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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

directe●h his speech not to Solomon who never took upon him the name of God as did Sosostris King of Aegypt Antiochus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caligula and some other proud Princes but to Christ Heb. 1.8 who is God blessed for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not so called by an excellency only as the Angels are Psal 8.9 with Heb 2. not by Office and Title only as Magistrates are gods● Ps 82.16 nor Catachrestically and Ironically so called as the Heathen gods nor a diminutive god inferiour to the Father as Arrius held but God by nature every way Co-essential Co-eternal and Co-equal with the Father and the Holy Chost Joh. 1.1 Phil. 2.6 1 Joh. 5.20 Hold this last for it is the Rock Mat. 16.16 it is of the very foundation so that if we beleeve it not there is no heaven to be had 1 Joh. 5.20 As for his Kingly Office here described it belongeth to him as Mediator and what is here spoken of him is to be understood of his whole person for so is he Head of the Church and King of Israel for ever The scepter of thy Kingdom c. Thy government is not with rigour but with righteousness thou camest rightly by it casting out Satan the Usurper Mat. 12.29 Heb. 2.14 and dost most righteously administer it Deut. 4.8 Vers 7. Haec verè heroica est nemesis Thou lovest right eousness and hatest wickedness Salomon did so for a great while may Nero's first five years were such that Trajan was wont to say that none ever attained to the perfection of them but Christ continually neither can hee do otherwise See Matth. 3.10 11 12. Joh. 5.30 Matth. 12.18 19 20. Therefore God thy God hath anoynted i.e. For which purpose God hath anoynted thee his Messiah or Christ Psal 2.2 With the oyl of gladness Quia totus mundus in unctione Christi ejus missione letabitur saith Kimchi so called because the whole World should bee cheared up by the Unction and Mislion of Messiah he received the Spirit without measure that of his fulness we might all receive and grace for grace righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Above thy fellows i.e. Exreliquorum regum numero eximendus above all earthly Potentates Beza the best whereof as David ●o sish had their faults and flaws or rather above thy Saints thy fellow-brethren by grace and Co-heirs of glory they have Plenitudinem V asis but thou Fontis neither only art thou anointed Pre consortibus above thy fellows but Pro consortibus for those thy fellows as some render it Dioscor l. 1. c. 67. l. 3. c. 82 lib l. 12 Lib. 1. Antidot and it is very comfortable Vers 8. All thy garments smell of myrrbe aloes and cassia Things not only of good savour but of great price Myrrbe some take to be Musk Aloes Amber Cassia a kind of Ginnamon which in Galeas time was very rare and hard to bee found except in the store-houses of great Princes And Pliny reporteth that a pound of Cinnamon was worth a thousand Denarii that is an hundred and fifty Crowns of our 〈◊〉 This description then of Christs cloathing doth allegorically set forth the sweetness and pleasure that the Father findeth in him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 3.17 and that we also finde whilst he is made unto us of God Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Confer 2 Cor. 2.14 and that out of his Ivory palaces i.e. his heavenly habitation from which he beholdeth us and raineth down righteousness upon us Whereby they have made thee glad i.e. Servi sodales tui thy fellow friends and servants who stand and hear the Bridegroom and rejoyce greatly by reason of his voyce Joh. 3.29 yea make him glad by their ready obedience setting the Crown upon his head and adorning him as it were with all his bravery in the day of his espousals Cant. 3.11 and making him say How fair how pleasant art thou O love for delights Cant. 7.6 Vers 9 Kings daughters were among thine honourable women Thy Ladies of honour attending upon thy royal Consort for after the description of Christ the Bridegroom followeth another of the Queen his Bride and of the royal Nuptials Or Kings daughters are in thy preciousnesses that is in thy comliness that thou hast put upon them Ezek. 16.14 for all the Churches bravery is borrowed and all her Daughters i.e. Members are adorned not with their own proper attire Sed regio mundo ornatu out of the King Christs Wardrobe this is the righteousness of the Saints Rev. 19.8 viz. imputed and imparted Upon thy right band Which is a place of Dignity and Safety As Christ is at the Fathers right hand so the Church is at Christs right hand where as his wife she shineth with her Husbands beams This is very comfortable Did stand the Queen Heb. Augusta the wife adjutorium illi exacts respondens as Gen. 2.18 saith 〈◊〉 that hee was happy in his wife a Lady of excellent vertue who drew evenly with him in all the courses of honour that appertained to her side Daniels hist and seemed a peece so just cut for him as answered him rightly in every joynt Vers 10. Hearken O Daughter and consider incline thine ear The Prophets or rather Christs Counsell to the Church and each Member thereof wholly to deny ungodlinesse and wordly lusts and to live soberly Tit. 3.12 righteously and godly in this present World to leave all and to cleave to Christ This because it is soon said but not so soon done He presseth in many words all to one purpose Hearken see incline thine ear Self-denyall is a most difficult duty and yet so necessary that if it be not done we shall be undone Forget also thine own people c. All evill opinions must be unlearned and all evill practices abandoned and all our love transferred and transfused upon Christ or we cannot be a fit Spouse for him Christs Spouse must as Deut. 21.11 12 13. shave her head pare her nails and bewail her Father and Mother that is her naturall inbred evills and corruptions Vers 11. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty If thou deny thy self and forgo all others to please him alone he shall set his whole heart upon thee and be ravished with thy love as Prov. 5.19 How could that Persian Ladies Husband do lesse than love her who having been at Cyrus his wedding and asked how she liked the Bridegroom Like him said she I know not how I like him for I looked upon no man there but mine own Husband Aspasia Milesia was very dear to Cyrus because she was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fair and withall Wise Aelian For he is thy Lord And therefore not to be slighted by thee for his great love as many of the Persian Monarchs were Ahashuerosh for instance but reverenced and obeyed as Augustus was by his wife Livia Vers 12. And the

