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A94796	A brief commentary or exposition vpon the Gospel according to St John: wherein the text is explained, divers doubts are resolved, and many other profitable things hinted, that had been by former interpreters pretermitted. / By John Trappe, M. A. pastour of Weston upon Avon in Glocester-shire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing T2037; Thomason E331_2; ESTC R200736	149,815	167

opportunity before time in laying hold upon eternall life but fools are semper victuri saith Seneca they will and they will c. so they trifle and by futuring fool away their own salvation Amend before the draw-bridge be taken up Charles King of Sicily and Jerusalem was called Cunctator not in the sense as Fabius because he stayed till opportunity came but because he stayed till opportunity was past Too many such Manna must be gathered in the morning or not at all and not kept till the morrow lest it stinke Verse 38. That the saying of the Prophet These unbeleevers were not such because the Prophet had so foretold it but the Prophet therefore foretold it because they should be such Like as Joseph's foretelling the famine was no cause of it but an antecedent only Verse 39. Therefore they could not beleeve c. They could not because they would not saith Theophylact out of Chrysostome who yet extolleth mans free-will more then is meet Contra Julian l. 1 c. 2. Pelagianis nondum litigantibus Patres securiùs loquebantur saith Augustine Verse 40. He hath hardned their hearts With a judiciary hardnesse This is in some respect worse then hell sith besides that God inflicts it as a punishment of former obstinacy it is one of the greatest sins and so far greater in evil then any of the greatest punishments Hence it was the saying of a Reverend man If I must be put to my choice I had rather be in hell with a sensible heart then live on earth with a reprobate minde Verse 41. When he saw his glory His train only in the Temple Isa 6.1 where the Seraphims are said to hide their faces with two wings as with a double scarfe before Gods glorious brightnes that would put out their eyes else they clap their wings on their faces as men do their hands when the lightning flasheth in their eyes Verse 42. Lest they should be put out c. which would redound to their disgrace and this these Ambitionists could not away with But what saith a Reverend Divine Bravely contemne all contumel es and contempts for thy conscience taking them as crowns and confirmations of thy conformity to Christ Verse 43. They loved the praise of men Which what is it else but a little stinking breath These have their reward Mercedem suam non Dei saith Hierome How much better Luther Haud velim Erasme gloriâ aut nomine vehi Epist ad Nic. Hansm Major est mihi timor in laudibus gaudium verò in maledictis blasphemijs Verse 44. Jesus cryed c. As being now to cry his last to them and is therefore so earnest in his contestation This was the Conclamatum est to this perverse people his farewell-Sermon c. Verse 45. Seeth him that sent me For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself Col 2. and in him the God-head dwelt bodily So that in all our addresses we must fix the eye of faith on the humane nature of Christ and there speak as to our God Like as where I see the body of a man there I know his soul is and therefore I speak to his understanding when and where I see his body because they are not severed so viewing by faith Christs manhood now glorified I there see and speak to the great God because I know he is there personally united Verse 46. I am come a light into the world Not by participation only as the Apostles were the lights of the world Mat. 5.14 but by nature How prodigiously blasphemous then was that Bishop in the Councell of Trent that in his oration there made C●r el. Episcop Bipontan applied this text to the Pope who at that time was Paul the third an odious hypocrite That whosoever beleeveth in me c. And he that this way seeks the Kingdom of Heaven must with him in Justin Stratonis servus ap Justin l. 18. look for this Sun of righteousnesse in the West that is dying upon the altar of his crosse so shall he become King of Heaven Verse 47. I judge him not viz. Whiles I am here on earth I sustain another person now that men may come apace to me without fear Some ancient hereticks hold that God in the time of the Law was a severe Judge and now in the dayes of the Gospel he was all made of mercy and mildnesse But the Apostle saith somewhat otherwise Heb. 2.1 2 3. God is more peremptory in his judgments now then ever of old Verse 48. The word that I have spoken If the word shall judge us then ought it much more to be a Judge of our doings now said Mr Philpot Martyr Therefore let it be president in all Assemblies and judgements saith Beza as in the Nicen Councell Constantine caused the Bible to be set upon a desk as Judge of all controversies Verse 49 50. For I have not spoke of my self The divine authority of Gospel-doctrine is here in the close of this last Sermon ad populum most gravely asserted by our Saviour as that which is undoubtedly authentick because it comes from the Father Sic de Virgilio S●aliger dc Tacito Peacham e cujus ore nil temerè excidit David saith one sets the 119 Psalm as a Poem of commendation afore the book of God The sonne of David say I sets this Text as his Imprimatur his authoritative License at the end of the Gospel And as a friend once wrote to Aegidius Abbot of Norinberg concerning the 119 Psalm that they were verba vivenda non legenda words not to be read but lived the same may I affirme of our Saviours Sermons and I know that his commandement is life everlasting CHAP. XIII Verse 1. That he should depart c. THis definition of death Calv. in loc saith Calvin pertains to the whole body of the Church It is to the Saints no more then a passage to the Father an in-let to eternall life Whether a Christians death be a burnt-offering of Martyrdome or a peace-offering of a naturall death whether it be by a sudden change as Eliah's or a lingring sicknes as Elisha's it is a sweet sacrifice ascending to God as Manoah's Angel ascended in the smoke This made Basil when the Emperours Lieutenant threatned to kill him cry out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioa. Manlij loc com 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I would he would for so should he soon send me to my heavenly father to whom I now live and to whom I desire to hasten This made Velcurio a Dutch Divine when he lay upon his death-bed break out into these sweet words Pater est amator Filius Redemptor Spiritus Sanctus Consolator quomodo itaque tristitiâ affici possim The Father loves me the Son redeemed me the holy Ghost comforts me how then can I be cast down at the approach of death And the like triumphant words were uttered to me by my late Reverend good friend and

