John Trapp on Philippians 1:12

Verſe 12. Rather unto the furtherance] So were Luthers troubles: Quò magis illi furunt, ſaith he, eò amplius pr[illegible: 1 letter]cedo. The more they rage, the more the Goſpel ſpreadeth. It was a pleaſant ſight (ſaith one) to have beheld Chriſt and Antichriſt ſtriving for maſteries. For whatſoever the Pope, and the Emperour attempted againſt the Goſpel, Scultet. Annal. Chriſt turned it all to the furtherance of the Goſpel. The Popes bull, the Emperours thunderbolt amazed not men, but animated them to imbrace the truth, weakned them not, but wakened them rather.