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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

Maries daies at one stake a lame man and a blinde man The lame man after he was chained casting away his crutch bad the blinde man be of good comfort for death would heal them both Act. and Mon. fol. 1733. And so they patiently suffered Verse 44. A spirituall body Luther saith the body shall move up and down like a thought Augustin saith they shall move to any place they will assoon as they will As birds saith Zanchius being hatched do flie lightly up into the skies De operib Dei which being eggs were a heavy and slimy matter So man being hatched by the resurrection is made pure and nimble and able to mount up into the heavens Verse 45. A quickning spirit Christ is called a spirit from his Deity as Heb. 9.14 and a quickning spirit because he is the principle of life to all believers Verse 46. And afterward that is spirituall Nature Art Grace proceed from lesse perfect to more perfect Let us advance forward and ripen apace that we may be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead Luk. 20.35 Verse 47. Of the earth earthy Gr. Dusty slimy ex terra friabili Let this pull down proud flesh The Lord from heaven Not for the matter of his body for he was made of a woman but for the originall and dignity of his person whereof see a lively and lofty description Heb. 1.2 3. Verse 48. They that are earthy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vulgus fictilis Man is but an earthen pot Isa 64.8 Verse 49. The image of the heavenly See Phil. 3.21 Our bodies shall be fashioned like to Christs glorious body in beauty brightnesse incorruption immortality grace favour agility strength and other unspeakable qualities and excellencies Whether they shall have that power as to tosse the greatest mountains like a ball yea to shake the whole earth at the●r pleasure as Anselme and Luther thinke I have not to say Verse 50. Flesh and bloud The body as it is corruptible cannot enter heaven but must be changed we shall appear with him in glory The vile body of Moses that was hid in the valley of Moab was brought forth glorious in the hill of Tabor Math. 17. Verse 51. I shew you a mystery Not known till now to any man living 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This likely was one of those wordlesse words that Paul heard in his rapture 2 Cor. 12.4 Verse 52. The trumpet shall sound As at the giving of the law it did Exod 19 16. If the law were thus given saith a Divine how shall it be required If such were the proclamation of Gods statutes what shall the sessions be I see and tremble at the resemblance The trumpet of the Angel called to the one the trumpet of the Arch-angel shall summon us to the other In the one the Mount only was on a flame all the world shall be so in the other To the one Moses saies God came with ten thousands of his Saints In the other thousand thousands shall minister to him and ten thousand thousands shall stand before him Verse 53. For this corruptible Pointing to his body he that speaketh as Psal 34 6. This poor man cried the Lord heard him So the old believers when they rehearsed the Creed and came to that Article I believe the Resurrection of the flesh they were wont to adde Etiam hu●●s carnts even of this self-same flesh So Job 19.27 Verse 55. Death is swallowed up As the fuell is swallowed up by the fire as the Sorcerers serpents were swallowed up by Moses his serpent Verse 56. Death where 's thy sting This is the sharpest and the shrillest note the boldest and the bravest challenge that ever man rang in the ears of death Sarcasmo constat hostili derisione quâ mors ridenda propinatur saith one Death is here out-braved called craven to his face and bidden Do his worst So Simeon sings out his soul Tollitur mors non ne sit sed ne obsit Aug. Hilarion chides it out Ambrose is bold to say I am neither ashamed to live nor afraid to die Anne Askew the Martyr Act. and Mon. fol. 1131. thus subscribeth her own confession Written by me Anne Askew that neither wisheth for death nor feareth his might and as merry as one that is bound towards heaven Ibid. Mr Bradford being told he should be burned the next day put off his cap and lifting up his eyes praised God for it Verse 56. The sting of death is sinne Christ having unstinged death and as it were disarmed it we may safely now put it into our bosoms as we may a snake whose sting is pull'd out If it shoot forth now a sting at us it is but an enchanted sting as was that of the Sorcerers serpents Buzze it may about our ears as a drone Bee but sting us it cannot Christ as he hath taken away not sinne it self but the guilt of sinne so not death it self but the sting of death Verse 57. But thanks be to God c. Here S. Paul Christs chief Herauld proclaims his victory with a world of solemnity and triumph Verse 58. Alwaies abounding c. This will strengthen