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A63065	A commentary or exposition upon all the Epistles, and the Revelation of John the Divine wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common-places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted : besides, divers other texts of Scripture, which occasionally occur, are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader : with a decad of common-places upon these ten heads : abstinence, admonition, alms, ambition, angels, anger, apostasie, arrogancie, arts, atheisme / by John Trapp ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.; Trapp, John, 1601-1669. Mellificium theologicum.	1647 (1647)	Wing T2040; ESTC R18187	632,596	752

crown of gold round about it To insinuate thus much saith one that we must be like the Ark of the Covenant being builded and reared up still toward the mark not only when the Lord seedeth us with the sweet Manna of his mercy but also when he afflicteth us with the sharp rod of his correction and alwaies keep the Tables of the Testament which are the Commandments that by saith in Christ who is the propitiation for our sins we may obtain the golden crown of eternall life Verse 5. And over it the Cherubims The Ark covering the Law within it the Mercy-feat upon it and over them two Cherubims covering one another All these set forth Christ covering the curses of the Law in whom is the ground of all mercy which things the Angels desire to pry into as into the patern of Gods unsearchable wisdome and goodnesse Verse 6. Were thus ordained Gr. Prepared sitted finished by the hand of the artificer and therefore called worldly in a good sense ver I. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 7. For the errours Cr. The not knowings of the people Those errours that they could not help 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and yet must else have answered for Ignorat sanè improbus omnis saith Aristotle Ignorance is the source of all sin the very well-spring from which all wickednesse doth wooze and issue What will not an ignorant man doe who knows not but he may doe any thing The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of em●l●y Psal 74.12 Christ therefore expiated the ignorances of his people Verse 8. The way into the holi●st That is into heaven typified thereby Was not yet made manifest In regard of performance and that evidence of saith and doctrine that is held forth under the Gospel The mystery of Christ was manifested piece meal and parcel-wi●e Heb. 11. Verse 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which was a figure Gr. A Parable that is such a from of service as intimated some greater matter then to the sense appeared and called upon the people to look thorow the type to the truth of things thorow the history to the mystery Verse 10 Till the time of reformation Gr. Of direction or correction that is Evangelicall and spirituall worsh●p that shall take place in the Church till the times of the restitution of all things shall come at the last day Act. 3.21 Verse 11. Of good things to come i.e. Of spirituals that were expected as things to come when Christ came with a Cornu-copia a horn of salvation in his hand The Latines call prosperous things Res siound●s things to come A more perfect tabernacle i. e. His humane nature not made with hands 107 of this building that is not by the power of nature by the ordinary course of generation Verse 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neither by the bloud of calves As the Leviticall high Priest did ver 7. Having o●tained Gr. Having found See Rom. 4.1 The Latines also use invenire for acquirere to finde for to obtain See also Mat. 16.25 Christ overcame by suffering and by his own bloud purchased his Church as an Acheldama or field of bloud Verse 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●or it●lu ciny cat carb n●s exti●● per●nsti sunt The ashes of an heiser Gr. Ashis and cinders m●xt together as a monument of Christs most base and ut most affl●ctions and of our justification and sanctification thorow faith in his name Sprinkling the unclean With an hysop-bunch to note That none can have comfort either by the merit or spirit of Christ without true mortification Verse 14. By the eternall spirit That is By his deity called the Spirit of holinesse Rom. 1.4 and the spirit 1 Tim. 3.16 that gave both value and vertue to his death both to satisfie and to sactifie Purge your conscience This is that eternall redemption vers 12. From dead Works The most specious performances of unregeneraoe persons are but dead works because they proceed not from a principle of life and have death for their wages Rom 6. A will written with a dead mans had can hold no law God will be served like himself Verse 15. For the redemption Here he sheweth the reasons why it was needfull that Christ should enter by his own bloud verse 12. scil to expiate our sinnes and to possesse us of heaven Verse 16. For where a testament is See the Note on Chap. 8.6 Here the testatour is Christ heirs the Saints legacies the gifts of the spirit Executour the holy Ghost wintnesses Apostles Martyrs c. Verse 17. Whiles the Testatour liveth For it is in his power to alter it at his pleasure as reason requireth Our Henry the second first crowned and then cast off his eldest son Henry not suffering