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A94796	A brief commentary or exposition vpon the Gospel according to St John: wherein the text is explained, divers doubts are resolved, and many other profitable things hinted, that had been by former interpreters pretermitted. / By John Trappe, M. A. pastour of Weston upon Avon in Glocester-shire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing T2037; Thomason E331_2; ESTC R200736	149,815	167

lye hath been alwayes held hatefull but equivocation is now set forth of a later impression The Jesuites have called back this pest from hell alate for the comfort of afflicted Catholicks as Arch-Priest Blackwell and Provinciall Garnet shamed not to professe Est autem satanae pectus semper faecundissimum mendacijs saith Luther He began his kingdom by a lye and by lyes he upholds it as were easie to instance See my Notes on Genesis chap. 3. ver 5. Verse 48. That thou art a Samaritan And why a Samaritun trow but that they thought the worst word in their bellies good enough for him Malice cares not what it faith so it may kill or gall and these dead dogs as he calleth Shimci will be barking 2 Sam. 16.9 The Primitive Persecutours used to put Christians into bears and doggs skins or other ugly creatures and then bait them so doth the wicked put the Saints into ugly conceits then speak against them Verse 54. It is my father that honoureth me 1 Sam. 2.30 According to that Them that honour me I will honour this is a bargain of Gods own making Fame follows vertue as the shadow the body or if not yet she is proprio contenta theatro content with her own applause Verse 55. Yet ye have not known him There is a two fold knowledge of God 1. Apprehensive 2. Affective or cognoscitiva standing in speculation and directiva vitae Verse 59. Then took they up stones This is merces mundi the worlds wages Let 's look up with Stephen and see Heaven as he did thorow a showre of stones c. CHAP. IX Verse 1. He saw a man which was blinde THis was enough to move Christ to mercy the sight of a fit object When God sets us up an Altar be we ready with our sacrifice Verse 2. Who did sinne this man Imbuti era ●r Iu●ai dogmate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza How could he sinne before he was borne But the Disciples dream't of a Pythagoricall transanimation hence this foolish question Verse 3. But that the works of God c. Hinc Alexander Ales Paena inquit duplicem habet ordinationem Vnam ad culpam quae praecedit alteram ad gloriam quam praecedit God sometimes afflicts for his own glory but sinne is never at the bottome And though God doth not alwayes afflict his for sinne as Job Job 11.6 yet Job shall do well to consider that God exacteth of him lesse then his iniquity deserveth as Zophar telleth him Verse 4. Whiles it is day As other men do Psal 104.22 None can say he shall have twelve houres to his day And night death is a time of receiving wages not of doing worke On this moment depends eternity on the weakest wier hangs the greatest waight Verse 6. Made clay As he did at first in making Man the Poets tell us some such thing of their Prometheus to shew that this cure was done by that Almighty power that he put forth in the Creation Verse 7. He went his way and washed He obeyed Christ blindling He looked not upon Siloam with Syrian eyes as Naaman did upon Jordan but passing by the unlikelihood of a cure by such a means he beleeveth and doeth as he was bidden without sciscitation Verse 16. This man is not of God True if he had indeed made no conscience of keeping the sabbath Sanctifying the Lords day in the primitive times was a badge of Christianity When the question was propounded Christianu● su●●intermittere non possum Servasti Dominicum Hast thou kept the Sabbath the answer was returned I am a Christian and may not do otherwise The enemies and hinderers of sanctifying the Sabbath are called unbeleevers vagabonds and wicked fellows Acts 17.2 5. B. White Act and Mon. Sometipsum detestatus est quòd Regi poitùs quam Deo studuisset placere S●uitet Sueton Dio in Ve●pas That late great Antisabbatarian Prelate so much cast off by the rest after he had served their turns might well have cryed out with Cardinal Wolsey Surely if I had been as carefull to serve God as I was to please men I had not been at this passe How can a man that is a sinner Yes that he may by divine permission or at least he may do something like a miracle as the false prophets and Antichrist Suetonius tells us that Vespasian cured a blinde man by spetting upon his eyes And Dio testifieth that he healed another that had a weak and withered hand by treading upon it And yet Vospasian lived and died a Pagan This therefore was no convincing argument that the Jews here used Verse 17. He is a Prophet The more the Pharisees opposed the truth the more it appeared Veritas abscondi erubescit saith Tertullian The Reformation was much furthered in Germany by the Papists opposition Among many others two Kings wrote against Luther viz. Henry 8th of England and Ludovicus of Hungary This Kingly title being entred into the controversie made men more curious And as it happeneth in combats that the lookers on are ready to favour the weaker and to extoll his actions though they be but mean so here it stirred up a generall inclination toward Luther saith the Authour of the hist of the Councell of Trent Luther also in an epistle to the Electour of Saxony Hist of Count. of Trent fol. 16. triumpheth and derideth the foolish wisedome of the Papists in causing him and the other Protestant Princes Scultet Annal. 274. to rehearse the confession of their faith in a publike Assembly of the states of Germany and in sending copies thereof to all the Courts of Christendome for advice whereby the Gospel was more propagated and the cause of Christ more advanced then if many preachers had been sent out and licensed Verse 21. He is of age 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Felix ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say the Etymologists ut felix sit homo floridae vegetae aetatis Becman corpore animo valens Verse 22. Put out of the Synagogue This was that kinde of excommunication they called Niddui or separation and such were by the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There were two other more heavy kinde of excommunications in use among the Jews Cherem and Samatha or Maranatha which they derive as low as from Henoch Jude 14. The Heathens also had their publike execrations not rashly to be used against any Est enim execratio res tristis mali ominis saith Plutarch who therefore highly commends that Athenian Priest that being commanded by the people to curse Alcibiades refused to do it That Archflamen of Rome the Pope is like a wasp Cum pontisex Rom. diras in ●u livic 12. Gall. Regem evomeret Atqui a●t rex Precandi ille non imprecandi causa pontisex constitutus est Firron lib. 2. de gest is Gallor no sooner angry but out comes a sting an excommunication which being once out

