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A clavis to the Bible. Or A new comment upon the Pentateuch: or five books of Moses. Wherein are 1. Difficult texts explained. 2. Controversies discussed. ... 7. And the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious, pious reader. / By John Trapp, pastor of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire.
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Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
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thou shalt lend This was our condition in the happy dayes of that incomparable Elizabeth not to be passed over slightly without one sigh breathed forth now after 40 years in her sacred memory What a deal both of men and moneys did she lend the French the Hollanders c Vers 13. And the Lord shall make thee See a parallel place Hos 13.1 When Ephraim spake there was trembling he exalted himself in Israel but when he offended in Baal he dyed Before none durst budg against the name of Ephraim but after he offended in Baal every paltry adversary trampled upon him as a dead man So they did likewise upon Henry 4. of France ever victorious till he changed his religion till then Bonus orbi but after that Orbus boni as One wittily anagrammatized his name Borbonius Vers 15. All these ourses shall come Far more curses are mentioned then blessings Such is the baseness of our natures that we are sooner terrified with menaces then moved with mercies See we may here how the curse of God haunts the wicked as it were a fury in all his wayes In the City it attends him in the Country it hovers over him Coming in it accompanies him going forth it followes him and in travel it is his Commorade If it distaste not his dough or empty his basket yeâ— will it fill his store with strife or mingle the wrath of God with his sweetest morsels It is a moth in his wardrobe murrain among his cattle mildew in his field rot among his sheep and oft-times makes the fruit of his loyns his greatest beart-break so that he is ready to wish with Augustus Vtinà m aut coelebs vixissem aut orbus periissem O that I had either never married or dâ—ed childless Vers 21. The Lord shall make the pestilence Which Hipocrates calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the falling sickness is called Morbus sacer as more immediately sent of God Vers 22. The Lord shall smite thee c. See the Note on Levit. 26.16 Vers 24. Powder and dust Which the wind and other things raise in times of drought Vers 27. With the botch of Egypt i. e. with the leprosie called Elephantiasis when the skin grows hard as the Elephants skin This saith One was bred only about Nilus the river of Egypt Vers 28. With madness and blindness Spiritual especially such as befel the Jews of old Rom. 11.18 2 Cor. 3.14 the chief Priests and Scribes especially who being questioned by Herod about the King of the Jews Matth. 2.4 5. could answer directly out of the Scriptures and give such signs of the Messias as did evidently agree to Jesus Christ And yet because they discerned not their day of grace but winked hard with their eyes and shut the windows lest the light should come in they were by a special judgment so besotted and infatuated that when God shews them the man to whom their own signs agree they cannot allow of him nor will yield to be saved by him upon any tearms How shamefully they were deluded by Barchocab is notoriously known And after this when they saw Mahomet arising in such power they were straight ready to cry him up for their Messiah But when they saw him eat of a camel they were as blanck as when they saw the hoped issue of their late Jewish virgin turned to a daughter They are generally light aerial and fanatical brains apt to work themselves into the fools Paradise of a sublime dotage Howbeit God we trust will at length cure them of this spiritual ophthalmy and phrensie Their dispersion for this 1600 years is such as that one of their own Rabbines concludes from thence that their Messiah must needs be come and they must needs suffer so much for killing him Oh that the salvation of Israel were once come out of Sion When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel be glad Psal 14.7 Vers 29. And thou shalt be only oppressed As the Thebanes ever till then victorious were after the death of Epaminondas famous only for their overthrows As Rome since Antichristian was never besieged by an enemy but it was taken and plundered as the Jews since Christs death never attempted any thing but miscarried An evil an only evil c. Ezek. 7.5 Vers 30. Thou shalt build an house c. A great aggravation of a mans misery it is to fall from high hopes to fail of large expectations as Haman did and Absolom and Alexander the Great and Tamerlan who preparing to perfect his conquest of the Greek Empire and having given a good beginning thereunto in the midst of his high hopes and greatest power died of an ague Turk hist Jan. 27. 1462. Many men spend their strength and waste their wits in getting these outward things and in learning how to put them to their delightfullest use and then when to possess them might seem a happiness either they die or are otherwise deprived of all the sweet they have laboured for Vers 32. And thine eyes shall look A sad sight to see our children butchered before our eyes as Mauricius the Emperour did or otherwise misused by a merciless enemy Doves sometimes sit in their dove-cotes and see their nests destroyed their young ones taken away and killed before their eyes neither do they ever offer to rescue or revenge as all other creatures either do or desire to do And fail with looking As Sisera's mothers did Judg. 5.28 Vers 33. The fruit of thy land c. So Ezek. 25.4 They shall eat thy fruit and they shall drink thy milk See Ier. 5.17 1.7 Vers 34 35. So that thou shalt be mad c. As Bajazet was in his iron cage as Pope Boniface 8. was when shut up in St. Angelo by Sara Columnus his mortal enemy Turk hist Ibid. 126. renting himself with his teeth and devouring his own fingers Philip the Spanish King is said to have born patiently the defeat given to hâ—s invincible Armado in the year 88 but ten years after Cambd. Elisab he dyed of a very loathsome and incureable disease a sore botch that seized upon him from the sole of his foot unto the top of his head as is to be seen set down by Carol. Scribanius Instit Princip cap. 20. Vers 47. For the abundance of all things Aristotle was wont to tax his Athenians quòd cùm duas res invenissent Laert. l. 5. c. 1. frumenta ac leges frumentis uterentur legibus nequaquà m imò moribus suis quà m legibus uti mallent as Valerius Maximus addeth Sure it is that as these Jews of old so we to this day are much to be blamed for that we live in Gods good land but not by Gods good laws Vers 53. And thou shalt eat See the Note on Levit. 26.29 Vers 56. The tender and delicate These threatnings were tanquam in speculo conspicuae literally and punctually fulfilled upon the Jews at the last