too many women especially who should doe well to keep their tears for better uses and not wash foul rooms with sweet waters Needlesse tears must be unwept again Verse 12. And seeth two Angels Sent for her sake and the rest to certifie them of the resurrection It is their office and they are glad of it to comfort and counsell the Saints still as it were by speaking and doing after a spirituall manner though we see them not as she here did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Philosopher told his friends when they came into his little and low cottage The gods are here with me sure it is that God and his Angels are ever with his people when they are weeping especially Verse 13. Woman why weepest thou Angels pity humane frailty still and secretly suggest comfort But Mary had no such cause to cry if she had known all but to rejoyce rather so hath a Christian in what condition soever all things reckoned Had Elizabeth known she should have been Queen she would not have wisht her self a milk-maid Jam. 1. Saints are heirs of the kingdom saith James heads destinated to the diadem saith Tertullian what mean they then to be at any time in their dumps Verse 14. She turned her self back As not able to abide the brightnes of those glorious Angels any longer To the Gardener therefore she addresseth her self for further direction See what a happinesse it is to be taught by the ministery of men like our selves and to have Angels about us but invisible Verse 15. Woman why weepest thou whom seekest thou Where the Angels left the Lord begins God hath for our sakes taken the preaching of the Gospel from the Angels and given it to Ministers who have thenceforth also changed names for Ministers are called Angels Rev. 2.1 and Angels Ministers Heb. 1.14 Verse 16. Jesus saith unto her Mary Christ is neerest to such as with Mary cannot see him for their tears if with her in humility they seek after him He cals her but by her name and she acknowledgeth him The ear we say is first up in a morning and nothing so soon awakes us as to be called by our names How easily can Christ call up our drousie hearts when he pleaseth and when we are even turned away from him as Mary here was make us reciprocate and cry Rabboni Verse 17. Touch me not c. She had caught him by the feet as the Shunammite did Elisha as the Shulamite did her Spouse and there she would have held him longer Mat 28 ● Cant. 3 4 out of inconsiderate zeal but that he takes her off this corporall conceit that she may learn to live by faith and not by sense to be drawn after him to heaven Ne morare sed ad perturoatos disciputos accurre quod vid st●renuncia Pet. Martyr whither he was now ascending and to go tell his brethren what she had seen and heard Verse 18. Mary Magdalen came and told She had told them and troubled them before with a conceit that they had but to what end or whether she knew not removed the Lords body fitly therefore is she sent to assure them of the resurrection And though loth to depart yet she bridles her affections though never so impetuous and brings them to be wholly at Christs beck and check Verse 19. When the doors c. for fear of the Jews The sheep had been scattered but now were by the great shepherd recollected according to the promise Lech 13.7 I will turn my hand upon the little ones yet sensible of their late fright they shew some trepidation Afterwards when the Spirit came down upon them they not only set open the doors but preached Christ boldly in the Temple without dread of danger So did Basil when the Emperour threatned him with bonds banishment Pueris illa terriculamenta proponeuda c. he wisht him to affright babies with such bugbears his life might be taken away but not this faith his head but not his crown So Luther at first so fearfull and faint-hearted that in the year 1518. he wrote thus to Pope Leo the tenth I lay my self prostrate at your Holinesse feet Vivisica occide voca revoca approba reproba vocem tuā vocem Christi in te praesidentis loquentis agnoscam together with all that I am and have quicken me kill me call me recall me approve me reprove me I shall acknowledge your voice to be the very voice of Christ ruling and speaking in you c. Yet afterwards he took more courage witnesse among many other things that brave answer of his to one that told him that both the Pope and the Emperour had threatned his ruine Contemptus est à me Romanus favor furor And when Spalatinus had sent unto him to enquire whether he would go to Worms and appear in the Gospels cause if Caesar summoned him Go said he I am resolved to go though I were sure to encounter so many devils there as are tiles upon the houses Omnia de me praesumas Luth. Epist praeter fugam palinodiam Fugere nolo multò minus recantare Verse 20 He shewed unto them his hands c. For their further confirmation so he doth unto us every time we come to his table But oh how should our hearts long to look for ever upon the humane nature of Christ cloathed with an exuberancy of glory at the right hand of his heavenly Father And to consider that every vein in that blessed body bled to bring us to heaven Augustin was wont to wish that he might have the happinesse to see these three things Romam in flore Paulum in ore Christum in corpore But I should take venerable Bedes part rather and say with him Anima mea desiderat Christum regem meum videre in decore suo Let me see my King Christ in his heavenly beauty Verse 21. Then said Jesus to them again Peace The common salutation amongst the Jewes the Turks at this day salute in like sort Salaum aleck the reply is Aleek salaum that is Blunts voy into Levant Peace be unto you This our Saviour purposely redoubleth to perswade them of pardon for their late shamefull defection from him and their backwardnesse to believ his resurrection Sin is soon committed but not so easily remitted or if in heaven yet not in our own consciences till which ther 's little comfort Christ to confirm them is pleased again to imploy them and to count them faithfull putting them again into the ministery 1 Tim. 1.13 A calling not more honourable then comfortable the very trust that God commits to a man therein seales up love and favour to him Verse 22. He breathed on them and saith c. Otherwise who had been sufficient for these things The Ministery is a burden to be trembled at by the Angels themselves On●● ipsis etiā Angel●s tremendum saith Chrysostome Father