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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

other necessaries to follow their great armies in their long expeditions of whom scarce one of ten do ever return home again but there perish by the way if not by the enemies sword yet by the wants intemperatenesse of the air or immoderate pains taking By the brimstone By the gun-powder or by their sulphured bowstrings which they discharge as out of their mouths whereunto they draw or lay them Verse 19. Plin Turk h●st In their mouth and in their tails Like the Serpent Amphisbaena that hath a head to do hurt at both ends Perhaps the Turks perfidy is here pointed at they keep leagues no longer then standeth with their own profit Verse 20. 1 Cor 10.10 That they should not worship devils As all idolaters do The devil is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Synesius glad to be worshipped in an idol as he was by Israel in a calf Verse 21. Math●ol in Dioscorid Neither repented Being stupified as those Asses in Hetruria that feed upon hemlock They that make them are like unto them See Isa 44.17 CHAP. X. Verse 1. Come down from heaven NOt from the bottomlesse pit as Antichrist that opposite to Christs unction and function Clothed with a cloud Not yet so clearly to be seen and enjoyed by his as when he shall come in the clouds A rain-bow upon his head The effect of the Sun shining against a cloud and is Nuncius foederis serenitatis the Angel of Gods Covenant and of fair weather His feet as pillars of fire His meanest members stand out the hotest persecutions Verse 2. A little book open The Bible translated and explained It is called a great roul written with the pen of a man that is Isa 8 1. Deu● 30.11 clearly that the simplest of men may conceive it But it is little in comparison of the volumes of School-Doctours and Popish-Decretals wherewith the world was pestered when the Bible lay locked up and obscured We may well say of it as S. Bartholomew quoted by Dionysius said of Divinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that in sundry respects it is both a little and a great Book He set his right-foot upon the sea As Lord of sea and land ma●gre all heretikes and Antichrists that sought to throw him out of possession Neither the beast that ariseth out of the sea Chap. 13. nor the other that ariseth out of the earth shall be able to do it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 3. As when a lion roareth Gr. Loweth like an Oxe mugit for rugit See here an oxe in a lion mildenesse mixt with fiercenesse Satis est prostrasse leoni This lion preys not upon the prostrate Non mihi placet vindicta sed victoria said Caesar So may Christ say I seek not revenge but victory Seven thunders uttered their voices As the eccho of Christs loud voice No sooner had he spoken but great was the company of preachers sons of thunder who should speak powerfully Psal 68.11 prophesie and cry down superstitious worships and hereticall doctrines before peoples Nations tongues and Kings vers 11. of this Chapter This was fulfilled in Wicliffe Husse Luther Lambert and other heroicall Reformers Conter Amos 3.7 8. Verse 4. Had uttered their voices Not audible only Di●stiu● but articulate so as that John heard and was much affected Nescio quid divinum in auscultatione est there is no small efficacy in a lively voice to work upon the heart In Demosthene aliquid d●est Demosthenis quandò legitur non auditur Val. Max. Seal up these things viz. Till the time appointed See Dan. 8.26 and 12.9 Or for that the things were the secrets of Gods kingdom Math. 13. not fit or possible to be revealed 2 Cor. 12.4 Verse 5. Lifted up his hand And so swore solemnly Gen. 14 22. Numb 14.30 Ezek. 20 5. Because it seemed improbable if not impossible that ever Babylon should down Rome be ruined But all the judgements in the Revelation those of the seven seals seven trumpets and seven vials are still upon Rome Pagan Christian and Antichristian We may therefore conclude with that Emperour of Germany Frederike 2. Roma diu titubans varijs erroribus acta C●rruet mundi desinet esse caput Rome tottering long shall once be shattered And of the world shall cease to be the head Verse 6. That there should be time no longer i. e. The Beasts time shall be no longer but till the daies of the seventh trumpet which were shortly then approaching Or there shall be now no longer delay and protraction of time Verse 7. The mystery of God The conversion of the Jews called a mystery Rom. 11.25 the bringing in of the Gentiles fulnesse Ephes 3 3,4,6 the kingdome of the Saints of the most high Dan. 7.18 then when all the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ Chap. 11.15 Verse 8. In the hand of the Angel which standeth This description of Christ is here purposely repeated that we may learn to trust in his power and flie to his wisdome as Agur did Pro. 30.1 2. for the understanding of divine mysteries Verse 9. Give me the little book Let Preachers ply the throne of grace if ever they will preach to purpose Bene orasse est bent studuisse said Luther Three things make a Preacher Reading Praier and Temptation He that will understand Gods riddles must plough with his heifer the Spirit which is not given but to them that ask it Alsted Ch●on 450 Ibid 267. Vide parcum in Gen. pro●●g And eat it up By reading and meditation Ministers must so devour and digest the holy Scriptures that as good Scribes they may draw out new and old for the use of the Church upon all occasions Jacobus de Voragin● was so called Quod esset veluti vorago bibliorum because he had as it were devoured the Bible So Petrus Comestor for the same reason Joannes Gati●s a Sicilian was so well versed in the Scriptures and so great a Divine that he once said Si libri sacri perirent se per Dei gratiam restititurum That if the Bible were lost out of the world he could restore it Some thinke that Ezra did so after the Babylonish captivity but I cannot think so Verse 10. Sweet as honey The word is so to the spirituall palate whereas to the carnall it relisheth no better then the white of an egg or a dry chip Luther said He would not live in Paradise without the word At cum verbo etiam in inferno facile est vivere but with the word he could live even in hell it self See Ps 19.10 119.103 Jer. 15.16 Tom. 4. 〈◊〉 My belly was bitter By reason of the trials and tribulations that usually follow upon the faithfull preaching of the Word Opposition is Evangelij genius saith Calvin And Praedicare est nihil aliud quam derivare in se furorem mundi saith Luther To preach is to get the ill will

here reckoned as the heaviest part of Christs crosse And if we can bear reproach for him it is an argument we mean to stick to him as the servant in the law that was content to be boared in the ear would stick to his master Then the treasures in Aegypt Aegype for it's power and pride is called Rahab Psal 87. famous it was for it's learning 1 King 4.30 Act. 7.22 and is still for it's fruitfulnesse so that where Nilus overfloweth they do but throw in the seed and have four rich harvests in lesse then four moneths Thence Solomon had his chief horses 2 Chron. 9. and the harlot her fine linnen Prov. 7.16 and yet Moses upon mature deliberation esteemed the reproach of Christ c. So did Origen chuse rather to be a poor Catechist in Alexandria then denying the faith to be with his fellow-pupill Plotinus in great authority and favour For he had respect c. We may safely make any of Gods arguments our encouragements look thorow the crosse and see the crown beyond it and take heart Quis non patiatur ut potiatur Verse 27. As seeing him who is invisible An elegant kinde of contradiction Let us study Moses his Opticks get a Patriarchs eye see God and set him at our right hand Psal 16. This will support our courage as it did Micaiahs who having seen God feared not to see two great Kings in their Majesty Verse 28. Through faith he kept the Passe over It is the work of faith rightly to celebrate a Sacrament Speak therefore to thy faith at the Lords Supper as Deborah did to her self Awake awake Deborah awake awake utter a Song Verse 29. They passed thorow the red sea Which threatened to swallow them but yet preserved them Faith will eat it's way thorow the Alpes of seemingly-insuperable difficulties and finde unexpected out-gates As by dry land Israel saw no way to escape here unlesse they could have gone up to heaven which because they could not saith one heaven comes down to them and paves them a way thorow the red sea Assaying to do were drowned Here that holy Proverb was exemplified The righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked cometh in his stead Prov. 11.8 See Isa 43.3 God usually infatuateth those whom he intendeth to destroy as these Verse 30. By faith the walls of Jericho So do daily the strong-holds of hell 2 Cor. 10.4 See the Note there Wherein albeit the Lord require our continuall endeavours for the subduing of our corruptions during the six daies of this life yet we shall never finde it perfectly effected till the very evening of our last day Verse 31. With them that beleeved not To wit that gave not credit to those common reports of God and his great works but despised them as light news and refused to be at the pains of further enquiry When she had received the spies Whom to secure she told a lie which was ill done