faith as the oft knocking upon a stake fastens it When faith bears fruit upward it will take root downward CHAP. XVI Verse 1. Collection for the Saints THe poor believers at Jerusalem Rom. 15.26 who had suffered hard things of their own Countrey-men 1 Thess 2.14 and taken joyfully the spoiling of their goods Heb. 10.34 Gal. 2.10 Non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and were therefore relieved by the Churches of the Gentiles at Pauls motion The word here used for Saints signifieth such as are taken off from the earth The Saints though their commoration be upon earth their conversation's in heaven Verse 2. Vpon the first day The Christian Sabbath the Lords-day as the Greek Scholiast well renders it which to sanctifie was in the Primitive times a badge of Christianity When the question was propounded Servasti dominicum Hast thou kept the Lords-day The answer was returned Christianus sum intermittere non possum I am a Christian I can do no lesse then keep the Lords-day D King on Jonas Lect. 7. But the world is now grown perfectly profane saith one and can play on the Lords-day without book The Sabbath of the Lord the sanctified day of his rest is shamelesly troubled and disquieted Lay by him in store Gr. As a treasure 1 Tim. 6.18 Manus pauperum gazophylacium Christi The poor mans box is Christs treasury As God hath prospered him Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Given him a good arrivall at the end of his voiage and enabled him for we may not stretch beyond the staple and so spoil all Verse 3. Your liberality Gr. Your grace That which having received of Gods free grace you do as freely part with to his poor

ambitious of slavery of beggery v. 9. How many have we at this day that rejoyce in their bondage and dance to hell in their bolts Verse 22. For it is written It was enough of old to say It is written there was no need to quote Chapter and verse as now Men were so ready in the Scriptures they could tell where to turn to any thing at first hearing Verse 23. Was born aster the flesh In an ordinary way as all others are for Hagar was young and Abraham not old Was by promise i. e. By a supernaturall power by a divine miracle Verse 24. Which things are an allegory That is they signifie or import an allegory or they being the things that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 represented and typed out the things that they were not So did the brazen serpent the deluge the red sea c. As for those allegories gories of Origen and other wanton wits luxuriant this way what are they else but Scripturarum spuma as one calleth them Scripture-froth Verse 25. For this Agar is mount The Arabian call Mount Sina Agar Twice Hagar sled thither Gen. 16. and 21. it being in her way home to Aegypt From her the Arabians are called Hagarens and since for more honour sake Saracens of Sarah Hagars mistresse Answereth to Jerusalem That is to the Jewish Synagogue born to bondage as Tiberius said of the Romans that they were homines ad servitutem parati Verse 26. But Jerusalem which is above that is the Christian Church the heavenly Ierusalem the Panegyris and congregation of the first-born whose names are enrolled in heaven Heb 12.23 The Hebrew word for Ierusalem is of the Duall number to show AmamainCoronide say the Cabalists that there is an heavenly as well as an earthly Ierusalem and that the taking away of the earthly was intimated by the taking away of the letter jod out of Ierushalaim 2 Sam. 5.13 Verse 27. Far it is written When these testimonies of the old Testament are thus cited in the new it is not only by way of Accommodation but because they are the proper meaning of the places Verse 28. Now we brethren as Isaac This the Jews to this day will not hear of but call us Ma●zer Goi bastardly Gentiles Verse 29. Persecuted him By cruell mockings and reall injuries challenging the birth right and deriding the Covenant c. The Papists made way for their great project of perdition in 88. by dividing the people here under the rearms of Protestant and Puritan George Abbots ●of to D. Hiss 3 real and provoking them thereby to reall and ●un●uall both hate and contempt Even so it is new And to also it is now may we say at this day For what do Papists persecute us for else but because we reject their justification by works They poisoned their own Cardinall Contarenus for that he declared himself found in this point by a book that he set forth some four years afore the Councell of Trent Verse 30. Shall not be beirs No justitiary can be saved A Papist cannot go beyond a reprobate Pur us pu●us Papistanon potest servani Rev. 19.21 Verse 31 We are not children c. q. d. We are in a farre better condition then Legalists I have blessed Ismael faith God twelve Princes shall be beget but my Covenant will I establish with Isaac Gen 17.20 21. And such honour have all his Saints CHAP. V. Verse 1. Be not again entangled AS oxen