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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

Christ will come shortly to see what work we make in this kinde As the manner of some is It was then it was afterwards and is still in these siding and separating times The Donatists made an horrible rent for the life of Cecilia● So did divers other for the pride and profanenesse of Paulus Samosatenus But never was there any schisme so causlesse and senslesse as that of our modern Sectaries Verse 26. For if wo sin wilfully Against the grace of the Gospel despising and despiting it as those that fall into the unpardonable sinne Some good souls by mistakes of this text have been much afflicted as Master John Glover Other odious Apostates have utterly despaired Others of the Ancients have unworthily cashiered this Epistle out of the Canon because of this passage There remaineth no more sacrifice For sins against the law though against knowledge there was an atonement Levis 6.1 though it were for perjury abut for this sin against the Gospel that repudiates the remedy there 's no sacrifice abused mercy turns into fury Verse 27. Fearfull looking for Though judgement be not speedily executed yet it is certainly to be expected Winter never rots in the air or dies in the dams-belly as they say Could but men fore-see what an evil and a bitter thing sin is they durst not but be innocent Verse 28. He that despised i. e. He that with a high hand violated it or fell into any capitall crime and it came to light died without mercy As for those hainous offences that not being discovered and sufficiently proved came not under the Judges cognizance the Lord for the easing of mens consciences and for the saving of their lives appointed they yearly feast of expiations Levit. 16.29 Verse 29. Who hath trodden under ●oot Respecting him no more then the vilest and filthiest dirt in the street or the most abject thing in the world as Ambrose expounds it he disdains to receive benefit by Christs propitiatory and expiatory sacrifice he would not if he might he is so satanized The bloud of the Covenant That is The bloud of Christ whereby the Covenant is sealed the Church purchased the attonement procured and heaven opened for our more happy entrance Where with he was sanctified By externall profession and by participation of the Sacraments An unholy thing Gr. A common profane thing as if it were the bloud of a common thief or unhallowed person yea or of a dead dog In the Passeover they sprinkled the door and lintell with bloud but not the threshold to teach them that they must not tread upon the bloud of Jesus as they do in an high degree that sin against the holy Ghost And hath done despite c. Spitting at him their hellish venome persecuting and blaspheming his immediate effect work and office and this out of desperate malice and desire of revenge without any colour of cause or measure of dislike One that had committed this sin wished that his wife and children and all the world might be damned together with him Verse 30. I will recompence And if God will avenge his elect Luk. 18.7 How much more his Son and his Spirit Verse 31. It is a fearfull thing For who knoweth the power of his anger even according to thy fear is thy wrath Psal 90.11 A melancholy man can fancy vast and terrible fears fire sword racks strappadoes scalding lead boiling pitch running bell-mettle and this to all eternity yet all these are nothing to that wrath of God which none can either avoid or abide Verse 32. But call to remembrance q. d. You cannot utterly fall away as those above-mentioned for as much as you have given good proof already of the reality of your graces After ye were illuminated Till they had a sight of heaven they could not suffer but no sooner out of the water of baptisme but they were presently in the fire of persecution Verse 33. Made a gazing stock Gr. Set upon a theater 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take it either properly or metaphorically both befell Christians See I Cor 4.9 Ye became companions of them Sympathy hath a strange force as we see in the strings of an instrument ● Sibb● which being plaid upon as they say the strings of another instrument are also moved with it After love hath once kindled love then the heart being melted is fit to receive any impression Two spirits warmed with the same heat will easily solder together Verse 34. For ye had compassion Gr. Ye sympathized See the Note on ver 33. And took joyfully The joy of the Lord was their strength as it was theirs Act. 5.41 who took it for a grace to be disgraced for Christ The spoiling of their goods If a Heathen could say when he saw a sudden shipwrack of all his wealth Well fortune I see thou wouldst have me to be a Philosopher should not we when called to quit our moveables say well I see that God would have me to lay up treasure in heaven that is subject neither to vanity nor violence Knowing in your selves Not in others in books c. but in your own experience and apprehension in the workings of your own hearts That ye have in heaven When we lose any thing for God he seals us a bill of exchange of better things of a double return He will recompence our losses as the King of Poland did his noble servant Zel●●slaus having lost his hand in his wars he sent him a golden hand Verse 35. Cast not away your confidence Sith it is your shield and buckler Eph. 6.16 but if battered with temptations beat it out again Demosthenes was branded with the name of 〈◊〉 One that had lost his bucklen Verse 36. For ye have need of patience Whereas they might object But where is this recompence you tell us of Oh saith he You have need of patience to wait Gods time of recompence Good men finde it