Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
Ver. 2. Receive us] Gr. χωρησατε, Locum date. Make room for us in your hearts and houses. Set wide open the everlasting doors that the King of glory may come in triumphantly, riding upon us, his white horses,Revelation 6:2 .
We have wronged no man] Ministers must so live that they may, if need be, glory of their innocence and integrity, as did Moses, Samuel, Paul, Melancthon.
We have corrupted no man] viz. As the false apostles had done with their leaven of false doctrine, which eateth as a canker, 2 Timothy 2:17, or a gangrene, which presently overruns the parts, and takes the brain. Protagoras in Plato boasted that of those sixty years that he had lived, he had spent forty in corrupting of youth.
We have defrauded no man] We have cunningly made sale of no man, as those old impostors that made prize of their prisoners,2 Peter 2:3. And as those Popish Muscipulatores, or mice catchers, as the story calleth them, that raked together their Peter's pence and other monies here in England by most detestable arts. Polydore Virgil was one of these ill officers, that left not so much money in the whole kingdom sometimes as they either carried with them or sent to Rome before them.