The Apostle commends her faith in God but not her deceipt toward her neighbour as Hugo well observeth Verse 32. Of Gideon of Barac c. Here the names only of sundry Worthies of old time per praeteritionem conglobantur are artificially wound up together for brevity sake All these were not alike eminent and some of them such as but that we finde them here enrolled we should scarce have taken them for honest men yet by faith c. Christ carries all his of what size or sort so ever to the haven of heaven upon his own bottome as a ship doth all the passengers that are therein to the desired shore Verse 33. Wrought righteousnesse Civil and military spiritualized by faith and heightned to its full worth Obtained promises Faith winds it self into the promises and makes benefit thereof A Bee can suck honey out of a ●lower so cannot a Flie doe Faith will extract abundance of comfort in most desperate distresses out of the precious promises and gather one contrary out of another honey out of the rock c. Deut. 32.36 Verse 34. Escaped the edge of the sword As David by the force of his faith escaped Sauls sword Eliah Ahabs Elisha the Syrians 2 King 6. c. and divers of Gods hidden ones at this day have escaped by a strange providence when studiously sought after as sheep to the slaughter See the prefatory epistle to Mr Shaw● Sermon Verse 35. Women received As the Sarepton Shunamite widdow of Naim c. No such midwife as faith It hath delivered even graves of their dead Others were tortured Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were tympanized distended stretched upon the rack as a sheeps-pelt is upon a drum-head Others render it They were bastonadoed or beat●● with bats or cudgels to death as if it were with drummesticks Not accepting deliverance On base tearms they scorned to flie a way for the enjoyment of any rest except it were with the wings of a Dove covered with silver innocency As willing were many of the Martyrs to die as to dine That they might obtain a better resurrection The resurrection they knew would recruit and rectifie them This held life and soul together So Dan. 12.3 These miserable Caitiffs saith Lucian the Atheist of the Christians of this time have vainly perswaded themselves of a glorious resurrection and hence their fool-hardy frowardnesse to die Verse 36. Of cruell mockings As Jeremy Amos Elisha Goe up baldpate Go up sc To heaven as they say but who will believe it that your Master Elias did So they mowed at David mocked at Isaiah Chap. 28.10 the sound of the words as they are in the originall carries a taunt jeared our Saviour Luk. 16.14 Set these Hebrews upon the stage as mocking stocks Chap. 10.33 Verse 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Were tempted Or as others read the words They were burned One saith That it was almost as great a miracle that Ioseph did not burn when his mistresse tempted him as it was for the three children not to burn in the Babylonish fire Luther was oft tempted to be quiet with great sums of money and highest preferments Iulian by this means drew many from the faith In sheepskins and goatskins That might have rustled in silks and velvets if they would have yeelded Saepe sub attrite lati●at sapientia veste Afflicted tormented None out of hell were ever more afflicted then the Saints to the wonder and astonishment of the beholders Verse 38. Of whom the world They were fitter to be set as stars in heaven Verse 39. Received not the promise viz. Of Christs incarnation Verse 40. Some better thing i. e. Christ that great mystery as 1 Tim. 3.16 that chief of ten thousand c. that gift Iob. 4.10 that benefit 1 Tim. 6.2 CHAP. XII Verse 1. With so great a cloud OR cluster of witnesses whose depositions we should hearken to and rest in Iustin Martyr confesseth of himself that seeing the pious lives and patient sufferings of the Saints he concluded

a Tent-maker elegantly compares mans body to a Tent. Plato also in his dialogue of death calleth the body a Tabernacle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We have a buiding of God The Ark transportative till then was setled in Solomons temple So shall the soul be in heaven As when one skin fals off another comes on so when our earthly tabernacle shall be dissolved or taken down we shall have a heavenly house The soul wears the body as a garment which when it is worn out we shall be clothed with a better snit we shall change our rags for robes c. Itaque non plangimus sed plandimus quando vitam claudimus quia dies iste non t●m fatalis quam natalis est Verse 2. For in this That is in this tabernacle of the body We groan earnestly As that Avis Paradisi Macrob l. 1. c. 11. which being once caught and enraged