to loſe, ſo he ſhould have as little to get: he ſhould be above all price or ſale. Nec prece, nec pretio ſhould be his Motto.