tied to the yoke Those that followed Iudas Galileus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 5.37 chose rather to undergo any death then to be in subjection to any mortall If civil servitude be so grievous Ioseph 1.18 c. 2 what ought spirituall to be Those poor misled and muzled souls that are held captive in the Popes dark dungeon have an ill time of it Ever since being reconciled to the Roman Church I subjected my self and my Kingdoms said King Iohn of England to the Popes authority never any thing went well with me Nulla mihiprospera sed omnia asversa evensrunt but all against me Verse 2. Behold I Paul q. d. As true as I am Paul and do write these things Christ shall profit you nothing For he profits none but those that are found in him not having their own righteousnesse which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnes which is of God through faith Phil. 3.9 As Pharaoh said of the Israelites they are intangled in the Land the wildernes hath shut them in Exo. 14.3 So may it be said of Pharisaicall and Popish Justiciaries they are entangled in the fond conceits of their own righteousnesse they cannot come to Christ A man will never truly desire Christ till soundly shaken Hag 2.7 Verse 3. That he is a debtour viz. If he be circumcised with an opinion of meriting thereby Christ will be our sole Saviour or none he will not mingle his precious bloud with our p●●ddle-stuff Verse 4. Christ is become of none effect Woe then to Popish merit-mongers William Wickum founder of New-colledge Parc●bist pro. fan medul D Vsher on Eph. 4.13 though he did many good works yet he professed he trusted to Jesus Christ alone for salvation So did Charles the fife Emperour of Germany So did many of our fore-fathers in times of Popery Ye are fallen from grace It cannot hence be concluded that the Apostle speaks conditionally and it may be understood of the true Doctrine of Gods free-grace Verse 5. Erigito scalam Acesi sol●●●stendito For we through the spirit We Apostles hope for righteousnesse by faith If you will go to heaven any other way you must erect a ladder and go up alone as Constantine said to Acesius the Novatian heretike Verse 6. Neither circumcision Unregenerate Israel is as Ethiopia Amos 9.7 But faith that worketh Iustificamur tribus modis Effectivè à Deo apprehensivè à fide declarativè ab operibus Faith justifies the man and works justifie faith Verse 7. Ye did run well Why do ye now stop or step back Tutius recurrere Reusner Symb. quam malè currere was the Emperour Philips symboll Better run back then run amisse for in this case He that hasteth with his feet sinneth Prov. 19.2 But to run well till a man sweats and then to sit down and take cold may cause a consumption Verse 8. This perswasion Sectaries and seducers have a strange art in perswading 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Colos 2.4 And although we thinke our selves able enough to answer and withstand their arguments yet it is dangerous dealing with them The Valentinian heretikes had a trick to perswade before they taught Arrius could cogge a die Tertullian and cozen the simple and needlesse hearer Verse 9. A little leven viz. Of false doctrine Mat. 16.6 See the Note there Verse 10. But he that troubleth you That heresiarch or ring-leader of the faction the Beast

shrike horribly Act. 16.29 Mar. 6.49 Their hearts ake and quake within them and shall any man mock at Gods menaces Verse 20. But wilt thou know Interrogatio docturientis saith Piscator A question made by one that is desirous to teach Verse 21. Justified by works sc Declarativè in foro humano but not before God Rom. 3.2 It is saith that justifieth the man but they are works that justifie faith to be right and reall saving and justifying Verse 22 Wrought with his works Or Was a help to his works and was her own midwife to bring them forth of her self into the open light Heb. 11.17 Was faith made perfect That is Declared to be operative and effectuall Verse 23. And it was imputed See the Note on Gen. 15.6 on Rom. 4.3 and on Gal 3.6 The friend of God A very high stile If Eusebius held it such an honour to be the friend of Pamphilus and Sir Fulk Greevill Lord Brook to be friend to Sr Philip Sidney causing it to be so engraven upon his tomb What is it to be the friend of God And yet such honour have all the Saints Verse 24. By works a man is justified Declaratively as by faith apprehensively by God effectively Verse 25. The Messengers Gr. The Angels so Luk. 7.24 Act. 12.15 See the Notes there Verse 26. As the body c. Yet is not charity the soul of faith but the vitall spirit only CHAP. III. Verse 1. Be not many masters MAster 's of opinions that boldly obtrude upon others their own placits and will not have them disputed or debated Praesat in●● Sent. Est ipsissimum Dei verbum Hosius Such are the Sorbonists who rejoyce to be called Magistri notri Parisienses our Masters of Paris Bacon