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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

alwaies to give an answer to those that ask as a reason of our hope so they doe it to learn of us and not to insnare us Thus I kept the banddogs at staves end said Nicolas Shetterden Act. and Mon. sot 1575. Martyr not as thinking to escape them but that I would see the Foxes leap above ground for my bloud if they can reach it so it be the will of God yet we shall see them gape and leap for it Mr Hawks Martyr asked a Parson that examined him what kin he was to the weather-cock of Pauls Ibid 1445. And told one Miles Huggard a Hosier in Pudding-lane who began to question him that he could better skill to eat a pudding and make an hose then in Scripture either to answer or oppose Verse 22. One of the Officers Because our Saviour gave not the high Priest his usuall titles but dealt freely with him this officer to curry favour Veluti pontificy honoris vindex beats our Saviour with his hand or stick and is the better thought of Like Master like man Disploso sclopeto a Vicarij samuto sed frustraimpetitur Scultet So the Bishop of Geneva's servant discharged his Pistoll at Farellus that faithfull man of God when he was convented before his Lord but by Gods good providence missed him Great mens vices goe as seldome unattended as their persons they shall be sure of such about them Ne leonum laudibus murem obruas as will lick up their spettle and load the Mouse with the Lions praises Verse 23. If I have spoken evil Christ bears with the officers insolency but forbears not to clear his own innocency We must when aspersed labour as the eclipsed Moon by keeping our motion to wade out of the shadow and recover our former splendour Verse 24. bound to Caiaphas the high-Priest Who should have done our Saviour better justice then to have suffred him bound and uncondemned to be injuriously beaten before his face But the times were then law lesse and licentious for the sans of the people Tales sunt principum mores quales subditorum humores ut malo nodo non desit malus cuneus Verse 25. He denied it and said I am not Take heed by this example Patres nos instruunt tum docentes tum labantes saith Augustin Seest thou such as Peter to make shipwrack Look well to thy tackling They that will not professe Christ unlesse they repent with Peter which Stephen Gardener said at his death Act. and Mon. fol. 190● that he could not shall be sorted with such in participation of plagues as through excesse of pain and defect of patience gnaw their own tongues Revel 16.10 Verse 26. Whose ear Peter cut off A great mercy it was that Peter had not been then hewed in a hundred peeces by the ruffianly souldiers But God had designed him to a further service My times are in thy hand saith David They were deceived that swore to kill Paul by such an hour Act. 23.12 Verse 27. Peter then denied again He that is fallen down one round of hels ladder knowes not where he shall stoppe or stay till he come to the bottome Sin is of an encroaching nature modest and maidenly at first but yeeld to it once and there 's no hoe with it The Cockcrew And withall Christ looked back upon him as a peece of his sufferings with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what thou my friend Peter Scipio had rather Annibal should eat his heart with salt then Laelius give him a crosse word Verse 28. Lest they should be defiled Putid hypocrisie they stand upon legall defilements and care not to defile their consciences with innocent blond 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is this but to strain at a gnat and swallow a Camel So Saul seemed to make a hainous matter of eating the flesh with the bloud 1 Sam. 14.33 when it was nothing with him to spill the bloud of innocent Jonathan Nay he was so scrupulous that he would not so much as name a guilty man or sinner but in casting of lots in stead of saying shew the nocent on guilty he said shew the innocent or upright person as Tremellius reads it yet at the same time as is well observed he made no conscience of bloody baths So Doeg was detained before the Lord either because it was the Sabbath or his vow was not finished c. But when he went thence he became deaths-man to the Lords Priests Verse 29. Pilate then went ant unto them It was much he would gratifie them so farre in their stand further off for I am holier then thou Breerw Enq. p. ●8 that he would yeeld to their superstition which he could not but contemn But the very Turk so the Christians pay him his yearly tribute which is one fourth part of their encrease and a Sultan for every poll permitteth them the liberty of their religion Verse 30. If he were not a malefactour Why What evil had he done them Might he not have said to them as Themistocles to his Athenians Are ye weary of receiving so many benefits by one man Verse 31. It is not lawfull for us That is upon this or any such like day upon an holy-day or holy-day-Eeve For otherwise they had power or at least took it at their pleasure as when they stoned Stephen Act. 7. and would have killed Paul Act. 24. But note that they would seem to do all according to Law by any means so would their successours the Catholikes Which if it be so saith M. Fox how did they then to Anne Askew Act. and Mon. fol. 1392. whom they first condemned to death and then set her on the tack By what law did they call up Mr Hooper and prison him for the Queens debt when the Queen in very deed did owe him fourscore pound and kept him a year and half in prison and gave him never a peny By what Law did Bishop Bonner condemn and burn Richard Mekins a lad of fifteen years when the first Jury had quit him and at the stake he revoked all heresie and praised the said Bonner to be a good man and also having him in prison would not suffer his father and mother to come to him to comfort their own childe What Law had they to put Mr Rogers our Protomartyr in prison when he did neither preach nor read lecture after the time of the Queens inhibition And when they had kept him in his own house half a year being not deprived of any living yet would not let him have one half-peny of his owne means to relieve him his wife and eleven children By what Law was Thomas Tomkins hand burned and after his body consumed to ashes What good Law or honesty was there to burn the three poor women at Garnes●e with the Infant-childe falling out of the mothers womb when as they all before recanted their words and opinions and were never abjured before So what right or order of