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A63069	A commentary or exposition upon these following books of holy Scripture Proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel & Daniel : being a third volume of annotations upon the whole Bible / by John Trapp ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing T2044; ESTC R11937	1,489,801	1,015

in religionis professores tanquam in adversarios hatred upon professours of religion looking upon them as their adversaries Ver. 15. And wondred The vulgar hath it Aporiatus est That there was no Intercessour No Interposer as Job 36.32 that would stickle for truth and right as did Nehemiah Athanasius Luther c. Therefore his arm brought salvation and his righteousnesse i. e. Christ the power of God Jun. and the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1.24 30. Ver. 17. For he put on righteousnesse as a brest-plate i. e. Christ did and so must every Christian Eph. 6.14 where the Apostle Paul soundeth the Alarm and describeth his weapons as here defensive and offensive alluding likely to this text Ver. 18. Fury to his adversaries Viz. The Devil and his Agents his peoples adversaries Ver. 19. So they shall fear the Name of the Lord Christ shall get him a great Name as a renowned Conquerour When the enemy shall come in like a flood When they shall pour out a deluge of evils upon the Church Rev. 12.15 The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him i. e. Against strong temptations corruptions persecutions the Motto shall be as once Christus nobiscum state Ver. 20. And the Redeemer Shall come to the Israel of God That turn from transgression See Rom. 11.26 with the Note Ver. 21. My spirit which is upon thee and my words The efficacy of the Word is by the Spirit the expression of the Spirit by the Word both are here promised to the Church as her true goods Isa 30.20 21. Joh. 14.16 26. It is with the Word and Spirit as with the veines and arteries in the body as the veines carry the blood so the arteries carry the spirits to quicken the blood CHAP. LX. Ver. 1. A Rise Thou O my Church that now lyest in pulvere vastitatis as a forlorn captive rouze up thy self change both thy countenance and condition tanquam libera ac laeta ad novum nuncium up and look up I have joyful tydings for thee For thy light is come Christ who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 light essential Joh. 12.48 And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee The glorious Gospel of grace 2 Cor. 3.7 and 4.4 Ver. 2. For behold the darknesse shall cover the earth As once it did Egypt Exod. 10.21 when there was light in the land of Goshen so is there in the Church when all the world besides lyeth buried in a fog of ignorance Semper in sole sita est Rhodos and a bog of wickednesse The separation of the Saints in light is a wonderful separation Exod. 33.16 But the Lord shall arise upon thee The Lord Christ who is the true light Joh. 1.9 the light of the world Joh. 8.12 the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 See the Note there Ver. 3. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light The Apostles those shining Luminaries were Christs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 holding forth the light of life to all people as Simeon said Luk. 2. And we may well say as our Saviour did Luk. 4.21 This day is this Scripture fulfilled in our ears and made good to our hearts praised be his holy Name throughout all eternity And Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising As did our King Lucius who is reckoned to be the first Christian King Our Constantine the first Christian Emperour our Edward 6. the first reforming Prince Scultet and many others Facit hoc contra Anabaptistas qui exclusos putant Reges ab Ecclesia Ver. 4. Lift up thine eyes As from a watchtower for so Zion signifieth All they gather themselves together c. See chap. 49.18 Thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side Like sucking children they shall suck and be satisfied chap. 66.11 The vulgar version here hath surgent for sugent as it hath unus de similibus for unus è millibus Job 33.23 and evertit for everrit Luk. 15.8 with other such grosse mistakes not a few Ver. 5. Then thou sha't see and flow together Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tam de lumine quam de stum●e dicitur thou shalt break forth as a river or thou shalt shine And thy heart shall fear At first at least to see such a confluence of people unto thee And be enlarged With joy upon better consideration Because the abundance of the sea i. e. The multitude of the Islanders and such as dwell by the sea-side which are noted for the worst of men whence the Proverb Maritimi mores Such are we Britones Ver. 6. The multitude of camels shall cover thee i. e. Of such peoples as usually ride upon Camels viz. the Arabians and the adjacent Countries these shall come flocking and flowing to the Church with their precious and pleasant riches The Dromedaries A lesser and lower kind of camels commended for their swiftnesse Jer. 2.23 we call slow people Drom●daries by Antiphrasis and for this that they can travel four dayes together without water Bajazet beaten by Tamberlan fled for his life and might have escaped had he not stayed to water his mare by the way which thereupon went the more heavily and was overtaken by the Tartars They shall bring gold and incense This the ancients interpret of those wise men from the East Mat. 2.11 which was indeed a small essay of this Prophecy But why should the Papists call them the three Kings of Cullen And they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord Gratanti animo This is more than all their rich gifts A thankful man is worth his weight in the gold of Ophir Ver. 7. All the flocks of Kedar i. e. The Kedarens and Nebateans with their flocks whereof they had abundance Refrixit proh dolor ardor isle and they now had hearts to honour the Lord with their substance and with the best of their increase See chap. 23.17 18. Ver. 8. What are these that fly as a cloud Which flyeth more swiftly than any bird and covereth the sky far and near Deus bone Confertis agm●nib● quam multi catervatim accurrunt saith the Church here wonderful what trooping and treading upon the heeles one of another is here And as the doves to their windows To their columbaries Columba Radit iter liquidum cele●es neque comm vet auras whereinto they scour and rush gregatim mira pernicitate especially if they have young ones there or else are driven by some hauke or tempest Gods people are free-hearted Psal 110.3 they serve the Lord with cheerfulness Psal 100.2 Amor enim alas addit and well might Plato descant upon the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom men call Love the Immortal call winged Ver. 9. Surely the Isles shall wait for me They shall come off freely Huic admirationi Messias ipse respondet non quasi angariati ad auditum verbi Sacramentorum usum And this is taken to be Gods answer declaring the cause of that wonderful concourse