him to be what himself had made him Verse 18. Was dedicated Or initiated to holy use Levit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 16.15 16. Verse 19. He took the bloud See Exod 24 8. And sprinkled both the book which as it seemeth was laid on the Altar to be sanctified thereby the very book of cod is sprinkled with the bould of Christ that it may be opened and of use to the faithsull Verse 20. Saying This is the bloud c. A tropicall and sacramentall expression whereunto our Saviour seemeth to allude in those words of his This Cup is the new testament in my bloud c. The Sacraments of the old testament had a resemblance unto the New but that was for works of the Law this is for remission of fins Verse 21. He sprinkled with bloud This sprinkling had a fore-shadowing of sprinkling of the bloud of Jesus Christ 1 Peter 1.2 Isaiah 52.15 by his finger that is by his Spirit Luke 11.20 with Matthew 12.28 Verse 22. Purged With bloud Which yet of it self impureth and fouleth Verse 23. But the heavenly things Those spirituall good things set forth by the types of the Law Or the Church under the Gospel called Ierusalem that is above c. Verse 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To appear in the presence As a Lawyer appears for his client opens the case pleads the cause and it is carried Verse 25. Not that he should offer As Popish Masse-mongers will have it Eamus ad commun●m errorem said Domitius Calderinus to his friends when they perswaded him to goe to Masse Anno Domini 1442. Let us go to the common errour Verse 26. To put away sin To abrogate it Heb. 1.18 to binde it in a bundle seal it up in a bag Dan. 9.24 cast it behinde him as cancelled obligations Mic. 7. blot out the black hand-writing with the red lines of his bloud drawn over it Verse 27. But after this the judgement Every mans deaths-day is his doomsday Many of the Fathers held that mens souls were not judged till the last day Which opinion is as contrary to Purgatory for which Bellarmine alledgeth it as the truth Verse 28. The second time

So runne that ye may obtain Here is the race 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but above the Crown said Ignatius to Polycarp Run to get the race said Mr Bradford to his fellow-sufferers you are almost at your journeys end I doubt not but our Father will with us send to you also Act and Mon. fol. 1495. as he did to Elias a fiery charet to convey us into his Kingdom Let us therefore not be dismaied to leave our cloke behindeus that is our bodies to ashes Verse 25. Is temperate in all things These luxurious Corinthians were much addicted to their belly he calls them therefore to temperance ●ll doth it become a servant of the highest to be a slave to his palate to have animum in patinis calicibus as the Sybarites A man may eat that on earth that he must digest in hell Aug. Verse 26. Not as uncertainly For 1. I forget those things that are behinde all worldly things I set those by 2. I have Oculum ad me●●m which was Ludovicus Vives his Motto an eye upon the mark 3. I strain and stretch toward it See all these Phil. 3.13 14. That beats the air As young Fencers use to do but I beat mine adversary Verse 27. My body My body of sinne in the whole man not mine outward man only If we finde the devil practising upon the flesh the way is not to revile the devil but to beat the flesh A castaway Cast out of heaven as they were out of the fencing-schools that were either crosse or cowardly CHAP. X. Verse 1. I would not that ye should HIstoriae sidae monitrices Buchole saith one There is very good use to be made of other mens examples Historia hath it's name saith Plato of stopping the flux of errours and evil manners For muta to nomine de to Fabula narratur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Crat. What better effects sinne hath produced in some man it may in any man Lege igitur historiam ne sias historia Verse 2. And were all baptized And yet were rooted out and rejected Baptisme saveth not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but c. 1 Pet. 3.21 Verse 3. And did all eat They fed upon Sacraments and yet died in Gods displeasure The carcase of the Sacrament cannot give life but the soul of it which is the thing represented Verse 4. The same spirituall drink Here was no dry communion That spirituall rock that followed them The waters of the rock See Psa 195 41 Deut 9 21. the vertue and benefit went along with them so should the efficacy of the Lords Supper with us We should walk in the strength of it as Eliah did of his cake Verse 5. They were overthrown They died with the Sacramentall meat in their mouths our priviledges excuse us not but aggravate our enormities Verse 6. Were our examples Worthily are they made examples that will not take them Alterius perditio tua sit cauti● The destruction of others should be a terrour to us that we may wash our feet in the bloud of the wicked Psal 52.6 It is a just presage and desert of ruine not to be warned As they also lusted As at Kibroth hattaavah where by a hasty testament they bequeathed a new name to the place of their buriall Verse 7. And rose up to play Now if they were so cheared and strengthened by these murthering morsels should not we be made active and abundant in Gods Word by the dainties of Gods Table Knew stub on Com. 7 Verse 8. And fell in one