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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

lawfull Others knew it to be so but none durst tell him so but Iohn In like sort Eliah told Ahab that he had troubled Israel those times and these did very much suit Iohn was another Elias Herod and Herodias answered to Ahab and Iezabel So Latimer presented for a New-years gift to K. Henry the eight a new Testament with a napking having this posie about it Whore 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 God will judge He also wrote a letter to the King after the Proclamation for abolishing English books where we may see and marvell at his great boldnesse and stoutnesse who as yet being no Bishop so freely and plainly durst to so mighty a Prince in such a dangerous case against the Kings Proclamation set 〈◊〉 in such a terrible time take upon him to write and to admonish that which no Councellour durst once speak unto him in defence of Christs Gospel King Asa though a godly Prince imprisoned the Prophet for dealing plainly with him Archbishop Grindall lost Q. Elizabeths favour and was confined for favouring Prophecies c. as it was pretended but in truth for condemning an unlawfull marriage of Iulio an Italian Physitian with another mans wife 〈◊〉 Leicester in vain opposed against his proceedings therein Gods truth must be told however it be taken and not be betrayed as it is too too oft by a cowardly silence It is not lawfull for thee to have her And yet the Pope frequently dispenseth with such incestuous marriages K. Philip the third of Spain were he now alive might call the Arch-duke Aldred both brother cousen nephew and son for all this were he unto him either by bloud or affinity being uncle to himself 〈◊〉 german to his father husband to his sister and father to his wife and all by Papall dispensation Abhorred filth Verse 5. And when he would have put him to death Why what had the good Baptist done that he must dye The people must be made believe that he suffereth for practising against the King But this was so thin a falshood that it might be transparently seen through Therefore Herod durst not kill him though 〈◊〉 much desired to do it lest the people should move and mutiny He knew himself hated by them already for his cruelty and other crimes Now if he should 〈◊〉 them afresh by executing the Baptist whom they highly honoured who knew what they would do 〈◊〉 how terrible soever have their fears that curb and keep them in for a time at least from 〈◊〉 notorious outrages In the beginning of Q. Maries reigne after the tumult at Bournes Sermon at the crosse where the people flang daggers and were ready to pull him limmeal out of the pulpet for 〈◊〉 them to Popery the L. 〈◊〉 and Aldermen were willed to call a common-Counsell and to signifie to said assembly the Queens determination sc. that albeit her 〈◊〉 conscience is staid in matter of Religion yet she graciously meant not to compell or strain other mens consciences otherwise then God shall as she trusted put in their hearts a perswasion of the truth that she is in through the opening of the word unto them by godly vertuous and learned Preachers Verse 6. But when Herods birth-day was 〈◊〉 All this was a meere plot as St Mark also intimateth in those words of his chap. 6 21 And when a convenient day was come This birth-day then was the day appointed long before by Herod and his Harlot for the acting of this tragedy A great feast must be prepared the states invited the damosell must dance the King swear the Baptists there upon be beheaded that the Queen may be gratified And this tragedy was new-acted at Paris 〈◊〉 1572. when the French 〈◊〉 was committed under pretence of a wedding royall Cardinall Lorrain gave a great summe of 〈◊〉 to him that brought the first news thereof to Rome and the Pope caused it to be painted in his pallace The daughter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tripudiabat tripped on the toe in a most immodest manner as they used to do in their Bacchanals as the word 〈◊〉 This old Fornicator seemed to be so taken and tickled with the sight that like a mad man 〈◊〉 swears to give her her request to the half of the kingdome which yet was more then he could do the kingdome being not his 〈◊〉 the Emperour of Romes to dispose of So as Robert Duke of Normanáy passed through Falaise he beheld among a company of young maids dauncing one 〈◊〉 a skinners daughter whose nimblenesse in her daunce so enamoured the Duke that he tooke her for his Concub ne and one 〈◊〉 begat our William the Conquerer Such and no better commonly are the effects of mixt dauncings which made Chrysostom say where dauncing is there the devil is And another Ancient calleth dauncing a circle whose center is the devil blowing up the fire of concupisence in the hearts both of the actours and spectatours Augustine saith that every caper in the daunce is a leap into a deep jakes No sober man doth daunce saith Cicero And pleased Herod Who was now well heat with wine as an oven Prov. 23. 