John Trapp on Zechariah 11:15

Verſe 15. Take unto thee yet the inſtruments [illegible: 1 span] preſent in a type, or figure the wicked and depraved [illegible: 1 span] puniſhment of their frowardneſſe, and [illegible: 1 span] people The inſtru[illegible: 2 letters]nts of a fooliſh ſhepherd, that [illegible: 1 span] ſeeking Magiſtrate, are not virg a & [illegible: 1 word], a [illegible: 1 span] mulctra, ſheers to clip them, and a milk-pail to, [illegible: 1 span] they look after. Now it is threaten [illegible: 1 span] hate you ſhall reigne over you [illegible: 1 span] bed in the next verſes England was [illegible: 1 span] burdens and impoſitions. [illegible: 1 span] An Emperor [illegible: 1 span] the King of France was king of Aſſes [illegible: 1 span] his Exactours received from his ſubjects [illegible: 1 span] ſaith our Chronicler [illegible: 1 span] [illegible: 2 letters] fections; the joynts [illegible: 1 span] A [illegible: 1 span] the third, became a precedent to the next [illegible: 1 span] greateſt, popular inſurrection that ever was ſeen [illegible: 1 span] of our Hiſtorians. and what ſad effect [illegible: 1 span] duct-money, and other opprelin [illegible: 1 span] known to all. But, what [illegible: 1 span] lancthon; that when he want [illegible: 1 span] of his, and reqire of him what he [illegible: 1 span] would knock out firſt one of his teeth [illegible: 1 span] like by all the reſt, in caſe the money [illegible: 2 letters]ere not brought in by [illegible: 1 span] not this one of thoſe fooliſh, or rather [illegible: 1 span] in the next [illegible: 1 span] eat the fleſh of the fat, and tear their [illegible: 1 span] that ſhall [illegible: 1 span] drink thy milk, as another Prophet phraſeth [illegible: 1 span] lit[illegible: 2 letters] quam [illegible: 1 word] Chriſte: [illegible: 1 span] plaineth. And no leſſe [illegible: 1 word] Another, Some follow the [illegible: 1 span] as a trade onely: with an unquenchable, and unconſcionable [illegible: 1 span] juſtifieth the common [illegible: 1 span] of ill Governours [illegible: 1 span] the ſheep [illegible: 1 span] defence in weather, he is ſure to lo[illegible: 1 letter]e [illegible: 1 span] ſeek to Courts of Juſtice to he [illegible: 1 span] his mind: who [illegible: 1 span] to hell, and the other to the [illegible: 1 span] to [illegible: 1 span] the other.