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A63067	A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: 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. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.; Trapp, Joseph, 1601-1669. Brief commentary or exposition upon the Gospel according to St John.	1647 (1647)	Wing T2042; ESTC R201354	792,361	772

son CHAP. XVI Verse 1. A 〈◊〉 rich man which had a Steward MAster 's had need look well 1. To the chusing of their servants Salomon saw Jeroboam that he was industrious and therefore without any respect at all to his Religion he made him 〈◊〉 over all the charge of the house of Joseph but to his 〈◊〉 disadvantage 〈◊〉 King 11. 28. with chapt 12. 3. 2. To the using of them Most men make no other use of their servants then they doe of their beasts whiles they may have their bodyes to doe their service they care not if their soules serve the Devill Hence they so 〈◊〉 prove false and 〈◊〉 Verse 2. Give an account of thy stewardship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putet said Cato Stewards should often account with their masters Verse 3. I cannot dig c. They that will get wisedome must both dig and beg Prov. 2. 3. 4. Verse 6. Take thy bill The scope of this parable is ut 〈◊〉 charitate erga pauperes compensemus saith Beza that we expiate as it were our prodigality by shewing mercy to the poore Dan 4. 27. Verse 8. And the Lord commended Gr. that Lord viz. the Steward Lord not the Lord Christ who relateth this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if we understand it of Christ as the Syriack here doth yet He herein no more approveth of this Steward 's false-dealing then he doth of the Vsurers trade 〈◊〉 5. 27. or the theeves 1 Thess. 5. 2. Or the dancers Matth. 11. 17. or the Olympick games 1 Cor. 9. 24. Because he had done wisely The worldlings wisedome serves him as the Ostriches wings to make him out-run others upon earth and in earthly things but helps him never a whit toward heaven Are in their generation wiser A swine that wanders can make better shift to get home to the trough then a sheepe can to the fold We have not received the spirit of this world 1 Cor. 2. 12. we cannot shift and plot as they can but we have received a better thing The fox is wise in his generation the serpent subtile so is the Devill too When he was but young he out-witted our 〈◊〉 parents 2 Cor. 11. 3. Then the children of light As the Angels are called Angels of light 2 Cor. 11. 14. Gods children are the onely earthly Angels have a Goshen in their bosomes can lay their hands on their hearts with dying Oecolampadius and say Hic sat lucis Verse 9. 〈◊〉 unto your selves friends quibus officia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 Testifie your faith by your workes that God of his free-grace may commend and 〈◊〉 you Of the Mammon of 〈◊〉 The next odious name to the Devill himselfe This Mammon of iniquity This wages of wickednesse is not gain but losse They may receive you That is that 〈◊〉 the Angels or 〈◊〉 riches or the poore may let you into heaven Verse 11. In the unrighteous 〈◊〉 or the uncertaine 〈◊〉 deceitfull wealth of this world which yet most rich men trust in as if simply the better or safer for their abundauce Hence 〈◊〉 derives Mammon from 〈◊〉 which signifieth to 〈◊〉 Verse 12. In that which is another 〈◊〉 Riches are not properly ours but Gods who hath entrusted us and who doth usually agssine them to the wicked those men of his hand for their portion Psal. 17. 14. for all the heaven that they are ever to look for Better things abide the Saints who are here but forreiners and must doe as they may Who shall give you that which is your owne Quod nec eripi nec 〈◊〉 potest Aristotle relateth a law like this made by 〈◊〉 That he that used not another mans horse well should 〈◊〉 owne Verse 14. And they derided him Gr. They blew their noses at him in scorne and derision They fleared and jeared when they should have feared and fled from the wrath to come Verse 15. For that which is highly esteemed c. A thing that I see in the night may shine and that shining proceed from nothing but rottennesse There may be malum 〈◊〉 in bona 〈◊〉 as in 〈◊〉 Zeale Two things make a good Christian good actions and good aymes And though a good ayme doth not make a bad action good as in Vzzah yet a bad ayme makes a good action bad as in 〈◊〉 whose justice was approved but his pollicy punished Verse 19. There was a certaine rich man Not once named as 〈◊〉 was though never so little esteemed of men God knew him by name as he did Moses when the rich mans name is written in the earth rottes above-ground is left for a reproach Which was clothed in purple c. Gr. was commonly so cloathed It was his every-dayes weare as the word implyeth Verse 20. A certaine beggar named Lazarus Or Eleazar as Tertullian and Prudentius call him who having beene Abrahams faithfull servant now resteth in his bosome Verse 21. And desiring to be fed with the crumbs Many poore folk have but prisoners pittances which will neither keepe them alive nor suffer them to dye The dogs came and licked his sores When Sabinus was put to death for whifpering against Seianus his dog lay down by his dead body brought to his mouth the bread that was cast to him And 〈◊〉 Sabinus was thrown into the river Tiber the dog 〈◊〉 after him to keepe him up that he might not sinke into the bottome Verse 22. Into Abrahams bosome A Metaphor from feasts say some from fathers say Others who imbosome and hug their children when wearied with long running-about or 〈◊〉 met with a knock and come crying unto them And was carried by the Angels Thorough the ayre the Devils region doe the Angels conduct the Saints at death who may therefore call death as Jacob did the place where he met the Angels Mahanaim Genes 32. 