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A94797 A clavis to the Bible. Or A new comment upon the Pentateuch: or five books of Moses. Wherein are 1. Difficult texts explained. 2. Controversies discussed. ... 7. And the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious, pious reader. / By John Trapp, pastor of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire. Trapp, John, 1601-1669. 1649 (1649) Wing T2038; Thomason E580_1; ESTC R203776 638,746 729

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Gregory Here Isaac doth unwilling and unwitting justice Vers Arist lib. de mirab auscult 27. As the smell of a field Compare Cant. 2.13 4.12 13 14. Aristotle writes of a parcel of ground in Sicily that sendeth such a strong smell of fragrant flowers to all the fields and leazes thereabouts that no hound can hunt there the scent is so confounded with the sweet smell of those flowers Labour we so to resent heavenly sweetnesses so to savour the things above that we may have no minde to hunt after earthly vanities c. Alexanders body is said to be of such an exact constitution that it gave a sweet scent where it went Christ the true carcase smells so sweet to all heavenly eagles Matth. 24. Joh. 12. that being now lifted up he draws them after him Vers Esau likewise hath the like but not with a God give thee 28. God give thee of the dew For that country was dry and thirsty They had rain say some but twice a yeer the former in seed-time and the later rain in May. The blessings here bestowed are plenty victory domestical preeminency and outward prosperity But beyond all these some better thing was provided and promised Erant enim speculum pignus coelestium The Church of Rome borrows her mark from the market-plenty or cheapness c. she vaunts of her temporal felicity and makes a catalogue of the strange victories which the Catholikes have had Immò vix unquam fuerunt Haeretici superiores quando justo praelio dimicatum est Bell. tom 2. lib. 4. cap. ult saith Bellarmine Upon one of the Easter-holydays saith George Marsh Martyr Master Sherburn and Master More sent for me perswading me much to leave mine opinions saying All the bringers up and favourers of that Religion had ill luck Act. and Mon. fol. 1421. and were either put to death or in prison and in danger of life Again the favourers of the Religion now used had wondrous good luck and prosperity in all things These wizards these disputers of this world as the Apostle calls them 1 Cor. 1.20 either knew not Ecclesia baeres Crucis or believed not that the Church is the heir of the Cross as an Ancient speaketh that Opposition is as Calvin wrote ●o the French King Evangelii genius the bad genius that dogs the Gospel Veritas odium parit Ter. that Truth breeds hatred as the fair Nymphs did the ill-favoured Fawns and Satyrs and seldom goes without a scratcht face Some Halcyons the Church hath here as in Constantines time Repugnante contra temetipsam tua foelicitate saith Salvian in his first book to the Catholike Church but grace she shall be sure of here with persecution and glory hereafter without interruption As for outward things aut aderunt sanè aut non oberunt either she shall have them or be as well without them God shall be her Cornu-copia her All-sufficient her shield Sine Deo om●is copia est egestas and exceeding great reward Vers 29. Let thy mothers sons bow down to thee That is thy brethren which are therefore denominated from the mother quòd certior est a matre progenies quàm a patre Castalio in Annotat ad locum saith an Interpreter But this blessing is pronounced in an higher stile then ordinary therefore sentences are doubled and that kinde of speech is here used which with us is either Poetical or not far from it Vers 30. Esau his brother came in All-too-late Detained he was by the devil say the Hebrews who not seldom makes a fool of hunters and leads them about A sweet providence of God there was in it certainly that he should come in as soon as Isaac had done and Jacob was gone and no sooner Like as there was in that which Master Fox reports of Luther that on a time Act. Mon. fol. 793. as he was sitting in a certain place upon his stool a great stone there was in the vault over his head which being staid miraculously so long as he was sitting as soon as he was up immediately fell upon the place where he sate able to have crushed him in pieces A Warrant once came down under Seal for the execution of the Lady Elizabeth Steven Gardiner was the engineer and thought he had been sure of his prey But God pulled the morsel out of his mouth Englands Elizabeth by Heywood for one Master Bridges mistrusting false play presently made haste to the Queen who renounced and reversed it Another time while Sir Henry Benning field her Keeper was at Court one Basset a Gentleman and a great favourite of Steven Gardiners came with twenty men well appointed to Woodstock to have murthered her But by Gods great providence Sir Henry had left so strict a charge behinde him that no living soul might have access unto the Princess upon what occasion soever till his return that they could not be admitted whereby their bloody enterprise was utterly disappointed The Lord knoweth how to deliver his Psal 34. he keepeth all their bones not one of them is broken Vers 31. And he also had made savoury meat Esau's works here are better then Jacobs Election is not of works but of grace Rom. 9.11 Quis te discernit saith the Apostle Cor. 4.7 Greevinchovius the Arminian sawcily answers Ego meipsum discerno And surely had the cause of our election been either by our faith or good works foreseen as the Papists and Arminians would have it Saint Paul might have spared his question or soon received a ready answer Vers 33. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly The fear of God reined him in that he durst not reverse the blessing though haply he had a minde to it nay he stablished it to Jacob here and more advisedly in the next Chapter Noli peccare nam Deus videt Angeli astant diabolus accusabit conscientia testabitur infernus cruciabit A reverend and religious man had this written before his eyes in his Study saith M. Gataker Vers 34. He cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry Not for his sin Non dolet de peccato venditionis sed de damno perditionis Par. Hos 7.14 in selling the birth-right but for his loss in missing the blessing though having sold the birth-right he had no right to the blessing This is the guise of the ungodly He cries Perii not Peccavi If he howl upon his bed it is for corn and oil as a dog tied up howls for his dinner It never troubles him that a good God is offended which to an honest heart is the prime cause of greatest sorrow Vers 35. Thy brother came with subtilty Junius observes that Isaac here to please his son committeth some over-sight in transferring the fault upon Jacob. He might have seen how God chastised his seeking to cross the Oracle in the sin of Rebeccah and Jacob who beguiled him But our mindes are as ill-set as our eyes