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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

same of the holy Scriptures The Platonists affirme that in the heavenly bodies is a certaine flower and quintessence in these inferiour bodies a kind of dregs and sediment Sure it is that all sciences whatsoever are but drosse and dregs to the doctrine of Divinity contained in the Scriptures there 's not a leafe nor a line not a syllable nor a particle saith S. Jerome but hath its sense and substance well worthy to be weighed and observed Here some make question whether it be their part to reade on in Chronicles Ezra and other places where are nothing but names and Genealogies which they conceive to be to us now of no great use The resolution is Pemble of the Pers Monar that they must reade on if it be but to shew their obedience to God in reading over all his sacred Word But besides there is much to be had out of the Genealogies and Chapters full of names to a wise and diligent Reader And what if we understand not can pick nothing out of some such Chapters yet we must know that those places have in them an immanent power to edifie though as yet it be not transient conveighing the profit of it to us till in some measure we doe understand it Sect. 3. SEcondly make the best of that you reade by serious and set meditation thereupon Psal 119 98 99 100. David hereby became wiser then his Teachers Elders Enemies And why Psal 62.11 when the Lord spake once he heard him twice to wit by an after-meditation Reading and meditation are both expressed by one and the same word in the holy tongue pointing us to what we must doe if we will either understand what we reade or retaine what we understand Meditation is a studious act of the minde searching the knowledge of an hidden truth by the discourse of reason A most sweet exercise to those that are any whit acquainted with it who could even wish themselves pent up as Anchorets in the voluntary prison-walles of divine meditation This this is that that makes a man see farre into Gods secrets and enjoy both God and himselfe with unspeakeable comfort We reade of Socrates that he would stand plodding of points of Philosophy A. Gellius in the same posture of body for divers houres together not sensible of any thing that was done about him And of Chrysippus that he was so transported at his study that he had perished with hunger had not his maid Melissa thrust meate into his mouth Democ. junior Crede mihi in Mathematicarum studijs etiam mo ri dulcissimum esset 'T were a sweet thing saith one to die studying the Mathematicks as Archimedes did Vir ingeniosa prosunda meditatione c sine cibo somno nisi que● cubito innixus capiebat per triduum totum Thuan Thuanus writes of one Franciscus Vieta Fontaneio a Frenchman so close and constant a student that he would sit many times three whole daies together in a deepe muse without food or so much as sleepe but what he took a little now and then leaning on his elbow Valere est Philosophari the study of Phylosophy is truly health saith Seneca who therfore salutes his freind Lucilius thus si Philosapharis bene est Epist 15. But I say the onely true health is to meditate with David Horum meditatio valetu●o mea vita mea Scultet Anno● in Marc. day and night on the Word of God S. Bernard saith that he had once no other masters but oakes and beech-trees Author vitae Bern. lib. 1. ● 4. that among them he had got that skill he had in the holy Scriptures that he had profited more therein by meditation and prayer Ascendamus meditatione oratione veluti duobus pedibus c. Bern. then by reading the largest Commentaries These two were the wings whereby he flew into Heaven and had his hearts desire to be taught of God Therefore shall yee lay up these my words in your heart Luk. 2.13 and in your soule c. Deut. 11.18 as the Virgin Mary did laying up what shee understood not and chewing upon it And as David did Psal 16.7 Psal 4 4. Psal 119.24 Act. 109 10. Esay 6.1 2. Anno a d●●uvio 1540Vide quaeso quàm di versa siant ●oc anno in Ecclesia extra Ecclesiam Ethnici in Graecia spectant ludos ●uos Esaias in Iudea contemplatur revelatä Dei gloriam c. Buchol Chron. 541. whose reynes instructed him in the night season whilst he communed with his owne heart upon his bed and advised with Gods statutes as the men of his counsell So Eliah on Mount Carmel Daniel by the river Vlay Peter on the leads Isaac in the fields Esay among the Seraphims seeing and setting forth the Lord sitting upon his throne high and lofty when the vaine Graecians were at the same time tumultuating triumphing at their Olympick games O quàm sordeant huius mundi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 animo ad coelum erecto * D. Prid Lect. O how vile are the tastlesse foolerics of earthly pleasures or the best contents that Philosophy can affoord to a mind lift up in heavenly meditation Such a mans thoughts feed hard upon the fairest objects such as are those set downe in that briefe of the Bible Iam. 1 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch saith that Corio●anus had so used her weapons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they seemed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In vita Cor. Philip. 