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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

Plut. in Flamin he was entertained by them with such applauses and acclamations whiles they roared out Saviour Saviour that the very birds that flew over them astonished with the noise fell to the ground When Hunn●ades had overthrown M●sites the Turks General at his return from the Camp Turk Hist 269 some called him the Father some the Defender of his countrey the souldiers their Invincible Generall the Captives Their Deliverer the women Their Protectour c. The only wise God The temple of Sophia in Constantinople is now the Turks chief Moschee Ibid. 342. and by them still called Sophia because they hold even as we do that the wisdome of God is incomprehensible Verse 18. Sonne Timothy This is Timothies task whom the Apostle fitly calleth Sonne according to the custome both of those and these times Patres eos di●imus qui nos catechesi instituerunt saith Clement We call them fathers that instruct and catechize us Verse 19. Holding faith and a good conscience A good conscience saith one is as it were a chest wherein the doctrine of faith is to be kept safe which will quickly be lost if this chest be once broken For God will give over to errours and heresies such as cast a way conscience of walking after Gods Word What a blinde buzzard then was that Popish Inquisitour who said of the Waldenses You may know the heretikes by their words and manners Sunt enim in moribus compositi modesti sup●rbiam in vestibus non habent c. They are neither immodest in their carriage DVsher de Christ Eccles success c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor proud in their apparrel c Verse 20. That they may learn Vt castigati discant that being buffetted and bodily tormented by Satan as Act. 13.2 for as yet there were no Christian Magistrates they may learn Not to blaspheme That is not to hold erroneously and to live scandalously to the reproach of the Gospel Conferre Prov. 30 9. CHAP. II. Verse 1. Supplications OR D●precations endited by that Spirit of supplication or of deprecation as some render it Zech. 11.10 Praiers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strictly taken for petitions or requests of good at Gods hands which go commonly accompanied with vows of better obedience as Gen. 28.21 22. Psal 51.14 Hence they have their name Intercessions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interparlings with God either for our selves whilest we stand upon Interrogatories with him 1 Pet. 3.21 as Paul doth Rom. 8.33 34 35. and expostulate as David often but especially when Satan sin and conscience accuse us or for others whilest we complain to God against such as wrong them and withall set our selves seriously to implore his aid for their relief and rescue For all men i.e. For all sorts of men as the word all is used Luk. 11.42 Verse 2. For Kings c. Though persecutours if they have not yet sinned against the holy Ghost as Julian had Voluit scilicet Christus etiam aliquandò Reginam in coelum vehere Luth in ep ad Ioh. Agris saith Luther of Elizabeth Queen of Denmark who lived and died in the truth of the Gospel God hath his even among great ones too A quiet and peaceable life Quiet from inbred tumults and commotions and peaceable from forraign invasions and incursions of the enemy See Jer. 29.7 In all godlinesse and honesty And not come to eat the bread of our souls with the perill of our lives as they doe in divers places of this land at this day Det meliora Deus He will doe it Verse 3. For this is good c. viz. This praying for all men And should we not frame to that that God accepts without questioning or quarrelling Let us not dispute but dispatch our masters will Verse 4. Who will have all men c. God willeth to wit with a will whereby he inviteth and putteth no bar not with a will whereby he effecteth it taking away all impediments That all men Not distributively taken but collectively as thrice in one verse Col 1.28 Should be saved viz. If they do what he commandeth God doth not tie himself to cause them to do what he commandeth that they may be saved And to come to the knowledge The only way to salvation Pray therefore that their eyes may be opened Act. 26.18 Verse 5. For there is one God sc Both of Kings and Subjects both of Heathens and Christians Go boldly to him therefore for your selves and others Have we not all one Father Mal. 2.10 Art not thou our Father Isa 63.16 One Mediatour Not of redemption only as the Papists grant but of intercession too We need no other master of requests in heaven but the man Christ Jesus who being so near us in the matter of his incarnation will never be strange to us in the businesse of intercession But what horrible blasphemy is that of the Papists who in their devotions say thus Act and Mon. fol. 1453. By the bloud of Thomas B●cket which he did spend Make us Christ to climb where Thomas did ascend Verse 6. A ransome Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A counterprice such as we could never have paid but must have remained and even ●otted in prison but for our All-sufficient surety and Saviour Verse 7. A teacher of the Gentiles His Epistles therefore should be highly prized by us Gentiles and diligently studied S. Peter admires them 2 Pet. 3 15. and commends them to the Churches reading And because there are some things in them hard to be understood and easie to be wrested from their right meaning vers 16. it was therefore grave advice that one gives young Christians that they should begin at the later end of Saint Pauls Epistles which treateth of points of practice Sith a corrupt life can never have a sound judgement Verse 8. Pray every where Any place now be it but a chimney may make a goodly Oratory Joh. 4 21. Lifting up holy hands Better washed then Pilates were rinsed in that blessed fountain of Christs bloud Zech. 13.1 Else God utterly abhors them Isa 1.15 16. The Priests had their laver to wash in before they sacrified The Turks at this day before praier wash both face and hands sometimes their head and other parts of the body But what saith S. James chap. 4.8 and the Prophet Ieremy chap 4.14 The fountain of goodnes will not be laden at with foul hearts and hands Without Wrath Or Rancour Mat. 5.24 God will not be served till men be reconciled When Abram and Lot were agreed then God appeared Or doubting Heb. 11.6 Jam. 1.6 without disceptation of reasoning with carnall reason Verse 9. In like manner also Men have had their lessons Now for women they are taught modesty in their attire such as may neither argue wantonnes nor wastfulnes silence in the Church subjection in the family Or costly aray Which yet great ones may wear but they may not buy it with extortion and line it

