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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

Word is his arme to gather his Saints about him out of the world his power of salvation to as many as beleeve his mighty weapon of warre to cast downe strong holds his charriot of state whereon the King of glory rides triumphantly into the hearts of his chosen Upon those white horses his holy Apostles the Lord Christ rode with a crowne on his head Britannorum inaccessa Romanis loca Christo vero subdita Advers Iudaeos cap. 7. and another in his hand conquering and to conquer Tertullian tells the Jewes that those places among the Britaines that the Romanes could never come at were soone subdued by Christ De nat door Britanni hospitibus feri Hor. carm l. 3. od 3. Hospi●es mactabunt pro hostia Acron Vt à sole longè distabant c. Bond in loc Tully tells us that the Britaine 's in his time were every whit as barbarous and bruitish as the Scythians S. Hierome makes frequent mention of this our Island but so as he ever opposeth it to some other well-ordered country Wilde our forefathers were and wicked above measure fierce and inhospitall not further remote from the Sun than from the Sun of righteousnesse yea from all civility and humanity little better than those poore people of Brasil who are said to be sine fide sine lege sine rege without religion law or good government till Christ the King came with his bow in his hand to wit his mighty Gospel wherewith he wounds his elect to conversion his enemies to confusion But as wee were of the first that received the Gospel so likewise among the first that fell from the purity thereof putting our neckes under the yoke of Antichristian tyranny and bondage Among all those authentique Records of the Popes usurpations Hist of Trent by Laugh pres It was truly and trimly said by Pope Innocent 4. Ve● è enim hertus deliciatum Papis fu●● tum Anglia put●us mexhaustus none more wofull tragedies are found of his cruelty than such as were acted upon our stage no higher trophies erected to his ambition than here no more rare examples of a devout abused patience than ours England was called the Popes Asse for bearing his intolerable burdens and became at length his feudatary so leaving Gods blessing for the warme Sunne Posiquam Deo ut dixi reconciliatus me ac mea regna prob dolor Romanae subjeci Eccl●siae nulla mihi prospera sed omnia adversa evenerunt ●ex Io●●n as King John found it to his cost and complained but without remedy Neverthelesse this we retaine still to the glory of our Nation that as wee were the first of those ten Kingdomes Rev. 17. in defection so were we first in reformation and that such as the former age had despaired of the present admires and the future shall be amazed at The establishing of this reformation wrought amongst ●s by the mighty Word of Gods grace to be done by so weake and simple meanes yea by casuall and crosse meanes Sands Relation as one speaketh against the force of so potent and politike an adversary the beast whom all the world wondred after this is that miracle that wee are in these last times to looke for As Joshuah subdued Jericho by Rams-hornes Gideon the Midianites by lamps and trumpets Jehosaphat the Ethiopians by musicall instruments so Christ by the onely sound of his word without drawing weapon subdued us to the faith Those Angels the first Reformers were set and sent to flye in the midst of heaven with the everlasting Gospel and to cry Feare God and give glory to him by abdicating and abrenoun●ing those your hereticall tenets and doctrines of devils that you may receive the truth in love and be saved Rev. 14.7 And this is somewhat to prove the point in hand But there is yet a further mighty worke of the word whereby it well appeares and approves it self to be the very word of God and that is the effectuall conversion of a sinner from the errour of his way Not from the errour of his minde onely but of his manners also For the minde may be throughly convinced and yet the man not truly converted A pagan or papagan for instance must give two turnes ere he turne indeed As corn must not onely be threshed out of the straw but afterwards winnowed out of the chaffe so must a Papist turne not onely from his popery but from his prophanenesse Pacian in epist ad Sempton he must have Catholike for his name and Christian for his sirname not onely be no Papist but a zealous Protestant he must bee of those valiant ones in Esay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 11.12 Arripiunt vel diripiunt ut citatur ab Hilar. Metaph. A castris aut arce quapiam quae irrumpentibus host●bus diripitur and of those violent ones in the Gospel that take Gods kingdome by maine force as those doe that take a strong castle or a defenced city or as the people of Israel invaded and surprized the promised land There are that rest in a carelesse indifferency or a negative goodnesse at the best as it is said of Ithacius that the hatred of Priscillianisme so now adayes of Popery was all the vertue that he had * Hooker ex Sulpitio But the Scripture gives more grace saith Saint James Iames 4. more than conviction of the judgement Acts 20.32 it gives inheritance among them that are sanctified saith Paul It converts the soule saith David Psal 19.7 It quickens those that were dead in sinnes and trespasses Eph. 2.1 as a savour of life for it is heare Isai 55.3 and your soules shall live And when the spirit feeles it selfe dead and decayed as in a relapse into some foule sin this good Word revives it as the breath of God did those dry bones in Ezechiel Ruth 4.15 as Boaz is said to be a restorer of the old age of Naomi The words that I speake unto you Iohn 6.63 they are spirit and life saith Jesus Non cum Iesu itis quippe itis cum Iesuitis Heidfeld E societate Iesu suit qui illum nefariè prodidit Psal 119.68 not a brute and dead thing as the Jesuites basely slander it but quicke and powerfull as our Authour hath it The Word both hath life gives life as David saith of God the Authour of it Thou art good and dost good as the Sunne both hath light and diffuseth light And as the beams of the Sunne beating upon a fitly disposed matter beget life and make a living creature so doth this Word of God applyed to the consciences make a new-creature Mannah was but a small thing but of great vertue so is the word I can speak it by experiēce saith Erasmus Expertus sum in meipso patum esse fructus ex Evangelia siquis oscitanter persunctoriè legat c. Praefat in Lucam that there is little good