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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

him in their language Iob 21 14. Depart from us we will none of the knowledge of thy wayes being as glad to bee rid of him as the Philistims were of the Arke or as the Gadarens were of Christ Now how righteously shall CHRIST regest one day upon all such profane Gadarens Discecite Depart I know you not bee just as strange unto them then as they will needs be now to him fill these back-sliders in heart with the fruit of their owne wayes Prov. 14.14 and sith they have loved darknesse give them their belly full of it cast them into outer darknesse that darkenesse beyond a darknesse the dungeon of darknesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where they shall never see the light againe till they bee lightned by that universall sire of the last day Psalme 95. They that know not Gods wayes revealed in his word he hath sworne they shall never enter into his rest and although they always wander in heart and erre not knowing the Scriptures yet can they not goe so farre wide as to misse of Hell An ignorant person is that Leper in Leviticus his plague is in his head Lev. 13.44 he is utterly uncleane and is therefore utterly to be excluded See 2 Thes 1.7 Section 2. SEcondly this that the Scriptures are of God serves sharply to reprove our hatefull infidelity Many amongst us beleeve the Bible no otherwise then they doe humane Histories or not the strange wonders there related or no more thereof then they can see cause for or then suites with their carnall humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost or not the menaces or not the promises or apply them not neither individuate the same to themselves but rather put all off as if it nothing concerned them and dispose of it to others Is this to mingle the word with faith to melt Ier. 31.18 with Iosiah to smite upon our thighes as Ephraim to examine our wayes with David by Gods Word Psalme 1●9 59 Prov. 9.12 Esay 1. Esay 55. ●2 and finding our selves farre wide to turne our feete to his Testimonies Is this to bee wise for our selves to consent and obey to buy and beate Many men come to the word as they doe to feasts where they lay liberally on other mens trenchers let their owne lye emptie they reade the Scriptures as they doe news out of a farre Country as not pertaining to themselves Whereas the Bible should be read as we read the Statute-booke wherein every man holds himselfe as much concerned as if his name were there written and should therefore turne short againe upon himselfe and say what have I done Ieremy 8.6 Rev. 10.9 Prov. 25.10 what case am I in what may I doe to bee saved This is to take the booke and eate it as Iohn did this is to feed upon the hony that we have found as Salomon biddeth this is the way Esay 66.1 to tremble at the Word whilest men dwell upon it till their hearts ake and quake within them As for those that do other wise I may fitly say to them as our Saviour said to the Iewes concerning Iohn what went yee out into the wildernesse to see a Reed shaken with the wind Matth. 1 1. so what take ye in hand the booke to read or come to Gods house to heare an idle song an old-wives tale a foolish History a frivolous interlude Or if it be God that speaketh in the Word read and preached how is it that ye beleeve him not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 7.30 why seeke ye with the Pharisees to make voyd the counsell of God concernning your selves Christ that by his absolute power can doe any thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Marke 6.5 by his actuall power can do no great matter for these unbeleevers more than wonder at them Verily Verily faith our Saviour to Nicodemus Iohn 3 11. we speake what we know and testifie that we have seene and ye receave not our witnesse Loe hee joynes himselfe with the Prophets which Nicodemus had read so cursorily and carelesly as not to have there-hence learnd the doctrine of Regeneration This sin is now the greater because as the Law and the Prophets Heb. 4.2 so the Gospell much more was written that men might beleeve Iohn 20 31. and that beleeving they might have eternall life which now they cannot enter because of unbeliefe Heb 3. ult but being cut off from Christ Romans 11 22. Revel 21 8. they are lest without among dogges and devils without heaven I say but far within hell whether they are sent and set as free-holders to whom other sinners there are but Tenants or inmates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 24 51. and are therefore said to have their part with hypocrites and unbeleevers Section 3. THirdly doth the Lord himselfe speake to us from Heaven in the holy Scriptures and is he our Maker and master Malachy 1.6 how is it then that hee is no better obeyed that his word hath no more place in us or power over us that it swayes not in our hearts that it rules not in our lives Shall hee stretch out his hand to a disobedient people doe wee provoke the Lord to jealousie are wee stronger then he Iob 9.4 hath any ever waxed fierce against God and prospered Shall we sit like sots under the sound of his word and not be sensible or shall we feele his axe at the root of our consciences and be smitten with some remorse and yet goe on in sin What became of Pharaoh that would not hearken to Moses though he came with a message from heaven of the rich glutton that made no more reckoning of Moses and the Prophets Luke 16. ult of Lots sons in Law that counted their fathers fore-warnings a meere mo●kage Acts 13.41 Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I worke a worke in your dayes a worke which you shall in no wise beleeve though a man declare it unto you Which to prevent precious and worthy of all acceptation is that counsell of our Author Heb. 11.25 See that yee refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven see that ye shift him not off as the word signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●er 2 8. or send excuse as those recusant guests in the Gospell did When the truth stands at the doore of your Conscience and pleads for admittance say not as he did to his friend that came to borrow two loaves Come to me to morrow or as Felix to Paul at a more convenient time I le send for thee For if the word spoken by Angels only was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience that is every commission and omission receaved a just recompence of reward how shall we escape if we neglect hee saith not if we deny betray oppugne but if we neglect light let slip so great salvation which as first began to bee spoken by the Lord c. Heb.

