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

Owles abroad in so bright a firmament blind as beetles in a land of light darke in Goshen amidst so many meanes and mercies in the land of uprightnesse doe yee deale unjustly and not behold the Majesty of the Lord Isa 26.10 O generation see ye the word of the Lord Have I beene a wildernesse to the house of Israel a land of darknesse and of the shadow of death Ie. 2.31 How is it then that yee are still sottish children without understanding wise to doe evill but to doe good yee have no knowledge Ieremy 9.3 2 Chron. 13.5 Ought yee not to have knowne as Abijam said to Ieroboam and all Israel should ye not all know the Lord from the least to the greatest Hab. 2.14 Should not the earth be silled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea These are the times if ever wherein God hath powred forth his spirit upon all flesh Ioel 2.28 stretched forth his hands to us all day long Prov. 1. lifted his voyce in the high places of the City caused the Candle of his Gospell to shine full faire upon this kingdom for so long together Matth. 11. so that we have beene lifted up to Heaven as Capernaum in the abundance of meanes and plenty of outward priviledges In the time of Pope Clement the sixth when as Lewis of Spaine was chosen Prince of the Fortunate Ilands and was gathering an Army in Italie and France the English Embassadour then resident at Rome together with his company gat them home as not doubting but that Lewis was set up against the King of England Robertus Avisburiensis than which they could not imagine there was any more fortunate Island under heaven Was it so then over-spread with Aegyptian darkenesse what would our fore-fathers have judg'd had they had our happinesse to live in these glorious dayes of Alexandria in Aegypt Ammianus Marcellinus observeth that once in a day the Sunne hath been continually ever seene to shine over it In the Iland of Lycia the sky is never so cloudy saith Solinus Vnde Horat cam claram vocat but that the Sun may be seene Semper in sole sita est Rhodos The Rhodes is ever in the Sunne-shine saith Aeneas Sylvius And Tacitus tells us that here in Britany the Sunne in Summer neither riseth nor falleth but doth so lightly passe from us by night In vita Agricolae that you can hardly put a difference betweene the end and beginning of the light This is indeed chiefly true of us in respect of the bright and beautifull sun-shine of the truth Other Countries sit in darkenesse and shadow of death like the Valley of Sci●ssa neare the Towne called Patrae Locus radijs solis ferme invisus ●ce aliam ob causam memorabilis Solin c. 12 which being shaded by nine high His is scarce ever visited by the beames of the Sun But to us as to Zabulon and Nephtali is a great light risen Matth. 4.16 Now when a master sets up his servant a great light to worke by hee lookes to have it done both more and better Nihil in Hispania ●tiosum nihil ster●●● Solin cap. 36. So here Surely it should bee with us as they say of Spaine that there is nothing idle nothing barren there But a lasse it fals out farre otherwise for some have not the knowledge of God 1 Cor. 15.34 to their shame be it spoken but are as bard and rude every whit in very fundamentals and have the same bald and base conceits of God and his will as the blind Heathens had Let me tell you a Pulpit-story and that 's no place to lye in of an old man above sixtie who lived and dyed in a Parish where besides the word read continually there had beene preaching almost all his time and for the greatest part twice on the Lords Day Pembles Serm Misch●●fe of Ignorance besides at extraordinary times This man was a constant hearer as any might be and seemed forward in the love of the Word On his death-bed being questioned by a Minister touching his faith and hope in God you will wonder to heare what answers hee made Being demanded what he thought of God hee answers that he was a good old man And what of Christ that he was a towardly yong youth And of his soule that it was a great bone in his body And what should become of his soule after he was dead That if he had done well he should bee put into a pleasant greene meddow These answers astonished those that were present to think how it were possible for a man of good understanding and one that in his dayes had heard by the least two or three thousand Sermons yet upon his death bed in serious manner thus to deliver his opinion in such maine points of Religion which infants and sucklings shold not be ignorant of Oh who can sufficiently bewaile and expiate the grosse ignorance found in the greater number as rude and raw in Scripture matters as if they were not reasonable creatures though in other things wondrous acute and apprehensive And for the better sort that runne to and fro to increase knowledge Dan. 12.4 some smattering skill they have got but it s wofully indistinct and ill bottomd It would puzzle them shrewdly after so much teaching to give a good account of their faith Surely as Lactantius wittily said that there was never lesse wisdome in Greece then in the time of the seven wise-men so may it be justly complained of the extreme want of knowledge in the abundance of so many means of knowledge That little men have got is for most part ineffectuall and hath little influence into their hearts and lives They use it as some do artificiall teeth more for shew then service or as the Athenians are said to do their coyn to count and gingle with only striving more to an ability of discourse then to an activity of practise to talk of it then to walke by it The very entrance of Gods word giveth light c. Psalme 119 1● Iohn 3. In agris Sard● reperitur animal perexigu● simileque araeneis sorma solifuga dicta quod diem sug at Solinus c. 1 Acts 28.27 But this is condemnation that is hel above groūd that light is come into the world c. like the creature called solifuga the day is to thē as the shadow of death These mens ignorance is not meerely privative as was that in our Saviour as man only nor naturall as in infants nor invincible as theirs that lived in the midnight of Popery but wilfull and affected Vt liberius peccent libenter ignorant saith Bern. they winke with their eyes as the Pharisees they shut the window lest the radiant tresses of the sun should trouble them in their sleep they are wilfully ignorant 2 Peter 2. Psalm 50. with those in Peter whiles they cast Gods word behind them and bespeake