oft more easie to bear evil then to wait till the promised good be enjoyed The spoiling of their goods required patience but this more then ordinary That after ye have done the will of God viz. By suffering it and long-suffering till he reward it Verse 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For yet a little while Tantissùm tantidùm adhuc pu●i●lum A little little little while Gods help seems long because we are short Now the just shall live by faith In the want of feeling he shall rest upon God in the fail of outward comforts as the believing Jews were to do in the Babylonish captivity Habak 2.4 quoted here by the Apostle though with some variation of words But if any man draw back Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Steal from his colours run from his Captain revolt from Christ turn renegado relinquishing his religion as did Julian Lucian and other odious Apostates My soul shall have no pleasure Christ hath no delight in dastards turn-coats run-awaies He will not employ them so far as to break a pitcher

glory of great acts how much more might Paul Verse 5. Not that we are sufficient Lest they should think him arrogant Cyrus had this written upon his Tombe I could doe all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Arrianus reports So could Paul too but it was thorow Christ which strengthned him Phil. 4 1● All our sufficiency is of God Had not Ministers then need to pray Benè orasse est benè studnisse saith Luther And whether a Minister shall do more good to others by his praiers or preaching I will not determine saith a reverend Writer but he shall certainly by his praiers reap more comfort to himself Whereto I adde D. Tailour on 1 Thess 5.23 that unlesse he pray for his hearers as well as preach to them he may preach to as little purpose as Bede did when he preached to an heap of stones Verse 6. Not of the letter To wit of the law which requireth perfect obedience presupposing holinesse in us Lex jubet grat●a juvat Aug. and cursing the disobedient But the Gospel called here the Spirit pre-supposeth unholinesse and as an instrument maketh us holy Ioh. 17.17 Act. ●0 32 For we preach Christ 1 Cor. 1.23 We give what we preach The Spirit is received by the preaching of faith Gal 3.2 This Mannah is rained down in the sweet dews of the Ministery of the Gospel 1 Pet. 1.22 For the letter killeth Many Popish Priests that hardly ever had seen much lesse read St Pauls writings having gotten this sentence by the end The letter killeth took care of being killed by not medling with good literature Hence that of Sr Thomas Moore to one of them Tu benè cavisti ne te ulla occidere possit Littera nam nulla est littera nota tibi Verse 7. The ministration of death That is the Law David was the voice of the Law awarding death to sin He shall surely die Nathan was the voice of the Gospel awarding life to repentance for sin Thou shalt not die For the glory of his countenance Which yet reflected not upon his own eyes He shone bright and knew not of it He saw Gods face glorious he did not think others had so seen his How many have excellent graces and perceive them not Verse 8. Be rather glorious Let this comfort the Ministers of the Gospel under the contempts cast upon them by the mad world ever besides it self in point of salvation See Isa 49.5 Verse 9. Exceedin glory A throne was set in heaven Rev. 4.2 Not in the Mount as Exod. 25 9. The patern of our Church is shewed in the heavens themselves because of that more abundant glory of the Gospel above the Law And therefore also Iohn describeth the City far greater and larger then Ezekiel Revel 21. Because Ezekiel was a Minister of the Law Brightman in loc Iohn of the Gospel Verse 10. Had no glory To speak of and in comparison The light of the Law was obscured and overcast by the light of the Gospel The sea about the altar was brazen 1 King 7.23 and what eyes could pierce thorow it Now our sea about the throne is glassie Rev. 4.6 like to crystall clearly conveying the light and sight of God in Christ to our eyes Verse 11. Much more that c. As the Sun outshineth Lucifer his herald Verse 12. Plainnesse of speech Or much evidence as Ioh. 10.24 and 11.14 and 16.29 with much perspicuity and authority we deliver our selves we speak with open face not fearing colours Verse 13. Could not stedfastly c. Could not clearly see Christ the end of the Law Rom. 10.4 Gal. 3.24 Verse 14. But their mindes Unlesse God give sight as well as light and enlighten both organ and object we can see nothing Which vail is done away See Isa 25.7 Faith freeth from blindenesse we no sooner tast of that stately feast by faith but the vail of ignorance which naturally covereth all flesh is torne and rent Verse 15. The vail is upon their hearts By a malicious and voluntary hardning they curse Christ and his worshippers in their daily devotions and call Evangelium Avengillaion the Gospel a volume of vanity or iniquity Eliab in Th●b Verse 16. When it shall turn Of the Jews conversion and what hinders it See the Note on Rom. 11.7 8 25. Verse 17. The Lord is that spirit Christ only can give the Jews that noble spirit as David calleth him Psal 50.12 that freeth a man from the invisible chains of the kingdome of darknesse Verse 18. Are changed As the pearl by the often beating of the Sun-beams upon it becomes radiant From glory to glory That is From grace to grace Fulnesse of grace is the best thing in glory Other things as peace and joy are but the shinings forth of this fulnesse of grace in glory CHAP. IIII. Verse 1. As we have received mercy SIth we have so freely been called to the Ministery of meer mercy we shew forth therein all sedulity and sincerity When I was born said that French King thousand others