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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

as he either carried with him or sent to Rome before him It was truly and trimly said by Pope Innocent 4. Vere enim hortus deliciarum Papis fuit tum Anglia puteus inexhaustus England was then a gallant garden to the Pope and a well-spring of wealth that could not be drawn dry For no man buyeth their merchandize Men shall see further into their fopperies and knaveries then to endure to be any longer gulled and cheated William of Malmsbury began to groan long since under the grievance Romani hodiè saith he auro trutinant justitiam pretio venditant canonum regulam The Romans now-adaies sell justice sacraments masses dispensations benefices all Mantuan comes after and cries out vaenalia nobis Templa sacerdotes altaria sacra coronae Ignis thura preces coelum est vaenale Deusque Temples Priests altars rites I tell no tale Crowns sacrifices heaven and God are set to sale The Leaguers here for the liberty of the Kingdome in the daies of King John drove Martin the Popes publican out of the Land Iac. Revius the King also cursed him grievously at parting Lib. 3 de pour Rom c. 〈◊〉 with Diabolus te ad inferos ducat perducat But now much more then ever these merchants want Chapmen as Bellarmine sadly complains Their markets are well fallen their Euphrates much dried up Verse 12. The merchandise of gold All this is taken out of Ezekiel 27. All countreys have catered and purveied for the Pope who hath had it either in money or other commodity but money answered all things Thyne-wood A wilde kinde of Cedar very sweet and sound for it will not easily rot Verse 13. And Cinnamon Galen writes that in his time cinnamon was very rare and hard to be found Lib. 1. Antido ● except in the store-houses of great Princes And Pliny reports That a pound of cinnamon was worth a 1000 denarij that is 150 crowns of our money And chariots Or Sedans as we call them And the souls of men Tecelius the Popes pardon monger perswaded the people in Germany that whosoever would give ten shillings Act. and Mon. fol. 771. should at his pleasure deliver one soul out of the pairs of purgatory and as soon as the money rang in the bason that soul was set at liberty But if it were one jot lesse then ten shillings it would profit them nothing This gainfull gullery Luther cried down with all his might and so ma●red the Market This gave occasion to that saying of Erasmus whom when the Electour of Saxony asked Why Luther was so generally hated He answered Scultet Annal. dec ● for two faults especially he hath been too-busie with the Popes crown and the Monks paunches Verse 14. And the fruits Those first ripe fruits Mic. 7.1 greedily desired and bought up at any rate by the richer and daintier sort of people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which were dainty and goodly Gr. Fat and fair liking pleasant to the eye as well as to the taste confections suckets sweet-meats second and third services Verse 15. Which were made rich by her By their fat benefices Commendams Spec. Europ golden Prebendaries some one yeelding ten or twenty thousand by the year The Archbishoprick of Toledo is worth an hundred thousand pounds a year which is a greater revenue then some Kings have had What a vast estate had Wolsey gotten Act. and Mon. So that rich and wretched Cardinal Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester and Chancellour of England in the raign of Henry the sixth who asked Wherefore should I die being so rich c. Verse 16. With gold and precious stones All these avail not in the day of wrath Neither need we envy wicked men their plenty it is their portion all they are like to have The whole Turkish Empire is nothing else saith Luther Nisi panis mica quam dives pater familias projicit canibus a crust cast to the dogs by God the great housholder I have no stronger argument said the same Luther against the Popes kingdom Quam quòd sinc cruce regnat then this that he suffereth nothing Surely there 's the more behinde there will be bitternesse in the end no doubt Verse 17. So great riches is come to nought Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is desolated or become a wildernesse Petrarch writeth that in the treasury of Pope John 22. were found by his heirs two hundred and fifty tuns of gold And of Boniface 8. it is recorded That he was able to shew more money then all the Kings in Christendome And every ship-master i. e. Cardinall Patriarch Archbishop though but titular and imaginary without jurisdiction as are the Patriarchs of Constantinople Antioch Jerusalem and Alexandria which the Pope successively consecrates