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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

Deuteronomy Matth. 4. See the Notes there Verse 18. Praying alwaies Praier is not only a part of the armour but enables to use all the rest It is not only a charm for that crooked serpent Leviathan Isa 26.16 to inchant him Flagellum Diaboli but a whip to torment him and put him into another hell saith Chrysostome It ●etcheth Christ into the battle and so is sure of victory It obtaineth fresh supplies of the Spirit Phil. 1.19 and so maketh us more then conquerours even triumphers It driveth the devil out of the field and maketh him flie from us Tanquà m si leones ignem expuentes essemus saith Chrysostome Especially if we go not to the battle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with our break fast as Nestor in Homer but fasting and praying For some kinde of devils are not cast cut but by fasting and praier And watching thereunto That we be not surprized at unawares The bird Onocratal●● is so well practis●d to expect the Hawk to grapple with her that even when she shutteth her eyes she sleepeth with her beak exalted as if she would contend with her adversary Let us like wise stand continually upon our guard The devil watcheth and wa●keth the round 1 Pet. 5.8 Watch therefore Verse 19 And for me Ministers must be especially pray'd for that they may have a door not only of utterance but of entrance to mens hearts and so be able to save themselves and those that hear them In praying for su●h we pray for ou● selves Verse 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am an Embassadour Venerable for mine age and authority as the word signifieth The ancient and the honourable are usually imploied as Embassadours Cognata sunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 old age and honour are akin in the Greek tongue In bonds Gr. In a chain instead of a chain of gold worne commonly by Embassadours and far more glorious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I bear about my bonds saith Ignatius in his Epistle like wise to the Ephesians as so many spirituall Jewels or Ensigns of honour Oh said Alice Driver here is a goodly neckerchief blessed be God for it when the chain was put about her neck That therein I may speak boldly He saith not That I may be freed from my chain but that I may do my office well in my chain Let God serve himself upon us and then no matter what becomes of us Martinus decumbens Domine dixi● si adhuc populo tuo firm necessarius nonrecuso L●borem Sever. epist 3. Verse 21. But that ye may know It is of good use to the Church to know the lives and affairs of men eminent in goodnesse and of exemplary holinesse that others may expresse them as Polycarp did Iohn the Evangelist as Irenaeus did Polycarp as Cyprian did Tertullian Paraeus did Vrsin c. Verse 22. Comfort your hearts It is God that comforts by the creatures as by conduit-pipes The air yeelds light as an instrument the water may heat but not of it self When a potion is given in beer the beer of it self doth not work but the potion by the beer So in this ease Verse 23. Peace be to the brethren These only be the children of peace Luk. 10.10 The wicked are like the troubled sea Isa 57.20 which may seem sometimes still but is never so no more are they The peace of prosperity they may have but not of tranquillity Sinceritas serenitatis mater Hence it followeth Verse 24. In sincerity Or Immortality 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 opposite to that Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.23 A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the PHILIPPIANS CHAP. I. Verse 1. With the Bishops and Deacons THe word Priest is never used at all for a Minister of the Gospel by the Apostles no nor by the most ancient Fathers De 〈…〉 as Bellarmine himself confesseth And yet how ●ager were our late factours for Rome to have priested us all but that God better provided for us Verse 2. Grace be to you See the Note on 1 Cor. 1.2 and on Eph●s 1.2 Verse 3. Vpon every rem●mbrance And no wonder for there w●●e those famous M●cedonians that first gave themselves to the Lord and then to their faithfull Ministers by the will of God 2 Cor. 8.5 See the Note there and compare Isa 50.10 Verse 4. Making request with joy Those that grieve their faithfull Ministers and quench the spirit in them do it to their own singular disadvantage Verse 5. For your fellowship A good man cannot tell how to go to heaven alone No sooner had the Philippians received the Gospel but they were in fellowship to a day The communion of Saints was with them a point of practice as well as an article of belief The apostles Creed was anciently briefer then now The mention of the Fathers being maker of heaven and earth The Sons death and descending into hell and the communion of Saints being wholly omitted haply as implied sufficiently in other Articles But surely if the Creed were called Symbalum as a sign or badge to difference Christians from Infidels and wicked people there was little reason to leave out the Communion of Saints this being a main distinctive character there being no such fellowship as among the Saints Cant. 6.9 Verse 6. Will perform it Or perfect it God doth-not use to doe his work by the halves but goes thorow-stitch with it 1 Thes 5.24 Psal 138.8 Only we must pray as Luther was wont to do Confirm O Lord in us what thou hast wrought and perfect the work that thou hast begun in us to thy glory So be it And as Queen Elizabeth praid Look upon the wounds of thy hands and despise not the work of thy hands Thou hast written me down in thy book of preservation with thine own hand ô read thine own hand-writing and save me c. Act. and Mon. fol 777. Verse 7. Partakers of my grace That is ye communicate with me in my sufferings which he here calleth his grace and tels them vers 29. To you it is given as an honourary to suffer for Christs sake Crud●litas vestra gloria nostra Tertull. said those Primitive Martyrs I had rather be a Martyr then a Monarch said Ignatius It is to my losse if you bate me any thing in my sufferings said Gordius to his tormentours Gaudebat Crispin cum ten●hatur cum audiebatur cum damnabatur cum ducebatur In Psal 157. saith Angustine Crispina Rejoyced when she was apprehended convented condemned executed Verse 8. I long after you all Here the Apostle practised his own precept of fatherly affection Rom. 12.10 Pray for me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. and Mon. fol 1482. mine own heart-root in the Lord Quem in intimis visceribus habeo ad convivendum commoriendum said Bradford in a letter to his fellow Martyr Laurence Saunders Verse 9. And in all judgement Or Sense The soul also

