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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

of Promise Psal 119.8 yet he will not forsake us For he hath said and it is five severall times repeated in Scripture for more surety 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 13.5 as Pharaohs dreame was J will not leave thee or if I doe yet J will not forsake thee So many Notes there are in the Originall for our better Assurance Oh incomparable comfort Who is then amongst you that feareth the LORD and yet walketh in darknesse and hath noe light let him trust in the name of the LORD and stay upon his GOD. But if this most savoury and saving course please you not Walke another while in the light of your owne Fire Esa 50.10 11. and in the sparkes that ye have kindled Not the fire of the Sanctuary that shadow'd out the will and wisdome of God in his Word but in the sparks of your owne tinder-boxes of your owne imaginations and conceits strange fire carnall plea's the mis-givings of your unbeleeving hearts Esa 55.1 This shall ye have of mine hand ye shall lye downe in sorrow The soule is ready to hang her comforts on every hedge to knocke at the doore of every creature for reliefe to use the meanes as Mediatours to shift and sharke in every bie-corner for Comfort and is hardly drawne to buy of CHRIT without money would gladly come with her cost or if not soe then shee stands off in a sinfull shamefac'dnesse But this is not the way Christ must be All and in all Ephes 6.14 Revel 1.13 Charitatem de signat Inter mamillas amoris sedes Cor. Pareus 1 Pet. 1.13 and it will never be well till we gird up the loynes of our minds with the girdle of Truth or rather with that golden girdle wherwith Christ is girt about the pap● which betokeneth his entire love to us and trust perfectly on the grace that by him is brought unto us Satan deales by the soule as Joshua did by the men of Ai gets it out of the city out of the strong-hold of the Promise and then doth what he will with us Good therfore is the counsell of Saint John Little children keepe home 1 Iohn 2.28 1 Ioh. 3. ●3 Heb. 6.13 if ye abide in Gods Commandements ye abide in God Now this is his Commandement that we beleeve on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and become followers of them who through Faith and Patience have inherited the Promises The Patriarches in their tiresome and troublesome pilgrimages lived by them died upon them and would not be buried but where they had received them giving commandement concerning their bones Father Latymer when he stood at the Stake ready to shed his heart-blood for the Truth which was one of the three things he so heartily praid for in the time of his imprisonment and obtained he lifted up his eyes toward Heaven with an amiable and comfortable countenance saying 1 Cor. 10 Faithfull is God who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able and so afterwards shed his blood in the cause of Christ The which blood Acts Monumēts fol. 1579 saith Master Fox ran out of his heart in such aboundance that all the godly that were present did much marvell to see the most part of the blood in his body to be gathered to his heart and with such violence to gush out his body being opened by the force of the fire The same Authour reporteth of Alice Benden Martyr that being kept in prison nine weeks with bread and water sequestred from her loving fellows she continued in great heavinesse till on a night as she was in her sorrowfull supplications rehearsing Why art thou so disquieted O my soule Ibid fol. 1797 c. And again The right hand of the most high can change all this she received comfort in the midst of her miseries The like he relateth of Mistris Joyce Lewis of Manchester Martyr that about three of the clock in the morning before she was to suffer Sathan who never sleepeth especially when death is at hand began to stir himself busily shooting at her those fiery darts Ibid fol 1826 which he is wont to do against all that are at defiance with him But by conference with Christian friends and especially by the sweet and precious Promises of Christ Sathan was vanquished and she comforted She overcame the great red Dragon by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of her testimony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she loved not her life unto the death Revel 12.11 Death is the king of terrours saith Job of all terribles the most terrible saith Aristotle Nature shrinks at the apprehension and approach of it at the least motion or mention of it and her boldest champions that seem to out-brave death and to dare it to a duell calling for it as Gaal once did for Abimelech Iudg. 9.28 ● with Increase thine army and come out yet when death comes in good earnest they are not able to look it in the face with blood in their