Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	salvation_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,577	5	11.7800	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

diffused But be ye blamelesse and harmlesse the sonnes of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation as the Baptist was among whom ye shine as lights in the world as those great lights the Sun and Moon so the word signifieth so that they that speak evil of you may be judged as 〈◊〉 as those Atlantes that curse the rising Sun because it scorcheth them Be as thestarres at least which are said to affect these inferiour bodies by their influence motion and light So good Ministers as fixed starres in the Churches firmament by the influence of their lips feed by the regular motion of their lives confirm and by the light of both inlighten many And with such orient starres this Church of ours blessed be God like a bright skie in a clear evening sparkleth and is bespangled though not in every part yet in every zone and quarter of it A City that is set on a hill cannot be hid As that City that 's mounted on seven hills Roma Radix Omnium Malorum and cannot be hid but is apparently discerned and discried to be that great City Babylon So Augustine and other writers call it so Bellarmine and Ribera the Jesuites yeeld it Joannes de 〈◊〉 in his Mare historiarum telleth us that 〈◊〉 the Emperour was once in a minde to make Rome the seat of his Empire as of old it had been And having built a stately Palace there where formerly had stood the Palace of Julian the Apostate the Romanes being much against it he gave over the worke The 〈◊〉 Zonaras and 〈◊〉 report the like of Constans nephew to Heraclius 340 years before Otho Now that these and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 took not 〈◊〉 Genebrard saith it was a speciall pruvidence of God to the end that the kingdom of the Church foretold by Daniel might have Rome for its seat If he had said the kingdom of Antichrist foretold by St Paul and likewise by John the Divine he had divined aright But to return from whence we are digressed A Minister whiles he 〈◊〉 a private person stood in the croud as it were but no sooner entred into his office then he is 〈◊〉 upon the stage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are upon him as they were upon Saul who was higher by head and shoulders then the rest of the people Now therefore as the tree of 〈◊〉 was sweet to the taste and fair to the eye and as in Absolom there was no 〈◊〉 from head to foot so should it be with Gods Ministers Singular holinesse is 〈◊〉 of such 〈◊〉 those that quarter armes with the Lord Christ whom they serve 〈◊〉 the Gospel The Priests of the Law were to be neither 〈◊〉 nor defective And the Ministers of the 〈◊〉 for the word Priest is never used for such by the Apostles no nor by the 〈◊〉 ancient Fathers as Bellarmine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stamps and paterns to the beleevers in word and conversation every thing in them is eminent and exemplary The world though unjustly looks for Angelicall perfection in them and as the 〈◊〉 deviation in a starre is soon noted so is it in such 〈◊〉 happy he that with Samuel Daniel Paul and others can be acquitted and approved by himself in private in publike by others in both 〈◊〉 God That can by his spotlesse conversation slaughter 〈◊〉 stop 〈◊〉 open mouth and draw 〈◊〉 if not from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Mr Bradford the Martyr was had in so great 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 with all good men that a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knew him but by fame 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his death yea 〈◊〉 number also of Papists themselves wished heartily his life And of Mr Bucer it is reported that he brought all men into such admiration of him that neither his friends could sufficiently praise him nor his enemies in any point finde fault with his singular life and sincere doctrine Bishop Hoopers life was so good that no kinde of slander although divers went about to reprove it could fasten any fault upon him And the mans life saith Erasmus concerning Luther whom he greatly loved not is approved of all men neither is this any small prejudice to his enemies that they can tax him for nothing Verse 15. Neither do men light a candle to put it under a 〈◊〉 c. Nor doth God set up a Minister and so light a lynk or torch as the word here signifieth amongst a people but for the diffusing of the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The heavenly bodies illighten not their own 〈◊〉 only but send forth their beams far and near The grace of God that is the doctrine of grace that bringeth salvation hath appeared or shone-forth as a candle on a candlestick or as a beacon on a hill Teaching us to deny ungodlinesse c. The Priests lips must not only preserve knowledge but also present it to the people who shall seek it at his mouth And 〈◊〉 Baptist that burning and shining light was to give the knowledge of salvation not by way of infusion for so God only but by way of instruction The same word in the holy tongue that signifieth to understand signifieth also to instruct and to 〈◊〉 They that teach others what they know themselves as Abraham did those of his 〈◊〉 and family shall know more of Gods minde yea they shall be as Abraham was both of his Court and Council But the Lord likes not such empty vines as with Ephraim bear fruit to themselves such idle servants as thrust their hands into their bosoms dig their talents into the earth hide their candles under a bed or bushel living and lording it as if their lips were their own barrelling and hoarding up their gifts as rich cormorants do their corn refusing to give down their milk as curst kine or resolving to speak no more then what may breed applause and admiration of their worth and wisedom as proud self-seekers The 〈◊〉 of the spirit was given to profit withall And the Philippians were all partakers or compartners of St Pauls grace which he elsewhere calleth the gift bestowed on us for many that we may serve one another in love yea make our selves servants to all that we may 〈◊〉 some Certainly the gifts of such shall not perish in the use or be the worse for wearing but the better and brighter as the torch by tapping they shall grow in their hands as the 〈◊〉 in our Saviours as the widows oyl as that great mountain of salt in Spain de quo quaentum demas tantum 〈◊〉 which the more you take from it the more it increaseth Or lastly as the fountains or wells which by much drawing are made better and sweeter as St Basil observeth and common experience confirmeth And it giveth light to

