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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

a naturall but federall holines as 1 Cor. 7.14 Verse 17. Wert graffed in Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pricked into the middle the center of the Olive Verse 18. Boast not Gr. Throw not up thy neck in a scornfull insulting way but rather pity and pray for them Verse 19. Isidor so●il Greg Moral Thou wilt say Carnall reason will have ever somewhat to say and is not easily set down Verse 20. Be not high-minded but fear Alterius perditio tua sit cautio saith one Ruina majorum sit cantela minorum saith another Seest thou thy brother shipwrackt look well to thy tackling Verse 21. Take heed lest Cavebis autèm si pavehis Verse 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Severity Gr. Resection or cutting off as a Chyrurgian cutteth off proud and dead flesh Verse 23. God is able He can fetch heart of oak out of an hollow tree and of carnall make a people created again Psal 102.18 Eph. 2.10 Verse 24. Contrary Therefore nature contributes nothing toward the work of conversion Verse 25. That blindenesse in part It is neither totall nor perpetuall Lyra was a famous English Jew Tremellius was also a Jew born they are but Methe mispar a very few that are yet converted Spec. Europ They pretend but maliciously that those few that turn Christians in ●taly are none other then poor Christians hired from other cities to personate their part But when God shall have united those two sticks Ezek. 37.19 and made way for those Kings of the East Rev. 16.12 then it shall be said of Jacob and Israel What hath God wrought Numb 23.23 Verse 26. Shall turn away ungodlinesse That is He shall pardon their sin The Prophet Isaiah hath it Vnto them that turn from transgression in Jacob c. They whose persons are justified have their lusts mortified Verse 27. When I shall take By the spirit of judgement and of burning Isa 4.4 with 27.9 Verse 28. They are enemies i. e. Hated of God as appears by the opposition and banished as it were by a common consent of Nations out of humane society See 1 Thess 2.15 16. Verse 29. Are without repentance When God is said to repent it is Mutatiorei non Dei effectus non affectus facti non consilij a change not of his will but of his work Repentance with man is the change of his will Repentance with God is the willing of a change Verse 30. Through their By occasion of their unbelief Pungit Judaeos humiliat Gentes saith one Verse 31. That they also It noteth not the cause but the event as 1 Cor. 11.19 Verse 32. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For God hath concluded Or lockt them all up in the laws dark dungeon Gal. 3.22 Unbelief breaks all the law at an instant by rejecting Christ as the first act of faith obeys all the law at an instant in Christ That he might have mercy upon all Luther in a very great conflict was relieved and comforted by the often repeating of this sweet sentence Verse 33. O the depth of the riches The Romans dedicated a certain lake the depth whereof they knew not to victory so should we the unsearchable counsels of God being subdued to that which we cannot subdue to our understandings Verse 34. Who hath been his Counsellour Alphonso the wise the fool rather was heard blasphemously to say Roderic Santij Hist Hispan p. 4 ● 5. That if he had been of Gods counsell at the Creation he could have advised and ordered many things much better then they now are Verse 35 Who hath first given to him Doe we not owe him all that we have and are And can a man merit by paying his debts Verse 36. For of him As the efficient cause and through him as the administring cause and to him as the finall cause are all things A wise Philosopher could say That man is the end of all in a semicircle that is All things in the world are made for him and he is made for God To whom be glory for ever God saith one counts the works and fruits that come from us to be ours because the judgement and resolution of will whereby we do them is ours This he doth to encourage us But because the grace whereby we judge and will aright comes from God ascribe we all to him So shall he loose no praise we no encouragement CHAP. XII Verse 1. That ye present AS they of old did their sacrifices at the altar With the burnt offering which signified the sacrificing of the flesh was joyned the sin-offering that is Christ Faith applies Christ to the believer the believer to Christ Your bodies That is your whole person Cainistae sunt saith Luther offerentes non personam sed opus personae They are Cainists that offer to God the work done but do not offer themselves to God A living sacrifice In the old law they had many kindes of Sacrifices killed and offered Now saith Origen in stead of a Ramme we kill our irefull passions in stead of a Goat our unclean affections in stead of slying fowls our idle thoughts c. Verse 2. To this world To the corrupt customes and courses of wicked wordlings See them set forth Rom 13.13 Ephes 4.18 19 20. 1 Pet. 4.3 and shun them But be ye transformed Gr. Metamorphosed the old frame being diflolved and a new form acquited That ye may prove sc By your practice Verse 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenoph. de dictu factis Socrat. lib 3. But to think soberly Gr. To be wise to sobriety Socrates made no distinction between wisdome and sobriety 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non distinguebat Verse 4. For as we have c. See 1 Cor. 12.12 which is a Commentary on this text Verse 5. One body in Christ See the Note on 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Verse 6. According to the proportion That form of sound words 2 Tim. 1.13 those principles of the doctrine of Christ Heb. 6.1 with which all interpretations of Scripture must bear due proportion Verse 7. Or Ministery Take it either largely for the whole ministery as 1 Cor. 12.5 Act. 1.17 Or more strictly for the office of a Deacon as Act. 6. Verse 8. Or he that exhorteth The Pastour properly so called See the Note on Eph. 4.11 Verse 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abhorre that which is evil Hate it as hell it self so the word signifies Mihi certè Auxentius nunquam aliud quam ●abolus erit quia Arrianus saith Hilary I shall look upon Auxemius no otherwise then as upon a devil so long as he is an Arrian Verse 10. Be kindely affectioned As naturall brethren and more Arctior est copula cordis quam corporis We are brethren in Adam according to the flesh in and by Christ according to the Spirit Verse 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cunctator Not slothfull Or Not driving off till it be too late Charles the son of Charles Duke of Aniou