2. For like as the 〈◊〉 man was let down with his bed thorough the tiling before Jesus Luke 5. 18. so is every good soule taken up in an heavenly couch thorough the roofe of his house and carried into Christs presence by these heavenly Courtiers And was 〈◊〉 Possibly with as much noysome stench and hurry in the ayre as at Cardinall Wolseyes buriall A terrible example there is in the book of Martyrs of one Christopher 〈◊〉 an unmercifull Courtier who suffering a poore Lazar to dye in a 〈◊〉 by him did afterwards perish himselfe in a ditch Verse 23. Being in torments Having punishment without pity misery without mercy sorrow without succour crying without compassion mischeife without measure torments without end and past imagination Verse 24. And coole my tongue In his tongue he was most tortured quia plus lingua peccaverat saith Cyprian So Nestorius the heretick had his tongue eaten up with worms So Thomas Arundell Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester two notorious persecutors dyed with their tongues thrust out big-swollen and black

upon them Faith fears no famine and although it be but small in substance and in shew as the Manna was yet is it great in vertue and operation The Rabbins say that Manna had all manner of good tastes in it So hath faith It drinke to a man in a cup of Nepenthes and bids him be of good chear God will provide for him The Bishop of Norwich kept Robert Samuel Martyr without meat and drink whereby he was unmercifully vext saving that he had every day allowed him two or three morsels of bread and three spoonfuls of water to the end he might be reserved to further torment How oft would he have drunk his own water But his body was so dried up with long 〈◊〉 that he was not able to make 〈◊〉 drop of water After he had been famished with hunger two or three 〈◊〉 together he 〈◊〉 into a sleep as it were one half in a 〈◊〉 At which time one cloathed in white seemed to stand before him which ministred comfort unto him by these words Samuel Samuel be of good chear and take a good heart unto thee 〈◊〉 after this day thou shalt never be either hungry or thirsty For speedily 〈◊〉 this he was burned and from that time till he should suffer he felt neither hunger nor thirst And this declared he to the end as he said that all men might behold the wonderfull work of God He likes not to be tied to the second ordinary causes nor that in defect of the means we should doubt of his providence It 's true he commonly worketh by them when he could doe without that we may not neglect the means as being ordained of him David shall have victory but by an ambush 2 Sam. 5. 19 24. Men shall be nourished but by their labour Psal. 128. 2 But yet so as that he doth all in all by 〈◊〉 means he made grasse corn and trees before he made the Sunne Moon and starres by the influence whereof they are and grow Yea to shew himself chief he can and doth work other whiles without means 2 Chron. 14. 11. and against means suspending the power and operation of the naturall causes as when the fire burnt not the water drowned not the Sunne went back ten degrees the rock gave water the iron swam c. And then when he works by means he can make them produce an effect diverse from their nature and disposition or can hinder change or mitigate their proper effect as when at the prayer of Elias it rained not for three years and a half And he praied again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruits A man would have thought that after so long drought the roots of trees and herbs should have been utterly dried up and the land past recovery But God heard the heavens petitioning to him that they might exercise their influence for the fructifying of the earth and the Heavens heard the earth and the earth heard the corn the wine and the oil and they heard Jezreel Let all this keep us as it did our Saviour here from diffidence in Gods providence and make us possesse our souls in patience Luk. 21. Hang upon the promise and account it as good as present pay though we see not how it can be effected God loves to goe away by himself He knows how to deliver his saith S. Peter 2 Epist. 2. 9. and he might speak it by experience Act. 12. 9. if ever any man might The King shall rejoyce in God saith David of himself when he was a poor 〈◊〉 in the wildernesse of Judah Psal. 63. 