4.8 till he hath turned them in succum sanguinem till the Word become an ingrafted Word setled on his soule as the science on the stock and close applyed as the playster to the sore that will surely heale Sect. 4. THirdly to Meditation joyne hearty prayer to the Father of lights for the Spirit of Revelation that unction from on high that spirituall eye-salve that so plowing with his heyfer we may understand his riddles No man knowes the things of a man save the spirit of a man that is in him Prov. 20.27 1 Cor. 1.11 Rom. 8.27 which is therefore called Gods candle searching all the inward parts of the belly Even so the deepe things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God But as God understandeth the mind of the Spirit so doth the Spirit understand the meaning of God and we by the Spirit have the mind of Christ 1 Cor 2. ult Reade not therefore but pray first and last that God would give us his Spirit to instruct us that he who commanded the light to shine out of darkenesse would shine into our hearts that he would beate out windowes in these dark dungeons and let in the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 Prayer is as the Merchants ship to fetch in heavenly commodities Prov. 31.14 2 Sam 1.22 2 Sam. 18.27 as Jonathans bow that never returned empty

to be got by the Gospel if a man reade it cursorily and carelesly but if he exercise himselfe therein constantly and conscionably hee shall feele such a force in it as is not to be found againe in any other booke whatsoever Humane writings may shew some faults to bee avoided but give no power to amend them but the feare of the Lord is cleane Nemo adeo f●rus est qui non micascere possit Si modò culturae patientem accommodet aurem Hor. saith David and Now are ye cleane by the word that I have spoken unto you saith our Saviour Sanctifie them by thy truth thy Word is truth Philosophy may civilize Abscondit vitia non abscindit Lactan. Siresipuit à vino suit semper tamen temu'entus sacrilegio Ambr. de Elia jejunio cap. 12. not sanctifie hide some sins not heale them cover not cure them barb and curb them not abate and abolish them Ambrose saith well concerning Poleme who of a drunkand by hearing Xenocrates became a Philosopher Though hee forsooke his wine-bibbing yet he continued drunke with superstition Porphyry saith it was pity such a man as Paul should be cast away upon our religion Plato came thrice into Sicily to convert Dionysius the tyrant to morall Philosophy and could not But Peter by the foolishnesse of preaching converted his thousands Hieron de clar scriptorib and Paul his ten thousands And as Scipio was called Africanus Da mihi virum qui sit iracundus maledicus effraenotus paucissimis Dei verbis tam placidum quàm ovem reddam Da cupidum avarum tenacem jam tibi eum libera'em dab● c. Da libidinosum crude'em injustum continuò aequue castus clemens c. Nunquis haec Philosophorum aut unquam praestitit aut praestare potest Lactant. l●b ● Inst t. cap. 86. another Numantinus a third Macedonicus from the countries they conquered so had this worthy Warriour his name changed from Saul to Paul for a memoriall likely of those first spoiles hee brought into the Church of Christ not the head but the heart of that noble Sergius Paulus After whose conversion he beganne to be knowne by the name of Paul and not till then Act. 13.9 So then the efficacy and vertue of the Scripture to produce the love of God and our enemies to purifie the heart to pacifie the conscience to rectifie the whole both constitution and conversation of a man to take him off from the delights of the world and flesh to make him glory in afflictions sing in the flames triumph over death all these and more doe necessarily conclude the divine authority of the Scriptures What words of Philosophers could ever make of a Leopard a Lamb of a Viper a Childe of a leacher a chaste man of a Nabal a Nadib of a covetous carle a liberall person Isay 23.18 Tyrus turning to God and receiving the Gospel leaves hoarding and heaping her wealth and findes another manner of employment for it viz. to feed and cloath the poore people of God Two or three words of Gods mouth saith that Father worke such an evident and entire change in a man Pauca Dei praecepta sic t●tum hominem immutant ut non cognosca● eundem esse Lactant ubi supra that you can scarce know him to be the same as in Zacheus Paul Onesimus and others Neither need we wonder hereat considering that Dei dicere est facere Gods words where