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A63068	A commentary or exposition upon the XII minor prophets wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, and many remarkable matters hinted that had by former interpreters been pretermitted : hereunto is added a treatise called, The righteous mans recompence, or, A true Christian characterized and encouraged, out of Malache chap. 3. vers. 16,17, 18 : in which diverse other texts of scripture, which occasionally, 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 ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2043; ESTC R15203	1,473,967	888

tremend employment my call thereto was extraordinary The Prophets scholars were called their sons 2 King 2.3 5 7 15. Esa 8.18 Mar. 10.24 1 Cor. 4.14 17. but I was an heardman and a gatherer of Sicomore fruit Of meane condition and hardly bred so that I could live with a little and needed not to turn Prophet ventris causâ for food sake When one said to the Philosopher If you will but please Dionysius you need not feed upon green herbs he presently replied And if you can feed upon green herbes Melch. Adam you need not please Dionysius Nature is content with a little grace with lesse It is not for a servant of God to be a slave to his palate Luther made many a meale of a herring Verse 15. And the Lord took me as I followed the flock As he took Elisha from the plow-taile the Apostles from casting and mending their nets c. Asinos elegit Christus idiotas sed ●culdvit in prudentes simulque dona dedit ministeria he called them to the office and withall he gifted them He called also learned Nathaneel and Nicodemus a Master in Israel lest if he had called none but such as were simple saith Ioh. de Turrecremata it should have been thought they had been deceived through their simplicity But it is Gods way to chuse the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence 1 Cor. 1.27 28 29. and the Lord said unto me He often inculcates the Name of the Lord to shew that there was a necessity of his prophesying for who can safely disobey such a commander See chap. 3.8 Aut faciendum aut patiendum The Philosopher could tell the Emperour who challenged him to dispute that there was no contesting with Him that had twenty Legions at his command Go prophesie unto my people Israel Keep within my precincts and thou shalt bee sure of my protection be true to thy trust and I will see to thy safety If thou have not fine manchet as Bucer said to Bradford encouraging him to bestow his talent in preaching yet give the poor people barley-bread or what ever else the Lord hath committed unto thee Having therefore such a call from heaven to this work Act. Mon. 1454. with what face canst thou hinder me therein with what countenance will ye appear before the judgement-seat of Christ said Dr. Taylour Martyr to Stephen Gardiner Lord Chancellour who had thus saluted him Art thou come thou villain how darest thou look me in the face for shame knowest thou not who I am c How dare ye for shame look any Christian man in the face seeing you have forsaken the truth denied our Saviour Christ and his word Ibid. 1387. and done contrary to your own oath and writing And if I should be afraid of your Lordly looks why fear you not God the Lord of us all who hath sent us on his errand which we must deliver and truth be spoken however it be taken 1 Cor. 9.16 Verse 16. Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord Hear thou despiser and wonder and perish for I work a work in thy dayes a work which thou wilt in no wise beleeve though a man declare it unto thee Acts 13.41 But whether thou wilt hear or forbear beleeve or otherwise thy doom is determined and shall bee pronounced Hear therefore and give ear be not proud Ezek. 3.27 for the Lord hath spoken it Oh that thou wouldst give glory to the Lord and confesse thy sinne Oh that thou wouldst submit to Divine justice implore his mercy Jer. 13.15 16. and putting thy mouth in the dust say as once that good man did Veniat veniat verbum Domini Melc Ad. submittemus ei sexcenta si nobis essent eolla Let the Lord speak for his servant heareth But because there is little hopes of that stand forth and hear thy sentence and the evil that shall befall thee as sure as the coat is on thy back or the heart in thy body For hath the Lord spoken and shall he not do it Thou sayest prophesie not By a bold countermand to that of God in the former vers Go prophesie c. But wee to him that striveth with his maker Esay 45.9 let the potsherd strive with the p●tsherds of the earth let men meddle with their matches Eccles 6.10 and not with him that is mightier then they and drop not thy word which is as sharp as vineger and nitre Or though it were as sweet as honey yet it would cause pain to exulcerate parts when dropped upon them against the house of Isaac though commanded so to do verse 9. Toothlesse truths would be better disgested Verse 17. Therefore thus saith the Lord Thy wife c. Thou shalt bee sure of thy share in the common calamity which thou wilt not hear of but thou shalt hear and be ashamed c. Esay 26.11 So little is gotten by thwarting with God and seeking to frustrate his counsell With these froward pieces God will shew himself froward and if they walk contrary to him he will also walk as crosse