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A63067	A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: 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. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.; Trapp, Joseph, 1601-1669. Brief commentary or exposition upon the Gospel according to St John.	1647 (1647)	Wing T2042; ESTC R201354	792,361	772

Verse 〈◊〉 For where your treasure is c. i. e. Where your chief happinesse is there your affections will be setled Where the carcase is there will the Eagles be also Beetles delight 〈◊〉 muck-hils but Christs Eagles are never in their pride till farthest off from the earth they are said even here to be set 〈◊〉 with Christ in heavenly places The Church in the Canticles hath this given her for an high commendation That she had a nose like the tower of Lebanon Siverborum faciem spectemus saith an Interpreter 〈◊〉 poter it mag is dici ridiculum The words at first sight seem somewhat strange for what so great a praise is it to have 〈◊〉 nose like a tower But by this 〈◊〉 is notably set forth that spirituall sagacity and sharpnesse of 〈◊〉 whereby the Saints resent and savour the things above being carried after Christ the true carcase with unspeakable desire and delight The earthly-minded that have their bellies filled with Gods hid treasure the 〈◊〉 of this world and take it for their portion these have their heads so stuft and their eyes so stopt with the dust of 〈◊〉 that they neither see nor savour heavenly things As they are of the earth so they speak of the earth and the earth hear's them As the Grashopper is bred liveth and dieth in the same ground so 〈◊〉 terrigenae fratres these muck-minded men are wholly earth in their whole 〈◊〉 And as the Grashopper hath wings but flieth not sometimes she hoppeth upwards a little but falleth to the ground again so these have some light and short motions to 〈◊〉 when they hear a piercing Sermon or feel a pressing affliction or see others snatcht away by sudden death before them but this is not of any long continuance they return to their former worldlinesse The devil hath got full possession of them as once of Judas by this sin and could a man 〈◊〉 up their hearts he might finde there fair-written The God of this present world He holds his black hand before their eyes lest the light of the 〈◊〉 Gospel should shine upon them We cry O earth earth earth Hear the Word of the Lord but the devil hath made a path way 〈◊〉 their hearts so that the seed cannot enter Earth 〈◊〉 cold and 〈◊〉 so are earthly-minded men to any holy duty Earth is heavy and bears downward so do earthly affections Earth doth often keep down the hot exhalations that naturally would ascend so do those holy motions and meditations Earth stands still and hath the whole circumference carried about it so are Gods mercies and judgements about earthly-minded men and they are no whit moved thereat Grace on the other side as fire is active and aspiring And as Moses would not be put off with an Angel to go before the people he would have God himself or none so the true Christian must have Christ or nothing will give him content Christ is his treasure and hath his heart all his cry is None but Christ none but Christ. As the Sun draws up 〈◊〉 so doth the Sun of righteousnesse the affections of his people And as the hop in it's growing windeth it self about the pole alwaies following the course of the Sun from East to West and can by no means be drawn to the contrary chusing rather to break then yeeld so the Saints as well militant as triumphant do follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth and being risen with Christ and spiritualized by him they seek the things that are above their thoughts feed upon the fairest objects such as are those set down by the Apostle Phil. 4. 8. and run with much content upon that firmament and those starrs in Daniel That inheritance undefiled and unfadable in Peter those palms and white robes in the Revelation They take ever and anon a turn or two on Tabor and are there transfigured with Christ or on Mount Olivet where he was taken up and have thence continuall ascensions in their hearts And as our Saviour in the Interim between his Resurrection and Ascension whiles he walked here on the earth spake of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God and waited for his exaltation into heaven So the faithfull Christian that hath his part in the first resurrection walks in his measure 〈◊〉 Christ walked talks as he talked he speaks of the things concerning the King and therein his tongue is as the pen of a ready Writer Of Origen it is said that he was ever earnest but never more then when he treats of Christ. And of S. Paul it is well observed that when he speaketh of heaven he useth a 〈◊〉 lofty kinde of language his speech riseth higher and higher as 2 Cor. 4. 