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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

Verse 5. And have tasted the good Word Catching at the promises as children do at sweet-meats rejoycing therein as the stony-ground-hearers did conceiving a rowling opinion as Haman did that they are the men when the King of heaven will honour Verse 6. If they shall fall away Totally and finally as Iudas and Iulian did and as Mr Iohn Glover thought he had done and did therefore eat his meat against appetite only to defer the time of his damnation which by mistake of this text he though he could not possibly avoid But God who comforteth those that are cast down did not only at last rid him cut of all his fears but also flamed him to such mortification of life as the like lightly hath not been seen Act. and Mon. fol. 55● saith Mr Fox who knew it And put him to an open shame As if they had not found him the same that they took him for In those that have wilfully resisted divine truths made known to them and after taste despised them a per●wasion that God hath forsaken them set on strongly by Satan stirs up an hellish hatred against God carrying then to a revengefull desire of opposing whatsoever is Gods though not alwaies openly for then they should lose the advantage of doing hurt yet secretly and subtilly and under pretence of the contrary as one well observeth Verse 7. And bringeth forth herbs So the fruitfull Christian that watered with the Word and Spirit bringeth forth a harvest of holinesse shall receive the blessing of encrease Iob. 1.2 Such trees as brought forth fruit fit for meat were not to be destroied Dout. 20.19 But trees that were not for fruit were for the fire Mat. 3.10 Verse 8. Is rejected and is nigh to cursing the sin against the holy Ghost is therefore unpardonable because God not suffering himself to be derided or his Spirit of truth to be found a liar smiteth these sinners against their own souls with blindenesse and reprobacy of minde whence follows 1. An impossibility of repentance sith it is the work of that spirit whom they have despited and will not suffer any saving operation of his to fasten on their souls 2. Such a desperate fury invadeth them that they resist and repudiate the matter of remission the bloud of Christ thereby if they might have mercy yet they would not but continue raying and raging against both the physick and the physitian to their endlesse ruth and ruine Verse 9. But beloved We are perswaded He would not be mistaken Zuinglius when he had inveighed against vice would usually close up lus discourse with Probe vir hac xibil ad te All this is nothing to thee thou honest man Scultes Annal. We can hardly beat the dogs cut of doors but the children will cry Things that accompany salvation Cr. That have salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that comprehend it are contiguous to it and touch upon it Grace and glory differ not but in degree Verse 10. For God is not unrighteous That is unfaithfull 1 Iohn 1.9 There is a justice of fidelity as well as of equity To forget your Work The Butler may forget Joseph and Ioseph forget his fathers house but forgetfulnesse befals not God to whom all things are present and before whom there is written a book of remembrance for them that fear the Lord and think upon his name Mal. 3.17 Verse 11. Do show the same diligence A man may as truly say the sea burns or fire cools as that certainty of salvation breeds security and loosnes To the full assurance All duties tend to assurance or spring from it strive we must to the riches of full assurance Colos 2.2 But in case our assurance be not so fair yeeld not to temptations and carnall resonings Coyns that have little of the stamp left yet are currant Verse 12. That ye be not slothfull A ready heart makes riddance of Gods work shake off sloth But followers of them It was a good law that the Ephesians made that men should propound to themselves the best paterns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and ever bear in minde some eminent man Verse 13. For When god made promise Of those many that by saith and patience had inherited the promises the Apostle instanceth in Abraham famous both for his saith in Gods promise our 13. and for his patience v. 15. Verse 14. Blessing I will blesse thee Now the whom god blesseth shall be blessed as Isaac said of Iacob Gen. 27.33 Verse 15. After he bad patiently endured Waited many years for an Isaac and yet longer for eternall life I have waited for thy salvation O Lord saith dying Iacob Gen. 49.18 Verse 16. Swear by the greater So do not they that swear by sundry creatures and qualities God can hardly spare such J●r 5.7 An end of all strife The end of an oath is to help the truth in necessity and to clear mens innocency Exod. 22.11 Verse 17. God willing more abundantly His word is sufficient yet tendering our infirmity he hath bound it with an oath and let to his seal His Word cannot be made more