John Trapp on Proverbs 28:4

Verſ. 4. They that forſake the Law, praiſe the wicked] As Machiavel doth Ceſar Borgia, that bipedum nequiſſimum, propoſing him for a pattern to all Chriſtian Princes; as Onuphrius (the Popes Biographer) doth Hildebrand or Gregory 7th in five books written of his noble acts, and great virtues; whom Cardinal Benno truly deſcribeth to have been a murtherer, an adulterer,Epiphan. barc[illegible: 1 letter]. 38. a conjurer, a Schiſmatick, an heretick, and every way as bad as might be. Epiphanius tells us that there were a ſort of brain-ſick hereticks that cried up Cain, and were therefore called Cainites. They alſo commended the Sodomites, Korah, Judas the traitour, &c. In the book of Judith, the act of Simeon and Levi upon the Shechemites is extolled, and there was one Bruno that wrote an Oration in commendation of the devil.

But they that keep the law, contend with them] Moved with a zeal of God, they cannot be ſilent: As Craeſus his dumb ſon, they cry out, Wilt thou [illegible: 1 letter]ill my father, diſhonour my God, &c? Good blood will never belye it ſelf, good metal will appear. How did young David briſtle againſt black-mouthed Goliah, and enter the liſts with him? Do not I hate them that hate thee? ſaith he,Pſal. 139. Yea, I hate them with a perfe[illegible: 2 letters] hatred, I caſt down the gauntlet of defiance againſt them, I count them mine enemies. Aſa cannot bear with Idolatry, no not in his own mother. Our Edward the ſixth would by no means yield to a toleration for his ſiſter Mary, though ſolicited thereunto by Cranmer and Ridley, for politick reſpects. Mihi qu[illegible: 1 letter]dem Auxentius non alius erit quam diabolus, quamdiu Arrianus, ſaid Hilary, I ſhall look upon Auxentius as a devil, ſo long as he is an Arrian. It was the ſpeech of bleſſed Luther, who though he was very earneſt to have the Communion adminiſtred in both kinds, contrary to the doctrine and cuſtome of Rome, yet if the Pope (ſaith he) as Pope, commanded me to receive it in both kinds, I would but receive it in one kind: ſith to obey what he commands as Pope, is a receiving of the mark of the beaſt.