the Carmelite was called Doctor resolutissimus because he would endure no guessing or may be 's The Popes parasites perswade the people that what interpretation soever he gives of Scripture be it right or wrong it is without further triall to be received as the very word of God Verse 2. For in many things c. This is Euphormio Triste mortulitatis privilegium the sad priviledge of man-kinde as one phraseth it to have leave to offend sometimes Every Pomgranate hath at least one rotten grain within it said Crates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And it is the honour of God alone to be perfect saith Plato Hierom pronounceth a curse upon him that shall say that the fulfilling of the whole law is impossible to any But Patres legendi eum venia Hierome was out in this and too blame A perfect man That is A prudent man Ps 37.30 31. Verse 3. That they may obey us Horses ass●s camels elephants God in great wisdome for the use of man hath made without galls that they might with the more ease be made tame and serviceable Verse 4. Whither soever the governour Johnston de Nat. constant Peterent coelum navibus Belgae si navibus petiposset saith one Verse 5. Boasteth great things Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It doth magnifically lift upit self as an untamed horse doth his head It exalts it self and exults of great things It walketh thorow the earth and faceth the very heavens Psal 73.9 It can run all the world over and bite at every body being as a sharp rasour that doth deceit that instead of shaving the hair cutteth the throat Psalms 52.2 Verse 6. A world of iniquity A new found world Not a city or a countrey only but a world of iniquity a sink a sea of sin wherein there is not only that Leviathan but creeping things innumerable The course of nature Gr. Ps●l 104.46 The wheel of our nativity Their breath as fire devoureth Isa 33.10 And it is set on fire of hell That is of the devil called elswhere the gates of hell as the holy Ghost on the other side set on sire the Apostles tongues with zeal that flame of God Cant 86. Act. 2.3 Evil speech is the devils drivell a slanderer carries the devils pack Verse 7. For every kinde of beasts c. See the Note on Heb. 2.7 Verse 8. But the tongue c. Where then are our Justiciaries with their pretended perfection Davids heart deceived him Psal 39.1 I said I will look to my waies I will bridle my tongue But presently after he shews how soon he brake his word My heart was hot c. and I spake with my tongue Pambus in the ecclesiasticall history could never take out that one lesson read him out of Psal 39.1 An unruly evil There be but five vertues of the tongue reckoned by Philosophers But there are 24. severall sinnes of the tongue as Peraldus recounteth them The Arabians have a proverb Cave ne feriat lingua tua collum tuum Take heed thy tongue cut not thy throat An open mouth is oft a purgatory to the master Verse 9. Therewith blesse we God And so make our tongues our glory Therewith curse we men Yea the best of men as Co●e and his complices fear not to object to Moses the meek with one breath pride ambition and usurpation of authority Verse 10. Out of the same mouth As it did once out of the mouth of Pope Julius the second who in the battle of Ravenna on easter-Easter-day between him and the French as he sate by the fire reading of his praiers Annal Gallic and having news of the defeat he slung away his book saying Sit ergo gallus in nomine diabolorum The devil take the French Is not this that mouth that speaketh great things and blasphemies Rev. 13.5 Verse 11. Doth a f●untain send forth The fountain or rather the botch of sensuall and sinfull pleasure doth Sin is a bitter-sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the poison of aspes which first tickleth and then killeth All creature comforts are dulcis acerbitas saith one Tertull. Amarissima voluptas saith another Principium dulce est at finis amor is amarus Leata venire Venus tristis abire solet Verse 12. Both yeeld salt water and fresh That is strange that is reported of the rivers of Peru that after they have run into the main sea yea some write 20 or 30 miles Abbots his Geog. they keep themselves unmixt with the salt water so that a very great way within the sea men may take up as fresh water as if they were near the land But that is as sure as strange that an eye witnesse reporteth of the Danuby and Sava two great rivers in Hungary that their waters meeting mingle no more then water and oyl Blunts vo●age p. 10. so that near the middle of the river I have gone in a boat saith mine authour and tasted of the Danuby as clear and pure as a well then putting my hand not an inch further I have taken of the Sava as troubled is a street-channel tasting the gravel in my teeth Thus they run 60 miles together c. Verse 13. Who is a