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 judici●us Reader With a Decad of Common-places upon these ten Heads Abstinence Admonition Alms. Ambition Angels Anger Apostasie Arrogancie Arts. Atheisme By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire Paulum quoties●unque lego non verba audire videar sed Tonitrua Hierom. LONDON Printed by A. M. for John Bellamy at the Signe of the three golden Lions in Cornhill M.DC.XLVII TO THE REVEREND And his much honoured Father Mr JOHN LEY Pastour and Preacher of Gods Word at great Budworth in Cheshire and one of the venerable ASSEMBLY Reverend Sir NOw by a sweet providence is that happinesse put into my hands that I have long wished and waited for viz a fit opportunity of telling the world how highly I honour You and how deeply I stand ingaged unto You. A most able and absolute Divine in another sense then Erasmus tearmed some in his time I ever took You for Abselutae eruditionis pietatis viris Sic scripsit Theolog●● Parisiens●b Voluit autem alienis ab omni eruditione pietate interprete Melancthone since I first came acquainted with You. And how little mistaken I am therein let Your many elaborate lucubrations say for me those accurate Annotations upon the Pentateuch especially of which precious piece and the thrice-worthy Authour I am eftsoons ready to say Buchol as one did once of Erasmus and his Adagies quis nôsset Erasmum Chilias aeternum si latuisset opus Or as another did of Calvins Institutions Praeter Apostolicas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dugardi mei ingeniosissimum inventum M. Ley was at that time the first President of Sion-Colledge Joseph Scali epist ad Eliam Vinet post Christi tempora chartas Huic peperere libro secula nulla parem Sure I am and not a little sensible that he that here come's after You shall but actum agere he shall but facem Soli Soli inquam in Sion accendere he shall but in nobilissimo theatro seipsum traducere Well he may pick up Praeterita with Drusius or spicilegium post messem with Capellus he shall hardly ever get so near You Val. Max. as the Latine Orator did the Greek Demosthenes Ciceroni praeripuit ne primus esset Orator Cicero Demostheni ne solus Cant. 6.12 But whither or ere I wist hath the just admiration of Your singular worth transported me My design was not to praise You for that were as an Ancient said of Athanasius to praise vertue it self but to professe my deep indebtednesse unto You for Your many fatherly favours and reall courtesies done me since mine adoption Quibus effecisti ut viverē morerer ingratus as he said to Augustus Sen. de benef l. 2. c. 12. this being the only wrong that ever You did me that I must live and die unthankfull These brief Notes passeable I say not praisable only for their brevity do humbly beg Your perusall and sitanti sint Your Patronage and surely may they but obtain Your much-desired countenance and comprobation I shall soon say with the Oratour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I fear not any mans censure Whatever else is wanting in them a will I am sure is not wanting of laying forth my small talent to the honour of my Master and the good of my fellow-servants those of mine own particular charge especially to whom most of these things have been delivered and of whom I can truly say as Reverend M. Stock did of his people in Breadstreet London Mr Gatak Abrahams decease That he had rather win one of them then twenty others Now that I may be fit and able to fulfill the Ministery that I have received in the Lord Col. 3.17 ● Tim. 4.16 so as to save my self and them that hear me let Your fatherly benediction and instant intercession to the Father of all the fatherhood in heaven and earth Ephes 3.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Parentela be never wanting to Your most affectionately obsequious son and servant John Trapp Welford this 16. of Nov. 1647. Ad Libellum chartaceum venerando Autori ante manum huic Annotationum parti admotam dono missum Affatio Quae vice Praefationis de Autore Operéque esse possit DOminum Libelle gratulor tibi novum Mihi negatam tu sortem folix habes Viro futurus eximio jugis comes Qui floribus quos fundit seu Britannia Seu Latium seu Palestina simul Graeciâ Te fragrantissimis or nabit instrue● Vt olim Acheloi cornu implerunt Najades Qui proprii venustos foetus ingeni Quibus venustiores nullum parturit Magisve densos credet servandos tibi Qui quicquid audit est-divino pectore Linguâ facundâ moribus suavissimis Contrà quàm Sacra jam profitentes plurimi Docere recta callidi non vivere Quàm vellem scitus esse nuno Lìbellulus Forem ut tuae foelicitatis particeps Ejus beandus gestandus manu sinu Tene fidelis quicquid mandârit tibi Furacibus cave sedulus ab unguibus Tibi nè maculas aut foedas labes contrahe Subire vultus ut queas libens meos Abijam Dominum à me saluta milliès THOMAS DUGARD Art Mag. Rector Barfordiae A Table of such Texts of the old Testament as are here occasionally explicated Gen. 5.24 p. 388. Gen. 13.9 p. 330. Gen. 23.2 p. 83. Gen. 25.34 p. 401. Gen. 27.33 p. 401. Gen. 33.9 11. p. 256. Exod. 23.28 p. 517. Exod. 33.2 3. p. 402. Exod. 33.16.17 p. 688. Levit. 2.5 p. 103. Levit. 14.19 p. 459. Levit. 19.16 p. 314. Levit. 19.17 p. 618. Numb 13.16 p. 362. Deut. 27.26 p. 191. 1 Sam. 25.6 p. 653. Job 38.2 p. 671. Psal 7.12 p. 671. Psal 10.3 p. 320. Psal 22.1 p. 356. Psal 26.12 p. 254. Psal 36.10 p. 640. Psal 72.17 p. 581. Psal 39.1 p. 420. Psal 41.1 p. 639. Psal 119.9 p. 329. Psal 139.16 p. 107. Prov. 3.17 p. 635. Prov. 10.2 3. 15.24 p. 635 65. Prov. 20.29 p. 469. Prov. 28.20 p. 161. Eccles 5.6 p. 498. Cant. 1.5 p. 185. Isa 6.1 2 3. p. 433. Isa 14.23 p. 116. Isa 23.18 p. 632. Isa 28 9. p. 64. Isa 45.7 p. 572. Isa 51.18 p. 159. Isa 58.10 p. 636. Lam. 3.36 p. 443. Ezek. 38.3 p. 581. Dan. 4.19 p. 689. Dan 9.21 p. 660. Hos 9.4 p. 103. Zach. 3.9 p. 494. Errata PAg 5 l 25. r. praeripuit p 21 l. 14 r ad p 25 l 12 r langold p. 80. l. 17 r. married couples p 85. l. 10. r. that 's p. 94 l. 5. r bitter p 114 l. 11 r sis

I have seen thy face as the face of God This Esau death meets a member of Christ with kisses instead of frowns and guards him home as he did Jacob to his fathers house Verse 27. All things under his feet This Psal 8 7 8. spoken of man in generall is properly applied to the man Christ Jesus in whom also it extendeth to the Saints who are therefore more glorious then heaven earth or any creature and shall have power over all Rev. 2.26 Verse 28. That God may be all in all Till sin and death be abolished we have no accesse to God but by Christ But after that all enemies be trod under foot then shall we have an immediate union with God yet so as that this shall be the proper and everlasting praise of Christ that he is the procurer of that union Cameron de Eccles Verse 29. Which are baptized c. The severall senses that are set upon this Text. See in Beza Piscator but especially our new Annotations upon the Bible Verse 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athenae In jeopardy every hour Carrying our lives in our hands as both the Hebrews and Greeks phrase it Verse 31. By our rejoycing i. e. By our infirmities afflictions wherein he so much glorieth 2 Cor. 11. and 12. as an old souldier doth of his scars As if the Apostle should say I appeal to all those miseries that I have suffered amongst you for a testimony Verse 32. If after the manner c. Paul sought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men that is say some the men of Ephesus fought with him after the manner of beasts Others more probably understand it literally If after the manner of men Beza Sclatter that is as men use to do to shew their valour he meaneth those B●stia●ij among the Romans I have been cast to the beasts Chrisostom Ambros and have either overcome them as Lysimachus did the lion or have been spared by them as corpora sanctorum Martyrum tangere multoties refugiebant bestiae saith the Historian what advantageth it me