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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

not our selves We are Christs paranymphes or spokesmen and must wooe for him Now if we should speak one word for him and two for our selves as all self-seekers do how can we answer it Verse 6. Hath shined The first work of the spirit in mans heart is to beat out new windows there and to let in light Act. 26 18. And then Semper in sole sita est Rhodos qui calorem colorem nobis impertit Aeneas Sylv. Verse 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In earthen vessels Gr. In oyster-shels as the ill-favoured oyster hath In it a bright pearl Vilis saepe cadus nobile nectar habet In a leathern purse may be a precious pearl Verse 8. We are troubled on every side This is the worlds wages to Gods Ministers Veritas odium parit Opposition is Evangely genius said Calvin Tru●h goes ever with a scratcht face We are perplexed Pray for me I say Pray for me said Latimer Act. and Mon. fol 1565. For I am sometimes so fearfull that I could creep into a Mouse-hole sometimes God doth visit me again with comfort c. Verse 9. Persecuted but not for saken The Church may be shaken Concuti non excuti Duris ut ilex ●onsa bipennibus not shivered persecuted not conquered Roma cladibus animosior said one 'T is more true of the Church She gets by her losses and as the Oak she taketh heart to grace from the maims and wounds given her Niteris incassum Christi submergere navem Tluctuat at nunquam mergitur illaratis As the Pope wrote once to the great Turk Cast down but not destroied Impellere possunt said Luther of his enemies sed totum prosternere non possunt crudeliter me tractare possunt sed non extirpare dentes nudare sed non devorare occidere me possunt sed in totum me perdere non possunt They may thrust me but not throw me shew their teeth but not devout me kill me but not hunt me c. Verse 10. The dying of the Lord A condition obnoxious to daily deaths and dangers Might be made manifest As it was in Paul when being stoned he started up with a sic sic oportet intrare Thus thus must heaven be had and no otherwise Verse 11. For we which live c. Good men only are heirs of the grace of life 1 Pet. 3.7 Others are living ghosts and walking sepulchres of themselves Verse 12. Death worketh in us It hath already ceized upon us but yet we are not killed with death as those were Revel 2. 23. As a godly man said That he did agrotare vitaluèr so the Saints do Mori vitalitèr die to live for ever But life in you q. d. You have the happinesse to be exempted whiles we are tantùm non interempti little lesse then done to death Verse 13. The same spirit That you have and shall be heirs together of heaven with you though here we meet with more miseries I beleeved and therefore c. The Spirit of faith is no indweller where the door of the lips open not in holy confestion and communication Verse 14. Shall present us with you Shall bring us from the jaws of death to the joyes of eternall life Verse 15. That the abundant grace This is one end wherefore God suffers his Ministers to be subject to so many miseries that the people might be put upon praier and praise for their deliverance Verse 16. Yet the inward man Peter Martyr dying said My body is weak my minde is well Well for the present and it will be better hereafter This is the godly mans Motto Verse 17. For our light affliction Here we have an elegant Antithesis and a double hyperbole beyond englishing For affliction here 's glory for light affliction a weight of glory for mome●ary affliction eternall glory Which is but for a moment For a short braid only as that Martyr said Mourning lasteth but till morning It is but winking and thou shalt be in heaven presently quoth another Martyr Worketh unto us As a causa sine quâ non as the law worketh wrath Rom. 4.15 Afarre more exceeding An exceeding excessive eternall weight Or a far most excellent eternall weight Nec Christus nec coelum patitur hyper●olen saith one Here it is hard to hyperbolize Weight of glory The Apostle a●●●seth to the Hebrew and Chaldee words which signifie both weight and glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory is such a weight as if the body were not upheld by the power of God it were impossible it should bear it Joy so great as that we must enter into it it is too big to enter into us Enter into thy Masters joy Mat. 25. Here we finde that when there is great joy the body is not able to bear it our spirits are ready to expire What shall it then be in heaven Verse 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whiles we look not Gr. Whiles we make them not our scope our mark to aim at Heaven we may make our mark our aim though not our highest aim At the things that are seen Whiles we eye things present only it will be with us as with an house without pillars tottering with every blast or as a ship without anchor tossed with every wave But at the things which are not seen Pericula non respicit Martyr coronas respicit Plagas non horret praemium numerat non videt lictores insernè flagellantes sed Angelos supernè acclamantes saith Basil Who also tels us how the Martyrs that were cast out naked in a winters night being to be burned the next day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comforted themselves and one another with these words Sharp is the cold but sweet is Paradise Troublesome is the way but pleasant shall be the end of our journey let us endure cold a little and the Patriarchs bosome shall soon warmus let our foot burn a while that we may dance for ever with Angels Let our hand full into the fire that it may lay hold upon eternall life c. But the things which c. The Latines call prosperous things Res secundas because they are to be had hereafter they are not the first things these are past Rev. 21. CHAP. V. Verse 1. For we know NOt we think or hope only This is the top gallant of faith the triumph of trust this is as Latimer ca●s it the sweet-meats of the feast of a good conscience There are other dainty dishes in this feast but this is the banquet The cock on the dung-hill knows not the worth of his jewel Our earthly house of this Tabernacle Our clayie cottage Man is but terra friabilis 1 Cor. 15.47 a piece of earth neatly made up The first man is of the earth earthy and his earthly house is ever mouldering over him ready to fall upon his head Hence it is called The life of his hands Isa 47. because hardly held up with the labour of his hands Paul

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