day The Apostle instead of the cloke of heat of youth puts upon fornication a bloudy cloke bathed in the bloud of twenty three thousand Three and twenty thousand Moses mentions 24000. whereof one thousand were the chief Princes the others inferiours provoked to sin by their example But why doth the Apostle insist in the speciall punishment of the people Jun paral lib. 2. p. 37. To shew saith learned Junius how frigid and insufficient their excuse is that pretend for their sins the examples of their superiours Verse 9. Neither let us tempt By provoking him to jealousie as vers 22. especially by Idolatry that Land-desolating sinne Verse 10. As some of them also viz. Numb 14. And God said Amen to it vers 28. May he not justly say the same to our detestable God-damn-me's As truly as I live saith the Lord as ye have spoken in mine eares so will I do to you Verse 11. For our admonition God hangs up some as it were in gibbets for publike ex●mple See ver 6. Vpon whom the ends c. These then are the last and worst daies the very lees and dregs of time Now the worse the times are the better we should be and the rather because an end of all things is at hand Verse 12. That thinks he stands If he do but think so if he be no more then a seemer he will fall at length into hell mouth A man may live by a form but he cannot die by a forme Therefore rather seeke to be good then seem to be so Verse 13. But such as is common Such as is humane i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either such as is incident to men as men Job 5 6. Or such as men may well bear without buckling under it Or such as comes from men not from devils Ye wrestle against flesh and bloud c. Or you are yet only allured to idolatry not forced by persecution You gratifie your idolatrous acquaintance with your presence at their Idol feasts you are tempted and soone taken But God is faithfull When Mr Latimer stood at the stake Act. and Mon. fol. 1579. and the tormentours about to set fire to him and Ridley he lifted up his eyes toward heaven with an amiable and comfortable countenance saying these words Fidelis est Deus c. Ridley also at the stake with a wonderous cheatfull look ran to Latimer embraced and kisted and as they that stood near reported Ibid. 1605. comforted him saying Be of good heart brother God will either asswage the fury of the flame or else will strengthen us to abide it But will with the temptation He proportioneth the burden to the back and the stroke to the strength of him that beareth it I thank God said Mr Bradford my common disease which was a rheum with a feeblenesse of stomach doth lesse trouble me then when I was out of prison which doth teach me the mercifull providence of God toward me Ibid. 1459. Verse 14. Flee from Idolatry He calleth their sitting at the Idols-feasts though without intent of honouring the Idol by the name of Idolatry because 1. Hereby they yeelded a tacite consent to that sinne 2. Petty matters pave a causey for the greater Verse 13. I speak as to wise men i. e. Well skilled in the doctrine of the Sacraments from one of which I am about to argue Piscator after

13. He hath given us of his spirit That is of the fruits of his Spirit his holy motions and graces For thorow the two golden pipes the two Olive-Branches empty out of themselves the golden oils of all precious graces into the Candle-stick the Church Verse 14. And We have seen sc By speciall priviledge that which naturall eye never saw v. 12. the back-parts of Jehovah his wisdome justice mercy c. we can see no more and live we need see no more that we may live Verse 15. Whosoever shall confesse See the Note on 1 Cor. 12.3 Verse 16. And we have known and beleeved That is we know by believing See the Note no Joh. 6.69 God is love Pellican tels of some in his time that used to reade this piece of Scripture to their friends at their feasts A pious practice surely and well beseeming those that feast before the Lord. The Primitive Christians had at such times their kisse of love 1 Pet. 5.14 And S. Austin had these two verses written on his Table Quisquis amat dictis absentum roders famam Hanc mensam indictam novorit esse sibi Verse 17. In the day of judgement Those that bear his image shall hear his Euge he will own them and honour them in their saith that worketh by love shall be found unto praise honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.7 He that was so willingly judg'd for them shall give no hard sentence against them Verse 18. There is no fear in love But complacence and acquiescence in the person beloved Because fear hath torment Quom metuunt oderunt Whomsoever men fear they hate saith the Proverb And odium timorem spirat saith Tertullian Hatred hath fear which sets the soul on a rack as it were and renders it rest lesse Verse 19. Because be first lovedus See the Note on Vers 10 Mary answers not Rabboni till Christ first said unto her Mary Our love is but the reflex of his And as the reflected beams of the Sun are weaker then the direct so are our affections weaker then Gods Verse 20. Whom be hath seen Sight usually maketh love Jnvenal greatly wondereth at one Quinunquam visae fiagrabat amore puellae who loved a party whom he had never seen Verse 21. Love his brother also If he be a good man love him in god if bad for God CHAP. V. Verse 1. Loveth him also that is begotten