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A63067	A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: 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. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.; Trapp, Joseph, 1601-1669. Brief commentary or exposition upon the Gospel according to St John.	1647 (1647)	Wing T2042; ESTC R201354	792,361	772

son CHAP. XVI Verse 1. A 〈◊〉 rich man which had a Steward MAster 's had need look well 1. To the chusing of their servants Salomon saw Jeroboam that he was industrious and therefore without any respect at all to his Religion he made him 〈◊〉 over all the charge of the house of Joseph but to his 〈◊〉 disadvantage 〈◊〉 King 11. 28. with chapt 12. 3. 2. To the using of them Most men make no other use of their servants then they doe of their beasts whiles they may have their bodyes to doe their service they care not if their soules serve the Devill Hence they so 〈◊〉 prove false and 〈◊〉 Verse 2. Give an account of thy stewardship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putet said Cato Stewards should often account with their masters Verse 3. I cannot dig c. They that will get wisedome must both dig and beg Prov. 2. 3. 4. Verse 6. Take thy bill The scope of this parable is ut 〈◊〉 charitate erga pauperes compensemus saith Beza that we expiate as it were our prodigality by shewing mercy to the poore Dan 4. 27. Verse 8. And the Lord commended Gr. that Lord viz. the Steward Lord not the Lord Christ who relateth this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if we understand it of Christ as the Syriack here doth yet He herein no more approveth of this Steward 's false-dealing then he doth of the Vsurers trade 〈◊〉 5. 27. or the theeves 1 Thess. 5. 2. Or the dancers Matth. 11. 17. or the Olympick games 1 Cor. 9. 24. Because he had done wisely The worldlings wisedome serves him as the Ostriches wings to make him out-run others upon earth and in earthly things but helps him never a whit toward heaven Are in their generation wiser A swine that wanders can make better shift to get home to the trough then a sheepe can to the fold We have not received the spirit of this world 1 Cor. 2. 12. we cannot shift and plot as they can but we have received a better thing The fox is wise in his generation the serpent subtile so is the Devill too When he was but young he out-witted our 〈◊〉 parents 2 Cor. 11. 3. Then the children of light As the Angels are called Angels of light 2 Cor. 11. 14. Gods children are the onely earthly Angels have a Goshen in their bosomes can lay their hands on their hearts with dying Oecolampadius and say Hic sat lucis Verse 9. 〈◊〉 unto your selves friends quibus officia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 Testifie your faith by your workes that God of his free-grace may commend and 〈◊〉 you Of the Mammon of 〈◊〉 The next odious name to the Devill himselfe This Mammon of iniquity This wages of wickednesse is not gain but losse They may receive you That is that 〈◊〉 the Angels or 〈◊〉 riches or the poore may let you into heaven Verse 11. In the unrighteous 〈◊〉 or the uncertaine 〈◊〉 deceitfull wealth of this world which yet most rich men trust in as if simply the better or safer for their abundauce Hence 〈◊〉 derives Mammon from 〈◊〉 which signifieth to 〈◊〉 Verse 12. In that which is another 〈◊〉 Riches are not properly ours but Gods who hath entrusted us and who doth usually agssine them to the wicked those men of his hand for their portion Psal. 17. 14. for all the heaven that they are ever to look for Better things abide the Saints who are here but forreiners and must doe as they may Who shall give you that which is your owne Quod nec eripi nec 〈◊〉 potest Aristotle relateth a law like this made by 〈◊〉 That he that used not another mans horse well should 〈◊〉 owne Verse 14. And they derided him Gr. They blew their noses at him in scorne and derision They fleared and jeared when they should have feared and fled from the wrath to come Verse 15. For that which is highly esteemed c. A thing that I see in the night may shine and that shining proceed from nothing but rottennesse There may be malum 〈◊〉 in bona 〈◊〉 as in 〈◊〉 Zeale Two things make a good Christian good actions and good aymes And though a good ayme doth not make a bad action good as in Vzzah yet a bad ayme makes a good action bad as in 〈◊〉 whose justice was approved but his pollicy punished Verse 19. There was a certaine rich man Not once named as 〈◊〉 was though never so little esteemed of men God knew him by name as he did Moses when the rich mans name is written in the earth rottes above-ground is left for a reproach Which was clothed in purple c. Gr. was commonly so cloathed It was his every-dayes weare as the word implyeth Verse 20. A certaine beggar named Lazarus Or Eleazar as Tertullian and Prudentius call him who having beene Abrahams faithfull servant now resteth