they make sheweth whether they be crack'd or sound An asse is known by his ears saith the Dutch proverb and so is a fool by his talk As a bird is known by his note and a bell by his clapper so is a man by his discourse Plutarch tells us that Megabysus a Noble man of Persia Plut. de tranque coming into Apelles the Painters work-house took upon him to speak something there concerning the art of painting and limning but he did it so absurdly that the prentices jeared him and the master could not bear with him Verse 6. Hear now my reasoning c. Or hear I pray you Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath suffer the words of exhortation and of reprehension sharp though it be and to the flesh irksome yet suffer it sith it is for your good Quintilian testifieth of Vespasian that he was patientissimus veri one that could well endure to be told the truth but there are few Vespasians Many people are like the nettle touch it never so gently it will sting you And hearken to the pleadings of my lips Heb. The contention of my lips see that you not only hear but hearken to it with attention of body intention of mind and retention of memory neither God nor man can bear it to speak and not be heard See that ye refuse not him that speaketh c. Heb. 12.25 See that ye slight not shift not off Christ speaking to you in his Ministers and messengers for if they escaped not who refused him that speake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven Verse 7. Will ye speak wickedly for God Ought ye to defend Gods justice by unjustly accusing me Or must ye needs so free him from injustice that ye must charge me with hypocrisie Job had before called them Physicians of no value here he compareth them to Lawyers of no conscience that care not what they plead so they may carry the cause for their client But the Lord needeth no such advocates he so loveth truth that he will not borrow patronage to his cause from falshood he so hateth flattery though it be of himself that he hath threatned to cut off all flattering lips Psalm 12.3 and would one day say as much to Jobs friends notwithstanding their pretended zeal for his glory as once Alexander the great did to Aristobulus the Historian who presented him with a flattering piece concerning his own worthy acts which he extolled above measure hee cast the book into the river Hydaspes and told the Author he could find in his heart to cast him after it And talk deceitfully for him To talk for God is our duty it is to make our tongue our glory but to talk deceitfully for him to seek to help his truth by our lie the Vulgar here hath it Needeth God your lie that 's altogether unlawful for shall we do evil that good may come thereof God forbid Rom. 3.8 And yet the Papists do so familiarly and think they therein do God good service as when they deny his provident hand in ordering the disorders of the world to his own glory lest they should make him the Author of sin so they think to defend his justice by teaching predestination according to fore-seen works by ascribing to man free-will righteousnesse of works merit c. So their doctrine of Equivocation for the relief of persecuted Catholicks Spec. hist lib. 29. their piae fraudes as they call them their holy hypocrisie to draw infidels to the embracing of the faith and to the love of vertue their lying legends made say they for good intention that 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 8. Will ye accept his person Whilst you think to gratifie him and to ingratiate with him by oppressing me Can you find no other way of justifying Gods proceedings then by condemning me for wicked because by him so afflicted The truth is these friends of Job out of a perverse zeal of advancing Gods righteousnesse unrighteously suspected poor Job of wickednesse and so rejected his person to accept Gods See the like done Isa 66.5 Jer. 50.7 John 16.2 O sancta simplicitas said John Hus when at the stake he observed a plain country-fellow busier then the rest in fetching fagots to burn the hereticks Will ye contend for God Why not Good blood will not belie it self the love of God constraineth his people to stand to him and to stickle for him Non amat qui non zelat saith a Father But then it must be a zeal according to knowledg for else it will appear to be but base and reprobate metal such as though it seemeth to be all for God yet it never received the image and impresse of Gods holy spirit and therefore is not currant in heaven But that I believe and know said that fiery Frier Brusierd in a conference with Bilney that God and all his Saints whom thou hast so greatly dishonoured Acts Mon. 914. will take revengement everlasting on thee I would surely with these nails of mine be thy death Another Frier preaching at Antwerp wished that Luther were there Erasm Epist lib. 16. that he might bite out his throat with his teeth and with the same teeth receive the Eucharist by Luther so dishonoured Verse 9. Is it good thas he should search you out c q. d. Could you have any joy of such a search Will not all your warpings and partialities your colloguing and sinisterity be laid open to your losse and shame Will not God reprove in stead of approving you in that which ye have said for him but all against me The time will come when God will surely search out all controversies that they all may be ashamed who under a pretent of religion and right have spoken false things and subverted the faith of some See 1 Cor. 3.17 Or as one man mocketh another will ye so mock him Be not deceived God is not mocked deluded beguiled as clients are by their corrupt lawyers as patients are by their cogging quack-salvers Sorry man may be mocked and made to believe lies as 2 Sam. 15.11 Acts 8.9 10. and Rev. 13.3 all the world wondred after the Beast Judges and other wise men are shamefully out other-whiles deceiving and being deceived Not so the All-wise God They that would mock him imposturam faciunt patiuntur as the Emperour said of him that sold glasse for pearls they deceive not God but themselves Neither may they conceit that their good intentions will bear them out as Merlin here noteth any more then it did these contenders for God who little thought of mocking him A bad aim maketh a good action had as we see in Jehu but a good aim maketh not a bad action good as we see in