His love as Aarons ointment sloweth down from the head to the meanest member Gods image wheresoever it appeareth is very lovely Verse 2. That we love the children of God Really aright and not for self or sinister respects Godlinesse begins in the tight knowledge of our selves and ends in the right knowledge of God a Christian begins with loving God for himself but he ends in loving himself and others in and for Christ Verse 3. For this is c. See the Note on Joh. 14.15 His commandments are not See the Note on Mat. 11.30 Verse 4. Even our faith Which shews a man a better project puts his head into heaven afore-hand gives him to taste of the hidden manna Now his mouth will not water after homely provisions that hath lately tasted of delicate sustenance Are we afraid of men saith one faith sets hell before us Are we allured by the world faith sets heaven before us Verse 5. But he that beleeveth A believer walketh about the world as a conquerour He saith of these things here below as Socrates did when he came into a fair and saw there sundry commodities to be sold Quam mult is ego non egeo Nec babeo nec careo nec curo as another said I neither have these things nor need them nor care for them He hath his feet where other mens heads are Prov. 15.24 Rev. 12.1 Verse 6. That came by water and bloud So to fulfill and answer the legall washings and sacrifices so to signifie that he justifieth none by his merit but whom he sactifieth by his spirit and so to set forth the two Sacraments of the new Testament See The Note on Joh. 1934. Verse 7. Three that bear record viz. That Jesus Christ is the Son of God These three heavenly Witnesses have given testimony hereof in earth See the Note on Joh. 5.32 8.18 These three are one In essence and will As if three lamps were lighted in one chamber albeit the lamps be divers yet the lights cannot be severed so in the God-head as there is a distinction of persons so a simplicity of nature Verse 8. The Spirit and the Water The Spirit of sactification testified by saving graces and new divine gifts the water of repentance and the bloud of Christ applied by faith These be the three Witnesses of a mans happinesse here When the waters of sactification are troubled and muddy let us run to the witnesse of bloud Verse 9. If we receive c. If two or three witnesses establish a truth with men shall we deny that honour to Gods testimony Verse 10. Hath the witnesse in himself Carries in his heart the counterpane of all the promises Hath made him aliar As one may deny God in deed as well as in word so he may give him the lie too in like manner sc by going away and not heeding all the grace that he offereth by Christ for such a one saith in effect Tush thee is no such thing as Christ or at least no such benefit to be reaped by his passion as they would perswade us c. Verse 11. That God hath given to us c How plain is the holy Scripture in things needfull to salvation These God hath written for us as it were which the beam of the Sun that none may plead difficulty But we are most of us of the Athenian strain of whom Tully saies the Proverb went Athenienses s●ire quae recta sunt sed facere nolle that they knew what was right Cic desenct but had no minde to make use of it Verse 12. Hath life For he is the prince and principle of life and all out of him are dead whiles they live Non ille din vixit sed diu fuit saith Seneca of one Non multum navigavit sed multum jactatus est of another at sea He was long but he lived little He was much tossed but not much furthered He moved much but removed not at all as a horse in a mill as a dog in a wheel c. See the Note on Joh. 1.4 Verse 13. That ye may believe That ye may be confirmed continued and encreased in it Verse 14. According to his will One said he could have what he would of god and Fiat voluntas mea said Luther in a certain praier but then he finely fals off with Men voluntas Domine quiatua Let my will be done Lord but so far forth as it is thy will Verse 15. We know that we have Iste vir potuit quod voluit That man could do what he would

burning-bush Many love Canaan but loath the wildernesse commend the countrey but look upon the conquest as impossible would sit in the seat of honour with Zebedee's children but not drink the cup of afflict●on These deceive themselves As a good souldier c. Christ saith to us as the black Prince his father sent to him Hist ●f France p. 1 6. sighting as it were in bloud to the knees and in a great distresse Either vanquish or die Verse 4. With the affairs Or Gainfull negotiations with marriage-matters say the Pap●sts here but without all shew of sense The Councel of Chalcedon strictly forbiddeth Ministers to m●ddle in worldly matters Ca●● 3. Verse 5. Except he strive lawfully Tam circaciborum quàm contiacati●●ac h●n●statis rationem so●ch Cassianus Verse 6. The hush and man labouring si●st Sp●s alit agricolas Noilli falsi sunt saith Salust qui diversissimas res expe●●a it 〈◊〉 vol●ptatem prami● virtutis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are utterly out that think to have the pleasure of sloth and the guerdon of goodnesse Verse 7. Consider what I say Apply to thy self these forementioned similies and so buckle close to thy businesse And the Lord give thee Unlesse God open Hagars eyes she cannot see the fountain that is hard by Rebecca cooks the