of Scripture this verse saith he had been easie had not Commentatours made it knotty the like saith another of a Christians condition it is gracious happy clear sure sweet did not erroneous judgements vex and unsettle them Verse 16. Let not then your good That is Your Christian liberty purchased by Christ Be evil spoken of Gr. Be blasphemed Contumely cast upon the people of God is blasphemy in the second Table God for the honour that he beareth to his people counts and calls it so Verse 17. For the kingdome of God c. That was a swinish saying of Epicurus That eternall life should be nothing else but a continuall eating of the fat and drinking of the sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even unto an uncessant surfetting and drunkennesse The Turks at this day promise Paradise to such as die in warre for the Mahometan faith Blou●ts voiage p 37 ● where they shall have delicious fare pleasant gardens all sensuall delights eternally to be enjoyed not withstanding any former sins Fit lettice for such lips Verse 18. Is acceptable to God And he is an happy man that can be acquitted by himself in private in publike by others in both by God Verse 19. Wherewith one may edifie another Discords among good people do edificare in gehennam as Tertullian phraseth it build backwards One of the main scandals the Jews take from Protestants is their dissention Verse 20. The work of God That work of faith 1 Thess 1.3 wrought by the mighty power of God Ephes 1.19 who puts not forth great power but for great purposes Verse 21. It is good neither to eat c. It will be no grief of heart as she once told David in another case to have forborn in case of scandall A great grief it would be if by some rash word we should betray a brother or smite out the eie of our dearest childe 1 Sam. 25. Should we then destroy the life of grace in another by our unadvised walking Verse 22. Hast thou faith Posse nolle nobile est Forbear for fear of effence unlesse it be in point of necessary duty For then we may not doe evil that good may come Rom. 3 8. Verse 23. Is damned Both of his doubting conscience which soundeth heavily as a shau●m and of God who is greater then his conscience CHAP. XV. Verse 1. Ought to bear AS Porters do their burdens as pillars do the poise of the house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or rather as parents bear their babes in their arms And not to please our selves Bis desipit qui sibi sapit Prov. 3.7 Verse 2. Please his neighbour Though he crosse himself this is true Christian love and driven almost out of the world by sinfull self-love which can eth men to dislike those things in others that they slatter in themselves Verse 3. For even Christ And we should expresse him to the world preach abroad his vertues by our practice 1 Pet. 2.9 Our lives should be as so many Sermons upon the life of Christ This is walk in Christ Col. 2 6. as Christ 1 Joh. 3.6 Verse 4. For whatsoever things c. Here the Apostle meets with an Objection For some man might say that that saying of the Psalme pertains to David how therefore is it applied to Christ He answers Whatsoever things c. q. d. We must learn to see Christ in David David in the history Christ in the mystery David as the type Christ the truth That we through patience Hence the Scriptures are called R●vel 2. The word of Christs patience because they patient the heart under Gods holy hand and are better called Physick for the soul then ever was the library of Alexandria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And comfort of the Scriptures As the bloud and spirits are conveied by the veins and arteries so is the Spirit by the promises helping the soul to lay it self upon Christ by faith which is a grace of union and so of establishment Verse 5. Now the God of patience The soul is then only in good plight when the heaven answers the earth Hos 2.21 When. Christ the Sun of righteousnes shines into it Verse 6. With one minde and one mouth It is recorded to the high commendation of the Church of Scotland that for this 90 years and upwards they have kept unity with purity without schisme much lesse heresie Syntag. Confession praesat Verse 7. To the glory of God That is Of heaven the joyes whereof it is as impossible to comprehend as it is to compasse the heaven with a span or contain the Ocean in a nut-shell Such comfort there is in the presence of Christ though but in the womb as it made John to spring What then shall it be in heaven Verse 8. Now I say that Jesus Paul proveth particularly in this and the following verses that Christ hath taken both Jews and Gentiles to his glory Verse 9. And that the Gentiles Though they had no such promises might glorifie Gods free grace in the day of their visitation Verse 10. Rejoyce That your names also are written in heaven and that ye are enrolled in the records of the new Jerusalem Verse 11. All ye Gentiles As being received into the glory of God vers 7. Verse 12. In him shall the Gentiles trust I saith hath it To him shall the Gentiles seek To seek to God then argues trust in God He that hopes not praies not or but faintly Verse 13. Fill you with all joy c. Note here that joy and peace are the means whereby faith worketh hope Verse 14. Full of goodnesse The excellency of a godly man is to follow God fully as Caleb Numb 14.24 to have a heart full of goodnesse as these Romans a life full of good works as Tabitha Act. 9.36 These shall receive a full reward 2 Joh. 8. Verse 15. Chrysostome truly saith of St Paul that he was insatiabilis Dei cultor one that thought he could never do God or his Church service enough Verse 16. Ministring the Gospel Serving about holy things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or doing sacred offices as the Priests under the Law to whom the Apostle all along this verse alludes in an elegant allegory the Ministery is a divine and heavenly function All other callings are for the world and draw to the world but this both in the preparation and execution draweth to God keepeth us with God and to be ever mindefull of the things of God Verse 17. I have therefore c. So have all Gods faithfull Ministers at this day against the contempts and contumelies cast upon them by the mad world ever besides it self in point of salvation There is a pamphlet lately published that sticks not to make that sacred and tremend function of the Ministery to be as meer an imposture as very a mystery of iniquity The Compass Samarit●n as arrant a juggle as the Pa●acy it self Verse 18. To make the Gentiles c.

