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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

No money here bears no mastery Act. and Mon. 〈◊〉 925. Verse 12. Blessed is the man Provided that God teach him as well as chastise him Ps 94.12 instruct him as well as correct him See my Love-tokens par 2. He shall receive the crown A man can be content to have his head broken with a bag of gold so he may have it when it s done Verse 13. I am tempted of God The inclination of mans heart to good is of it self and properly of God as light is of the Sun His inclination to evil is by accident only of God like as darknesse is of the Sun-set by accident being properly not of the Sun but of the earth Verse 14. Drawn away of his lust Satan hath only a perswading ●l●●ght 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not an ●●f●rcing might Our own concupiscence carries the greatest stroke And entised As the silly fish is by the bait covering the hook being first drawn aside into the clear water Verse 15. When lust hath conceived As the plot of all diseases lies in the humours of the body so of all sin in the l●st of the soul There is in it a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a tacite consent a seed-plot of all sin Emp●doclis vocabu um apud A●istot The Papists say but falsly that it 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 lesse There are also of ours that say That it is not forbidden by the law but sure we are it is cursed and condemned and therefore forbidden by the Law Verse 16. Do not erre Winder not as wandering starres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Jude 13. by seeking to father your faults upon God as Adam did Gen. 3.12 Verse 17. Every good gift c. An Hexameter verse in the Greek as little intended perhaps by the Apostle as the first line in Tacitus which yet may be scanned a long verse And perfect giving Not temporals only which are good Gifts but spirituals also those perfect givings The greatest excellencies in us do as much depend upon G●● as the effigies in the glass● doth upon the face that causeth it or as the light doth upon the Sunne that father of all the light in the lower world With whom is no variablenesse No Parallax 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as there is with the Sun when he d●clines and leaves us darkling This word notes the Suns motion from East to West as the following word 〈◊〉 turning notes his motion every year from North to South that which the Apostle would here assent is that God tempts no man to evil because he is unchangeably good and can be no other Verse 18. Of his own will begat ●e us Gr. Brought he us forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a speciall instance of his free grace and fatherly goodnesse Ephes 1.4 5. Verse 19. Swift to hear Reaching after that word of truth the Gospel ver 18. and drinking it 〈◊〉 as the dry earth doth the dew of heaven Life doth now enter in to the soul at the ear as at first death did Gen. 3. Slow to speak We reade oft He that hath an ear to hear let him hear but never He that hath a tongue to speak let him speak for this we can doe fast enough without bidding Slow to wrath Slow to snuffe at those that reprove you See the Note on Heb. 13.22 Rage not when touched though to the quick Verse 20. Exod. 32. Mark 6. For the wrath of man Unlesse it be as Moses and Christs anger was pure and free from guile and gall prompting us to pity and pray for the party Verse 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All filthinesse Gr. The stinking filth of a pestilent ulcer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sinne is the devils vomit the souls excrement the superfluity or garbage of naughtinesse as it is here called by an al●usion to the garbage of the sacrifices cast into the brook Kidron that is into the Town-ditch Retentio excrementorum est parens morborum Out with it therefore Receive with meeknes It is ill sowing in a storm so a stormy spirit will not suffer the Word to take place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The engraffed word Engraffed upon the heart as the science upon the stock or sowed in the soul and mingled with faith that it may bring forth fruit to God Verse 22. Isidor l. 11. c. 3. And not hearers only The Panotij in Scythia are said to have such large ears as that therewith they cover their whole bodies Such are our hearers only Deceiving your own souls Either as by false reckoning or false reasoning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 23. His naturall face Gr. The face of his nativity that wherewith he was born into the world Verse 24. Straightway forgetteth Naturalists make mention of a certain creature called Cervarius that though he be feeding never so hard and hungerly if he cast but back his head he forgets immediately the meat he was eating and runs to look after new Verse 