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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

Polium is a preservative against serpents And they loved not their lives When one said to a certain Martyr Act. and Mon. Take heed t is an hard matter to burn Indeed said he it is for him that hath his soul linked to his body as a thiefs foot is in a pair of fetters In the daies of that bloudy persecutour Diocletian Certatim gloriosa in certamina ●uebatur saith Sulpitius multoque avidiùs tum martyria gloriosis mortibus quarebantur quàm nunc Episcopatus pravis ambitionibus appetuntur c. Those ancient Christians shewed as glorious power in the faith of Martyrdome Non majori unquam triumpho vi●imus quam 〈◊〉 decem annorum stragibus vinci non pot● 〈◊〉 Sulpit. as in the faith of miracles the valour of the patients and the savagenes of the persecutours striving together till both exceeding nature and belief bred wonder and astonishment in beholders and readers Verse 12. Rejoyce ye heavens Ye that have your conversation in heaven and shall shortly remove your tents thither Woe to the inhabiters of the earth Earth-worms that load themselves with thick clay and strive with the toads who shall die with most earth in their mouths And of the sea Seamen are for most part very profane and godlesse See Jude 13. Isa 57.20 Mr Brightman by these inhabitants of the sea understandeth the Clergy-men as they call them who set abroach grosse troubled brackis● and sowrish doctrine which doth rather bring barrennes of godlines to their hearers and doth gnaw their entrals then quench their thirst or yeeld any other good fruit For the devil is come down Indeed he was cast down but that the devil dissembles and makes as if he came for his pleasure sake and so makes the best of an ill matter Having great wrath Indignation commotion of minde perturbation of spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inflammation or heaving of the bloud by apprehension of an injury Satans malevolence was a motive to his diligence Naturall motion is more swift and violent toward the end of it Because he knoweth By the signs of the last judgement which cannot be far off and by conjectures wherein he hath a singular sagacity That he hath but a short time He therefore makes all haste he can to out-work the children of light in a quick dispatch of deeds of darknes Verse 13. He persecuted the woman As the matter of his calamity The devil infinitely hates Christ and sins that sin against the holy Ghost every moment His instruments also carried with hellish malice cease not to maligne and molest the Church to their own utter ruine for Christ must raign when all 's done Verse 14. Two wings of a great Eagle That is sufficient means of safety and protection from petill Exod. 19.4 By this great Eagle some mighty personage seems to be designed Ezek. 17.3 7. And this may very well be Constantine whose peculiar sirname was Great but yet so saith an Interpreter as that the great honour and riches wherewith as with wings M Forbes he upon good intention endowed the Church is an occasion to make her flee to the wildernes all true and sincere Religion by degrees decaying in the visible Church Verse 15. Cast out of his mouth water Those barbarous Nations Goths Hunnes Vandals Lombards others stirred up by the devil to over-run the Empire and afflict the Church Or else it may mean those pestilent and poisonfull heresies Arrianisme and the rest wherewith the Church was infested according to that of Solomon The mouth of the wicked belcheth out evil things Prov. 14.28 Verse 16. And the earth helped the woman That is the multitude of Christians meeting in the generall Councels those four first especially held at Nice against Arrius at Constantinople against Macedonius and Eunomius at Ephesus against Nestorius and at Chalcedon against Eutychus These helped the Church exceedingly against inundations of heresies and were therefore by Gregory the great received and embraced as the four Gospels And the earth opened her mouth An allusion to Num. 16.22 Look how the earth swallowed up those malecontents so did God root out pernicious heresies with their authours and abettours by the power of the Scripture and the zeal of the orthodox Doctours so that they suddenly vanished out of sight after a marvellous manner Verse 17. Was wroth with the woman Who yet had done him no wrong but he and his are mad with malice when their designs miscarry especially and are ready to sue the Church as he in Tully did another Oral pro C. R●b Pos●h Quod totum telum corpore non recepisset because he had not taken into his body the whole dagger wherewith he had stabbed him To make war That war which is mentioned Chap. 13.7 Which keep the Commandments A just deseription of a godly Christian Aug. Boni catholici sunt qui fidem integram sequuntur bonos more 's To be sound in faith and holy in life this is the kernel of Christianity CHAP. XIII Verse 1. And I stood VVHere I