faith of these two now breaks our though it had long lain hid as the Sun under a cloud as seed under a clod now they manifest their love to Christ so curelly handled as the true mother did hers to her childe when it was to be cut in two Verse 40. With the spices as the manner of the Jews To testifie their hope of a resurrection In an Apish imitation of whom the Gentiles also though they had no such hope kept a great stir and made much ado about the decent buriall of their dead Habent vespaefavos simiae imitantur homines saith Cyprian Verse 41. A new sepulchre Fit for him that was the first-born from the dead the first-fruits of them that sleep 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodo●●● Besides else it might have been said that some other had risen and not he saith Theodoret as Mathomet saith that Christ was not crucified but another for him Verse 42. Because of the Jews That they might not doe servile work on the Sabbath though it were to inter Christs body See Luk. 23.56 CHAPT XX. Verse 1. The first day of the week NOw the Christian Sabbath in honour of Christs resurrection and therefore called The Lords day Revel 1.10 as the holy Supper is called The Lords Supper 1 Cor. 10. as the Saints are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kirk Church The title of the 24th Psalm is A Psalm of David To this the Greek addeth Of the first day of the week meaning that this Psalm was wont to be sung in the Temple every first day of the week which now is the Christians Sabbath and of Christ his Church and Kingdome and the entertaining of his Gospel doth this Psalm intreat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Igna● ep 3 ad Magnes Let every one of us keep Sabbath saith Ignatius in a spirituallmanner rejoycing in the meditation of the law not in the rest of the body And in those Primitive times when the Question was asked ervasti Dominicum Hast thou kept the Lords-day the answer was returned Christianus sum intermittere non possum I am a Christian and may not do otherwise See ve●stegan Al●● numerant Feria prima secunda tertia c. The Jews gave that honour to their Sabbath that they named from it all the other daies of the week as the first second third day c. of the Sabbath which we from the Heathens a worse patern name Munday Tuesday Wednesday c. Ex instituto Mercurij Tresmegisti Verse 2. Then she runneth Amor addidit alas Love is impationt of delaies Cant. 2.17 Christ commeth leaping over the Mountains of Bether all manner le●s and impediments And the Church as impatient as he bids him Make haste my beloved and be like to a Roe or to a sawn of the Hearts which when it sleeth looketh behinde it saith the Chaldee Paraphrast there She affects not only an union but an unity with him Verse 3. Peter therefore went forth He despaired not though he had grievously fallen The Saints cannot fall so far but that Gods supporting hand is ever under them They may be dowzed over head and ears in the waters of iniquity yea sink twice to the bottom yet shall rise again and recover for the Lord puts under his hand yea as he that stumbleth and yet falleth not gets ground by his stumbling So it is here Verse 4. So they ran both together But the swifter of foot they were the slower in faith for he that believeth maketh not haste Isa 28.16 They believed not fully the refurrection when they heard the news of it and from the Angels too they stirred not but rejected it as a fable Now that they hear though but by a woman only that the Lords body was removed to another sepulchre though that were but a rash report and nothing so they run amain Oh the dulnes that is found in the best Verse 5. Yet went he not in He durst not so some fearfull are afraid of every step saying as Caesar at Rubicon yet we may goe back Pelago se non ita commissu● us esser quin quan do liberet pedem reserre posset and as the King of Navar told Beza That he would launch no further into the sea then he might be sure to return safe to the haven Verse 6. Following him and went in John came first Peter entred first Soft and fair goes far Soft fire makes sweet malt Leap Christians are not much to be liked such as quickly step out of profanenesse into profession Hot at hand seldom holds out The stony ground immediately received the seed with joy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 13. Prov 4 2● Prov. 4.18 and started up suddenly but the good ground brings forth fruit with patience or tarriance Walk deliberately and ponder the paths of thy feet as Solomon bids A Christians progresse is as the sun which shines more and more to the perfect day and as the Trumper in Mount Sion Exod. 20. which sounded louder and louder till it was heard all the countrey over Verse 7. And the napkin that was about his head These grave-cloaths were evidences of our Saviours resurrection and are therefore mentioned by the Evangelist But what shift made Paleottus Archbishop of Bonony for matter who wrote a great book of the shadow of Christs dead body in the sindon or linen-cloth wherein it was wrapped This book was also commented upon by the Professour of Divinity there Had not these men little to doe Did they not as one saith Magno conatu magnas nugas agere Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes Verse 8. And he saw and believed i.e. He believed his own eyes that the Lords body was not in the sepulchre but as Mary Magdalen had told them so they mis-believed that it was taken away to some other place further from Calvary for honours sake that he might not lie buried with the wicked Hence it is that in the next verse it is added that as yet they knew not the Scripture Verse 9. For as yet they knew not the Scripture Which yet was clear enough in this point Ps 16.10 110.1 Isa 53.10 11. The resurrection of our Saviour was not obscurely shadowed out in Adam waking out of sleep Isaac received after a sort from the dead Joseph drawn out of prison to be Lord of Egypt Samson bearing away the gates of Gaza David advanced to the Kingdome when there was but a step betwixt him and death Jonah preferved in the Whales belly c. Verse 10. Went again to their own home Waiting till God should further enlighten both organ and object as Mary also did Luk. 2. Verse 11. Mary stood at the sepulchre weeping Some thinke it was because she conceived that the Jews had gotten away our Saviours dead body to dishonour it as the Popish persecutours digd up Bucers and many other good mens bones to burn them She wept where she had no such cause so doe