Were burnt up Were tainted with errours and heresies whereof this age was so fertile and full that as Hierom speaketh it was a witty thing to be a right believer Verse 8. A great mountain Some notable haeresiarch possibly Pelagius a Monk of Bangor Morgan by name that is in the Welsh tongue a sea-man This Morgan travelling beyond sea to spread his heresie called himself Pelagius by a Greek word of the same signification because it sounded better in the ears of forraign Nations Lib 1. de grat Christ advers Pelag. Hence Augustine Quid eo pelago saith he vult mergi Pelagius unde per petram liberatus est Petrus Verse 9. And the third part Heresie as a gangrene spreads and kils as the leprosie in the head it renders a man utterly unclean Levit. 13.44 So cunning are some seducers and so close in the conveyance of their collusion that if possible the very elect may be deceived Verse 10. There fell a great starre Falling stars were never but meteors That grand apostate of Rome may well be meant by this blazing burning comet He was in falling by degrees from the time of Constantine till Phocas who set him upon the chair of pestilence The third part of the rivers i. e. Corrupted true doctrine and perverted the Scriptures with his false gloss●s Verse 11. Was called wormwood Because himself was in the gall of bitternes and did imbitter others See Jer. 23.15 and Deu. 29 18. with Junius his Note there Verse 12. And the third part of the Sun The Prelates and Patriarchs And the third part of the Moon The inferiour Church-Officers And the third part of the starres The community of Christians All began to be over-spread with grosse ignorance not only of heavenly truths but of humane sciences which are here called the night in comparison of Gospel-light Gregory the great thought to be that Angel mentioned in the next verse though better then any that succeeded him in the Popedome calling himself the servant of Gods servants and carrying himself modestly in the daies of Mauricius the Emperour yet when Mauricius was slain by the traitour Phocas how basely did he claw the traitour and collogue with him commending to his care the Church of Rome and often minding him of Peters primacy and of that speech of our Saviour Thou art Peter c. for no other end but that he might enlarge his jurisdiction over all Churches by the favour of that parricide Verse 13. And I beheld and heard an Angel Or an Eagle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some copies reade it See the Note on Verse 12. Gregory the great seems to be pointed at who is said to be the worst of all the Popes that went before him and the best of those that came after him Hence he is here brought in flying betwixt heaven and earth And that he cried with a loud voice pointing at and painting out that to be Antichrist that should challenge to himself the title of Vniversall Bishop and had an host of Priests ready to follow him Hic propè est in foribus said he and he said right for his immediate successour Boniface the third fulfilled the same that he had fore-told CHAP. IX Verse 1. A star fall from heaven GR. That had fallen from heaven viz. when the third Angel sounded Chap. 8.10 Then the Bishop of Rome began to fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but here in Boniface the third and his successours He is fallen he is fallen from his primitive integrity into the deepest gulf of impiety The Jesuites to blinde the matter tell us that by this starre is meant Luther whom Satan sent out to disturbe the Church and God sent them to withstand him Bugenhagius also a Dutch-Divine when he first read Luthers book of the Babylonish Captivity rashly pronounced him the most pestilent heretike that ever the Church was pesterd with But a few daies after having thorowly read and weighed the contents of that book he recanted and affirmed that all the world was deceived Scultet Annal. and Luther only was in the right And so not only himself became a Lutheran M●t. Par●s an 1072. but many others also perswaded by him The key of the bottomlesse pit Whereinto he lets souls innumerable so that in the daies of Hildebrand letters were set forth as sent from hell wherein the devil and his Angels give the Popish Clergy many thanks for sending them in so many souls as they never had in any age before Verse 2. And there arose a smoke Of hereticall opinions and flagitious practices All the old heretikes fled and hid themselves in the Popish Clergy Those dark corners also of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty Act. and Mon. fol 1117. Take heed said the Lord Audely Chancellour of England how you deal with Popish Priests for you may believe me some of them be knaves all Petrus de Aliac● long since wrote De re●orm eccl Ad hunc statum venit Romana Ecclesia ut non esset digna regi nisi per reprobos The Church of Rome hath for a long season been ruled by a rabble of reprobates Verse 3. Locusts upon the earth So the Monks Friers Jesuites c. Igna. Conclave are fitly called