were born besides my self Now what have I done to God more then they that I should be a King and not they Tamerlane having overcome Bajazet asked him whether ever he had given God thanks for making him so great an Emperour who confessed ingenuously he never thought of it To whom Tamerlane replied that it was no wonder so ungratefull a man should be made a spectacle of misery For you saith he being blinde of one eye and I lame of a leg Leunelau Annal Tu●● was there any worth in us why God should set us over two such great Empires of Turks and Tartars So may Ministers say What are we that God should call us to so high an office c. We faint not We droope not we flag not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we hang not the wing though hardly handled For Pradicare nihil alind est quam derivare in se furorem totius mundi as Luther said Verse 2. The hidden things of dishonesty All legerdemain and under-hand dealing They that do evil hate the light love to lurk But sin hath woaded an impudency in some mens faces that they dare do any thing To every mans conscience A pure conscience hath a witnes in every mans bosome See 1 Cor. 14.24 Verse 3. To them that are lost It is a sign of a reprobate-goat Joh. 8 43 47. Sensuall baving not the spirit Jude 19. The devil hides his black hand before their eyes Verse 4. The god of this world The devil usurps such a power and wicked men will have it so They set him up for God If he do but hold up his finger give the least hint they are at his obedience as God at first did but speak the word and it was done All their buildings plowings plantings sailings are for the devil And if we could rip up their hearts we should finde written therein The god of this present world Verse 5. We preach

and the false-prophet are taken and cast alive into a lake c. when the common sort seduced by them had an easier judgement Revel 19.20 21. Verse 11. Why do I yet suffer persecution From the Jews zealous of the Law It is well observed that the nearer any are unto a conjunction in matters of religion and yet some difference retained D. Day upon 1 Cor. 16. ● the deeper is the hatred A Jew hates a Christian worse then he doth a Turk or Pagan A Papist hates a Protestant worse then he doth a Jew c. Non circumcidantur modò sed abscindantur Chrys 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 12. I would they were even cut Not circumcised only cut round but cut off That trouble you That turn you upside down or that turn you out of house and home Verse 13. Only use not your liberty In maxima libertate minima licentia Therefore are men the worse because they should be better Christ came to call sinners not to licentiousnesse but to repentance Mar. 2.17 to take his yoke upon them Mat. 11.29 to hire out their members servants to righteousnesse Rom. 6.16 Hence it is that as S. Pauls Epistles largely prove free election and justification by Christ So the Epistles of Iames Peter and Iohn presse to love and new obedience lest any should argue from mercy to liberty Verse 14. For all the law i. e. All the second table Primo praecepto reliquorum omnium observantia praecipitur Luther The Scripture oft appropriateth the Law to the second Table as Rom. 13.8 Ephes 6.2 c. A man must exercise the first table in the second the duties of his generall calling in his particular calling In the first Commandement saith Luther the keeping of all the law is enjoyned Neither can any one love his neighbour as himself but he that loves God above all Verse 15. But if ye bite c. Si collidimur frangimur If we clash we break Dissolution is the daughter of dissension Camer Medit. hist cent 2. said Nazianzen The Turks pray to God to keep the Christians at variance Israelites in Aegypt vexed one another And Christians as if they wanted enemies slie in one anothers faces This is a sad fore-token of a deadly consumption Verse 16. This I say then For an antidote against abuse of Christian liberty Set the Spirit as Pharaoh did Ioseph upon the chief Charet of your hearts and let all be at his beck and check Verse 17. For the flesh lusteth Every new man is two men What can a man see in the Shulamite but as the appearance of two Armies Cant. 6.13 These maintain civil broils within her as the two babes did in Rebecca's womb All was jolly quiet at Ephesus till Paul came thither But then there arose no small stir about that way Act. 19.23 So is there in the good soul c. So that ye cannot doe the things c. As ye cannot doe the good that ye would because of the flesh Rom. 7.21 something lay at the fountain-head and stopt it so neither can ye do the evil that ye would because of the Spirit In which respect setting the ingratitude aside the sins of godly men are lesse then of others because the flesh cannot carry it without some counter-buffs Verse 18. Ye are not under the Law For where the spirit is there is liberty from the rigour irritation and malediction of the Law Verse 19. Now the works of the flesh Sinners are sore labourers wicked men great workmen Would they take but half that pains for heaven that they do for hell they could not likely misse of it Gnama● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Hebrew and Greek words for sinne import labour Are manifest They lie above ground and are condemned by the light of nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wicked men also hang out their sins to the sight of the Sun Isa 3 9. Verse 20. Idolatry This is fitly set after those fleshly sins as commonly accompanied with them 1 Cor. 10.7 8. Sir Walter Rawleigh knew what he said that were he to chuse a religion for licentious liberty and lasciviousnesse he would chuse the Popish religion Verse 21. Murthers drunkennesse This is oft the mother