17. a degree above the superlative so Phil 1. 23. to be with Christ is far far the better so 1 Thess. 2. 19. See how the Apostles mouth is opened his heart enlarged he cannot satisfie himself nor utter his conceptions This a Christian can do he can sigh out a cupio dissolvi I desire to be with Christ whom as he more or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here in the same measure he is merry like as 〈◊〉 never sing so sweetly as when they are 〈◊〉 in the air or on 〈◊〉 top of trees As when Christ with-draws his gracious 〈◊〉 and influence he is all amort you may take him up for a 〈◊〉 man 〈◊〉 cries after Christ as idolatrous Micah did after his lost gods And as King Edward the third having the King of 〈◊〉 prisoner here in England and feasting him one time most 〈◊〉 pressed him to be merry the French King answered 〈◊〉 can we sing songs in a strange land So the good soul is in great 〈◊〉 while Christ absents himself and never heartily 〈◊〉 till she get home to him till she lay hold on him whom her 〈◊〉 loveth Verse 22. The light of the body is the eye c. Here our 〈◊〉 Saviour illustrateth what he had said before of laying up not 〈◊〉 earth but in heaven by a fit similitude Like as the eye is the light of the whole body so is the minde of the whole man If therefore thine eye be single that is if thy minde be sincere If 〈◊〉 have that one eye of the Spouse in the Canticles that one heart promised in the new Covenant set upon God alone and not divided and as it were cloven asunder which is to have a heart 〈◊〉 a heart but minding the one thing necessary as the main and be not double-minded or corrupted from the simplicity of Christ then shall thy whole body that is thy whole both constitution and 〈◊〉 be lightsom diaphanous transparent as a 〈◊〉 that hath a candle in it or as a crystall glasse with a light in the midst which appeareth through every part thereof There will be an uniformity aequability ubiquity and constancy of holinesse running thorow thy whole course as the warp doth

cure was not effected by them but by some other occasion the fathers 〈◊〉 the peoples perversenesse c. which what it was here they make enquiry How unwilling are we that our peny should be held other then good 〈◊〉 How ready to shift off him that 〈◊〉 from heaven and to mistake our selves in the 〈◊〉 of our miscarriages Verse 20. Because of your unbelief q. d. That 's the naked truth of it never deceive your selves there 's no 〈◊〉 will serve turn be content hard though it be to hear your own Veritas aspera est verùm amaritudo ejus utilior integris sensibus gratior quàm meretricantis 〈◊〉 distillans favus A smart truth takes better with an honest heart then a smooth supparasitation If ye have faith as a grain of c. The Disciples might object If no faith but that which is entire and perfect can do such cures as this then we may despair of ever doing any 〈◊〉 Saviour answers that the least measure of true faith fitly compared to mustard 〈◊〉 for it s acrimony and vivacity if exerted and exercised will work wonders Neither is justifying faith beneath miraculous in the sphear of its own 〈◊〉 and where it hath warrant of Gods Word to remove mountains of guilt and grief A weak faith is a joint 〈◊〉 though no faith can be a joint purchaser of sins remission And a man may have faith enough to bring him to heaven though he want this or that faith as to rely upon God without failing Luk 18. 1 8. without feeling Psal. 22. 1 c. as resolved that God neverthelesse will hear him in that very thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Verse 21. This kinde goeth not out Some devils then are not so 〈◊〉 politike vile villainous as others so neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men all alike wicked Some stigmaticall 〈◊〉 face the heavens burden the earth please not God and are contrary to all men Others are more tame and tractable as the young man on whom Christ looked and loved him Yet as when one commended the 〈◊〉 Legate at the Councel of Basil Sigismund the Emperour answered Tamen Romanus 〈◊〉 So though the devil or his slaves seem never so fair conditioned they are neither to be liked nor trusted he is a devil still and will do his kinde they are wicked still and 〈◊〉 proceedeth from the wicked as saith the Proverb of the Ancients I have read of one that would 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 theatres and whore-houses in London all day but he 〈◊〉 not go forth without private praier in the morning and then would say at his departure Now devil do thy worst and so used his praiers as charms and spels against the weak cowardly devil This was not that praier and fasting our Saviour here speaks of men must