therefore during his life the Offendour was confined to the City of refuge as to a Prison And David when he was hunted from the Prophet sled to the Priest as one that knew that Justice and Compassion should dwell in those breasts if any where Venerable Beda tels us that the Ancient British Bishops rejected Austin the Popes Legate because hee shewed not himselfe gentle and humble amongst them as became a Minister at the first meeting And holy Hooper though his life was so pure and good that no kind of slaunder could fasten any fault upon him Yet there is mention made of a certaine Citizen who having in himselfe a conflict of conscience came to Master Hoopers doore for counsell But being abashed Acts and Mon. fol. 1366. saith mine Authour of his austere behaviour durst not come in but departed which he afterward by the helpe of Almighty God did find and obtaine This might bee no fault in him but in the other that should have sought to him But hereby wee see how much it behooves Ministers to be curiously observant of their whole deportement that they may lay forth themselves and the talents concredited unto them for the best advantage of their Lord and Master becomming all things to all men that they may winne some And this the rather because the World expects from such though unjustly Angelicall perfection and looks round about us to see if they may find ever a hole in our coate thorough which they may evade and slip the cords of our doctrine CHAP. VII A Second Exhortation is now to be addressed to all of all sorts and that is to stirre men up to a thr●efold duty 1. To be thankfull to God that gave us his Word and to his ancient people the Jewes by whose hands hee conveyed it to us Gentiles 2. To reade it diligently 3. To rely upon it confidently both for counsell and comfort Sect. 1. BE thankfull first and chiefly to God for entrusting us with this true treasure for concrediting unto us these lively Oracles for drawing so neare us and dealing so familiarly with us as he hardly ever did with any before us For what nation is there so great that hath God so nigh unto them Deut. 4 7 8. Mich. 6.7 8. Esay 5. and that hath statutes and iudgements so righteous c. He hath shewed thee O England What is good and may justly demand as of old what cold I have done more for thee that I have not yet done Deu. 33.29 32. Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord c. Before the Covenant with Abraham all nations were alike respected but after it was said J will be thy God Gen. 17 7. and the God of thy Seed the Church was divided from the rest of the world as light was from darkenesse in the first Creation as the Sabbath from other dayes by divine consecration Act. 14.16 as Goshen was from the rest of Aegypt in that wonderfull separation All other Nations he suffered to walke in their own waies to sit in the dale of darknesse and shadow of death but in Judah was God knowne his name was great in Israel Psal 76.1 2. In Salem was his Tabernacle and his dwelling place in Sion Hence that beautifull Land though part of the Continent is called an Ile Esay 20.6 Deut. 7.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as separate from other peoples 〈◊〉 and the inhabitants therof are called Gods peculiar his inclosures the people of his purchase that comprehended as it were all his gettings the sheepe of his pasture yea his son his first-borne to whom he gave for a childs-part right iudgements and true Lawes Hos 11 34. Exod. 4 2● good Statutes and iust Commandem●nts Nehem. 9.13 He shewed his word unto Jacob his acts unto the children of Israel He hath not dealt so with my Nation c. Psal 147.19 20. By the dim light of nature they might get some glimpse of God as a Creatour not as a Redeemer of his eternall power and Deity rendring men without excuse not of the riches of his patience leading men to Repentance Hence David Psal 93.5 Having declared the testimonies of the power of God Rom. 1.20 Rom. 2.4 that are to be seen in the very waves of the Sea concludes the Psalme with Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure intimating that there is no certain or comfortable knowledge of God to be got but only thence Neverthelesse those poore Ethniks for their unthankfullnesse for that little they had and because that when they knew God after a sort they glorified him not as God Rom. 1.20 neither were thankfull God gave them up