not our selves We are Christs paranymphes or spokesmen and must wooe for him Now if we should speak one word for him and two for our selves as all self-seekers do how can we answer it Verse 6. Hath shined The first work of the spirit in mans heart is to beat out new windows there and to let in light Act. 26 18. And then Semper in sole sita est Rhodos qui calorem colorem nobis impertit Aeneas Sylv. Verse 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In earthen vessels Gr. In oyster-shels as the ill-favoured oyster hath In it a bright pearl Vilis saepe cadus nobile nectar habet In a leathern purse may be a precious pearl Verse 8. We are troubled on every side This is the worlds wages to Gods Ministers Veritas odium parit Opposition is Evangely genius said Calvin Tru●h goes ever with a scratcht face We are perplexed Pray for me I say Pray for me said Latimer Act. and Mon. fol 1565. For I am sometimes so fearfull that I could creep into a Mouse-hole sometimes God doth visit me again with comfort c. Verse 9. Persecuted but not for saken The Church may be shaken Concuti non excuti Duris ut ilex ●onsa bipennibus not shivered persecuted not conquered Roma cladibus animosior said one 'T is more true of the Church She gets by her losses and as the Oak she taketh heart to grace from the maims and wounds given her Niteris incassum Christi submergere navem Tluctuat at nunquam mergitur illaratis As the Pope wrote once to the great Turk Cast down but not destroied Impellere possunt said Luther of his enemies sed totum prosternere non possunt crudeliter me tractare possunt sed non extirpare dentes nudare sed non devorare occidere me possunt sed in totum me perdere non possunt They may thrust me but not throw me shew their teeth but not devout me kill me but not hunt me c. Verse 10. The dying of the Lord A condition obnoxious to daily deaths and dangers Might be made manifest As it was in Paul when being stoned he started up with a sic sic oportet intrare Thus thus must heaven be had and no otherwise Verse 11. For we which live c. Good men only are heirs of the grace of life 1 Pet. 3.7 Others are living ghosts and walking sepulchres of themselves Verse 12. Death worketh in us It hath already ceized upon us but yet we are not killed with death as those were Revel 2. 23. As a godly man said That he did agrotare vitaluèr so the Saints do Mori vitalitèr die to live for ever But life in you q. d. You have the happinesse to be exempted whiles we are tantùm non interempti little lesse then done to death Verse 13. The same spirit That you have and shall be heirs together of heaven with you though here we meet with more miseries I beleeved and therefore c. The Spirit of faith is no indweller where the door of the lips open not in holy confestion and communication Verse 14. Shall present us with you Shall bring us from the jaws of death to the joyes of eternall life Verse 15. That the abundant grace This is one end wherefore God suffers his Ministers to be subject to so many miseries that the people might be put upon praier and praise for their deliverance Verse 16. Yet the inward man Peter Martyr dying said My body is weak my minde is well Well for the present and it will be better hereafter This is the godly mans Motto Verse 17. For our light affliction Here we have an elegant Antithesis and a double hyperbole beyond englishing For affliction here 's glory for light affliction a weight of glory for mome●ary affliction eternall glory Which is but for a moment For a short braid only as that Martyr said Mourning lasteth but till morning It is but winking and thou shalt be in heaven presently quoth another Martyr Worketh unto us As a causa sine quâ non as the law worketh wrath Rom. 4.15 Afarre more exceeding An exceeding excessive eternall weight Or a far most excellent eternall weight Nec Christus nec coelum patitur hyper●olen saith one Here it is hard to hyperbolize Weight of glory The Apostle a●●●seth to the Hebrew and Chaldee words which signifie both weight and glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory is such a weight as if the body were not upheld by the power of God it were impossible it should bear it Joy so great as that we must enter into it it is too big to enter into us Enter into thy Masters joy Mat. 25. Here we finde that when there is great joy the body is not able to bear it our spirits are ready to expire What shall it then be in heaven Verse 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whiles we look not Gr. Whiles we make them not our scope our mark to aim at Heaven we may make our mark our aim though not our highest aim At the things that are seen Whiles we eye things present only it will be with us as with an house without pillars tottering with every blast or as a ship without anchor tossed with every wave But at the things which are not seen Pericula non respicit Martyr coronas respicit Plagas non horret praemium numerat non videt lictores insernè flagellantes sed Angelos supernè acclamantes saith Basil Who also tels us how the Martyrs that were cast out naked in a winters night being to be burned the next day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comforted themselves and one another with these words Sharp is the cold but sweet is Paradise Troublesome is the way but pleasant shall be the end of our journey let us endure cold a little and the Patriarchs bosome shall soon warmus let our foot burn a while that we may dance for ever with Angels Let our hand full into the fire that it may lay hold upon eternall life c. But the things which c. The Latines call prosperous things Res secundas because they are to be had hereafter they are not the first things these are past Rev. 21. CHAP. V. Verse 1. For we know NOt we think or hope only This is the top gallant of faith the triumph of trust this is as Latimer ca●s it the sweet-meats of the feast of a good conscience There are other dainty dishes in this feast but this is the banquet The cock on the dung-hill knows not the worth of his jewel Our earthly house of this Tabernacle Our clayie cottage Man is but terra friabilis 1 Cor. 15.47 a piece of earth neatly made up The first man is of the earth earthy and his earthly house is ever mouldering over him ready to fall upon his head Hence it is called The life of his hands Isa 47. because hardly held up with the labour of his hands Paul

p. 1●4 l 28. dele that p 128. l 7. r. at p 136. l 21. r Secretaries p. 143 l. 12. r encaged p. 173 l. 30 r conquerour p. 200 l 23 r beedlesse p 206 l 20 r. amaxuensis p. 814 l. ●0 r willes p. 221. l 24. r blown p. 228. l. 2● adde we p. 160. l 6. r. relate p. 263. l. 21. r. matter p. 305 l. 35. r involuntary p. 191 l. ● r there p 395. l 9 r forwardnes p. 404 l. 14. r 5. r pauc● p 418. l. 9. r. they p. 406. l warmed p. 424. l. p. 426. r 4 r savourily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 459. l. 39 r. in bu eyes ib. mar r. puptllam p. 463 l 30. r Sertorius p. 473 l. 18. r. Theologica p. 532. l. 3. r one writes p. 534. l. 8 r Amos. p. 537. l. 38. dele for p. 546. l. 7. r. Antichrist p. 549. l. 25. r earth p. 557. l. 28. dele are p. 572. l. 25. r imitate p. 593. l. 12. r by the Sun beams p. 608 l. 23. r. that the devil p. 628. l. 9. r. cast p. 641. l. 23. r. Sareptan p. 646. l. 14. