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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

for Oxen He doth doubtlesse Jon. 4.11 he preserveth man and beast He heareth the young ravens that cry to him only by implication Doth he not then much more take care for men for Ministers Verse 10. Should plow in hope Of Maintaining his life by his labour which is therefore called she life of our hands because it is upheld by the labour of our hands Ludit qui sterili semina mandat humo Propert. Verse 11. Is it a great thing c. Do not we give you gold for brasse Cast we not pearls before you Alexander the great gave Aristotle for his book de Natura Animali●m 800. talents which is 800000 Crowns at least Theodorus Gaza translated that book into Latine and dedicated it to Pope Sixtus The Pope asked him Interrogavit asinus pa●a quanti ornatus constaret c Joh. Man● loc com 572. how much the rich outside of the book stood him in Gaza answered fourty crowns Those fourty crowns he commanded to be repaid him and so sent him away without any reward for so precious a piece of work How well might the poor old Grecian sit and sing Heu malè nunc artes miseras haec saecula tractant Spes nulla ulterior c. Juven Satyr 7. Verse 12. If others be partakers If your ordinary Pastours c. For the false Apostles preached gratis as some gather out of 2 Cor. 11.12 partly to draw more Disciples and partly to bring an odium upon the Apostle if he should not doe the like Verse 13. Live of the things of c. Yea they lived plentifully and richly as appears by the liberall gift of those Levites for Passeover-offerings 2 Chron. 35.9 Verse 14. Even so hath the Lord Note that so saith one that is As they of old lived at the Altar by tithes so Ministers now How else will men satisfie their consciences in the particular quantity they must bestow upon the Ministers The Scripture speaks only of the tenth part Verse 15. Better for me to die To be hunger-starved then to do any thing to the prejudice of the Gospel Affliction is to be chosen rather then sin Job 36.21 Quas non oportet mortes praeeligere Epist 3. saith Zuinglius What death should not a man chuse nay what hell rather then to sin against his conscience Daniel those rather to be cast into the Lions den then to bear about that lion in his own bosome The Primitive Christians thought it farre better to be thrown to lions without then to be left to lusts within Ad leonem m●●●●●uam lenonē 1 citul Potiùs in ardentem rogum insiluero quam ullum peccatum in Deum commisero said a good man once I will rather leap into a bonefire then wilfully commit any wickednesse The Mouse of Armenia will rather die then be defiled with any filth Pintus in Dan. ● If her hole be besmeared with dirt she will rather choose to perish with hunger then be polluted Such was Paul here and such we ought all to be Verse 16. I have nothing to glory of My glorying is that I preach it gratis and thereby stop an open mouth a Cor. 12.16 17 18. give them the lie that falsly accuse me that I make a prize of you Yea woe is unto me It was death for the high-Priest to enter the Tabernacle without his bels Preach man preach thou wilt be damned else said one to his friend Be instant or stand over the work in season out of season See Jacobs diligence gen 31.40 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Pauls Act. 20.20 Verse 17. I have a reward Yet not earned but of free grace God crowning his own works in us He was a proud Papist that said Coelum gratis non accipiam V●ga I will not have heaven for nought And he another that said Opera bona m●r●atura regni coelest is Good works are the price of heaven Bellarm. God will cast all such merit-merchants out of his Temple But if against my will Virtus nolentium nulla est God will strain upon no man All his servants are a free people Psal 110.3 All his souldiers voluntiers They flee to their colours as the Doves to their windows Isa 60.8 Verse 18. What is my reward then My merces mundi all that I have here That I abuse not i. e. M●lch Adam pag. 359. That I make no indiscreet use of it Non opes non gloriam non voluptates quaesivi said holy Melancthon Hanc conscientiam aufero quocunque discedo I never sought wealth honour nor pleasure This my conscience tels me whatever becomes of me Verse 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That I may gain the more The Greek word for gain signifieth withall the joy and delight of the heart in gaining It signifies also craft or guile such as is that of the fox which when he is very hungry after prey and can finde none he lieth down and feigneth himself to be a dead carcasse and so the fowls fall upon him and then he catcheth them So must a Minister deny himself to gain his hearers Verse 20. And unto the Jews c. Not in conforming to their impieties but 1. In the use of things indifferent 2. In mercifull compassion toward them To them that are under the law Though not Jews borne yet proselytes as the Ethiopian Eunuch Cornelius c. Verse 21. Naz. That I might gain them A metaphor from merchants Qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who are never weary of taking money St Paul harps much upon this string out of a strong desire of winning soules to God Ministers must turn themselves into all shapes and fashions both of spirit and speech to gain souls to God Verse 22. To the weak Not pressing upon them the austerities of religion but condescending and complying with them as far as I could with a good conscience That I might save some This is the highest honour in the world to have any hand in the saving of souls Let all of any ability put forth themselves hereunto and if they have not fine manchet yet give the poor people barly bread Act. and Mon 1453. or whatsoever else the Lord hath committed unto them as Bucer bad Bradford Verse 23. That I might be partaker i. e. That I might be saved together with you For the bell may call men to the Church though it self never enter The field may be well sowed with a dirty hand the Well yeeld excellent water though it have much mud Noah's builders were drowned and the sign that telleth the passenger there is wholsome diet or warm lodging within may it self remain in the storms without See 1 Tim. 4.16 Nihil turpius est Peripatetico claudo Verse 24. Know ye not The Apostle argueth from their profane sports yet approveth them not As neither doth the Lord patronize U●ury Mat. 25 27. Injustice Luk 16.1 Theft 1 Thess 5.2 Dancing Mat. 11.17