11. But he had Gods word for the Kingdome and therefore he was confident seemed the thing never so improbable or impossible We trust a skilfull work-man to go his own way to work shall we not God In 〈◊〉 6. year of the reign of Darius Nothus was the temple fully finished That sacred work which the husband and sonne of an Esther 〈◊〉 shall be happily accomplished by a bastard The 〈◊〉 thought that Moses should presently have delivered them and he himself thought as much and therefore began 〈◊〉 his time to doe 〈◊〉 upon the AEgyptian whom he slew and hid in the sand But we see God went another way to work He sent Moses into a farre countrey and the bondage was for 〈◊〉 years 〈◊〉 exceedingly encreased upon them yet all this to humble and try them and to doe them good in their later end He crosseth many times our likeliest projects and gives a blessing 〈◊〉 those times and means whereof we despair He breaks in pieces the ship that we think should bring us to shore but casts us upon such boards as we did not expect 〈◊〉 we then any particular means saith one it is but the scattering of a 〈◊〉 the breaking of a bucket when the Sunne and the fountain is the 〈◊〉 But we 〈◊〉 the most part 〈◊〉 as Hagar did when the bottle was spent she fals a crying she was undone she and her childe should die till the Lord opened her eyes to see the fountain It was neer her but she saw it not when she saw it she was well enough If thou hadst been here said Martha my brother Lazarus had not died As if Christ could not have kept him alive unlesse he had been present So if Christ will come and lay his hands on Iairus his daughter and Elisha stroke his hand over Naamans leprosie they shall be cured So the Disciples believed that Christ could feed so many thousands in the wildernesse but then he must have two hundred peny worth of bread But our Saviour gave them soon 〈◊〉 an ocular demonstration of this truth That man liveth not by bread alone c. Dan. 11. 34 They shall be holpen with a little help Why a little that through weaker means we may see Gods greater strength 〈◊〉 5. Then the devil taketh him Not in vision only or imagination but really and indeed as he was afterwards apprehended bound and crucified by that cursed crue Spirituall assaults may be beaten back by the shield of faith Bodily admit of no such repulse A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abraham may be bound by Satan A Mary Magdalen possest a Job 〈◊〉 a Paul boxed c. As for the souls of the Saints they are set safe out of Satans scrape Shake his chain at them he may muster his forces Revel 12. 7. which may band themselves and bend their strength against 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Angels Christ and his members but they are bounded by God who hath set his on a rock that is higher then they So that the flouds of temptation that the serpent casts out of his mouth after them cannot come so much as to their feet Or if it touch their heel yet it can come no higher There is no 〈◊〉 against Jacob because God was a Vnicorn to take away the venom saith Balaam the sorcerer as waters when the Unicorns

beatificall vision and fruition of God and this is the very hell of hell c. Verse 24. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of 〈◊〉 c. Here we have the conclusion of this if not first yet certainly fullest of our Saviours Sermons for matter most heavenly and for order more then methodicall Most men think if they sit out a Sermon it is sufficient when the preacher hath 〈◊〉 done they have done to Away they go and for any practice they leave the word where they found it or depart sorrowfull as he in the Gospel that Christ requireth such things as they are not willing to perform Our Saviour had four sorts of hearers and but one good that brought forth fruit with patience When St Paul preached at Athens some mocked others doubted a few believed but no Church was sounded there as at other places because Christ crucified was preached unto the Jews a stumbling 〈◊〉 and to those Greeks foolishnes whiles the Jews required a signe and the Greeks sought after wisedome But what saith the Prophet Behold they have rejected the word of the Lord and what wisedome is in them He is a wise builder a 〈◊〉 servant a wise virgine a wise merchant if our Saviour may be judge that heareth these sayings of his and doth them And behold saith Moses I have taught you statutes and judgements Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisedome c. A good understanding have all they that do thereafter David hereby became wiser then his teachers ancients enemies and Paul counted it his chief policy to keep a good conscience void of offence toward God and men which cannot be untill it may be said of a man as Shaphan said of Josiahs work-men All that was given in charge to thy servants they doe it For not the hearers of the Law but the doers shall be justified saith Paul shall be blessed saith our Saviour often shall be made thereby the friends of Christ Ioh. 15. 14. the kindred of Christ Matth. 12. 