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A63065	A commentary or exposition upon all the Epistles, and the Revelation of John the Divine 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 : with a decad of common-places upon these ten heads : abstinence, admonition, alms, ambition, angels, anger, apostasie, arrogancie, arts, atheisme / by John Trapp ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.; Trapp, John, 1601-1669. Mellificium theologicum.	1647 (1647)	Wing T2040; ESTC R18187	632,596	752

God Sp●c Europ In hoc eorum omnis flamma est in hoc uruntur in●●ndio Hence they burn up Bibles tanquam doctrinam peregrinam as strange doctrine En●bir loc com cap. E●●les Hence they censure S. Paul as savouring of heresie and could finde in their hearts to purge his Epistles Eckius is not afraid to say That Christ did never command his Disciples to write but to preach only Bellarmine saith the Bible is no more then commonitorium a kinde of store-house for advice Hosius saith Ipsissimum Dei 〈◊〉 That the Popes interpretation though it seem never so repugnant to the Scripture is neverthelesse the very Word of God The Councel of Basil answered the Hussites requiring Scripture-proofs for such doctrines as were thrust upon them that the Scriptures were not of the being of the Church but of the well-being only that traditions were the touchstone of doctrine and foundation of faith And blasphemed the name of God The truth of God contained in the Scriptures What a devil made thee to meddle with the Scripture Act. and Mon. said Stephen Gardiner to Marbeck They tell us of divers that have been possest by that means and assure us that ●u● condemnation is so expresly set down in our own Bibles and is so clear to all the world that nothing more needs hereto then that we know to read and to have our eyes in our heads Alex. Cook at the opening thereof Verse 10. Vpon the scat of the Beast This City of Rome which was never yet besieged since it became the seat of Antichrist but it was taken and shall be again shortly to purpose And his kingdome was full of darknesse It appeared to be so as motes appear in the Sun-shine by the clear light of truth shining upon it A Scotish mist is here already fallen upon a piece of his Kingdome and what further service God hath for their and our armies to do against the Pope in Ireland or elswhere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we expect and pray God grant us good agreement among our selves and then much may be done abroad And they gnawed their tongues Being as mad with malice as Boniface the 8. was of discontent who being suddenly taken prisoner at his fathers house by Sarah Columnus his mortall enemy Turk hist 126. and brought to Rome laid up in the Castle of S. Angelo within 35. daies after most miserably died in his madnes renting himself with his teeth and devouring his own fingers Verse 11. And blasphemed the God of heaven As they did in 88 when the Spaniards gave out That Christ was turned Lutheran And as Faux the Gunpouder-traitour did when he told those that took him that not God but the devil had brought to light and to naught that desperate design Lonicer theatr histor Thus they set their mouths against heaven and their tongue walketh thorow the earth as if Augustus Caesar were dealing with some god Neptune or the three sons trying their archery at their fathers heart to see who can shoot nighest What an execrable blasphemy is that of John Hunt a Roman Catholike in his humble appeal to King James in the sixth Chapter of that Pamphlet See D Sheld mark of the● Beast The God of the Protestants is the most uncivil and evil-mannered God of all those who have born the names of gods upon the earth yea worse then Pan god of the clowns which can endure no ceremonies nor good manners at all And repented not This leopard Chap. 13.2 can never change his spots because they are not in the skin but in the flesh and bones in the sinews and most inward parts Tigers rage and tear themselves at the sound of a drum and at the smell of sweet spices so doe these savage Papists when called to repent Verse 12. Vpon the great river Euphrates i. e. Upon whatsoever yet hindereth the destruction of spirituall Babylon and the comming in of the Jews as the Turkish Empire c. That the way of the Kings Christians say some who are Kings in righteousnesse and come from the East or from Christ That day-spring from on high Luk. 1.78 Others understand this Text of the Jews who are most of them in the East dispersed thorow Turkie Tartary the ten Tribes especially and China Junius saith Tartars of Tothar a remnant or residue That which is called the land of Sinim Isa 49.12 may probably be meant of China which if it be the meaning there may be many of the Jews whose conversion we daily expect and pray for See Isa 11.15 16. Zach. 10.10 11. Verse 13. Three unclean spirits Spirituall fathers as the Papists call their Jesuites who seek to subject all to the Pope and the Pope to themselves being ultimus diaboli crepitus as one speaketh Arist denat animalium the last attempt of a daring devil These are the Popes Janizaries bloud-hounds vultures whose nest as Aristotle saith cannot be found Aristoph yet they will leave all games to follow an Army because they delight to feed on carrion Like frogs For their filthinesse impudency loquacity with their continuall brek●k●kex coax coax Come out of the mouth That is By the counsell and command by vertue of that vow of Mission whereby the Jesuites are bound to the Pope to go whither he shall send them about whatsoever attempt he shall enjoyn them Yea if their Governours command them a voyage to China or Peru without dispute or delay they presently set forward Hence haply they are called spirits Verse 14. The spirits of devils Or breathing devils Working miracles Lying wonders 