true but yet more credible Now two things make a thing more credible 1. The quality of the person speaking 2. The manner of the speech If God do not simply speak but solemnly swear and seal to us remission of sins and adoption of sons by the broad seal of the Sacraments and by the privy seal of his spirit Should we not rest assured Verse 18. We might have strong Such as swalloweth up all worldly griefs as Moses his serpent did the Sorcerers serpents or as the sire doth the fewell the Sacraments are gods visible oaths unto us he taketh as it Were the body and bloud of his Son into his hand and solemnly sweareth to bestow upon us all the purchase of Christs passion Nche● 8 10. Should not therefore the joy of the Lord be our stength The comforts of Philosophy are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Plato hath it as Socrates found it when he was to die that is toyes and trifles Nescio quomodò imbecillior est medicina quam morbus saith Cicero the disease is too hard for the medieme But the consolations of God are strong in themselves and should not be small With us Job 15.11 Verse 19. Both sure and studfast Spes in terrenis incerti nomen boni Spes in divinis nomen est certissimi And Which entereth into that This anchor is cast upward and fastened not in the depth of the sea but in the height of heaven whereof it gets firm hold and sure possession Verse 20 Whither the fore-runner Like as the high-Priest once a year entered ●to the Holy of Holies to pray for the people CHAP. VII Verse 1. For this Melchisedech SOme make him the same with Shem Others say it was the holy Ghost others say Christ himself under the habit of a King and Priest It is most probable that he was

Greek imports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebrais ut Exod. 8.14 Cartwright Whereupon an Expositour noteth Ordinatim res in Ecclesia faciendae Order must be observed in the Church CHAP. XV. Verse 1. And wherein ye stand A Military term as Martyr noteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satan overthroweth the faith of some 2 Tim. 2.18 and by this very engine wherewith he assaulted these Corinthians ib. So that the Apostle was fain to make Apology v. 19. to make a barricado Verse 2. By which also ye are saved Eternall life is potentially in the word as the harvest is potentially in the seed or as the tree is in the kernell or sience Jam. 1.21 If ye keep in memory Helimiteth the promise of salvation to the condition of keeping in memory what they had heard Tantum didicimus quantum meminimus said Socrates Many have memories like nets that let go the fair water retain the filth only or like sives that keep the chaff let go the corn If God come to search them with a candle what shall he finde but old songs old wrongs c. not a promise or any sword of God hid there for things of that nature they are like Sabinus in Seneca that never in all his life could remember those three names of Homer Vlisses and Achilles But the soul should be as an holy Arke the memory like the pot of Mannah preserving holy truths Verse 3. First of all Christ is to be preached with the first as being the prora puppis of mans happinesse Joh. 16.14 It is the office of the holy Ghost to take of Christs excellencies and hold them out to the world What then should Ministers the mouth of the holy Ghost do rather Verse 4. According to the Scriptures Which both fore-shewed and fore-shadowed it in Adams waking Isaac's reviving as it were from the dead Josephs abasement and advancement Samsons breaking the bars and bearing away the gates of Gaza Davids being drawn out of the deep Daniels out of the den Ieremies out of the dungeon Ionas out of the belly of hell Mat. 12.39 c. Verse 5. Seen of Cephas Adam died and we hear no more of him But Christ shew'd himself after death in six severall apparitions for our confirmation Verse 6. Above five hundred The number of beleevers then were greater then some would gather out of Act. 1.15 Those 120 may seem to have been Chieftains such as that any one of them might have been thought meet to succeed Iudas in his Apostleship Verse 7. Seen of Iames This is not mentioned in the Gospel as neither that of Peter v. 5 Verse 8. One born out of due time Quasi malo astro abortus adversante natura coactus One that deserved to be rejected as that forlorn Infant Ezek. 16.4 5. Verse 9. I am the least of the Apostles Not come to my just bignesse as one born out of due time and not without violence Not meet to be called True humility as true balm ever sinkes to the bottom of the water when pride like oil ever swims on the top Verse 10. I laboured more abundantly See 2 Cor. 12.23 Rom. 15.19 George Eagles Martyr in Q. Maries daies for his great pains in travelling from place to place to confirm the brethren was sirnamed Act. and Mon. fol. 1823. Trudge over the world Might not St Paul have been fitly so sirnamed Not I but the grace of God So those good servants Luke 19.16 Not we but thy talents have