31 33. for then his eies were apt to behold strange women and his heart to utter perverse things Gula Veneris vestibulum Et Venus in vinis ignis 〈◊〉 igne furit But what a monstrous thing is it to behold green apples on a tree in winter to finde youthfull lusts in old 〈◊〉 goats Verse 7. He promised with an oath He not only swore rashly but confessed himself bound thereby to perform his oath as the Greek word signifieth to give her whatsoever she would ask as Judah did Tamar and as wantons use to do to their sweet-hearts Ask me never so much dowry and gift saith 〈◊〉 and I will give according as ye shall say unto me but give 〈◊〉 the damosell to wife Verse 8. And she being before instructed c. Partus sequitur ventrem the birth follows the belly Here was like mother like daughter neither good bird nor good egge as they say The mother and daughter both had an aking tooth at the Baptist and sought an opportunity to be meet with him which now having gotten they pursued to the utmost The damosell came with haste to the King saith St Mark chap. 6. 25. when once she had her 〈◊〉 as fearing belike she should come too late Such another huswife as this was Dame Alice Pierce concubine to our Edward the third For when as at a Parliament in the fiftieth year of that Kings reigne it was petitioned that the 〈◊〉 of Lancaster the Lord Latimer Chamberlain and this 〈◊〉 Alice might be a moved from Court and the Petition was vehemently urged by their speaker St Peter la Mare this Knight afterwards 〈◊〉 the suit of that impudent woman working upon the Kings impotencies was committed to perpetuall imprisonment at Notingham And another such history we have of one Diana Valentina Mistris

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

earnestly to his mother to pray God to make him worthy to suffer not only imprisonment but even very death for his truth religion and Gospel Femella 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 godly woman understanding that her son went heavily on to his death for Christ 〈◊〉 him and encouraged him bidding him look up to heaven and behold the Sun in his glory Which when he 〈◊〉 done Knowest thou not my son said she that thou shalt shortly be in that heavenly 〈◊〉 and there out-shine the Sun it self 〈◊〉 Hunter the Martyrs mother 〈◊〉 unto him standing at the stake That she was glad that ever she was so happy as to bear such a childe as could finde in his heart to lose his life for Christs Name sake Then 〈◊〉 said to his mother For my little pain which I shall 〈◊〉 which is but for a short braid Christ hath 〈◊〉 me a crown of joy May not you be glad of that mother With that his mother kneeled down on her knees saying I pray God strengthen thee my son to the end Yea I think thee as well bestowed as any childe that ever I bare John Clark of 〈◊〉 in France being for Christs sake whipped three severall daies and afterward having a mark set in his fore-head as a note of infamy 〈◊〉 mother beholding it though his father was an adversary encouraged her son crying with a loud voice Blessed be Christ and welcome be these his prints and marks Is not worthy of me viz. Because he holdeth not me worthy of more love then his best friends Eli for 〈◊〉 to please his sonnes Moses his wife had like to have lost a friend of God who had much adoe to forbear killing him Exod. 4. 24. Verse 38. And he that taketh not up his crosse Omnis Christianus crucianus saith Luther Every Christian is sure of his crosse but first it 〈◊〉 be his crosse such as God hath laid upon him not such as he hath created to himself as Baals Priests who cut themselves with knives and launcers the Circumcelliones of old and the Monks at this day with their voluntary pennances c. Next he must take it and not stay till it be laid upon him or then bear it as an asse doth his burden because he can neither will nor chuse But he must 〈◊〉 active in suffering and take Gods part against himself Nay he must as he may be chearfull under his crosse and thankfull for it as a favour an honour Act. 5. 41. 20. 24. The very beasts take blows from their keepers Turks when cruelly lasht by their officers give them thanks and go their waies Porters go singing under their burdens c. Levius fit patientiâ quicquid corrigere est nefas And followeth after me 〈◊〉 cometh not behinde me and this not aloof off as Peter Mat. 26. 58. but close at heels as Caleb Numb 14. 24. walking in Christ Col. 2. 6. as Christ 1 Joh. 2. 