in his bosome Verse 21. And desiring to be fed with the crumbs Many poore folk have but prisoners pittances which will neither keepe them alive nor suffer them to dye The dogs came and licked his sores When Sabinus was put to death for whifpering against Seianus his dog lay down by his dead body brought to his mouth the bread that was cast to him And 〈◊〉 Sabinus was thrown into the river Tiber the dog 〈◊〉 after him to keepe him up that he might not sinke into the bottome Verse 22. Into Abrahams bosome A Metaphor from feasts say some from fathers say Others who imbosome and hug their children when wearied with long running-about or 〈◊〉 met with a knock and come crying unto them And was carried by the Angels Thorough the ayre the Devils region doe the Angels conduct the Saints at death who may therefore call death as Jacob did the place where he met the Angels Mahanaim Genes 32. 2. For like as the 〈◊〉 man was let down with his bed thorough the tiling before Jesus Luke 5. 18. so is every good soule taken up in an heavenly couch thorough the roofe of his house and carried into Christs presence by these heavenly Courtiers And was 〈◊〉 Possibly with as much noysome stench and hurry in the ayre as at Cardinall Wolseyes buriall A terrible example there is in the book of Martyrs of one Christopher 〈◊〉 an unmercifull Courtier who suffering a poore Lazar to dye in a 〈◊〉 by him did afterwards perish himselfe in a ditch Verse 23. Being in torments Having punishment without pity misery without mercy sorrow without succour crying without compassion mischeife without measure torments without end and past imagination Verse 24. And coole my tongue In his tongue he was most tortured quia plus lingua peccaverat saith Cyprian So Nestorius the heretick had his tongue eaten up with worms So Thomas Arundell Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester two notorious persecutors dyed with their tongues thrust out big-swollen and black

he might make sure work but God 〈◊〉 him I kept the ban-dogs at staves-end saith Nicol. Shetterden 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 c. Verse 17. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken Fulfilling of Prophecies is a-convincing argument of the divinity of the Scriptures Mises had fore-told that God should dwell between Benjamins shoulders This was fulfilled 440 years after when the Temple was set up in the Tribe of Benjamin so the prophecies of the coming of Christ and of Antichrist and others in the Revelation which we see daily accomplished Verse 18. Lamentation weeping and great mourning How impatient was Iacob in the losse of Ioseph David of 〈◊〉 c Grief for sin then which 〈◊〉 more deep and soaking is set forth by this unparalleld lamentation Zech. 12. 10. 〈◊〉 5. 4. 〈◊〉 are they that mourn as men do at the death of their dearest children But let such say to God as St 〈◊〉 adviseth a friend of his in like case Tulisti liberos 〈◊〉 ipse 〈◊〉 non contristor quod recepisti ago 〈◊〉 quod 〈◊〉 Thou hast taken away whom thou hadst given me I grieve not that thou hast taken them but praise thee Lord that was pleased to give them Rachel weeping That is 〈◊〉 in the way whereto Rachel died in child-birth and was buried Give me children or 〈◊〉 I die Give her children and yet she dies For her children Those dear pledges and pieces of our selves called Chari by the Latins and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks darlings in whom is all our delight Ezek 〈◊〉 24. 25. yet are they certain cares but uncertain comforts And would not be comforted This confutes him in Plautus that said Mulier nulla 〈◊〉 cordicitus ex animo These mourned beyound measure utterly refusing to be comforted by any fair words of the murtherers excusing the matter likely to the miserable mothers and promising amends from the King by some other means or by any other way But immoderate sorrow for losses past hope of recovery is more sullen then usefull our stomack may be bewrayed by it not our wisedom and although something we may yeeld to nature in these cases yet nothing to 〈◊〉 Because they were not A just judgement of God upon them for their unnaturallnesse to the Son of God whom they shut our into a stable The dullnesse and 〈◊〉 of these 〈◊〉 required thus to be raised and rowsed up as by the sound of a Trumpet or report of a Musket Happy for them if they had hearts to hear the rod and who had appointed it But we many times mistake the cause of our misery groping in the darke as the Sodomites crying out upon the instrument seldom reflecting our mindes being as ill set as our eyes we turn neither of them inwards Verse 19. But when 〈◊〉 was dead Not long after this butchery at Bethlehem he fell into a foul and 〈◊〉 disease whereof he died so did Sylla that bloudy man before him so did Maximinus and others after him Iohn de 〈◊〉 a cruell 〈◊〉 and Inquisitioner who used to fill 〈◊〉 boots with boyling