to them he will tame such sturdy rebels as he did Pharaoh Psal 16. Lev. 26. and that way raise him a name all they shall get by him is but more weight of punishment as when Jeboiakim had burnt Jeremies roul of curses all that he gained was that the roul was renewed and there were added besides thereunto many like words Jer. 36.32 See the like Ier. 20.2 1 King 13.4 and 22.25 Acts 5.38 39. Dum devit●tur impletur The counsel of God saith Gregory whiles shunned is executed the wisdom of man may wriggle but cannot escape Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city a common strumpet Kimchi for a punishment of thy spirituall harlotry Rev. 2.20 together with thy seducing my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols Or Per vim stuprabitur thy wife shall be an harlot that is she shall be ravished by the enemy before thy face so Theodoret Calvin Mercer c. See Esay 13.16 Lam. 5.11 The Irish rebels bound the husband to the bed-post whiles they abused his wife before his face And thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sword because thou hast taken my sonnes and my daughters and these hast thou sacrificed unto devils to be devoured Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter that thou hast slain my children and brought them forth to the murtherer Ezek. 16.20 21. that thou hast sent so many souls to hell Peremptores potius quam parentes Bern. and nuzled up thine own sons and daughters in ignorance and superstition being therein rather a parricide then a parent Thy land shall be divided by line thy purchases shall be parted among the enemies Virg. Eclog. thine ill-gotten

that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his own eye that is he very grievously hurteth himself as procuring and pullingdown upon his own head the sharp wrath and vengeance of God But the former is the better Verse 9. For behold I will shake mine hand upon them Kings they say have long hands and can easily reach those that are farre distant This is much more true of the King immertall who can quickly crumble to crackle the mightiest monarchs he cuts off the spirit of Princes Psal 76.12 he slips them off so the Hebrew there imports as one would slip off a floure between ones fingers or as one should flip off a bunch of grapes If the Lord do no more but arise his enemies shalt be scattered Psal 68.1 If he do but shew himself in the field as Xerxes used to pitch bis Tent on high and stand looking on his Army when in fight the Philistines will be heard to cry out God is come into the camp Wo unto us who shall deliver us out of the hands of these mighty Gods c 1 Sam. 4.8 But if he once shake his hand that mighty hand as Saint James calleth it that spanneth the heavens and shaketh the foundations of the earth how much more if he smite with the hand Ezek. 6.11 and stamp with the foot as the Prophet in another case and as Pompey vainly vaunted that with a stamp on the ground of Italy he could raise an Army the sinners against Zion are soon afraid Esay 33.14 Jer. 4.13 fearfulnesse surprizeth the hypocrites Wo unto us say they for we are spoiled The very shaking of his hand at them shall make their hearts ake shake and fall asunder in their bosomes as drops of water and they shall be a spoil to their servants i.e. To the Jews whom they lately spoiled and enslaved This was fulfilled in Esthers dayes and afterwards in the time of the Maccabees Besides what is yet expected to be done by the nation of the Jews when at their glorious conversion Christ shall dwell among them vers 10. and the multitude of Nations shall joyn themselves to Christ ver 11. the Jewes inhabiting in their own land vers 12. to the silencing amusing and amazing of all flesh vers 13. whilest the enemies of the Church by them subdued Zach. 10.11 and possessed Esay 14.2 Obad. 17 19. shall willingly or perforce come under Christs obedience The conversion of the Gentiles saith a learned Authour is many times intimated by the Israelites mastering of them spoiling them The calling of the Jews by Sir H. Finch possessing them for servants and for hand-maids as Esay 14.2 Am. 9.11 Obad. 19. and here which is not meant so much of a temporall subduing as of a spirituall joyning with them in seeking of the Lord yet so as the chief soeveraignty and stroke of keeping men within the lists of their subjection and obedience unto Christ shall remain among the Jews And so Saint James teacheth us to expound those phrases Act. 15.17 where that which Amos saith that they the Israelites may possesse the remnant of Edom James rendreth that the residue of men may seek after the Lord. The enemy whom indeed the Jews shall spoil root out and destroy after they have groaned long under his hard yoke and bondage is Gog and Magog that is to say the Turk Ezech. 38. and 39 with whom they shall have a marvellous conflict as it may seem in their own countrey Ezech. 39.2 4. Dan. 11.44 45. and over whom they shall obtain a noble victory God from heaven miraculously fighting for them Ezech. 38.18 19 c. Zach. 14.3 4 5. at or near Jerusalem Joel 3.2 Ezech. 