ever since the holy Land and the Provinces about it were in the hands of Christian Princes anno 1100. so loth is the Pope to lose the remembrance of any superiority or title Spec. Europ that he hath once compassed And all the company The Cardinals and Arch-bishops train and retinue those in office especially What a pompous family kept Wolsey consisting of one Earl nine Barons Rex Platon p. 26 very many Knights and Esquires and others to the number of four hundred And sailers Bishops Abbots Priors c. And as many as trade by sea All the Clergy the Jesuites especially without whose lusty help saith one S. M Brightman Peters fish-boat had stuck in the sand and had rushed against the rocks long since Verse 18. What City is like unto this q. d. Who would ever have thought we should ever have seen this dismall day of Romes destruction It was wont to be said Roma cladibus animosior Rome is unconquerable The Pope wrote once to the Turk that threatned him Niteris incassum Petri submergere navem Fluctuat at nunquam mergitur illa ratis Verse 19. And they cast dust As men willing to be as far under ground as now they were above ground Having lost their livelihood they had little joy of their lives All that had ships in the sea All Church-men i. e. All for the most part some of them have little enough Sanders was starved Stapleton was made professour of a petty University D Featly his Trans explod scarce so good as one of our free-schools On Harding his Holines bestowed a Prebend of Gaunt or to speak more properly a Gaunt Prebend Allin was commonly called the starveling Cardinal c. Verse 21. Thou heaven i. e. The Church on earth And ye holy Apostles c. i. e. Ye Pastours and Teachers who as ye have been most shot at by her so now you are specially called to triumph over her Psal 58.11 Verse 21. And a mighty Angel For further assurance a sign is added and an allusion made to Jer. 51.63 And here it is easie to observe a notable gradation an Angel a strong Angel taketh a stone M. Forbes and a great stone

p. 1●4 l 28. dele that p 128. l 7. r. at p 136. l 21. r Secretaries p. 143 l. 12. r encaged p. 173 l. 30 r conquerour p. 200 l 23 r beedlesse p 206 l 20 r. amaxuensis p. 814 l. ●0 r willes p. 221. l 24. r blown p. 228. l. 2● adde we p. 160. l 6. r. relate p. 263. l. 21. r. matter p. 305 l. 35. r involuntary p. 191 l. ● r there p 395. l 9 r forwardnes p. 404 l. 14. r 5. r pauc● p 418. l. 9. r. they p. 406. l warmed p. 424. l. p. 426. r 4 r savourily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 459. l. 39 r. in bu eyes ib. mar r. puptllam p. 463 l 30. r Sertorius p. 473 l. 18. r. Theologica p. 532. l. 3. r one writes p. 534. l. 8 r Amos. p. 537. l. 38. dele for p. 546. l. 7. r. Antichrist p. 549. l. 25. r earth p. 557. l. 28. dele are p. 572. l. 25. r imitate p. 593. l. 12. r by the Sun beams p. 608 l. 23. r. that the devil p. 628. l. 9. r. cast p. 641. l. 23. r. Sareptan p. 646. l. 14. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the ROMANES CHAP. I. Verse 1. A servant of Iesus Christ. THis is an higher title th●n Monarch of the world as Numa second King of Rome could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pult. Verse 2. Promised Fore-shewed and foreshadowed Verse 3. Concerning his Son Here 's a lofty and lively description of Christs sacred person The whole Epistle being the Confession of our Churches as Melancthon calleth it Scultet Annal. who therefore went over it ten severall times in his ordinary Lectures The Epistle being such as never can any man possibly think speak or write sufficiently of it's worth and excellency Verse 4. Declared to be c. Gr. Defined 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for definitions explain obscurities With power For Superas evadere ad auras Hic labor hoc opus est a work befitting a God See Ephes 1.20 with the Note there The Spirit of holinesse The divine essence of Christ 2 Cor. 13 4. which sanctifieth the humane nature assumed by him Verse 5. For obedience to the faith That is to the Gospel that doctrine of faith or to Christ who is oft put for faith whereof he is the proper object in this Epistle Kisse the Son c. Psal 2 12. Math. 17.5 Hear him Verse 6. Ye are the called With an high and heavenly calling Heb. 3.1 See the Note there Verse 7. Called to be Saints Those then that are called are Saints whilest alive and not only those that are canonized by the Pope after they are dead Bemb in List Venet. In numerum Deorum ab Ecclesia Romana relati as Bembus profanely speaketh of their Saint Francis a sorry man Dan hist of Engl. fol. 99. of whom as once of Becket 48 years after his death it may well be disputed Whether he were damned or