the motion of obedience to the first mover they passe along from the East unto the West The waters by their naturall course follow the center of the earth yet yeelding to the Moon they are subject to her motions So are Saints to Gods holy will though corrupt nature repine and resist CHAP. VIII Verse 1. There is therefore now NOw after such bloudy wounds and gashes chronicled Chap. 7. Though carried captive and sold under sin yet not condemned as might well have been expected This the Apostle doth here worthily admire Verse 2. For the Law of the Spirit That is Christ revived and risen hath justified me See the Note on Chap. 4.25 Verse 3. It was weak through the flesh Which was irritated by the law and took occasion thereby Verse 4. Might be fulfilled In us applicativè in Christ inhaesivè Verse 5. Doe minde the things For want of a better principle The stream riseth not above the spring Verse 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be carnally The quintessence of the fleshes witinesse or rather wickednesse Verse 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because the carnall minde The best of a bad man is not only averse but utterly adverse to all goodnesse Homo est inversus decalogus Job 11.12 an asses soal for rudenes a wilde asses for unrulines Verse 8. Cannot please God Their best works are but dead works saith the Authour to the Hebrews but silken sins saith Augustine Lombard citeth that Father De ver inrocent cap. 56. saying thus Omnis vitae infid lium peccatum est nihil bonum sine summo bono The whole life of unbelievers is sin neither is there any thing good without the chiefest good Ambrose Spiera a Popish Postiller censureth this for a bloudy sentence Crudelis est illa sententia saith he Verse 9. He is none of his As the Merchant sets his seal upon his goods So doth God his Spirit upon all his people Ephes 1.13 Verse 10. The body is dead Death to the Saints is neither totall but of the body only nor perpetuall but for a season only vers 11. Verse 11. Your mortall bodies As he hath already quickned your souls Verse 12. Not to the flesh We owe the flesh nothing but stripes nothing but the blew eye that St Paul gave it It must be mastered and mortified Drive this Hagar out of doors when once it grows haunty Verse 13. If ye live after the flesh We must not think to passe è coeno ad Coelum to dance with the devil all day and sup with Christ at night to fly to heaven with pleasant wings Beetles love dunghils better then ointments and swine love mud better then a garden so do swinish people their lusts better then the lives of their souls Horat ep 2. At Paris ut vivat regnetque beatus Cogi posse negat That carnall Cardinall said That he would not part with his part in Paris for Paradise But if ye mortifie the deeds c. Either a man must kill here or be killed Camdens Elis Aut for aut feri as Q. Elizabeth often sighed and said to her self concerning the Queen of Scots Valentinian the Emperour dying gloried of one victory above the rest and that was his victory over the flesh Inimicorum nequissimum devici carnem meam said he Be alwaies an enemy to the devil In vita Valentin and the world but specially to your own flesh said Rob. Smith Martyr in a letter to his wife Act. and Mon. fol. 1545. Verse 14. For as many as are led As great men suffer their sons to go along with them but set tutours to overlook and order them So dealeth God by his the Spirit leadeth them into all goodnesse righteousnesse and truth Ephes 5.9 and fetcheth them again in their cu●straies Verse 15. The spirit of bondage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 2 Tim. 1.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The law will convince the judgement but 't is the Gospel that convinceth the lust and the affection and so sendeth us to treat with God as a Father by fervent praier Verse 16. Beareth witnesse What an honour is this to the Saints that the holy Ghost should bear witnes at the bar of their consciences Verse 17. And if sonnes then heirs All Gods sons are heirs not so the sons of earthly Princes Jehoshaphat gave his younger sons great gifts of silver of gold and of precious things with fenced Cities in Jud●h but the Kingdom gave he to Jehoram because he was the first-born 2 Chron. 21.3 Gods children are all higher then the Kings of the earth Ps 89 27. Verse 18. Are not worthy to be c. Heaven will pay for all hold out therefore faith and patience When Saul had the Kingdom some despised him but he held his peace though a man afterwards froward enough What is a drop of vinegar put into an ocean of wine What is it for one to have a rainy day who is going to take possession of a kingdom Pericula non resp●cit Martyr coronas respicit saith Basil A Dutch martyr seeing the flame to come to his beard Ah said he what a small pain is this to be compared to the glory to come Act. and Mon. 813. Verse 19. For the earnest expectation Gr. The intent expectation of the creature expecteth an hebrew pleonasme and withall a metaphor either from birds that thrust a long neck out of a Cage as labouring for liberty or else from those that earnestly look and long for some speciall friends coming as Sisera's mother who looked out at a window and cried thorow the lattesse Why is his charet so long in coming Judg. 5.28 Verse 20. Subject to vanity The creature is defiled by mans sin and must therefore be purged by the fire of the last day as the vessels that held the sin-offering were purged by the fire of the Sanctuary Verse 21. Because the creature it self See Mr Wilcox his Discourse upon these words printed together with his Exposition of the Psalms Proverbs c. in Folio Verse 22. The whole creature groneth Even the very heavens are not without their feeblenesse and the manifest effects of fainting old-age It is observed that since the daies of Ptolomy the Sun runs nearer the earth by 9976. Germane miles and therefore the heavens have not kept their first perfection Verse 23. The first fruits Which the creatures have not and yet they grone how much more we The redemption Our full and finall deliverance Verse 24 For we are saved by hope Hope is the daughter of faith but such as is a staff to her aged mother Verse 25. Then do we with patience Religious men finde it more easie to bear evil then to wait till the promised good be enjoyed Heb. 10 36. The spoiling of their goods required patience but this more then ordinary Verse 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza Pareus Helpeth our infirmities Lifts with us and be fore us in our praiers Or helpeth