cheeks Death ceiseth on them as a mercilesse officer Ps 55.15 as a cruell Land-lord as he that took his fellow by the throate and threw him into prison as Gods executioner as the messenger of eternall death yea as the Divell himself Hence those unutterable anxieties and anguishes those doubts and perplexities those horrours and amazements those terrors and tortures those convulsions of soule that hell above ground a very foretast and handsell of eternall torments This makes them catch as fast hold on the hints of life as Joab did on the hornes of the Altar play as loth to depart out of the world as Lot out of Sodome willing to be slaves or any thing with the Gibeonites so that they might live here rather then to depart hence Which if they must needs and there be no remedy they go out of life with as ill a will as the unjust steward did out of his office as the Jebusites did out of their Jerusalem as Adam out of Paradice yea as the Divell out of the demoniack raging raving rending tearing fuming foaming Yea it is a just wonder how any such can dye in their right wits that dye not partakers of the Promises Luk. ● Egredere ó anima mea c. that see not their owne names written in them as in Gods Book of life This this is that that will make a Simeon sing out his soule an Hilurion chide it out a Bradford put off his cappe and praise God when the keepers wife came to tell him he must be burnt the next day a Taylour fetch a friske at the stake a Hawkes clap his hands over his head in the flames and others sing Psalmes till the fire and smoake had stopt their breath A cordibus suis facti sunt fug●tivi Tertull. When a Cain cast out from Gods presence and bereft of the comfort of his Ordinances becomes a fugitive from his own conscience and thinks

〈◊〉 Steale from his Captaine Heb. 10.38 by unbeliefe which they would not doe had they but to deale with a sufficient man or a creditable person Let but an Astronomer tell them that the Sunne will be such a day in the Eclipse they 'l beleeve him straight though they see no reason for it because hee is a learned man and skilfull in his Art Now who and where is he amongst us that can convince God of untruth or his word of falsehood The promises are ancient Tit. 1.2 so are the threats and precepts and hitherto they never faild or fell to the ground any tittle of them because they are the issue of a most faithfull and righteous will voyd of all insincerity or guile God the author of them is eternall and so one and the same without alteration The Eternitie of Israel cannot lye 1 Sam. 15.29 He is also simple without composition and so without contrariety Besides hee is unchangeable and repents not But whatsoever he speakes When God is said to repent it is not a change of his will but of his worke Mutatio reinon De● effectus non affectus facti non consilij Repentance with man is the changing of his will Repentance with God is the willing of a change Gatak as he speakes from his heart so being I am that I am hee will not bee off and on with us but as Pilate said What I have written I have written so doth God what I have spoken I have spoken it shall surely stand Heaven and earth shall passe but a jot of the Law shall in no wise passe The grasse withereth the flower fadeth but the word of the LORD stands firme for ever Neither may we once imagine that he can forget what hee hath spoken as men many times for he hath the Jdea of all things in himselfe and every thought is before his eyes long before Psal 139.16 Ahashuerosh may forget Mordecai the Butler Ioseph the preserved City Eccles 9 15. the poore man that saved it Heb. 6.10 But God is not unrighteous to forget your labour of Love or his promise of retribution Holy men that have but a spark of Gods flame Psalm 15.4 but a drop of his Ocean will stand to their word though it turne to their losse They are children that will not lye Esay 63 8. Zeph. 3.13 neither is a deceitfull tongue found in their mouth how much lesse in his who can as soone dye as lye 2 Tim. 2.13 or deny himselfe Certainely if he say us any good we may safely seale to it seeme it never so improbable never so impossible especially since we have for our security not his word onely which yet were sufficient but his hand to shew for it yea his covenant his oath Eph. 1.13 Rom. 4.11 his seale both that privie seale of his spirit and that broad Seale of heaven in the Sacraments not in wax white or red but in the precious bloud of CHRIST who is white and ruddy as of a Lamb undefiled Cant. 5.10 1 Pet. 1.19 and without spot For which cause also the book among other things was sprinkled with the bloud of the sacrifice that by all these immutable things Heb. 6.12 in the which it was impossible for God to lye wee might have strong confidence in him who is so true of his word so firme in his promises so sure in his