of murther Sueton. Domitius the father of Nero slew Liberius an honest man because he refused to drink so much as he commanded him Alexander killed many of his dear friends in his drunkennesse whom he would have revived again but could not with his own heart-bloud Once he invited a company to supper and provided a crown of 180. pounds to be given to those that drank most One and fourty killed themselves with drinking to get that crown Verse 22. The fruits of the spirit The spirit of grace are those two golden pipes Zach. 4. thorow which the two olive-branches empty out of themselves the golden oils of all precious graces into the Candlestick the Church Hence grace is here and elswhere called the fruits of the spirit pleasant fruits Cant. 4.16 and 6.2 Ioh. 15.16 Long-suffering It hath been questioned by some whether a man can be long-suffering Sine anxilio gratiae without the help of grace Aquin 2.2 q. 136 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But that which is right is a fruit of the spirit Gentlenesse Gr. Vsefulnesse sweetnesse Faith That is Faithfulnesse as Mat. 23.23 1 Tim. 5.12 Tit. 2.10 Verse 23. Meeknesse temperance Queen Elizabeth was famous for these two vertues King Edward 6. Camd Elisab called her by no other name then his sweet sister Temperance She did seldome eat but one sort of meat rose ever with an appetite and lived about 70. years Next to the holy Scripture she preferr'd as the best piece Seneca's book of clemency S. W. Vaughan When she said that book had done her much good yea said one but it hath done your subjects much hurt M. H●●rick● 3. Sermons Against such there is no law 1 Tim. 1.9 As for the works of the flesh there is no Gospel Verse 24. And they that are Christs When Christ came in the flesh we crucified him when he comes into our hearts he crucifies us Have crucified the flesh To crucifie is not absolutely and out-right to kill Crucifixion is a lingring death no member being free from pain If then we so repent of sin as that which crucified Christ we so pierce the old man that we are sure he will die of it though he be not presently dead this is mortification Those beasts Dan. 7.12 had their dominion taken away and yet their lives were prolonged for a season With the affections Sinfull sudden passions And lusts More deeply rooted in our natures and so not so easily overcome Verse 25. If we live in the Spirit Spirituall men only are heirs of life 1 Peter 3.7 all other are dead in trespasses Let us walk Walk orderly by line and by rule march in rank 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Life consists in

sirnamed Stator saith it was Quia ejus bene ficio stant omnia because all things are upheld by him How much better may this be said of Christ Sin had hurled confusion over the world which would have fallen about Adams ears saith one had not Christ undertaken the shattered condition thereof to uphold it He keeps the world together as the hoops do the barrell Purged our sins By his merit and spirit Verse 4. Better then the Angels Therefore is his doctrine the Gospel with more heed to be heard then the law ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediatour that is Mases Gal. 3.19 Verse 5. This day Either the day of eternity and so it is meant of Christs eternall generation or else the fulnesse of time wherein God brought his first begotten into the world and mightily declared him to be the on of God by the resurrection from the dead Act. 1.33 Rom. 1 4. Verse 6. And let all the Angels of God The manhood of it self could not be thus adored because it is a creature Phil 2.8 but as it is received into unity of person with the Deity and hath a partner-agency therewith according to its measure in the work of redemption and mediation Verse 7. A flame of fire Hence they are called Seraphims because they flame like heavenly Salamanders in the fire of pure and perfect love to God and his people And Cherubims from their winged swiftnesse swift they are as the winde which may seem to be the sense of this text compared with Psal 104.4 5. Verse 8. Thy throne ô God is forever Christ is God then as is here set forth by many arguments God hath laid help in one that is mighty I and the Father am one Verse 9. Hath anointed thee This imports two things 1. Ordination to his office and so the Godhead also of Christ was anointed 2. Qualification for it and so the manhood only And as the holy oil was compounded of divers spices so was Christ filled with all gifts and graces Act. 10.38 but especially with wisdome as a Prophet holinesse as a Priest and power as a King Verse 10. The Works of thy bands Psal 8.3 they are called the works of Gods fingers artificially elaborated that heaven of heavens especially whole artificer and workman is God Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 11.10 The Apostle there intimates that it is c̄uriously and cunningly contrived Verse 11. They shall perish The visible heavens are defiled with mans sin and shall therefore be purged by the last fire as the vessels that held the sin offering were to passe the fire They shall all wax old See the Note on Rom. 8.22 Verse 12. But thou art the same As in effence so in will and counsel Repentance with man is the changing of his will Repentance with God is the willing of a change Mutatio rei non Dei effectus non affictus facti non confily Verse 13. Sit on my right-hand As mine equall in honour and power Verse 14. Sent forth to minister c. The Saints are the Spouse the bride yea the members of Christ and so in nearer union then Angels or any creature This the devil envied and fell from his station CHAP. II. Verse 1. We should let them slip OR Run out as water runs thorow a riven vessel The word mingled with saith