for their numerosity and voracity The Jesuites have sometimes maintained 200000 schollars The Duke of Bavaria's house is so pestered with them saith one that notwithstanding his great revenues he is very poor as spending all his estate upon those Popish flesh-flies Thinke the same of other Princes and places where they are received As the scorpious of the earth They are the sorest soul-stingers saith an Interpreter that ever the world had Pliny testifieth of the Scorpion that there is not one minute wherein it doth not put forth a most venemous sting to do mischief It creeps on crookedly and so it strikes the more at unawares It s sting is not much felt at first but soon proves uncurable Verse 4. And it was commanded As David charged his Captains to handle the young man Absolom gently so and much more sollicitous is the Lord of his servants safety The grasse of the earth nor any green thing I say that under the Papacy was true Christianity saith Luther yea the very ke●nell of Christianity Lu●h contra Anabapt Verse 5. And to them is was given This is oft repeated in this book to shew that though Antichrist and his actuaries bandy and bend all their forces to destroy souls yet they are bounded by God and can do no more then is given them from above Five moneths Locusts use to live no longer See Pliny l. 11. cap. 29. There are that interpret these five moneths of those 500. De pap Rom 1. 3. c. ●2 years wherein the Pope stood in his full pride and power For ab eo tempore quo per v●s Papa Antichristus esse coepit saith Bellarmine non modò non crevit ejus imperium

half a year before their death were at a point to have utterly rooted the Bishop of Rome out of their realms Spec. Europ and to exhort the Emperour to do the same or else to break off from him The Realm of France was ready upon the Popes refusall to re-blesse K. Henry 4. upon conversion to them to with-draw utterly from the obedience of his Sea and to erect a new Patriarch over all the French Church The then Archbishop of Burges was ready to accept it and but that the Pope in fear thereof did hasten his benediction it had been effected to his utter disgrace and decay And shall eat her flesh Be so bitterly bent against her that they could finde in their hearts to tear her with their teeth See Job 19.22 And burn her with sire For an old bawd It is reported that in Meroe the Priests of Jupiter had so bewitched the people with their superstition that they would sometimes send to the king of Ethiopia for his head which was never denied them Alex ab Ale●●● andro till it came to King Erganes who upon so insolent a demand slew them all and took away their Priesthood Why is not the same now done to the Bridge-maker of Rome Verse 17. For God hath put As he sent Nebuchadnezzar against Tyre Alexander against Asia and Attilas against Rome who sirnamed himself the Worlds scourge so he will one day send these Kings against Rome It had been burnt when Charles the 5. took it but that the souldiers were kept in by a kinde of violence Gods time was not yet come for that purpose Verse 18. Is that great City Rome that radix omnium malorum This is confessed by Bellarmine Ribera Alcasar and other Jesuites The Rhemists are so straited that they know not which way to turn them or how to deny so clear a truth which yet they are not willing to acknowledge The wit of heretikes will better serve them to devise a thousand shifts to elude the truth then their pride will suffer them once to yeeld and acknowledge it CHAP. XVIII Verse 1. I saw another Angel SOme excellent and worthy man saith Mr Brightman such an one as should come suddenly before he be looked for as those things do that slip down from heaven Having great power Or authority as having in hand a great busines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. the denouncing of Romes utter ruine And the earth was lighted He delivered himself clearly and expresly so as that all men may well understand his meaning Ribera the Jesuite gives this note upon this text that the judgement of Romes desolation shall be not kept secret but made manifest to all men Verse 2. And he cried mightily So to awaken Babylon that slept no lesse securely then that old Babylon whose King Shesack was feasting and carousing in the bowls of the Sanctuary when the City was taken the same night The people also did so little fea● it Herodot l. 1. Arist Polit l 13. that it was three daies after the City was taken by Cyrus ere some of them heard what was befallen them Is fallen is fallen Certò citò penitùs Or with a double Fall They have fallen culpably and shall fall penally This was also long fince fore-told by Sibylla in the eighth book of her Oracles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tota eri● in cineres quasi nunquam Roma fuisses Rome during the Roman felicity was never taken but by the Gauls but since it became Pontificiall De rem u●r fort dial 118. it hath been made a prey to all barbarous Nations and never besieged by any that took it not There yet stands near at hand a second Babylon saith Petrarch citò itidem casura si essetis viri This would soon be down if you would but stand up as men The habitation of devils Which by a sweet providence of God for the good of man-kinde are banished as likewise fierce and wilde beasts are to deserts and dispeopled places See Mat. M●r. 5. 