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A63071	Theologia theologiæ, the true treasure, or, A treasury of holy truths, touching Gods word, and God the word digg'd up, and drawn out of that incomparable mine of unsearchable mystery, Heb. I. 1, 2, 3 : wherein the divinity of the holy Scriptures is asserted, and applied / by John Trappe ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing T2047; ESTC R23471	163,104	402

fixed which yet are fashtned here below these resemble coyne which is white in it self but draws a black line after it Or water in great mens kitchins which having clensed other things is it selfe fit only for the sink Unsavoury salt is hardly fit for the dunghill nor a wicked Minister for any place but hell Certainely hee is the worst creature upon Earth and who are Devils in Hell now but such as once were Angels in Heavens Pop. Rom. Carbone pollicente quipiam addente jusjarandum cum exsecratione vicissim juravit se illi nom credere Suadet loquentis vita non oratio Neither helps it any whit that their tongues are so smooth in speaking good Divinity while their hands are so rough with Esau in uttering false The Bethshemites fare the worse for being a City of Priests their priviledge doubled their offence 1 Sam. 6.19 And God would not permit Aaron the passions of another man because he was a Priest It was at the funerall of his two sons that hee is forbidden to weep Levit. 10.6 Hee must not so much lament the judgement as magnifie Gods Justice in the deserved death of those two drunken priests They comming off their ale-bench likely brought strange fire by fire they perish Immediatly therupon charge is given to Aaron and his sons that they drink not wine nor strong drink Verse 9. when they go into the Tabernacle of the Congregation lest they dye Moreover Moses said to Aaron This is that which the Lord hath spoken Verse 3. I will be sanctified in all them that draw neare unto mee How sanctified may some say Austin answers Aut à nobis aut in nos Either by us while we preach painfully live hoilly or else on us by our just and utter destruction Seldome do loose-lived Ministers escape the visible vengeance of God forasmuch as they stumble with the Lanthorne in their hands and the words of reproofe in their mouths therefore will he seed them with gall and wormwood Ier. 23.15 By living otherwise then they teach they teach God to condemne them they carry Vriahs letters and put a sword into Gods hand as it were wherewith to undoe thē Balaam Satan's spelman as one cals him though hee blessed Gods Israel and wished well to their heaven yet for his contrary courses and counsell to Balack he was so far from inheriting with them that he was cut off by them Hophni and Phineas because they made the service of God to stink by their stinking courses so that men abhorred it for their sakes like as the Donatists pretented to do the Church for the evill life of Cecilian an ill end befell them Commonly God sensibly rejects such even in this life either rooting them out by death and making their places spue them out or else by blasting their gifts Zach. 11.17 drying up their right armes putting out their right eyes causing the night to come upon their divination and utterly refusing to be glorified by them Well it may be that they may live long as Saul did after his rejection and the Pharisees after they had fallen into the unpardonable sin The Devill also gave them many thankes as he is said to have done the Popish Priests in Hildebran's time Anno 1072 Math. Paris Hist for furnishing Hell so fast with so many soules as had perished by their default Rasis sac●ificulorum verti●ibus magnatum galeiss stratum inferni p●vimentum esse prover● b. o screbatur And better he would thank them doubtlesse when he should meet them in hell the pavement whereof was commonly said to bee pitcht with shavelings skuls and great mens crests But surely Christs will chashiere them as the Tirshata did those turn-coat Priest * Ezra 2.61 62 63. Matth. 