John Trapp on Proverbs 30:12

Verſ. 12. There are a generation that are pure, &c.] As the ancient Puritans the Novatians, Donatiſts, Cathariſts, Illuminates. Non habeo Domine cui ignoſcas, ſaid one Juſtitiary, I have done nothing Lord that needs thy pardon. Yee are thoſe that juſtifie your ſelves, ſaith Chriſt to the Phariſees. All theſe things have I done from my youth, what want I yet? ſaid one of them, that farre over-weened his own worth, and ra[illegible: 1 letter]ed himſelf above the market. In all my labours they ſhall finde none iniquity in me: (ſaith guilty Ephraim) that were ſin, Hoſ. 12.8. that were a foul buſineſſe to find iniquity in Ephraim, whoſe iniquities were (yet) grown over his head, as appears throughout that whole Prophecy. That Man of Sin the Pope, will needs be held ſinleſs, and ſundry of his Votaries ſay, they can ſupererrogate. And are there not amongſt us even amongſt us, ſuch Sinners before the Lord, that ſtand upon their Pantofles, and proudly ask, who can ſay, black is their eye? There is a generation of theſe, that is, a continual ſucceſſion of them. Such duſt-heaps you may finde in every corner.

And yet is not waſhed from their filthineſſe] Either of fleſh or ſpirit; 2 Cor. 7.1. they wallow in ſin like Swine, and welter in wickedneſſe, which is filth and bloud, Iſa. 4.4. the vomit of a Dog, 2 Pet. 2.22. the excrement of the Devil, the ſuperfluity or garbage of naughtineſſe, and the ſtinking filth of a peſtilent Ulcer, as the Greek words uſed by St. James, chap. 1.21. doe ſignifie. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. The whole world lyeth in wickedneſſe, 1 Joh. 5.19. as a Lubber in a Lake, as a Carcaſe in its ſlime. Nil mundum in mundo: and yet who ſo forward to boaſt or their good hearts to God-ward?