6. putting him on in his 〈◊〉 as Constantines sons did their father and preaching forth his praises 1 Pet. 2 9. He is a Saviour to none but those to whom he is a samplar neither have any his redemption but they that take his direction Verse 39. He that findeth his life shall lose it This is a strange expression a riddle to the world a seeming contradiction such as naturall reason can never reconcile But if the paradoxes of the Stoicks might be proved much more may those of the Gospel He that findeth his life that is redeemeth it with the forfeiture of his faith with the shipwrack of his conscience makes a 〈◊〉 bargain makes more haste then good speed whiles in 〈◊〉 from death as farre as he can he runnes to it as fast as he can Christ will kill him with death 〈◊〉 2. 23. and sentence him as an apostate unto double 〈◊〉 He that loseth his life for my sake c. For else all 's lost sith it is not poena but causa that makes a Martyr Christ and the thieves were in the same condemnation Samson and the 〈◊〉 in the same destruction by the downfall of the house 〈◊〉 poena dissimilis causa saith Augustine Martyrdom is a crown as old age if it be found in the way of righteousnesse One Martyr cried out Blessed be God that ever I was born to this happy hour To another when it was said Take 〈◊〉 it is an hard matter to burn Indeed said he it is for him that hath his soul linked to his body as a thiefs foot in a pair of fetters Shall finde it For the line of his lost life shall be hid in the endlesse 〈◊〉 of Gods surest mercies The passion-daies of the Martyrs were therefore anciently called Natalilia 〈◊〉 the birth daies of salvation the day-break of eternall brightnes Those poor seduced souls that lost theirlives in the holy Wars as they called them and were perswaded that thereby they made amends to Christ for his death were much to be pittied Verse 40. He that receiveth you 〈◊〉 me And who would not be glad to entertain the Lord Christ 〈◊〉 held it a great matter that the mother of her Lord should come to her Luk. 1. 43. Behold Christ comes to us in his servants in his Ministers especially Receive them therefore as so many Angels yea as Christ himself Gal. 4 14. accounting their very 〈◊〉 how much more their faces beautifull We know with what great respect Cornelius entertained Peter Non tantus sum ut vos alloquar said Tertullian to certain Martyrs He tels us also that it was a custom of some in those times to creep to the 〈◊〉 bonds in way of honour to them which perhaps was more then was meet Receiveth him that sent me The Heathens held it a great honour to entertain their gods and the Poets tell us of much evil that 〈◊〉 those that refused to do so That which we have heard and seen saith S. John declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us But what so great matter is that might some say You and your fellows are but men of mean condition True saith the 〈◊〉 but as mean as we are our fellowship is with the Faether and with his Sonne Jesus Christ who will also come in and sup with such as receive his servants And may they not be glad of such guests Verse 41. He that receiveth a Prophet in the Name c. Though haply he be no Prophet This takes away the excuse of such as say They would do good if they knew to whom as worthy Shall receive a Prophets reward Both actively that which the Prophet shall give him by teaching him the faith of the Gospel casting pearls before him c. And passively that reward that God gives the Prophet the same shall he give his host Gaius lost nothing by such guests as Iohn nor the Shunamite or Sareptan by the Prophets Of such Christ seems to say as

Conf 〈◊〉 and further alledge thot the generall deluge fell out in the year of the worlds creation 1657. The end of the world saith another will be in the year of Christ 1688 three jubilees and an half or thereabouts after the Reformation of Religion by Luther c. Joachimus Abbas had long since set the year 1258. Arnoldus de villa nova the year 1345. Michael Stiphelius Saint Lukes day in the year 1533. 〈◊〉 Leonitius the year 1583. Ioannes Regiomontanus the year 1588. Adelbertus 〈◊〉 the year 1599. April 3. Nicolaus Cusanus the year 1700. Cardanus 1800. Picus Mirandula 1905. c. So great hath been the folly and sinne of many learned men who have thus childishly set their wits to play in so serious a businesse as one well censureth it But my Father only Ordine 〈◊〉 seiendi à se non ab 〈◊〉 The son knoweth it not but from his Father like as he neither subsisteth nor worketh but from the Father The set time of the generall judgement God hath hid from us 1. For his own glory Prov. 25. 2. Rom. 11. 36. 2. For our good that we may watch alwaies and not wax secure as we would do with the evil servant vers 48. till the very day and hour if we knew it The harlot in the Proverbs grew bold upon this that her husband was gone forth for such a time Verse 37. So shall the coming of the Son of man be Sudden and unexpected Luther observeth that it was in the Spring that the floud came when every thing was in it's prime and pride and nothing lesse looked for then a floud men sinned securely as if they had lived out of the reach of Gods rod but he found them out Security 〈◊〉 the certain usher of destruction as at 〈◊〉 Ziklag Before an earthquake the air will be most quiet and when the winde lies the great rain fals Frequentissimum initium calamitatis securitas saith the Historian Verse 38. They were eating and drinking Wine likely because our Saviour hereupon bids his Apostles take heed to themselves lest their hearts at any time should be overcharged with surfetting and drunkennesse c Luk. 21. 