not go forth to this spirituall fight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with their break-fast as the Grecians in Homer but praying and fasting from sin especially for otherwise they do but light a candle afore the devil as the Proverb hath it Verse 22. The Sonne of man shall be betray'd This our Saviour often inculcates to drive them out of their golden dream of an earthly kingdom which pleased them so well that they could hardly foregoe it It is no easie matter to be disabused undeceived errour once admitted is not expelled without much adoe It sticks to our fingers like pitch take heed how we meddle Verse 23. And they were exceeding sorry Out of love to their Lord saith Hierom out of ignorance and stupidity saith Saint Mark and S. Luke so they grieve where no cause was as we do oft upon like grounds and causes How well might our Saviour have said to them as afterwards he did to the women Grieve not for me but grieve for your selves 〈◊〉 knew well that if Christ 〈◊〉 they should not scape scot free Hinc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We shrink in the shoulder when called to 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and pretend this and that for excuse as Moses did the conscience of his own insufficiency Exod. 4. 10. when the very truth was he feared Pharaoh lest he would have revenged the AEgyptians quarrell against him whom he had slain and hid in the sand And as 〈◊〉 pretended his dear love to his Master Matth 16. 22. when it appears ver 26. he aimed indeed at the safegard of his own 〈◊〉 more then 〈◊〉 Masters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 care be taken that what ever we make believe we be not self 〈◊〉 which begins that black-bedroll 2 Timothy 3. 2. and lovers of pleasures profits preferments more then lovers of God which ends it Verse 〈◊〉 They that received tribute money This 〈◊〉 or half-shekel was formerly paid by the Israelites every year after they were twenty year old toward the Temple Exod. 30. 13. Caesar by taking it from the Temple and turning it to a 〈◊〉 did indeed take away from God that which was Gods This very tribute was paid afterwards by the Jews toward the Roman Capitoll by vertue of a 〈◊〉 made by 〈◊〉 How just is it in God that the spoiler should be spoiled Isa. 30. 1. that the Roman Emperours that so robbed and wronged God should be robbed of their rights as they are by the Popes usurpations 〈◊〉 not your Master pay tribute Is he either born or bought free See Act. 22. 28. But if neither they might had they had any 〈◊〉 in them have spared him so publike so profitable a person that had so well deserved of the whole Nation so well merited an immunity an indemnity But all is lost that is laid out upon ungratefull persons or people Covetousnesse hath no respect to any thing but to its own profit and knows no other language then the horse-leeches Give Give Rem rem 〈◊〉 modo rem without any respect of persons how well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 25. He saith Yes Christ submitted himself to every 〈◊〉 of man for the Lords sake and hath bidden us Give unto 〈◊〉 those things that are Caesars tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome c. So doth not that great Heteroclite of 〈◊〉 he not only detains but demands Peter-pence and other 〈◊〉 paiments from Kings and States One Pope said that he 〈◊〉 never want money so long as he could hold a pen in his 〈◊〉 This Kingdom was of old called the ` Popes-Asse for bearing 〈◊〉 burdens and exactions Innocent the 4 t said that England was the Popes 〈◊〉 and a pit that could never be drawn dry What 〈◊〉 summes drained they hence in King Johns daies Otto one of the Popes Muscipulatores Mice catchers as the Story calleth them sent hether by Gregory 9. after three years raking together 〈◊〉 money left not so much in the whole Kingdom as he either carried with him or sent to Rome before him But I hope 〈◊〉 long the Kings of the earth awakened by their grosse abuses put upon them will 〈◊〉 that withered whore and burn her flesh with

Themistocles to his friend for thou art not Themistocles Ye have done it unto me Christ saith Salvian is 〈◊〉 maximus as one that shareth in all the Saints necessities and who would but relieve 〈◊〉 Christ Look out some 〈◊〉 in whom we may seal up love to deceased 〈◊〉 My goodnesse extendeth not to thee saith David but to the Saints Christs receivers M. Fox never denied beggar that asked in Iesus name And being once asked Whether he knew a certain poor man who had received 〈◊〉 from him in time of trouble he answered I remember him well I tell you I forget Lords and Ladies to remember such Verse 41. Then shall he say also c. Then Judgement as it begins here at Gods 〈◊〉 so shall it at the last day The elect shall be