saved Pope Callistus 3. sainted some such in his time as of whom Cardinall Bess●rion Iac. Revius bist Pontis knowing them for naught said These new Saints make me doubt much of the old Grace he to you and peace See the Note on 1 Cor. 1.2 Verse 8. Your faith is spoken of See chap. 16. and Juvenal Tacitus and other profane writers who bitterly exagitate the doctrines and practices of those Roman Christians Verse 9. Whom I serve in my spirit That is with all the faculties of my soul concentred and co-united Verse 10 I might have a prosperous journey This he praied and this he had by such a way as he little dreamt of Little thought Paul that when he was bound at Ierusalem and posted from one prison to another that God was now sending him to Rome yet he sent him and very safe with a great Convoy God goes oft another way to work for our good then we could imagine Verse 11. That I may impart There is no envy in spirituall things because they may be divided in solidum one may have as much as another Theat Naturae and all alike Scientiarum sic gratiarum ca vis est natura ut quò plus doceas alteride tuo largiare cò ditior ac doctior fias saith Bodine Such is the nature and property of sciences and graces that the more you communicate them the more you encrease them Verse 12. That I may be comforted Or exhorted Ad communem exhortationem percipiendam saith Beza out of Bucer and others The meanest of Christs members may contribute somewhat to the edifying even of an Apostle Verse 13. But was let hitherto Either by Satan 1 Thess 2.18 or by the holy Spirit otherwise disposing of him as Act. 19.6 7. or by some intervenient but important occasion as Chap. 15.20 21. Verse 14. I am debter Because entrusted with talents for that purpose 1 Cor. 9.16 See the Note there Verse 15. So as much Quicquid in me situm est promptum est A notable expression Verse 16. For I am not ashamed As men are apt to be whence that fatherly charge 2 Tim. 1.8 Doe ye thinke said Iohn Frith Martyr to the Archbishops men that would have let him go that I am afraid to declare mine opinion unto the Bishops of England in a manifest truth Act. and Mon. 1917. If you should both leave me here and go tell the Bishops that you had lost Frith I would surely follow as fast after as I might and bring them news that I had found and brought Frith again For it is the power c. Eternall life is potentially in the Word preached as the harvest is potentially in the seed Verse 17. The just shall live by faith Hab. 2.4 that is they shall enjoy themselves by their faith in greatest disasters or dangers when others are at their wits ends that 's the Prophets sense and the Apostle not unfitly applieth it to prove justification by faith alone for if a man live by faith he is just by faith Verse 18. Who hold the truth Hold the light of their consciences which is as a Prophet from God prisoner The naturall man that he may sin the more securely imprisons the truth which he acknowledgeth and laies hold on all the principles in his head that might any way disturb his course in sin locking them up in restraint Hence it appears that no man is righteous in himself or by his own righteousnes which was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 19. Because that which may Heathens might know God the Creatour per species creaturarum as they speak either in way of negation or causality or eminence not so God the Redeemer Verse 20. Are clearly seen As in a mirrour Pervidentur or as on a theatre Vt solem in aquis sic Deum in operibus contemplamur Verse 21. Neither were thankefull How then shall we answer to God

Christians were slandered by the Heathens in this kinde who knows not Act. and Mon● 838. Cenalis Bishop of Auranches wrote against the Church at Paris defending impudently that their assemblies were to maintain whoredom Such reports also they cast abroad a little before the massacre They tell the people in Italy that Geneva is a professed Sanctuary of all roguery that in England the people is grown barbarous and eat young children c. Verse 13. His spirit was refreshed After his long and tedious toil and travell to come to you he never thought much of his labour Calvin said That it would not grieve him to sail over ten seas about an uniform draught for religion Ne decem quidem maria c. Verse 14. I am not ashamed As I should have been had it proved otherwise Lying is a blushfull sin and therefore the lier denies his own lie because he is a shamed to be taken with it and our ruffians revenge it with a stab Verse 15. Whiles he remembreth Deep affections make deep impressions CHAP. VIII Verse 1. Of the grace of God IT is a favour yea an honour to us that we may relieve