gained other five and other two c. Let God have the entire praise of all our good Verse 11. So we preach and so ye beleeved A happy compliance when the hearers affections and endeavours doe answer the affections and endeavours of the preacher as here and at Ephesus Act. 20 31-37 When people deliver themselves up to the forme of doctrine Rom. 6.17 and are cast into the mould of the Word Verse 12. No resurrection More then that of regeneration Math. 19.28 that estate of the Gospel called a new heaven and a new earth 2 Pet. 3.13 the world to come Heb. 2.5 that resurrection already past ● Tim. 2.18 that first resurrection Revel 20.5 Verse 13. Then is not Christ risen But of Christs resurrection there were many both living and dead Witnesses as the earth-quake empty grave stone rolled away cloathes wrapt up c. Verse 14. Then is our preaching vain Never was there any such imposture put upon the world as Christianity if Christ be yet in the grave Verse 15. False witnesses of God For they might safely say with Ieremy Lord if we be deceived thou hast deceived us Verse 16. Then is not Christ raised And so Gods decree is cassated Act. 13.33 with Psal 2.7 Verse 17. Ye are yet in your sins Rom. 4.25 If he had not been let out of prison our debt had remained upon us But God sent his Angel to roul away the stone as the Judge sends an officer to fetch one out of prison and to release him And this is the strength of our Saviours reason Ioh. 16.10 The Spirit shall convince the world of righteousnesse that I am Jehovah their righteousnesse because I go to the Father which I could not have done unlesse you were acquitted of all your sins Verse 18. A sleep in Christ The Germanes call the Church-yard Godsaker because the bodies are sowed therein to be raised again The Greeks call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sleeping-houses The Hebrews call the grave Bothchaijm the house of the living Iob cals it the Congregation-house of all living Job 30.23 As the Apostle cals heaven the Congregation-house of the first-born Heb. 12.23 Verse 19. Most miserable Because none out of hell ever suffered more then the Saints have done Verse 20. The first fruits c. As in the first-fruits offered to God the Jews were assured of Gods blessing on the whole harvest so by the resurrection of Christ our resurrection is ensured Verse 21. By man came also c. Gods justice would be satisfied in the same nature that had sinned Verse 22. Shall all be made alive The Saints shall be raised by vertue of the union with Christ to glory the wicked shall be dragged to his tribunall by his Almighty power as a Judge to be tumbled thence into hell-torment Verse 13. At his coming As in the mean time their very dust is precious the dead bodies consumed are not so destroied but that there is a substance preserved by a secret influence proceeding from Christ as a head Hence they are said to be dead in Christ who by rotting refineth them Verse 24. Delivered up the Kingdome Not his essentiall kingdome as God but his oeconomicall as Mediatour Verse 25. Till he hath put And after too but 1. Without adversaries 2. Without any outward means and ordinances Verse 26. That shall be destroied It is already to the Saints swallowed up in victory so that they may say to it as Jacob did to Esau Surely

here to relate Sed exorto Evangelij jubare sagaciores ut spero principes ad nutum Romani Orbily non solvent subligacula saith one Verse 5. Remember ye not Satan usually hides from us that which should help us But as the soul should be as it were an holy Ark so should the memory be as the pot of Manna preserving holy truths for constant use Verse 6. What with holdeth c. viz. The Roman Empire which had its rise raign and ruine whereupon the Popedome was founded and grew to that excessive greatnesse that it laboured with nothing more then with the weightinesse of it lest Verse 7. Doth already work In those ancient Apostates and Antichrists S. ●ohn complaineth of Tertullian condemneth the Bishops sprouting ambition in these words I hear that there is a peremptory edict set forth alate Pontisex scilicet maximus Episcopus Episcoporum dicit This he called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Thus saith the chief-Priest the Bishop of Bishops c. Odi fastum illius Ecclesiae saith Basil Vehicalis insidentes circumspecte vessiti epulas curantes prosu at c. I hate the pride of that Western Church Ammia●us Marcellinus a Heathen Historian sharply taxeth the roman Bishops of his time for their pride and prodigality How stifly did Gregory the great oppose Iohn of Constantinople for affecting the title of Universall Bishop And yet how basely did the same Gregory collogue with Phocas the Emperour that himself might be so stiled Zonaras This Phocas a wilde drunken blo●●y adulterous tyrant advanced the Bishop of Rome Gregories successour to the primacy and was therefore slaughtered by Heracliut who cut oft his wicked hands and feet and then his genitals by