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whoso looketh into c. As into a glasse wishtly and intently with the body bowed down Get thee Gods law as a glasse to ●oot in Ser. of repent saith M. Bradford So shalt thou see thy face foul arraied and so shamefully sawcy mangy pocky and scabbed that thou canst not but be sorry at the contemplation thereof It is said of the Basilisk that if he look into a glasse he presently dieth Sin doth Physitians in some kinde of unseemly convulsions wish the patient to view himself in a glasse which will help him to strive the more when he shall see his own deformity So reflect c. Not a forgetfull hearer Some are as hour-glasses no sooner turned up but running out immediately Verse 26. But deceiveth The heart first deceiveth us with colours and when we are once a doating after sin then we j●yn and deceive our hearts by fallacious reasonings Verse 27. And widdows A vine whose root is uncovered thrives not a widdow whose covering of eyes is taken away joyes not CHAP. II. Verse 1. The Lord of glory OR Have not the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ c. Faith is a glorious grace indeed With respect of persons i. e. Of their outward quality or conditions as rich poor of this side or that c. Zanchy relates of a certain Frenchman a friend of his and a constant hearer of Calvins at Geneva Zanch Miscel praesat that being sollicited by him to hear Viret an excellent Preacher who preached at the same time that Calvin did he answered If S. Paul himself should preach here at the same hour with Calvin Ego relicto Paulo aud●r●m Calvinum I would

Dogs in a chafe will bark sometimes at their own masters But as an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear Such shall sinde more favour afterwards Prov. 25.12 Prov. 28.13 then one that flattereth with his lips 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dio in Augusto Mercurium a Deo missum qui 〈◊〉 i● admon●●t Bees passe by roses and violets to sit upon time so godly men rather heed sound rebukes then smooth supparasitations David esteemed better of Nathan after he had so plainly rebuked him then ever he did before See else 1 King 1.23 27. Nay Augustus an Heathen prized plain-dealing in Mecaenas and others Epictetus called a faithfull Monitour a messenger from heaven When Luther was one time very much moved at something Melancthon interrupted and quieted him by repeating this verse Vince animos iramque tuam qui caetera vincis Next to the not deserving a reproof Manlij loc com pag 248. is the well-taking of it The woman of Samaria loves Christ the better for finding her out in her sin The two disciples going to Emaus constrain Christ to come in and eat with them Luk. 24. though he had roundly reproved them being for ought they knew a meer stranger and one that had nothing to do with them As young Eaglets are known to be of the right kinde by their stedfast eying of the Sun so are the true children of the Church by the right bearing of reproof Iam 1 19 20. Vse 3 Exhortation Learn and labour to be able active and abundant in this Christian duty of admonition The Romans were full of goodnesse filled with knowledge able to admonish one another Rom 15.14 The Hebrews are exhorted to exhort one another daily Heb. 3.13 yea to study one ●●other to stir up or whet on to love and good works And the Colossians must teach and admonish one another Feb. 10. ●●● Col. 3 16. and that in the words of Christ dwelling richly in them that out of the good treasure of the heart they may draw forth good things new and old as there is occasion Exhort one another with these words saith Paul And have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but reprove them rather 1 Thess 4.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 5.11 13. or refute refell convince them to be naught by the clear light of Gods Word For all things that are rightly reproved are made manifest by this light To quicken you hereunto consider 1. That God shall be greatly glorified 2. Sin either restrained or justly aggravated 3. Weak Christians shall be kept from being scandalized strong from being grieved 4. Your selves hereby shall be both engaged to doe that whereof you have admonished another and comforted in the discharge of your duty the omission whereof doth oft grieve the good heart and vex the conscience As it fell out in that faithfull and famous man of God Mr Sam. Hiron whose words were these upon his death-bed A relation of the manner of M. Hir●ns death annexed to the first volume of his works I confesse that in publike I have been somewhat full in reproof in admonitio● in instruction But in private my backwardnes my bashfulnes my dastardlines hath been intolerable And I may truly say that if any thing lies as a burden upon my conscience this is it Now for your direction that old rule for matter of Alms holds good in this of admonition which is a species of spirituall Alms. Est modus in dando Quis Quid Cui Quomodo Quando Here then take notice 1. Who must admonish 2. For what Rules to be observed in admonishing others 3. Whom 4. How 5. When. First Who must warn the unruly All without exception the precept is generall Levit. 