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A clavis to the Bible. Or A new comment upon the Pentateuch: or five books of Moses. Wherein are 1. Difficult texts explained. 2. Controversies discussed. ... 7. And the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious, pious reader. / By John Trapp, pastor of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire.
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Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
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sack Sacco soluto appâ—râ—it argentum saith Ambrose When God comes to turn the bottome of the bag upward all will out Sin not therefore in hope of secrecy on the fair day at the last day all packs shall be opened Vers 13. Then they rent their clothes In token of the renting of their hearts for their sins which now had found them out and they their sins for misery is the best art of memory being like to that helve Elisha cast into the waters which fetcht up the iron in the bottome Conscience is like a looking-glass which while it lyeth all covered with dust sheweth not a man his naturall visage but when it is wiped then it makes the least blemish appear Never till now could we hear these men confess Now what shall we say unto my Lord what shall we speak saith Iudah the Confessour so his name signifieth Or how shall we cleer our selves God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants Not this that they were now charged with for why should they be false to their own innocency but their cruelty to Ioseph and other like foul offences for the which God in his just judgment had now brought them to condigne punishment How could Ioseph hold when he heard all this and not cry out as Paul did in a like case to his disconsolate Corinthians Though I made you sorry with a letter with a cup I do not repent though I did repent for I perceive that this same epistle cup hath made you sorry though it were but for a season Now I rejoyce not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance For ye were made sorry after a godly manner that ye might receive dammage by us in nothing For behold this self-same thing that ye forrowed after a godly sort what carefulness it hath wrought in you yea what apology yea what indignation yea what fear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satisfaction saith the old Interpreter It may be he meant a new life to make amends thereby to the Congregation offended saith Bradford Serm. of Repent 14. Dan. hist fol. 51. yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge in all things ye have approved your selves to be clear in this matter Vers 14. They fell before him on the ground Humble submission they knew if any thing would make their peace and procure their pardon Sic ventos vincit dùm se submittit arundo It is no hoysing up sail in a storm no standing before a Lion c. William the Conquerour often pardoned rebels and received them into favour as he held submission satisfactory for the greatest offences and sought not to defeat them but their enterprizes Vers 15. What deed is this that ye have done As Joseph here so Christ sometimes personates an adversary when he intends most love _____ Wot ye not that such a man as I c. If that be true that some conceive of Joseph that he here and ver 5. made himself a sooth-sayer he was certainly too blame The lip of excellenoy becometh not a fool saith Solomon but much less doth lying beseem a worthy man That is It is naught when wicked men will be using gracious words to seem religious But it is far worse when good men will use the fashion of the wicked that they may seem impious Vers 16. What shall we say c. An ingenuous and penitent confession joyned with self-loathing and self-judging teaching us how to confess to God Sit simplex humilis confessio pura fidelis Atque frequens nuda discreta et lubens verecunda Integra secreta lachrymabilis accelerata Fortis accusans se punire parata These sixteen conditions were composed in these verses by the Schoolmen And such a Confession is the spunge that wipes away all the blots and blurs of our lives 1 Ioh. 1.7 Never any confessed his sin in this sort to God but went away with his pardon Wot ye what quoth King Henry the eighth to the Duke of Suffolk concerning Stephen Gardiner when he had confessed his Popery for which he should have been the morrow after sent to the Tower he hath confessed himself as guilty in this matter as his man and hath with much sorrow and pensiveness Act. Mon. fol. 1175. sued for my pardon And you know what my nature and custome hath been in such matters evermore to pardon them that will not dissemble but confess their fault How much more will God Vers 17. But the man in whose hand c. This was the white that Joseph shot at in all this interdealing with them to try the truth of their love to Benjamin and whether they would stick to him in his utmost perill God hath like ends in afflicting his children Ezek. 21.21 The King of Babylon stood at the parting way at the head of the two wayes to use divination So doth God he knows that the best divining of men is at the parting-way there every dog will shew to what master he belongs God shoots at his servants for triall as men shoot bullets against armour of proof not to hurt it but to praise it Vers 18. For ihou art even as Pharaoh This he saith the better to insinuate for great men love to hear of their honour and are tickled with their great titles P. Jovius Paulus Jovius writing of Pompey Colomia Bishop of Reatino saith that when the said Bishop by the means of many great personages was reconciled again and brought into favour with the Pope whom he had formerly offended and that when they signified so much unto him in a short letter in whose superscription Bishop of Reatino by chance was left out he receiving the letter threw it away and bad the messenger go seek some other Pompeio to whom the letter was directed Vers 30. Seeing that his life is bound up God loved his Son Jesus infinitely more then Iacob did Benjamin he exalts his love far above that of any earthly parent which is but a spark of his slame a drop of his Ocean And yet he freely parted with him to certain and shameful death for our sakes God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son c. This is a Sic without a Sicut there is nothing in nature whereby to resemble it Vers 32. For thy servant became surety So did Christ for us and therefore he must acquit us of all our sins ere he could go to his father Loe herein lyes the strength of that reason Joh. 16.10 He shall convince the world of righteousnesse because I go to the Father Vers 34. For how shall I go up c. Here love ascends as fit it should Iudah a man wise and well-spoken prefers his fathers life before his own liberty He could not live to see the death of his aged father B. Fulgos lib. 5. A certain Citizen of Toledo being condemned to dye his son ceased not with prayers and tears to intreat that