grease and so putting them upon the leggs of those whom he examined to tie them backward to a form with their leggs 〈◊〉 down over a small fire c. was smitten by God with an incurable disease so loathsome that none could come nigh him so swarming with vermine and so rotten that the slesh fell away from the bones by peece-meal c. Twiford who was executioner of Frith Bayfeild Bainham Lambert and other good men died rotting above ground that none could abide him So did Alexander the cruell 〈◊〉 of New-gate and Iohn Peter his son in law who commonly when he would affirm any thing used to say If it be not true I pray God I rot ere I die Stephen Gardner rejoycing upon the news of the Bishops burnt at Oxford was suddenly ceized by the terrible hand of God as he sate at meat continuing for the space of 15 daies in such intolerable torment that he could not void by ordure or otherwise any thing that he received whereby his body being miserably inflamed who had inflamed so many good Martyrs before was brought to a wretched end his tongue hanging out all black and 〈◊〉 as Archbishop 〈◊〉 did 〈◊〉 him But to return to Herod when he saw he should die indeed that there might not be no mourning at his funerall he commanded the 〈◊〉 Nobility whom he had 〈◊〉 for that purpose in the Castle of 〈◊〉 to be all 〈◊〉 as soon as ever he was dead And being at point of death he 〈◊〉 his son Antipater to be executed in the prison whom but a 〈◊〉 afore he had declared heir of the Kingdom In November 1572. appeared a new Star in Cassiopeia and continued 16 〈◊〉 Theodor Beza 〈◊〉 applied it 〈◊〉 Mr 〈◊〉 to that Star at Christs birth and to the infanticide there and warned Charles 〈◊〉 9th to beware in this verse Tu verò Herodes sanguinolente time The fifth moneth after the vanishing of this Star the said Charles after long and grievous pains died of exceeding bleeding Constans fama 〈◊〉 illum dum è varijs corporis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 emanaret in lecto saepè volutatum inter horribilium 〈◊〉 diras tantam sangninis vim projecisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 post hor as mortuus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they say of the Devil go out with a 〈◊〉 Arius saith one voiding out his guts sent his soul as a harbinger to hell to provide room for his body He was brought to confusion by the prayers of Alexander the good Bishop of Constantinople and his death was precationis opus non morbi So likely was 〈◊〉 Behold an Angel Glad of an office to serve the Saints Heb. 1. 14. They rejoice more in their names of office then of honour to be called Angels Watchmen c. then Principalities powers c. It was long 〈◊〉 Ioseph heard from 〈◊〉 but Gods time he knew was the best And allthough he leave his people to their thinking yet he forsakes them not Not 〈◊〉 he doth 〈◊〉 saith the Author to the Heb. Verse 20. For they are 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 the young 〈◊〉 life God hid him as it were for a litle moment untill the indignation was 〈◊〉 So he did 〈◊〉 Baruch 〈◊〉 Luther in his Pathmos as he used to call the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 where when the Pope 〈◊〉 excommunicated him and the Emperour proscribed him the Lord put into the heart of the 〈◊〉 of Saxony to hide him for 〈◊〉 moneths In which 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 dyed the Emperour had his hands full of the French wars and the Church thereby obtained an happy Halcyon At which 〈◊〉 a pretty spectacle it was to behold Christ striving with Antichrist for 〈◊〉 For whatsoever the Pope and

daily over-flowed by the sea And it fell not Saving grace is unleesable though it may be impaired in the degrees and may recoyl to the root as sap doth in winter Christ lives in the hearts of all his Saints Gal. 2. 20. and can die no more Rom. 6. 10. Die he may as well at the right hand of his father as in the heart of a Christian. Object A weak brother for whom Christ died may perish 1 Cor. 8. 11. Sol. No thank to us if he do not who by scandalous courses offend and wound his conscience but Christ will not lose him so Object There are that deny the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2. 1. Sol. Bought they were by Christ in their own conceit and in the esteem of others but it proved otherwise Or they were bought that is delivered in a generall sense so the word here used often signifieth from their superstition to the knowledge of salvation I say not to saving knowledge whereby they might preach to others themselves being cast-awaies God hath charged Christ as Mediatour to see to the keeping of the bodies and souls of all true believers Joh. 6. 39. 40. And he faithfully performed it Those thou gavest me I have kept saith he and none of them is lost Joh. 17. 