poor Christ in his necessitous members Psal 16.2 When therefore he sets us up an Altar be we ready with this Sacrifice Heb. 13.16 Verse 2. In a great triall of affliction For affliction tries what ●ettle we are made of Alchymy gold will not endure the seventh ●re as true gold will Affliction the triall of our faith is more precious then gold 1 Pet. 1.7 What then is faith it self so tried Revel 3.18 The abundance of their joy Whilest the spirit of glory and of God rested upon them 1 Pet. 4.14 Well my grace be called the divine nature for as God brings light cut of darknesse riches out of poverty c. so doth grace it turns dirt into gold c. The world wonders said that Martyr how we can be so merry in such extreme misery Act. and Mon. fol. 1●88 But our God is omnipotent which turneth misery into felicity c. See the Note on 2 Cor. 7.4 Their deep poverty Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their poverty being now at the very bottome and having little left beside hope they were even exhausted and yet gave liberally Giles of Brussels Martyr gave to the poor whatsoever he had that necessity could spare and only lived by his science which was of a Cutler Some he refresht with his meat Act. and Mon. fol. 811. some with his clothes some with his houshold-stuff One poor woman there was brought to bed and had no bed to lie in to whom he brought his own bed himself content to lie in the straw Vnto the riches of their liberality Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of their simplicity in opposition to that crafty and witty wilinesse of the covetous to defend themselves from the danger of liberality Wherein also they are utterly mistaken for not getting but giving is the way to thrive See the Note on Mat. 6.4 Verse 3. Yea and beyond their power One such poor Macedonian might well shame a hundred rich Corinthian cur-mudgins They were willing Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were voluntiers full of chearfull charity Verse 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Receive the gift Gr. The grace i. e. the alms it being of Gods free grace that we have 1. What to give 2. Hearts to give it For naturally we are all like children which though they have their bosoms mouths and both hands full yet are loth to part with any Verse 5. Not as we hoped God is usually better to us then our hopes First gave their own selves to the Lord Ay this is the right way of giving alms and this is done by faith the work whereof is to be an empty hand Mendica manus as Luther calleth it a beggers hand to receive it but when it hath received it gives back again it self and all and thinks all too little as Mary Magdalen did her precious ointment And unto us by the will The good soul delivers up it self to Christs faithfull Ministers and saith in effect to them as Luther before he was better informed wrote to Pope Leo X anno 1518. Scul Annal. ●8 Prostratum pedibus me tibi offero cum omnibus quae sum habeo Vocem tuam vocem Christi in to praesidentis loquentis agnoscam I humbly prostrate my self with all that I have and am at thy feet c. Verse 6. So he would finish Finis opus coronat the end is better then the beginning saith Solomon Charles the 5. his emblem was Vlteriùs Titus was here desired to take up the whole alms and not to faint till he had finish●d Gal 6 9. Verse 7. As ye abound in faith He purposely commendeth them that he may the better insinuate into them Ministers may profitably praise their people in some cases that they may the sooner win them to duty For there is no so sweet hearing saith Xenophon as a mans own commendation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 8. To prove the sincerity Gr. The germanity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the naturalnesse legitimatenesse opposed to bastardlinesse This age aboundeth with mouth-mercy which is good cheap and therefore like refuse fruit is found growing in every hedge But a little handfull were worth a great many such mouth-fuls Isa 51.18 Complaint is made that there is not any one that taketh Sion by the hand S. James tels of some in his time that would feed their poor brethren with good words and good wishes Jam. 2.15 16. as if they had been of the Cameleon-kinde to live with Ephraim upon winde Hos 12.1 But what said the poor man to the Cardinall who denied him a peny which he begged and offered him his blessing which he begg'd not If thy blessing had been worth a peny I should not have had it keep it therefore to thy selfe Carle Verse 9. He became poor Not having where to lay his head nor wherewith to pay tribute till he had sent to sea for it c. Lo he that was heir of all things Heb. 