in the heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Act. 16.14 must be care fully kept and it will safely keep us Prov. 6.20 22. Some render it Nequando prater fluamus lest we passe by the things we have heard as a river swiftly passeth by the side of a City as the fashion of this world passeth a way as a picture drawn upon the ice soon vanisheth c. Verse 2. For if the Word c. moses-Moses-law Gal. 3 19. Was stedfast Ratified with this sanction Aut faciendum aut patiendum either do it or die And every transgression and disobedience that is every commission and omission Verse 3. If we neglect He saith not If we reject renounce persecute but if we neglect let slip shift off as the word is Heb. 12.25 and as those re●nsant guests did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 22. say we rather with Samuel Speak Lord for thy servant heareth And with that Dutch Divine Veniat veniat verbum Domini submittemus illi sexconta si nobis essent colla Let the Lord utter his minde and he shall have ready obedience whatever come of it So great salvation The doctrine of the Gospel that grace of God that bringeth salvation Tit. 2.11 I am fully perswaded saith a late learned light of our Church that in these daies of grace D. Preston the Lord is much more quick and peremptory in rejecting men the time is shorter he will not wait so long as he was wont to do The ground is How shall we escape if we neglect c Verse 4. And with divers miracles Whereby as by the wings of the winde the doctrine of the Gospel was divulged at first But he that now requireth a miracle is himself a miracle The establishing of the present reformation is and will be that miracle which we are in these times to look for It is that which the former age had despaired of the present admireth and the future shall stand amazed at Verse 5. For unto the Angels c. The Jews as they had embraced the Pythagorean transanimation Mat 16.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. so the Platonike opinion of Angels moving the heavens and ordering the world whom therefore they worshipped intruding into those things whereof there was no found either proof or profit Colos 2.18 The Angels say Proculus the Platonist and Plutarch are messengers that carry Gods minde to men and mens requests to God But who told them all this Egregie dicis sed quomodo probas said Aristotle of Moses may we better say of these bold affirmers Verse 6. But one in a certain place The full sense is Accommodatio est facitis ad personam Christi si interpretes non vellent esse nimli inge niofi Amel. in Psal 8 5. Paulisper But he hath subjected it to Christ as David testified Psal 8 4 5. where whatsoever is spoken to man is here applied to the man Christ Jesus and so is proper to the Saints by vertue of their union with Christ In which respect they are more glorious then heaven Angels or any creature Verse 7. A little lower Or For a little While viz. Ab utero ad urnam from the womb to the tomb from his birth to his buriall from his abasement to his advancement And didst sit him over the works Lions hate apes but fear men whereof no other probable reason can be given but this here in the text insomuch as the most timorous men dare kick and beat the hugest elephants Verse 8. Vnder his feet It is not said Vnder his hands but under his feet 1. That he may trample

with God as the communion of Saints Verse 2. Have entertained Angels As Abraham and Lot who pursued hospitality as the Apostle speaketh Rom. 12.13 and had such guests as they hoped not for The Galatians received St Paul as an Angel so did Cornelius entertain Peter Every childe of God is an earthly Angel and in entertaining them Angels also which are their Guardians are entertained The Philosopher told his friends when they came into his little low cottage The gods are here with me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and his Angels are where the Saints are Verse 3. Remember them that c. Learn hence saith one That it is no new thing for the world to put bonds on them who seek to bring them out of bondage It is very probable that Micaiah was that disguised Prophet who brought to Ahab the fearfull message of displeasure and death for dismissing Benhadad for which he ever after hated him and held him in prison As being your selves also in the body Not the body of Christ or the Church as Calvin senseth it but in the body of flesh and frailty subject to like afflictions so Erasmus Beza Pareus others Verse 4. Marriage is honourable And yet say the Rhemists upon 1 Corinth 7.9 Marriage of Priests is the worst sort of incontinency Is not this to play the Antichrist And the bed undefiled Admonimus in ipso etiam matrimonio quandam esse scortutionis speciem B●z Confess p. 194. siqu● puro Dei dono purè sanctè non utatur ad eum finem cujus caiuâ est institutum saith Beza The Marriage-bed though lawfull may be defiled by excesse c. and a man may be an adulterer of his own wife God will judge The Anabaptists of Germany Joh. Manl. loc com p. 487. inferred from hence that therefore men ought not to punish adulterers for God reserved them to his own judgement Two of them Monetarius and Hetserus were notorious whoremongers being a pair of such Preachers as Zedekiah and Ahab were whom the King of Babylon roasted in the fire because they committed adultery with their neighbours wives and spake lies in Gods name c. Jer. 29.22 23. But what a bold man was Latimer Bishop of Worcester who presented to Henry the eight for a New-years-gift Act. and Mon. 1594. a new Testament with a napkin having this posie about it Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge Verse 5. Be content with such things Not to be content is to be covetous If men cannot bring