might best see the beast that came out of the sea I saw a beast The Church flying into the wildernes from the Dragon fals upon this Beast which is nothing better then the Dragon under a better shape Sic alind ex alio malum This beast is that Antichrist of Rome Rise up Not all at once but by degrees Out of the sea Out of the bottomlesse pit Chap. 11.7 2 Thess 2.9 Having seven heads To plot And ten horns To push Craft and cruelty go alwaies together in the Churches enemies The Asp never wanders alone and those birds of prey go ●ot without their mates Isa 34.16 And upon his horns The Kings that are the popes vassals See Rev. 17.11 These are the props of his power The name of blasphemy This is his true name his pretensed name is mystery Verse 2. Like unto a leopard Which is the female among the panthers the property wherof is as Pliny telleth us with her sweet smell to allure the beasts unto her hiding her terrible head till she hath them within her reach and then teareth them in pieces Just so dealeth Rome with her unhappy proselytes The Papacy is an alluring tempting bewitching Religion No sin past but the Pope can pardon it none to come but he can dispense with it Etiamsi per impossibile matrem Dei quis vitiasset said Tecelius As the feet of a Bear Which stands firm on her hinder feet and fights with her fore-feet so doth the Papacy with its Canons Decrees traditions c. As the mouth of a lion Wide ravenous roaring and ●●satiable And the Dragon gave him his power This bargain was offered to Christ Mat. 4. but he would none of it The bramble in Jothams parable thought it a goodly thing to raign So did not the vine and fig-tree Verse 3. One of his heads as it were wounded Either by the invasion of the Gothes or by that fatall schisme

Christians Ambrosians Athanasians Homousians c. The Donatists made themselves the only true Church c. Verse 8. And not for destruction If it prove so it is by accident and not as we intend it See the Note on 2 Cor. 2.16 Verse 9. Terrifie you by letters As the false Apostles object against me Aspersions must be carefully cleared when the fruit of a mans Ministry is thereby impeached and impeded Verse 10. Weighty and powerfull As often as I read Pauls Epistles Non verba sed tonitrua audire mihi videor saith Hierome Me thinks I hear not words but thunder-claps But that his bodily presence was not weak nor his speech contemptible See Act. 13.10 together with the Note thereon Verse 11. Such will we be c. That we have not hitherto been so was because we spared you Posse nolle nobile saith Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kindenesse is goodlinesse Isa 40.6 Verse 12. For we dare not This he speaks by an irony whereof he is full in this Epistle and may therefore be called as Socrates was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But they measuring themselves c. Turning the other end of the perspective they see themselves bigger and others lesser then they are So bladder-like is the soul that filled with earthly vanities though but winde it grows great and swels in pride O pray to be preserved from this perilous pinnacle of self-exaltation Look into the perfect law of liberty and draw nigh to God The nearer we come to God the more rottennesse we finde in our bones The more any man looks into the body of the Sun the lesse he seeth when he looks down again Verse 13. But we will not boast c. As any man is more worthfull he is more modest full vessels yeeld no such sound as empty casks do A vessel cast into the sea the more it fils the deeper it sinks the loaden scale goes downward the most precious balm sinks to the bottom The good ear of corn the fuller it is the lower it hangs the head Verse 14. For we stretch not c. We tenter not our selves beyond our scantling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 15. Not boasting of things Ammianus Marcellinus tels of one Lampadius a great person in Rome who through all parts of the City where other men had bestowed cost in building he would set up his own name not as a repairer of the work but as the chief builder Of the same fault Trajan the Emperour is said to have been guilty Whence he was commonly called Herba parietina or Wall-wort Verse 16. In the regions beyond you This was a piece of the Bragadochio false-Apostles vain boasting as it is now of the Jesuites those Circulatores and Agyrtae that compasse sea and land Am. Marcel crack of what conversions they have wrought in India and Afrike and Lampadius-like take it ill at any mans hand that commend them not every time they spet upon the ground Caius the Emperour was ready to destroy the whole Senate because they did not deifie him for marching with his whole Army to the Ocean Dio in vit● Caligulae and fetching thence a few oyster-shels Quibus spolys acceptis magnificè gloriabatur quasi Oceano subacto Verse 17. Glory in the Lord See the Note on 1 Cor. 1.31 Verse 18. Whom the Lord commendeth As he did his servant Iob. chap. 1.8 