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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

kind of averseness and rising of the heart against a man when one sees him so that he cannot away with him nor speak to him nor look courteously or peaceably upon him and by his good will he would have nothing to do with him Secondly there is a habite of hatred when the heart is so setled in this alienation and estrangement that it grows to wish and desire and seek his hurt Both these must be mortified Vers 5. And live So he keep within ●his city of refuge till the death of the high-priest See the Note on Num. 35.25 Vers 6. Whiles his heart is hot As Nebuchadnezzars oven viz. with anger and grief and such like passions which like heavy bodyes down steep hills once in motion move themselves and know no ground but the bottom Vers 8. And give thee all the land From Nilus to Euphrates Gen. 15.18 which by reason of their sins he never did Pray we with Jabez 1 Chron. 4.10 Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast my heart and that thine hand might be with me c. When thou shalt have enlarged mine heart saith David then will I run the way of thy commandements Psal 119.32 Vers 11. But if any man hate his neighbour As Cain did Abel as Esau Jacob as Absolom Amnon as Dr. Story did Queen Elizabeth whom he cursed daily in his grace at board Anno 1567. Camd. Elisab as Tirone did the English therefore strangling some of his own men for no other reason but because they fed on english bread howbeit he never spake of the Queen but with honour yea the profane wretch Speed stiled himself Cousin to God Enemy to all the world and Friend to the Queen of England Vers 12. And fetch him thence From the altar to the halter from the pallace to the gallowes Prov. 28.17 Vers 14. Thy neighbours land-mark which they of old c. Erasmus met with an adversary so silly as to object unto him this text Erasm in Appologiis pag. 637. against the new Translation of the new Testament Quasi per terminos voces intellexisset Spiritus S. atque hujus legis violatae illi postulari possent qui mutant rerum vocabula Whereas by termes orland-marks here are cleerly meant bounds borders limits whereby every mans inheritance was fevered Vers 15. One witness shall not rise up Yet if this One be a faithfull witness Arist Rhetor. lib. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Aristotle one faithfull witness in some case may suffice in private offences howsoever And that our Saviour speaketh of such Mat. 18.19 Basil and others are of opinion If thy brother a Iew shall trespass against thee being a Iew right thy self by degrees First deal with him fraternally tell him his fault betwixt thee and him alone vers 15. Secondly deal with him legally take with thee one or two more vers 16. Thirdly deal with him jewishly tell the Church vers 17. complain to the Sanhed●in Mr. Lights harmony pag. 143. Fourthly if he shall neglect to hear them deal with him Heathenishly i.e. Let him be unto thee as a Heathen and a Publican make benefit of Roman Soveraignty let Caesars justice end the difference between you Vers 20. Shall hear and fear Others woes should be our warnings others sufferings our sermons yea standing sermons 1 Cor. 10.5 to 12. Gods house of correction is the school of instruction Vers 21. Eye for eye tooth for tooth See the Note on Mat. 5.38 CHAP. XX. Vers 1. VVHen thou goest out to battle It is not unlawful therefore to go to war as Lactantius held and some others whether it be pro religione vel pro region● Onely because it is easier to stir strife then to stop and stint it non enim in ejusdem potestate est initium belli Salust in Jugurth ●jusque finis war is not rashly to be undertaken lest it befall men as in the battle between the dragon and the elephant The dragon sucketh out the blood of the elephant Pli● lib. 8. cap. 12. Possid in ivt. Aug. and the weight of the falling elephant oppresseth the dragon and so both perish Saint Augustin would never pray for such as had wilfully and voluntarily thrust themselves into unnecessary warrs For the Lord thy God is with thee And how many reckonest thou him for as Antigonus said to his discouraged souldiers The Lord is a Man of warre Exod. 15.3 Or as the Chaldee there expresseth it A victour of warrs 2 Chron. 