50. The glory of Christ a royall diadem in the hand of 〈◊〉 yea such as have the honour to set the crown royall upon Christs head in the day of his espousals Be ye therefore doers of the Word saith S. Iames and not hearers only deceiving or putting paralogismes tricks and fallacies sophister like upon your own souls They that place religion in hearing and go no further will prove egregious fools in the end Which to prevent look intently and accurately saith that Apostle stoop down and pry heedfully into the perfect law of 〈◊〉 as the Cherubims did into the Propitiatory as the Angels do into the mystery of Christ as the Disciples did into the sepulchre of Christ and continue therein till ye be transformed thereinto Not being forgetfull hearers but doers of the work so shall ye be blessed in the deed It is not enough to hear but take heed how you hear 〈◊〉 with you the loan of your former hearing For to him that hath shall be given and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you As ye measure to God in preparation and practice he will measure to you in successe and blessing and every time that you hear God will come to you in the fulnesse of the 〈◊〉 of the Gospel of peace See that ye shift not off him that speaketh 〈◊〉 12. 25. Veniat veniat verbum Domini submittemus illi sexcentasi nobis essent colla said a notable Dutch Divine Let God speak and we will yeeld though it were to the losse of a thousand lives The Macedonians delivered themselves up to God and the Romans to the form of doctrine that was delivered 〈◊〉 them they took impression from it as the metall 〈◊〉 from the mould or as the wax doth from the seal David 〈◊〉 up his hands to Gods Commandments Psal. 119. 48. he did all the wils of God who had set him both his time and his task He sets all his servants a work and requireth their pains Hos. 10. 11. Ephraim was an heifer used to dance and delight in the soft straw and could not abide to plow but the Lord will make him both bear and draw Religion is not a name saith one goodnesse a word it is active like fire communicative like light As the life of things stands in goodnes so the life of goodnesse in action The chiefest goods are most active the best good a meer act And the more good we do the more God-like and excellent we be and the better provided against a rainy 〈◊〉 Which built his house upon a rock This rock is Christ and conscionable 〈◊〉 are living stones built upon him The Conies are a people weak and wise saith Solomon and their wisdome herein appears they work themselves holes and burrows in the bosome of the earth in the roots of the rocks Learn we to do the like and be sure to dig deep enough as S. Luke hath it which while the stony-ground-hearers did not their blade was scorcht up and came to nothing Some flashing joy they had upon the hearing of the Word and many meltings according to the nature of the Doctrine delivered but these sudden affections being not well bottomed nor having principles to maintain them they were but like Conduits running with wine at the Coronation or like a land-floud that seems to be a great sea but is soon gone again Verse 25. And the rain descended and the flouds came c. Many are the troubles of the righteous they come commonly thick and three-fold one in the neck of another as Jobs messengers The clouds return after the rain 〈◊〉 12. 2. there is a continuall succession of miseries and molestations from the devil the world and the flesh to them that hear and do the words of 〈◊〉 like the weather in winter when a showr or two do not clear the air but though it rain much yet the sky is still over 〈◊〉 with clouds which are 〈◊〉 upon the Saints sometimes in 〈◊〉 and lighter 〈◊〉 as the smaller rain sometimes in pressing and piercing calamities like storm and hail The rain fals 〈◊〉 flouds rise the winde blows and many a sharp showr beats upon the Christians building but like Noahs Ark it is pitcht within and without like Mount Sion it abides for ever immoveable 〈◊〉 founded upon the Rock of ages Si nos ruemus ruet Christus 〈◊〉 I lle 〈◊〉 mundi said that noble Luther If we 〈◊〉 Christ shall fall too that Ruler of the world and 〈◊〉 him fall I had rather 〈◊〉 with Christ then stand with Caesar. The devil stirs up a 〈◊〉 against Gods children saith Ambrose Sedipse naufragium 〈◊〉 but himself maketh ship wrack The Church according to that 〈◊〉 Motto Nec fluctu nec 〈◊〉 movetur and yet Venice hath but one street they say that is not

his enemies did but spit in his face and we being his friends throw him into the draught which of us deserveth the greatest damnation And 〈◊〉 him on the head 〈◊〉 into the head drove the 〈◊〉 into his holy head with bats and blows as Basiliades the Duke of Russia nail'd an Embassadours hat to his head upon some displeasure conceived against him At the taking of Heydelberg the Spaniards took Monsieur Mylius an ancient Minister and man of God and having abused his daughter before his 〈◊〉 they tied a small cord about his head which with truncheons they wreathed about till they squeezed out his brains The Monks of 〈◊〉 roasted the Minister of S. Germain till his eyes dropt out And the Spaniards suppose they shew the innocent Indians great favour when they do not for their pleasure whip them with cords scratch them with thorns and day by day drop their naked bodies with burning bacon So very a devil is one man to another Verse 31. Put his own raiment on him Gods hand was in this that all men seeing him to suffer in his own habit might acknowledge that it was very he and not another that suffered in his stead Mahomet in his Alchoran speaks very honourably of Christ except only in two things 1. He took up the Arrian heresie to deny his Deity 2. He denied that he was crucified but that some one was crucified for him But what saith S. Peter He his own self bare our sinnes in his own body on the tree c. 1 Pet. 2. 