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the ROMANES CHAP. I. Verse 1. A servant of Iesus Christ. THis is an higher title th●n Monarch of the world as Numa second King of Rome could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pult. Verse 2. Promised Fore-shewed and foreshadowed Verse 3. Concerning his Son Here 's a lofty and lively description of Christs sacred person The whole Epistle being the Confession of our Churches as Melancthon calleth it Scultet Annal. who therefore went over it ten severall times in his ordinary Lectures The Epistle being such as never can any man possibly think speak or write sufficiently of it's worth and excellency Verse 4. Declared to be c. Gr. Defined 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for definitions explain obscurities With power For Superas evadere ad auras Hic labor hoc opus est a work befitting a God See Ephes 1.20 with the Note there The Spirit of holinesse The divine essence of Christ 2 Cor. 13 4. which sanctifieth the humane nature assumed by him Verse 5. For obedience to the faith That is to the Gospel that doctrine of faith or to Christ who is oft put for faith whereof he is the proper object in this Epistle Kisse the Son c. Psal 2 12. Math. 17.5 Hear him Verse 6. Ye are the called With an high and heavenly calling Heb. 3.1 See the Note there Verse 7. Called to be Saints Those then that are called are Saints whilest alive and not only those that are canonized by the Pope after they are dead Bemb in List Venet. In numerum Deorum ab Ecclesia Romana relati as Bembus profanely speaketh of their Saint Francis a sorry man Dan hist of Engl. fol. 99. of whom as once of Becket 48 years after his death it may well be disputed Whether he were damned or saved Pope Callistus 3. sainted some such in his time as of whom Cardinall Bess●rion Iac. Revius bist Pontis knowing them for naught said These new Saints make me doubt much of the old Grace he to you and peace See the Note on 1 Cor. 1.2 Verse 8. Your faith is spoken of See chap. 16. and Juvenal Tacitus and other profane writers who bitterly exagitate the doctrines and practices of those Roman Christians Verse 9. Whom I serve in my spirit That is with all the faculties of my soul concentred and co-united Verse 10 I might have a prosperous journey This he praied and this he had by such a way as he little dreamt of Little thought Paul that when he was bound at Ierusalem and posted from one prison to another that God was now sending him to Rome yet he sent him and very safe with a great Convoy God goes oft another way to work for our good then we could imagine Verse 11. That I may impart There is no envy in spirituall things because they may be divided in solidum one may have as much as another Theat Naturae and all alike Scientiarum sic gratiarum ca vis est natura ut quò plus doceas alteride tuo largiare cò ditior ac doctior fias saith Bodine Such is the nature and property of sciences and graces that the more you communicate them the more you encrease them Verse 12. That I may be comforted Or exhorted Ad communem exhortationem percipiendam saith Beza out of Bucer and others The meanest of Christs members may contribute somewhat to the edifying even of an Apostle Verse 13. But was let hitherto Either by Satan 1 Thess 2.18 or by the holy Spirit otherwise disposing of him as Act. 19.6 7. or by some intervenient but important occasion as Chap. 15.20 21. Verse 14. I am debter Because entrusted with talents for that purpose 1 Cor. 9.16 See the Note there Verse 15. So as much Quicquid in me situm est promptum est A notable expression Verse 16. For I am not ashamed As men are apt to be whence that fatherly charge 2 Tim. 1.8 Doe ye thinke said Iohn Frith Martyr to the Archbishops men that would have let him go that I am afraid to declare mine opinion unto the Bishops of England in a manifest truth Act. and Mon. 1917. If you should both leave me here and go tell the Bishops that you had lost Frith I would surely follow as fast after as I might and bring them news that I had found and brought Frith again For it is the power c. Eternall life is potentially in the Word preached as the harvest is potentially in the seed Verse 17. The just shall live by faith Hab. 2.4 that is they shall enjoy themselves by their faith in greatest disasters or dangers when others are at their wits ends that 's the Prophets sense and the Apostle not unfitly applieth it to prove justification by faith alone for if a man live by faith he is just by faith Verse 18. Who hold the truth Hold the light of their consciences which is as a Prophet from God prisoner The naturall man that he may sin the more securely imprisons the truth which he acknowledgeth and laies hold on all the principles in his head that might any way disturb his course in sin locking them up in restraint Hence it appears that no man is righteous in himself or by his own righteousnes which was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 19. Because that which may Heathens might know God the Creatour per species creaturarum as they speak either in way of negation or causality or eminence not so God the Redeemer Verse 20. Are clearly seen As in a mirrour Pervidentur or as on a theatre Vt solem in aquis sic Deum in operibus contemplamur Verse 21. Neither were thankefull How then shall we answer to God

because our justification begun in his death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was perfected by his resurrection Redemption we have by Christs abasement application of it by his advancement This one verse is an abridgement of the whole Gospel the summe of all the good news in the world The grand inquest of all the ancient Prophets 1 Pet. 1.11 Adore we the fulnesse of the holy Scriptures CHAP. V. Verse 1. Being justified by faith AS he had said Chap. 4.24 We have peace with God A blessed calm lodged in our consciences Like as when Ionas was cast overboard there followed a tranquillity Verse 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We have accesse Christ leading us by the hand and presenting us to the Father with Behold here am I and the children whom thou hast given me Ephes 2.18 Verse 3. We glory in tribulations As an old souldier doth in his scars of honour See Gal. 6 17. 2 Cor. 7.4 Verse 4. And experience hope Without hope patience is cold almost in the fourth degree and that is but a little from poison Verse 5. Hope maketh not ashamed As among men many lie languishing at Hopes hospitall as he did at the Pool of Bethesda Joh. 5. and return as they did from the brooks of Tema Job 6.17 Or as men goe to a Lottery with heads full of hopes but return with hearts full of blanks The Dutch have a Proverb to this purpose Sperare expectare multos reddit stultos And we say He that hopes for dead mens shoes may hap go bare-foot Bad mens hopes may hop headlesle they may perish in the height of their expectancies Not so those that hope in God they shall yet praise him who is the help of their countenance and their God Ps 43 ult Nunquam confusi Deo confisi Verse 6. Christ died for A sufficient evidence of Gods dearest and deepest love shed abroad in our hearts as a most sweet ointment Verse 7. Yet per adventure for a good man For a publike person Lilloe stept between the murderer and King Edwin his master to intercept the deadly thrust Speeds Chron lib 7. cap. 20. Life of K Ed. 6 pag 37. Turk hist fol. 730. A common souldier lost his life at Musselborough field to save the Earl of Huntlies life so did Nicolas Ribische to rescue Prince Maurice at the siege of Pista Verse 8. God commendeth c. Herein God laies naked to us the tenderest bowels of his fatherly compassions as in an anatomy Verse 9. Much more then It is a greater work of God to bring men to grace then being in the state of grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bring them to glory