never leaves sighing they say till set at liberty The Greeks call the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the souls bond and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the souls sepulchre To be clothed upon By a sudden change and not to die at all as 1 Thess 4.17 1 Cor. 15.51 52. Quis enim vult mori prorsus nemo Death when it comes will have a bout with the best as it had with Hezekiah David Jonas others For nature abhors it and every new man is two men But when a Christian considers that non nisi per angusta ad augusta perveniatur that there 's no passing into Paradise but under the flaming sword of this Angel death that standeth at the Porch that there 's no coming to the City of God but thorow this straight and heavy lane no wiping all tears from his eyes but with his winding sheet he yeelds and is not only content but full glad of his departure As in the mean while he accepts of life rather then affects it he endures it rather then desires Phil. 1.23 Verse 3. If so be that c. q. d. Howbeit I know not whether we shall be so cloathed upon that is whether we that are now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall be sound alive at Christs coming to judgement whether we shall then be found clothed with our bodies or naked that is stript of our bodies Verse 4. Do groan being burdened viz. With sin and misery whereof we have here our back-burdens M Bradford Act. and Mon. fol. 1492. And surely great shame it were as that Martyr said that all the whole creatures of God should desire yea groan in their kinde for our liberty and we our selves to loath it as doubtlesse we do if for the crosse yea for death it self we with joy swallow not up all sorrow that might let us from following the Lords call and obeying the Lords providence c. Might be sw●llowed up of life Not as a gulf or fire swallows up that is cast into it but as perfection swallows up imperfection As the perfecting of a picture swallows up the rude draught as perfect skill swallows up bungling or manhood childehood not extinguishing D. Preston but drowning it that it is not seen Verse 5. He that hath wrought us Curiously wrought us in the lowermost parts of the earth that is in the womb as curious workmen perfect their choice pieces in private and then set them forth to publike view Psal 139.15 with Eph. ●19 Others expound it by Rom 9.23 The earnest of the spirit He saith not the Pawn but the earnest A pawn is to be returned again but an earnest is part of the whole bargain Verse 6. Therefore we are confident Not haesitant or halting as Hadrian the Emperour was and as he that cried out on his death-bed Anxius vixi dubius morior nescio quò vado I have lived carefully Plato I die doubtfully I go I know not whither Socrates also that wisest of Philosophers could not with all his skill resolve his friends whether it were better for a man to die or to live longer Cicero comforting himself as well as he could by the help of philosophy against the fear of death cries out and complains at length Nescio quomo do imbe●●●ior est med cina qudm morbus that the medicine was too weak for the disease It is the true Christian only that can be confident that his end shall be happy though his beginning and middle haply may be troublesome Psal 37.37 Whilest we are at home Or stay for a night as in an Inne A man that comes into an Inne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if he can get a better room he will if not he can be content with it for saith he it is but for a night So it should be with us Verse 7. For we walk by faith Which puts our heads into heaven sets us on the top of Pisgah with Moses and therehence descries and describes unto us the promised Land gives us to set one foot afore-hand in the porch of Paradise to see as Stephen did Christ holding out a Crown with this inscription Vincenti dabo Not by sight Sense corrects imagination reason sense but faith corrects both thrusting Hagar out of doors when haughty and haunty grown Verse 8. And willing rather Death is not to be desired as a punishment of sin but as a period of sin not as a postern gate to let out our temporall but as a street door to let in eternall life To be present with the Lord This Bernard calleth Repatriasse Plotinus the Philosopher could say when he died Bern de morte That which is divine in me I carry back 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synes ep 139. to the Originall divine that is to God But whether this man beleeved himself or not I greatly doubt Verse 9. Wherefore we labour Our hope of heaven maketh us active and abundant in Gods service The doctrine of assurance is not a doctrine of liberty but the contrary 1 Joh. 3.