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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

and now he was desirous to goe into the Pulpit that thence hee might comfort others with the same comforts wherewith he had been comforted Melch. Adam de Theol exter page 139. He shewd his good will to have spent his last breath in preaching according to Saint Austins wish that Christ when hee came might finde him aut precantem aut pradicantem praying or preaching O happie is that servant whom his Lord when hee comes Mat. 24.46 47. shall finde so doing Verily I say unto you that hee shall make him ruler over all his goods Section 2. SEcondly let Ministers be called upon and exhorted to deliver the Word sith it is Gods Word with all faithfulnesse 1 Cor. 4 1. 1 Cor. 3 10. 2 Tim. 2.15 2 Cor. 6 1. Rev. 19 10 and 22 9. as good stewards as wise master-builders as workemen that need not be ashamed as co-workers with God and fellow-labourers with the Angels in the matter of mans salvation Tit. 1 4. 2 Cor. 2 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or it is a metaphor from deceitfull Vintners who for gaine mix water with Wine 2 Cor. 4.2 Hold fast the faithfull word yet not concealing nor corrupting it not handling it deceitfully or Huck-stering it as men doe their wares caring rather to beguile then benefit the buyer but by manifestation of the truth commending themselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God He that hath my word let him speake my word faithfully Jer. 23.28 1 Cor. 4.2 Heb. 3 2. Ezech. 13 12 22 Rom. 16 17. 2 Iohn 10. And in Stewards it is required that they bee found faithfull as Moses was faithfull in all Gods house Delîver they must the will of GOD his whole will nothing but his will neither pleasing or false or strange doctrine nor for vaine glory contention or envie Phil. 1.14 15. but purely sincerely seasonably giving to every one his owne portion Not as he in the Emblem that gave straw to the dogge Theologus Gloriae dicit malum bonum bonū malum Luther and a bone to the Asse not calling good evill and evill good not walking in craftinesse but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speaking in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 Let Saint Paul be our patterne for fidelity in his ministry What he delivered to others he first receaved of Christ 1 Cor. 11.23 And as hee received what he delivered so hee delivered what he receaved he kept nothing backe Acts 20.17 of all the Counsell of God This hath many particulars in it 1. Those ministers that would be found faithfull must deliver the truth only Aarons Bels were of pure gold not of copper or other baser mettall 2. Wholly not budging for any mans greatnesse nor balking any thing necessary to be knowne Acts 20.24 2 Tim 4.5 3. Plainly to the capacity of the Hearers Mar. 4.33 Iohn 16.12 not in a stately stile or Roman English Acts 22.2.4 Powersully and with all authority as Christ did Tit. 2.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 compelling men to come in charging and commanding them to consent and obey ' that Gods house may bee full 5. Constantly being ready for to teach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Saint PAUL Acts 26.29 the more and the lesse laying downe line after line precept after precept Isa 28.10 prooving if at any time God will give men Repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 that they may awake c. Holy Zachary tooke not his dumbnesse for a dismission but stayd out the eight dayes of his course though he ceased to speake yet hee ceased not to minister 6. Lastly and chiefely the man of God must preach his Word boldly as Isay who was very bold Rom. 10 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 4.13 as Peter and Iohn who used great freedome of speech as Michaiah who after hee had seene GOD on his throne feared not before 2. Kings in their Majesty Not budging a whit nor yeelding an haire no not for an Angels authority as Paul but witnessing a good confession Galath 1 8. 1 Tim. 6 13. as the Master did before Pontius Pilate and keeping his Commandement without spot 1 Tim. 6.13 14. unrebukeable which is Bee strong and of a good courage Iosh 1 4. have not I commanded thee be not afraid neither be thou dismaid for the Lord thy God is with thee hee will not faile thee nor forsake thee Psalme 45. Philippians 2. Esay 3 10 11 Esay 58.1 2. Ride on therefore because of the word of truth hold forth the word of life amidst a perverse and crooked generation Tell the wicked from God it shall go ill with them shew the people their transgressions and the house of Iacob their sinnes I know men are naturally sicke of a Noli me tangere the earth would gladly sit still and be at rest that they might goe downe to hell without disturbance Zach. 1 11. Amos 5 10. they bate him that reproveth in the gate as Ahab hated Michaiah because hee never spake good to him It is probable that Michaiah was that disguised Prophet who brought to Ahab the fearefull message of displeasure and death for dismissing Benhadad And Ahab hates him and hath him fast in prison ever since From thence he is now sent for and sollicited by the way to speake good to the King But he was at a point for that to speake whatsoever the Lord should say unto him though he were sure to kisse the stocks for his stoutnesse The other Prophets prophecied placentia like Squirrels they had a trick to build evermore and have their holes to the Sunne-shine to keepe themselves on the warmer side of the hedge Ad latus navis saelicius pro temporum ratione sese inelinant Buchole to incline to the happier side of the ship to hold in with Princes and great ones howsoever But Ezek. 13.10 to 15. God threatens to rent the wall of securitie which those caementarij Diaboli as one calls them the Devils dirt-dawbers had dawbed with untempered morter Non ad veritatem solum sed etiam ad opiniones eorum qui audiunt accomodanda est oratio Cicer Partit and there shall bee an over-flowing showre in his fierce fury to consume both it and them that dawbed it Rhetoricians have a rule to fit their speech not to the truth of things only but to the opinions and fancyes of them that heare them This is by no meanes to be practised by a Preacher Saint Austin repented him of nothing more than that being yong he preached ut placeret non ut deceret more to delight the care then to smite the heart Vt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui ab omnibus gratiam inire cupit quem quidam per incum placentam dixit For if I yet please men as once when I was a Pharisee saith Paul I am no more the servant of Christ Men be they

