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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

Jesuites those sworn sword-men of Satan give out that their weapons are only preces loachrymae prayers and tears and that it is unlawfull for them to use any other even then when they are about their most bloudy designs Camd. Eliz Epist to Read A late King of France after his revolt to Popery being perswaded by a great Dake about him not to read mit the Jesuites which had been justly banished the Realm he answered suddenly Give me then security for my life He therefore admitted them even into his bosome giving them his house for a Colledge and in a publike speech laying Vita Devid Parei operth praefix That they were Timothies in the house Chrysostomes in the Chair Augustines in the Schools c. But what came of it One of the Popes slaughter flaves by the instigation of the Jesuites stabbed him to the heart These Timothies proved Judasses these Chrysostoms Catilines these Augustines Assassines Commeth thither with lanterns Essries divine and morall c. Hypocrites may be compared saith one to those souldiers in the Gospel which came to seek Christ with lights and lanterns as if they meant not to misse of him yea they brought clubs and staves as if they would fight for him Yet when he saith Here I am take you up my Crosse they stumble at the Crosse and fall backwards Verse 4. Went forth and said unto them Met his enemy in the face after he had pray'd whereas till then he feared See the power of prayer So Esther when she had fasted and pray'd found her heart fortified against fear of man and putting her life in her hand went boldly to the King So Hudson the Martyr of whom afore Verse 5. Jesus of Nazareth Jesus saith I am he They called him Jesus of Nazareth by way of reproach He takes it upon him and wears it for a crown And should not we do like wise And Judas also c. With what face could the Traitour stand there But being full of the devil he was past grace and could blush no more then a sack-but Effraenis effronque Verse 6. Affoon then as he had said c. Here our Saviour let out a little beam of the Majesty of his Deity and sive hundred men fell before him Q●id autem judicaturus facier qui judicandus hoc fecit Psal 1.7 saith Augustine The wicked shall not stand in judgement Ila 11.4 saith David Christ shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth saith Isaias and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked Godly men who have but a drop of Christs Ocean a spark of his flame have a daunting presence When Valens the persecuting Emperour came to S Basil while he was in holy exercises it struck such a terrour into him that he reeled and had fallen had he not been upheld by those that were with him And another time when he should have subscribed an order for St Basils banishment Triport b●stor such a sudden trembling took his right hand that he could write never a good letter whereupon be tore the order for anger and there was an end of the businesse When an Officer was sent to apprechend a godly Deacon at Miltenberg a Town in the territory of Ments the Deacon embracing him said Salve frater frater enimverò meus es en adsum transfode me suffoca me Domine à me quidem nibil mali expectes Scultet Annal. p. 174. Here I am brother stab me hang me doe what you will with me The officer as if changed from heaven answered Sr you shall receive no hurt from me And when the Boars ran in to kill the Deacon he delivered him and set him safe out of danger Judas dealt not so by Jesus but as he fell with the rest so rose with the rest who desperately went on with their devil sh design nothing daunted by their late disaster Verse 7. Then asked he them again Though struck to the earth they desist not So the Sodomites smitten with blindenesse grope for the door Pharaoh in that palpable darknesse rageth against God and menaceth Moses Monoceros interim potest capi non potest Stubborn men will sooner break then bend Man Solinus faith Polibyus is held the wrsest but to me he seemeth the most foolish of all creatures for they where they have miscarried once will not easily be driven thither again Solus home ab evo adaevum peccat fere in y dem Only man will not be warned though he have soundly smarted We load an Asse saith Bernard and he cares not because he is an Asse Caver quantum potest quta vitam amct mortem timet and born to bear burdens But if you would drive him into a ditch or thrust him into the fire he shuns it as well as he can because he loves life and fears death Yet silly man fears not his eternall bane Verse 8. Let these goe their way This he seems to indent with the Jewes ere he yeelded himselfe their prisoner As a good Shepherd he interposeth between the Wolf and the Flock as an heavenly Eagle he hath ever an eye to his nest when he flieth highest from it Verse 9. That the saying might be fulfilled c. Christ spake it of their fouls it is here applied to their bodies God hath a fatherly care of both and will not lay more upon the outward man then the inward shall be enabled to undergoe Hence that of the Prophet Behold I have tried thee but not as silver Why so Isa 48.10 Because Gods weak children having far more drosse in them then good oare would never be able to abide a strict triall Verse 10. The servants name was Maelchus A busie fellow belike in surprizing our Saviour L Brook But it was a sad Omen saith a noble and renowned Writer that Peters sword should cut off the ear of Malchus which signifies a King or kingly authority How the Pope hath lifted up himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above all that is called Augustus or Emperour is better known then that it need be here related And if Bishops forbear saith he to touch the Scepter which they strive to sway it is but as once Mercury spared Jupiters thunder-bolts which he durst not steale lest they should roare too loud or at least burne his fingers Verse 11. Put up thy Sword Our Saviour checks him for his inordinate zeal wherein to be over-carried is easie and ordinaty The memorable story of William Gardiner Martyr in Portugall who in the very presence of the King and his Nobles could not forbear but fell upon the Cardinall as he was acting a Masse See Act. and Monum fol. 1242. So William Flower upon an Easter-day at Westminster seeing a Priest ministering the Sacrament of the Aitar to the people struck and wounded him upon the head and also upon his arme and hand with a wood-knife In the which so doing as indeed he did not well