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We make it our ambition faith the Apostle here to get acceptance in heaven waiting till our father shall call us home and passing the time of our sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Saints have their commotation upon earth their conversation in heaven Verse 10. For we must all c. This great assize will not be such an Assembly as that of Ahashuerosh of his Nobles Princes and Captains only nor such as the biddings of rich men to their feasts of their rich neighbours only Luk. 14.12 but like the invitation of that housholder that sent his servants to compell all to come in On that day Adam shall see all his nephews together Appear before c. Be●aid open and have all ript up Our sins that are now written as it were with the juice of lemmons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall then by the fire of the last day be made legible And as

not leave Calvin to hear Paul This is not only partiality but anthropolatry or Man-worship saith he Grynaeus reports a speech of George Duke of Saxony Although I am not ignorant Lect. in Hag. p. 41. said he that there are divers errours and abuses cr●pt into the Church Nolo tamen amplecti Evangelium quod Lutherus annunciat yet I will no●● of that Gospel-reformation that Luther preacheth Compertum est It is for certain saith Erasmus that many things are condemned as hereticall in Luthers writings Erasm epist ad Cardin Mogunt that in Austins and Bernards books are approved for sound and pious passages Verse 2. For if there come c. It is probable saith an Interpreter here that the Primitive Christians the better to ingratiate with the richer Pagans gave them very great respect contrary to that Psal 15.4 But I rather think the Apostle speaketh in this text of wealthier Christians unworthily preferred before better but poorer persons Verse 3 That weareth the gay cloth As Hospinian tels us of the dogs that kept Vulcans Temple and as others say of the Bohemian curres that they will fawn upon a good sute but flie upon one that is in ragged apparrel So is it with many Vestis virum Verse 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Are ye not then partia● Or Are ye not f●r so doing condemned in your own consciences Or Neither have ye so much as once doubted or guestioned the matter within your selves whether in so doing you have not done amisse Verse 5. Ch●sen the poor This the world wonders and stumbles at 〈◊〉 Heathen Romans would not receive Christ though they heard of his miracles and mighty works into the number of their gods because he preached poverty and made use of poor persons aig●Aig●land King of Saragossa in Arragon refused to be baptized 〈…〉 because he saw many Lazars and poor people expecting alms from Char●●mains table and asking what they were was answered That they were the messengers and servants of God And can he keep his servants no better said he I 'le be none of his servants Revel ● But what saith Christ I know thy poverty but that 's nothing thou art rich And The poor are Gospellized not only receive it Mat. 11. but are changed by it Heirs of the Kingdom Heads destinated to the diadem saith Tertullian Verse 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oppresse you Subjugate you and bring your heads under their gi●dles trample upon you with the feet of pride and cruelty yea devour you as the greater fish do the lesser Draw you before the judgement seats Vex you with law-sutes and by might rob you of your right Cedit viribus aequum Verse 7. Am. Marc. lib ● cap. 2. Doe not they ●●●spheme That is Cause to be blasphemed as Rom. 2.24 1 Tim. 1.20 Marcellinus a Heathen Historian taxeth the Christians of his times for their dissensions biting and devouring one another till they were even consumed one of another A sad thing that a Heathen should see such hellish miscarriages among Christs followers Verse 8. If ye fulfill the royall law Acknowledging Gods soveraignty and sending a lamb to the Ruler of the earth Isa 16.1 seeking the help of that free or noble spirit of his Psalme 51.13 that royall ruling spirit as the Greek version there hath it Verse 9. Ye commit sin That 's flat though ye have thought otherwise See the Note on Verse 4. Verse 10. He is guilty of all The whole Law is but one copulative Exod. 16.18 Ezek. 18.10 11 12 13. I ●yr Clavit He that breaketh one Commandment habitually breaketh all not so actually The godly keep those Commandments that actually they break But a dispensatory conscience keeps not any commandment Verse 11. For he that said God spake all those words Exod. 20. and said there is the same divine authority for one Commandment as another The Pharisees had