19.17 Ezek. 1.30 Turn ye and turn others Besides we are all a kingdom of Priests Rev. 1.6 have all received an ointment 1 Ioh. 2.20 which must smell all Gods house over Women must not preach yet the elder must teach the younger to be sober Tit. 3. Ministers must admonish of authority all others of sociall charity they that are spirituall especially Gal. 6.1 and children of light Eph. 5.13 Next See whereof we must warn others and for what reprove them Not for foul sins only and hainous offences but for disorders as here and inordinate walking 2 Thess 3.11 be it but idlenesse talkativenesse pragmaticalnesse censorīousnesse c. For 1. Small motes in the Saints are made great beams by the wicked their least aberrations as of stars is soon observed and noticed Isa 19.21 They watch for my halting saith Ieremy Make a man an offender for a word saith Isaiah 2 Lesser evils tolerated make way for greater Cain not taking Gods reproof for frowns fell afterwards to murder Only let it be remembred that sins of infirmity must be more gently handled as those of pride and presumption more sharply and with severity Tit. 1.15 Iude 22 23. When our Saviour Samson-like drove those money-merchants out of his Fathers house with a scourge of small cords only as he the Philistims once with the jaw-bone of an asse he dealt more gently with those that sold doves He poured not out their money nor threw down their tables as he had done the rest but gently said unto them Take these things hence Joh. 1.15 16. c. He knew them belike not to be so great sinners he found them more tractable and easie to be wrought upon Hence his different dealing Thirdly Whom are we to admonish 1. Not those without the visible Church 1 Cor. 5.11 12. Reproof is a piece of ecclesiasticall government● 2. Not dogs and swine Mat. 7.6 mad dogs sensuall swine that either grunt against goodnesse or furiously flie in the face of such as fairly tell them of their faults Rebuke a scorner and he will hate thee such he means as have wearied themselves so long in standing and walking in wicked waies that now they are set down at rest in scorners chair Prov. 9. refusing to be reformed hating to be healed These are not worth the warning But for all others see that ye suffer not sin upon them for fear favour affection or what other sinister end soever Only reprove equals with friendly admonition superiours with submisse exhortation inferiours by sharp reprehension or if need be correction Ob. Rebuke not an elder 1 Tim. 5.1 Sol. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ne plagam infligas verbera lingu● Hor. Not as a puny-boy as the word signifies but mildly c. else see v. 19 20 Ob. I love not to meddle Be not many masters Iam. 3.1 Sol. No medling in this case is a kinde of soul-murthering Ob. It is a thanklesse office Sol. Not with the wise Prov. 9.8 28.23 In the sweating-sicknesse they that were kept awake escaped but the sicknesse was deadly to them that were suffered to sleep Let us keep one another awake an unpleasing

in tents and tended h●ards had Iubal to his brother the father of musick Iabal and Iubal industry and plenty not without sweet content dwell together Verse 15. But I would not have c. Ignorance is the mother of mistake and of caussesse trouble of errour and of terrour as the Roman souldiers were once mu●n affrighted at the sight of the Moons ●clipse till the Generall had undeceived by a discourse of the naturall cause thereof That ye sorrow not Non est lugendus qui moritur sed desideranaus faith Tertullian Abraham mourned moderately for 〈◊〉 decased wife Gen. 23.2 as is imported by a small caph in the word ●ocothab to weep So did David for the childe born in adultery though for Absolom he exceeded It is one of the dues of the dead to be lamented at their funerals But Christians must know a measure and so water their plants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 as that they drown them not Even as others which have no hope Lugeatur mortuus sed ille quem gehenna suscipit qu●m Tartarus devorat c. Let that dead man be lamented whom hell harboureth whom the devil d●vou●●th c. But let us whose departed ●ouls Angels accompany Christ imbosometh and all the Court of heaven comes forth to welcome account mortality a mercy and be grieved that we are so long detained here from the company of our Christ faith Hierom. Verse 14. Sleep in Iesus Dead in Christ The union then is not dissolved by death But as by sleep the body is refreshed so by death it is refined Let our care be to cleave clo●e to Christ in the instant of death so shall he be to us both in life and death advantage Verse 15. By the word of the Lord Or In the word c. in the self-same words that the Lord used to me probably when I was rapt up 2 Cor. 12.2 4. and heard wordlesse words Shall not prevent them They shall rise e●e we shall be rap● and as they have been before us in death so shall they be in glory Now priority is a priviledge Verse 16. With a shout Ingenti Angelorum jubilo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acclamatione saith Arctius With a huge applause and acclamation of angels such as is that of Mariners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when near the haven Italiam Italiam laeto clamore salutans or that of souldiers when to joyn battle with the enemy And with the trump of God To require the law in manner as it was given Mount Sinai only was then on a slame but now the whole world c. Then God came with ten thousands of his Saints but now thousand thousands shall minister to him and ten thousand thousands shall stand before him Verse 17. Then we which are alive He speaketh thus of himself as alive at Christs coming because we should daily expect it and even hasten to it Shall be caught up together This is that mystery mentioned 1 Cor. 15.51 and not till now made known to the world See the Note there In the clouds As Christ also ascended Acts 1. These be the waggons and charriots that Christ will send for us as Ioseph set his fathers family down to Aegypt And so shall we ever be c. O● blessed hour O thrice happy union Nothing ever came so near it as the meeting of Iacob and Ioseph or of those two cousins Mary and Elizabeth Luk. 1. Verse 18 Wherefore comfort c. Scripture-comforts come home to the heart so do not philosophicall Nescio quomodo saith Cicero 〈◊〉 medicina morbo est imbecillior M●●ch Adam 〈…〉 And albeit it is m●rvellous sweet to meditate as Mr Knox found it on his death-bed so that he would have risen and gone into the pulpit to tell others what be had felt in his soul yet there is a speciall force of strong consolation in Christian communication which the Lord usually wa●●reth with the dews of divine blessing CHAP. V. Verse 1. But of the times and the seasons VVHen Christ shall come to judgement this is to be reckoned inter arcana imperij See the Note on Mat. 24 36. The times and the seasons God hath put in his own power Act. 1.7 This is a key that he keepeth under his own girdle Verse 2. The day of the Lord That day by a speciality Luk. 21.34 that great day Revel 6.17 that day of the declaration of Gods just judgement Rom. 2.5 16. that day of Christ 2 Thess 2.2 of God 2 Pet. 3.13 where in he will shew himself to be God of Gods and Lord of Lords As a thief in the night Who giveth no warning Mat. 24.43 See the Note there Verse 3. For when they shall say Security is the certain usher of destruction as in Benhadads army and Pompeys before the Pharsalian field Some of them contended for the Priesthood which was Caesars office others disposed of the Consulships and offices in Rome as if all were already their own Pompey ●●mself being so wretchedly wre●chlesse that he never considered into what place he were best to retire if he lost the day Then shall sudden destruction As Philosophers say that before a snow the weather will be warmish when the winde lies the great rain fals and the air is most quiet when suddenly there will be an earthquake Verse 4. Should overtake you as a thief Though it come upon you as a thief in a time uncertain Free you are from the destruction of that day though not altogether free from the distraction of it till somewhat recollected you remember that now your redemption draweth nigh Hence the Saints love Christs appearing 2 Tim. 4 8. Look for it with stretcht-out necks and long after it Rev. 22.20 Verse 5. We are not of the night c. Qu. Curtius Alexander willed that the Grecians and Barbarians should no longer be distinguished by their garments but by their manners so should the children of light and of darknesse Verse 6. As doe others What wonder that the Grecians live loosly faith Chrysostome but that Christians do so this is worse yea intolerable But let us watch and be sober We must not be like Agrippa's dormouse that would not awake till cast into boiling lead Comment i● Di●●cor or Matthiolus his asses fed with hemlock that lie for dead and are half hileded ere they can be arroused But rather we should resemble Aristotle and others who were wont to sleep with brazen balls in their hands which falling on vessels purposely set on their beds sides the noise did disswade immoderate sleep Verse 7. Are drunk in the night But now alas drunkennesse is become a noon-day devil Drunk ●up by M. Harris Once Peters argument saith a reverend Divine was more then probable These men are not drunk for it is but the third hour of the day Now men are grown such husbands as that by that time they will return their stocks and have their brains crowing before day