though fearfull stir not at the great noise of the sea whereunto they are accustomed and as birds that build in a belfree startle not at the tolling of the bell Shake off the dust of your feet In token that you sought not theirs but them and that you will not carry away so much as any of their accursed dust that you will not have any communion at all with them wait no longer upon them that the dust of those feet that should have been beautifull shall be fatall and ferall to them that God shall hence-forward beat them here as small as dust with his heavy judgements as with an iron-mace and that hereafter he shall shake them off as dust when they come to him for salvation at the last judgement Verse 15. It shall be more tolerable God can better bear any thing then the abuse of his free grace in the offers of mercy Profligate professours and Profane Gospellers shall one day wish Oh that I had been a Sedomite that I had neuer heard a Sermon or oh that I might hear but one Sermon more c. Should Solemon forsake that God that had appeared unto him twice Good turns aggrauate unkindnesses and nothing more torments those in hell then to think that they might have been happy had they been worthy their years as they say Verse 16. Bebold I send you forth c. This might seem incredible to the Disciples sith they were sent among the lost sheep of Israel But strange though it seem 't is not so strange as true Look for it therefore Behold Christ was in no such danger from Herod that fox as from those wolves the Pharisees As sheep in the midst of wolves Who would make it their work to worry the flock and suck their bloud as did Saul that wolfe of the Tribe of Benjamin and the Primitive Persecutours Under Dioclesian seventeen thousand Christians are said to have been slain in one moneth amongst whom also was Serena the Empresse Those ten Persecutions were so cruel that St Hierom writes in one of his Epistles that for every day in the year were murdered 5000. excepting only the first day of January St Paul fell into the hands of that Lion Nero qui orientem fidem primus Romae cruentavit as Tertullian hath it who therefore also calleth him Dedicatorem damnationis Christianorum All the rest of the Apostles are reported to have died by the hands of tyrants save only St Iohn who in contempt of Christianity and of Christ that is by interpretation Gods Anointed was cast by Domitian into a vessel of scalding oyl but came forth fresh and unhurt by a miracle After this the Arrian hereticks raged extreamly and made great havock of the innocent Lambs of Christ. Giezerichus an Arrian King of Vandals is said to have exceeded all that went afore him in cruelty towards the Orthodox side of both sexes In that Laniena Parifiensis 30000. Protestants were basely butchered in one moneth 300000. in one year Stokesly Bishop of London boasted upon his death-bed that he had been the death of fifty hereticks in his time His successour Bonner was called the common cut-throat and flaughter-slave generall to all the Bishops of England And therefore said a good woman that told him so in a Letter it is wisdome for me and all other simple sheep of the Lord to keep us out of your butcherly stall as long as we can Especially seeing you have such store already that you are not able to drink all their bloud lest you should break your belly and 〈◊〉 let them lye still and die for hunger Thus she But that above all is most horrid and hatefull that is related of the Christians in Calabria Anno 1560. For being all thrust up in oue house together saith M. Fox as in a sheepfold the Executioner comes in and among them takes one and blindfolds him with a muffler about his eyes and so leadeth him forth to 〈◊〉 larger place where he commandeth him to kneel down Which being so done he cutteth his throat and so 〈◊〉 him half dead Then taking his butchers knife and muffler all of gore bloud he cometh again to the rest and so leadeth them one after another and dispatcheth them all to the number of 88. All the aged went to death more chearfully the younger were more timerous I tremble and shake saith a Romanist out of whose Letter to his Lord all this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to remember how the 〈◊〉 held his bloudy knife between his teeth with the bloudy mufler in his hand and his arms all in gore bloud up to the elbows going to the fold and taking every one of them one after another by the hand and so dispatching them all no otherwise then doth a butcher kill his calves and sheep Be ye therefore wise as serpents c. Let 〈◊〉 be mixt with warinesse saith 〈◊〉 that it 〈◊〉 be the meeknesse of wisdome Jam. 3 13. We must be neither foxes nor yet asses Meeknesse many times brings on injuries a crow will stand upou a sheeps back pulling off wool from her side Now therefore as we must labour for columbine simplicity and be no horned beasts to pelt or gore others as the word here signifies so for serpentine subtilty too that we cast not our selves upon needlesse dangers The Roman rule was nec fugere nec sequi Christianity callethus not to a weak simplicity but allowes us as much of the serpent as of the dove The dove without the serpent is easily caught the serpent without the dove stings deadly Religion without policy is too simple to be safe Policy without Religion is too subtle to be good Their match makes themselves secure and many happy A serpents eye is a singular ornament in a doves head Harmlesse as doves That neither provoke the hawke not project revenge but when pursued they save themselves if they can by flight not by fight Sometimes they sit in their dove-cotes and see their nests destroyed their young ones taken away and killed before their eyes neither ever do they offer to rescue or revenge which all other fouls doe seem in some sort to doe Verse 17. But beware of men Absurd and wicked men saith Paul bruitish men skilfull to destroy saith the Prophet Men-eaters saith the Psalmist Cannibals that make no more conscience to mischief Gods people then to eat a meals meat when they are hungry These be those Lycanthropi those wolves mentioned in the former verse These are those mankinde men that St Paul met with at Ephesus 1 Cor. 15. 32. He fought wiih beasts after the manner of men that is as some interpret it men fought with him after the manner of beasts Such a man was that monster of Millain in Bodin de Repub. Such were the Primitive Persecutours and such are the Pseudo-Catholicks of these times A Dutch-woman they buried alive for religion with thorns under her Another they shamefully defiled