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ground_n	knowledge_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	18	3	9.0491	4	false

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A63069	A commentary or exposition upon these following books of holy Scripture Proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel & Daniel : being a third volume of annotations upon the whole Bible / by John Trapp ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing T2044; ESTC R11937	1,489,801	1,015

might want pride This was to do as that foolish Philosopher that pluckt out his eyes to avoid the danger of uncleanness or as the silly Frier to whom Sir Thomas Moore wrote thus Tu benè cavisti ne te ulla occidere possit Litera Nam nota est litera nulla tibi But men must get knowledge and lest it puff them up swelling them beyond measure they must get humility laid on as a weight to keep them down Forget it not For so much a man learns as hee remembers The promise also of salvation is limited to the condition of keeping in memory what wee have received 1 Cor. 15.2 Vers 6. Forsake her not c. Wisdome is her own reward if shee forsake us it is because the desertion is first on our part But shee cannot but bee justified of her own true children falling stars were never but Meteors Temporaries were never Christians indeed What wonder though some hold falling from grace sith they mistake common grace for true grace Hence Bellarmine saith That which is true grace veritate essentiae onely may bee lost not that that is true veritate firmae soliditatis which latter being rightly understood may bee called special as the other common grace Love her and shee shall keep thee viz. From recidivation and utter Apostacy caused by the overflow of iniquity Mat. 24.12 2 Thes 2.10 11. This to prevent Let knowledge and affection like two individual twins grow up together and mutually transfuse spiritual vigour into each other Vers 7. Wisdome is the principal thing Say the world what it will a dram of this wisdome is worth a pound of wit Let others censure with the Scribes let mee wonder with the multitude And for wealth hee is rich not that hath the world but that can contemn it As for honour Magnos homina virtute meti●●tur non fortun● prudentes Nepos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virtue is a thousand Escuchious And that is the true Nobility whereof God is the top of the kin Religion the root For without this well may a man be notable or notorious but truly Noble hee can never bee Lastly For learning the Greeks express learned and good by one word as if they were not learned that are not good and the Scripture calls a wicked man generally a fool With all thy getting get With any pains for any price This gold cannot bee bought too dear Make Religion thy business other things do by the by as Aristotle studied Philosophy in the morning that was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but eloquence in the afternoon that was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or as Caesar swimming thorow the waters to escape his enemies Major fuit cura Casari libellorum quam purpura carried his books in his hand above the waters but lost his robe Vers 8. Exalt her and shee shall Have an high and honourable esteem of her and her children Rabbi Solomon out of the Talmudists renders it search for her minutatim in ca singula consectans do it diligently as holding every parcel of her precious as men do the very filings of gold Vers 9. A Crown of glory The Psalmist shews by prophecying Psal 138.4 5. 119.72 that even Kings coming to taste the excellency of the comforts of godliness and to feel the power of Gods Word should sing for joy of heart and greatly acknowledge the excelling glory of God and godliness Vers 10. Hear O my Son and receive How slippery an age youth is and how easily it slips into sinful courses and companies the wise man well knew and therefore ceaseth not to inculcate and repeat the same thing over and over Liquidae sunt puerorum memoria Vers 11. I have led thee in right paths Impii ambulant in circuitu The wicked walk the round so doth the Devil that great Peripatetick Job 1. How long wilt thou go about O thou backsliding daughter Jer. 31.22 How long wilt thou run Retrograde or turn aside unto crooked waies Psal 125.5 The waies of the Lord are right and the righteous shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein Hos 14.9 Vers 12. And when thou runnest Having a good mixture of zeal and knowledge so that thy zeal doth quicken thy knowledge and thy knowledge guide thy zeal For that the soul bee without knowledge it is not good And hee that so hasteth with his feet being indiscreetly zealous sinneth Prov. 19.2 Thou shalt not stumble Or if thou do thou shalt recover thy stumbling and so get ground But say thou do so stumble as to fall in falling forwards is nothing so much danger as backward So hee that is earnest in good though hee may carry some things indiscreetly yet is far better than an Apostate Vers 13. Take fast hold of instruction Nam magnum certamen sustines adversus haereticos Epicureos saith a Jew-Doctor upon this Text Hereticks and Epicures will seek to wring it from thee by wrench and wile Therefore hold fast the faithful word as thou hast been taught Tit. 1.9 Hold it as with tooth and nail against those gain-fayers that would snatch it from thee For th●●● are many unruly and vain talkers c. and so there are many loose and lewd walkers too that would bereave thee of the benefit of what thou hast learned but hold fast that which is good Let it not go Ne languescas furcease not slake not give not over striving against sin and sinners Vers 14. Enter not into the path of the wicked Qui malè vivunt pejus credunt saith One which live ill and beleeve worse Qui aquo animo malis immiscetur malus est saith another Hee that is well content to keep company with those that are naught Fullers holy state 162. is himself naught The River d ee in Merionith-shire running thorough Pimblo-meer remains entire and mingles not her streams with the waters of the Lake See 1 Cor. 5.9 10 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incessit felicitavit Ita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gracis Ga●● 〈…〉 And g● not in the way Ne tibi plac●●● via malorum So the Vulgar Think not thy self happy in their company applaud not their way Verbum ●undi significationem felicitatis habet in multis linguis The Hebrew word to go signifies also to bee happy and Salomon haply here would take it in both senses Vers 15. Avoid it pass not by it As yee would not come near a carrion-carkass as the Sea-man shuns sands and shelves the Apostles simile 2 Thes 3.6 as yee would bee loath to come near those that have the plague-fore running upon them Evil men endanger good men as weeds the Corn as bad humors the blood or as an infected house the neighbourhood Nemo errat sibi ipsi Seneca sed dementiam spargit in proximos Intireness with wicked Consorts is one of the strongest chains of Hell and binds us to a participation both of sin and