2 Thess 2.9 Vnto the Kings of the earth The Popes Nuncio's Legats a latere and other emissaries stir up the spirits of Princes to embroil the world with wars for the upholding of his tottering greatnesse but all in vain The greatest impostors have ever been the greatest Courtiers The Arrians in their age and of them the Jesuites learned it And of the whole world Papists shall call in the help of forraign Princes out of Asia Africa America to suppresse the heretikes as they call them But with evil successe for they shall associate themselves only to be broken in pieces Isa 89. Exorientur sed exurentur Rev. 9 18. The mountain of the Lord shall be lifted up above all mountains These auxiliaries shall speed no better then those subsidiary Syrians 2 Sam. 10.18 19. Verse 15. I come as a thief Who gives no warning See the Note on Mat. 2.44 Blessed is be that watcheth The prophecy is here interrupted as Gen. 4.18 to fore-wa●n and fore-arm the Saints Luke 12.37 8 43. they are three times said to be blessed that watch Verse 16. And he gathered God hath an over-ruling hand in that which the frogs of Rome do at the Courts of Kings and ordereth the disorders of the world to his own glory Called in the Hebrew Armageddon That is They shall receive a famous foil such as Sisera

of Scripture this verse saith he had been easie had not Commentatours made it knotty the like saith another of a Christians condition it is gracious happy clear sure sweet did not erroneous judgements vex and unsettle them Verse 16. Let not then your good That is Your Christian liberty purchased by Christ Be evil spoken of Gr. Be blasphemed Contumely cast upon the people of God is blasphemy in the second Table God for the honour that he beareth to his people counts and calls it so Verse 17. For the kingdome of God c. That was a swinish saying of Epicurus That eternall life should be nothing else but a continuall eating of the fat and drinking of the sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even unto an uncessant surfetting and drunkennesse The Turks at this day promise Paradise to such as die in warre for the Mahometan faith Blou●ts voiage p 37 ● where they shall have delicious fare pleasant gardens all sensuall delights eternally to be enjoyed not withstanding any former sins Fit lettice for such lips Verse 18. Is acceptable to God And he is an happy man that can be acquitted by himself in private in publike by others in both by God Verse 19. Wherewith one may edifie another Discords among good people do edificare in gehennam as Tertullian phraseth it build backwards One of the main scandals the Jews take from Protestants is their dissention Verse 20. The work of God That work of faith 1 Thess 1.3 wrought by the mighty power of God Ephes 1.19 who puts not forth great power but for great purposes Verse 21. It is good neither to eat c. It will be no grief of heart as she once told David in another case to have forborn in case of scandall A great grief it would be if by some rash word we should betray a brother or smite out the eie of our dearest childe 1 Sam. 25. Should we then destroy the life of grace in another by our unadvised walking Verse 22. Hast thou faith Posse nolle nobile est Forbear for fear of effence unlesse it be in point of necessary duty For then we may not doe evil that good may come Rom. 3 8. Verse 23. Is damned Both of his doubting conscience which soundeth heavily as a shau●m and of God who is greater then his conscience CHAP. XV. Verse 1. Ought to bear AS Porters do their burdens as pillars do the poise of the house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or rather as parents bear their babes in their arms And not to please our selves Bis desipit qui sibi sapit Prov. 3.7 Verse 2. Please his neighbour Though he crosse himself this is true Christian love and driven almost out of the world by sinfull self-love which can eth men to dislike those things in others that they slatter in themselves Verse 3. For even Christ And we should expresse him to the world preach abroad his vertues by our practice 1 Pet. 2.9 Our lives should be as so many Sermons upon the life of Christ This is walk in Christ Col. 2 6. as Christ 1 Joh. 3.6 Verse 4. For whatsoever things c. Here the Apostle meets with an Objection For some man might say that that saying of the Psalme pertains to David how therefore is it applied to Christ He answers Whatsoever things c. q. d. We must learn to see Christ in David David in the history Christ in the mystery David as the type Christ the truth That we through patience Hence the Scriptures are called R●vel 2. The word of Christs patience because they patient the heart under Gods holy hand and are better called Physick for the soul then ever was the library of Alexandria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And comfort of the Scriptures As the bloud and spirits are conveied by the veins and arteries so is the Spirit by the promises helping the soul to lay it self upon Christ by faith which is a grace of union and so of establishment Verse 5. Now the God of patience The soul is then only in good plight when the heaven answers the earth Hos 2.21 When. Christ the Sun of righteousnes shines into it Verse 6. With one minde and one mouth It is recorded to the high commendation of the Church of Scotland that for this 90 years and upwards they have kept unity with purity without schisme much lesse heresie Syntag. Confession praesat Verse 7. To the glory of God That is Of heaven the joyes whereof it is as impossible to comprehend as it is to compasse the heaven with a span or contain the Ocean in a nut-shell Such comfort there is in the presence of Christ though but in the womb as it made John to spring What then shall it be in heaven Verse 8. Now I say that Jesus Paul proveth particularly in this and the