because sin is far more distant from grace then grace is from glory Verse 10. We shall be saved Here the Apostle reasoneth from regeneration to eternall life as the lesser Verse 11. Not only so Not in tribulation only do we glory as v. 3. but in the whole course of our lives Verse 12. As by one man Yet Anabaptists deny originall sin as did also the Pelag●ans of old consuted by Augustine Egranus a German Preacher said as Melancthon reporteth that original sin is a meer fiction of Augustine and other Divines and that Joh. Manl loc com pag. 486. because there was no such word found in the Scriptures Papists say that originall sin is the smallest of all sins not deserving any more of Gods wrath then only a want of his beatificall-presence and that too without any pain or sorrow of minde from the apprehension of so great a losse There have been amongst us that have said that originall sin is not forbidden by the Law Directly indeed Moulins Anaton Armin c 8. Wotton on Joh. p 146. and immediately it is not but forbidden it is because cursed and condemned by the Law In originall sin is a tacite consent eminently to all actuall sin And some understand this text of all sin both originall and actuall And so death passed upon all men As a sentence of death on a condemned malefactour 1 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as those diseases that are called by Physitians Corruptio totius substantiae or as the rot overrunneth the whole flock Verse 13. Sinne is not imputed In mens esteem as Chap. 4 15. Verse 14. Death raigned From the raign of death he concludes the raign of sin Infants are no innocents the first sheet or blanket wherein they are covered is woven of sin shame bloud and filth Ezek. 16.4.6 Verse 15. Many be dead Many is here put for all as all for many 1 Tim. 2.3 Verse 16. Of many ●ffences i.e. Of all whether imputed to us inherent in us or issuing from us Verse 17. Abundance That is abundant grace Verse 18. By the offence of one We were all in Adam as the whole countrey in a Parliament-man And although we chose not God chose for us Verse 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Many That is All except Christ sinners tainted with sins guilt and filth Verse 20. But where sin abounded But then it is where sinne that abounded in the life abounds in the conscience in grief and detestation of it Act. and Mon. fol 1●30 as the greatest evil Bonner objected to Mr Philpot Marytyr that he found written in his book In me Joanne Philpotto ubi abundavit peccatum superabundavit gratia This he said was an arrogant speech Novum crimen C. Caesar Verse 21. That as sin hath raigned That is the wrath of God by sin Through righteousnes Imputed and imparted By J●sus Christ See how sweetly the end answers the beginning of the Chapter and how Christ is both authour and finisher c. CHAP. VI. Verse 1. Shall we continue QVasi dicat That were most unreasonable and to an ingenious nature impossible To argue from mercy to liberty is the devils Logick Should we not after deliverance yeeld obedience said holy Ezra Chap. 9.13 14. A man may as truly say the sea burns or fire cools as that certainty of salvation breeds security and loosnesse Verse 2. Live any longer therein Fall into it we may and shall but it is not the falling into the water that drowns but lying in it so it is not falling into sinne that damns but living in it Verse 3. Baptized into his death Hoc est baptizaripro mortuis saith Beza to be buried with Christ in baptisme Col 2.12 in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh verse 11. Verse 4. We are buried Buriall is a continuing under death so is mortification a continuate dying to sinne Mors quaedam perpetuata Sin is by degrees abated and at length abolished when once our earthly tabernacles are dissolved Walk in newnesse of life Resurrectione Domini configuratur vita quae hic geritur Walk as Christ walked after his resurrection Verse 5. For if we have been planted Burying is a kinde of planting Verse 6. The body of sin For whole evil is in man and whole man in

had sweet meditations of the resurrection of Jesus Christ that night and now he would go into the Pulpit Mel●b Adam and impart to others the comforts that he felt in his soul Verse 5. As the sufferings of Christ So called either because the Saints suffer for Christ or because they have him suffering with them Act. 9.4 God is more provoked then Nehemiah Nehem. 4.3 5. So our consolation As the lower the ebbe the higher the tide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Ignatius The more pain the more gain It is to my losse if you bate me any thing in my sufferings Verse 6. And whether we be afflicted Let the winde sit in what corner soever it will it blows good to the Saints Cant. ● 16 Though North and South be of contrary qualities yet they make the Churches spices to flow and give forth their sent Verse 7. So shall ye be also c. Our troubles therefore are compared to the throws of a travelling woman that tend to a birth and end in comfort Joh. 16.21 Verse 8. For we would not c. It is of great use to know the sufferings that others have sustained before us The Primitive Christians kept Catalogues of their Martyrs Dr Tailor the Martyr at his death gave his son Thomas a latine book containing the sayings and sufferings of the old Martyrs collected by himself In the English Seminaries beyond seas they have at dinner time their Martyrology read that is the legend of our English Traitours We despaired even of life God is oft better to us then our hopes he reserves usually his holy hand for a dead lift He comes in the nick of time and our extremity is his opportunity See the Note on Luk. 18.8 Verse 9. But we had the sentence Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The answer or denunciation of death Here we must distinguish between answers of triall and direct answers This was of the former sort for Paul died not at that time When Leyden was so long and so strictly besieged by the Duke of Alva that they were forced for their sustenance to search and scrape dung-hils c. and the Duke in the language of blasphemy threatned the defendants with cruell death that very night the windes turned the tide swelled and the waters came in and forced him to raise the siege That we should not trust Hope is never higher-elevated then when our state in all mens eyes is at lowest Verse 10. In whom we trust Experience breeds confidence Thou hast thou shalt is an ordinary medium made use of by the Psalmist Verse 11. You also helping together The best may have benefit by the praiers of the meanest Melancthon was much cheared and confirmed by the praiers of certain women and children whom he found tugging with God in a corner for the setling of the Reformation in Germany S●lneccer paedagog Christian pag. 196. Verse 12. For this is our rejoycing c. He was merry under his load because his heart was upright The sincere will well stand under great pressures because they are sound Whereas if a bone be broke or but the skin rub'd up and raw the lightest load will be grievous And godly sincerity A fine word he here useth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it is a Metaphor either from the Eagle that trieth her young by holding them forth against the full sight of the Sun Aristot Plin. so should we the motions of our mindes to the Word of God or else from a wise and wary chapman that holds up the cloth he buyes betwixt his eye and the Sun Verse 13. Then what ye read c. Or then what you can both recognize and approve of for you have known me thorow and thorow