their means to their minde Clem. Alex. let them bring their minde to their means A little will serve to bear our charges till we come home to heaven Bonus pacis indiget See the Note on 1 Timothy 6 6.8 For he hath said Five times in Scripture is this precious promise renued that we may presse and oppresse it till we have expressed the sweetnesse out of it Isa 66.11 I will not forsake thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will not not not forsake thee Leave us God may to our thinking but forsake us he will not Only we must put this and other promises in suit by praying them over God loves to be bound by his own words to be sued by his own bond Verse 6. So that we my boldly say Having such a promise to build and found our faith upon we may well proceed to this holy gloriation against all opposition Verse 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Them which have the rule Gr. Your Captains your Guides so Ministers are called Your Chieftains and Champions that bear the brunt of the battle the heat of the day and upon whom as upon his white horses the Lord Christ rideth about conquering and to conquer Revelation 6.2 Verse 8. Jesus Christ the same This was the summe of their Sermons Act 9.11 and is the substance of their and your faith which therefore you must stick to standing fast in the street which is called Straight and not wherried about with divers and strange doctrines Verse 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be not carried about Errour is a precipice a vortex or whirl-pool which first turns men round and then sucks them in With divers and strange doctrines That agree neither with themselves nor with the truth That the heart be established Ballasted as a ship balanced as the Bee with a little stone taken up by her when she hath farre to flie in a high winde Ne leve alarum remigium praecipitent ●●abra ventorum as Ambrose observeth lest the bigger blast should dash her to the ground Not with meats As if they were holy or helpfull to salvation Verse 10. We have an altar That is A sacrifice even Christ our Passeover whose flesh is meat indeed John 6. but to believers only not to those that pertinaciously plead for Ceremonies and services of the Law Gal. 5.4 Hic edere est credore Verse 11. Are burnt without the Camp And so the Priests had no part of the sin offering to shew that they have no part in Christ that adhere to the Leviticall services See Levit. 16.27 Verse 12 Without the gate See how punctually the old Testament is fulfilled in the new Hardly could those before Christ divine what this meant till he had suffered it and the Apostle had opened it Event is the best key to types and prophecies Verse 13. Bearing his reproach The reproach of Saints is the reproach of Christ and their sufferings his Colos 1.24 And Nehem. 4.3 5. God is more provoked then Nehemiah He that saith Vengeance is mine I will repay repaies oft-times when we have forgiven when we have forgotten and cals to reckoning after our discharges Verse 14. For here we have none Improve this argument for the working our hearts off from the things of this world the beauty of all which is but as a fair picture drawn upon the ice that melts away with it But we seek one to come And here we must all turn Seekers Seek ye first the Kingdom of God c. Matth. 5.33 See the Note there Verse 5. The fruit of our lips Covering Gods altar with the calves of our lips Hos 14.3 This shall please the Lord better then an Oxe or Bullock that hath horns and hoofs Psal 69.31 This also is the seekers sacrifice v. 32. Verse 16. Forget not We very easily forget what we care not to remember The richer the harder usually For with such sacrifices How improvident are we that will not offer a sacrifice of alms when God sets up an altar before us Verse 17. That have the rule over you Gr. That are your Leaders or Captains But now as once in Alcibiades his Army most will be leaders few learners See the Note on Verse 7. Verse 18. Willing to live honestly Tantum velis Deus tibi praeoccurret David could wish well to the keeping of Gods Commandments Psal 119.4 5. and affect that which yet he could not effect Verse 19. That I may be

by his children at their feast It emasculates the spirit as we see in Solomon whose luxury drew out his spirits and dissolved him It indisposeth men to those exercises that are to be performed by the minde which is now taken up with the thought of what shall we eat what shall we drink c A full belly neither studies well nor praies well They serve not the Lord Jesus Christ that serve their own bellies Rom. 16.10 How can they when their kitchin is their shrine their Cook their Priest their Table their Altar and their belly their god Phil. 3 c. Admonition 1 THES 5.14 Warne them that are unruly Doct. 1 THere are a sort of unruly ones in the visible Church disordered and dissolute exorbitant and enormous livers such as transgresse the tradition saith the Apostle of them 2 Thess 3.6 that is Ephes 5.15 Obey not the form of doctrine delivered unto them Rom. 6.17 Walk not by rule but at all adventures Levit. 