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A63071	Theologia theologiæ, the true treasure, or, A treasury of holy truths, touching Gods word, and God the word digg'd up, and drawn out of that incomparable mine of unsearchable mystery, Heb. I. 1, 2, 3 : wherein the divinity of the holy Scriptures is asserted, and applied / by John Trappe ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing T2047; ESTC R23471	163,104	402

fixed which yet are fashtned here below these resemble coyne which is white in it self but draws a black line after it Or water in great mens kitchins which having clensed other things is it selfe fit only for the sink Unsavoury salt is hardly fit for the dunghill nor a wicked Minister for any place but hell Certainely hee is the worst creature upon Earth and who are Devils in Hell now but such as once were Angels in Heavens Pop. Rom. Carbone pollicente quipiam addente jusjarandum cum exsecratione vicissim juravit se illi nom credere Suadet loquentis vita non oratio Neither helps it any whit that their tongues are so smooth in speaking good Divinity while their hands are so rough with Esau in uttering false The Bethshemites fare the worse for being a City of Priests their priviledge doubled their offence 1 Sam. 6.19 And God would not permit Aaron the passions of another man because he was a Priest It was at the funerall of his two sons that hee is forbidden to weep Levit. 10.6 Hee must not so much lament the judgement as magnifie Gods Justice in the deserved death of those two drunken priests They comming off their ale-bench likely brought strange fire by fire they perish Immediatly therupon charge is given to Aaron and his sons that they drink not wine nor strong drink Verse 9. when they go into the Tabernacle of the Congregation lest they dye Moreover Moses said to Aaron This is that which the Lord hath spoken Verse 3. I will be sanctified in all them that draw neare unto mee How sanctified may some say Austin answers Aut à nobis aut in nos Either by us while we preach painfully live hoilly or else on us by our just and utter destruction Seldome do loose-lived Ministers escape the visible vengeance of God forasmuch as they stumble with the Lanthorne in their hands and the words of reproofe in their mouths therefore will he seed them with gall and wormwood Ier. 23.15 By living otherwise then they teach they teach God to condemne them they carry Vriahs letters and put a sword into Gods hand as it were wherewith to undoe thē Balaam Satan's spelman as one cals him though hee blessed Gods Israel and wished well to their heaven yet for his contrary courses and counsell to Balack he was so far from inheriting with them that he was cut off by them Hophni and Phineas because they made the service of God to stink by their stinking courses so that men abhorred it for their sakes like as the Donatists pretented to do the Church for the evill life of Cecilian an ill end befell them Commonly God sensibly rejects such even in this life either rooting them out by death and making their places spue them out or else by blasting their gifts Zach. 11.17 drying up their right armes putting out their right eyes causing the night to come upon their divination and utterly refusing to be glorified by them Well it may be that they may live long as Saul did after his rejection and the Pharisees after they had fallen into the unpardonable sin The Devill also gave them many thankes as he is said to have done the Popish Priests in Hildebran's time Anno 1072 Math. Paris Hist for furnishing Hell so fast with so many soules as had perished by their default Rasis sac●ificulorum verti●ibus magnatum galeiss stratum inferni p●vimentum esse prover● b. o screbatur And better he would thank them doubtlesse when he should meet them in hell the pavement whereof was commonly said to bee pitcht with shavelings skuls and great mens crests But surely Christs will chashiere them as the Tirshata did those turn-coat Priest * Ezra 2.61 62 63. Matth. 7. and wash his hands of them for ever Yea though they can produce and prove that they have prophecied in his name and by his name done great Miracles if neverthelesse they be workers of iniquity and albeit they have taught others Yet themselves have not done the Will of his Heavenly Father 〈◊〉 Ministers may as files 〈◊〉 others themselves remaine rough as Cariers beare bags of many for the use of them to whom they are sent A blind man may beare a torch to the lightning of others and a stinking breath sound a Trumpet with great commendation The lifelesse Heaven gives life and the dull whetstone sharpeneth Iron Noahs Carpenters that made the Arke perished in the stood and Aeneas his Pilot saved the ship Medijs palinurus in ●ndis c. and was drowned himselfe The Toades-head may yeeld a pretious stone Busonites of great vertue Medicorum tituli ●edicamenta si●● pyae des ve●ena ●●ctant and wholesome sugar be found in poisoned cane Saint Paul gives us to know that a man may Preach profitably to others and yet himselfe be a cast-away Nolite igitur magis eloqui magna quam vivere D. Bedd concio ad C●●● saith One. Vivite concioninibus concionamini moribus Let your lives be a transcript of your Sermons your Precepts enlivened by your practise which should be as a visible cōment on the audible Word A Minister of any man had need to bee godly Mal. 2.5 6. Acts 11.24 2 Tim. 2.15 Else profanenesse will easily go out from the Prophets of Jerusalem Ier. 23. ●5 throughout all the Land as Jeremy hath it In him that is sent to winne soules saith a Divine his mouth eyes hands feet gesture conversation all had need be exact and exemplary Mention is made in the Ecclesiasticall History of one Bonnus a Church-man Sosom lib. ● cap. 28. Hominis vita magno om●itum consensu probatur j●m id non leve praejuditi●● est quod nec ●●stres repe●tant quod c●l●umn●entur de Luthero Erasmu● Acts and Monuments who was never seen by any man to be angry or heard to sweare lye or utter any thing rash light or unbeseeming himselfe And M. Bucer whiles hee was here in England brought all men into such admiration of his integrity that neither could his friends sufficiently prayse him nor his enemies in any point find fault with his singular life and sincere Doctrine The like is reported of Master Bradford Now what a thing was this to slaughter Envy to stop an open mouth Acts and Mon. to rejoyce his friends and to cloath his enemies with their owne shame This was to shine as a light in the darke World yea as the Sunne in his strength which although some men curse as the Atlantes because it scorcheth them others hate sometimes because it discovers their deeds of darknesse Atlantes solem Orientem Occidentemque dira imprecatione contucatur ut exitialem ipsis agrisque Plin. lib. 5. cap. 8. Godwins Heb. Antiq. yet are they so convinced and dazeled with its beauty and brightnesse that few can forshame speake against it The High-Priest was the chiefe God on Earth and