39.16 This enemy is not alwayes represented by one and the same name but sometimes he is called Moab Edom Rabbah Ashur Javan haply because those that inhabit the seat of these people shall joyne hands with the Turk and fall in the same destruction Sometimes he is called Leviathan Esay 27.1 Ezek. 38.2 Dan. 11.40 from his quality sometimes Gog and Magog from his countrey sometimes the king of the North from his territory But by all these names one and the same enemy is understood which marvellously cleareth the place in Ezekiel chap. 38.17 where the Lord by his Prophet speaketh to Gog in this wise Art thou he of whom I have spoken in ancient time by my servants the Prophets of Israel which prophecied in these dayes and years He cannot mean Himself nor Daniel which was but his contemporary much lesse Zachary that came after but he meaneth the ancient Prophets long before who spake of the same person though not by the same name and ye shall know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me You shall subscribe to the truth of these promises which now you can very hardly be brought to beleeve when God shall have fulfilled with his hand that which he had spoken with his mouth as Solomons phrase is 1 King 8.15 Verse 10. Sing and rejoyce O daughter of Zion for lo I come After a long absence as it may seem and great expectation I come not to lodge for a night but to dwell and make mine abode in the midst of thee partly in my new-built temple but principally in the Temple of my body Ioh. 2.21 For the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us Joh. 1.14 Lo here 's habitatie Dei cum carne God dwelling with men which the Magicians held impossible Dan. 2.11 And for this the Church here though at a great under is commanded to sing and shout notwithstanding her present pressures This might seem to her an unseasonable discourse which saith Siracides is as musick in mourning But when is physick more seasonable Ecclus. 22.6 then in time of sicknesse And when had the Saints more need of chearing up then when they are pressed down with heaviest crosses And what greater comfort to a good soul then Christ Jesus our joy Christus tecythus habet in malu his comforts are such as the world can neither give nor take away such as no good thing can match no evill thing overmatch Verse 11. And many nations shall be joyned to the Lord in that day c. See the Note on ver 9. And further observe that albeit the thorough comming in of the Gentiles for all Nations with one consent to receive Christ be put off till the Jews famous conversion yet that nothing hindereth but that this and such like places that speak of the same may well serve to warrant the first inceptions of their calling And so doth St. James cite them Act. 15.16 17. out of Amos 9.11 12. and Paul Rom. 9.25 26. out of Hos 1.10 and I will dwell in the middest of thee See the Note on ver 10. and thou shalt know c. See the Note on ver 9. Verse 12. And the Lord shall inherit Iudah his portion Or his enclosure his severall divided from the rest of the world by a wonderfull separation

have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a deceitfull heart to destroy it for the old hatred Ezek. 25.15 17. and 26.2 Therefore I will execute great vengeances upon them with furious rebukes and they shall know that I am the Lord when I shall laymy vengeance upon them 2 Sam. 13.39 Joab never pleased David better then when he made intercession for banished Absolom for the soule of king David longed to go forth unto Absolom whom yet he had very just cause to be greatly displeased with God in a heat as it were against Israel offereth Moses a great fortune Exod. 32.10 but would have taken it very ill that Mos●s should have taken him at his word He is but a little angry with his people and soon repenteth him of the evill But woe be to those that help forward the indignation that deale by Gods afflicted as the Herd of Deer do which when any of the herd is shot the hest push him out of their company Camden It is said of Q. Elisabeth that she hated ho lesse then did Mithridates such as maliciously persecuted vertue forsaken of fortune Think the same of God He weareth his rod to the stumps and then throwes it into the fire He sets his horse-leeches to his people when he findes them sick of a plethory of pride when fulnesse hath bred forgetfulnesse saturity security and suffereth them to suck rill they burst and then treads them under his feet and puts them away as drosse Psal 119.118 119. Verse 16. Psal 42.7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Thus one deep calleth another the lower deep of our misery the higher deep of Gods mercy As Craesus his dumb son burst out into Kill not king Craesus so when enemies are ready to devoure the Church Gods bowels work he can hold no longer but cryes Save my child Handle the yong man gently for my sake See Ier. 31.20 Isa 57.16 I will not contend for ever neither will I be alwayes wroth for the spirit should faile before me c. when the child swoons in the whipping God let falls the rod and falls a kissing it to fetch life into it againe A Physitian in some cases purgeth his patient till nothing be lest almost but skin and bone or blooddeth him ad deliquium animae till he faint and sink but yet his care is still to maintain nature so this heavenly Father and Physitian is carefull to keep up the spirits of his suffering Saints by comforts and cordials as here I am returned to Ierusalem with mercies Miserationibus visceralibus