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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94796	A brief commentary or exposition vpon the Gospel according to St John: wherein the text is explained, divers doubts are resolved, and many other profitable things hinted, that had been by former interpreters pretermitted. / By John Trappe, M. A. pastour of Weston upon Avon in Glocester-shire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing T2037; Thomason E331_2; ESTC R200736	149,815	167

the fulnesse of the fire is such that light a thousand torches at it it is not diminished And grace for grace That is say some the grace of the new Pestament for the grace of the old And so in the next verse Grace shall answer to the morall Law Truth to the Ceremoniall Or Beza D. Preston as others Grace for grace that is a latitude answerable to all the Commandements a perfection answerable to Christs owne perfection As the father gives his childe limme for limme part for part c. so doth this Father of Eternity Isa 9 6. There are that render it Gratiam novâ gratiâ cumulata● Pasor Grace against grace as in a glasse as face against face See 2 Cor. 3.18 Or Grace upon grace that is one grace after another a daily increase of graces Verse 17. For the Law c. Lex jubet gratia juvat Petamus ut det quod ut habeamus jubes saith Augustin Aug in Exod. quest 55. We have his promise ever going along with his precept The Covenant of grace turns precepts into promises and the spirit of grace turns both into prayers Verse 18. The only begotten Son In the year of Grace 1520. Alsted Chron. Michael Servetus a Spaniard taught that there is no reall generation or distinction in God and was therefore worthily burnt at Geneva in the year 1555. He would not recant Bellarm. lib 1. de Christo c. 1. Calvin Opusc and yet feeling the fire could not with patience endure it but kept an hideous roaring till his life was exhausted crying out to the beholders to dispatch him with a sword He hath declared him In a divine and extraordinary manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lege Bez. Annot. major as the word here used imports Verse 19. Jewes sent Priests Whose proper office it was to enquire into new Doctrines and by preserving Bonos illos quidem viros sed certè non pereruditos Cic. 20 de Finib Vives in Aug. de Civ Dei 4. c. 1. to present knowledge to the people who were to seeke the Law at the Priests mouth Mal 2.7 Cicero complains of his Roman Priests that they were good honest men but not very skilfull And V●●●o upbraids them with their ignorance of much about their own gods and religions Verse 20. He confessed and denied not but confessed Sincerely and studiously he put away that honour with both hands earnestly as knowing the danger of wronging the jealous God in his glory that is as his wife All the fat was to be sacrificed to God Verse 21. Art thou Elias And he saith I am not scil That Elias that you imagine Elias the Thesbite by a transanimation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythagorica As neither was he an Angel as some in Chrysostomes time would gather out of Malch 3.1 They that wrest the Scriptures are blinded as Papists and other brainsick hereticks Verse 23. I am the voice of one crying Christ spake not a word to Herod faith one because Herod had taken away this voice of his in beheading the Baptist In the Wildernesse Not in the Temple To shew that the legall shadowes were now to vanish Chrysologus cals John Baptist fibulam legis et gratiae Verse 25. Why baptizest thou then Why dost thou innovate any thing in the rites of Religion A change they looked for under the Messiah and had learned it out of Jer. 31. But this testimony brought by John Baptist out of Isaiah to prove his own calling either they did not or would not understand nor yet do they seek to be better informed by him Verse 27. I am not Worthy Yet Christ held him worthy to lay his hand upon his head in Baptisme And there is one that tels us but who told him that for his humility on earth he is preferred to that place in heaven from which proud Lucifer fell Verse 28. In Bethabara That is by interpretation the place of passage or Traiectum where Israel passed over Jordan So the acts of Joshua and Jesus begin both at a place Baptisme also is first administred where it was of old fore-shadowed Christ is the true Bethabara Ephes 2.18 we saile to Heaven on his bottome Verse 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Taketh away Or that is taking away by a perpetuall act Isa 55 7. as the Sun doth shine as the Spring doth run Zech. 13.1 This should be as a perpetuall picture in our hearts As we multiply sins he multiplieth pardons Verse 31. And I knew him not By face not at all left the people should think that this was done and said by consent or compact afore-hand betwixt them Nor did John ever know Christ so fully till now his former knowledge was but ignorance in comparison none are too good to learn The very Angels know not so much of Christ 1 Pet. 1.12 but they would know more Ephes 3.10 and therefore looke intently into the mysterie of Christ as the Cherubims did into the Arke But that he should be manifested Ministers must hold up the tapestry as it were and shew men Christ They are the mouth of the holy Ghost whose office it is to take of Christs excellencies and hold them out to the world John 16.14 Verse 37. And they followed Jesus So powerfull is a word or two many times touching Christ and his crosse to change the heart Phil. 1.13 Acts Mon. fol. 920. Paul sheweth that the very report of his bonds did a great deal of good in Caesars Court. Bil●eyes confession converted Latimer Galeacius Caracciolus that Italian Marquesse was wrought upon by a similitude used by Peter Martyr reading on the 1. Epist to the Corinthians So were Earle Martinengus and Hieronymus Zanchius both of them Canonici Lateranenses by some seasonable truth Ea●ch Miscel Epist ad Lanteran p. 3 4. falling from the same mouth Luther having heard Staupirius say that that is kinde repentance which begins from the love of God ever after that time the practice of repentance was sweeter to him Also this speech of his tooke well with Luther The doctrine of Predestination Melch. Adam in vita Luth. begins at the wounds of Christ Verse 41. He first findeth Yet afterwards Peter out-stript Andrew in faith and forwardnesse for Christ as likewise Luther did Staupicius c. So the first become last and the last first But that charity is no churle Andrew calleth Simon and Philip Nathaneel c. as a Load-stone drawes to it selfe one iron ring and that another and that a third So c We have found the Messias Little it was that he could say of Christs person office value vertue c. but brings him to Christ So let us do ours to the publike ordinances Do the office of the sermon-bell at least we know not what God may there do for them Bring them as they did the palsie-man upon his bed and lay them before the Lord for healing Verse 43. Follow me