following verses that Christ hath taken both Jews and Gentiles to his glory Verse 9. And that the Gentiles Though they had no such promises might glorifie Gods free grace in the day of their visitation Verse 10. Rejoyce That your names also are written in heaven and that ye are enrolled in the records of the new Jerusalem Verse 11. All ye Gentiles As being received into the glory of God vers 7. Verse 12. In him shall the Gentiles trust I saith hath it To him shall the Gentiles seek To seek to God then argues trust in God He that hopes not praies not or but faintly Verse 13. Fill you with all joy c. Note here that joy and peace are the means whereby faith worketh hope Verse 14. Full of goodnesse The excellency of a godly man is to follow God fully as Caleb Numb 14.24 to have a heart full of goodnesse as these Romans a life full of good works as Tabitha Act. 9.36 These shall receive a full reward 2 Joh. 8. Verse 15. Chrysostome truly saith of St Paul that he was insatiabilis Dei cultor one that thought he could never do God or his Church service enough Verse 16. Ministring the Gospel Serving about holy things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or doing sacred offices as the Priests under the Law to whom the Apostle all along this verse alludes in an elegant allegory the Ministery is a divine and heavenly function All other callings are for the world and draw to the world but this both in the preparation and execution draweth to God keepeth us with God and to be ever mindefull of the things of God Verse 17. I have therefore c. So have all Gods faithfull Ministers at this day against the contempts and contumelies cast upon them by the mad world ever besides it self in point of salvation There is a pamphlet lately published that sticks not to make that sacred and tremend function of the Ministery to be as meer an imposture as very a mystery of iniquity The Compass Samarit●n as arrant a juggle as the Pa●acy it self Verse 18. To make the Gentiles c.

just and right is he And mightest overcome Maist be pure Psal 51. saith David Zacah in the Syriack is used for overcoming Vincit veritas dare non dignis res magè digna Deo est Verse 5. Is God unrighteous Such heart-boilings there were in the rejected Jews And Iob said little lesle till God over-hearing him steps as it were from behinde the hangings and takes him up for it Iob 38.2 Who is this saith he that talketh thus How now Verse 6. I speak as a man q. d. Is there not such language heard in some mens hearts Verse 7. For if the truth of God Here the former objection is repeated explicated and more fully answered that every month might be stopped Lomelius Ferunt ranas lampade supra lacum in quo tumultuantur appensâ illius sulgore repercussas conticescere So gain-sayers are silenced when the truth is thorowly cleared Verse 8. As we be slanderously reported So are the reformed Churches by the black mouthed Papists See the abatement of Popish brags by Alex. Cook the Preface Eudaemon Ioannes against Casaubon Calvino-Turcismum c. Whose damnation is just In the yeer of grace 1525. a Monk of Berline in Germany who in the Pulpit charged St Paul with a lie was suddenly smitten with an apoplex whiles the word was yet in his mouth ●cultel Annal. and fell down dead in the place on S. Stevens day as they call it Verse 9. That they are all under sin who le evil is in man and whole man in evil Homo est inversus decalogus Man by nature is no better then a filthy dunghill of all abominable vices His heart the devils store-house throne nest His eyes great thorow-fares of lust pride vanity c. His life a long chain of sinnefull actions a web of wickednesse spunne out and made up by the hands of the devil and the flesh an evil spinner M. Whate'y his new birth and a worse Weaver Verse 10. As it is written What the Prophets had said of some particular people or person is here applied to the whole race of mankinde because by nature there is never a better of us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eras Adag Verse 11. None that seeketh That seeketh and fetcheth him out of his retiring-room as she did Mark 7.24 25. Verse 12. Become unprosimble Or rotten nasty stinking as the Hebrew hath it Psalm 14.3 The old world was grown so foul that God was forced to wash it with a deluge Verse 13. The poison of Aspes Of that sort of Aspes that spit their venome farre from them upon the by standers P●ya●es There is a great deal of such vermine and venome in that new found world of wickednesse the tongue Iam. 3. It is easie to observe that S. Paul here making the anatomy of a naturall man stands more on the organs of speaking then all other members and sheweth how his tongue is tipped with fraud his lips tainted with venome his mouth full of gall his throat a gaping grave his tongue as a rapier to run men thorow with and his throat as a sepulcher to bury them in As for the Asp they write of her That whereas her poison is so deadly that the part infected cannot be cured Io Wover ●●nd 8. c. 23. but by cutting off succurrit periclit●●tibus benignior natura noxiosissimo animali caliginosos obtutus dedit Aspidi saith Psiny hebetes oculi dati co●que non in fronte sed in temporibus habet Verse 14. Full As a ship that hath it's full fraught and lading 〈◊〉 Verse 15. Swift to shed bloud As Paul till God stopt him in his cursed career Verse 16. They minde nothing but mischief Verse 17. They are restlesse and troublesome Verse 18. There is no fear of God This is set last as the source of all the former evils Verse 19. Guilty Culpable and such as cannot plead their own cause without an advocate Chrysost Verse 20. Therefore by the deeds of the Law This is directly against Popish justification by works merits c. Those misled and muzled souls did worse then lose their labour that built religious houses Act. and