and there by a further concoction bebecometh white and nourishethe it And as milk from the brests is more effectually taken then when it ha●h stood a while and the spirits are gone out of it So the word preached rather then read furthereth the souls growth Verse 3. If so be ye have tasted As babes taste the milk they take down Isa 66.11 We are bid to suck and be satisfied with the brests of consolation to presse and oppresse the promises till we have expressed and even wrung the sweetnesse out of them This will make us even sick of love our sleep will be pleasant unto us and our hearts filled with gladnesse The Saints taste how good the Lord is and thence they so long after him Optima demonstratio est a sensibus as he that feels fire hot and that tastes honey sweet can best say it is so Verse 4. As unto a living stone Living and all quickning as Act. 7.38 Lively that is life-giving oracles He that hath the Son hath life 1 Joh. 5.12 Disallowed indeed of men for the Cock on the dung-hill knoweth not the price of this jewel And precious In vita Apol. l 3. c. 14. Alsted Chronel p. ●09 Far beyond that most orient and excellent stone Pantarbe celebrated by Philostratus or that precious adamant of Charls Duke of Burgundy sold for 20000 duckets and set into the Popes triple-crown Verse 5. Ye also as lively stones Gods house is built of growing stones of green timber Cant. 1. To offer up spirituall sacrifices Such as are praiers Psal 141.2 Praises Heb. 13.5 Alms Heb. 13.16 Our selves Rom. 12.1 Our Saviour whom we present as a propitiation for our sins 1 Joh. 2.1 laying our hands on his head seeing him bleed to death and consumed in the fire of his Fathers wrath for our sins Verse 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wherefore it is contained The Jews were so well versed in Scripture that in quoting of texts there was need to say no more to them then It is Written It is contained c. they could tell where to turn to the place presently And this was a great furtherance to the conversion of many of them by the preaching of the Apostles Shall not be confounded the Hebrew text hath it Shall not make haste Isa 28.16 Haste makes waste as we say and oft brings confusion Children pull apples afore they are ripe and have worms bred of them Verse 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is precious Gr. He is a price or an honour If you had not found all worth in him you would never have sold all for him Verse 8. And a rock of offence Like that rock Judg. 6.21 out of which comes fire to consume the reprobate Which stumble at the Word An ill sign and yet an ordinary sinne Verse 9. But ye are a chosen generation A pickt people the dearly beloved of Gods soul such as he first chose for his love and then loves for his choice Aroiall Priesthood Or as Moses hath it Exod. 20.6 kingdome of Priests Priests Gods people are in respect of God Kings in respect of men The righteous are Kings M●●ny righteous men have d fired c. saith Matthew chap. 13.17 Many Kings saith Luke chap 10 24. Indeed they are somewhat obscure Kings here as was Melchisedech in the Land of Canaan but Princes they are in all lands Psal 45.16 and more excellent then their neighbours let them dwell where they will Prov. 12.26 A peculiar people Gr. A people of purchase such as comprehend as it were all Gods gettings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his whole stock that he makes any great reckoning of Shew forth the praises Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Preach forth the vertues by our suitable practice the picture of a dear friend should be hung up in a conspicuous place of the house so should Gods holy image and grace in our hearts Verse 10. Which in time past Were not If Plato thought it such a mercy to him that he was a man and not a woman a Grecian and not a Barbarian a scholar to Socrates and not to any other Philosopher what exceeding great cause have we to praise God that we are born Christians not Pagans Protestants not Papists in these blessed daies of Reformation c Verse 11. As pilgrims and strangers Excellently doth Justin Martyr describe the Christians of his time ●pist ●● Ding they inhabit their own countries saith he but as strangers they partake of all as Citizens and yet suffer all as forraigners every strange land is a Countrey to them and every countrey a strange land And strangers abstain Thoughts of death will be a death to our lusts Lam. 1.9 Her filthinesse is in her skirts and all because she remembreth not her last end As the stroaking of a dead hand on the belly cureth a tympany and as the ashes of a viper applied to the part that is stung draws the venome out of it so the thought of death is a death to sin From fleshly lusts Those parts in our bodies that are the chiefest and nearest both subjects and objects of lust and concupiscence are like unto the dung-gate 1 Chron. 