crowned and then the reprobates doomed and damned Depart from 〈◊〉 ye cursed c. A sentence that breaths out nothing but fire and brimstone stings and horrours woe and alas 〈◊〉 without end and past imagination Mercy Lord saith the 〈◊〉 miser No saith Christ 〈◊〉 be packing Yet blesse me before I go Depart ye cursed To some good place then To hell-fire not materiall fire but worse in many respects But let me then come out again It is everlasting fire eternity of extremity This is the hell of hell this puts the damned to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much as if they should say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not ever Lord torment us thus But they have a will to sin ever and being worthlesse they cannot satisfie Gods justice in any time therefore is their 〈◊〉 everlasting But let me have some good company in my 〈◊〉 The devil and his Angels But who appointed me this hard condition It was prepared of old The all-powerfull wisdom did as it 〈◊〉 set down and devise most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that most formidable fire And here it is hard to say whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Depart from me ye cursed or that which followeth Into 〈◊〉 fire Pain of losse or pain of sense Sure it is that the 〈◊〉 of hell are not sufficient to be wail the losse of heaven the 〈◊〉 of grief gna 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 painfull as the 〈◊〉 burns If those good souls Act. 20. wept because they should see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no more how deplorable is the eternall deprivation of the beatificall vision Verse 42. For I was an hungred c. Ill works are the just causes of damnation as being perfectly evil But good works can be no such causes of salvation because due debts to God and at the 〈◊〉 imperfect Verse 43. I was a stranger c. These fools of the people 〈◊〉 a price in their hands to get 〈◊〉 as Joseph by his 〈◊〉 bought the Land of AEgypt but they had no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 son to Henry the third of England was elected King of 〈◊〉 being 〈◊〉 therein before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Spaniard pretended and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have been first elected But being it seems a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 drawing lines when he should have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 and so came prevented of his hopes And is not this many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fault and folly Verse 44. Lord When saw 〈◊〉 c. They were 〈◊〉 and could not see Christ in poor Christians whom they should have looked upon as the only earthly Angels the dearly beloved of Christs soul Jer. 12. 7. The house of his glory Isa. 60. 7. An ornament of God Ezek. 7. 20. A royall diadem in the hand of Jehovah Isa. 62. 3. Verse 45. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one c. Omissions then are damnable 〈◊〉 Ammonites and Moabites were bastardized and banished the beauty of holinesse the Tabernacle of God to the tenth generation because they met not Gods Israel with bread and water in the wildernesse Not to do justice is injustice not to shew mercy is cruelty Where then will oppressours appear that grinde the faces of the poor that quaff their tears and make musick of their shreeks Go to now ye rich men weep and howl c. Iam. 5. 1 2 3. If not relieving of the poor damns men What shall robbing do but double damn Verse 46. And these shall go away c. The sentence began with the godly the execution with the wicked 〈◊〉 that the godly may see their desire upon their enemies Psal. 58. 10. and 79. 10. And also that in the others misery they may behold by the difference their own felicity and thereby be moved to lift up many an humble joyfull and thankfull 〈◊〉 to God CHAP. XXVI Verse 1. And it came to passe when c. THis is our Evangelists transition from the Ministery of Christs Doctrine to the Mystery of his passion He had hitherto taught salvation and now is declared how he wrought it He had done the office of a Doctour now of a Redeemer of a Prophet now of a Priest Verse 2. Is the feast of the passeover At which feast Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. and we were purchased by his bloud as Israel was typically out of the world by the bloud of the paschall lamb our hearts being sprinkled therewith by the 〈◊〉 bunch of faith from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Heb. 10. 