7. and wash his hands of them for ever Yea though they can produce and prove that they have prophecied in his name and by his name done great Miracles if neverthelesse they be workers of iniquity and albeit they have taught others Yet themselves have not done the Will of his Heavenly Father 〈◊〉 Ministers may as files 〈◊〉 others themselves remaine rough as Cariers beare bags of many for the use of them to whom they are sent A blind man may beare a torch to the lightning of others and a stinking breath sound a Trumpet with great commendation The lifelesse Heaven gives life and the dull whetstone sharpeneth Iron Noahs Carpenters that made the Arke perished in the stood and Aeneas his Pilot saved the ship Medijs palinurus in ●ndis c. and was drowned himselfe The Toades-head may yeeld a pretious stone Busonites of great vertue Medicorum tituli ●edicamenta si●● pyae des ve●ena ●●ctant and wholesome sugar be found in poisoned cane Saint Paul gives us to know that a man may Preach profitably to others and yet himselfe be a cast-away Nolite igitur magis eloqui magna quam vivere D. Bedd concio ad C●●● saith One. Vivite concioninibus concionamini moribus Let your lives be a transcript of your Sermons your Precepts enlivened by your practise which should be as a visible cōment on the audible Word A Minister of any man had need to bee godly Mal. 2.5 6. Acts 11.24 2 Tim. 2.15 Else profanenesse will easily go out from the Prophets of Jerusalem Ier. 23. ●5 throughout all the Land as Jeremy hath it In him that is sent to winne soules saith a Divine his mouth eyes hands feet gesture conversation all had need be exact and exemplary Mention is made in the Ecclesiasticall History of one Bonnus a Church-man Sosom lib. ● cap. 28. Hominis vita magno om●itum consensu probatur j●m id non leve praejuditi●● est quod nec ●●stres repe●tant quod c●l●umn●entur de Luthero Erasmu● Acts and Monuments who was never seen by any man to be angry or heard to sweare lye or utter any thing rash light or unbeseeming himselfe And M. Bucer whiles hee was here in England brought all men into such admiration of his integrity that neither could his friends sufficiently prayse him nor his enemies in any point find fault with his singular life and sincere Doctrine The like is reported of Master Bradford Now what a thing was this to slaughter Envy to stop an open mouth Acts and Mon. to rejoyce his friends and to cloath his enemies with their owne shame This was to shine as a light in the darke World yea as the Sunne in his strength which although some men curse as the Atlantes because it scorcheth them others hate sometimes because it discovers their deeds of darknesse Atlantes solem Orientem Occidentemque dira imprecatione contucatur ut exitialem ipsis agrisque Plin. lib. 5. cap. 8. Godwins Heb. Antiq. yet are they so convinced and dazeled with its beauty and brightnesse that few can forshame speake against it The High-Priest was the chiefe God on Earth and

rage of Tyrants hath overflowed it and yet they could neither drowne nor deface it condemned it hath beene to the fire yet could never be consumed by the fire rejected by the world yet lives and raignes in despight of the world Other books of what authority or excellency soever as Tully de Republica Origens Octapla are utterly lost others that are come to our hands are wofully maymed and mangled many of them Not so the holy Bible any part of the Canon The booke of Iehu and the rest that are perished were not Canonicall but as the Chronicles of England civile records of events of things in that kingdome of Israel penned they were saith Saint Austine Non tam inspiratione divina quam humana diligentia Aug. de civ Dei lib. 18. cap. 38. Non ad authoritatem religionis sed ad virtutem cognitienis Jb. not by divine inspiration but by humane diligence and thereupon he well inferres that these Volumes did not appertaine to the proving or propagating Religion but to the promoting and inlarging of good literature among the Jewes But admit that devillish attempt of Tyrants had beene effected and all the Bibles in the world abolished yet the word of God could not be destroyed because the Archetype the platforme the Originall draught of it is in the eternall God For ever O Lord Psalme 119 1 Peter 1. thy word is stablisht in heaven saith David and thy word of the Lord endureth for ever saith Peter it remaineth firme as mount Sion that can never be removed and like the faithfull witnesse in heaven it stands fast till time shall bee no more So that if all the power on earth should make warre against the very paper of the Scriptures they cannot possibly destroy it but the Word of God written will bee to bee had to the worlds end Maugre the malice of earth and hell What God hath written he hath written and it shall stand inviolable when heaven shall passe away with a great noise 1 Peter 3. and the earth with its workes shall bee burnt up Man had he never fallen from his first integrity must have lived by the same law that wee doe now His children should have met saith one at the Tree of knowledge