26.23 Contra gnomonem canonem decalogi lawlesse yokelesse masterles monsters sonnes of Belial goats wilde asse-colts untamed heifers horses mules Psal 32.9 Quibus vita est incomposita pessimè morata Calvin they run away with the bit between their teeth break Christs bonds as Samson did the green withes shake Christs yoke from their shoulders as the Unicorn Job 39.10 send messages after him as they in the Gospel We will not have this man to rule over us we will not live by his laws Of these S. Peter 2 ep 2. and S. Jude v. 8.9 Reas 1 God permits such 1. For the glory of his patience and justice towards them of his mercy to wards his own who will see and say Who made us to differ Lord how is it that thou showest thy felf to us and not to the world Joh. 14.22 2. For the triall exercise correction of his Saints 3. For a mutrall scourge to themselves as the East by the Turks the West by the Pope for their Apostacy c. Reas 2 The devil effects it That great and first Heterc●lite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that kept not his station but brake the ranks and is become a master of misrule amongst the men of this world whom he acts and agitates Ephes 2 2. carries them along as possest persons through fire and water thick and thin hath them at his beck and check called therefore Children of disobedience sons of Belial taken alive and carried about by him at his pleasure as Bajazet was in an iron ●age 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 26 Reas 3 Men are therefore obstinate in evil saith the Prophet Because 1. Their neck is an iron sinew 2. Their brow is brasse Isa 48.4 This double distemper lies upon every carnall person 1. Naturall crossenesse to the law of God Rom. 8.7 Homo est inversus decalogus 2. Habituall hardnesse contracted by long trading in sin Doing wickedly with both hands earnestly Mic. 7.3 setting their sinne upon the cliffe of the rock Ezek. 24.7 adding to their sinews of iron br●ws of brasse to naturall impotence impudence in evil Jer. 3.3 an uncouncellable wilfulnesse in wickednesse Vse 1 Woe to those unruly rebels God hath a rod of iron for them Psal 2. that those that will not bend may break those that will not be Christs subjects may be his footstool t is sure he 'll have the better of them If they walk contrary to him he will be as crosse to them Levit. 26.23 If they be froward he will be as froward as they for the hearts of them Psal 18.26 They shall have their wils but then he will have his Ezek. 24.13 In running from God and the obedience of his Word they doe but run to meet their own bane as the Philistims did at Mizpeh 1 Sam. 7. Aut poenitendum aut per●undum Aut faciendum aut patiendum Men must either repent or perish doe Gods law or suffer it The law was added because of transgression and is given not for the righteous but for the lawlesse and disobedient 1 Tim. 1.9 to hamper those unruly beasts and to tame them with those four tee●h it hath 1. Irritation Rom. 7.7 2. Induration Isa 6.10 3. Obligation Gen. 4.7 4. Execration Gal. 3.10 And whereas these mens hope of help is From the Gospel which is Quasi post naufragium tabula as a plank after shipwreck that will not relieve them neither For as against such there is no law saith the Apostle of the fruits of the spirit so for such there is no Gospel say I of the wilfully wicked Vse 2 Be wise now therefore be instructed Gal. 5.23 Psal 2.10 Tremble and sin not Psal 4.4 Send a lamb to the ruler of the earth as an homage-peny Isa 16.1 bring presents to Fear or to him that ought to be feared Psal 76.11 Receive the Word with all readinesse Act. 7.11 Give your selves first to God and then to us by the will of God as those Macedonians 2 Cor. 8.5 Gen. 2● 3 Obey from the heart the form of doctrine whereunto ye have been delivered as those Romans Chap 6.17 Captivate your reason as Paul did Gal. 1.16 dispute not but dispatch Gods commands as Abraham did Get an open ●ar a teachable spirit so that a little childe may lead you Isa 11.6 A heavy ear is a singular judgement Isa 6.10 a dull heart the devils work 2 Cor. 4.4 See that ye adde not rebellion to sinne Job 34.37 lest ye adde wrath to wrath Rom. 2.5 And here 1. For time past look on all the writs of ex cution and say as 1 Cor. 10.11 These are as so many types 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 moulds monitours summoners reall Sermons to us 2. For present look up and see as David did the punishing Angel as it were with a drawn sword And though thou maist shuffle awhile from side to side as the Asse did yet think not long to escape 3. For future think seriously of that dreadfull doomsday that shall burn as an oven And Knowing the terrour of the Lord Act. 24.16 perswade others perswade your selves especially to walk by rule and keep a clear conscience that most precious jewel that ever the heart of man was acquainted with Warn the unruly Doct. 2 Unruly persons must be admonished rebuked advertised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bon● mentem indite Daven in Col. 3.16 Amiss● mentem veponite Beza ad mentem restituite restored to their right mindes again as the word here used importeth For sin maketh men sots Hos 4.11 mad-men Eccles 7.25 quite besides themselves as the Prodigall Luk. 15.17 Ye which are spirituall restore them therefore Gal. 6.1 rouse them 2 Pet. 1 13. raise them out of the pit you must his asse much more his soul Exod. 23.5 yea pull them out of the fire as S. Jude hath it making a difference out of deep compassion Or as Lorinus reads and renders that text Arguite disputatos by strength of argument convince them