1.2 was scarce owner of any thing but disinriched and disrobed himself of all that through his poverty he might crown us with the inestimable riches of heavenly glory This is such a motive to mercifulnesse as may melt the most flinty heart that is Verse 10. But also to be forward Gr. To be willing This the Apostle makes to be more then to do that is then to do with an ill will Psal 110.3 or for by-respects Virtus nolentium nulla est Christ will enjoy his Spouses love by a willing contract not by a ravishment the title of all converts is a willing people Verse 11. Now therefore perform Unlesse our willing of good be seconded with endeavour it is nothing worth Balaam wished well to heaven so did he that came kneeling to our Saviour with good master c. but

Paul to the GALATIANS CHAP. I. Verse 1. Whoraised him from the dead ANd by the same almighty power causeth dead souls to hear the voice of the Son of God in his Ministers and live Ioh. 5.25 Eph. 1.19 Verse 2. The Churches of Galatia They are not discliurched though much corrupted Vzziah ceased not to be a king when he began to be a leper the disease of his forehead did not remove his Crown Verse 3. Grace be c. See the Note on Rom. 1.7 This Epistle to the Galatians is an epitome of that to the Romans Verse 4. From this present evil world Bewitched wherewith the Galatians were relapsed from Christ A subtill and sly enemy it is surely and hath cast down many wounded yea many strong men have been slain by it as by Solomons harlot Prov. 7.26 Verse 5. To whom be glory The benefit of our redemption should make us lift up many an humble joyfull and thankfull heart to God Verse 6. That ye are so soon Giddy headed hearers have religionem ephemeram are wherried about with every winde of doctrine being constant only in their inconstancy as Ecebolus Balduinus and our modern Sectaries The Bishops and Doctours of England said that Martyr in their book against the Popes supremacy spoke as much as Luther or any Lutheran ever did or could If they dissembled who could ever so deeply speaking so pithily If not who could ever turn head to tail so suddenly and so shortly as these did Act. and Mon. Removed from him c. From Christ and me his Apostle Luther often in his books testifieth that he was much afraid lest when he was dead that sound doctrine of justification by faith alone would die also It proved so in sundry places of Germany Men fell to Popery as fast as leaves fall in Autumn Verse 7. There be some That would fain have blended Pharisaisme and Christianity Act. 15 5. That trouble you As Camels with their feet trouble the waters they should drink of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And would pervert the Gospel They pretended only to bring in a Jewish rite or two and yet are said to pervert the Gospel Ea quae post tergum sunt in faciem convertere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Hierome hath it to turn that before that should be behinde to speak distorted things such as produce convulsions of conscience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 20.30 A little thing untowardly mingled mars all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The monstrous heresie of Nestorius lay but in one letter and of Arrius but in one syllable Verse 8. Or an Angel Not an evil Angel as Ambrose understands it but a good Angel per impossibile as Iohn 8.55 Then that which we c. Or besides that which we have preached He saith not contrary to that but besides that for indeed that which is directly besides is indirectly against the Gospel Verse 9. Then that ye have Of the Camell it is said that he will never carry any more weight then what at first is said upon him nor go one foot beyond his ordinary journey Conscience will not budge nor yeeld an hair for an Angels authority Stand fast in the good old way and finde rest Ieremy 6.16 Verse 10. For do I now perswade men That is mens doctrines and devises Or do I seek to please men Vt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui ab omnibus gratiam inire cupit quem quidam per jocum Placentam vocat Men-pleasers that curry favour with all and covet to be counted No medlers These loose a friend of God For if I yet pleased men As once I did whiles I was a Pharisee I should not be c. That rule holds good in rhetorike but not in Divinity Cic. in Partit Non ad veritatem solùm sed etiam ad opinionem corum qui audiunt accommodanda est oratio Verse 11. Is not after man This he often inculcateth because the false Apostles had buzzed such a thing into their ears to disparage his Ministery Verse 12. Received it of man i. e. Of meer man Jesus Christ is more then a man Verse 