26 16. whereby all the fil●h was cast out of the Temple God hath placed them in our bodies like snakes creeping out of the bottome of a dung-hill and abased them in our eyes that we might make a base account and estimation of the desires thereof as one well observeth Which warre against the soul Only man is in love with his own bane beasts are not so and sights for those lusts Ca●ell of temptation that fight against the soul And whereas some might say that other lusts fight against the soul as well as fl●shly lusts it is answered that other lusts fight against the graces but these more against the peace of the soul Verse 12. Having your conversation honest Leading convincing lives the best arguments against an Atheist adversary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They speak evil of you See the Note on Mat. 5.11 Which they shall behold Whiles they pry and spie into your courses as the Greek word imports to see what evil they can finde out and fasten on In the day of visitation When God shall effectally call and convert them See the Note on Ma 5 16. Verse 13. Full. answ to D Fern. Submit to every ordinance That is Although the Ordinance or Government in the manner of its constitution be from man yet because of the necessity of its institution it is from God submit to it though of man for the Lords sake Verse 14. Or unto Governours In the kingdome of Christ this is wonderfull Miseel ●p ded saith Zanchy that he wils and commands all Princes and Potentates to be subject to his Kingdome and yet he wils and commands likewise that his Kingdome be subject to the Kingdoms of the world Verse 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ye may put to silence Gr. Muzzle

with God said one concerning Luther See the Note on Joh. 15.16 Verse 16. Act. and Mon. sol 46. A sinne which is not unto death when John Frith and Andrew Hewet were at the stake Dr Cook openly admonished all the people that they should in no wise pray for them no more then they would do for a dog At which words Frith smiling desired the Lord to forgive him There is a sinne unto death That unpardonable sin of doing despite to the Spirit of grace Rockwood a chief persectour at Callice in the daies of Henry the 8. to his last breath staring and raging cried the was utterly damned And being willed to ask God mercy Ibid. 1119. he braied and cried our All too late for I have sought maliciously the deaths of a number of the honestest men in the town whom I knew to be so All too late therefore All too late Verse 17. There is a sin not unto death All fins and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the holy Ghost c. See the Note on Mat. 12.31 32. Verse 18. Sinneth nor sc That sin to death v. 16. not other sins as other men do See the Note on Chap. 3.9 And that wicked one toncheth him not viz. Tactu qualitativo as Cajetan expoundeth it with a deadly touch he thrusts not in his sting so far as to infuse the venome of that sin that is properly his sin Joh. 8.44 and with which he toucheth their spirits that become the serpents feed Verse 19. Lieth in Wickednesse As a lubber in a lake as a carcase in its slime In fermento tota jacet uxor saith he in Plautus This people is wholly set upon Wickednesse said Aaron Exod. 32.22 is under the power and vassallage of the devil Nil mundum in mundo Verse 20. And we know This he brings in here for a corollary and conclusion of all Verse 21. Keep your selves from idols Negatively at least as those 7000 in Israel that had not bowed their knees to Baal if not positively by open declaration of your utter dislike as did Daniel and his associates A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the second Epistle of S. IOHN CHAP. I. Verse 1. The Elder to the elect Lady SAlmeron the Jesuite saith but very absurdly that Seneca's letters to S. Paul and S. Pauls to Seneca as they are called are for matter not much unlike this of S. John to the elect Lady and to Gaius and that of S. Paul to Philemon Judicium sit penes lectorem Me thinks they are no more like then harp and harrow Verse 3. For the truths sake This is the love that will hold again and is a sure signe of love unfained when it is thus well founded Sinisterity is opposite to sincerity Some love the Saints as Isaac loved Esau for the venison that he brought him c. Verse 3. Grace be with you c. This blessing belongs not only to the Lady and her children but to all that rightly reade and hear the words of this Epistle Revel 1.3 Verse 4. I rejoyced greatly This cheared up his good old heart more then any outward respects or courtesies whatsoever See 1 Thess 3.8 Walking in the truth Not taking a step or two not breaking or leaping over the hedge to avoid a piece of foul way but persisting in a Christian course c. not starting aside to the right hand or the left Verse 5. That we love c. God laies no other commands upon us then what we may perform by love that lightneth and sweetneth all His subjects and souldiers are all