24. They led him away Quite out of the City Ut vera piaculavis victima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro nobis fieret Heb. 13. 12 13. This was a mystery hardly understood by any of the faithfull afore Christ neither could we well have told what to make of it but that the 〈◊〉 hath there opened it to us by the instinct of the holy Ghost Let us therefore as he adviseth goe forth unto him without the camp bearing his reproach accounting it our crown as those Apostles did that rejoyced in their new dignity of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shame for Christs name It was their grace to be so disgraced Verse 32. They found a man of Cyrene A stranger coming out of the field towards Jerusalem meets with an unexpected 〈◊〉 and follows Christ which occasioned him to enquire into the cause and got him renown among the Saints In like sort the faithfull Christian a stranger upon earth comes out of the field of this world with his face set toward Sion and meets with many crosses by the way But all-while he follows Christ let him enquire into the cause and the issue shall be glorious Him they compelled to bear his crosse Not so much to ease Christ who fainted under the burden as to hasten the execution and to keep him alive till he came to it See the Note on Joh 19. 17. Verse 33. A place of a skull Here our thrice noble Conquerour would erect his trophies to encourage us to 〈◊〉 for him if God call us thereto in the most vile and loathsom places as also to assure us that his death is life to the dead Verse 34 They gave him vineger c. Cold comfort to a dying man but they did it in 〈◊〉 q. d. Thou art a King and must have generous wines Here 's for thee therefore See the Note on John 19. 29. It were happy if this vineger given our Saviour might melt our adamantine hearts into sorrow Verse 35. Parted his garments Let us likewise suffer with 〈◊〉 the spoiling of our goods c. Heb. 10. 34. yea the spoiling of our persons to have our clothes also taken and torn off 〈◊〉 backs Christ will say Bring forth the best robe ring c. If a Heathen could say when he saw a suddain shipwrack of all his wealth Well fortune I see thy intent thou wouldst have me be a Philosopher Should not a Christian conclude Surely Christ would have me look after heavenly that thus strips me of all earthly comforts Verse 36. They watched him there Lest haply he should get get away thence by a 〈◊〉 But his time of getting out of their hands was not yet come Here hung for a while that golden censer Christs body which through the holes that were made in it as thorow chinks or holes fumed forth a sweet savour in the nostrils of his heavenly Father Eph. 5. 2. such as draweth all men to him that have their senses exercised to discern good and evil Joh. 12. 32 Heb. 5. 14. Verse 37. This is Jesus the King of the Jews Pilate by a speciall providence of God intending nothing 〈◊〉 gives Christ a testimoniall and would not alter it though sollicited thereto He did it to be revenged on the Jews for their senslesse importunity to have him condemn an innocent and withall to put Christ to an open shame as a crucified King Like as that A theist Lucian blasphemously cals our Saviour The crucified cousener the modern Jews contemptuously call him in reference to his crosse The Woofe and the Warp And at the sack of Constantinople the Image of the Crucifix was set up by the insolent Turks and shot at with their arrows and afterwards in great 〈◊〉 carried about the Camp as it had been in procession those dead dogs railing and spitting at it and calling it The God of the Christians Ten thousand Martyrs were crucified in the Mount of Ararath under Adrian the 〈◊〉 crowned with thorns and thrust into the sides with sharp darts in contempt of Christ. Verse 38. Then were there two theeves So he was reckoned among the transgressours Isa. 53. 12. A sinner not by 〈◊〉 only for he bare the sinne of many ib. but by reputation also and therefore crucified in the midst as the worst of the three chief of sinners that we might have place in the midst of heavenly Angels in those walks of paradise Zach. 3. 7. The one of those two theeves went railing to hell his crucifixion being 〈◊〉 a typicall hell to him a trap-dore to eternall torment the other went repenting forth-right to heaven living long in a little time and by his praier making his crosse a Jacobs ladder whereby Angels descended to fetch up his soul. It is remarkable and to our purpose sutable that Rabus reporteth that when Leonard Caesar suffered Martyrdom at Rappa a little town in Bavaria a certain Priest that had by the law for some villainous act deserved death being led forth with him towards the place of execution cried out often Ego ne quidem dignus sum qui tibi in hac poena associer justo injustus I am not worthy to suffer with thee the just with the unjust Verse 39. Reviled him wagging their heads God took notice of Cains frowns Gen. 4. 6. Miriams mutterings Numb 12. 2. these mens noddings Rabshakeh's lofty looks Isa. 37. 23. 〈◊〉 lowrings Gen. 31. 2. and sets them upon