to a reprobate sense as likewise he did the idle servant to the tormentour for not improving his one talent O then what will he do or rather what will he not do to us that have made so little of so many advantages Psal 8● 15 Cant. 2.12 Psal 84. that have heard the joyfull sound the voyce of the Turtle so long in our Land that have seen the face of God so frequently and familiarly in his Ordinances had the everlasting Gospell so puerly and powerfully preacht amongst us even the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret since the world began but is now made manifest and by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the Commandement of the everlasting God made known to all Nations for the obedience of Faith To God only wise be therfore glory through Christ Jesus for ever Rom. 16.25 26 27. The greatnesse of this inexplicable benefit will the better appeare to us if we consider it as cloathed with these ensuing circumstances First that this good Word of God is come to our hands after so many ages so perfect and entire wanting nothing that no part of the holy Canon is perished not a haire of this sacred head missing Next that we have it so exactly and exquisitely rendred and translated into the vulgar tongues A priviledge that our fore-Fathers wish● well to but obtained not It were a great grace saith Lambert the Martyr if we might have the word of God diligently and often read and sung unto us in such wise that the people might understand it Then should it come to passe that Crafts-men should sing spirituall Psalmes Acts and Monuments fol. 1015. sitting at their work and the Husband-man at his Plow as wisheth S. Hierome Bugenhagius a famous Divine of Germany was so joyfull of the Dutch Bible in translating wherof out of the Hebrew and Greek Originals he and some other learned men had laboured together with Luther Melch. Adam in vita Bugenhagij that every yeare he invited his friends on that day of the Moneth whereon the worke was finished and called it the Feast of the translation of the Bible Thirdly that we have the whole will of God in so little a room in so portable a Volume Jn reading many

of Mysteries and Allegories which minister Questions rather than edifying which is in Faith 1 Tim. 1.4 and are no better faith one at best then the froth of the Scriptures But how weakly and corruptly these exercises were performed by those slubbering Priests and blind Pharisees of old our Saviour partly shewes and confates in the Gospell And how poorly and slenderly by the Friars and postillars alate is well to be seen in their writings at this day extant Scarce was there any Commentary on the Bible for many hundred years better than the glosse of Orleans Hugo de sancto Claro and Peter Comestor by all which the Scriptures were as a clasped Scriptures were as a clasped book even to the simpler sort of their Clergy Certain Monkes there were that took it for a singular glory to write upon the Revelation but such wretched Note as Thomas and Nicholas and after them to mend the matter Passavantius made upon that excellent Work De civitate Dei Wherby they have bemired and utterly marred the sense of it as Erasmus shews in the Proverb Asinus ad paleas Scultet Annal. dec 2 p. 117. Apocalypsis saith Faber the Augustinian comes of Apo re and clipsor velo And Alexius Grad the Dominican as Bucer relateth it said that he had read somewhere in the Dictionaries that Cephas signifieth a head and that therefore Peter was head of the Church This buzzard saw not what the Evangelist had so plainely set downe that Cephas signifieth a Rocke to be skilfull in the Greek tongue was in those dayes superstitious but to be an Hebrician was little lesse then hereticall Latine was so ill understood of many of their Priests that he held himselfe sufficiently well excused from paving the Church-way with the rest of his neighbours that could alledge for his purpose that of Jeremy Paveant illi Alex. Cook ego non paveant Another for Sumpsimus read Mumpsimus and because he had long used it so would not alter it for any admonition Parens when he was young begging an almes according to a superstitious custome of those times had this answer from a Fryer Becman de Orig ling lat Nos pauperi fratres nos nihil habemus an piscimus an caro an panis an misericordia habemus And if any went about to shew them their bard and barbarous mistakes they shrowded