Mon. fol. 1077. Pro remissione redemptione peccatorum pro remedio liberatione animae in eleemosynam animae pro salute requie animarum patrum matrum fratrum sororum c. These were the ends that they aimed at as appears in stories Verse 21. But now Since Christ came Verse 22. Vpon all So that none shall hinder their happinesse Verse 23. All have sinned The first man defiled the nature and ever since the nature defileth the man Adam was a parent a publike person a Parliament man as it were the whole country of mankinde was in him and fell with him Short of the glory of God i. e. Of his image now obliterated or of his kingdome upon the golden pavement whereof no dirty dog must ever trample It is an inheritance undefiled 1 Pet. 1.4 Verse 24. Being justified freely Because the Apostles word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is expounded by Varinus to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore Thammerus will needs conclude from this text that God by justifying us doth but pay us for our pains give us what we have earned Coelum gratis non accipiam saith Vega. Opera bona sunt Coeli mercatura saith another Heaven is the purchase of good works By the redemption That is By faith applying this redemption wrapping her self in the golden Fleece of that Lamb of God Verse 25. To be a propitiation Or a covering in allusion to the Law where the Ark covering the two Tables within it the Mercy-seat covering the Ark and the Cherubims covering the Mercy-seat and one another shew'd Christ covering the curses of the Law in whom is the ground of all mercy which things the Angels desire to pry into as into the paterne of Gods deep wisdome For the remission of sins Gr. For the relaxation or releasment of sins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as of bonds or fetters Verse 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To declare Gr. For a clear demonstration or pointing out with the finger Verse 27. Where is boasting then c. A certain sophister would hence prove the authority of the Church He read the words thus by a mistake of their short-hand-writing Vbi est gloriatio● Ecclesia est for exclusa est Verse 28. A man is justified by faith Here St Paul shews himself a pure Lutheran and is therefore sharply and blasphemously censured by some Jesuites for a hot-headed person who was so transported with the pangs of zeal and eagernesse beyond all compasse in most of his disputes that there was no great reckoning to be made of his Assertions Yea he was dangerous to read Speculum Europae as savouring of heresie in some places and better perhaps he had never written Four years before the Councel of Trent Cardinal Conturenus asserted the doctrine of

on 1 Pet. 3. Heb. 13.17 It is a vile thing saith one to vex our Ministers by our obstinacy yea though they were not able to make so full demonstration yet when they reprove such things out of a spirituall j●alousie and fear that they corrupt the peoples hearts they are to be heard and obeyed Verse 17. I praise you not q. d. I discommend and dispraise you The Corinthians were in many things faulty and blame-worthy St Paul deals plainly and freely with them and would not therefore take their offered kindenesse 2 Cor. 12. lest he should be ingaged to them and by receiving a curtesie fell his liberty Verse 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There be divisions Gr. Schismes rents yea and that about the Sacrament of the Lords Supper that bond of love thorow Satans malice Now there can be no greater sinne committed saith Chrysostome Hom. 11. ad Ephes Lib. de unitate Ecclesie Oecol ad frat in Suevia then to break the peace of the Church Cyprian saith It is an inexpiable blemish such as cannot be washt ost with the bloud of martyrdome The errour of it may be pardoned saith Oecolampadius in his Epistle to the Lutherans of Suevia so there be faith in Christ Jesus but the discord we cannot expiate though we should lay down our lives to doe it Verse 19. There must be heresi●s Therefore much more schismes which also for most part do degenerate into heresies as an old Serpent into a Dragon In the time of Pope Clement the fifth Frederick King of Sicily was so offended at the evil government of the Church that he began to question the truth of the Christian religion But Arnoldus de villa nova confirmed and setled him by this and such like places of Scripture Offences must come there must be heresies c. God having so decreed and fore-told it May be made manifest As they are now if ever in these shedding and discriminating times So in the Palatinase they fell to Popery as fast as leaves in Autumn Verse 20. This is not to cat c. When the Lords Supper therefore is not rightly administred it is no longer his especially if the substantials thereof be omitted As in those Sacrifices Hos 9 4. Their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord that is the bread for their naturall sustenance He speaks of that meat-offering Levit. 