And as he did his handmaid Sarah for calling her husband Lord though there was never a good word besides in the whole sentence 1 Pet. 36. with Gen. 18.22 Neither was Iob so patient but that he had his out-bursts All which not withstanding ye have heard of the patience of Iob c. Iam. 5.11 He is not challenged at all for his impatience but crowned and chronicled for his patience See here the wonderfull goodnesse of God toward his and take comfort in his white stone against the black coals of ill-affected persons CHAP. XI Verse 1. In my folly HOw foolish were the Pharisees Ioh. 7.49 and after them the Gnosticks the Illuminates and now the Jesuites that boast themselves to be the only knowing men Palemon the Grammarian that bragged that all learning was born with him Sueton. and would die when he died Epicurus that he first found out the truth c. Richardus de S. Victore Parei bist occl that gave out that he knew more in Divinity then any Prophet or Apostle of them all These were fools to purpose The Apostle was put upon a necessity of commending himself so to vindicate his Ministery from the contempt cast upon him by the Corinthians Verse 2. For I am jealous q.d. My dear love to you puts me upon this praising my self With a godly jealousie Gr. With a zeal of God called the flame of God Cant. 8.6 such as was that of Iob over his children for fear they should sinne against God not such as was that of the Pharisees over the Galatians the hypocrisie of jealousie Gal. 4.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Velut ca quae glutino aut ferrumine com mittuntur Erasm 2 King 14.9 For I have espoused you Gr. I have fitted you as things that are pieced together are glewed or soddered To one husband Here the Cedar taketh the thistle to wife tantùs taentillos and doth all the offices of an husband to her He first loveth his Church and then purisieth her Ephes 5.25 26. Abashuerosh had the virgins first purified and perfumed before he took them to his bed He puts upon her his own comelinesse Ezek. 16. as Eleazar put the jewels upon Rebecca hence she is called Callah of the perfection of her attire ornaments and beauty Ier. 2.32 3. He maketh love to her by his Paranymphes his Ministers who wooe for him and present her to Christ as a chaste virgin 4. He cohabits with her Cant. 7. 5. The King is tied in the ra●ters 5. He rejoyceth over her Isa 62.4 5. 6. He doth the marriage duty to her and maketh her the mother of us all Gal. 4.26 Rom. 7. 1● 4. 7. He nourisheth and cherisheth her Ephes 5.29 8. He hateth putting away Mal. 2.16 and provideth for her eternall welfare Eph. 1.27 Col. 1.21 22. Verse 3. But I fear Jealousie is made up of love fear and anger By his subtilty He mustered all his forces or rather all his frauds together to cheat her That old Serpent when he was young outwitted our first parents Now that he is old and we young Ephes 4.14 What will he not do if we watch not Bellar mine saith of his Romanists Romani sicut non acumina ita nec imposturas habent that they are neither sharp nor subtle The devil is both and so are they witnesse their crafty cruell both positions and dispositions This old Serpent having lent them both his seven heads to plot and his ten horns to push So your mindes should be corrupted Satan hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his

Christ there 's courage for courage And as the devil is a serpent so Christ compares himself to the brazen serpent there 's wisdome for wisdome A great Dragon the devil is as being God of the world and red all over with the bloud of souls which he hath swallowed down as S. Peter hath it 1 ep 5.8 Seven heads To plot and ten horns to push men into the pit of hell Seven crowns upon his heads Pretensed authority for what he did against the Church It passed in France in manner of a proverb That the modern Councel of Trent had more authority then that of the Apostles because their own pleasure was a sufficient ground for the decrees without admitting the holy Ghost Hist of the Coun. of Trent fol. 820. That Popish Councel was carried with such infinite guile and craft that the Papists themselves will even smile in the triumphs of their own wits when they hear it but mentioned as at a master-stratagem Verse 4. And his tail drew A monstrous tail for length and strength One interprets it of his dog-like flattering tail Eras Chil. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whence the proverb grew Caudâ blandiri Iulian the apostate drew many from the faith by flatteries and fair promises Luther was offered a Cardinalship to be quiet The Pope offered Q. B. Carltons thanks remem p. 12. Iac Revius de vit Pontis Elizabeth to confirm the English Liturgy by his authority granting also the use of the Sacraments under both kindes so that she would joyn her self to the Roman Church And how the Pope clawed our King when he was in Spain an 1623. is better known then that I need here to relate For to devour her childe As that Dragon Pharaoh so he is called Isa 51.9 sought to make away for the new-born babes of Israel Exod. 1. Thus the Dragon Maximinus devoured Alexander the sonne of Mammaea and thus Decius devoured the two Philips because they seemed somewhat to favour the Christians Thus Philip King of Spain suffered his eldest Sonne Charles to be murdered by the cruell inquisition because he was any whit inclinable to the reformed Religion Constantine the great had like to have lost his life for the like cause but that God strangely preserved him for a better purpose Verse 5. And she brought forth a man-childe Constantine the Christian Churches first and chief Champion Who was to rule all Nations The whole Roman Empire but especially to over-rule and subdue the Churches many and mighty enemies as Constantine did most notably Caught up to God and to his throne To rule in the Church next under God himself And to this height of honour he was caught when the Empire was cast upon him not once thinking of it De. civ Dei l. 5. cap 25. Bonus Deus Constantinum magnum tantis terrenis implevit muneribus quanta optare nullus auderet saith Augustine Verse 6. And the woman fled viz. After the battle mentioned in the next verse was fought and finished See Verse 13.14 Where she hath a place To wit that Temple that was so exactly measured Chap. 11.1 2. called here a wildernesse as was that of Iudaea Mat. 3. because but thinly inhabited The elect are but a handfull to a housefull of Atheists and Papists Or else in allusion to the wildernes of Arabia thorow which the Israelites fled from that Dragon Pharaoh That they should feed her there Those two Prophets Chap. 11. were appointed to feed these hidden ones Psalme 83.3 with the hidden Mannah Revel 2. Their time and hers agree Verse 7. And there was warre viz. Whilest the woman was bringing forth and after that her sonne was advanced to the Empire Michael and his Angels Constantine and his Armies Against the Dragon Maximinus Maxantius Licinius and other ●yrants acted and agitated by the devil Verse 8 And prevailed not They were so totally routed and ruined S●u●tet 〈◊〉 to ● p. 118. that they could never rally or rage any more Iucundum Christiano homini spectaculum est quasi coràm cernere certantem Christum cu● Antichristo saith one concerning Luthers Reformation It was a pleasant sight to see Christ and Antichrist striving for the better For whatsoever the Pope with his Buls or the Emperour with his light-bolts did to hinder it still the Gospel ran and was glorified And as then so ever since ma●gre the malice of Rome and of hell Their late utmost endeavours and some successes for a season were but as the last spruntings or bitter-bites of dying beasts Verse 9. Was cast out Full sore against his will If the enemies had but as much power as malice the Church should never rest But they shall be utterly routed and outed as at this day they are here to our great comfort That old serpent When he was young he out witted our first parents 2 Cor. 11.3 then when their reason was not depraved Now that he is old and we but children E●h 4.34 had we not need look to him and not be ignorant of his wil●s Which deceiveth the whole world Having for that purpose his set and composed machinations 2 Cor. 2.11 his methods artificially moulded Ephes 6.11 his depths sleights coggings of a die c. Verse 10. And I heard a loud voice Great joy was thorowout the Churches of Christ as great cause there was when Constantine came to the Empire That was very remarkable that Constantine being now a Conquerour should cause a table to be hanged up on high before the doors of his palace Euseb in vita Constan wherein was painted a Dragon that lay thrust thorow with a dart under his own and his subjects feet For the accuser of our brethren So the devil is called saith one in direct and full opposition to that speciall name and office of the holy Ghost The comforter or pleader for us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Russians are so malicious one towards another that you shall have a man hide some of his own goods in the house of him whom he hateth and then accuse him for the stealth of them Just so deals the devil many times by Gods dearest servants Which accused them And upon some such articles too as h● is able to prove against them Hence he is said to stand at I●hoshua's right-hand at the upper hand because his accusation was as true as vehement But here 's the comfort Zach 7 38 Heb. ● Christ appear● in heaven for his as a Lawyer appears for his client to non-suit all the devils accusations The Spirit also as an Advocate makes request in our hearts to God for us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and helpeth us to make apologies for our selves 2 Cor. 7.11 But may not the Saints say to Satan first drawing them to sin and then accusing them as he did to Joab Lib. 2. c. 2● 2 Sam. 18.12 13. Verse 11. By the bloud of the lamb By his merit and spirit Christs bloud as Pliny saith of