Venison but Isaac only blesseth Verse 8. Remember that Jesus Remember it for thine encouragement that Christ for a reward of his sufferings was both raised and exalted Phil. 2 9. Verse 9. But the word of God is not bound It runs and is glotified 2 Thess 3.1 being free and not fettered I preach though a prisoner saith Paul so did Bradford and other Martyrs Act and Mon. fol. 1457. Within a few daies of Qu. Maries raign almost all the prisons in England were become right Christian schools and Churches saith Mr Fox so that there was no greater comfort for Christian hearts then to come to the prisons to behold their vertuous conversation and to hear their praiers preachings Ibid 1.8 2. c. Verse 10. That they may also obtain viz. By my pains in preaching though bound and by example of my patience in suffering bonds c. Verse 11. It is a faithfull saying A found and a sure assertion Rom. 8 17. Afflictions are the praeludia triumphi If we be dead As Christ ver 8. Verse 12. If we suffer No wearing the crown but by bearing the crosse first Epist ad Mel●m●th Ne Jesum quidem audias gloriosum nisi videru priùs crucisixum saith Luther Christ himself was not glorified till first crucified Q. Elizabeth is said to have swam to her crown thorow a sea of sorrows so must we If we deny him See the Note on Mat. 10 33. God usually retaliates paies men home in their own com proportions jealousie to jealousie provocation to provocation Deut. 32.21 Isa 66.3 4. Verse 13. If we believe not See the Note on Rom. 3.3 Some sense it thus Though we prove perfidious yet hē is no loser by us as having all within himself Howbeit hereby we shew that we have no interest in Christ for he cannot deny himself though we can deny him Verse 14. Strive not about words Either out of novelty or nicen●sse As Longolius who would not use the word Ecclesia but in stead thereof Respublica Christiana Another Italian Bishop for Episcopus took up the Heathenish word Flamen So Castalio for Angelus hath Genius J●h M●nl● loc con Lu●●Vives c. And Pomponius Laetus was full of such like fooleries aiery contestations and empty strifes Verse 15. Study to shew thy self There are crept into Gods Sanctuary such Levites to divide the word that are not worthy the place of Gib●onites to cleave wood like those unlearned Logicia us in Plato Lacerant doct●inas sicut caniculi panniculos saith he They tear up a text and torment it they wrest the Scriptures and wrong them set them upon the wrack and make them speak what they never meant These should be driven from the work as those bastard Levites were by the Tirshata Ezra 2.63 Rightly dividing the word of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Syriack renders it Rightly preaching the word Aeschines saith An Oratours oration and the law so a Preachers Sermon and the Word must be unisons And it Galen could say That in anatomizing mans brain Gol. de usu par lib 7. P●ysicians must carry themselves as men doe in the Temple How much more must Divines do so in dividing Gods holy Word Verse 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But shun Gr. Go round about them viz. to suppr●sse them on every side St Peter cals them bubbles of words full of winde 2 Pet. 2.18 Verse 17. Eat as doth a gangrene Which presently over-runs the parts and rakes the brain pierceth into the very bones and if not suddenly cured by cutting oft the part infected kils the patient Loe such is heresie and errour which made Placilla the Empresse earnestly beseech her husband Theodosius Senior not to confer with Eunomius the heretike Sozom. l 7. c. 7 lest he should be perverted by his speeches Jac Revius de vit Pont. Anastasius second Bishop of Rome anno 497. while he sought to win Acacius the heretike was seduced by him Verse 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have erred Gr. Have missed the mark as unskil●ull Archers or as inconsiderate Mariners by misreckoning of a point they have misled the haven and run upon the rocks That the resurrection is past Epiphan baeres 41. These were likely the progenitours of Marcion who taught that there was no resurrection of the body to be believed but of the soul only Verse 19. Neverthelesse the foundation viz. Of Gods election which is here compared to a sealed book on the one side of the seal is written The Lord knoweth them that are his On the other side And let every one that nameth c. This the Apostle setteth forth for the better setling of such as were shaken by the fall of Hymenaeus and Philetus two such forward profess●urs The Lord knoweth them c. In respect of the freenesse of his election and immobility of his affection Howbeit this knowledge that God hath of his is carried secret as a river under ground till he cals and separates us from the rest That nameth the name of Christ He may have an infallible seal of salvation that but nameth Christs name in praier that can say no more then Ah Father desiring and resolving to depart from iniquity Verse 20. There are not only c. Wonder not therefore murmure not that there are a mixture of good and bad in Gods house He knows how to serve himself of both Rom. 9.20 21 22. Neither be offended that some of great note fall away as did Hymen●●s and Philetus God hath his vessels of all sorts Verse 21. Purge himself from these From these seducers or arch-heretikes those vessels of dishonour whose