c. And this later sense is a stronger argument of the resurrection Let us eat and drink An ill inference of men of corrupt mindes and destitute of the truth Chrysostome saith There were a sort of such in his time as said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An●●●●on Give me to day and take thou tomorrow And have not we those that say Let us be merry while we may we shall never be younger Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla v●luptas It was wisely done of the Romans to banish Alaecus and Philiscus a couple of swinish Epicures lest they should by their evil communication and conversation corrupt others Aelian l. 9. Verse 33. Evil communication Evil words are not winde as most imagine but the devils drivell that leaves a foul stain upon the speaker and oft sets the like upon the hearer Shun obscene borborology saith one and unsavoury speeches thou losest so much of thine honesty and piety as thou admittest evil into thy tongue Verse 34. Awake to righteousnesse Go forth and shake your selves as Samson did out of that dead lethargy whereinto sin hath cast you your enemies are upon you and you fast asleep the while I speak this to your shame Ignorance is a blushfull sin Are ye also ignorant said Christ to his Apostles q. d. that 's an arrant shame indeed The Scripture sets such below the Oxe and the Asse Verse 35. But some man will say Some Epicure will object and say How can these things be A privatione ad habitum non datur regressus See the Note on Act. 17.18 Verse 36. Thou fool A hard knot must have a hard wedge a dead heart a rousing reproof He confutes Atheists from the course of nature which they ascribe so much unto Verse 37. And that which thou sowest This is an answer to the Epicures second demand vers 35. with what body do they come with a dead diseased rotten body c No no saith the Apostle Sin only is rotted with it's concomitancies infirmities but the rotting of the body is but as the rotting of corn under the clod that it may arise incorruptible Or as the melting of an old piece of plate in the fire to bring it out of a better fashion Verse 38. But God giveth it a body Deus naturae vires vices ita moderatur c. saith one God so orders all that nothing is done without him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same Hebrew word that signifieth an ear of corn doth also signifie a word because every field of corn is a book of Gods praise every land a leaf every leaf a verse every ear a word every corn of wheat a letter to expresse the power and goodnes of God Verse 39. All flesh is not the same This is another answer to the Epicure who might haply reply and say If mans flesh when rotted shall revive why not likewise the flesh of other creatures The Apostle answereth All flesh is not the same c. Mans flesh only is informed by a reasonable and immortall soul not so the flesh of other creatures And hence the difference Verse 40. There are also coelestiall Stars and spirits the inhabitants of that other heaven I finde saith a Divine like one another Meteors and fowls in as many varieties as there are severall creatures Why Is it because man for whose sake they were made delights in variety God in constancy Or is it because that in these God may shew his own skill and their imperfection The glory of the terrestriall The glory of our terrestriall bodies shall at the resurrection be celestiall they shall be more like spirits then bodies so clear and transparent saith Aquinas that all the veins humours nerves and bowels shall be seen as in a glasse they shall be conformed to the glorified body of Christ as to the standard Verse 41. One star differeth c. The morning-star is said to cast a shadow with it's shine Canst thou binde the sweet influences of the seven starres Job 38.31 Whose work is to bring the Spring and which like seven sisters or lovers as the word signifies are joyned together in one fair constellation Or lose the bands of Orion The star that brings winter and bindes the earth with frost and cold Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth the Southern constellations Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes that is the Northern stars those store-houses of Gods good treasure which he openeth to our profit Deut. 28.12 Verse 42. So also is the resurrection Whether there are degrees of glory as it seems probable so we shall certainly know when we come to heaven Three glimpses of the bodies glory were seen in Moses his face in Christs transfiguration and in Stephens countenance Verse 43. It is raised in power The resurrection will cure all infirmities At Stratford-bow were burned in Queen

a Tent-maker elegantly compares mans body to a Tent. Plato also in his dialogue of death calleth the body a Tabernacle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We have a buiding of God The Ark transportative till then was setled in Solomons temple So shall the soul be in heaven As when one skin fals off another comes on so when our earthly tabernacle shall be dissolved or taken down we shall have a heavenly house The soul wears the body as a garment which when it is worn out we shall be clothed with a better snit we shall change our rags for robes c. Itaque non plangimus sed plandimus quando vitam claudimus quia dies iste non t●m fatalis quam natalis est Verse 2. For in this That is in this tabernacle of the body We groan earnestly As that Avis Paradisi Macrob l. 1. c. 11. which being once caught and enraged never leaves sighing they say till set at liberty The Greeks call the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the souls bond and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the souls sepulchre To be clothed upon By a sudden change and not to die at all as 1 Thess 4.17 1 Cor. 15.51 52. Quis enim vult mori prorsus nemo Death when it comes will have a bout with the best as it had with Hezekiah David Jonas others For nature abhors it and every new man is two men But when a Christian considers that non nisi per angusta ad augusta perveniatur that there 's no passing into Paradise but under the flaming sword of this Angel death that standeth at the Porch that there 's no coming to the City of God but thorow this straight and heavy lane no wiping all tears from his eyes but with his winding sheet he yeelds and is not only content but full glad of his departure As in the mean while he accepts of life rather then affects it he endures it rather then desires Phil. 1.23 Verse 3. If so be that c. q. d. Howbeit I know not whether we shall be so cloathed upon that is whether we that are now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall be sound alive at Christs coming to judgement whether we shall then be found clothed with our bodies or naked that is stript of our bodies Verse 4. Do groan being burdened viz. With sin and misery whereof we have here our back-burdens M Bradford Act. and Mon. fol. 1492. And surely great shame it were as that Martyr said that all the whole creatures of God should desire yea groan in their kinde for our liberty and we our selves to loath it as doubtlesse we do if for the crosse yea for death it self we with joy swallow not up all sorrow that might let us from following the Lords call and obeying the Lords providence c. Might be sw●llowed up of life Not as a gulf or fire swallows up that is cast into it but