piece-meal Vntill he be taken out of the Way That is The Roman Emperour have removed his seat to Constantinople that Rom● may become the nest of Antichrist In mari bistor Ioannes de Columna writeth That Otho Emperour of Germany thought to have ●uated himself at Rome as former Emperours had done and began to build him there a stately palace But at the earnest importunity of the Romans he gave over that design the like had been attempted 300 years before by Constans nephew to Heraclius Theophanes Zonaras ●i●●enu● Genebr Chron. but could never be effected This was by a singular providence of God saith Genebrard a Popish Chronologer that the kingdome of the Church prophecied of by Daniel might have it's seat at Rome If he had said that the kingdom of Antichrist prophecied of by S. Paul and S. Iohn might have it's seat in that City seated upon seven hils he had said the very truth he had hit the nail one the head Verse 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And then shall that wicked Gr. That lawlesse yokelesse masterlesse monster to whom in the Councel of Lateran 1516. one year only before Luther stood up to reform there was granted plenary power over the whole Church which was never setled upon him in any former Councel Pope Nicolas the first said Dist 96. That he was above law because Constantine had stiled the Pope God But the very glosse derides him for this inference With the spirit of his mouth i.e. With the evidence of his word in the mouths of his faithfull Ministers Vide catalogum Testium veritatis Bellarmine confesseth to his great grief Lib 3 de Papa Rom cap. 11. that ever since the Lutherans have declared the Pope to be Antichrist his kingdom hath not only not increased but every day more and more decreased and decaied With the brightnesse of his coming At the last day The holy City shall they tread under foot fourty and two moneths Rev. 11.2 that is as some compute it till the year of grace 1866. But that 's but a conjecture Verse 9. After the working of Satan Who as Gods ape works effectually in his and by his agents upon others By corrupt teachers Satan catcheth men as a cunning fisher by one fish catcheth another that he may feed upon both And lying wonders The devil is ashamed saith the Jesuite Gretser to confirm Luthers doctrine by miracles But he that now requireth miracles to make him to believe is himself a great miracle saith Austin Verse 10. And with all deceivablenesse Popery is nothing else but a great lie a grand imposture a farrago of falsities and heresies It is not without cause that the Centurists say Cent. 10. cap. 11 That all the old heretikes sled and hid themselves in the Popish Clergy Because they received not the love This is the great Gospel-sin punished by God with strong delusions vile affections just damnation Verse 11. Strong delusion Gr. The efficacy of orrour Wolph mem●lect As in those at Genoa that shew the Asses tail whereupon our Saviour rode for an holy relique and perform divine worship to it And in those that wear out the marble crosses graven in the pavements of their Churches with their often kissing them Spec. Europ The crucifix which is in the city of Burgus the Priests shew to great personages as if it were Christ himself telling them that his hair and nails do grow miraculously which they cut and pare monethly and give to Noble-men and holy reliques The Jesuites confesse that the legend of miracles of their Saints is for most part false but it was made for good intention and herein that it is lawfull and meritorious to lie and write such things Spanish pilg● to the end the common people might with greater zeal serve God and his Saints and especially to draw the women to good order being by nature facile and credulous addicted to novelties and miracles Verse 12. That they all might be damned Levit. 13.291 Heresie is the leprosie in the head which is utterly uncurable and destroies the soul See Rev. 19.21 Had pleasure is unrighteousnesse These are delivered up to that dead and dedolent disposition Ephes 4 19. loosing at length all passive power also of awakening cut of the snare of the devil who taketh them alive at his pleasure 2 Timothy 2. ult Verse 13. But we are bound c. Lest they should be discouraged with the former discourse the Apostle tels them that being elect they cannot be finally deceived So the Authour to the Hebrews Chap. 6.9 Zuinglius after that he had terrified the wicked was wont to come in which Bone vir hoc nihil ad te This is nothing to thee thou faithfull Christian We cannot beat the dogs but the children will cry and must therefore be stilled and cheared up And belief of the truth That is of Christ the object in the glasse of the Gospel Verse 14 To the obtaining of the glory This is the end of faith as faith is of effectuall calling Verse 15. Stand fast Though never so many fall from the faith Falling stars were never but Meteors Hold the traditions Hold fast by these that ye may stand the faster Verse