22. Verse 3. Then assembled together c. Here was met a whole Councel of 〈◊〉 to crucifie Christ. Generall Councels may 〈◊〉 then in necessary and fundamentall points as the Councel of 〈◊〉 and Seleucia held in two Cities because no one was able to contain them for multitude yet 〈◊〉 for Arrius against the deity of Christ. The truth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be locked up within the hearts of such a company as in competition of 〈◊〉 ages cannot make a greater part in a generall Councell Verse 4. Take Iesus by 〈◊〉 and kill him Craft and cruelty go commonly coupled in the Churches 〈◊〉 Neither of them wants their mate as the Scripture speaks of those birds of prey and desolation Isa. 34. 16. These 〈◊〉 and Elders were so bitterly bent against Christ 〈◊〉 nothing would satisfie them but his bloud All plants and other 〈◊〉 have their growth and encrease to a period and 〈◊〉 their declination and decay 〈◊〉 only the 〈◊〉 who grows bigger and bigger even till death So 〈◊〉 all passions and perturbations in mans minde their intentions and remissions except only malicious revenge This dies not many times but with the man if that as nothing 〈◊〉 quench the combustible slime in Samosaris nor the 〈◊〉 flame of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but only earth Saint 〈◊〉 tells us That our Saviour being reviled did not only commit his cause to God but Himselfe to God as expecting the encrease of his enemies opposition till they had put him to death Verse 5. Not on the feast-day lest c. But God would have it on that feast-day and no other Act. 4. 27. And

sight as well as light we are still to seek Verse 51. 〈◊〉 was subject unto them Labouring with his 〈◊〉 c Mark 6. 5. Verse 52. Increased in wisdome Being 〈◊〉 as Macarius was called whilest a child for his extraordinary grace and gravity CHAP. III. Verse 1. Pontius Pilate being governour TAcitus calleth him Procurator only of Judea But Saint Luke here makes little difference betwixt his office and the Imperiall honour of his Master Tiberius for he useth the same word to expresse both The Earle of Flanders counts it a great prerogative that he writes himself Comes Dei gratiâ Others only Dei clementiâ The Duke of Millain that he is the prime Duke of Europe The Deputy of Ireland that there commeth no Vicegerent in Europe more neer the Majesty and prerogative of a King then he c. Verse 2. Annas and Caiaphas being high Priests By turnes Joh. 11. 44. Act. 4. 6. contrary to the old order Throughout the whole Turkish Territories there is but one Mufta or High-Priest and he is the supream Judge and rectifier of all actions as well Civil as Ecclesiastical Verse 3. Preaching the Baptisme of Repentance Johns note was still Repentance Christ comes not where this Herald hath not been before him Yet now it is come to that passe that many men scorn to hear a Sermon of Repentance It s a sign say some that the Minister hath been idle that week or that his stock is spent when he comes to preach of such a common theame as Repentance If God be not mercifull we shall quickly dispute away all our Repentance as a famous preacher justly complaineth Verse 4. In the book of the words of Esaias Called a great roule Esay 8. 1. because it treates of great things Maxima in minimo and said to be written with the Pen of a man that is cleerly that the simplest of men may understand it Deuteronomie 30. 11. Verse 5. Every vally shall be filled Every hole or hollow Fainting of heart unfits the way for Christ as well as the swelling hills of pride Plain things will joyn in every point one with another not so rough and hollow things so plain spirits close with Gods Truths not so those that are swolne and uneven Verse 6. All flesh shall see Viz. All that order their conversation aright Psal. 50. 23. which is the life of thankfulnesse ib. Verse 7 8 9. See the Notes on Matthew 3. 7 8 9 10. Verse 10. What shall we doe q. d. What are those fruits worthy of Repentance that we in our places must bring forth Verse 11. He that hath two coates Thus Tyrus evidenced her repentance Isa. 23. 18. by feeding and cloathing Gods Saints with her merchandize Thus Zacheus Dorcas c. This is all the lesson that for the present he sets them being but young scholars in the schoole of Christ. Verse 13. Exact no more Make no more of your places then ye may with a good conscience Shun that mystery of iniquity that is crept into most callings A great part of the Turks Civil Justice at this day is grounded upon Christs words Thou shalt not do what thou wouldst not have done to thee Verse 14. Do violence to no man Shake no man by the shoulders tosse no man to and fro to put him into a fright smite no man with the fist of wickednesse Tamerlaine took such order with his Souldiers that none were injuried by them If any souldier of his had but taken an apple or the like from any man he died for it One of his souldiers having taken a little milk from a country woman and she thereof complaining he caused the said souldier to be presently killed and his stomack to be ript where the milk that he had of late drunk being found he contented the woman and so sent her away who had otherwise undoubtedly dyed for her false accusation had it not so appeared Neither accuse any falsely Get nothing by sycophancie Oppresse no man either by force or fraud and forged cavilation as it is rendred Luke 19. 