as perfection swallows up imperfection As the perfecting of a picture swallows up the rude draught as perfect skill swallows up bungling or manhood childehood not extinguishing D. Preston but drowning it that it is not seen Verse 5. He that hath wrought us Curiously wrought us in the lowermost parts of the earth that is in the womb as curious workmen perfect their choice pieces in private and then set them forth to publike view Psal 139.15 with Eph. ●19 Others expound it by Rom 9.23 The earnest of the spirit He saith not the Pawn but the earnest A pawn is to be returned again but an earnest is part of the whole bargain Verse 6. Therefore we are confident Not haesitant or halting as Hadrian the Emperour was and as he that cried out on his death-bed Anxius vixi dubius morior nescio quò vado I have lived carefully Plato I die doubtfully I go I know not whither Socrates also that wisest of Philosophers could not with all his skill resolve his friends whether it were better for a man to die or to live longer Cicero comforting himself as well as he could by the help of philosophy against the fear of death cries out and complains at length Nescio quomo do imbe●●●ior est med cina qudm morbus that the medicine was too weak for the disease It is the true Christian only that can be confident that his end shall be happy though his beginning and middle haply may be troublesome Psal 37.37 Whilest we are at home Or stay for a night as in an Inne A man that comes into an Inne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if he can get a better room he will if not he can be content with it for saith he it is but for a night So it should be with us Verse 7. For we walk by faith Which puts our heads into heaven sets us on the top of Pisgah with Moses and therehence descries and describes unto us the promised Land gives us to set one foot afore-hand in the porch of Paradise to see as Stephen did Christ holding out a Crown with this inscription Vincenti dabo Not by sight Sense corrects imagination reason sense but faith corrects both thrusting Hagar out of doors when haughty and haunty grown Verse 8. And willing rather Death is not to be desired as a punishment of sin but as a period of sin not as a postern gate to let out our temporall but as a street door to let in eternall life To be present with the Lord This Bernard calleth Repatriasse Plotinus the Philosopher could say when he died Bern de morte That which is divine in me I carry back 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synes ep 139. to the Originall divine that is to God But whether this man beleeved himself or not I greatly doubt Verse 9. Wherefore we labour Our hope of heaven maketh us active and abundant in Gods service The doctrine of assurance is not a doctrine of liberty but the contrary 1 Joh. 3.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We make it our ambition faith the Apostle here to get acceptance in heaven waiting till our father shall call us home and passing the time of our sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Saints have their commotation upon earth their conversation in heaven Verse 10. For we must all c. This great assize will not be such an Assembly as that of Ahashuerosh of his Nobles Princes and Captains only nor such as the biddings of rich men to their feasts of their rich neighbours only Luk. 14.12 but like the invitation of that housholder that sent his servants to compell all to come in On that day Adam shall see all his nephews together Appear before c. Be●aid open and have all ript up Our sins that are now written as it were with the juice of lemmons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall then by the fire of the last day be made legible And as

mystery The highest point of heavenly learning and hereby he proveth his calling to the Ministery Verse 5. Was not made known sc So clearly and particularly Peter himself could hardly be perswaded to it Act. 10.14 34 35. Verse 6. Gentiles should be fellow-heirs Co-heirs concorporate and consorts three sweet societies the former founded upon the two latter Verse 7. By the effectuall working c. Enabling me to accept and improve that gift of Gods grace whereunto I should otherwise turn not the palme but the back-side of the hand Verse 8. Lesse then the least Great Paul is least of Saints O●ulentissima me a●la qu●rum in ● to latent ●e●ae Sen. ep ●3 last of Apostles greatest of sinners The best b●lsomes sinke to the bottome the goodliest buildings have lowest foundations the heaviest ears of corn hang downward so do the ●●ughes or trees that are best laden The unsearchable riche● Gr. Not to be traced out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Should not Ministers be made welcome that come to men on such golden messages Verse 9. And to make all men see Gr. To illighten them far more then the preaching of the Prophets could 2 Pet. 1.19 To us now is a great light sprung up Mat. 4 10. The fellowship Or as some copies have it the dispensation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who created all things i. e. Restored repaired hence Gospel-daies are called the world to come Heb. 2.5 Verse 10. Might be known by the Church As by a glasse or theatre The manifold wisdome c. Gr. That hath abundance of ●●rious variety in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as is seen in the best pictures or textures This the very Angels look intently into as the Cherubims in the Tabernacle did into the Mercy-seat and are much amused and amazed thereat They see that mans salvation by Christ is a plot of Gods own devising Verse 11. According to the eternall purpose Of calling and saving the Gentiles by Christ a secret that the Angels themselves could not understand till the time fore-appointed came Verse 12. Boldnesse and accesse True peace draws men to God false drives them from God Uprightnesse hath boldnes serenity hath security Verse 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wherefore I desire Or I beg of God as one would doe an alms Menaico Act. 3.2 humbly heartily And here the Apostle returns to his former discourse after a long digression ver 2. to ver 13. At my tribulations for you For for your sakes am I maliced and molested by the Jews by whose means also I am now a prisoner Verse 14 For this cause sc That ye faint not but gather strength I bow my knees A most seemly and sutable gesture usuall among all Nations but Turks who kneel not nor uncover the head at praier as holding those postures unam●ly Verse 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paren●e●a Of whom the whole family Or Paternity God is the only Father to speak properly Mat. 23 9. The Father of all the father-hood in heaven and earth Verse 16. According to the riches of his glory That is of his grace so 2 Cor 3.18 See the Note there Verse 17. That Christ may dwell As the Sun dwels in the house by his beams Faith fetcheth Christ into the heart as into his habitation And if he dwell there he is bound to all reparations Verse 18. The breadth and length c. Gods mercy hath all the dimensions Psal 36 5. Thy mercy ô God reacheth to the heavens There is the height of it Great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell There is the depth of his mercy The earth is full of thy goodnesse There is the breadth of it All the ends of the earth have seen