with multitudes of tender mercies that flow from the inwards from the bowels from the bosom and bottom of the heart had that of a Parent nay of a mother toward her child in an extremity as 1 King 3.26 And here observes how fully and sweetly the Angels prayer verse 12. is answered even ad cardinem desiderij Aug. Confes lib. 5. c. 8. God not only grants him according to his own heart but fulfills all his counsell as it is Psal 20.4 Le ts it be to him even as he will nay gives him an enlarged answer presseth upon him as Naaman did upon Gehezi's two talents when he desired but one How long wilt thou not be mercifull to Jerusalem saith He behold I am returned to Jerusalem with many mercies saith God I went away and hid me from it in my anger Hos 5.15 but am come again with many comforts to relieve it As all light is from the Sun and all waters from the sea so is all comfort from God In thy light shall we see light but Thou diddest hide thy face and I was troubled Psal 30.7 as when the Sun is eclipsed all creatures here flag and hang the head there is a drooping in the whole frame or nature and as when the extracting force of the Sun leaves the vapours that are drawn up they fall down again to the earth So sares it with the Church If God withdraw she lyes all amort yea she lieth open to all sorts of evils and enemies for her shadow is departed from her But he cannot be long absent such is his love he will repent for his people when he seeth their power is gone Dent. 32.36 when there is a dignus vindice nodus an extremity fit for divine power to interpose when misery weighs down nothing but mercy turns the scale then at furthest in the very turning and criticall point He will return to Jerusalem with mercies He will return to her not as the winter sun that casts a goodly countenance when it shines but gives little comfort and heat but with a Cornu-copia of all manner of blessings will he come my house shall be built in it saith the Lord of Hosts and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem that is both Church and State shall flourish God will both do good in his good pleasure unto Sion be will also build the walls of Jerusalem Psal 51.18 but mark that he saith in his good pleasure as here in tender mercies to teachus that all the good we enjoy is merely of mercy it is all of free grace for otherwise there should not be so much as any face of Church or common-wealth as we see in the Jewes at this day a miserable dissected people because Lo-ruhamah Hos 1. such as have not obtained mercy Then Ancestours acknowledged with all thankfulnesse for so undeserved a favour that Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto them a very small remnant Isay 1.9 they should have been as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah Had not the Angels laid hold upon Lots hand and the good Lord been mercifull unto him Gen. 19.16 he also had perished amongst those sinners against their own soules Jehoshua was a brand pluckt out of the fire Zech. 3.2 And when One said to Mr. Bradford the Martyr God hath done much for you since I first knew you and hath wrought wonderously in you to his glory he thus answered Truth it is for He hath dealt favourably with me Act. Mon. 1473. Ezra 9.13 in that he hath not punished me according to my sins but hath suffered me to live that I might seek repentance Thou hast punished us lesse then our iniquities deserve saith Ezra And it is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed saith the Church because his compassions faile not Lam. 3.22 Verse 17. Cry yet saying Thus saith the Lord of Hosts my cities Here are foure Yets in this one verse and all very gracious ones to break their hard harts and to raise their faith in his promised mercies For it is as if God should say Though I was sore displeased with your Fathers and ye are risen up in their roomes a very rate of rebels so that I have had indignation against you full seventy yeers ver 12. yet I do you to know and by my Propher I proclaime with great earnestness and evidence of truth that I do

yet own you my cities so that ye are not discovenanted and will yet prosper you so that it shall no more be said This is Zion whom no man careth for for you shall have plentifull increase of men Ier. 30.17 cattle and all manner fruits of the earth as chap. 2.4 yea you shall have a fulnesse of all things not only repletive but diffusive not only of abundance but of redundance too your cup shall over flow into the lesser vessels of others my cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad Diffundentur dissluent aut effluent You shall have not for necessity only but for lawfull delight and honest affluence and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion sc with spiritnall comforts taking her into his wine-cellar Cant. 2. yea into the wildernesse and there speaking to her heart Hos 2.13 and shall yet chuse Ierusalem That is settle her in the sound assurance of her Election and Adoption whereof those outward blessings are both fruites and pledges Hence David doubts not to conclude his spiritual good estate and hopes of eternall happinesse from his externall enjoyments Psal 23.5 6. Thou preparest a table before me thou anointest mine head my cup runneth over Hence he inferrs Surely goodnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever In all that is here said we may see that scripture fully made good Ier. 51.5 Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the Lord of Hosts though their land was filled with sin against the Holy one of Israel And herein God dealt with his people according to hi● prerogative and not according to his ordinary course When the cursed Canaanites had fi●led their land from corner to corner with their uncloannesies Ezra 9.11 they were devoted to destruction When the Edomites grew insolent and ripe for ruine they were called the border of wickednesse and the people against whom the Lord had indignation for ever Mal. 1.4 See the Note there Verse 18. Then I lift up mine eyes and saw That is I gave good heed to this second vision also which was added purposely for confirmation of the former promises which should be certainly accomplished to the Church notwithstanding her many and mighty enemies Horns they are called for their might and mischievousnes by a metaphor à feris cornupetis from fierce beasts whose strength and wrath lies in their horns or else from warriers who wore iron horns upon their helmets and behold four horns Not the foure Monarchies for the Grecians and Romanes were not yet and this is spoken here for the present comfort of the afflicted Church but the enemeis of Israel from all the four parts of the world fee Psal 107.2 3. for they were surrounded On the North were the Syrians Assytians and Babylonians Ab Aqu lone nihil boni Ier. 4.6 and 6.1 On the East the Ammonites and Moabites On the South the Edomites and Egyptians On the West the Philistines as may be gathered out of Ieremy and Ezekiel Geneva is at this day a small people invironed with enemies French Spanish Savoy Pope and barred out from all aid of neighbours cit●es and churches yet by the mighty arm of God strangely and strongly upheld and desended This Mr. Beza represented in a most elegant emblem of a city depainted as hanged by a twined threed Melch. Ad. in vit Bez. 227. sustained and maintained by the mighty hand of God alone Would any man take the Churches picture saith Luther then let him paint a a silly poor maid sitting in a wood or wildernesse compassed about with hungry wolves Loc. com de perfec verae Ecclesiae lions bores and beares and with all manner of cruel and hurtfull beasts and in the midst of a great many surious men assaulting her every moment and minute for this is her condition in the world Verse 19 And I said unto the Angel that talked with me What be these Though the vision be dark and mysterious yet the Prophet despaireth not of a right understanding neither doth he waywardly reject it with a Quod non vult intelligi vult negligi But wanting wisdome he asketh it of God as St. Iames also adviseth us to do chap. 1.5 and as David practised Teach me good judgment and knowledge saith He give me understanding and I shall obserue thy law Thus Daniel prayed and had an Angel sent to informe him not once but often in friendly and familiar manner Dan. 9.21 and 10.11 and 11.2 3. So had Ioseph Cornelius Paul c. And although Angels are not so ready now or appear not at least so visibly to tell us the mind of God yet He will not be wanting to his willing servants but in the use of meanes they shall be all taught of God as David was by repayring to the Sanctuary Psal 73.13 and as the Eunuch was by Philip Act. 8. these are the hornes which have scattered Heb. tossed them up in the ayre as furious beasts do with their homes Lud de Dieu in Mat. 22.44 and sorely bruised them Num not modo dispersionem significat quae fit per modum ventilationis sed etiam quae fit per modum al●isienis contritionis See Hos 10.14 and 13.16 Verse 20. And the Lord shewed me foure carpenters He that before was called an Angell is here called Jehovah this shewes him to be Christ who is God blessed for ever In respect of his eternall essence he is called the Lord in respect of his office or Mediatourship an Angell foure carpenters Or smiths so many horns so many Artificers to batter and break them God wants not wayes and meanes to help his at a dead lift he knowes how to deliver saith Peter 2 Pet. 2.9 and herein usually he goeth a way by himself Many times he setteth the enemies together by the eares among themselves whilest that I withall escape saith David Psal 141.10 Thus by Nebuchadnezzar as by a mall or bettle he brake the rest of those horrible hornes as at this day the Pope by the Turk and Spaniard by the French and that the Church may have her Halcions N. marvell I slept so soundly seeing Antipater was by and watched said Philip of Macedon We may better say of Antipater our gracious Father and guardian the keeper of his Israel Verse 21. What come these to do he asketh not what they were for by their tooles or weapons he perceived they were Carpenters or smith as some think with iron instruments to breake these iron homes confer 1 King 22.11 He inquireth therefore of their imployment only Futilous and foolish questions should be avoided Tit. 3.9 so that no man did lift up his head Turn head or looke cheerfully as Luke 21.28 but these are come to fray them deterrere saith the Vulgar better deterrere to fright them now that they had pusht Israel to the Lord. to cast out c. Thus Omne sub