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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

steps See the Note there Verse 7. I write no new commandment The Apostle studiously declineth the suspition of novelty We should ever set a jealous eye upon that which is now and stand in the old way Jer. 6.16 in the ancient paths Jer. 18.15 Gods people are called the ancient people Isa 44.7 And Idolaters are said to sacrifice to new gods that came newly up Deut. 32.17 Truth and wine is better with age Luke 5.39 And of witnesses Aristotle well saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the older they are the more credible because lesse corrupted Verse 8. A new Commandment See the Note on John 13.34 Verse 9. And hateth his brother As Paul presseth faith and Peter hope so John love those three cardinall vertues 1 Cor. 13.13 Verse 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 None occasion c. Gr. No scandall i. e. no occasion of spirituall falling whereby a man is made any manner of way worse and back warder in goodness Quod fieri posest vel dicto velfacto sive exemplo in moribus saith learned Lyserus which may be done by word deed or evil example Verse 11. He that hateth c. There is a passion of hatred saith a famous Divine This is a kinde of aversenesse and rising of the heart against a man when one sees him so that he cannot away with him nor speak to nor look courteously or peaceably upon him c. 2. A habit of hatred when the heart is so settled in this alienation and ess●rangement that it grows to wish and seek his hurt This is man-slaughter 1 John 3.5 Verse 12. I Write unto you little children A Christian hath his degrees of growth childe-hood 1 Cor. 3.1 2. Youth or well-grown age when he is past the spoon as here old age Au 21.16 Verse 13. Him that is from the beginning The Ancient of d●ie● Ol● men love to speak of ancient things These are ancient things 1 Chron. 4.22 Because ye have overcome the wicked one The glory of young men is their strength Prov. 20.29 The Hebrew word there ●endered young men signifieth choice men se for military implo●ments neither can they better shew their valour then by resifting the devil that he may flee from them Because ye have known the Father We say Hom. O●●ib 1. He is a Wise childe that knows his father and the Greeks have a Proverb to the same purpose but God hath no childe so young that more or losse knoweth him not The bastardly brood of Rome are all for their mother Verse 14. Because ye have know him The same again as Verse 13. which to a carnall heart may seem superfluous Et certè sihumano ingenio conscripti essent libri illi quos pro sacris ita us verissimè sunt agnoscimus veneramur bonum alicubi dormitasse Homerum diceremus said one But far be it from us to reprehend what we cannot comprehend Verse 15. Love not the World You fathers and you young and strong men let me caution you before I speak again to the little children vers 18. to beware of worldlinesse A man may be very mortified and yet very apt to dote on the world If any man love the world Have it he may and use it too as the traveller useth his staffe which either he keeps or casts away as it furthers or hinders his journey but love it he must not unlesse he will renounce the love of God See the Note on Mat. 6.24 Col. 312. Verse 16. The lust of the flesh the lust of c. That is Luk. 4. pleasure profit preferment the worldlings trinity as one faith Compare here with Christs three-fold temptation But is of the world Base and bootlesse Nec verùm nec vestrum To know the vanity of the world as of a mist you must go a little out from it Verse 17. And the World passeth away As the stream of a swift river passeth by the side of a City Animantis cujusque vita in fuga est Life it self wears out in the wearing as a garment all things below are mutable and momentary Wilt thou set thine heart upon that that is not saith Solomon And the lust there of So that although thou wert sure to hold these things of the world yet they may be suddenly lost to thee because then canst not make thine heart delight in the same things still Not the world only But the lust thereof passeth away there is a curse of us satis●iableness● lies upon the creature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Oratour There is a satiety of all things The worlds comforts are sweeter in the ambition hen in the fruition for after a little while we loath what we lately lusted after as Amnon did Tamar Men first itch and then scratch and then smart Dolor est etiam ipsa voluptas Verse 18. Little children Children may be easily cozened and made to take a sheep-counter for an angel because broader and brighter so young Christians are soon seduced hence they are here cautioned Verse 19. But they were not of us No more were our Antitrinitarians Arrians Antiscripturists ever of cur Church other-wise then as wens or botches whatever our adversaries averre and cavil So of old because the Waldenses and Manichees lived in the same places and were both held heretikas the Papists maliciously gave out that the Waldenses those ancient Protestants were defiled with the errours of the Manichees and Catharists which yet they ever abhorred Verse 20. But ye have an Vnction that oil of gladnes the holy Ghost In derision hereof Domi●ian the tyrant cast S. John into a caldron of boiling oil but he by a miracle came forth unhurt Me know all things Not all things knowable but all things needfull to be known Verse 21. Because ye know not c. Because ye are utterly ignorant for God hath no blinde children but they all know him from the least to the greatest Howbeit the Angels know not so much but they would know more Ephes 3.10 Should not we Verse 22. That denieth that Jesus Papists deny him as a King in setting up the Pope as a Priest in setting up the Masse as a Prophet in piecing their humane traditions to the holy Scriptures Verse 23. The same bath not the Father See the Note on Job 5.23 Mahomet speaks very honourably of Christ but denies his Divinity and that he was crucified He acknowledgeth that he was the Word and power of god and that all that believe in him shall be saved c. Verse 24. Hi Let that therefore abide Persevere and hold fast the saith of the Gospel without wavering in it Ephes 4.14 or starting from it 2 Pet. 2.20 Be as the center or as mount Sion stedfast and unmoveable Verse 25. Even eternall life Hold therefore the doctrine of saith sound and entire by the hand of faith that ye may receive the end of your faith the salvation of your souls Verse 26. That seduce you That carry you into by-waies high waies

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