performances An admirable patterne of faith in Gods faithfulnesse wee have in that Reverend old couple Abraham and Sarah He having once heard from heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom 4.18 19. so shall thy seed bee staggerd not at the promise through unbeleefe cared neither for the drinesse of his owne body nor the deadnesse of his Wives but looked with the one eye on Gods promise and with the other on his power and was fully assured Likewise also Sarah though at first she faultered and laughed at the unlikelihood yet afterward when shee had better bethought her selfe she judged him faithfull who had promised and though past age and hope yet by the force of her faith shee conceived and was delivered Heb. 11.11 Bee not therefore unbeleeving but beleeve Ioh. 20. 27. 2 Chro. 20.20 Isay 7.9 beleeve the Prophets and yee shall prosper If yee will not beleeve surely yee shall not be established If I say the truth why doe yee not beleeve me Which of you convinceth mee of sinne Iohn 8.46 Pro. 8.8 Is there any thing perverse or froward in Wisedomes words It may seeme so Sic Doctor quidam Sorbouicus Grangius Jesuita apud Sharpium in Symphonia prophet Apost ep dedic Sic Rabuenabi refert sapientes Hebraeos veteres cogitasse Ecclesiastem librum occultare ●uod repugnantia continerit alijs libris contraria Pro. 8 9. Ora Lahora Iames 1.5 Wilsons Theolog. Rules say some and that one place contradicts another and this they thinke to prove out of Ezechiel 1. To this Wisdome answereth in the very next words They are plaine to him that understandeth and right to them that finde knowledge and that they may finde begge and digge for it as the Wiseman bids Prov. 2.3 4 5. Begge it I say of him that gives it richly and hits no man in the teeth Thus did Daniel the Prophet and John the Divine and that Heroicall Luther It was the saying of a godly Minister that he profited in the knowledge of the Scriptures more by Prayer in a short space then by study in a longer And we will give our selves said the twelve continually to prayer and to the ministery of the word divide our whole time betwixt these two duties Prov. 30.1 2. Cathedram in coelo habet qui corda docet Aug. Run therefore to Ithiel and Vcal as Agur did take unto you the words and say as He. Surely I am more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man in me I neither learned wisdome nor have the knowledge of the Holy Psalm 1 19. Platonici lumen mentium esse dixerunt ad discendum omnia eundem ipsum Deum a quo facta sunt omnia Aug. de civ Dei Teach mee good judgement and knowledge open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wonders of thy Law The very Platonists could say that the light of the mind wherby we learn all things is that very GOD that made all things But then as you must begge so digge too saith Salomon digge for vnderstanding as for silver search for her as for hid treasure Do herein as the Wise Merchant or Metallary who finding a rich Mine of gold or silver is not contented with the first oare that offers it selfe to his view but digs deeper and deeper till he be owner of the whole Treasure So neither should wee ever give over in this search after knowledge of the Scriptures till we have gotten all the degrees and dimensions of it here attaineable Never had

fruitfull The Aegyptians used in mockery to tell the Graecians Creditur Egyptus ca●uisse juvantibus arva Imbribus at● a●nis sicca utsse novem Ov d Vide Senec nat quaest l. 4. c. 2. that if God should forget to rain they might chance to starve for it They thought the rain was of God but not the River God therfore threatens to dry it up and so he did Tamberlane having overcome Baiazet asked him whither ever he had given God thanks for making him so great an Emperour who confessed ingenuously he never thought of it L●unclav in Annal Turc To whom Tamerlane replyed that it was no wonder so ungratefull a man should be made a Spectacle of misery To live under the sound of the word is a greater favour than without it to be made Monarch of the whole world For foure benefits Plato was especially thankfull 1. That he was made a reasonable creature and not a beast 2. That hee was a man and not a woman 3. That hee was a Grecian and not a Barbarian 4. That hee was borne in the daies of Socrates and bred a Scholler under him How much more cause have wee to blesse God that wee were not borne Pagans or Papagans but brought foorth in these glorious and golden dayes of the Gospell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch Demarathus of Corinth was wont to say that those Grecians lost a great part of the comfort of their lives that had not seene great Alexander sitting in Darius his Throne But Bucholcerus more truely pronounced those men unhappie that were Nati Donati borne and buried before the Reformation of