he pleaseth to speake home to the heart are operative and carry a vertue in them together with his Word there comes forth a power as his bidding Lazarus arise and came forth caused him to doe so And as in the Creation he said Let there be light and there was light so in the new creation see 2 Cor. 4.6 As there the spirit moved upon the face of the waters and there-hence hatched the creature so here he spake unto them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 1.2 and at the same time breathed on them the holy Ghost Job 20.22 It is said Luke 5.17 that as Christ was teaching the power of the Lord was present to heale the people so is it still in his Word and Ordinances As for me this is my covenant with them saith the Lord My spirit which is upon thee Isay 59.21 and my words which J have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever The Word and Spirit runne parallell in the soule as the veines and arteries doe in the body The veines carry the blood and the arteries carrie the spirits to beat forth and to quicken the blood Hence 2 Cor. 3.6 spirit is put for the Gospel in and with which it worketh and grace in the heart is elsewhere often likened to seed in the wombe because it is first formed there by an admirable coition of the Word and Spirit till Christ be formed in us It is the worke of the Spirit to make the seed of the Word prolificall and generative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iam. 1.21 to make it an inbred Word as Saint James calleth it not onely able but effectuall to save the soule Surely as the earth is made fruitfull when the heavens once answer the earth Hos 2.21 Rom. 7.4 so are our hearts when the Spirit workes with the Word causing us to bring forth fruit to God And this doubtlesse is that reall testimony given by the Spirit to the Word that it is indeed the Word of God Neither is he wanting in his vocall testimony that inward divine testimony above-mentioned which yet is heard by none but Gods own houshold is confined to the communion of Saints whose consciences he secretly perswadeth of this truth and sweetly seales it up to them This is promised Esay 52.6 They shall know in that day that I am he that doth speake behold it is I. And Joh. 7.17 If any man will doe his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speake of my selfe And as it is promised so is it performed too for he that beleeveth hath the witnesse in himselfe 1 Iohn 5.10 Cant. 2.8 Cant. 5.2 1 Cor. 2.15 1 Iohn 2.20 27. Isay 53.1 Matth. 13.11 so that he can safely say It is the voice of my beloved that knockes The spirituall man discerneth all things for he hath the minde of Christ and an unction within that teacheth him all things to him is the arme of the Lord revealed and to him it is given that which is denyed to others to know the mysteries of the kingdome of heaven So that he no sooner heares but he beleeves Eph 1.13 and is sealed with that holy spirit of promise whose inward testimony of the truth and authority of the Scriptures is ever met by a motion of the sanctified soule inspired by

things innumerable Psal 104.25 26. crawling bugs and baggage vermin vaine thoughts which are very sinnes Ier. 4.14 carnall intentions which this spirituall Law takes hold of and interprets for executions As in Balac who is said to arise and fight with Israel Sed fieri dicitur quod tentātur aut intenditur Ribera in Amos 9.5 Josh 24.9 which yet he did not because he durst not but his will was good to it therefore he did it And the Heathens saw something of this by the dimme light of Nature as appeares by him who judged that Antiochus therefore died loathsomely Incesta est sine stupro quae stuprum cupit Senec in decla Quae quia non licuit non sacit illa facit Ovid. because that hee had a good will to burne Diana's temple But behold the Word of God goes further for it markes and meets with a nocturnall pollution an obscene dreame yea an involuntary evill motion or ere it come to consent though it only passe thorow the soule as a post by the doore or as a flash of lightning in the ayre or as a Dive-dapper on the water Though it be but as a dream only not as Pharaohs dreame which he could remember in the morning but as Nebuchadnezzars dreame which he had utterly forgot Well therefore might our Apostle proceed and say Neither is there any creature no not of the heart that is not manifest in its sight that is in the sight of this divine Word for so I would read the text Thoughts are infinite nimble quick and in a secret place yet are all these things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 naked for the outside and for the inside 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dissected quartered as it were cleft thorough the back-bone as the word there signifies before the eyes of it wherewith we have to deale It is recorded of Moses that being sent