voluntiers Psal 110.3 Verse 6. As ye have heard He studiously declines the suspition of novelty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the Note on 1 John 2.7 Verse 7. For many deceivers Gr. Cheaters cozeners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as can cog a die to deceive the unskilfull Ephes 4 14. cast a mist to delude even the quick-sighted Verse 8. That we lose not c. The godly when they fall into foul courses or grow remisse and leave their first love may lose what they have wrought 1. in respect of the praise of men 2. In respect of their own former feelings of Gods favour 3. In respect of the fulnesse of their reward in heaven The Nazarite that broke his vow was to begin all anew Numb 6. Verse 9. Hath not God And so consequently hath nothing Aug. Bern. Habec omnia qui habet habentem omni ● He hath all that hath the Haver of all But sine Deo omnis copiaest egestas Plenty without God becomes penury The wicked for want of God in the fulnesse of his sufficiency is in straits Iob 20.22 as he that hath God for his portion in the fulnesse of his straits is in a sufficiency Verse 10. And bring not this doctrine If he hold not the foundation but be found heterodox and hereticall Receive him not c. Illam domum in qua fuerit inventus hareticus diruend●m decernimus Down with that house that harbours an heretike said the Councel of Tholouse in their Constitution against the Albigenses whom they mistook for heretikes Neither bid him God speed Shew not love where you ow nothing but hatred I hate every false way saith David And I shall look upon Auxentius as upon a devil so long as he is an Arrian said Hilarius Verse 11. Is partaker of his evil 1. By his sinfull silence and dissimulation 2. Next by confirming the sinner in his evil way 3. Lastly by offence given to others Verse 12. That our joy may be full See saith one an Apostle furthered and quickned by the graces of a woman When such Grandees in grace have benefit by communion of Saints how much more they whose measures are lesse Verse 13. The children of thine elect Who probably sojourned with S. Iohn for education-sake The Lady might say to the Apostle as he in Virgil did to Aeneas sub te toler are magistr● Militiam tua cernere facta Assuescant primis te mirentur ab annis A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the third Epistle of S. IOHN Verse I. Vnto the well-beloved Gaius ARich Corinthian rich in this world and rich in good works A rare bird at Corinth especially Rom 16.23 1 Cor. 1.14 where Saint Paul found them the richer the harder and farre behinde the poor Macedonians in works of charity Verse 2. That thou maist prosper Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That thou maist make a good voiage of it and come-safe and sound to thy journeys end Even as thy soul prospereth By the blessing of him that dwelt in the bush Deut. 31.16 Now the soul prospereth when it hath close communion with God and enjoyes the light of his loving countenance preferring his favour before the worlds warm Sunne Verse 3. Testified of the truth This was their ingenuity thus at least to requite their Host by giving testimony of his liberality Verse 4. I have no greater joy

shall be the finest prey the greatest sinners the sorest sufferers CHAP. XX. Verse 1. And I saw an Angel COnstantine the great the Churches male-childe Chap. 12. Having the key Not that key Chap. 9.1 but another A great chain The succession of Christian Emperours Verse 2. And he laid hold on the Dragon Chap. 12.7 9. He took him in a field-fight and since then till now we have heard little of him more then that he substituted the Beast Chap. 13. whose destruction being declared the prophecy returns to shew the judgment of the Dragon And bound him From the open slaughtering of the Saints as he had done by the Heathen Emperours for from molesting and mischieving of Gods people other wise he is not bound one hour Job 1. 1 Pet. 5.8 And how his vicegerent the Beast hath bestirred him during the thousand years who knows not A thousand years Hos explicare fat●or trepidè m● aggredi saith Pareus He begins the thousand at the destructi●n of the Temple anno 73. and so it ends in Pope Hildebrand who stept into that chair of pestilence anno 1073. Others begin it at the birth of Christ and end in Silvester 2. Others at Christs passion and end in Benedict 9. But they do best in my opinion that begin at Constantine and end in Boniface the 8. who is of his own said to have entered like a fox raigned as a Lion and died as a dog He excommunicated the French King and published this decree That the Bishop of Rome ought to be judged of none although he should carry innumerable souls with him to hell Verse 3. And cast him into the bottomlesse pit That is into the earth Chap. 12.9 12. Chap. 13.11 the earth is the bottomlesse pit out of which the Beast was raised by the Dragon Deceive the Nations The