thy salvation There is the length of it Ps●l 86.13 Verse 19. With all the fulnesse of God That is of Christs diffusive fulnesse in whom the Godhead dwelt bodily and in whom we are complete Col. 2.9 10. Verse 20. Exceeding abundantly Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 More then exceedingly or excessively God hath not only a fulnesse of abundance but of redundancy of plenty but of bounty He is oft better to us then our praiers According to the power The Apostle begins his praier with mention of Gods fatherly mercy he shuts it up with a description of his power These two Gods might and Gods mercy are the Jachin and Boaz the two main pillars of a Christians faith whereon it rests in praier Verse 21. Glory in the Church by Christ Who is the refulgency of his Fathers glory Heb. 1.3 CHAP. IV. Verse 1. Worthy of the vocation THere is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a seemlinesse appertaining to each calling so here We must walk nobly and comfortably as becometh the heirs of God an co-heirs of Christ Scipio when a harlot was offered him answered Vellem si non essem Imperator I would if I were not Generall of the Army Antigonus being invited to a place where a notable harlot was to be present asked counsell of Menedemus what he should do He bad him only remember that he was a Kings sonne So let men remember their high and heavenly calling and do nothing unworthy of it Luth. in Gen. Luther counsels men to answer all temptations of Satan with this only Christianus sum I am a Christian Verse 2. With all lowlinesse and meeknesse These are virtutes collactaneae as Bernard calleth them a pair of twin-sisters never asunder Verse 3. The unity of the spirit That is Unanimity this keeps all together which else will shatter and fall asunder The daughter of dissension is dissolution saith Nazianzen Verse 4. In one hope of your calling That is unto one inheritance which we all hope for Fall not out therefore by the way as Ioseph charged his brethren Verse 5. One baptisme The Authour to the Hebrews speaketh of Baptismes Chap. 6.2 But either he puts the plurall for the singular or else he meaneth it of the outward and inward washing which the Schools call baptismum stuminis flaminis See the Note on Mat. 3.11 Verse 6. Mal. ● 10. One God and Father of all Have we not all one Father saith Malachy Why then dissent and jar we How is it that these many ones here instanced unite us not My dove mine undefiled is but one Cant 6 9. Verse 7. According to the measure And may not Christ do with his own as he listeth Those of greater gifts are put upon hotter service 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 8. He led captivity captive c. As in the Roman triumphs the Victor ascended up to the Capitoll in a Chariot of state the prisoners following on foot with their hands bound behinde and they threw certain pieces of coyn abroad to be pickt up by the common people So Christ in they day of his solemn inauguration into his heavenly Kingdom triumphed over sin death and hell Col. 2.15

him all things consist They would soon fall asunder had nor Christ undertaken to uphold the shattered condition thereof by the word of his power Verse 18. And he is the head See the Note on Ephesians 1.22 Verse 19. In him should all ful●esse In a vessel or treasury an emptinesse may follow a fulnesse not so here See the Note on Joh. 1.14 Verse 20. To reconcile all things That is all the Saints who are worth all better then all more worth then a world of wicked men Heb. 11.38 The Jews have a saying That those seventy souls that went with Jacob into Egypt were as much as all the seventy Nations in the world What account God maketh of them in comparison of of others See Isa 43.3 4. Verse 21. Enemies in your minde Haters of God Rom. 1.30 and so God slaiers 1 Ioh. 3.15 Omne peccatum est Deicidium Verse 22. To present you holy and unblameable By his righteousnesse imputed and imparted though most interpreters expound this text of sanctification and not of justification or future perfection Verse 23. Grounded and setled When faith bears fruit upward it will take root downward and make a man as a tree by the rivers side and not as the chaffe in the fanne Psal 1.3 4. or as the boat without ballast Preached to every creature That is to every reasonable creature mar 16.15 Though to many we preach to no more purpose then B●de did when he preached to an heap of stones these are unreasonable creatures 2 Thess 3.2 Verse 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vicissim ●ur um impleo And fill up that which is behinde Christ suffered much for Paul it is but meet therefore that Paul should suffer somewhat for Christ All our troubles are but the slivers and chips as it were of his crosse When the Jews offered our Saviour gall and vineger he tasted it but would not drink He left the rest for his Church and they must pledge him not to expiate sin but for their triall and exercise For his bodies sake For the confirmation of mens mindes in the truth of the Gospel Verse 25. According to the dispensation What a horrid blasphemy therefore is that of the Jesu tes who stick not to tell the people in their pulpits That S. Paul was not secure of his preaching but by conference with S. Peter nor that he durst publish his Epistles Spec ●urop till S. Peter had allowed them Verse 26. But now is made manifest God hath now opened his whole heart to his Saints See the Note on Rom. 16.25 and on Mat. 4.16 Verse 27. The hope of glory All the Saints are said to worship in the altar Revel 11.3 because they place all their hope of life in Christs death alone Verse 28. Whom we preach Ministers do not only preach of Christ but preach Christ that is they give what they speak of As the Manna came down in the dew se doth the spirit in the Ministery of the Gospel Verse 29. I also labour striving Labour to lassitude strive even to an agony Good Ministers are great pains-takers and God that helped the Levites to bear the Ark 1 Chron. 15.26 will help his servants by his spirit working in them with power CHAP. II. Verse 1. For I would that ye knew LIttle do most men know what uncessant care and pains their faithfull Ministers take for their souls health But we would they should know it and know those that labour among them and are over them in the Lord and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake 1 Thess 5.12 13. Verse 2. That their hearts may be comforted Ministers are sonnes of consolation whiles by them God maketh the heart to hear of joy and gladnesse Ps 51.8 and createth the fruit of their lips peace ●eace c. Isa 57.19 Being knit together No such comfort upon the earth as in the communion of Saints it differeth from the happinesse of heaven but in degrees only Of the full assurance of understanding Such as was that of S. Luke chap. 1.3 See the Note there Verse 3. In whom are hid What so great a maker is it then if we be obscured and our good parts not so noticed Pers Vsque adeone scire tuum nihil est c Christ was content his treasures should be hid In maxima sui mole se minimùm ostendunt stellae All the treasures of wisdome Out of Christ then there is no true wisdome or solid comfort to be found The depth faith It is not in me and the sea saith It is not ith me Job 28.14 The worlds wizards cannot help us to it Ier. 8.9 Nescio quomodò imbecillior est