on his foster-fathers quarrell against the King of Ethiopia whose daughter he afterwards married and was therewith upbraided by his brother and sister to the end that hee might make a speedy onset he tooke his journey through the wildernesse wherein were flying Serpents very deadly which to expell he trained certaine birds in whose nature he discerned an antipathy with those serpents Huet of Const ex Iosepho whereby he scoured the coast and so suddenly surprized the City Such cockatrice egges are hatch t in our hearts whence issue a brood of deadly stinging lusts which to dispell we have Gods holy Word to cleare the passage that the King of glory with the troops of his royall graces may enter the fort of our soules Iohn 15.3 Now are yee cleane by the word that I have spoken unto you saith our Saviour to his Disciples and to his Father in their behalfe Sanctifie them by thy truth thy Word is truth Iohn 17.17 Psal 19.8 The feare that is the Word of the Lord is cleane and makes all cleane within and without being as a dagger in the throat of wickednesse to let out the life-bloud thereof Psal 119.11 Thy Word have I hid in my heart as an amulet that I might not offend against thee It drives out corruption as the East wind did the locusts of Egypt into the sea and dispossesseth that uncleane spirit that had entrenched himselfe in the heart setting up there his se●nces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 10.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2.11 Luke 10.18 Math. 12.43 and billeting his souldiers there to fight against the Soule It makes him fall as lightning from heaven as our Saviour sayth from the heaven of mens hearts to walke sad and solitary in dry places seeking rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but finding none All places to him are dry and desert though otherwise never so pleasant and populous where he may not be suffered by this mighty Word there preacht to rest and roost in the hearts of the inhabitants neither takes this foule feind any more content to bee there than men do to walke in a wast and waterlesse wildernesse The legion therefore besought him much Mar. 5.10 that though hee had cast them out of the man yet he would not cast them out of that coast for that were as bad as to command them to go into the deep Luke 8.31 that is to confine them to hell sith it is their heaven to do hurt but suffer them to bee thereabouts because the knowledge they had got of that countrey men would bee a more compendious way and course to destroy them than if they should be forced to go further where they had no such intimate acquaintance H ram denast●cam arae dom●●scae praeferunt Petrus Blesens Immundus di●itur 1 Affectione quia diligit immunda 2 Persuasione quia suadet immunda 3 Habitatione inhabitat cord● immunda Iaco. de Vorag Now therefore if among profane Gergesites that prefer a swinesty before a sanctuary they find a house that is a heart empty to wit of Gods holy Word that should have been laid up therein as a soveraigne preservative and swept of graces but garnished with vice for he is a foule spirit and solaceth himselfe in spirituall sluttishnesse thither he resorts and there he resides holding the castle in peace saving that sometimes the Word comming in the power of it disquiets him gashing and goring the evill conscience with unquestionable conviction and horrour The law was given on mount Sinai that gendreth to bondage a place full of bushes and briars whence also it hath its denomination and not unfitly because like thornes it pricketh and vexeth the spirits of evill-doers with a spirit of bondage It was also given in fire and that fire is still in it and will never out Hence those terrours which it eft-soones flasheth in the faces and startleth the soules of such as are not altogether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arrived at that dead and dedolent disposition Eph. 4.19 that those living Oracles Act. 7.38 cannot possibly pierce them If the conscience be not utterly cauterized 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 1.7 the Law will convince the judgement it is the Gospell only that can convince the affections and ingender in it a spirit of bondage and feare See this in Herod who heard John and did many things or as other coppies reade that text he doubted much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was exceedingly amused amazed knew not what to think or which way to look when the word came so close and did eat upon his conscience as a moth Psal 39.11 This set him at a stand and stickled sorely with him Now if after conviction men run away with the bit in their mouths as Herod did and will on in sin whatever come of it their sin abideth Iohn 9.41 as our Saviour said to the Pharisees and conscience though now silenced will have a time to tell them their own It was not long ere