their minutula legis but Christ cries them down Mat. 5. The Jews at this day set s●esly argue Cursed is he that abides not in all things therefore he is not cursed that abides in some things only Verse 12. As they that shall be judged Or As they that should judge by the law of liberty which is so called because it doth freely and fully discover unto every man without respect of persons the errours and evils of his life And we should walk as paterns of the rule See the Note on Matthew 11.19 Verse 13. For he shall have mercie See the Note on Matthew 5.7 And mercy rejoyceth against judgement That is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 Cervix ●eadeth on the neck of judgement The mercifull man glorieth as one that hath received mercy and shall not come into condemnation for Gods mercy rejoyceth against such a mans sins as against an adversary which he hath subdued and trampled on Verse 14. Though a man say he hath faith Saying serves not the turn Livy telleth us of the Athenians Liv. de● 4. that they waged Word-warre against Philip King of Macedony Quibus s●lis valebant and that was all they could doe M●n may word it with God and yet miscarry Isa 58.2 3. He is too wise to be put off with words he turns up our leaves and looks what fruit whereof if he mi●●e he laies down his basket and takes up his ax Luk. 13.7 Christianity is not a talking but a walking with God and at the last day it shall be required of men non quid legerint sed quid egerint non quid dixerint sed quomodò vixerint Not what they have said but how they have acted Can faith save him That is An ineffectuall faith that worketh not by love such as is the faith of the Solifidians Verse 15. If a brother or a sister As it may b●●all the best to be and they are not of the Cameleon-kinde to live with Ephraim upon winde Hos 12.1 to be fed with fair words or to be cloathed with a sute of complements Sion should be taken by the hand Isa 51.18 And Tyrus converted leaves hoarding and heaping up wealth and fals to feeding and cloathing Gods poor people Isa 23.18 Verse 16. And one of you say This age aboundeth with mouth mercy which is good cheap But a little handfull were better then a great many such mouth-fuls Be you warned But with what with a fire of words Be filled But with what with a messe of words Away with these aiery courtesies Verse 17. Is dead being alone That is Being worklesse for life discovers it self by action so doth true faith by trust in God and love to men A tree that is not for fruit is for the fire Verse 18. My faith by my works It appeared by the fruits it was a good land Numb 13.23 It appeared that Dorcas was a true believer by the coats she had made so here Verse 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Believe and tremble Gr. Roar as the sea and

God Sp●c Europ In hoc eorum omnis flamma est in hoc uruntur in●●ndio Hence they burn up Bibles tanquam doctrinam peregrinam as strange doctrine En●bir loc com cap. E●●les Hence they censure S. Paul as savouring of heresie and could finde in their hearts to purge his Epistles Eckius is not afraid to say That Christ did never command his Disciples to write but to preach only Bellarmine saith the Bible is no more then commonitorium a kinde of store-house for advice Hosius saith Ipsissimum Dei 〈◊〉 That the Popes interpretation though it seem never so repugnant to the Scripture is neverthelesse the very Word of God The Councel of Basil answered the Hussites requiring Scripture-proofs for such doctrines as were thrust upon them that the Scriptures were not of the being of the Church but of the well-being only that traditions were the touchstone of doctrine and foundation of faith And blasphemed the name of God The truth of God contained in the Scriptures What a devil made thee to meddle with the Scripture Act. and Mon. said Stephen Gardiner to Marbeck They tell us of divers that have been possest by that means and assure us that ●u● condemnation is so expresly set down in our own Bibles and is so clear to all the world that nothing more needs hereto then that we know to read and to have our eyes in our heads Alex. Cook at the opening thereof Verse 10. Vpon the scat of the Beast This City of Rome which was never yet besieged since it became the seat of Antichrist but it was taken and shall be again shortly to purpose And his kingdome was full of darknesse It appeared to be so as motes appear in the Sun-shine by the clear light of truth shining upon it A Scotish mist is here already fallen upon a piece of his Kingdome and what further service God hath for their and our armies to do against the Pope in Ireland or elswhere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we