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ho●er And wasted it As an enemies countrey with fire and sword Mars is stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 14. Above many of mine equals Porphyry said it was great pity such a man as Paul was even cast away upon the Christian religion The Monarch of Morocco told the English Em basladour in King Iohns time that he had lately read Pauls Epi stles Ecp. Geog. which he liked so well that were he now to chuse his religion he would before any other imbrace Christianity but every one said he ought to die in his own religion and the leaving of the faith wherein he was born was the only thing that he disliked it that Apostle Verse 15. Who s●parated me from c. How knew we this but by the event Whosoever is lawfully called to the Ministery may conceive that he also was sanctified thereunto from the womb and should therefore do his utmost in the work Verbi minister es hoc age Sa Ward Praef. ad Pe●●t prob● Perk. probl was Mr Perkins his Motto Verse 16. To reveal his Sonne in me Not only as in an object wherein the power and grace of Christ might shine and appear but as by an instrument of revealing and preaching Christ to many I conferred not with flesh i. e. With carnall reason an evil counsellour for the soul Rom. 8.7 Indeed in humane governments where reason is shut out there tyranny is thrust in but where God commandeth there to ask a reason is presumption to oppose reason is flat rebellion Verse 17. But I went into Arabia Of this journey Luke maketh no mention in the Acts. Into these tents of Kedar came S. Paul and made them by his preaching comely as the curtains of Solomon Cant. 1.5 Rude they were but rich black but comely when they had this precious man amongst them especially who became a blessing to all places whithersoever he came Contrary to that which is said of the great Turk that whereever he sets his foot he leaves desolation behinde him Arabia was Felix indeed when S. Paul was there Verse 18. To see Peter Not by way of idle visit but thorowly to observe the History of his Christian practice for godly imitation Historiae sunt fidae monitrices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 videndo abservare Verse 19. But other of the Apostles They were busily attending upon their particular charges and offices according to Rom. 12.7 Verse 20. Behold before God I lie not This he solemnly sweareth for therir satisfaction An oath may be lawfully taken to help the truth in necessity and not otherwise Hence the Hebrew word is a passive and signisieth to be sworn rather then to swear Nisbbaug Verse 21. Afterwards I came He kept belike a Diary of his travels and was able to give a

five away Isa 35.10 Verse 9. This is a faithfull saying And yet who hath believed our report The promises are good free-hold and yet little looked after Godlines hath but cold entertainment because she lives much upon reversions Verse 10. For therefore Because godlinesse hath so much happinesse laid up in the promises vers 8. and there is so much certainty of the performance of those promises therefore we both do and suffer 1 Cor. 15 58. Finis edulcat mediae Who is the Saviour of all men Not of eternall preservation but of temporall reservation For every man should die the same day he is born the wages of death should be paid him presently but Christ begs wicked mens lives for a season saith one Sin hath hurled confusion over the world brought a vanity on the creature And had not Christ undertaken the shattered condition of the world to uphold it it had fallen about Adams ears saith another Divine Specially of those that believe Who therefore are in a special manner bound to observe and obey him Among the Romans they that were saved were wont to crown him that saved them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Polyb● 6. and to honour him as a father all their daies We must also set the crown upon Christs head Cant. 3.11 and obey this everlasting father Isa 9 6. Verse 11. These things command and teach Teach the tractable command the obstinate lay Gods charge upon all Verse 12. Let no man despise c. But how should I help it Might he say The Apostle answereth Be thou an example to the beleevers a patern of piety For holinesse hath honour wisdome maketh the face to shine naturall conscience cannot but stoop to the Image of God where ever and in whomsoever it discerneth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat epist ad Magnes saith Ignatius Youth seasoned with the fear of God is not easily despised But be thou an example Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such a thing as maketh the stamp upon the coyn Exemplis sciolâ bac●atate magis aedificant ministri quam concionibus Verse 13. Give attendance to reading First to reading and then to exhortation bringing as a good Scribe out of a good treasure new and old Father Latimer notwithstanding both his years and constant pains in preaching was at his book most diligently about two of the clock every morning A rare example Verse 14. Neglect not the gift Gods gifts grone under our disuse or misuse and God hearing gives them the wings of an Engle so that such may say as once Zedekiah did 1 King 22. ●4 When went the Spirit of the Lord from me to thee God dries up the arm and darkens the eye of idle and Idol shepherds Zech. 11.17 With the laying on of the hands A custome that came from the Church of the old Testament Gen. 8.14 Levit. 1.4 and 3.2 is laudably used to this day in the Ordination of Ministers but foolishly and sinfully abused by the upstart-Sectaries Verse 13. Meditate upon these things And so digest them turn them in succum sanguinem Let your heart fry a good matter that your pen may be as the tongue of a ready writer Ps 45.1 and not present crude and rude stuff When it was objected to Demosthenes that he was no sudden speaker but came ever to the Court after premeditation he answered Se si fieri posset dicturum non tantum scripta sed otiam sculpta Give thy self wholly to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Be thou in them totus in hoc sis It was Mr Perkins his Motto Verbi Minister es hoc age Thou art a Minister of the Word make it thy whole businesse Verse 16. Thou shalt beth save What an high honour is this to faithfull Ministers that they should be stiled Saviours in a sense So Job 33.24 Obad. 21. Jam. 5.21 CHAP. V. Verse 1. Rebuke not an Elder LAsh him not with the scourge of the tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ne plagam in ●ixeris as a puny-boy Jerk him not as the Pope did Henry 4. of France in the person of his Embassadour or as the Bishops and their shavelings did Henry the 2. of England till the bloud followed This is not civill usage for an Elder Verse 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With all purity Not with some only but with as purity for fear of the worst and least any impure motion therewhile creep into the heart unawares Verse 3. Honour widows indead That is such as are widows not by divorce but by the death of their husbands and losse of their children such as was Naomi Honour them that is take them into the Colledge of widows to be maintained at the Churches charge Verse 4. Let them learn first to shew Such any one is in truth as he is at home Ps 101.2 The hypocrites vertues as that of the Sarmatians run all outward Something he seems abroad but follow him home and you shall soon see what he it ● follow stage-plaiers into their thing-house where they disrobe themselves and then it will appear they are vile varlets Like unto this Apostolicall procept was thee of Chil● one of the wise men of 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to govern honestly a mans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And to requite their parents See the Note on Matthew 15.4 Verse 5. Trusteth in God Whereas while she had an husband and children she trusted over-much in them The Hemorroisse sought not to our Saviour till all her money was gone Z●ph 3.12 They are an afflicted poor people therefore they trust in the name of the Lord. Verse 6. Is dead while she liveth Cùm careat purâ mente cadaver agit Pamphilus in Terence saith the like of a light huswife Sanè hercle homo voluptati obsequens fuit dum vixit Saint Pauls Greek cannot well be rendered but by Terences latine and Terences latine cannot be well put into other Greek Verse 7. And these things give in charge Often inculcate and set on with a great deal of vehemency that religion suffer not Verse 8. But if any provide not That they may have Gaiusses prosperity Mentem sanam in corpore sano Though the Apostles meaning here is chiefly as touching bodily nourishment and outward accommodations Specially for those of his own house Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Infidel took care of the welfare of his family and allies as Libanius testifieth Bishop Ridley was very kinde and naturall to his kinsfolk And the Lord Cromwell before the time of his apprehension Act. and Dson fol. 1559. Ibid. 1086. took such order for his servants that many of them especially the younger brethren which had little else to trust unto had honestly lest for them in their friends hands to relieve them whatsoever should befall him Verse 9. The wife of one man As Anna Luke 1.36 Such are held to be more modest to whom the thoughts of death hath been