32.8 Si deus pro nobis c. Rom. 8.31 Vers 2. That the Priest shall approach For some Priests ordinarily went along with the army not to be Tuba rebellionis as the Papists said of Zuinglius nor evangelium flammeum praedicare as they said of Beza as a common fire-brand or fomenter of discord but to blow the holy trumpets that the people might be remembred before the Lord and saved from their enemies Num. 10.8 9. 2 Chron. 13.12 And to say unto them as 2 Chron. 19. Deal couragiously and the Lord shall be with the good The valour of the Gaules was admired by the Romans It proceeded from that instruction of the Druides their Priests concerning the immortality of the soul c. Vers 4. For the Lord your God is 〈◊〉 Quid metuit homo in sinu dei positus Deo armatus Creatures of an inferiour nature will be couragious in the presence of their masters And shall not men when they have God with them Xerxes was wont to pitch his tent on high and stand looking on his army when in fight to encourage them So God Vers 5. And hath not dedicated it By prayers hymnes and other holy solemnities then usuall Neh. 12.27 Psal 30. title that the house of David might be as God as the Angell of the Lord before them Zach. 12.8 Vers 6. That hath planted a vineyard● This priviledg might incourage men to build and plant which is good and profitable for the common-wealth as the Apostle speaketh in a like case Tit. 3.8 Vers 7. That hath betrothed a wife A commendable custome even among Heathens also Placuit despondi nuptiis hic dictus est dies said he in Terence Vers 8. That is fearfull and faint-hearted This cowardly passion dis-pirits a man expectorates his manliness and exposeth him to the cruell mercy of an enemy Better be temerarious then timorous Ye fugitives of Ephraim is no small brand of dishonor Iudg. 12.4 besides that melting and trying judgments follow such at heeles as account one pair of heeles worth two pair of hands Ier. 9.3 7. The French fled so fast before the English Paul I●vius at the battle of Terrim that it was called the battle of Spur●es Lest his brethrens hearts Cowardice is catching and shews that men like stags have great horns but want hearts Vers 9. Captains of the armies to lead the people As Hanniball did Deead 3. lib. 1. of whom Livy reports that princeps

cannot put words and how oft doth he chuse the weak to confound the wise _____ And she said unto Balaam The Angel some think did speak in the Asse as the Devil had done to Eve in the garden Vers 29. I would there were a sword Pity but a mad-man should have a sword how much fitter for him were that rod that Solomon speaks of Prov. 26.3 Vrs 32. Because thy way is perverse Thou art resolved to curse howsoever and not to lose so fair a preferment which he must needs buy at a dear rate that payes his honesty for it Better a great deal lye in the dust then rise by such ill principles I shall shut up with that excellent prayer of Zuinglius Deum Opt. Max. precor ut vias nostras dirigat ac sicubi simus Bileami in morem veritati pertinaciter obluc●at●ri a●gelum suum opponat Zuing. epist lib. tertio qui machae 〈◊〉 suoe minis 〈◊〉 asinum insci●am●t audaciam dico nostram sic ad ma●criam assligat ut fraclum pedem hoc est impurum illicitumque carnis sensum auferamus ne ultra blasphememus nomen Domini Dei nostri CHAP. XXIII Vers 1. BVild me here seven altars Here in Baals high-places Chap. 22.41 A sinfull mixture such as was that of those Mongrels 2 King 17.28 29. and their naturall Nephews the Samaritans Ioh. 4. Ambodexters in their religion which being grosser at first was afterward refined by Manasseh a Iew-Priest such another as Balaam that in Alexanders time made a defection to them and brought many Iewes with him Of Constantinus Copronymus it is said how truly I know not that he was neither Iew Heathen nor Christian sed colluviem quandam impietatis but a hodg-podg of wickedness And of Redwald King of the East-Saxons the first that was baptized Camden reports that he had in the same Church one Altar for Christian Religion and another for sacrificing to devills And a loafe of the same leaven was that resolute Rufus that painted God on the one side of his shield and the devill on the other with this desperate inscription In ●trumque paratus Ready for either catch as catch may Vers 2. And Balak did Ready to conform to any religion so he might obtain his purposes So did Henry the fourth of