raising of his Son Christ Eph. 1.19 to raise us from the death of sin and of carnall Esa 51.16 to make us a people created againe Psal 102.18 Doth he not plant the heavens and lay the foundation of the earth that he may say to Zion thou art my people Empty man would be wise saith Zophar Job 11.12 though man be born like a wild asse colt Mans heart is a meer emptiness a very Tohu vabohu as void of matter to maâ—e him a new creature of as the hollow of a tree is of heart of oake God therefore creates in his people cleane hearts Psal 50.10 and as in the first creation so in the new creature the first day as it were God works light of knowledge the second day the firmament of faith the third day seas and trees that is repentant tears and worthy fruits the fourth day Lightf Miscel the Sun joyning light and heat together heat of zeale with light of knowledge the fifth day fishes to play and foules to flye so to live and rejoyce in a sea of troubles and flye heaven-ward by prayer and contemplation The sixt day God makes beasts and man yea of a wild asse-colt a man in Christ with whom old things are past all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thess 4. And to whom besides that they are all taught of God the very beasts Esa 1.2 and birds Jer. 8.7 doe read a Divinity Lecture Aske now the beasts and they shall teach thee and the foules of the ayre they shall tell thee Anton. Eremita ap Aug. lib. 1. de doctr Christ Niceph. l. 8. c. 40 Clem. Alex. Job 12.8 The whole world is nothing else saith One but God expressed so that we cannot plead ignorance for all are or may be book learned in the creature This is the Shepherds Callender the Plowmans Alphabet we may run and read in this great book which hath three leaves Heaven Earth Sea A bruitish man knows not neither doth a foole understand this Psal 9 29. They stand gazing and gaping on the outside of things onely but asknot Who is their Father their Creator Like little children which when they finde a Picture in their booke they gaze and make sport with it but never consider it Either their mindes are like a clocke that is over wound above the ordinary pitch and so stands still their thoughts are amazed for a time they are like a blocke thinking nothing at all Esa 40.28 or else they think Atheistically that all comes by nature but hast thou not known saith the Prophet hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the Creator c. or at best as the common passenger looks onely at the hand of the Diall to see what of the clock it is but takes no notice of the clock-work within the wheels and poises and various turnings and windings in the work so it is here with the man that is no more then a meer naturall 1 Cor. 2.15 But he that is spirituall discerneth all things he entreth into the clock-house as it were and views every motion beginning at the great wheel and ending in the least and last that is moved He studies the glory of God revealed in this great book of Nature and prayseth his power wisdome goodness c. And for that in these things He cannot order his speech because of darkness Job 37.38 39. he begs of God a larger heart and better language and cryes out continually with David Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things And blessed be his glorious name for ever and eâ—er and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen and Amen Plal. 72.18 19. Verse 26. And God said Let us make man Man is the master-peece of Gods handy-work Sun Moon and Stars are but the workâ— of his fingers Psal 8.3 but man the work of his hands Psal 1â— 9.14 He is cura divini ingenii made by counsell at first Let us make c. and his body which is but the souls sheath Dan. 7.15 Animae vagina is still curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth that is in the womb Psal 139.15 with Eph. 4.9 as curious workmen when they have some choice peece in hand they perfect it in private and then bring it forth to light for men to gaze at Thine bands have mude me or took speciall pains about me and fashioned me saith Job Thou hast formed me by the book saith David Psal 139.16 Job 10.8 yea emâ—roidered me with nerves veyns and variety of limbs miracles enough saith One betwixt head and foot to fill a Volume Man saith a Heathen is the bold attempt of daring nature the faire workmanship of a wise Artificer saith another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trismegist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eurip. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xâ—noph Miraculorum omnium maximum Stoici Gal. lib. 3. de usu partium Lib. 11. 1â— The greatest of all miracles saith a third And surely should a man be born into the world but once in a hundred years all the world would run to see the wonder Sed miracula assiduitate vilescunt Galen that prophane man was forced upon the description of man and the parts of his body only to sing a hymn to the Creator whom yet he knew not I make here saith he a true hymn in the honour of our Maker whose service I beleeve verily consisteth not in the sacrificing of Hecatombs or in burning great heaps of Frankinsence before him but in acknowledging the greatness of his wisdome power and goodness and in making the same known to others c. And in another place Now is he saith Gallen which looking but only upon the skin of a thing wondreth not of the cunning at the Creator Yet notwithstanding he dissembleth not that he had tryed by all means to find some reason of the composing of living creatures and that he would rather have fathered the doing thereof upon Nature then upon the very Authour of Nature Lib. 15. And in the end concludeth thus I confesse that I know not what the soule is though I have sought very narrowly for it Favorinus the Philosopher Nibil in terra magnum prater bominâ—m nibil in homine praeter mentem Fav ap Gel. was wont to say The greatest thing in this world is Man and the greatest thing in man is his soule It is an abridgement of the invisible world as the Body is of the visible Hence man is called by the Hebrewes Gnolam haktaton and by the Greeks Microcosmus A little world And it was a witty essay of him who stiled woman the second Edition of the Epitome of the whole world The soule is set in the body of them both as a little god in this little world as Jehovah is a great God in the great world Whence Proclus the Philosopher could say that the