medicina quam morbus saith Cicero concerning all Philosophicall comforts The medicine is too weak for the disease Verse 4. With entising words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With probable and persuasible speeches It is not safe for simple men to hear heretikes for though they may think themselves able enough to answer them yet they have a notable faculty of perswading the credulous and lesse cautelous The Valentinian-hererikes had an art to perswade before they taught Tertull. The locusts have faces like women In the year 497. Pope Anastasius second seeking to reduce the heretike Acacius was seduced by him Verse 5. Your ord●r and the st●df●stn●sse Faith and order that is doctrine and discipline faith one These two make the Church fair as the Moon clear as the Sun and terrible as an army with banners Cant 6 10. The stedfastnesse of your faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. The firmament of your faith As in the first creation so in the new creature there is first the light of knowledge Secondly The firmament of faith Thirdly Repentant tears and worthy fruits as sea 's and trees c. Verse 6. So Walk ye in him Continue well affected as ye were at your first conversion fall not from your own stedfastnesse 2 Pet. 3.17 Happy is he that can say in a spirituall sense as it was said of Moses that after long profession of religion his sight is not waxed dim nor his naturall strength abated Verse 7. Abounding therein with thanksgiving Thankfulfulnesse for smaller measures of grace gets more Essicacissimum genus est rogandi gratias agere Plin. Panegyr Verse 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lest any man spoil you A Metaphor either from sheep stealers or plunderers Seducers plunder men of their precious souls They take them prisoners 2 Tim. 3.6 They make merchandize of them 2 Pet. 2.3 or bring them into bondage smiting them on the face 2 Cor. 11.20 I brough Philosophy In the year of Christ 230. the Artemonites a certain kinde of heretikes corrupted Scripture out of Aristotle and Theophrastus turning all into Questions as afterwards the Schoolmen also did that evil generation of dung-hill Divines as one calleth them Tertullian not unfi●ly faith That the Philosophers were the Patriarchs of

in Daniel chap. 4.19 Noah took things fore-told him by God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the right handle as the word properly signifieth By the which he condemned the world Of deep and desperate security that dead lethargy where into sin and Satan had cast them And became heir Heir apparant he was hereby evidently declared to be such Verse 8. When he was called A man may follow God dry●●od thorow the red sea He is to be obeyed without sciscitation with a blinde obedience Abraham winked as it were and put his hand into Gods to be led whithersoever he pleased Magnus est animus Seneca qui se Deo tradidi● pusi●●us degener qus obluctatur That 's a brave man indeed that can wholly resign up himself to God Quò ●at● trahunt retrahuntque sequamur Verse 9. Virgil. He sojourned in the land There he had his commoration but in heaven his conversation content to dwell in tents till he should fix his station above With Isaac and Iacob Perhaps together as near neighbours When Abraham parted with Lot he would part with him no further then the right hand is from the le●t Gen 13.9 There is singular comfort in the society of Saints Verse 10. Which hath foundations Heaven hath a foundation earth hath none but is hanged upon nothing as Iob speaketh Hence things are said to be on earth but in heaven Whose builder and maker Gr. Whos 's cunning artificer and publike workman God hath bestowed a great deal of skill and workmanship upon the third heaven Verse 11. Because she judged him c. At first she laughed through unbelief at the unlikelihood but afterward she bethought her self and believed This later is recorded the former pardoned So Gen. 18.12 Sarah laughed within her self saying After I have waxen old shall I have pleasure my Lord being old also Here was never a good word but one viz. that she called her husband Lord and this is recorded to her eternall commendation 2 Pet. 3.6 Verse 12. As the starres c. The seed of Abraham saith one are of two sorts Some are visible members of a Church yet have earthly hearts dry and barren as the sand Others as the starres of heaven of spirituall hearts minding things above Verse 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab a s●nul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●abo And embraced them Gr. Saluted them kissing Christ in the promises and interchangeably kissed of him Cant. 1.1 being drawn together as the word signifies by mutuall dear affection Verse 14. Plotin ap Aug. deciv● Dei That they seek a Countrey Fugiendum est ad clarissimam patriam ibi pater ibi omnia A way home to our Countrey saith one there 's our father there 's our All saith one To die is in Bernards language no more then repatriasse to go home again Verse 15. If they had been mind●full But to that they had no minde at all because their idolatry too much prevailed Ioshua 24.2 Gen. 31.19 yet not so much as among the Canaanites Deut. 12.31 Verse 16. God is not asha●●ed But honoureth them as his confederates because for his cause they ●enounted the world No man ever did or suffered any thing for God that complained of a hard bargain Verse 17. Abraham when he was tried Often trials which Abraham passed this last was the forest No son of Abraham can look to escape temptations when he seeth that bosome in which he desireth to rest so assaulted with difficulties Offered up his son Isaac Ready he was so to have done and therefore it is reputed and reckoned as done indeed 2 Cor. 8.12 See the Note there Verse 18. Of whom it was said This was one of those many promises that Abraham might think were all lost in the losse of his Isaac Never was gold tried in so hot a fire Verse 19. That God was able He founded his faith upon Gods fidelity and omnipotency These are the Iachin and the Boaz the two main pillars whereupon faith resteth Verse 20. By faith Isaac blessed Patriarchall benedictions were propheticall the blessing of godly parents is still very available for the good of their children and justifying faith is not beneath miraculous in the sphere of its own activity and where it hath warrant of Gods Word Verse 21. When he was a dying The spirits motions are then many times quickest when naturall motions are slowest most sensible when one body begins to be sensless● most lively when the Saints ●●e a dying The Sun shines most amiably toward the descent The rivers the nearer they run to the sea the sooner they are met by the tide So here Verse 22. Gave commandment concerning He died upon the promise and held possession by his bones to testifie his firm hold of heaven Verse 23. Hid three moneths of his Parents That they hid him no longer argued weaknesse of their faith which yet is both commended and rewarded He was a proper childe Fair to God Act. 7.