Plut. in Flamin he was entertained by them with such applauses and acclamations whiles they roared out Saviour Saviour that the very birds that flew over them astonished with the noise fell to the ground When Hunn●ades had overthrown M●sites the Turks General at his return from the Camp Turk Hist 269 some called him the Father some the Defender of his countrey the souldiers their Invincible Generall the Captives Their Deliverer the women Their Protectour c. The only wise God The temple of Sophia in Constantinople is now the Turks chief Moschee Ibid. 342. and by them still called Sophia because they hold even as we do that the wisdome of God is incomprehensible Verse 18. Sonne Timothy This is Timothies task whom the Apostle fitly calleth Sonne according to the custome both of those and these times Patres eos di●imus qui nos catechesi instituerunt saith Clement We call them fathers that instruct and catechize us Verse 19. Holding faith and a good conscience A good conscience saith one is as it were a chest wherein the doctrine of faith is to be kept safe which will quickly be lost if this chest be once broken For God will give over to errours and heresies such as cast a way conscience of walking after Gods Word What a blinde buzzard then was that Popish Inquisitour who said of the Waldenses You may know the heretikes by their words and manners Sunt enim in moribus compositi modesti sup●rbiam in vestibus non habent c. They are neither immodest in their carriage DVsher de Christ Eccles success c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor proud in their apparrel c Verse 20. That they may learn Vt castigati discant that being buffetted and bodily tormented by Satan as Act. 13.2 for as yet there were no Christian Magistrates they may learn Not to blaspheme That is not to hold erroneously and to live scandalously to the reproach of the Gospel Conferre Prov. 30 9. CHAP. II. Verse 1. Supplications OR D●precations endited by that Spirit of supplication or of deprecation as some render it Zech. 11.10 Praiers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strictly taken for petitions or requests of good at Gods hands which go commonly accompanied with vows of better obedience as Gen. 28.21 22. Psal 51.14 Hence they have their name Intercessions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interparlings with God either for our selves whilest we stand upon Interrogatories with him 1 Pet. 3.21 as Paul doth Rom. 8.33 34 35. and expostulate as David often but especially when Satan sin and conscience accuse us or for others whilest we complain to God against such as wrong them and withall set our selves seriously to implore his aid for their relief and rescue For all men i.e. For all sorts of men as the word all is used Luk. 11.42 Verse 2. For Kings c. Though persecutours if they have not yet sinned against the holy Ghost as Julian had Voluit scilicet Christus etiam aliquandò Reginam in coelum vehere Luth in ep ad Ioh. Agris saith Luther of Elizabeth Queen of Denmark who lived and died in the truth of the Gospel God hath his even among great ones too A quiet and peaceable life Quiet from inbred tumults and commotions and peaceable from forraign invasions and incursions of the enemy See Jer. 29.7 In all godlinesse and honesty And not come to eat the bread of our souls with the perill of our lives as they doe in divers places of this land at this day Det meliora Deus He will doe it Verse 3. For this is good c. viz. This praying for all men And should we not frame to that that God accepts without questioning or quarrelling Let us not dispute but dispatch our masters will Verse 4. Who will have all men c. God willeth to wit with a will whereby he inviteth and putteth no bar not with a will whereby he effecteth it taking away all impediments That all men Not distributively taken but collectively as thrice in one verse Col 1.28 Should be saved viz. If they do what he commandeth God doth not tie himself to cause them to do what he commandeth that they may be saved And to come to the knowledge The only way to salvation Pray therefore that their eyes may be opened Act. 26.18 Verse 5. For there is one God sc Both of Kings and Subjects both of Heathens and Christians Go boldly to him therefore for your selves and others Have we not all one Father Mal. 2.10 Art not thou our Father Isa 63.16 One Mediatour Not of redemption only as the Papists grant but of intercession too We need no other master of requests in heaven but the man Christ Jesus who being so near us in the matter of his incarnation will never be strange to us in the businesse of intercession But what horrible blasphemy is that of the Papists who in their devotions say thus Act and Mon. fol. 1453. By the bloud of Thomas B●cket which he did spend Make us Christ to climb where Thomas did ascend Verse 6. A ransome Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A counterprice such as we could never have paid but must have