12.43 It is an allusion to Isa 13.20 14.23 Ier. 50.39 yet not so but that by divine permission they haunt and pester the greatest throngs of people yea the holiest assemblies Some take the words in another sense thus It is become an habitation of devils that is of idols and this hath wrought her ●uine In the year 610. Boniface 4. instituted the feast of All-Saints after that he had begg'd of the Emperour the Pantheon of Rome which he consecrated to the honour of All-Saints Alsled Chron. p. 346. and set up the Virgin Mary in the place of Cybele the mother of the gods Verse 3. For all Nations All Roman-Cacolicks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The merchants of the earth The Popish Emissaries that huckster the Word and make merchandise of mens souls 2 Pet. 2.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after they have taken them prisoners and made prizes of them 2 Tim. 3.6 Through the abundance of her delicacies Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of her insolencies Proh pudor haec res est toto notissima coelo sang Petrarch two hundred year since speaking of the luxury and insolency of the Court of Rome Verse 4. Another voice This was Christs voice whether mediate or immediate it appears not See Ier. 51.45 My people A people Christ had and still hath where Antichrist most prevaileth There are thought to be no lesse then 20000 Protestants in Civil it self a chief City of Spain S Edw. Sand● Even in Italy there are full 4000 professed Protestants but their paucity and obscurity saith mine Authour shall enclose them in a cipher Partakers of hir sins Esto procul Româ qui cupis esse pius Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse c. Adam Daml●p Martyr had been a great Papist and chaplain to Fisher Bishop of Rochester after whose death he travelled to Rome Where he thought to have found all godlinesse and sincere religion In the end he found there as he said such blaspheming of God contempt of true religion loosenesse of life and abundance of all abominations that he abhorred any longer there to abide although he was greatly requested by Cardinall Pool there to continue Act. and Mon. fol. ●118 and to reade three lectures a week in his house for the which he offered him great entertainment The like is recorded of Mr Rough Martyr that being before Bonner he affirmed that he had been twice at Rome and there had seen plainly with his eyes Ibid. 1843. that the Pope was the very Antichrist for there he saw him carried on mens shoulders and the false named Sacrament borne before him yet was there more reverence given to him then to that which they counted their God Mr Ascham schoolmaster to Q Elizabeth was wont to thank God that he was but nine daies in Italy M. Fullers Holy stat●● 〈◊〉 1●● wherein he saw in that one City of Venice more liberty to sinne then

c. they called him oftentimes by the name of Bengi Bengi that is Schollar schollar which amongst them is accounted in a Prince to be no small disgrace But what said a far wiser man Happy is that Common-wealth where either Philosophers bear rule or the Ruler study philosophy The Doctours and Judges amongst us to intimate some such thing surely have one and the same habit square caps and scarlet gowns prescribed them Nebuchadnezzar seems to have been a schollar Dan. 1.19 for he was able to pose the young students and to pronounce after he had communed with them which were the best learned Yea it is said v. 20. That in all matters of wisdome and understanding that the King enquired of Daniel and his fellows be found them ten times better then all the Magicians so they called their Philosophers and interpreters of divine and humane laws and wise men the learned of all Nations were called so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 contemplative persons Mat. 23.34 till Pythagoras first in modesty named himself Philosopher or a wel-willer to wisdome that were in all his realm Ahashuerosh also when he could not sleep called for a book fo did Tamberlane the night before the mortall battle between him and Bajazet he called for a book care would not suffer him to sleep wherein was contained the lives of his fathers and Ancestours and other valiant worthies the which he used ordinarily to reade as he then did not as therewith vainly to deceive the time but to make use there of by the imitation of that which was by them worthily done and declining of such dangers as they by there rashnesse or over-fight fell