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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63071	Theologia theologiæ, the true treasure, or, A treasury of holy truths, touching Gods word, and God the word digg'd up, and drawn out of that incomparable mine of unsearchable mystery, Heb. I. 1, 2, 3 : wherein the divinity of the holy Scriptures is asserted, and applied / by John Trappe ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing T2047; ESTC R23471	163,104	402

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 1.70 which have beene since the world beganne In other cases I grant that antiquissimum quódque est verissimum adulterinum quod posterius truth is more ancient than falshood that classicke Authours are to be preferred before moderne and that of Aristotle holds true of humane witnesses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rhet. l. 1. Vinum quò magis tran funditur evanesi it magis tandemque fit vappa Degor Whear The ancientest are most to be credited as lesse corrupted For as wine the oftner it is poured from vessell to vessell the more it loseth of its spirits and sparkinesse and as a picture that is taken at the lively image loseth somewhat of its nature that which is taken at the patterne somewhat more and so from one to another they vary in the end so far from the originall that there is scarce left any resemblance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nihil mihi antiquiùs i. potius This may be true in humane testimonies and transactions But for the severall parts and peeces of holy Scripture may we not aske of them as the Prophet in another case Who is their Father 1 Sam 10.12 Malach. 2.10 Esay 9.6 Have they not all one Father even the Father of eternity to whom a thousand yeares by reason of the vastnesse of his being are but as yesterday Psal 40.4 when it is past Were they not all dictated and indited by the same Spirit and are therefore of equall antiquity and authority Come they not all from so authenticall an Authour as is the Authour and finisher of our faith the Alpha and Omega the first and the last I speake not here of Apocryphall books which were neither penned by the Prophets or Apostles Omnes literae quibus Christus prophetatus est apud Iudaeos sunt August in Psal 56. nor written in Hebrew and kept among the Jewes neither yet have they in them the print of the Spirit which the spirituall man discerneth but containe some things frivolous and some things false not dissonant onely but repugnant to the holy Scriptures Reade them fruitfully we may for morall instruction and for the better understanding of the story of the Church but reade wee must with judgement and choice and where wee finde them contradicting the Scriptures we must kill the Egyptian and save the Israelite But for the holy Prophets take that of our Saviour Math 10 41. Hee that receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward We cannot now receive them into our houses into our hearts we may and must as the Church of God hath ever done before us Who the pen-men were of those bookes that are called by the Hebrewes Nebim Res●onim the former Prophets that is Joshua Judges Samuel Kings and Chronicles and of those other among the Hagiographa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose Authors are not expressed there needs no great enquiry When Letters come from the King saith Gregory Regiis epistolis acceptis quo calamo scriptae sint ridiculum est quaerere Greg. it were an odde thing to bee much inquisitive with what penne they were written It is not altogether improbable that Ezra that perfect Scribe either himselfe or with the helpe of other his holy colleagues did by the immediate motion and inspiration of the holy Ghost compile those bookes of Joshua Judges Samuel Kings and Chronicles out of diverse ancient and honourable Records charily kept by the Church as written by the Prophets of those severall ages Davids acts are expresly said to have beene set downe by Gad and Nathan and that he or they digested and disposed them in that order that now of a long time the Church hath had and read them For it is not likely that Samuel himselfe when hee should relate the words of Saul seeking to him for advice about the Asses that he I say should preface thus He that is now-adayes called a Prophet was anciently called a Seer No Scultet Annal. Epist dedic but they sound rather in any mans eares like the words of another that reports things done long before As for the later Prophets as they call them Isay Jeremy and the rest Calvin tells us and he gathers it out of Habac. 2. and Esay 8. that after the Prophets had preached to the people their manner was to set down a briefe summe of their Sermon and to fasten it to the doores of the Temple that all men might know and take more notice of the Prophecie Calvin in Isai praefat Which when it had hung there for a certaine number of dayes as long as was thought fit the Priests office was to take it downe and lay it up safe in the Treasury that it might there remain for a perpetuall monument And hence hee conceives the bookes of the Prophets to have beene made up and notes it for a singular providence of God Iunius in orat de Test Vet. that the Priests which yet were often ill-minded men and profest enemies to the Prophets should bee used as Gods instruments to conserve and convey the prophecies entire as wee have them to posterity Now for the writings of the Apostles Nulli ne ipsis quidem Prophetis tam ampliter contigit insallibilitatis privilegium ac Apostolis quippe cum his●e perpetuum illud fuerit illis verò saepiùs intervallatum f●rè non extra ipsos prophetandi paroxysmos durans Tayler B●o●ius contra Maximum ex Gatake●o besides that priviledge of Infallibility wherewith they were endued even above the Prophets as some are of opinion no wise man doubteth saith Scultetus but that the Disciples of our Saviour recorded and registred his daily Oracles and miracles in their day-books and private annalls out of which afterwards the Evangelicall history was extracted composed and compiled Saint Luke is reputed the first of the foure that wrote the Gospel what others attempted onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 1.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee effected Luke 1.1 The Fathers held many of them that he received his Gospel from Saint Paul but himselfe tells us he had it from those that were eye-witnesses which Paul was none Saint Ambrose rightly preferres him for setting downe things more distinctly and orderly than the rest according to his promise to his most excellent Theophilus Chap. 1 vers 3. And as he doth it orderly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cohaerenter Bez. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and coherently as the word signifies so originally and from the very first verse or from a high as himselfe speakes For he begins his history not at the workes of our Saviour as Saint Marke nor at his birth onely as Saint Mathew but at his conception Yea at the conception and parentage of his forerunner Saint John indeed soareth higher even to our Saviours Divinity and is therefore called the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hieron in Ezech 1.10 Greg Mag. Hom. 4. in