John Trapp on Proverbs 30:5-6

Verſ. 5. Every word of God is pure: Oda ſeptima Pind. tanta fuit admirationis apud Rhodios ut fuerit ſcripta in templo aure is literis, &c. Joh. Manl. loc. Com. 414. he is a ſhield] Albeit all the ſacred ſentences contain'd in this bleſſed book are pure, precious, and profitable, yet as one ſtar in Heaven out-ſhineth another, ſo doth one Proverb another, and this is among the reſt, velut inter ſtellas, luna minores, an eminent ſentence often recorded in Scripture, and far better worthy than ever Pindarus his ſeventh Ode was, to be written in letters of gold. Every word of God is pure, purer than gold tried in the fire, Rev. 3.17. purer than ſilver tried in a furnace, and ſeven times purified, Pſal. 12.6. Julian (therefore that odious Apoſtate) is not to be hearkened to, who ſaid, there was as good ſtuff in Phocillides, as in Salomon, in Pindarus his Odes, as in Davids Pſalms. Nor is that brawling dog Porphyry to be regarded, who blaſphemouſly accuſeth Daniel the Prophet, and Matthew the Evangeliſt,Spec. Europae. as writers of lies. Os durum! The Jeſuits (ſome of them) ſay little leſs of Saint Pauls Epiſtles; which they could wiſh by ſome means cenſured and reformed, as dangerous to be read, and ſavouring of hereſie in ſome places. Traditions they commonly account the touch-ſtone of doctrine, and foundation of faith; the Scriptures to be rather a Commonitorium (as Bellarmine calls it) a kind of ſtore-houſe for advice,Greg. in 3. Reg. then Cor & animam Dei, the heart and ſoul of God, as Gregory calls them, a Fortreſs againſt Errours,Firmamentum contra errores. Aug. in Johan. 1. Tract. 2. Poſſevin. Appar. ſac. verbo Pat. Antiq as Auguſtine. The Apoſtle calleth concupiſcence ſin; at non licet nobis ita loqui: but we may not call it ſo, ſaith Poſſevine the Jeſuit. The Author to the Hebrews ſaith, Marriage is honourable among all men: but the Rhemiſts on 1 Cor. 7.9. ſay, that the marriage of Prieſts is the worſt ſort of incontinency. Chriſt ſaith, the Sin againſt the Holy Ghoſt hath no remiſſion. Bellarmine ſaith, that it may be forgiven. The Council of Conſtance comes in with a non-obſtance againſt Chriſts inſtitution;Lib. 2. de Pae[illegible: 1 letter]it. cap. 16. Montan. in 1 Cor. 14. withholding the Cup from the People at the Sacrament. And a Pariſian Doctor tells us, that although the Apoſtle would have ſermons and ſervice celebrated in a known tongue, yet the Church for very good cauſe hath otherwiſe ordered it. Biſhop Bonners Chaplain called the Bible in ſcorn, his little pretty Gods book, and judged it worthy to be burnt, tanquam doctrina peregrina, as ſtrange doctrine. Gilford and Raynolds ſaid it contained ſome things prophane and apocryphal. Others have ſtiled it the mother of hereſie, and therefore not fit to be read by the common people, leſt they ſuck poyſon out of it. Prodigious blaſphemy! Of the purity and perennity of the holy Scriptures, See more in my True treaſure, pag. 85.139.

He is a ſhield to them that put their truſt in him] See Gen. 15.1. with the note, and Prov. 29.25.

Buxtorf. Tiberias.Verſ. 6. Adde thou not unto his words] As the Jews at this day do by their traditions, which they arrogantly call Maſhlamnutha, Completio, perfectio, becauſe they think that thereby the Law is compleated and perfected, as the Artemonites, Brightm. upon Rev. p. 292. (and after them the ſchool-men) corrupted the Scripture out of Aristotle and Theophraſtus, turning all into queſtions and quillets. As Mahomet joyned his Alfurta, his ſervice book, an horrible heap of all blaſphemies, to the three parts of holy Scripture (as he divides them) the Law, Pſalmes, and Goſpel: As the Papiſts adde their humane inventions, and unwritten verities, which they equallize unto, if not prefer before the book of God, as appears by that Heatheniſh decree of the Council of Trent. And when at the Council of Baſil, the Huſſites denied to receive any doctrine that could not be proved by Scripture;Jacob Revius hiſt. Pontif. p. 235. Cardinal Cuſan anſwered that Scriptures were not of the being of the Church, but of the well-being, and that they were to be expounded, according to the current rite of the Church; which if it change its mind, the judgement of God is alſo changed. Laſtly, ſuch adde to Gods Word, as wreſt it, and rack it, making it ſpeak that which it never thought: cauſing it to go two miles where it would go but one; gnawing and tawing it to their own purpoſes, as the Shoo-maker taws his upper-leather with his teeth. Tertullian calls Marcion the heretick, Mus Ponticus, of his arroding and gnawing the Scripture, to make it ſerviceable to his errours.

Leſt he reprove thee] Both verbally and penally; both with words and blows. Leſt he ſeverely puniſh thee, as one that addes to his will, or imbaſeth his coyn.

And thou be found a lier] As all Popiſh forgers and foyſters at this day are found to be. God hath ever raiſed up ſuch as have detected their impoſtures, and vindicated the purity and perfection of the ſacred Scriptures.