expect and pray God grant us good agreement among our selves and then much may be done abroad And they gnawed their tongues Being as mad with malice as Boniface the 8. was of discontent who being suddenly taken prisoner at his fathers house by Sarah Columnus his mortall enemy Turk hist 126. and brought to Rome laid up in the Castle of S. Angelo within 35. daies after most miserably died in his madnes renting himself with his teeth and devouring his own fingers Verse 11. And blasphemed the God of heaven As they did in 88 when the Spaniards gave out That Christ was turned Lutheran And as Faux the Gunpouder-traitour did when he told those that took him that not God but the devil had brought to light and to naught that desperate design Lonicer theatr histor Thus they set their mouths against heaven and their tongue walketh thorow the earth as if Augustus Caesar were dealing with some god Neptune or the three sons trying their archery at their fathers heart to see who can shoot nighest What an execrable blasphemy is that of John Hunt a Roman Catholike in his humble appeal to King James in the sixth Chapter of that Pamphlet See D Sheld mark of the● Beast The God of the Protestants is the most uncivil and evil-mannered God of all those who have born the names of gods upon the earth yea worse then Pan god of the clowns which can endure no ceremonies nor good manners at all And repented not This leopard Chap. 13.2 can never change his spots because they are not in the skin but in the flesh and bones in the sinews and most inward parts Tigers rage and tear themselves at the sound of a drum and at the smell of sweet spices so doe these savage Papists when called to repent Verse 12. Vpon the great river Euphrates i. e. Upon whatsoever yet hindereth the destruction of spirituall Babylon and the comming in of the Jews as the Turkish Empire c. That the way of the Kings Christians say some who are Kings in righteousnesse and come from the East or from Christ That day-spring from on high Luk. 1.78 Others understand this Text of the Jews who are most of them in the East dispersed thorow Turkie Tartary the ten Tribes especially and China Junius saith Tartars of Tothar a remnant or residue That which is called the land of Sinim Isa 49.12 may probably be meant of China which if it be the meaning there may be many of the Jews whose conversion we daily expect and pray for See Isa 11.15 16. Zach. 10.10 11. Verse 13. Three unclean spirits Spirituall fathers as the Papists call their Jesuites who seek to subject all to the Pope and the Pope to themselves being ultimus diaboli crepitus as one speaketh Arist denat animalium the last attempt of a daring devil These are the Popes Janizaries bloud-hounds vultures whose nest as Aristotle saith cannot be found Aristoph yet they will leave all games to follow an Army because they delight to feed on carrion Like frogs For their filthinesse impudency loquacity with their continuall brek●k●kex coax coax Come out of the mouth That is By the counsell and command by vertue of that vow of Mission whereby the Jesuites are bound to the Pope to go whither he shall send them about whatsoever attempt he shall enjoyn them Yea if their Governours command them a voyage to China or Peru without dispute or delay they presently set forward Hence haply they are called spirits Verse 14. The spirits of devils Or breathing devils Working miracles Lying wonders 2 Thess 2.9 Vnto the Kings of the earth The Popes Nuncio's Legats a latere and other emissaries stir up the spirits of Princes to embroil the world with wars for the upholding of his tottering greatnesse but all in vain The greatest impostors have ever been the greatest Courtiers The Arrians in their age and of them the Jesuites learned it And of the whole world Papists shall call in the help of forraign Princes out of Asia Africa America to suppresse the heretikes as they call them But with evil successe for they shall associate themselves only to be broken in pieces Isa 89. Exorientur sed exurentur Rev. 9 18. The mountain of the Lord shall be lifted up above all mountains These auxiliaries shall speed no better then those subsidiary Syrians 2 Sam. 10.18 19. Verse 15. I come as a thief Who gives no warning See the Note on Mat. 2.44 Blessed is be that watcheth The prophecy is here interrupted as Gen. 4.18 to fore-wa●n and fore-arm the Saints Luke 12.37 8 43. they are three times said to be blessed that watch Verse 16. And he gathered God hath an over-ruling hand in that which the frogs of Rome do at the Courts of Kings and ordereth the disorders of the world to his own glory Called in the Hebrew Armageddon That is They shall receive a famous foil such as Sisera