John Trapp on Proverbs 20:6

Verſ. 6. Moſt men will proclaim every one his own goodneſs] As the Kings of Egypt would needs bee called [non-Latin text not transcribed], Bountiful, or Benefactors; many of the Popes Pit and Bonifacii, &c. The Turks will needs bee ſtiled the only Muſulmans, or true Beleevers; as Papiſts the onely Catholicks. The Swenk feldians (Stinkfeldians, Scbluſſenb, Luther called them from the ill ſavour of their opinions) intituled themſelves with that glorious name, The Confeſſours of the glory of Chriſt. Hiſtor. Dav. Georg. David George that monſtrous Heretick, that was ſo far from accounting Adulteries, Fornications, Inceſts, &c. for being any ſins, that hee did recommend them to his moſt perfect Scholars, as acts of grace, and mortification, &c. yet hee was wonderfully confident of the abſolute truth of his tenets, and doubted not but that the whole world would ſoon ſubmit to him, and hold with him. Hee wrote to Charles the Emperour, and the reſt of the States of Germany, an humble and ſerious admonition (as hee ſtiled it) written by the command of the Omnipotent God, diligently to bee obeyed, becauſe it contained thoſe things whereupon eternal life did depend.

But a faithful man who can finde] Diaconos paucitas honorabiles fecit, ſaith Hierome. The paucity of pious perſons makes them precious. Perrarò grati reperiuntur, ſaith Cicero. It is hard to finde a thankful man. Faithful friends are in this age all for the moſt part gone in Pilgrimage, Daniels Hiſt. and their return is uncertain, ſaid the Duke of Buckingham to Biſhop Morton, in Richard the third his time.