he ever consented to their Wicked perswasions In Thomas Whittle Martyr who could never be quiet till he had gone to the Bishops Office Ibid. 1632. and torne the bill of his recantation for the which Bonner first buffeted him soundly and then burnt him In Thomas Benbridge who feeling the intolerable heat of the fire cried out I recant and subscribed to certain Popish Articles at the stake upon a mans back and so was led back to prison But soon after he retracted what he had subscribed and the same-day-seven night he was burnt indeed or rather broiled by the vile tormentours Ibid. 1857. The like befell Richard Sharp a Weaver of Bristow who likewise suffered for that truth which he had recanted saying Ibid. 1861. I am sorry that ever I denied my Lord God c. But besides all these that recovered of their relapses What shall we thinke of Pendleton who resolved that as he came not frying into the world so he would not goe out frying Ibid. 1504. but roared upon his death-bed and full fore repented if it were not too late that ever he had yeelded to Papistry and been so sparing of his fat and flesh whereof he had vowed to Saunders he would see the uttermost drop molten Ibid 1363. and gobbet consumed to ashes before he would forsake God and his truth What shall we thinke of Steven Gardner who cried ou● upon his death bed That he had denied his Master with Peter but never repented with Peter and so both stinkingly and unrepentantly died Of Mt West Chaplain to Bishop Ridley Ibid. 1904. who refusing to die in Christs cause with his Master said Masse against his conscience and was so vexed by his conscience that soon after he pined a way with sorrow What shift Shaxton and Harding made to die I know not Ibid. 1558. 1570. A couple of apostates I know they were a Thess 2. and fair warning they had but that God had given them up to the efficacy of errour to believe a lie because they would not receive he love of the truth whereof they could not but be convinced Harding a little before King Edward died was heard openly in his Sermons in London to exhort the people with great vehemency That if troubles came they should never shrink from the true doctrine of the Gospel that they had received which yet he himself soon after did The Lady Jane whiles she was prisoner wrote an excellent letter to him wishing him to remember the horrible History of Julian of old and the lamentable case of Spira of late Ibid. 1292. Return to Christ saith she who now stretcheth out his arms to receive you ready to fall upon your neck and kisse you and cast off all to feast you with the dainties and delicates of his own precious bloud which undoubtedly if it might stand with his determinate purpose he would not let to shed again rather then you should be lost Thus sought that sweet Lady to charm and reclaim this adder but he turned the deaf ear to her and died an obstinate Papist a Prebend of Gaunt Shaxton was somewhat more toughly handled but with no better successe for evil men and seducers wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived This Shaxton in King Henry the eights daies being Bishop of Salisbury at the coming in of the six Articles resigned up his Bishoprick Ibid. 1578. together with Latimer rather then to forgoe the peace of their consciences and so remained a great space unbishoped till King Edwards time who restored them But when Queen Mary came in and changed religion Latimer suffered but Shaxton turned not only a Papist but a persecutour and perswader to Popery When William Wolsey Martyr and some others were brought before him Ibid. 1558. Good brethren said he remember your selves and become new men For I my self was in this fond opinion that your are now in but I am now become a new man Ah said Wolsey are you become a new man Woe be to thee thou wicked new man for God shall justly judge thee And so he did I doubt not it being his usuall course to hang up such notorious apostates in gibbets as it were for example to others He that betraied the Rhodes was well served For his promised wife and portion were presented But the Turk told him that he would not have a Christian to be his son-in-law but he must be a Musulman that is a believing Turk both within and without And therefore he caused his baptized skin as he called it to be taken off Speculum belli sacri p. 157. and him to be cast in a bed strawed with salt that he might get a new skin and so he should be his son in-law But the wicked wretch ended his life with shame and sorrow Theoderick an Arrian King did exceedingly affect a certain Deacon although an orthodox This Deacon thinking to ingratiate and get preferment became an Arrian which when the King understood he changed his love into hatred and caused the head to be struck from him affirming That if he kept not his faith to God what duty could one expect from such a person King John of England being overlaid in his Barons wars sent Embassadours to the Monarch of Morocco for aid offering to hold his Kingdom of him Heyl Geo p. 714 and to receive the law of Mahomet The Moor marvellously offended with this offer grew into such dislike of our King that ever after he abhorred the mention of him Solyman the great Turk seeing a company of many thousand Christians fall down before him and hold up the sore-finger as their manner of conversion to Turcisme is he asked them Voi●ge into the Levant p 111. What moved them to turn They replied It was to be eased of their heavy taxations He disdaining that basenesse rejected their conversion and doubled their taxations The form they use when they turn Turks is this I confesse that there is but one God only Melch Adam in vit Gerla●hij and Mahomet his servant I confesse also that I am come from the false to the true religion and I utterly renounce my former faith together with all the adherent Articles After this they are circumcised and doe put on a new turbant as a badge of a Musulman or right believer We reade of two Dutch-men the one a Divine the other a Baker that became Mahometans not many years since upon what discontent or other motive I know not Ibid p. 816. The Ministers name was Adam Neusserus once a Pastour of Heidelberg who fell off first to Arrianisme and then to Tureisme He died miserably at Constantinople Octob. 12. Anno 1576 much in the same manner as Arminius did at Leyden who was grievously tormented with a cough gout ague and incessant pain in his belly Hist of Low-countrey with a great binding and stopping under the heart which caused much difficulty of breathing