8. Verse 15. Whether he were the Christ Yet John did no miracle but he was a burning and a shining light he thundered in his doctrine and lightened in his life Hence was he so much admired Verse 16. The latchet of whose shooes c. By this expression the Baptist acknowledgeth Christs Godhead as did also Mary by washing his feet But what doth the Pope that holds forth his feet to be kissed Is not this he that sits as God in the Temple of God Is not this Dominus Deus noster Papa Learned he not this abominable insolency of Dioclesian that bloudy Persecutor who as he was the first Roman Emperour that would be worshipped as God so he was the first that wore shooes embellished with precious stones and held forth his feet to be kissed of his prostrate suitors Verse 17. Whose fanne Viz. The preaching of the Gospel Verse 19. For Herodias his brother Philips wife Whom it was not lawfull for Herod to have though Philip were dead as Josephus saith he was This was the case so much controverted here and beyond Seas in Henry the eighths time touching his marriage with his brother Arthurs widow by Papall dispensation The King had first a scruple cast into his mind about it by the Bishop of Baion the French Embassadour who came to him to consult of a Marriage between the Lady Mary and the Duke of Orleans whether Mary were legitimate c. This gave occasion to the casting the Popes authority out of England Mary was forced for fear of death to renounce the Bishop of Rome and to acknowledge her Mothers marriage to have bin incestuous and unjust c. Though afterwards she set up the Pope here again and it was her policy so to get and keep the Crown upon 〈◊〉 head And for all the evills which Herod c. John reproved him with the same liberty that Herod committed them So did John Chrysostome the great ones of his time Ità quidem ut etiam Ducum Eutropii Gainae imò ipsius Imperatoris errata reprehenderet He spared not Dukes Princes nay not the Emperour himself Verse 20. Added yet this There is no stint in sin but as one wedge makes way for another so here As after Jonathan and 〈◊〉 Armour-bearer came the whole host So. Verse 21. And praying the heaven was opened Prayer is the key of Gods Kingdom And must be used as at other times so especially when we or ours receive the Sacraments though the most if urged hereto must say if they say truely as 1 Sam. 17. 39. I cannot go with these accoutrements for I am not accustomed to them Verse 23. Being as was supposed But falsly for Joseph was no more then his Pater politicus as Postellus calleth him his foster-father reputed father Which was the sonne of Heli That is his son in law For Heli was Maries

The ground of a certain rich man Gr. The country for he had laid field to field till he was the only land-holder thereabouts and had a country of corn Esay 58. Verse 17. And he thought within himself He was up with the more and down with the lesse he cast up his reckonings as covetous mens manner is and after long debate to and fro concluded what to do He talked to himself c. A marvelous proper word for the purpose Verse 19. 〈◊〉 and drink and be merry A right Epicure one that had made his gut his God another Sardanapalus that did eate that in earth that he disgested in hell as Augustine hath it Verse 20. Thou foole this night c. This rich foole when like a Jay he was pruning himself in the boughs came tumbling down with the arrow in his side his glasse was run when he thought it to be but new turned He chopt into the earth before he was aware like as one that walking in a field cover'd with snow falleth into a pit suddenly He was shot as a bird with a bolt whilst he gazed at the bow And this may be any mans case Which made Austin say he would not for the gain of a world be an Atheist for one half hour because he knew not but God might in that time call him Then whose shall those things be c. As thy friends are scrambling for thy goods worms for thy body so devils for thy soul. We read of Henry Beauford that rich and wretched Cardinall Bishop of Winchester and Chancellour of England in the reign of King Henry the Sixth that perceiving he must needs die he murmur'd that his riches could not repreive him Fie quoth he will not Death be hired will mony do nothing No its righteousnesse only that delivereth from death Verse 26. For the rest For superfluities when ye cannot provide your selves of necessaries Verse 29. Neither be ye of