Verse 14. You have acknowledged in part q. d. You ought to have done it more fully but you have been carried away as ye were led by the false Apostles Verse 15. A second benefit Gr. Grace not converting only but confirming also All is but enough Verse 16. And to passe by you So indefatigable and unsatisfiable was he in doing God service Calvin said Ne decem quidem maria c. That it would not grieve him to sail over ten seas about a uniform draught for religion Verse 17. Did I use lightnesse So the false Apostles suggested against him Ministers must carefully clear themselves of suspitions and aspersions cast upon them either by a verball or reall Apology Verse 18. Our word toward you c. Gods children are all such as will not lie say and unsay blow hot and cold with a blast Isa 63.8 Verse 19. For the Sonne of God What is that to the purpose Thus if the Gospel that Paul preached be not yea and nay then neither are Pauls promises yea and nay This is his intendment else his inference is nothing And by that which follows it reacheth all Christians M. Cotton on the seven vi●als 25. q. d. Look what a Christian doth promise he is bound by the earnest-peny of Gods Spirit to perform He dares no more alter his words to the discredit of his profession then the Spirit of God can lie Verse 20. In him are yea and amen That is truth and assurance They will eat their way over all alpes of opposition as one speaketh Verse 21. Hath anointed us i. e. Consecrated and qualified us Verse 22. Sealed us As the Merchant sets his seal upon his goods The earnest of the Spirit Whereof God should undergoe the losse if he should not give the inheritance as Chrysostome noteth Verse 23. I call God to record He purgeth himself by oath So those Iosh 22.22 Verse 24. Dominion over your faith As Masters of your consciences such as the Bridge-maker of Rome will needs be Pontisex Romanus CHAP. II. Verse 1. That I would not come again I Lle dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox It goes as much against the heart of a good Minister as against the hair with his people if he say or do any thing to their grief It is no pleasure to him to fling daggers to speak milstones to preach damnation c. But there is a cruell lenity as was that of Eli to his sons and evil men must be sharply rebuked that they may be sound in the faith Tit. 1.13 Verse 2. But the same which is made c. Nothing can cure a faithfull Minister of his cordolium of his hearts grief but his peoples amendment Now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord 1 Thess 3.8 else we are all amort and you kill the very hearts of us Verse 3. Of whom I ought to rejoyce Nothing sticks a man more then the unkindenesse of a friend then expectation of love dashed and disappointed All evils as elements are most troublesome when out of their proper place as impiety in professours injustice in Judges unkindenes or untowardnes in a people toward their Pastour c. Verse 4. With many tears Non tàm atramento quam

side to reverence his own name which was written over it Verse 11. And that every tongue The heathens were wont to say Mutus sit oportet qui non laudarit Herculem Let that tongue be tied up for ever that cries not out with David Vivat Dominus and with Luther Vivat regnet Christus Amen Verse 12. Work out your salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The reason that men still tremble and are still troubled with this doubt and that fear is because their salvation is not wrought out Something is left undone and their conscience tels them so With fear and trembling Opposed to carnall security Those venturous bold spirits that dare live in any evil so it ●are not in their faces and have not a heart fearfull of the least evil aspire not to immortality Verse 13. For it is God which worketh Therefore work out c. As actiagentes moti moventes as the inferiour orbs move as acted by the superiour When God hath tuned and doth touch us we must move and whilest the spirit imbreaths us we must turn about like the mill To will and to doe Sub laudibus naturae latent inimici gratiae faith Augustine who stood so much for grace that the Schoolmen say he yeelded too little to free-will That we live is the gift of the gods saith Seneca that we live well is of our selves De nat deor A base speech So Cicero Judicium hoc omnium mortalium est fortunam à Deo petendam à seipso sumendam sapientiam For which impious sentence Augustine faith of him Eumut faceret homines liberos fecisse sacrilegos De eiv D●i l 5 Verse 14. Without murmurings Gr. Wrath and rancour or discontent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which makes mens lips like rusty hinges seldome to move without murmuring and complaining And disputings Or wranglings about trifles nicities or novelties things whereof we can have neither proof nor profit Verse 15. Blamelesse and harmlesse Gr. Hornlesse or sincere without mixture of deceit or guile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Israelites indeed The sons of God Dignity enforceth duty Remember that thou art a Kings son said he to Antigonus and thou canst not do amisse Without rebuke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such as envy it self cannot justly tax or fasten her fangs on Si Luthero faverem us viro bone quod fatentur hostes c. Tom. 8. Epist saith Erasm●● who yet loved him not Luther is a good man as his very enemies cannot but acknowledge So B●cer Bradford Melancthon c. Christians should excell others standing as standard-bearers higher then others as Saul was by the head and shoulders being without blemish from head to foot ●en 3.6 as Absolom fair to the eye and good to the taste as the tree of knowledge In the midst of a crooked As Noah was righteous in his generation as Joshuah would serve Jehovah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though alone ●● as David therefore loved Gods testimonies because other man kept not his law as Eliah amidst the Ba●lites cries Zelando zelavi the worse they were the better was he Baruc kindled himself from other mens coldnesse A●●endit seip●un Trem. and quickned himself from other mens dulnes Neh 3 ●0 As lights in the world Luminaries great lights 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as are the Sun and Moon that give light to others Some wicked have greater common gifts then the godly as many mettals are brighter and more orient then the heavens yet as those mettals are not fit to convey the light of the Sun nay indeed they would stop it so neither are the wicked fit to shine the true light into us Mat. 5. but Christ and Christians those lights of the world Verse 16. Holding forth the word As an ensign 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or rather as the hand doth the torch or the watch-tow●● the light and so the haven to weather-beaten Mariners Verse 17. Yea and if I be offered Or Be poured out as a drink-offering upon the S●crifice c. to seal up my Doctrine whereby I have brought you to the obedience of faith Bishop Ridley in a letter to Bishop Brooks of Glo●ester writeth thus As for the doctrine which I have taught my conscience assureth me that it was sound and according to Gods Word to his glory be it spoken the which doctrine the Lord being my help I will maintain so long as my tongue shall wag and breath is within my body and in confirmation there of seal the same with my bloud Act. and Mon. fol. 1604. Verse 18. For the same cause also c. The hearers affections and endeavours should exactly answer to the affections and endeavours of the preacher as the Elders of