2.5 appointed for a spirituall use yet called the bread for their life or livelihood because God esteemed it no other then common meat So Jer. 7.21 in scorn he cals their sacrifice flesh c. Verse 21. Every one taketh Eateth and communicateth with those o● his own sect and faction only not staying for others Such among the Philippians were those of the concision Chap. 3.2 that made divisions and cut the Church into little pieces and sucking Congregations making separation Verse 22. What Have ye not houses Here he abolisheth their love-feasts for the disorder that fell out therein The Greek Church neverthelesse retained them but the Roman Church laid them down as Justin Martyr witnesseth Verse 23. For I have received Rectumest regula sui obliqui The Apostle seems to rectifie them by reducing them to the first institution The same night c. It was his last bequeath to his Church for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ignatius hath it a soveraign both purgative and preservative This is my body En praeclaram illam consecrationem Behold that goodly consecration saith Beza for the which the Shavelings say that they are more holy then the very virgin Mary For that Mary only conceived Christ but they create him Beza in confess 241. Whereunto the Virgin might well reply That she carefully nourished Christ whom they cruelly devour Dost thou beleeve said the Doctour to the Martyr that Christs body and bloud is in the Eucharist really and substantially I believe saith he Act. and Mon. that that is a reall lie and a substantiall lie When Cranmer was brought forth to dispute in Oxford Dr Weston Prolocutour thus began the disputation Act. and Mon. fol. 1300. Convenistis bodiè fratres profligaturi detestandam illam haeresin de veritate corporis Christi in Sacramento c. At which mistake divers learned men burst out into a great laughter Verse 25. He took the Cup See the Note on Matthew 26.27 Verse 26. Ye do shew We need no other crucifix to minde us of Christs passion Till he come There shall be a Church then and the pure worship of God till the worlds end maugre the malice of tyrants and heretikes Verse 27. Shall be guilty Because they profane the holy symbols and pledges of Christs blessed body and bloud These are in some sense as guilty as those that spit upon Christs face or that spilt his bloud As the Donatists that cast the holy elements to dogs or as that wretched Booth a Bachelour of Arts in S. Johns Colledge in Cambridge who being Popishly affected at the time of the Communion took the consecrated bread and forbearing to eat it B. Morton Instit of the Sacr l. 5. c. 3. convey'd and kept it closely for a time and afterwards threw it over the Colledge-wall Not long after this he threw himself headlong over the battlements of the Chappel and so ended his life Verse 28. Let a man examine A Metaphor from Metallaries or Lapidists as they try their mettals or precious stones and do it exactly that they be not cozened so here men must make an exact scrutiny And so let him eat After preparation participation The Heathens had their caena pura the night before their Sacrifices The Russians receive children after seven years old to the Communion saying Breerwoods Enquit 135. that at that age they begin to sin against God But can they say that at that age they can examine themselves and receive preparedly Chrysostome calleth the Lords Table that dreadfull table 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Ancients call the Sacraments dreadfull mysteries Verse 29. Eateth and drinketh damnation He that came in without a wedding-garment on his back went not away without fetters on his feet He was taken from the table to the tormentours Gods table becomes a snare to unworthy receivers they eat their bane they drink their poison Henry the seventh Emperour of Germany was poisoned in the Sacramentall bread by a Monke Pope Victor 2. by his sub Deacon in the Chalice and one of our Bishops of York by poison put into the wine at Sacrament God will deal with ill communicants as Job 20.23 They will speed no better then Amnon did at Absoloms feast Verse 30. Many are weak The mortality at Corinth began at Gods house and that for unworthy communicating God will be sanctified of all that draw-near to him He loves to be acquainted with men in the walks of their obedience and yet he takes state upon him in his ordinances and will be served like himself or

be at once loved and feared But bring them up in the nurture c. Or nourish them and nurture them The later is as needfull as the former They that nourish their children only what do they more then the unreasonable creatures Selue●●er The blessing upon posterity is entailed to piety in the second Commandment If I may see grace in my wife and children said reverend Claviger Satis habeo satisque mihi mea ux-ar● filiis filiabus prospexi I shall account them sufficiently cared for Verse 5. Servants be obedient The Centurion was happy in his servants and no marvell for he was a loving Master See the Note on Mat 8 6. Verse 6. Not with eye-servi●e And yet it were well if we would do God our great Master but eye-service For his eye is ever upon us and pierceth into the inward parts So that they much deceive themselves who think all is well because no m●n can say to them Black is thine eye Verse 7. As to the Lord In obedience to his will and with reference to his glory Verse 8. Whether he be bond or free The Centurion did but complain of the sicknesse of his servant and Christ unasked saies I will come and heal him He that came in the shape of a servant would go down to the sick servants pallet would not go to the bed of the rich Rulers son Verse 9. Do the same things That is Do your parts and duties by them and use them as men not as beasts Forbearing threatning Those blusters and terrible thunder-cracks of fierce and furious language found in the mouths of many mast●rs i● never so little crossed Severitas nec sit tetra nec t●trica Servants should be chidden with good words Sidon epist with Gods words and not reviled Verse 10. Be strong in the Lord For by his own strength shall no man prevail 1 Sam. 2.9 Get Gods Arm wherewith to wield his Armour and then you may do any thing Verse 11. Put òn the whole armour Or else never think to do the fore-mentioned duties we have a busie adversary to deal with The Turks bear no weapons but in travell then some of them seem like a walking armory so must a Christian be Coriolanus ●ad so used his weapons of a childe-little that they seemed as if they had been born with him or grown into his hands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch Seneca reports of Caesar that he quickly sheathed