remained and even ●otted in prison but for our All-sufficient surety and Saviour Verse 7. A teacher of the Gentiles His Epistles therefore should be highly prized by us Gentiles and diligently studied S. Peter admires them 2 Pet. 3 15. and commends them to the Churches reading And because there are some things in them hard to be understood and easie to be wrested from their right meaning vers 16. it was therefore grave advice that one gives young Christians that they should begin at the later end of Saint Pauls Epistles which treateth of points of practice Sith a corrupt life can never have a sound judgement Verse 8. Pray every where Any place now be it but a chimney may make a goodly Oratory Joh. 4 21. Lifting up holy hands Better washed then Pilates were rinsed in that blessed fountain of Christs bloud Zech. 13.1 Else God utterly abhors them Isa 1.15 16. The Priests had their laver to wash in before they sacrified The Turks at this day before praier wash both face and hands sometimes their head and other parts of the body But what saith S. James chap. 4.8 and the Prophet Ieremy chap 4.14 The fountain of goodnes will not be laden at with foul hearts and hands Without Wrath Or Rancour Mat. 5.24 God will not be served till men be reconciled When Abram and Lot were agreed then God appeared Or doubting Heb. 11.6 Jam. 1.6 without disceptation of reasoning with carnall reason Verse 9. In like manner also Men have had their lessons Now for women they are taught modesty in their attire such as may neither argue wantonnes nor wastfulnes silence in the Church subjection in the family Or costly aray Which yet great ones may wear but they may not buy it with extortion and line it

without sinne Imputed to him as Isa 53.6 2 Cor. 5.21 See the Note there CHAP. X. Verse 1. A shadow of good things c. THat is of Christ saith one When the Sun is behinde the shadow is before when the Sun is before the shadow is behinde So was it in Christ to them of old This Sun was behinde and therefore the Law or shadow was before To us under grace the Sun is before and so now the Ceremonies of the Law these shadows are behinde yea vanished away Verse 2. No more conscience of sin Christ though he took not away death yet he did the sting of death so though he took not away sin yet he did the guilt of sin Verse 3. Made of An● every year A solemn confession of them and what great need they had of a Saviour to expiate them laying their hands on the head of the sacrifice in token that they had in like sort deserved to be destroied Verse 4. Should take away sinnes And so pacifi● conscience For sinne is to the conscience as a more to the eye as a dagger to the heart 2 Sam. 24.10 as an adders sting to the flesh Prov. 23.32 Verse 5. But a body hast thou prepared A Metaphor from Mechanicks who do artificially fit one part of their work to another and so finish the whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God fitted his Sonnes body to be joyne with the Deity and to be an expiatory sacrifice for sin Verse 6. Thou hast had no pleasure viz. As in the principall service and satisfaction for sin Verse 7. Loe I come As an obedient servant bored thorow the ear Exod. 21. with Psal 40.6 7. Wise and willing to be obsequious Servus ●st nomen officij A servant is the masters instrument and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Aristotle wholly at his beck and obedience It is written of me Christ is authour object matter and mark of old and new Testament Therefore if we will profit thereby we must have the eyes of our mindes turned toward Christ as the faces of the Cherubims were toward the Mercy-seat Verse 8. Which are offered by the law To the great cost and charge of the offerers This we are freed from and are required no more then to cover Gods altar with the calves of our lips Verse 9. Loe I come True obedience is prompt and present ready and speedy without shucking and hucking without delaies and consults Ps 119.60 He taketh away the first Clear consequences drawne from Scripture a●e sound doctrine Matth. 22.32 See the Note there Verse 10. By the which will That is By the execution of which will by the obedience of Christ to his heavenly Father Verse 11. Take away sin Seperando au●erre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vndique tollere sunder it from the soul strike a parting blow betwixt them Verse 12. But this man Opposed to the plurality of Leviticall Priests One sacrifice and once for ever not many and often as they And he sate down when as they stood daily offering often times Note the Antithesis and Christs precellency On the right hand of God Which he could not have done if he had not expiated our sins Ioh. 16.10 Of righteousnesse because I go to my Father He could not have gone to his Father if he had not first fulfilled all ●ighteousnesse and fully acquitted us of all our iniquities Verse 13. Rom. 16. ●0 Expecting till his enemies Admire and imitate his patience The God of peace shall