34. Like as some do not improbably conjecture that Nadab and 〈◊〉 were in their drink when they offered strange fire because after they were devoured by fire from the Lord. Aaron and the Priests are charged to drink no wine nor strong drink when they go into the 〈◊〉 of the Congregation lest they dye Levit. 10. 12 8 9. St Luke delivers the matter more roundly by an elegant Asyndeton They ate they drank they married c. q. d. they passed without intermission from eating to drinking from drinking to marrying c. they followed it close as if it had been their work and they born for no other end Of Ninias second King of Assyrians Nephew haply to these Antedihunian belly-Gods it is said that he was old excellent at eating and drinking And of Sardanapulus one of the same line Tully tells us that his gut was his god Summum bonum in ventre aut sub ventre posuit and 〈◊〉 that he hired men to devise new pleasures for him See my Common-place of Abstinence Untill the day They were set upon 't and would loose no time Their destruction was foretold them to a day they were nothing bettered by it no more would wicked men should they foreknow the very instant of Christs coming to judgement Joseph had foretold the famine of Egypt and the time when it 〈◊〉 come but fullnesse bred forgetfullnesse saturity security None observed or provided for it Verse 39. And knew not i.e. They took no kuowledge of 〈◊〉 predictions or their own peril Their wits they had buried in their guts their brains in their bellies As of the Asse-fish it is said that contrary to all other living creatures he hath his heart in his belly whoredom wine and new wine take away the heart Hos. 4 11. Carnall sins disable nature and so set men in a greater distance from grace which is seated in the powers of nature I read of some desperate wretches that drinking together when one of them had drunk himself stark dead the other no whit warned by that fearfull example of Gods wrath powred his part of drink into the dead mans belly And took them 〈◊〉 away Men are never lesse 〈◊〉 then when they are most secure Babylon bore it self bold upon the twenty years provision laid up aforehand to stand out a siege When it was neverthelesse taken by Cyrus some part of the city would not know or beleeve of three daies after that there was any such matter Verse 40. The one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other left The 〈◊〉 took all away in a manner but at Christs coming there shall be found a considerable company of such as shall be saved He shall separate his Saints with a wonderfull separation and make himself to be admired in all them that believe 2 Thess. 1. 10. How 〈◊〉 then should we work out our salvation and ensure to our selves our election by good works Verse 41. Two women shall be grinding at the 〈◊〉 A poor trade a hard task 〈◊〉 would have every man in his honest occupation to humble himself by just labour and so to accept of the punishment of their iniquity Levit. 26. 41. But one of these two poor grinders at the mill is left by Christ for her pride and profanesse Many are humbled but not humble low but not lowly To these Christ will say Perdidist is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 miserrimi facti estis pessimi 〈◊〉 Misery hath no whit mended you woe be to you Verse 42. Watch therefore c. 〈◊〉 simus non securi c. Whilst 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon his bed at noon 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 took away his head Hold fast that thou hast that no man take 〈◊〉 crown from thee Whilst the Crocodile sleepeth with open mouth the Indian rat gets into him and 〈◊〉 his entrails Satan works strongest on the fancy when the soul is drousie The 〈◊〉 therefore promiseth to get up early 〈◊〉 7. 〈◊〉 to shake 〈◊〉 security and not to 〈◊〉 found henceforth supine and 〈◊〉 but to stand upon her watch as of Scanderbed it is said that from his first coming to 〈◊〉 he never slept above two hours in a night but with restlesse labour prosecured his affairs Aristotle and some others would not sleep but with brasen balls in their hands which falling on 〈◊〉 purposely set on their beds sides the noise did difswade immoderate sleep Our Saviour pronounceth them three times happy that watch Luke 12. 37 38. 43. The blessed Angels are called Watchers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dan. 4. 10. For ye know not what hour your Lord c. He may haply come upon you as Epaminondus did upon 〈◊〉 sentinell whom finding asleep he thrust through with his sword and being chid for