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having a divine beauty and comelinesse Speciall endowments are a fore-token of speciall emploiment The very Heathen in chusing their Kings had a speciall eye to bodily beauty See 1 Sam. 10.23 and 16.19 17.42 Not afraid of the Kings commandment Because unjust and impious See the Note on Act. 4.19 Verse 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When he was come to yeares Gr. Grown a great one and so knew what he did understood himself sufficiently Refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs And so to succeed in the kingdome for we read not of any son that Pharaoh had yea in the kingdome of Ethiopia too for being sent on his foster-fathers quarrell against the King of Ethiopia Histories tell us that he afterward married that Kings daughter for the which he was checked of his brother and sister Verse 25. Chusing rather to suffer The happiest choice that ever the good man made It was a heavy charge that Elihu laid upon Iob that he had chosen iniquity rather then affliction Iob 36.21 The Church is said to come from the wildernesse of troubles and miseries leaning on her beloved Cant. 8.5 The good soul will not break the hedge of any Commandment to avoid any piece of foul way Quas non oportet mortes praea●ligere saith Zuinglius Zuing epist 3. What deaths had we not better chuse what punishment undergoe yea what hell not suffer rather then goe against our consciences rightly informed by the good Word of God The pleasures of sin for a season Iob fitly calleth sparks the sons of fire being ingendred by it upon fuell as pleasures are by our lusts upon the object But they are not long-lived they are but as sparks they die as soon as begotten they perish with the use Col. 2.22 Good God said Lysimachus for how short pleasure how great a Kingdome have I lost May not the voluptuous Epicure say so much better Verse 26. Esteeming the reproach c. Reproach is

the heretikes Not but that there is an excellent and necessary use of Philosophy truly so called but the Apostle meaneth it of their idle speculations and vain deceits those aiery nothings as the Apostle expounds himself See the Note on Rom. 1.21 22. And not after Christ The Gentiles then could not be saved by their philosophy without Christ And yet not only the Divines of Cullen A●rippa B●laeus set forth a book concerning the salvation of Aristotle whom they called Christs fore-runner in naturals as John Baptist was in supernaturals but also some of the School-Doctours grave men saith Acosta do promise men salvation without the knowledge of Christ Verse 9. All the fulnesse of the God-head bodily That is Essentially not in clouds and Ceremonies as once between the Che●nb●●s which the J●ws called Shechinah whereunto the Apostle here alludeth Verse 10. And ye are compleat Ye have that true happinesse of a man which Philosophers hunted after in the thicker of car●hly vani●i●s and lost themselves in the chase Varr● makes report of 288. severall opinions that they had about this subject and were out in all whil●st they caught at the shadow of ●uits in a ●edge of thorns but could not come at the tree of life Christ Jesus in whom we are compleat Verse 11. Made without hands Oh how honourable saith an Interpreter is the work of mor●ification even as to make those huge heavens c. By the ci●cumcision of Christ Which circumciseth our hearts pulling off chat wretched fore-skin Verse 12. Buried with him in baptisme Which succeedeth in the place of circumcision and is also to us a seal of the righteousnes of faith Rom. 4.11 Of the operation of God In the work of faith God putteth forth the same almighty power that he did in raising Christ from the dead Ephes 1.19 20. See the Note on that Text. Verse 13. And you being dead See the Note on Ephes 2.1 Hath he quickned The first springing in the womb of grace is precious before God Verse 14. Blotting out the hand-writing Crossing out the black lines of our sins with the red lines of ●●s Sons bl●nd Verse 15. He made a shew of them A plain allusion to the Roman triumphs See the Note on Eph●s 4.8 Christ made the devils a publike spectacle of scorn and derision Tank hlstz●o as Tamerl●ne did Ba●azet the great Turk whom he shut no in an̄ iron c●ge made like a grate in fuch sort as that he might on every side be seen and so carried him up and down as he passed thorow Asia to be of his own people ●corned and derided c. Verse 16. Let no man there fore judge you That is Set not up any such for a Judge over your consciences Or if any usurp such an authority slight him according to that Gal. 5.1 Periculosum est in divinisrebus ut quis cedat j●re suo Cypr de hor. baptiz saith Cyprian In things of God we should be tender of our liberty Verse 17. Which are a shadow And so a sign of Christ obscurely and imperfectly representing him to the old Church and now abolished by his coming in the flesh In the twelfth year of our Saviours age the same year wherein he taught in the Temple Luk. 2. the Sanctuary was polluted by the casting about the bones of dead men thorow every part and porch thereof at the very feast of the Passeover in the night time This Josephus saith was done by the Samaritans out of hatred to the Jewish services But God had surely a speciall hand in it to shew that people that those shadows were to vanish now that Christ the body was come and shewed himself Verse 18. Let no man beguile you Gr. Brave it over you Confer Exod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tremel 8.9 Glory over me Gloriam assume supra me as thou hast done over thy sorcerers I gave thee this liberty See also Judg. 7.2 Isa 10.15 In a voluntary humility A proud humility They would not dare to worship God but Angels c. yet wére vainly puffed up by their fleshly mindes And something like this was that of the Baptist in refusing to wash Christ and of Peter in refusing to be washed by him Ioh. 13.8 And worshipping of Angels Setting them up as Papists do for Mediat●u●s of intercession Let not us acknowledge any other Master of requests in heaven but Christ alone 1 Ioh. 2.1 But what a piece of knavery is that in Surius and Caranza who rendering that passage of the Laodicean Councel Chap. 35. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christians may not pray to Angels they make the words to be Non oportet Christianos ad angulos Congregatione ●●facere Christians may not be corner creepers And the title they make Deys qui angulos colunt Of those that worship not Angels but corners against all sense What will they put out the eyes of Goods people As he said Numb 16.14 Or doe they not rather Festucam quarere unde oculos sibi cruant as Bernard hath it Seek straws to put out their own eyes withall Intruding into those things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or invading those things c. blinde and bold busie about such matters as whereof there is neither proof nor profit Of this sort of seducers was that daring Dionysius that writeth so confidently of the heavenly hierarchy The Schoolmen also with their curious speculations and new niceties as Scotellus and others Vainly puffed up by his fleshly minde Corruption is the mother of pride as the devil the father He is the King of all the children of pride Job 41.34 Verse 19. And not holding the hoad This is worse then all the former that they despoiled Christ of his dignity as if he alone were not sufficient to cherish and encrease his Church With the increase of God That proceeds from God that is from the Spirit of Christ the head To which growth is opposed that vain puffing up vers 18. whereby men do not increase but swell Verse 20. Are ye subject to ordinances why doe ye dogmatize or be burdened with ●ites or traditions as they now are in the Papacy Iohn Aunt a Roman Catholike in his humble appeal to King Iames in the sixth Chapter of that Pamphlet thus blasphemeth God D. S●eldens Mak of the beas● ep●de●ic The God of the Protestants whom he knows to be the Father Son and holy Ghost is the most uncivil and evil manner'd God of all those who have borne the names of God upon earth Yea worse then Pan God of the Clowns which can endure no Ceremonies nor good manners at all Verse 21. Touch not taste not c. The words of those impostours which are here mimetically or by way of imitation related See the like Eccl. 10.14 where the Wiseman graphically describeth the fools tautologies A man cannot tall what shall be and what shall be who can tell Verse 22. Which all are to perish The very daily perishing of food