his sword but never laid it off No more must we The wiles of the devil Gr. The methods or way-layings of that old subtile Serpent who like Dans adder in the path biteth the heels of passengers Gen. 48.17 and thereby transfuseth his venome to the head and heart Julian by his craft drew more from the faith then all his persecuting predecessours could do by their cruelty So doth Satan more hurt in his sheepskin then by roaring like a Lion Verse 12. Not against flesh and bloud Hereby the Apostle meaneth not so much the corruption as the weaknesse of our natures q. d. We have not only to conflict with weak frail men but with puissant devils Look to it therefore and lie open at no place but get on every piece of this spirituall armour whether those of defence as the girdle of truth bre●t-pla●e of righteousnesse the shoes of peace and patience the helmet of hope or those of offence as the sword of the Spirit and the darts of praier Fetch all these out of the holy Scriptures which are like Solomons tower where hang a thousand shields and all the weapons of strong men The Apostle here soundeth the alarm crying Arm arm c. But against principalities So wicked men make the devils by being at their beck and obedience Observe here saith an Interpreter in the holy Ghost a wonderfull patern of candour he praiseth what is praise-worthy in his very enem●es How then shall not the Saints be accepted and acknowledged sith they sin not of malicious wickednesse as devils do Against spirituall wickednesse Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The spirituals of wickednesse those hellish plots and satanicall suggestions black and blasphemous temptations horrid and hideous injections c. In high places Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 About our interest in those heavenly priviledges which the devil would wring from us and rob us of He strove with the Angel about the body of Moses but with us about our precious soules And herein he hath the advantage that he is above us and doth ou● of the aire assault us being upon the upper ground as it were Verse 13. That ye may be able to with stand Not seeking to resist Satans craft with craft fraud with fraud Sed per apertum Martem but by open defiance He shoots saith Greenham with Satan in his own bow who thinks by disputing and reasoning to put him off Verse 14. Stand therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A military expression A man may well say to the Christian souldier as Simeon in the ecclesiasticall history did to the pillars D. H●ll's Quò vadis which he whipped before the earthquake Stand fast for ye shall be shaken Your loins girt about Here if ever Vngirt unblest He is a loose man that wants this g●●dle of since●ity The breast-plate of righteousnes Inherent righteousnes 1 Ioh. 3.7 that ensureth election 2 Pet. 1 10. Verse 15. And your feet shod As one that is well booted or buskind can walk unhurt amidst briers and brambles so may he amidst Satans snares whereof all places are full that is fortified with Gospel-comforts whereby God creates peace Verse 16. Above all Or Over and upon all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the word here rendred a shield cometh from another word that signifieth a door to note that as a door or gate doth the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the shield of faith covereth the whole soul Let us be therefore as Epaminondas Non d● vita sed de sc●to solliciti S●eva at the siege of Dyrrachium so long alone resisted Pompeys army that he had 220 darts sticking in his shield and lost one of his eyes and yet gave not over till Caesar came to his rescue To quench all the fiery darts Pointed and poisoned with the venome of serpents which set the heart on fire from one lust to another Or fiery for the dolour and distemper that they work in allusion to the Scythian darts dipt in the gall of asps and vipers the venemous heat of which like a fire in their flesh killed the wounded with torments the likest hell of any other Verse 17. The helmet of salvation Hope which holds head above water and maketh the soul with stretcht-out ●eck expect deliverance Rom 8.19 crying out not only Dum spiro spero but dum expiro spero And the sword of the spirit Wherewith our Saviour beat the devil on his own dunghill the wildernesse fetching all out of that one book of

as holy Priests With golden girdles Here an Interpreter gives this note M. Bernard That they which are leud and vicious though never so wise politike rich and valiant shall not be Gods instruments to plague Antichrist and his kingdom This their priestly apparel sheweth also how that these Angels come forth in the Churches cause and for her sake without any other by and sinister respect Verse 7. And one of the four beasts The faithfull Pastours by their divine discourses of the pure worship of God the intolerable tyranny of Antichrist c. stirre up the spirits of Gods servants to set them selves against that man of sinne and to execute upon him the judgement written This honour have all his Saints Psal 149. ult Seven golden vials Vessels of large content but narrow mouths they pour out slowly but drench deeply and distill effectually the wrath of God Full of the Wrath of God Filled out of the cup of his wrath mentioned in the former Chapter Verse 8. And the Temple was filled This shews that God graciously approves and miraculously protects the reformed Churches See Exod. 40.34 35. 