as at an Altar or Temple Bucholc Chronol p. 40. and there have solemnely performed on the Sabbath day especially the great businesse of Religion repeating the History of their Creation worshipping and praising God their Creator propagating his word c. Saint Paul also rapt up into the heavenly Paradise ceased not to profit in the doctrine of the Law and Prophets though there hee had heard words unspeakeable 2 Cor. 12 4. Paulus in tertiu usque coelum raptus non destitit tamen proficere in dectrina legis prophetar●m Calv. He knew and saw that they live by no other law in Heaven then we doe And albeit some speciall duties of certaine commandements shall cease when we come to Heaven yet the substance of every one remaineth for ever For seeing the Image of God standeth in righteousnesse and holinesse which are the two branches of the morall Law it must needs tye us with an everlasting bond who were first made in that likenes and whose perfection in heaven is to bee fully and wholly renewed thereunto And this perpetuity and perennity of the morall Law was not obscurely noted by the engraving of it in stone Exod. 34.27 2 Cor. 3.7 c. CHAP. IV. FOr a second Vse of this point Are the Scriptures GODS owne word and a part of his Name Acts 9.15 and 21 13 This mainely meetes with and makes against such as seeke either to debase and oppose it or to pervert and abuse it especially since God hath magnified his word above all his name Psalme 138.2 Section I. OF the first sort besides those monstrous tyrants above mentioned that sought to extirp and extinguish it and those other Heretickes ancient and moderne Saduces Manichees Marcionites Anabaptists c. That rejected the holy Scriptures either wholly or in part the men we are most to deale withall here are our adversaries the Papists who besides those forementioned tearmes and titles of dishonour they have blasphemously bestowed upon the Booke of God Melius consultum fuisse Ecclesia si nulia unquam extuisset Scriptura Tilen Syntag p. 17. one of no meane ranke among them feares not to say that had it bin better with the Church had there never beene any Bible Others of them referre the rise and Originall of the Scriptures not to the Holy Ghost as Saint Peter doth ad fortuitas quasdam occasiones a Prophetis Apostolis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arreptas referunt lb. but only to certaine occasionall events and accidentall occurrences befalling the Prophets and Apostles as it hapned They tell us that Saint Paul wrote his Epistles not for the common use of the Churches of all succeeding ages but only for the particular uses of those particular places whereto Pareus in 1. Cor. 1.1 and times wherein hee wrote that he was so transported with pangs of zeale and eagernesse in most of his disputes that there was no great reckoning to be made of his assertions Relation of West Religion by Sir Edw. Sands an eare witnesse yea that he was dangerous to reade as savouring of heresie in some places and better perhaps hee had never written Oh tongues worthy to be pulled out of their heads with hot burning pincers cut into gobbets and driven downe their throates those open Sepulchers wherein they thus shamelesly seeke to entombe the name and Word of God! It hath beene seriously consulted among them saith mine Author to have censured by some meanes and reformed Saint Pauls Epistles Jdem Ibid. whom they teach in the Pulpit not to have beene secure of his preaching but by conference with Saint Peter nor that he durst publish his Epistles till Saint Peter had allowed them prodigious blasphemy but what better can we expect from those that hold and teach that the Apostles were men as others are Piggbius lib. 1. Hier. Eccles c. 8. pag. 8. and therefore might erre lye and forget as others deceiving and being deceaved As for Saint Paul Annal. Tom. 1. Anno Christi 51. Num. 39. Baronius stickes not to withstand him as stoutly as ever Paul did Peter and dares defend it that Peter was not to be blamed but Paul a great deale too busie rather As Iohannes Mollinus also was with the Pope and Cardinals when disputing before them out of Saint Paul concerning Originall sin Fox Martyrol fol. 855. Iustification by faith free-will c. when they could not refell his doctrine they sent him away with this answer that it was truth which he affirmed but not meete for this time for that it could not be taught or published without the detriment of the Apostolike Sea Wherefore he should hence-forth abstaine from the Epistles of Saint Paul as delivering