12. Christ makes exception of one that was lost Ibid. That shews he was never of his body for can he be a Saviour of a son of perdition Why is he then excepted 1. Because he seemed to be one of Christs by reason of his office 2. He speaketh there in particular of the twelve and to be an Apostle was in it self but an outward calling Christians may lose the things that they have wrought Joh. 2. 8. 1. Temporaries may and doe and of them it may be understood verse 9. 2. True Christians may 1. In respect of the praise of men All their former honour may be laid in the dust 2. In regard of the inward sense and comfort as David Psal. 32. 51. 3. In respect of the fulnesse of the reward in heaven their glory may be much lessened by their fals A righteous man may turn from his righteousnesse and die Ezek. 18. 24. From his righteousnesse imparted or that of sanctification he may turn in part and for a time and die a temporall death for his offence as Josiah Not so from his righteousnesse imputed or that of justification so as to die eternally Or the holy Ghost may so speak as of a thing impossible as if an Angel from heaven should preach any other Doctrine c. which cannot possibly be So that this text concludes not categorically The Comforter shall abide with us for ever Joh. 14. 16. It is called an earnest not a pawn A pawn is to be returned again but an earnest is part and pledge of the whole sum What need then so many exhortations to perseverance 1. True grace in it self is leesable in respect of us who should fall from it as Adam but we are kept by the power and promise of God to salvation and we need Christs left-hand to be under us and his right-hand over us to clasp and hold us up He keepeth the feet of the Saints and preserves us from all such evil as may frustrate our perseverance 2 Thess. 3. 3. 1 Joh. 5. 18. 2. By these exhortations as means Gods grace is promoted and preserved in us 3. We are but in part renued and are apt to backflide if we row not hard winde and tide will carry us back again Heed therefore must be taken that we look not back with Lots wife that our Jacobs-ladder may reach to heaven that our oyl fail not till the bride-groom come that our coat reach down to our heels as Josephs and the high-Priests did that we sacrifie the beast with the tail that we keep in this fire of the Sanctuary or if it slackt that we rake it out of the ashes and blow it up again into a flame that we turn not again as we walk with those living creatures Ezek 1 12. nor be like Nebuchadnezzars image that began in gold and ended in clay that we begin not in the spirit and end in the flesh that we go not backward as Hezekiahs Sun nor stand at a stay as Joshuah's but rejoyce to runne our race as Davids and goe on to the perfect day as Ioshuah's c. Verse 26. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not c. Which is the greater number of hearers For most men hear to hear and not to practise Some hear meerly of form or for fashion sake or to save the penalty of the Statute or to finde some Recipe to procure a sleep or to still the clamours of their consciences or to make amends and purchase dispensation for some beloved lust as Herod Or expecting from the preacher some choice novelty as 〈◊〉 3. 8. some deep point 〈◊〉 12. 37. or dainty expressions as Ezek. 33. 32. Or they 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Act. 17. 32. Hear and carp as Doeg hear and resist the holy Ghost Act. 7. Or at least are no whit wrought upon whether we pipe or lament to them Or if they hear and admire as those Matth. 22. 22. yet they amend nothing or but for a season as the stony-ground they are hearers of forgetfulnesse Jam. 〈◊〉 25. like hour-glasses they are no sooner full but 〈◊〉 out again like nets or sives they retain only the chaff or weeds let go the pure water and good corn The Word runs 〈◊〉 them 〈◊〉 water thorow a riven 〈◊〉 that 's the Apostles metaphor Heb. 2. 1. or as that which is written upon moist paper as others will have it A generall cause of our not practising what we hear is that we put this spirituall treasure into broken bags this 〈◊〉 liquour into leaking 〈◊〉 Whereas our souls should be as the Ark and our memories as the pot of Mannah to retain what we have received that we may have it ready for 〈◊〉 as Saul had his cruse and spear at his head and David his scrip and stones ready by his side A heavy ear is a 〈◊〉 judgement Isa. 6. 10. but a slow heart and a heavy hand to conceive and do what we hear paves a way to remedilesse misery besides the fool to boot which the Judge here putteth upon him Shall be likened unto a foolish man And he is a fool indeed whom Christ calleth fool Conscionable hearers are counted good men God wot but simple silly and of no parts But wisdome is justified of her children To walk precisely is to walk wisely 〈◊〉 5. 15. And he that 〈◊〉 and guideth his feet in the way is wife Prov 23. 19. And Who is a wise man amongst you and endued with knowledge Let him shew out of a good conversation his works c. Ja. 3. 13. All others