Ephesus did Act 20.31 37. And as those religious Romans did Chap. 6 17. and these Philippians 2 Cor. 8 5. Verse 19. That I also may be of good comfort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That I may be inspirited For when Silas and Timotheus were come from these Macedonians Paul was pressed in spirit Act. 18.9 and set vigorously upon the Lords work Verse 20. Like-minded An alter ego to me True friendship transformeth us into the condition of those we love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Eusebius into his friend Pamphilus the Martyr Whence he was called Eusebius Pamphili Hieronym Amicitia sit tantum inter bin●s qui sunt veri bonos qui sunt pauci Verse 21. For all seek their own If it were so then what wonder if now as was so long since foretold 2 Tim. 3.2 Self must be shouldred out and Christs share studied more then out own all private interests let fall and all self-respects drown●● in the glory of God and the publike good or else we want that pious ingenuity that becometh Saints It is said of Cato that he did toti genitum se credere mundo Eucan That the care of the community lay upon him Timothy was of a choice and excellent spirit that naturally cared for the Churches welfare Few such now a-daies Verse 22. As the sonne with the Father Happy son in such a Father 1 Tim. 1.2 If Jason the Thessalian held himself to happy in his Tutour Chiron Alexander in his Aristotle Paul in his Gamaliel ●inda● lib. 4. 〈◊〉 how much more was Timothy in Paul the aged Philem. ver 9. whose not only doctrine but manner of life he knew fully and followed faithfully 2 Tim. 3.10 as a diligent Disciple Verse 23. So soon as I shall see For his life was now in suspense by reason of that roaring lion Nero whom Tertullian wittily calleth Dedicatorem damnation●s Christianorum q●ippe qui oriontem fidemprimus Romae cruen●● v●● Verse 24. Shall come shortly Whether ever he did come or no we know not Fallitur augurio spes bona saepe suo Good hopes are often frustrated Verse 25. Necessary to send to you It is not meet that a

Verse 8. Be sober Drunkennesse misbeseemeth any man but especially a Saint for it robs him of himself and laies a beast in his room Putting on the brest-plate of faith and love Faith is the fore-part of this brest-plate whereby we imbrace Christ and love the hinder part thereof whereby we imbosome the Saints Verse 9. God hath not appointed us As the hath all drunken beasts 1 Cor. 6.10 Yea all those dry drunkards Isa 28.1 that will not a wake though never so much warned out of the snare of the devil c. 2 Tim. 2.25 Verse 10. Whether we wake or sleep That is live or die our souls cannot miscarry because Christ will have out the full price of his sons death See Rom. 14.8 with the Note there Verse 11. Comfort your selves together This he subjoyns as a singular help to the practise of the former points of duty Socialt charity whets on to love and good works as iron whets iron as one billet kindleth another c. Verse 12. And we beseech you brethren Doe not so exhort and edifie one another as to think that now the publike Ministery is no further usefull or needfull Let your Pastours have all due respect be your gifts never so eminent Verse 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apud Grae●os majori in honre habebantur Philosophi quam ortores ●llienim recte vi● endi c. Lact●ntiu● Very highly Gr. More then exceedingly Turks and Papists shall else condemn us who honour every hedge-priest of theirs and have them in singular esteem above their merits The Grecians gave great respect to their Philosophers above their Oratours because these taught them how to speak but those how to live well For their works sake Which is high and honourable divine and heavenly a worthy work 1 Tim. 3.1 Such as both in the preparation to it and execution of it draweth them to God keepeth them with God and to be ever mindefull of God and no lesse active for God Ephes 4 12. by gathering together the Saints and building up the body of Christ And be at peace among your selves So shall your Pastour have the better life and follow his work with more content comfort Verse 14. Warn them that are unruly Cry Cave miser stop them in their cursed carier tell them that hell gapes for them and is but a little afore them snatch them out of the fire saving them with fear Iude v. 3. Comfort the f●●ble-minded The d●spiriced faint-hearted sick and sinking under the sense of sin and fear of wrath A Christian should have feeding lips and a healing tongue The contrary whereunto is deeply detested Ezek. 34 4. Support the weak 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Set to your shoulder and shore them up Deal not as the herd of Deer do with the wounded Deer forsake and push it away from them Verse 15. See that none render Nothing is so naturall to us and Aristotle commends revenge as a piece of manhood when indeed it is doghood rather Excellently Lactantius Non est minus malireferre injuriam quam inferre It is as bad to recompence Wrong as to do wrong See the Notes on Mat. 5.44 Rom. 12.17 But ever follow that which is good Not to doe good is to do evil not to save a man when we can is to destroy him Mar. 3.4 See the Note there Verse 16. Rejoyce evermore A duty much pressed in both testaments but little practised by many of Gods Whinnels who are ever puling and putting singer in the eye through one discontent or another The wicked may not rejoyce Hos 9.1 the Saints must Psal 32.11 and 33.1 and that continually striving to an habituall chearfulnesse which is when faith heals the conscience and grace husheth the affections and composeth all within what should ail such a man not to be perpetually merry Verse 17. Pray without ceasing While praier standeth still the trade of godlinesse standeth still All good comes into the soul by this door all true treasure by this merchants-ship Paul beginneth continueth and concludeth his Epistle● with praier Nehemiah sends up ejaculations ever and anon Of Carolus Magnus it was spoken Carolus plus cum Deo quam cum hominibus loquitur that he spake more with God then with men Our hearts should be evermore in a praying temper and our set times of praier should not be neglected though we be not alwaies alike prepared or disposed thereunto Disuse breeds lothnesse to doe it another time Verse 18. In every thing give thanks If God give prosperity praise him and it shall be encreased faith Augustine If adversity praise him and it shall be removed or at least sanct●fied Iob blessed God as well for taking as giving Iob 1. He knew that God afflicted him Non ad exitium sed ad exercitium to refine him not to ruine him But this is Christianorum propria virtus saith Hierome a practice proper to Christians to be heartily thankfull for crosses Basil spends all his Sermon upon this Text in this theme Every bird can sing in a Summers-day and it is easie to swim in a warm bath but in deep affliction to cover Gods altar not with our tears as Mal 2.13 but with the calves of out lips Hos 14.2 this none can doe but the truly religious Verse 19. Quench not the spirit In his motions or graces See he Canon for the fire on the altar and observe it Lev. 6.12,13 Confesse here as Hezekiah did 2 Chron. 29.6 7. And take the Apostles counsel 2 Tim. 1.6 Stir up this fire on the hearth of our hearts let the Priests lips blow it up into a flame despise not prophecying c. It may be quenched either by the with-drawing of fuell neglect of ordinances or by casting on water falling into foul courses Verse 20. Despise not i.e. Highly honour and preciously esteem as an honourary given by Christ to his church at his wonderfull derfull ascension Ps 51.17 Eph. 4.8 11. Prophecying That is preaching 1 Cor. 14.3 so called because they took their texts out of some of the Prophets Verse 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epicbarm Prove all things Tak● nothing that you hear upon trust but bring all to the Test Isa 8.20 To the law i.e. the old Testament and to the testimony i.e. the new which is by S. Iohn often called the Testimony Hold fast that which is good Orthodox currant agreeable to and approvable by the Scriptures especially that which God hath made good and sweet to your own fouls Hold fast that thou hast c. Hast thou found honey eat it Prov. 25.16 Go on to heaven eating of it as Samson did of his honey comb Verse 22. Abstain from all c. Whatsoever is heterodox unsound and unsavoury shun it as you would do a serpent in your way or poison in your meats Theodosius tare the Arrians arguments presented to him in writing because he found them repugnant to the Scriptures And Augustine retracteth even ironies only