France but it was his ruine whiles he sought the love of all parties aequè malo ac bono reconciliabilis as one saith of him he lost all Whiles he stood to the true religion he was Bonus Orbi as one wittily anagrammatized his name Borbonius but when he fell from it Orbus boni And surely he was not like to stand long to the truth who at his best had told Beza Pelagose non ita commissurus esset quin quando liberct pedem referre posset that he would launch no further into the sea then he might be sure to return safe to the haven some countenance he would shew to religion but yet so as he would be sure to save himself God abhors these luke-warme Neuter-passives that are inter coelum terramque penduli that halt between two that commit Idolatry between the porch and the altar with those five and twenty miscreants Ezek. 8.16 Vers 4. I have prepared seven Altars He boasts of his devotions and so thinks to demerit Gods favour So those hypocrites in Esay Chap. 58.3 Non sic deos coluimus ut ille nos vinceret we have not so served the gods as that the enemy should have the better of us said the Emperour Antoninus the Philosopher Vers 5. And the Lord put a word in Balaams mouth The words thus put into his mouth do but pass from him they are not polluted by him because they are not his as the Trunk through which a man speaks is not more eloquent for the speech uttered through it Balaam did not eate Gods word as Ieremy did Chap. 15.16 nor believe what he had spoken as David and after him Saint Paul did Psal 116.10 2 Cor. 4.13 No more did Plato Seneca and other Heathens in their divine sentences Vers 7. And he took up his parable Or pithy and powerfull speech uttered in numerous and sententious tearms and taken among the Heathen for prophecyes or oracles poëmata pro vaticiniis c. Poets were taken for Prophets Tit. 1.2 and Poems for prophecyes Hence their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein opening a book of Homer Hesiod c. they took upon them by the first verse they lighted upon to divine Tragedians also for their p●rables or Master-sentences were highly esteemed of old insomuch as after the discomfit of the Athenians in Sicily they were releeved who could repeat somewhat of Euripides Out of Aram Aram Naharim or Mesopotamia so called because it is scituate betwixt those two rivers of paradise Tigris and Euphrates This was Abrahams country where whiles he was it it he served strange gods Iosh 24.2 Vers 8. How shall I curse He had a good minde to it but did not because he durst not God stood over him with a whip as it were the Angell with a sword in his hand could not be forgotten by him Virtus nolentium nulla est Vers 9. From the top of the rocks I see him And have no power to hurt him She heard me without daunting I departed not without terrour Camb. Elis when I opened the conspiracy against her life howbeit cloathed with the best art I could said Parry the traytour concerning Queen Elizabeth Achilles was said to be Styge armatus but Israel was deo armatus and therefore extra ja●tum Lo the people shall dwell alone That they might have no medling with the heathen God would not have them lye neer the sea-coasts for the Philistims lay between them and the sea le●t they should by commerce wax prouder as Tyrus did Ezek 27.28 and learn forrein fashions See Esther 3.8 Hence Iudae● though part of the continent is called an Island Isai 20.6 Vers 10. Let me dye the death But he was so far from living the life of the righteous that he gave pestilent counsell against the lives of Gods Israel and though here in a fit of companction Chap. 31.8 he seem a friend yet he was afterward slain by the sword of Israel whose happiness he admireth and desires to share in Bern. Carnales non curant quaerere quem tamen desiderant invenire cupieuses consequi sed non et sequi Carnall men care not to seek that which they would gladly finde c. some faint desires and short-winded wishes may be sometimes found in them but the mischief is they would break Gods chain sunder happiness from holiness salvation from sanctisication the end from the meanes they would dance with the devill all day and then sup with Christ at night live all their lives-long in Dalilah's lap and then go to Abrahams bosome when they dye The Papists have a saying that a man would desire to live in Italy a place of great pleasure but to