Ephes 2.14 New attendance Psal 91.11 New wages new work Isa 62.11 A new Commandement 1 Joh. 2.8 A new Covenant Jer. 31.33 A new way to Heaven Heb. 10.20 And a new Mansion in Heaven Joh. 14.2 2 Cor. 5.8 Vers 11. There is no remembrance of former things None to speak of How many memorable matters were never recorded How many ancient records long since perished How many fragments of very good Authors are come bleeding to our hands that live as many of our Castles doe but only by their ruines God hath by a Miracle preserved the holy Bible from the injury of times and Tyrants who have sought to abolish it There wee have a true remembrance of former things done in the Church by Abraham and his off-spring when the Grandees of the Earth Ninus Belus c. lye wrapt up in the sheet of shame or buried in the grave of utter oblivion Diodorus Siculus confesseth that all Heathen antiquities before the Theban and Trojan Warres are either fabulous relations or little better Ezra that wrote one of the last in the Old Testament lived afore any Chronicles of the world now extant in the world Neither shall there be any remembrance Unless transmitted to posterity by Books and Writings which may preserve and keep alive their memory and testifie for their Authors that such have one day lived Quis nosset Erasmum Chilias aeternum si latuisset opus Niniveh that great City is nothing else but a sepulture of her self no more shall Rome be ere long Time shall triumph over it when it shall but then live by fame if at all as others now doe Vers 12. I the Preacher was King over Israel And so had all the helps that heart could wish the benefit of the best Books and Records that men or mony could bring me in the happinesse of holy conference beside mine own plentiful experience and therefore you may well give credit to my verdict Mr. Fox had a large Commission under the Great Seal to search for all such Monuments Manuscripts Registers Legier-books as might make for his purpose in setting forth that worthy Work the Acts and Monuments of the Church of England And the like had Polydor Virgil for the framing of his History though with unlike successe for he had the ill hap to write nothing well saith one Peacham save the life of Henry the seventh wherein he had reason to take a little more pains than ordinary the Book being dedicated to Henry the eighth his Son See the note on vers 1. Vers 13. And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdome God had given Solomon a large heart and great store of wisdome and this made him not more idle but more industrious more sedulous and serious in seeking and searching out by wisdome i. e. by the best skill that hee had maturely and methodically the causes properties and effects with the reason of all things that are and are done under heaven Neither did he this in pride and curiosity as Hugo de Sancto Victore here sharply censureth him but soberly and modestly setting down his disquisitions and observations of things Political and Natural for the use of posterity And forasmuch as these are now lost because haply too much admired and trusted to 1 King 4 3● by those that had the use of them under the first Temple in and with the which some Jewes say they were burnt what an high price should we all set upon this and the other two Books of Solomon the wisest of men as not Apollo but the true God of Heaven hath called him and commended him unto us Surely as in the Revelation Heaven never opened but some great Mystery was revealed some Divine Oracle uttered So we may be confident that the Holy Ghost never sets any Pen-man of Scripture a work but for excellent purpose And if we dis-regard it he will complain of us as once Hos 8.12 I have written for them the great things of my Law but they were counted as a strange thing As for those other worthy Works of Solomon the fruits of this privie search into the natures of the Creatures here mentioned that the injury of time hath bereft us of how much better may we say of them Rolloc de vocatione p. 130. than a godly and learned man once did of Origens Octapla Hujus operis jacturam deplorare possumus compensare non possumus This great losse we may well bewayl but cannot help Vers 14. I have seen all the works that are done I have seen them and set down mine observations of them 1 King 4.33 Pliny did somewhat like unto this in his Natural History which work of his saith Erasmus Non minus varium est quam ipsa rerum natura imo non opus sed the saurus sed vere mundus rerum cognitu dignissimarum it hath as much variety in it as Nature her self hath To speak truth it is not a Work but a Treasury nay a world of things most worthy to be known of all men And behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit Nothing in themselves and yet of sufficient activity to inflict vengeance and vexation upon the spirit of a man so farre are they from making him truly happy They doe but feed the soul with wind as the text may be rendred wind gotten into the veins is a sore vexation Vers 15. That which is crooked cannot bee made streight Most men are so wedded and wedged to their wicked wayes that they cannot bee rectified but by an extraordinary touch from the hand of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hes Hesiod speaking of God saith that he can easily set crooked things streight and only hee Holy Melanchthon being himself newly converted thought it impossible for his Hearers to withstand the evidence of the Gospel But after he had been a Preacher a while he complained that old Adam was too hard for young Melanchthon and yet besides the singular skil and learning that God had given him for the which he merited to be called the Phoenix of Germany Ad cum modum in hoc vitae theatro versatum Philippum Melanchthonem apparet saith a friend and Scholar of his i. e. It well appeareth that Melanchthon was Solomon-like on this wise busied upon the Theatre of his life that seeing and observing all he could he made profit of every thing and stored his heart as the Bee doth her Hive out of all sorts of flowers for the common benefit Howbeit he met with much crosness and crookedness that wr●ng many tears from him as it did likewise from St. Paul Phil. 3.18 not in open enemies only as Eccius and other Papists but in professed friends as Flaccius Osiander Melch. Adam in vita Mel Melanchthon mortuus tantum non ut blasphemus in Deum cruci affigitur Zanch. Miscel ep ded c. who not only vexed him grievously whiles alive but also fell foul upon him when he was dead