forbid c. The Saints keep a constant counter-motion and are Antipodes to the wicked They thus and thus but I otherwise Whereby the world is crucified I look upon the world as a dead thing as a great dung-hill c. That harlot was deceived in S. Paul in thinking to allure him by laying out those her two fair breasts of profit and pleasure He had no minde to be sucking at those botches He was a very crucifix of mortification And in his face as one said of Dr Raynolds a man might have seen Verum mortificati hominis idaeam the true portraiture of a mortified man And I to the world q.d. The world and I are well agreed The world cares not a pin for me and I to cry quittance with it care as little for the world Verse 15. For in Christ Jesus That is in the Kingdome of Christ But a new creature Either a new man or no man Verse 16. According to this rule viz. Of the new creature Peace be on them Not only in them or with them but on them maugre the malice of earth and hell Verse 17. From henceforth let no man Here he takes upon him as an Apostle and speaks with authority 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I bear in my body the marks As scars of honour Paul had been whipped stocked stoned c. The marks of these he could better boast of then those false Apostles of their circumcision And hereby it appeared that he refused not as they did to suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ In the year 1166. the Synod held at Oxford in the raign of Henry the second banished out of England thirty Dutch Doctours which taught the right use of Marriage Alsted Chron. p. 357. and of the Sacraments after they had first stigmatized or branded them with hot irons Iohn Clerk of Melden in France being for Christs sake whipped three severall daies and afterwards having a mark set in his fore-head as a note of infamy his mother beholding it though his father was an adversary encouraged her son crying with a loud voice Blessed be Christ Act. and Mon. fol. 802. Vivat Christus ejusque insignia and welcome be these prints and marks of Christ The next year after scil anno 1524. He brake the images without the City which his superstitious Countrey-men were to worship the next day For the which he was apprehended and had his right-hand cut off his nose pulled off with pinsers both his arms and both his brests torne with the same instrument and after all he was burned at a stake Sculte● Annal. In his greatest torments he pronounced that of the Psalmist Their idols are silver and gold the works of mens hands c. I conclude this discourse with that saying of Pericles It is not gold precious stones statues c. that adorns a souldier but a torne buckler a crackt helmet a blunt sword a scarr'd face c. Of these Biron the French Marshall boasted at his death And Sceva is renowned for this that at the siege of Dyrrachium he so long alone resisted Pompeys army that he had 220. darts sticking in his shield Densa●que●●rens in p●●●o●e lylvam 〈◊〉 and lost one of his eyes and yet gave not over till Caesar came to his rescue Verse 18. Be with your spirit Spirituals are specially to be desired for our selves and ours Caetera aut aderunt aut non oberunt Other things we shall either have or not want but be as well without them A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the EPHESIANS CHAP. I. Verse 1. To the Saints to the faithfull FItly for it is by faith that we become Saints Act. 15.9 Verse 2. Grace be to you and peace These go fitly together because we must seek our peace in the free-grace and favour of God The Ark and Mercy-seat were never sundred Verse 3. Blessed be God Grattae cessat decursus ubi gratiarum recursus A thankfull man shall abound with blessings With all spirituall blessings Wisdome prudence c. ver 8. a Benjamins portion a goodly heritage Verse 4. He hath chosen us in him Christ was Mediatour therefore from eternity viz. by vertue of that humane nature which he should assume That we should be holy God elected us as well to the means as to the end Note this against Libertines For as they Act. 27.31 could not come safe to land that left the ship so neither can men come to heaven but by holinesse Cyrus was moved to restore the captivity by finding himself fore-appointed to this glorious service 170. years before he was born Isa 44.28 Should not we likewise be excited to good works by this that we were elected to them Without blame Or blot Ephes 5.27 Absque querela Luk. 1.6 Before him i. e. In purity of heart 2 King 20.3 In love In sanctity of life Verse 5. Having predestinated us Interpreters have observed that this word that signifies to predestinate is but six times found in the new Testament never in the old being referred but twice to things Act. 4.28 1. Cor. 2.7 four times to persons Rom. 8 29 30. Ephes 1.5 11. and never applied to reprobates but to elect persons only Howbeit Divines under predestination do usually consider the decree both of election and reprobation The doctrine hereof men should not adventure to teach till they have well learned and digested it In the year 1586. Iacobus Andreas the Lutheran and Theodore Beza conferred and disputed for eight daies space at Mompelier the issue of which conference was unhappy Alsted Chron p. 562. for form that time forward the Doctrine of Predestination was much misused and exagitated Verse 6. To the praise of the glory This is the end whereunto it is destined and hence it is called Predestination Note here that all the causes of predestination are meerly without us The efficient God the materiall Christ the formall the good pleasure of his will the finall the praise of Gods glorious grace Wherein he hath made us accepted Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gratificavit Vulgata He hath ingratiated us he hath justified us made us gracious in his beloved sonne our Mediatour And although there be an inequality of expressions in duty Quoad nos in us yet there is a constancy of worth and intercession by Christ propter nos for us Verse 7. In whom we have redemption As captive ransomed at a price What this price was see 1 Pet. 1.19 Should not Christ therefore reap the travails of his soul Isa 53 The forgivenesse of our sins This David counted his crown and prized it above his imperiall diadem Psal 103.3 4. Verse 8. In all wisdome and prudence That properly respecteth contemplation this action Socrates made no distinction betwixt them For said he who so knoweth good to practise it and evil to avoid it he is a man truly wise and prudent Xenophon de dict is Socrat. l 3 Verse