tread Satan and the rest under our feet shortly Verse 14. He hath perfected He would not off the crosse till all was finished Verse 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The holy Ghost also witnesseth viz. By inspiring the Pen-men 2 Tim. 3.16 acting and carrying them into all truth 2 Timothy 1.21 as it were by an holy violence Verse 16. I will put my lawes See the Note on Heb 8.10 Verse 17. Will I remember no more Therefore there needs not any repetition of a sacrifice for sinne in the New Testament Verse 18. When remission of sinne is viz. An Impletory remission as now in the new Testament not a promissory as under the old Verse 19. To enter into the holiest viz. By our praiers which pierce heaven and prevail with God Verse 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Recens ●●●cta●us By a new Fresh and as effectuall at all times as if Christ were but newly sacrified for us Through the veyl that is his flesh Whereby we come to God dwelling bodily therein Like as where I see the body of a man there I know his soul is also because they are not severed so is it here Verse 21. Over the house of God As Jehojadab was over the temple presided and commanded there 2 King 11.5 All power is given to Christ both in heaven and earth for our behoof and benefit Verse 22. Let us draw near Come for the Master calleth Mark 10.49 With a true heart That is With a heart truly and entirely given up to God uprightly propounding Gods service in praier and that out of a filiall affection delighting to do his will and therefore well content to wait or if God see good to want what it wisheth desirous rather that Gods will be done then our own and that he may be glorified though we be not glorified acknowledging the Kingdome power and glory to be his alone This is a true heart In full assurance of faith Not with a quarter or half-winde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but with full assurance such a gale of faith as fils the sails of the soul and makes it set up its top-gallant as it were Having our hearts sprinkled c. Faith ever purgeth upon sin and worketh repentance f●o● dead works Verse 23. Without wavering Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Without tilting or tossing to one side or other This amounts to more then that conjecturall confidence of the Popish dubi●●n●● and that common faith that holds men in suspence and hangs between heaven and earth as a Meteor Verse 24. And let us consider Christians must study one anothers cases the causes and cure of their spirituall distempers sollicitous of their welfare To provoke unto love To whet on as Deut. 6.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sharpen and exti●ulate as Prov. 27.17 to rouse and raise up their dull spirits as 2 Pet. 2.13 to set an edge on one another as Bores whet their tusks one against another saith Nazianzen Verse 25. Not for saking Schisme is the very cutting asunder of the veins and arteries of the mysticall body of Christ We may not separate but in case of intollerable persecution heresie idolatry and Antichristianisme The assembling of our selves together In Church-assemblies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Christian meetings as ever we look for comfort at the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together the same word as here unto him 2 Thess 2.1 the day whereof approacheth as in this text

in the Church of Rome anno 1378. when there sat three Popes at once Lib 3 de Papa Rom. cap. 11. for fourty years together or by the falling away of Protestants from the Popedome from the daies of Wicliffe John Husse the Waldenses Luther to this present Bellarmine bewails the businesse that ever since we began to count and call the Pope Antichrist his kingdome hath greatly decreased And Cotton the Jesuite confesses that the authority of the Pope is incomparably lesse then it was and that now the Christian Church is but a diminitive And his deadly wound was healed By that false Prophet ver 11. that is by the Sorbonists Jesuites Trent-fathers and other Popish Chyrurgeons The Jesuites give out That the devil sent out Luther and God raised up them to resist him but great is the truth and will prevail when all falshood shall fall to the ground It is but a palliate cure we here reade of And all the world sc Of Roman-Catholikes Wondered Or had wondered till the beast was wounded Verse 4. And they worshipped Admiration bred adoration Idolatrous Papists are worshippers of the devil whom though in word they defie yet in deed they deifie Who is like unto the beast Papa potest omnia qu● Christus potest saith Hostiensis The Pope can do whatsoever Christ can doe yea and more too it should seem by these wise wonderers Cap. quarto for who is like unto the beast say they Papa est plus quam Deus saith Francis Zabarell The Pope is more then a God De Pap. Rom. lib. 4. And why for of wrong he can make right of vice vertue of nothing something saith Bellarmine Mosconius