11.11 and vers 28. The poore the maimed the halt and the blind had never bin admitted if the guests that were invited had not refused to come Luk. 14.21 They refused Christ that came into the world to save them and shamefully nayled him upon the Crosse for the which they are become a renegate people now 1600. years together without Church without Common-wealth without forme or face of government good or bad their pleasant Land turned into a wildernesse their fruitfull country into a dry and barren desert Strabo indeed spitefully depraves the countrey affirming it at best to have bin hungry and unfruitfull not much to be envyed or desired of any But besides the testimony of holy Scripture that it was a Land flowing with milke and hony Rabshakeh confesseth that it was a Land of corne and wine 2 King 18.32 a Land of bread and vine-yards a land of oyle olive and honey Tacitus also tells us that it is a fat and fertile soile Another that it is sumen totius orbis Heidelseld the rockes yeelded them honey and flints oyle Deut. 32.13 As for the chiefe City Jerusalem that City of God the valley of vision the vision of peace Pliny witnesseth that it was the most famous of all the Citties of the East wee may add of the whole world because it was the Mother of us all the chiefe Church to the which all other Churches conformed themselves and were wont to resort for direction and decision of their Controversies Act. 15.2 and from the which they all went Act. 8.4 5. 11.19 20. that first carried the light of the Gospell to the Genetiles Their debters therefore we are surely Rom. 15.27 neither may we hate their name and their Nation but love them and pray for them yea weepe and bleed over them as our Saviour did Luke 19.41 And the rather because the unspeakeable miseries then foretold by him are long since befallen them ver 34 44. Vespasian is reported to have broke in upon them 1 at the brooke Cedron where they apprehended Christ 2 at the same Feast of Passeover that Christ was taken at 3 to have whipped them in the place where they whipt our Saviour 4 to have sold thirty of them for a penny Adricom in Ach Apost fol. 282. Lib. 7. bell● Iud cap. 17. as they bought and sold the Sonne of God for thirty pence In that last desolation by Titus Josephus tells us of a thousand thousand of them slaine and ninety seven thousand carried captive Such affliction befell them then as never had beene from the beginning nor shall be to the worlds end so our Saviour had foretold it Mar. 13.19 Ever since this they have continued a dispersed and despised people abhorred of God and men and exiled out of the world as it were by a common consent of Nations for their inexpiable guilt in murdering their Maker The first countrey of Christendom out of which they were cast without hope of returne was England by King Edward the first Anno Dom. 1290. Breerewoods Enquiries Out of France 1307. Out of Spaine 1492. Out of Naples and Sicily Polyd. Virgil. pag. 327. 1539. Out of Portugall 1597. Their Messias is expected of the Tribe of Judah which was setled in Portugall where they boast still to have millions of their race to whom they give compleate dispensation to counterfeit Christianity even to the degree of Priest-hood Blounts voyage into the Levant p. 121. and that none are discovered but some hot spirits whose zeale cannot temporize The reverence to the Messias makes them breed their children up in Portugall speech and make it their domestique tongue where ever they dwell They remaine to this day a very exceeding great people So that in Constantinople and Tessalonica there are estemed to be about 160000 Jewes But in Jerusalem there be not to be found at this time a hundred housholds of them saith Breerewood yet there are ten or more Churches of Christians there Adrian the Emperour for their sedition under Captaine Barchocab drove the Jewes utterly out of Jewry Funccij Chronol set a Sow of white Marble over the chiefe gate of Jerusalem in reproach of their religion and commanded them by Proclamation Yet they afterward obtained once a yeare to goe in and bewaile the destruction of their temple giving a peece of money to the souldiers And so they that bought Christs blood are glad to buy their owne teares as S. Hierom noteth Tom. 6. p. 256. Funccius not so much as to looke toward that Land from any Tower or high Mountaine In Cyprus they are so hated for a bloody Massacre they made there of the Inhabitants in Traians time that its present death for a Jew to set foot on that Iland yea though he be driven in thither by a tempest or cast upon that coast by ill accident he is trussed up immediately And albeit they have indeavoured from time to time to ingratiate and curry favour with Emperours Heathen and Christian yet they could never doe it to any purpose Titus indeed would have preserved the Temple as a Wonder of the world a Monument of Magnificence Iosephus from being burnt but could not such was the outrage of the souldiers And Julian the Apostate to spite the Christians permitted the Jewes and incouraged them to reedifie their Temple of Jerusalem at his charge Ammian 23. Socrat 3. Theodoret. Bucbalc Func howbeit attempting it they were hindred from Heaven by a mighty Earth-quake together with balles of fire issuing out of the foundation and consuming the builders But Caius the Emperour cast them out with contempt and would not heare Philo their Countrey-man an excellent Oratour making apology for them against Appion of Alexandria their deadly enemy Whereupon Philo comforted his collegues and companions saying Bono animo nos esse oportet quious iratus est Caius quia necesse est adesse divinum ubi humanum cesset auxilium Be of good cheare my friends God will not faile to helpe where mans helpe faileth A pious speech but not appliable to such a people who were not now to expect helpe from God but from Caesar whom they had lately prefer'd before the Sonne of God and were therefore worthily now rejected of both A couple of their Rabbines also in the yeare 1530 R David Reubenita R. Shelonioh Mol●u set upon Charles the fifth to perswade him to Judaisme but with ill successe for one of them was burnt at Mantua in Italy Alsted Chronol pag. 426. and the other put to a cruell death in Spaine for that bold attempt Beza in Mat. 5.46 Publicans they are at this day to the Turkes farmers of their customes and tributes and to the Christians where they are suffered to dwell they serve for hucksters and brokers to improve under-hand their unlawfull rents to the utmost proportion as being permitted to straine up their usury upon the Christian for among themselves