Herod saw John Baptists head which he had lately cut off in our Saviours fame as Theodoricus that tyrant did the head of Symmachus whom he had slaine in the mouth of the fish that was set before him Math. 14.1 At that time Herod heard of the fame of Jesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he said to his boyes This is John Baptist hee is risen from the dead The Jewes of that time and he it seemes for company had embraced that dotage of the Pythagoreans touching the transmigration of soules out of one body into another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore John saith he is surely revived in Jesus This might be his opinion then and more that he tels the trouble of his mind to his servants for a secret hoping belike the world should be nere the wiser But it fell out wee see somewhat otherwise for that which he spake then in secret is now preached on the house-top This was but one of the Devils anodynes and would not do the deed He betakes him therefore to another course and will be a Sadducee another while a sect that denied the Resurrection of the body and the immortality of the soule that so he might blunt the sting of his awakened conscience that haunted him like a fury for the slaughter of the innocent Baptist Thus much may be gathered out of Matth. 16.6 compared with Mark 8.15 Haec est enin● vis Verbi Dei saith Beza on that text This is the mighty worke of the Word on an exulcerate conscience God smites the earth that is earthly-minded men that are no better than earth earth earth when they heare the Word of the Lord with the rod of his month Is 11.4 and with the breath of his lips doth he slay the wicked Those pharisees Math. 22.15 for instance that were toties puncti repuncti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 minimè tamen ad resipiscentiam compuncti as one speaketh for why they had made voyd the counsell of God when they heard our Saviour refusing to be reformed hating to be healed whereas diverse of the common sort who had by their instigation crucified the Lord of glory when the Word came close and found them out in their sins were prickt at heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act 2.37 Prov. 23.32 thy felt their sins as so many stings of an adder pricks of a dagger yea as so many bearded arrows in their flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and were added to the Church To the former 2 Cor. 12.7 Gods Word was a savour of death to death the axe therof laid to the root of their rotten consciences out them down as fuell to hel-hel-fire To the latter Math. 3.10 2 Cor. 2.16 it became a savour of life unto life a seed of immortality an effectuall instrument not of conviction only but of conversion also Iam. 4 5 6. For think ye saith S. James that the Scripture saith in vaine The spirit that is in you c. doth it shew you your naturall corruption and no more Not so for it saith not only that is convinceth but it giveth more grace it converteth also It brings not only to the birth as Ephraim that foolish child Hos but carrieth the soule thorough the narrow womb of repentance into the light of eternall life And this is the powerfull and proper effect of the good Word of Gods grace ever good to them that are good Mic. 2.7 or that but wish to be good Psalme 119.4 5 6. It is indeed like the water of jealousie Num. 5.27 28. For when it is received into a good and honest heart it cleares it and makes it fruitfull as when into a corrupt heart it rottes it and makes it worse Abigails speech smote Nabal into a qualme that caused his death when the same tongue blessed David and drew blessing from him Rahab was melted with that message wherewith the King of Jericho was hardned Mannah to the rebels turned into putrefaction and stank Moses his rod while hee held it in his hand budded and brought forth fresh almonds the same rod when he cast it from him turn'd into a Serpent The living words of dying Prophets took hold of those refractaries in Zachary Zach. 1.6 and slew them Those two witnesses are by some interpreted to bee the two Testaments the Old and the New Gods giving power unto them is the authorizing of them They are cloathed in sackcloth that is disguised and obscured hidden from the vulgar they spet fire as it were and plague their enemies as the Arke did the Ekronites But who are they Saint Austin answers Ad●ersarius est nobis quamdiu sumus ipsi nobis quamdin tu tibi inin i● us et inimicum habebis sermenem Dei Aug. The Word of God is adversary to none but such as are adversaries to themselves and such as shall in that name have him for their utter enemy at length who shall come in flaming fire rendring vengeance to all that know not God 1 Thess 1.8 Math. 11.20 and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then shall hee shake such off as dust off his feet when they come to him for salvation and worthily for they have prejudged themselves already unworthy of eternall life Acts 13.46 because they have put away from them the Word of lift which they ought to have pul'd to them rather with both hands earnestly as David did Psal 119 48. and is therefore now triumphing in heaven as one that did not the will only but the Willes of God Acts 17. ●2 when others chose rather to do not the will but willes of the flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 2.2 and do therefore of the flesh reape corruption Gal. 6.8 Surely as the raine commeth down and the snow from Heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater So shall my Word bee that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not returne unto mee voyd but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it Esay 55.10 11 saith the Lord. Section 4. FOurthly are the Scriptures of God This may further informe us of their perfection and sufficiency to our salvation as proceeding from God Al-sufficient from whom comes every good gift and perfect giving All Scripture as it is given by divine inspiration so is it profitable to all purposes to teach truth convince error correct vice direct to vertue comfort under the crosse that the man of God Minister or other may be perfect and entire wanting nothing The Law of the Lord is perfect saith David 2 Tim. 3.16 Iam. 1.4 Psal 19.7 the whole book of God is perfect with an essentiall perfectiō every part thereof with an integral perfectiō This cannot be said of the law of nature