cannot be content to derive Papa from Papae the Interjection of admiring De mojestat militant eccles l. 1 c. 1. because he is stupor mundi the worlds wonderment that ye may know him to be the beast here mentioned but he must stile him King of Kings and Lord of Lords having ruledome over all rationall creatures Duliâ ador andus c. Verse 5. And there was given unto him As once was to Antiochus that little Antichrist Dan. 7.25 What cracks the Pope makes of his illimited power and prerogatives who knows not What blasphemies he belcheth out of the fable of Christ of eating his pork Al despito di Dio in despite of God of suffering himsels to be stiled the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world as Pope Martin the fourth did of drinking an health to the devil as another of them did who hath not heard Baronius at the year 964 reckoning up certain of the Popes calleth them monsters an abomination of desolation in Gods Temple c. Cardinall Benno saith of Pope Hildebrand That he was a blasphemer a murderer a whoremaster a necromancer an heretike and all that 's nought The Church of Rome saith another of their own Writers hath deserved now for a long time no better of God then to be ruled by reprobates Marcellius the second Pope of Rome Jac. Revius p 175. said That he could not see how any Pope could be saved Fourty and two moneths Here Mr Brightman calculates and pitches the ruine of Antichrist upon the year 1686. or thereabouts Verse 6. In blasphemy against God As when Pope Leo the first and after him Nicolas the third affirmed that Peter their predecessour was taken into fellowship with the blessed Trinity as one with them See vers 5. And his tabernacle Christs humanity Joh. 1.14 and 2.19 this he blasphemeth by transubstantiating a crust into Christ Or the Church of Christ which he counteth and calleth the Synagogue of Satan And them that dwelt in heaven The glorified Saints whom either he despiteth with obtruded honours such as they acknowledge not or else barks and rails at uncessantly as Arch-devils detestable heretikes common pests c. as Luther Melancthon Calvin Vbicunque inve nitur nomen Calvini delea tur Ind. expu● whose very name he hath commanded to be razed out of all books wheresoever any man meets with it Verse 7. To make warre with the Saints As he did with the Albigenses publishing his Croysades against them as if they had been Saracens and destroying ten hundred thousand of them in France only if Perionius may be believed Not to speak of the many thousands since slain in battle by the Popes Champions in Germany France Ireland and now also in England besides those many more that have died for Religion by the bloudy inquisition by the hands of the hang man 3600 in the Low-countreys by the command of the Duke of Alva 800 here in Qu. Maries daies c. The Beast hath even made himself drunk with the bloud of the Saints And to overcome them So it seemed but so it was not See Revel 12.11 The Saints never more prevail and triumph then when it seems otherwise Of them the enemies may say as the Persians did once of the Athenians at the field of Marathon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sto●aeus We fell them yet they fall not thrust them through They feel no mischief but are well enough Over all kindreds and tongues Here the holy Ghost points to the Popish Catholicisme The Jesuites will still needly have the Roman Church to be the Catholike Church though so many kindreds tongues and Nations have utterly disclaimed it Herein they are like that mad fellow Thrasilaus in Horace who laid claim to all the ships that came into the harbour at Athens though he had no right to the least boat there Verse 8. Whose names are not written He then that lives and dies a Papist cannot be saved Slain from the foundation sc 1 In Gods purpose 2. In his promise 3. In the faith of his people 4. In the sacrifices 5. In the Martyrs the first that ever died died for Religion Verse 9. If any man have an ear q. d. Let all that have souls to save beware of this beast for is it nothing to loose an immortall soul To purchase an ever-living death Purus putus Papista non potest servari Confer Revel 19.21 It s confessed of all that a learned English apostate Papist cannot be saved Verse 10. He that leadeth into captivity q. d. Be of good chear Antichrist shall one day meet with his match drink as he brewed be paid in his own coin filled with his own waies have bloud again to drink for he is worthy See Isa 33.1 and 2 Thess 1.6 Here is the patience q. d Here is matter for the triall exercise and encrease of the Saints graces Hard weather tries what health The walnut tree is most fruitfull when most beaten Or here is support for the Saints and that which may well make them to hold out faith and patience Verse 11. And I beheld another beast Another in shape but the same in substance with the former For here Christ appears not as an Emperour but as an Impostour That these two are both one see Rev.