into Alphonsus King of Sicily called his books his best Councellours for they wound tell him truth Turk Hist 218. Et hoc ipso laudem veram merait quòd falsam contempsit Lipsius Gabriel Simeo● in Symbolis when none else durst Iulius Caesar wrote his own acts and modestly called them not Histories but Commentaries He would be carved standing upon a globe of the world and having in his left hand a book in his right hand a sword with this title or motto Ex utroque Caesar Q. Elizabeth who was wont to qual●fie the tediousnesse of her serious affairs with the sweet recreation of letters either read or wrote some what every day Camd Elisab 412 500. saith M. Camden who alto testifieth that she translated Boetius his books De consolatione handsomely into the English tongue that the took very all that Anagram Veritas a●mata according to the queen of Scots name Maria Stuarta that being perplexed whether or no to put the Queen of Scots to death the sate many ●mes melancholly and often sighing muttered to her self Aut for aut seri and Ne feriare feri c. She answered severall Embassadours in their severall languages being herein like Cleopatra who gave answers by her self to the Ethiopians Arabians Hebrews Syrians Medes and Parthians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch and could tune her tongue like an instrument of many strings saith Plutarch to whatsoever dialect she listed But besides the vulgar tongues wherein she was ready Queen Elizabeth understood the learned tongues as did also not long before her the Lady Jane Gray and that famous Olympia Fulva Morata of Ferrara in Italy who publikely and with great commendation professed the Greek and Latine tongue at Heidelberg anno dom 1554. I conclude with K. Iames whose golden pen saith a reverend Divine M Boltons Gen. direct for wal with God p. 15. in whose words I relate if hath given such a blow to that beast of Rome that be will never be able to stand upon his four legs again He hath shot out of his royal bow such keen arrows taken out of the quiver of Gods book which will bang in the sides of that scarlet whore and make her lams as long as she lives c This learned King after he had moderated as Doctour of the Chair at Oxford in all faculties when in the publike library there he beheld the little chains where with the leverall books are fastned to their places Eruidem fi unauan m●bt in fvis fit ut capav●s ducar hoc ca●erem cancere com 〈◊〉 c. Rex Platon per D Isaa● Wake p. 113 Bonarum arti● expers igna 〈◊〉 cet vere caque ad virū doctum tertmðilde t intelligere ac sacere videretur D● F●runt cum non cru●u●sse cum esse●● perator ●ec puduisse unquam ad do●torem prosicis● D●● in vite Bu●chius in a●● I could wish said he is ever it be my lot to be carried captive to be shut up in this prison to be bound with these chains and to spend my life with these fellow captives that stand here chained Few Princes have the happinesse that Trojan had who though he were no schollar yet he truly understood and accordingly did those things that pertain to a schollar But he highly esteemed learning in Pliny and others whom he prized and preferred no lesse then did Antoninus the Philosopher who was not ashamed after that he was Emperour to resort dally to his Doctour And after he came to Athens and was admitted to be of that University he granted them large priviledges did them great honours and founded many Lectures with a liberall allowance of maintenance Aeneas Sylvius afterwards pope was wo●t to say of learning That popular men should esteem is as silver Noblemen as gold princes as pearls His ●u●e●ff●ou● N●c●las th● fifth when it was told him that there were such and such in Rome that made good verses Nay not good verses said he for if they can do so why come they not and make themselves known to me Qui Poetis etiam malis pateo who am a favourer and rewarder of any Poets be they never so bad Divers learned men flourished in the times of our Henry 1. sirnamed Beauclark because he had in his youth some taste of learning Dan hist fol. 68. which put many of his subjects into the fashion of the book like as all the Court of Sicily was set upon the study of Philosophy when Dionysius looked that way and had got the company of Aristippus and Plato the former of whom Iohnston de natur●e constantia p 69 Neand Chron. said he is ever craving money of me the later defires nothing but books And indeed how much Plato preferred books before money well appeared when he gave as he is reported to doe for three books thirty thousand florens As of Renchlin it is storied that he gave the Jew a crown an hour that read Hebrew to him at Rome Of S. Hierome That he went by night and by stealth to the Jew that taught him Hebrew for if it had been known the Jews would have been the death of them both This he did when he was now an old man as Cato though old set himself to learn Greek and Sigismund the Emperour Latine The