1 King 8.10 So he did the Hussites in Bohemia All Germany was up in arms against them Actum jam de Hussitis videbatur Verùm Germani nondum viso hoste Panico terrore perculsi diffugerunt saith the Historian And when things seemed to be in a desperate condition the Germans smitten with a panick terrour fled all away before they had looked the enemy in the face How wonderfully is Geneva preserved in the midst of many mighty enemies What should I speak of Rochel relieved and Leiden rescued both from heaven We of this Nation have lately seen as much of Gods glory and power in our Temple as ever did any Till the seven plagues No Anticristian could understand the end of the present plagues till eaten into a better minde Vexatio dat intellectum CHAP. XVI Verse 1. Go your waies A Proof of the divine calling of the Ministers of the Gospel Pour out the vials See the Note on Chap. 15.7 Vpon the earth Upon Antichrist and his adherenrs Roma facta est ex aurea ferrea ex ferrea terrea said one of her own favourites Verse 2. And the first went They went not all at once Note the patience of God waiting mens return unto him Verse 2. Vpon the earth Antichrists foot-stool his branded slaves A noisome and grievous sore The French disease say some the devils disease say others viz. Spite and envy at the Reformation wrought in Bohemia Germany England c. upon the discovery of the Papists hypocrisie and filthines Verse 3. Vpon the sea The Popish Councel called a Sea from the concourse thereunto from all parts that of Trent especially with their deadly decrees making the traditions of the Church the rule of faith c. Died in the sea As the fishes of Jordan do as soon as they fall into the Mare mortuum and as the fishes in the river Nilus did when the waters thereof were turned into bloud Verse 4. Vpon the rivers c. The persecutours and impostours the Jesuites especially who have lately added twelve new Articles by the authority of Pope Pius 4. raised out of the Councel of Trent and added to the Nicen Creed Se● these ● Ar●ic in th● ep●st pr●fix 〈◊〉 B Iewels works to be received with others as the true Catholike faith to be believed by as many as shall be saved And those that receive them not are not suffered to live amongst them This is worse then the six Articles in Henry the eighths time that whip with six cords as they cald it Verse 5. The angel of the Waters The same that poured forth his vial upon the waters vers 4 Thou art righteous God 's judgements are sometimes secret Justin l. 1. Val. Max. Act. and Mon. Camden See the Mirrour or Look●●●-giassè both sor Saints and sinners set forth by my most loving and highly honoured friend M. San. Clark Pastour and Preacher of the Word at Bennet-Fink London unto whom not only F●give thanks for his help in this publicatiō but also all the Churches that shall get good thereby alwaies just and so to be acknowledged We shall one day see the reason of all and say as Jehu did 2 King 9 36. Verse 6. For they have shed As Minerius that monster the cruell Duke of Alva bloudy Bonner the Guises and other of the Popes Champions Thou hast given them bloud to drink As Tomyris dealt by Cyrus the Parthians by Crassus the Romans by those Jews that cried out His bloud be upon us c. as our laws do by the Priests and Jesuites and those that receive them proceeding against such as are traitours to the State The putting out of the French Kings eyes who promised before with his eyes to see one of Gods true servants burned The death of Charls the 9 of France authour of the Parisian massacre by exceeding bleeding at sundry parts of his body who seeth not to be the just hand of God upon them This Charles beholding the bloudy bodies of the butchered Protestants in that execrable massacre and feeding his eye upon that wofull spectacle breathed out this bloudy speech Quam bonus est odor hostis mortui How sweet is the smell of a 〈◊〉 enemy and shortly after breathed out his accursed soul Inter horribilium blasphemiarum diras saith the Historian tantum sanguinis vim projiciens c. after the Beza had fore-warned him but in vain by that verse Tu vero Herodes sanguinolente time So Julian Attilas Felix of Wartenburg Henry 3. of France stabbed in the same chamber wherein he then being Duke of Aniou had contrived the French Massacre So let thine enemies perish O Lord. Talia quisque luat qualia quisque facit Verse 7. And I heard another That in the mouth o● two witnesses this truth might be established Let God be justified and every mouth stopped Out of the altar Under which lìe the souls of those that were slain for the testimony of Jesus Chap. 6. Verse 8. Vpon the Sun The Popes supremacy say some the Scriptures say others by the light whereof they are laid open to the world dancing naked in a net and yet not seeing their own nakednesse Act. and Mon. fol. 1657. as Mr Philpos Martyr told Chadsey and by the dint whereof H●s 6.5 God smites the earth Isa 11.4 that is the consciences of these Popelings glued to the earth He even hews them by his prophets and slaies them by the words of his mouth Verse 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And men were scorched Or parched scalded roasted This is by accident in regard of the Scriptures for the Lord speaketh peace to his people and his word is good to those that are good Orig. in Num. Homil. 27. Mic. 2.7 But as Origen saith of devils so may we say of Papists there is no greater torment to them then the Word of

