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A63066	A commentary or exposition upon the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job and Psalms wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed ... : in all which divers other texts of scripture, which occasionally occurre, are fully opened ... / by John Trapp ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing T2041; ESTC R34663	1,465,650	939

requited My father said he is not dishonoured by attending on me for I am both a Kings and a Queens son and so is not he In the beginning of his reigne As loth to lose time Esau began in the very womb to persecute Jacob and as taking their fittest season for granting of suits Wrote they an accusation Heb. a Satanical suggestion a diabolical accusation hatcht in hell and dictated by the Devil He it is that acteth and agitateth the Saints adversaries and accusers sitting upon their tongues and pens and setting an edge on them Verse 7. And in the dayes of Artaxerxes This seems to be Cambyses his Persian name as Ahashuerosh was his Chaldee name It is as much as Bellator egregius an excellent warriour So Scipi was called Fulmen belli the light-bolt of warre Bajazet the great Turk Turk Hist Gilderun or lightning Albert Marquesse of Brandenburg was called Achilles Teutonicus Bucholc Our black Prince was so named not of his colour but of his courage and of his dreaded acts in battel for he assailed no Nation which he over-came not Speed he besieged no City which he took not Cambyses had great successe in his wars and added Egypt and other Countries to the Persian Monarchy Wrote Bishlam Mithredath These were the King of Persia's Toparches or Deputies beyond the river Euphrates Written in the Syrian tongue Called also the Chaldee Babylonish and Assyrian commonly spoken by the Jewes who in the seventy years captivity lost the purity of their owne language like as the Latines also did when the Gothes Vandals and other barbarous Nations over-ran them and mingled with them And interpreted in the Syrian tongue i. e. with Syrian characters Et Scriptura lingua erat Syriaca ut sine interprete in aula regis intelligeretur saith Shindler It was so written that it might be understood at Court without an interpreter Verse 8. Rehum the Chancellour Or President of the Councel It is of the Chaldee termination the whole history also following to chap. 6.19 is Chaldee transcribed as some think out of the rolls and registers of the Chaldees and here inserted Verse 9. The Dinaites and the Apharsathkites the Tarpalites This was not unity but conspiracy of a rabble of rebels against God and his people So Psal 83.5 6 c. They have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarenes c. A whole legion of Devils could agree to enter into one poore man to vex him and to act as one in that possession Verse 10. The great and noble Asnapper Some great Commander under the Assyrian Monarch There is they say a greatnesse Belluine and a greatnesse Genuine-Asnapper notwithstanding his big-swoln titles might be rather great then good and more notable then noble Juvenal Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus On this side the river That ancient river the river Euphrates which the more I see the more I admire saith one Verse 11. Thy servants Not thy subjects onely but thine Officers Verse 12. The rebellious and bad City After so many years doth Jerusalem rue one perfidious act of Zedekiah and having once beene treacherous it still hears The rebellious and bad City as if it had beene a very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a professed Sanctuary of roguery as the Jesuites say of Geneva and as Florus saith of the Temple at Jerusalem that it was impiae gentis arcanum And have set up the walls thereof This was no lesse false then scandalous But malice careth not how true the accusation is but how mischievous And joyned the foundations Chald. sewed together Or rather these false-informers had sewed a lie together with great Art that it might seeme a truth Psal 119.69 The proud have forged a lie against me assuunt mendacium mendacio they have taught their tongues to speak lies Jer. 9.5 and are Artists at it Verse 13. Be it knowne now unto the King q. d. This is no light businesse but of greatest importance and therefore fit to be noted and noticed Then will they not pay tole tribute c. This is an old device of the Devil and his Impes to represent Gods people to the world as Antimagistratical and disturbers of the publike peace Thus they dealt by the Primitive Christians who were the Emperours best subjects and yielded them greatest respect and profit Thus Francis King of France pretended and professed to the Princes of Germany whose friendship he desired that he pursued the Lutherans with fire and sword for no other cause but for that they were Levellers and enemies to civil government This drew from Calvin who was then but twenty five years of age that golden book of his Institutions of Christian Religion to free the Reformed Churches of that slurre and slander The like was suggested by the Arminians in the Low-countries and by the Episcopal party here It was in Tacitus his time unum crimen eorum qui crimine vacabant the onely fault of such as were indeed without fault And so thou shalt endamage the revenue Diminish the annual Entrado's of the crowne which are well called the Kings strength here because if these faile little good can be done either at home or abroad Henry King of Navarre afterwards King of France was wont to say that he was an husband without a wife a souldier without money and a King without a Kingdome What would the King of Spaines greatnesse soon come to were it not for his yearly incomes his mines of America Verse 14. Now because we have maintenance from the Kings Palace Chaldee Are salted with the salt of the Palace Salarium de regis palatio percipimus have our salary from the Court as Junius rendereth it The great use of salt makes it here put for all kinde of commodity like as bread is called panis as if it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The all and whole of our sustenance Deut. 8.3 And it was not meet for us to see the Kings dishonour Chald. Nakednesse privities which uncovered cause contempt as it befell Noah in his drunkennesse and the King of Spaine when by Queene Elizabeth proclaimed Bankrupt Therefore have we sent and certified the King As knowing that Beneficium-postulat officium Bounty commands duty Ingratitude is a monster in nature a solecisme in good manners c. Lycurgus would make no Law against it because he held that none could be so unreasonable as to be guilty of it Yet Alphonsus complained of his ungrateful Courtiers and so did Frederick the third Emperour of Germany Queen Elizabeth also said that in trust she had oft found treason That traytor Parry had vowed her death Speed although he had beene condemned for burglary and saved by her pardon Verse 15. In the book of the Records Chald. Of the Remembrances that is the Chronicles usual in all Kingdomes And that this City is a rebellious City See the Note