the Authour and matter of the Scriptures This makes much to the setting forth of their worth and excellency for he is the chiefe of ten thousand Cant. 5.10 and we if ever we will profit by hearing teaching reading must have our eye turned toward Christ as the faces of the Cherubims were toward the Mercy-seat For this hee is called the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Propter articulum ad filium Dei refero not onely by Saint John often but by Saint Luke also Chap. 1.2 because hee is the matter and marke of the Word scarce a leafe or line in the Bible but some way leads to Christ as the Starre did the Wise-men and even point him out as John Baptist did with an Ecce Agnus Dei Behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world In the Old Testament we have bookes Priestly Princely and Propheticall As in the New the Gospels are regall shewing that Christ was King of the Jewes the Epistles more Sacerdoticall beginning and ending with praises and prayer those sacrifices of the Gospel and the Revelation is meerly propheticall Hence that of our Saviour Search the Scriptures Iohn 5. for they are those that testifie of mee Now Christ is the most excellent and praise-worthy person in the world the fairest among men 2 Sam. 18.3 worth tenne thousand of us as the people said of David Looke upon him as he stands described in the Text. For his nobility he is Gods owne Sonne for his riches he is heyre of all things for his wisdome he made the worlds for his eminency hee is the brightnesse of his Fathers glory and the expresse image of his person for his might he upholdeth all things by the word of his power for his merits he hath by himselfe purged our sinnes for his preferment he sate downe at the right hand of the Majesty on high Loe this is He whom the Scripture treats of yea this is he who treats with us in the Scriptures and hath therein made us a pithy and perfect draught and description of himselfe Saint Chrysostome falling occasionally into the commendation of S. Paul Ne tanti viri laudes oratione sua elevaret magis quam exornaret feared much lest with the slendernesse of his stile he should rather lessen than to the life set forth the worthy praises of so praise-worthy a person And Gregory Nazianzen speaking of Basil the Great There wants but his owne tongue saith hee to commend him with An exact face saith the Oratour Picto es pulchra absolutamque faciem rarò nisi in pejus effingunt is seldome drawne but with disadvantage and therefore great Alexander forbade his portraiture to bee painted by any other than Apelles or carved by any but Lysippus men famous in those faculties But here there is no such thing to bee feared because Christ the Matter is also Authour of the holy Scripture whence it is cal d the word of Christ Coloss 3.16 Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you in all wisedome Any the least relation to the Lord Christ is that which innobleth and raiseth the worth of any thing Bethlehem where he was borne is therefore though the least yet not the least among all the cities of Judah Mat. 2.6 with Micah 5.2 And Rev. 7. of those that were sealed as among the sons of Leah Judah hath the preheminence for alliance to Christ according to the flesh so among those of Rachels side Nephthali is first reckoned for his dwelling in that tribe at Capernaum which is therefore also said to bee lifted up to heaven Math. 11. because there he dwelt and there hee preached this word of the kingdome Math. 9. yea of Christ the King which should therefore familiarly dwell in us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coloss 3.16 as a houshold guest yea it should in-dwell in us as the word there signifies and as Paul bids Timothy 1 Tim. 4 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be thou in these things give thy selfe wholly to them that thy profiting may appeare to all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea it should in-dwell in us richly in the best roome as a welcome and well-knowne guest Entertaine it not in the eare only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thess 2.12 as in the porch or out-roomes but let it lodge yea dwell worthy of Christ whose Word it is in your mindes memories affections conversations Get a Bible stampt in your heads and the counterpane thereof engraven in your hearts Heb. 8.10 that yee may be manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ which is the crowne of all commendation and that which actuates with acceptation and life all other good parts and practices written not with inke 2 Cor. 3.3 but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshly tables of the heart Rom. 6.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is to be delivered up to the forme of doctrine delivered unto us in the holy Scriptures this is to bee cast into the mould of the Word as the beleeving Romanes were and were therefore famous for their faith throughout all the world Rom. 1.8 This is to let the Word of Christ dwell richly in us in our very hearts as the two tables were laid up in the Arke of the Covenant and that in all knowledge which the Scripture counts and calls the onely riches wherewith the heart should bee stored as a rich mans house is fraught with stuffe in every corner I counsell thee saith Christ Rev 3.18 Prov. 23.23 to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou maist be rich buy this truth but sell it not saith Salomon and the Queene of Sheba took his counsell She prized his wisedome above gold and therefore presented him with abundance of gold sweeter it was to her than the sweetest odours 2 Chron. 9 1. and therefore shee came to him with Camels laden with the best spices Dearer it was to her than the dearest gems and jewels therefore she found in her heart to part with the most precious stones and ingots in exchange for it She had learned belike out of Salomons workes ere she saw him that wisedome is more precious than rubies But say there may be something named that is better than rubies Tanti vitreum quanti verum margaritum Tertull. why all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her Prov. 3.15 But where is it to be had and how to be atchieved by digging in the Mine of the mystery of Christ crucified the doctrine whereof is by an excellency called wisedome 1 Cor. 1.24 even the wisedome of God in a mystery 1 Cor. 2.7 And like as men by studying the Statute-booke become worldly-wise and politikes so by searching the Scriptures truly wise to salvation and he is the wise-man indeed that makes sure of that As on the other side the wise men are ashamed