themselves under that of Gregory In vita Parei operib praefix Non debent verba coelestis or aculi subesse regulis Donati Now God hath graciously removed this Remora to the profitable reading of his sacred word by stirring up studious men to labour after learning which was almost banished out of the world and all places ore-spread with basenesse and barbarisme Look how in the first plantation of the Gospell in Europe he shipped the Arts before into Greece that they might be Harbingers unto it as Tertullian speaketh or as Hierom the munition to batter the sorts of the wise meaning of send the souldiers soon after So in the reviving of the Gospell in the late Reformation there seemed to goe before it a general resurrection of all humane learning and the effectuall means of all this that nob●e invention of Printing which seems reserved to the waightiest times of the Church even the revealing of the Westerne Antichrist Melancth Chron l. 5. Wherunto that Easterne Antichrist hath lent us his hand I mean the Turke that never did any good to Christendom but this and this against his will in sending the Greeke tongue by the sack of Constantinople and ruin of Greece into these Westerne climates Thus canes lingunt ulcera Lazari Gods will is done by the wicked though beside their intention He hath given gifts to men even to the rebellious Psal 68.18 common gifts of illumination interpretation c. That he may dwell on Earth to wit in his Religion and Worshippers who being wise Merchants besides the pearle of price seek also other goodly pearles Mat. 13.45 46. make much of common gifts bestowed many times upon unsound and unsanctified Interpreters for their behoofe and benefit It is well said in the Law that apices iuris non est ius It is as true in Divinity that the letter of the word is not every where the Word of God but the right meaning therof Gods Word foolishly understood is none of his Verbum Dei stolidè intellectum non est verbum Dei saith Theodoret. The occasion scope phrase of the Holy Ghost coherence consent with other places is well to be weighed For our help hereunto and that we may read with judgement Christ in his wonderfull Ascention gave gifts to men some Apostles Rom. 10.14 Gal. 3.2 Act. 8.30 Mal. 2.7 some Prophets c. with charge not only to propound to his people the word in grosse but also fruitfully expound it rightly divide it fitly apply it be as so many speaking Commentaries upon it non libro sed labro conservantes scientiam bringing forth new and old store as good Scribes and speaking home to mens hearts to edification exhortation and comfort 1 Cor. 14.13 This this is to do the work of an Evangelist for every sound is not Musicke nor every Pulpit-Discourse preaching and is therfore perhaps tearmed prophecying by Saint Paul because the matter of Preaching in those daies was the Scriptures of the Prophets in opening whereof the Servants of God were then especially conversant As also now the Church blessed bee GOD abounds with those that want for no parts that spare for no paines but as Candles waste themselves to give light to others and as clouds sweete themselves to death for common benefit lay forth their talents to the utmost that they may lay all knots and cragges levell pave men a path-way to Christ and so give them the knowledge of Salvation by the Remission of their sinnes Luk. 1.77 Thus Paul reason'd with the Jews of Thessalonica out of the Scriptures opening and alledging c. laying it before their eyes as the word signifies and making it as cleare as the noone-day light by expresse testimony of the word and due deduction therehence Acts 17 3,4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ob oculos ponens i● tam manisestè exponens quàm cernimus quae spectanda proponuntur Beza that this Jesus whom J preach unto you saith the Text is Christ And this is still the guise of all godly Preachers to ground their Discourses upon the written word pressing the people either with the very direct words or firme consequences as our Saviour dealt by the Sadduces Math. 22.32 And Saint Paul by the Corinthians 1 Ep. 7.10 To the married J command yet not J but the Lord let not the wife depart from her husband In so many words the Lord hath not said it but plainly for the sense when hee said Therfore shall a man leave Father and mother and cleave to his wife And againe That which God hath ioyned together let no