upon them with his feet and not dote upon them with his heart 2. That by them as by a step or stirrop he may raise his heart to things above A sanctified fancy can make every creature a ladder to heaven He left nothing No not Angels Not yet all things put under him Rebellis fact a est quia ho●o numini ●●eatura bomini Aug. The creature rebelleth against man because he rebelleth against God If the Master be let upon the servants will draw and fight for him Verse 9. But we see Jesus The Saints hold all in capite tenure in Christ Now in him all things are already subjected unto us and made serviceable to our salvation For the suffering of death Or that he might be in a condition to suffer death this Sun of righteousnesse went ten degrees backward not only below his Father Job 14.28 but below the Angels for man as man is inferiour to the Angels Verse 10. For it became him That is God whose perfect wisdome justice c. shineth most clearly in that great work of our redemption then the which God could not have done any thing more beseeming himself what ever the worlds wizards conceit to the contrary 1 Cor. 1.23 For Whom are all things See the Note on Rom. 11.36 To make the captain c. He that is Captain of the Lords hoasts Josh 5.14 is also Captain of our salvation This is comfort To make perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or Consecrate The Priests were first consecrated with oil then with bloud so was Christ first by the Spirit and then by his own bloud Verse 11. Are all of one viz. of Adam Only with this difference that we are of Adam and by Adam but Christ was of Adam not by Adam for he was not begotten but made and so originall sin was a voided He is not ashamed Christ was not ashamed of us when we had never a rag to our backs Should we be ashamed of him and his service Verse 12. I Will declare c Psal 22.22 A Psalm of Christs sufferings entituled upon Ajaleth Shachar that is The morning-stagge such an one as the huntsman singleth out to hunt for that day Christ thus hunted and praying for deliverance promiseth to praise Gods name amidst his brethren that is his faithfull servants Verse 13. I Will put my trust in him Which he needed not had he not been a man subject to misery And the children c. Christ is the everlasting Father Isa 9.6 and the Saints are the travel of his soul that prolong his days upon earth Isa 53.10.11 Filiabitur nomine ejus Psal 72.17 There shall be a succession of Christs name till he present all his to his heavenly Father at last day with Behold I and the children whom thou hast given me Verse 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Children are partakers Little children Christ also became a little childe the babe of Bethlehem Isa 9 6. catch him up as old Simeon did Kisse him lest he be angry Psal 2. Stumble not at his weaknest bat gather assurance of his love and grow up unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Ephes 4.13 Him that had the power of death As the hang man hath the power of the gallows to kill men with death Rev. 2.23 Verse 15 And deliver them So that to those that are in Christ death is but the day-break of eternall brightnesse Not the punishment of sin but the period of sin It is but a sturdy Porter opening the door of eternity a rougher passage to eternall pleasure What need they fear to passe the waters of J●rdan to take possession of the land that have the Ark of Gods Covenant in their eye Tollitur mors non ne sit sed ne obsit As Christ took away not sin but the guilt of it so neither death but the sting of i● Who through fear of death That King of terrours as Job calleth death that terrible of ad terribles as Aristotle Nature will have a bout with the best when they come to die But I wonder saith a grave Divine how the souls of wicked men go not out of their bodies as the devils did out of the daemoniacks rending raging tearing soming I wonder how any can die in their wits that die not in the saith of Jesus Christ Appius Cl●ndius loyed not the Greek Zeta because when it is pronounced it representeth the gnashing teeth of a dying man Sigismund the Emperour being ready to die commanded his servants not to name death in his hearing c. Verse 16. For verily be took not Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For no where took he q. d. We sinde not any where either in the Scriptures or in any Church record But he took He assumed apprehended caught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 laid hold on as the Ange● did on Lot Gen. 1.16 as Christ did on Peter Mat. 14.31 as men use to do upon a thing they are glad they have got and are loth to let go again It is a main pillar of our comfort that Christ took our flesh for if he took not our flesh we are not saved by him Verse 17. In all things Except in sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the brazen serpent was like the fiery serpent but had no sting To make reconciliation To expiate our sins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to appease Gods wrath Verse 18. He is able to succour And no lesse apt then able as he that hath been poor or troubled with tooth-ach will pity those that are so CHAP. III. Verse 1. Holy brethren HOly because partakers of a calling that is heavenly 1. Ratione fontis Phil. 314 15.2 Ratione finis to the fruition of heavenly priviledges in Christ Verse 2. As also Moses was faithfull And yet how unworthily handled by the authour of the Marrow of Modern Divinity that slie Antinomian in divers passages of his book as might easily be instanced Verse 3. Worthy of more glory then Moses In whom these Hebrews trusted Spec. Europ Job 5.45 And the Jews at this day hold That the law of nature shall bring to heaven those that observe it but the Hebrews unto whom the law of Moses was peculiarly given by keeping it shall have a prerogative of glory Poor seduced souls Verse 4. He that built all things Moses and all Is God That is Christ whom he had proved to be God by many arguments Chap. 1. Messias therefore is to be preferred before Moses Verse 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex verbo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As a servant Famulus ingenuus a servant of the better fort a man of worship as the word seemeth to import though it be honour enough to be Christs servant of the meanest in his family Verse 6. If we hold fast See here a just description of the invisible Church of Christ Verse 7. Wherefore as the holy Ghost It is well observed by Calvin Hier. Epist