Religion begun by Luther and himselfe he held most happy Mel Ad. in vit Ger theol pag. 550. that his birth fell out in Melancthons time a famous instrument of that renowned Reformation This is yet our case and long may it be Great heede is to be taken that we force not God for our Vnthankfullnesse to take his own and be gone as he did in Ezekiel where hee makes many remooves Ezek 9 10 11 and ever as hee went out some judgement came in as hee did from those seven once flourishing Churches of Asia Rev 2 3. now a habitation for Jim and Ohim as he hath not long since done from that large region of Nubia in Affrique S. Ed Sands Survey of West which had from the Apostles time as it is thought professed the Christian Faith till somewhat above an hundred yeares since it hath again forsaken it and imbraced partly Mahometisme and partly Idolatry and meerely through Famine of the Word and lacke of Ministers Lastly as he did from our fore-Fathers in Q. Maries dayes And will ye know the reason heare it from a Martyrs mouth Acts and Mon Ye all know saith M. Bradford in a letter of his written out of prison there was never more knowledge of God viz. in the dayes of King Edward and lesse godly living and true serving of God It was counted a foolish thing to serve God truly and earnest Prayer was not past upon Preaching was but pastime communion was counted too common Fasting to subdue the flesh was farre out of use Alms was almost nothing Malice Covetousnesse and uncleannesse was common every where with swearing drunkennesse and idlenesse God therfore now is come as ye have heard me preach c. God forgive me mine unthankfullnesse It is I Lord that have sinned against thee It is my Hypocrisie Ib. 1477. vain-glory security idlenesse unthankfullnesse self-love and such like which have deserved the taking away of our good King of thy Word and true Religion of thy good Ministers by exile prisonment and death Hos 14.2 Amos 4 1● c. Thus he and thus we should take unto us words and meet the Lord if so we may prevaile that he cause not our Sunne to go down at noone and darken the Earth in the cleare day as he threatneth Amos 8.9 The very course of the Sunne may well warne us of the course and progresse of the Gospell which went first forth from the East that is Judaea to the South that is Greece and from thence passed to the West that is the Latines till now it is turned to the North which is the utmost angle of this Vniverse even to us and so it hath almost finished its course Wherfore as much as it is the pitching time of the day 1 Ioh. 2.18 2 Kings 4.27 Judg. 19.9 it is the last houre lay wee hold upon our Lord Christ as the Spouse did and although he make as if he would go further constraine we him Luke 24.29 as those Disciples did at Emaus by our importunity saying Abide with us for it is toward Evening and the day is far spent why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the Land Vespera nunc venit nobiscum Christe maneto Extingui lucem ne patiare tuam as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night only Yet thou O Lord art in the midst of us and wee are called by thy name leave us not Jer. 14.8 9. Sect. 2. BVt secondly as we are bound to God for his Word so to the Jews Gods depositaries and dispensers of his word his treasurers and as it were the keepers of his Cabinet Act. 7. to whom first were committed these lively Oracles and by whom they were transmitted and brought safe to our hands Godw Antiq Hebr. Their Masorites have carefully reckoned and summed up not the verses onely but all the words and letters of each book of the old Testament Rom. 15.27 which as it is an argument of their industry so is it an ingagement on●our part sith we are partakers of their spirituall things and cannot minister unto them of our carnall yet to pitty them and pray for them Let Salomon I meane Christ have his thousand of thanks Cant. 8.12 Let those also that have kept the fruit of his Vineyard whereof wee have so freely fed have their two hundred thanke we must the sender of this sweet fruit but withall pay the Messenger that brought it Let it not be forgotten that the Law came out of Sion Esay 2.3 Psal 110.2 and the Word of the LORD from Hierusalem to all the ends of the Earth that to them pertained the Adoption and the Glory Rom. 9.4 5. the giving of the Law and the promises that of them were the Fathers Yea of them as concerning the flesh came Christ who is God blessed for ever Rom. 10.1 Amen Let our hearts desire therfore and Prayer to God for Israel be that they may be saved They before the time of our calling praid heartily for us as appears Can. 8.8 and by sundry Psalms and from them we received the word and worship of God Iohn 10.34 15.25 The Law is called their Law And for the Gospell if they had not rejected it we had never received it Act. 13.46 Rom.