Gentiles by defending Gentilisme and hindering the course of the Gospel amongst them And after that the must be losed He must because God hath so decreed it for the glory of his own name in the defence of his people but destruction of his enemies As also that the devil may shew his malice which God can restrain at his pleasure Roger Holland Martyr said to Bonner This I dare be bold in God to speak which by his Spirit I am moved to say that God will shorten your hand of cruelty that for a time you shall not molest his Church And after this day in this place shall there not any be by him put to the fire and faggot A●● and Mon●● 852. And it proved so for none after the suffered in Smithfield for the testimony of the Gospel Verse 4. And they sat upon them Resting from former p●rsecutions and raigning in righteousnesse even here upon earth And judgement was given unto them That is say some the spirit or discerning between Christianity and Antichristianisme Or the clearing of the innocency and doing them right say others Or they had their chairs seats and consistories wherein they did both preach the Word and execute the Churches censure as some sense it And I saw the souls This makes against the Millenaries Souls raign not but in heaven there are the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. Cotton his pouring out of the 7. vio●s p. 26. True it is as Mr Cotton well observeth that there are many devises in the mindes of some to think that Jesus Christ shall come from heaven again and raign here with his Saints upon earth a thousand years But they are saith he but the mistakes of some high expressions in Scripture which describe the judgments poured out upon Gods enemies in making way to the Jews conversion by the patern of the last judgment Thus he The souls here mentioned are the same I conceive that were seen under the Altar Revel 6.9 and doe cry How long Lord These are not capable of a bodily resurrection nor of an earthly raigne And they lived and raigned with Christ They that is those that sat on the thrones not they that were beheaded Lived and raigned as spirituall Kings after the same manner as they are Priests vers 6. for else there should be more Kings then Subjects With Christ It is not said with Christ upon earth this is an addition to the text or if the words did import a raigning upon earth yet this would not inferre an earthly raign for a thousand years in great worldly delights begetting many children eating and drinking and enjoying all lawfull pleasures as some dream now a-daies The conceit I confesse is as ancient as Cerinth●● the heretike and P●pias scholar to S. John a man much reverenced for opinion of his holinesse but yet homo ingenij pertenui● saith Eusebius not oppressed with wit Hierom and Augustine explode it as a Jewish fable and declare it to be agreat errour if not an heresie so do all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at this day The Patrons of Christs personall raign upon earth Moses's choice p. 487. are Mr Archer and Mr Burroughes who tels us That if the opinion of some concerning Christs coming to raign here in the world before the day of judgement be not a truth he cannot make any thing of many places of Scripture as this place for one But if he cannot yet others can See an Answer to his and M. Archers chief Arguments in M. Bayl● his disswasive from the errours of the times Chap. 21. p. 238. Verse 5. But the rest of the dead Dead in Baal-worship as Ephraim Hos 13.1 dead in sins as Sardis Rev. 3.1 Lived not again By repentance from dead works or they recovered not the life and immortality that is brought to light by the Gospel Vntill the thousand years Untill being taught better by Gods faithfull witnesses they abjured Popery This is the first resurrection From Romish superstitions M. Fox tels us Act. and Mon. fol 767. that by the reading of Chaucers books some were brought to the knowledge of the truth Verse 6. Blessed and happy is he The holy only have part in this resurrection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and are therefore happy or out of harms-way as the word signifies The second death hath no power For they are brought from the jaws of death to the joyes of eternall life where is mirth without mourning riches without rust c. But they shall be Priests See the Note on Chap. 1.6 They shall raign The righteous are Kings Mat. 13.17 compared with Luk. 10.24 Many righteous is the same with Many Kings See the Note on ver 4. A thousand years These thousand years begin saith Master Brightman where the former ended that is in the year 1300. whereby continuance thereof is promised for a thousand years forward among some of the Gentiles and how long it shall raign afterwards among the Jews he onely knows that knows all Verse 7. Satan shall be loosed i. e. Suffered to rise up in open rage against the open professours of the truth and to make havock