would distinguish themselves from Brownists Are they not all or most of them borrowed out of Mr. H. Jacobs books who was but of yesterday The Antinomians usually call upon their hearers to mark it may be they shall hear some new truth that they never heard before when the thing is either false or if true no more then ordinarily is taught by others Vers 18. And hast forgotten God that formed thee Or that brought thee forth Here God is compared to a mother as in the former clause to a father So Jam. 1.18 Of his own will begat he us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He brought us forth and did the office of a mother to us which doth notably set forth his love and the work of his grace Vers 19. Of his sons and of his daughters Titular at least wherefore their sin was the greater What Thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my son Brutus This cut Caesar to the heart Vers 20. I will see what their end shall be This is spoken after the manner of men as likewise that vers 27. In whom is no faith i. e. fidelity as Matth. 23.23 there 's no trusting them or taking their words Vers 21. And I will move them to jealousie Thus God delights to retaliate and proportion jealousie to jealousie provocation to provocation So frowardness to frowardness Psal 18.26 contrariety to contrariety Levit. 28.18 21 c. With a foolish nation With the conversion of the Gentiles Rom. 10.19 which the good Jews could not easily yeeld to at first Act. 11.2 3. And the rest could never endure to hear of it See 1 Thess 2.15 16. At this day they solemnly curse the Christians thrice a day in their Synagogues with a Maledic Domine Nazarais They have a saying in their Tulmud Optimus qui inter gentes est dignus cui caput conteretur tanquam serpenti The best among the Gentiles is worthy to have his head broke as the Serpent had Yea they think they may kill any Idolaters Therefore Tacitus saith of them There was misericordia in promptu apud suos sed contra omnes alios hostile odium mercy enough toward their own but against all others they bare a deadly hatred Vers 22. For a fire See the Note on Chap. 10.4 Vers 23. I will spend mine arrowes Which yet cannot be all spent up as he feared of his Jupiter Si quoties peccent homines c. Vers 24. Burnt with hunger Which makes mens visages blacker then a coal Lam. 4.8 with burning heat i. e. With the burning carbuncle or plague-sore See Haba◠3.5 Vers 25. And terrour within Warring times are terrible times By the civil dissentions here in King Iohn's time all the Kingdom became like a general shambles or place of infernal terrours and tortures War saith One is a misery which all words how wide soever want compass to express It is saith Another the slaughter-house of mankind and the hell of this present world See the Note on Gen. 14 2. Vers 27. Were it not that I feared See vers 20. Lest their adversaries This is that likely that moves the Lord hitherto to spare England God hath dealt with us not according to his ordinary rule but according to his prerogative England if it may be so spoke with reverence is a paradox to the Bible Pererius the Jesuite commenting upon Gen. 15.16 If any marvel saith He why England continueth to flourish notwithstanding the cruel persecution just execution he should have said of Catholikes there I answer Because their sin is not yet full Sed veniet tandem iniquitatis complementum c. We hope better though we deserve the worst that can be But somewhat God will do for his own great Name and lest the enemy exalt himself Psal 140.8 and say Our hand is high the Lord hath not done this Vers 28. For they are a nation See the Note on Chap. 4.6 It was Chrysippus that offered that strict and tetrical division to the world Aut mentem aut restim comparandum Vers 29. Oh that this people were wise Sapiens est cui res sapiunt prout sunt saith Bernard That they would consider their latter end This is a high point of heavenly wisdome Moses himself desires to learn it Psal 90.12 David also would fain be taught it Psal 39.4 Solomon sets a Better upon it Eccles 7.2 Ierusalems filthiness was in her skirts because she remembred not her latter end therefore also she came down wonderfully Lam. 1.9 The kite by the turning of his tail directs and winds about all his body Consideratio fini◠tanquam caudae ad vitam optimè regendam confert Mr. Ward 's Sermons saith Berchorius I meet with a story of one that gave a prodigal a ring with a deaths-head with this condition that she should one hour daily for seven dayes together look and think upon it which bred a strange alteration in his life like that of Thesposius in Plutarch or that more remarkable of Waldus the rich Merchant of Lions c. Vers 30. How should one chase a thousand i.e. Howshould one of the enemies chase a thousand Israelites who had a promise of better things Levit. 26.8 but that having first sold themselves for nought Isai 52.3 they were now sold by God who would own them no longer Psal 31.7 8. Vers 31. For their Rock is not as our Rock We may well say who is a God like unto thee Mic. 7.18 Contemno minutulos istos deos modo jovem Jehovam mihi propitiumc habeam I care not for those dunghill-Deities so I may hav◠the true God to favour me Even our enemies Exod. 14.25 Num. 23.8 12. 1 Sam. 4.8 Vers 32. For their vine is of the vine Vitis non vinifera sed venenifera The vine is the wicked nature the grapes are the evill works So Isai 59.5 They hatch cockatrice egges and weave the spiders web vanity or villany is their whole trade he that eateth of their egges dyeth c. Look how the bird that sitteth on the serpents egges by breaking and hatching them brings forth a perilous brood to her own destruction so do those that are yet in the state of Nature being the heires of Original and the fathers of Actual sins which when they are finished bring forth death Jam. 1.15 Vers 33. Their wine i. e. Their works yea their best works prove pernitious to them not their own table only but Gods Table becomes a snare to the unprepared communicant he sucks there the poyson of aspes c. Iob 20 16. he eats his bane and drinks his poyson as Henry 7. Emperour was poysoned in the Sacramental bread by a Monk Pope Victor 2. by his Sub-deacon in his challice and one of our Bishops of York by poison put into the wine at the Eucharist Vers 34. Is not this laid up in store To wit for just punishment though for a while I forbear them The wicked man is like a thief which having stollen a horse rides