shall be the finest prey the greatest sinners the sorest sufferers CHAP. XX. Verse 1. And I saw an Angel COnstantine the great the Churches male-childe Chap. 12. Having the key Not that key Chap. 9.1 but another A great chain The succession of Christian Emperours Verse 2. And he laid hold on the Dragon Chap. 12.7 9. He took him in a field-fight and since then till now we have heard little of him more then that he substituted the Beast Chap. 13. whose destruction being declared the prophecy returns to shew the judgment of the Dragon And bound him From the open slaughtering of the Saints as he had done by the Heathen Emperours for from molesting and mischieving of Gods people other wise he is not bound one hour Job 1. 1 Pet. 5.8 And how his vicegerent the Beast hath bestirred him during the thousand years who knows not A thousand years Hos explicare fat●or trepidè m● aggredi saith Pareus He begins the thousand at the destructi●n of the Temple anno 73. and so it ends in Pope Hildebrand who stept into that chair of pestilence anno 1073. Others begin it at the birth of Christ and end in Silvester 2. Others at Christs passion and end in Benedict 9. But they do best in my opinion that begin at Constantine and end in Boniface the 8. who is of his own said to have entered like a fox raigned as a Lion and died as a dog He excommunicated the French King and published this decree That the Bishop of Rome ought to be judged of none although he should carry innumerable souls with him to hell Verse 3. And cast him into the bottomlesse pit That is into the earth Chap. 12.9 12. Chap. 13.11 the earth is the bottomlesse pit out of which the Beast was raised by the Dragon Deceive the Nations The Gentiles by defending Gentilisme and hindering the course of the Gospel amongst them And after that the must be losed He must because God hath so decreed it for the glory of his own name in the defence of his people but destruction of his enemies As also that the devil may shew his malice which God can restrain at his pleasure Roger Holland Martyr said to Bonner This I dare be bold in God to speak which by his Spirit I am moved to say that God will shorten your hand of cruelty that for a time you shall not molest his Church And after this day in this place shall there not any be by him put to the fire and faggot A●● and Mon●● 852. And it proved so for none after the suffered in Smithfield for the testimony of the Gospel Verse 4. And they sat upon them Resting from former p●rsecutions and raigning in righteousnesse even here upon earth And judgement was given unto them That is say some the spirit or discerning between Christianity and Antichristianisme Or the clearing of the innocency and doing them right say others Or they had their chairs seats and consistories wherein they did both preach the Word and execute the Churches censure as some sense it And I saw the souls This makes against the Millenaries Souls raign not but in heaven there are the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. Cotton his pouring out of the 7. vio●s p. 26. True it is as Mr Cotton well observeth that there are many devises in the mindes of some to think that Jesus Christ shall come from heaven again and raign here with his Saints upon earth a thousand years But they are saith he but the mistakes of some high expressions in Scripture which describe the judgments poured out upon Gods enemies in making way to the Jews conversion by the patern of the last judgment Thus he The souls here mentioned are the same I conceive that were seen under the Altar Revel 6.9 and doe cry How long Lord These are not capable of a bodily resurrection nor of an earthly raigne And they lived and raigned with Christ They that is those that sat on the thrones not they that were beheaded Lived and raigned as spirituall Kings after the same manner as they are Priests vers 6. for else there should be more Kings then Subjects With Christ It is not said with Christ upon earth this is an addition to the text or if the words did import a raigning upon earth yet this would not inferre an earthly raign for a thousand years in great worldly delights begetting many children eating and drinking and enjoying all lawfull pleasures as some dream now a-daies The conceit I confesse is as ancient as Cerinth●● the heretike and P●pias scholar to S. John a man much reverenced for opinion of his holinesse but yet homo ingenij pertenui● saith Eusebius not oppressed with wit Hierom and Augustine explode it as a Jewish fable and declare it to be agreat errour if not an heresie so do all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at this day The Patrons of Christs personall raign upon earth Moses's choice p. 487. are Mr Archer and Mr Burroughes who tels us That if the opinion of some concerning Christs coming to raign here in the world before the day of judgement be not a truth he cannot make any thing of many places of Scripture as this place for one But if he cannot yet others can See an Answer to his and M. Archers chief Arguments in M. Bayl● his disswasive from the errours of the times Chap. 21. p. 238. Verse 5. But the rest of the dead Dead in Baal-worship as Ephraim Hos 13.1 dead in sins as Sardis Rev. 3.1 Lived not again By repentance from dead works or they recovered not the life and immortality that is brought to light by the Gospel Vntill the thousand years Untill being taught better by Gods faithfull witnesses they abjured Popery This is the first resurrection From Romish superstitions M. Fox tels us Act. and Mon. fol 767. that by the reading of Chaucers books some were brought to the knowledge of the truth Verse 6. Blessed and happy is he The holy only have part in this resurrection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and are therefore happy or out of harms-way as the word signifies The second death hath no power For they are brought from the jaws of death to the joyes of eternall life where is mirth without mourning riches without rust c. But they shall be Priests See the Note on Chap. 1.6 They shall raign The righteous are Kings Mat. 13.17 compared with Luk. 10.24 Many righteous is the same with Many Kings See the Note on ver 4. A thousand years These thousand years begin saith Master Brightman where the former ended that is in the year 1300. whereby continuance thereof is promised for a thousand years forward among some of the Gentiles and how long it shall raign afterwards among the Jews he onely knows that knows all Verse 7. Satan shall be loosed i. e. Suffered to rise up in open rage against the open professours of the truth and to make havock