Verse 2. Grace mercy and peace See the Note on 1 Tim. 1.2 Verse 3. Whom I serve from my fore-fathers Those twelve Tribes that served God instantly day and night Act. 26.7 That was a desperate resolution of the Heathen Oratour T●l de nat deo l. 3. Me ex ea opinione quam à majoribus accepi de cultu Deorum immortalium nullius unquam oratio aut docti aut indocti movebit I will never stir an inch from the religion of my fore-fathers for any mans perswasion Paul forsook his Pharisaisme to serve God as Abraham Isaac and Jacob had done with a pure conscience Verse 4. Being mindesull of thy tears Timothy was a man of many tears Act and Mon. sol 1457. so was David Paul Luther Bradford of whom it is said that he did seldome eat but he bedewed his trencher with tears and that few daies passed him without plenty of tears shed before he went to bed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Verse 5. In thy Grandmother Lois and mother A sweet happine●●e to any childe to have a good mother and grandmother For these have great opportunity of dropping good things into their little Lemuels as being much about them The mothers of the Kings of Judah are constantly mentioned and as they were good or evil so were their children Partus sequitur ventrem The birth follows the belly Verse 6. Stirre up the gift Blow up thy smaller spark into a flame Grace in us is like a dull sea-cole fire saith one which if not now and then blown and stirred up though there be no want of fuell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet will of it self at length die and go out The word here used by the Apostle is Plato's word The Apostle seems to have bin well read in Plato's writings Verse 7. The spirit of fear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called elswhere the spirit of bondage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8.15 The law will convince the judg●ment but 't is the Gospel that convinceth the lust and he affection Of power and of a sound minde These two fitly stand together Sin unrepented of lies rotting at the heart and by rotting weakneth it as a rotten rag hath no strength Verse 8. Afflictions of the Gospel Affliction is Evangelij genius saith Calvin Hence it is called the word of Christs patience Revel 2. According to the power of God For unlesse he support us by his power we shall never bear up in affliction Verse 9. With an holy calling All that follows to those words in the end of vers 10. Through the Gospel comes in by a Parenthesis and is so to be read Verse 10. By the appearing By his coming in the flesh of which also the Psalmist speaketh Ps 96.13 Brought life and immortality to light As he drew light out of darknesse at the creation And as he then made light on the first day of the week so on the same day he abolished death c. by his resurrection from the dead Ver. 11. A teacher of the Gentiles His writings therefore should be the more highly prized and studied by us Gentiles as being properly ours like as Ps 127. was a Song made specially for Solomon Verse 12. I know whom I have ●rusted Here was not a faint hope or a conjecturall confidence but a plerophory of saith Bernard The reason where of is thus rendered by a Father Quia in charitate nimia adoptavit me quia verax in promissione potons in exhibitione because God who of his free grace hath adopted me is both able and faithfull to fulfill his promises Luth. apud Jo. Manliam That was a notable speech of Luther Ipse viderit ubi anima mea man sura fit qui pro casic sollicitus ●●it ut vitam pro ea posuerit Let him that died for my soul see to the salvation of it That which I have committed A childe that hath any precious thing given him cannot better secure it then by putting it into his fathers hands to keep so neither can we better provide for our souls safety then by committing them to God Aug de bo●o pers●u ●hap 6. Tutiores aurem vivimus si totum D●o damus non autem nos illi ●x parte nobis ex parte committimus We shall be sure to be safest if we commit our selves wholly to God and seek not to part stakes with him therein The ship that is part in the water and part an the mud is soon beaten in pieces Verse 13. Hold fast the sorm The catechisticall principles that method system short summs of Divinity that St Paul had compiled for Timothies use called here not only a form as Rom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6.17 but a short form or brief method such as hath both perspicuity and brevity Verse 14. That good thing that was c. Thy crown of recompence Revel 3.11 Or thy Converts thy crown of rejoycing Theophyl I Thess 2.19 Or the purity of thy doctrine 1 Tim. 6.20 Verse 15. All they which are in Asia All the Ministers there Revel 6.13 〈◊〉 16. ● ●6 These stats fell from heaven as fast as me fig-tree makes abort with any never so light and gentle a winde Phygellus and Hermogenes Famous only for their recidivation and apostasie Hermogenes took after Hormogene● the retrograde Rhetorician who at 22 years of age was an excellent Oratour but by 24. Mente ●apsus est forgat all his skil ●nd became a very dunce G. Rhodigin l. 11. c. 40. Null à evidente causâ saith mine authour Verse 16. He oft resresh●d me Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Poured cold water upon me as that Angel did upon the wracked limbs of Theodorus the Martyr mentioned by Socrates and Russinus in the daies of Julian the Apostate Verse 17. He sought me out very diligently Whit vehement desire and intention of affection not as a coward seeks after his enemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom he hopes he shall never finde but as Saul sought David or as the wise men the babe of Bethlehem c. Verse 18. The lord That is God the Father grant he may finde mercy of the Lord that is of God the Son as Jehovah from Jehovah Gen. 19.24 That he may sinde For his care in finding out me v. 17. CHAP. II. Verse 1. Be strong TOgether with the word there goes forth a power as Luk 5 17. Verse 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Commit them to faith full men No talent is given us for private and proper use but that we be trading and transmitting it also to others Syn●sius speaks of some who having a treasure of abilities in them yet would assoon part with their ●earts as with their meditations c. the canker of whose great skill shall be a witnesse against them Verse 3. Endure hardship Never dream of a delicacy think not to finde God in the gardens of Aegypt whom Moses found not but in the