doubtfull mind Hang not in suspence as meteors doe in the ayre not certaine whether to hang or fall to the ground Meteoradicta volunt quod animos hominum suspensos dubios et quasi fluctuantes faciant Aristotle himselfe confesseth that of some meteors he knew not what to say though of some other he could say somewhat One Interpreter renders this word Make not discourses in the ayre as the covetous man doth when his head is tossed with the cares of getting or feares of losing commodity Or it may note his endlesse framing of projects for the compassing of his desires The Syriack rendreth it Let not your thoughts be distracted about these things Surely as a clock can never stand still so long as the plummets hang thereat so neither can a worldlings heart for cares and anxieties These suffer him not to rest night or day being herein like unto the flyes of Egypt or those tyrants Esay 16. Verse 32. Feare not little flock Gr Little little flock There is in the originall a double diminutive If we divide the known parts of the world into three equall Parts the Christians part is but as five the Mahometans as sixe and the Idolaters as nineteene Among the best Churches the most are the worst as Philip 3. 18. Chrysostome could not find an hundred in Antioch that he could be well perswaded of that they should be saved Verse 33. A treasure in the heavens As a merchant being to travell into a farre countrey doth deliver his money here upon the 〈◊〉 that so he may be sure to receive it againe at his arrivall in that Countrey so let us that are passing into another Country lay up something that may stand us in stead in that day Verse 34. There will your heart be your inwardest affection your 〈◊〉 joy and trust Verse 35. Let your loynes be girded It implyes 1. Readinesse 2. Nimblenesse handinesse and handsomenesse A loose discinct and diffluent mind is unfit to serve God Here it is ungirt unblest Verse 37. Blessed are those servants So verse 38. and 43. They are three times said to be blessed that watch Terque quaterque beati Faelices ter et 〈◊〉 Verse 47. Which knew his Lords will None are so filled with Gods wrath as knowing men Sapientes sapienter descendunt in 〈◊〉 saith Bernard The Devill is too hard for them Verse 48. Much is given To know our masters will is the great talent of all o her There is a Much in that There is a speciall depositum as the word here used importeth Verse 49. To send fire on the earth That is that persecution that is Evangelii genius as Calvin wrote to the French King and dogges at the heeles the preaching of the truth Verse 50. And how am I straitened This painfull preconceit of his passion was a part of our Saviours passion This made him spend many a night in prayer bewayling our sins and imploring Gods grace and he was heard in that which he requested Heb. 5. Verse 57. yea and why 〈◊〉 of yourselves By consulting with your owne consciences which would if rightly dealt with tell you that I am that Messias you have so long look't for Verse 58. Give diligence Purus putus 〈◊〉 saith Drusius Da operam Id est festina labora omnesque 〈◊〉 cogita quomodo ab eo libereris as Theophylact expounds it Be at utmost paines to get freed from him Verse 59. till thou hast paid the very last 〈◊〉 It is good to compound quickly with the Lord and to take up the suite before it come to execution and judgement lest we be forced to pay not onely the main debt but the arrearages too that is the time of Gods long-suffering and patience here and 〈◊〉 CHAP. XIII Verse 1. Told him of the Galileans SO called from Judas Gaulonites or Galilaeus their Captaine to whose faction also belonged those foure thousand murderers Act. 21. 38. For Pilate had not authority over the Galileans properly so called See Ioseph lib. 18. cap. 2. Verse 2. because they suffered such things None out of hell ever suffered more then those worthyes Heb. 11. Shall any therefore condemne that generation of 〈◊〉 children Psal. 73. 15 See 〈◊〉 4. 6. Dan. 9. 12. Verse 3. Except 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aut pereundum Men must either turne from sinne or burne in hell Verse 5. 〈◊〉 except 〈◊〉 repent Except the best of you all repent more and more when yee see the examples of Gods wrath c. God would not have the wounds of godly sorrow so healed up in his owne children but that they should bleed afresh upon every good occasion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plagis 〈◊〉 medicamenta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Make best use of others miseries Verse 7. Cut it 〈◊〉 Trees that are not for fruit are for the fire God will lay downe his basket and take up his axe He will not alwayes serve men for a sinning-stock Verse 8. Lord let it 〈◊〉 this yeare Happy that people that have praying