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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

did at the waters of Megidde Judge 5.19 Verse 17. Saying It is done What is done The mystery of iniquity is abolished and the mystery of God is fulfilled So Cicero when he had slain those of Catilines conspiracy he came to the people and said vixerunt they were alive but now the world is well rid of them Verse 18. And there were voices A description of the last judgement when heaven and earth shall conspire together for the punishment of the wicked See Mat. 24.2 Pet. 3. and 2 Thess 1.8 Verse 19. and the great City The whole Antichristian State Divided into three parts By the earth quake disjected and dissipated And the cities of the Nations That came to aid Antichrist And great Babylon Augustine and other Ancients do call Rome the Western Babylon and do so compare them as that Abraham was born in the flourish of the first Babylon Christ of the second The cup of the wine That wherein God delights as a man would do to drink a cup of generous wine Verse 20. Fled away Either swallowed up by the water or consumed by the fire Verse 21. A great hail Bigger then that which brained the Kings of Cana●n Josh 10. perhaps this shall be fulfilled according to the letter Howsoever the elements shall melt like scalding lead upon Antichristians and other Atheists and they shall answer for all with flames about their ears CHAP. XVII Verse 1. And there came THis and the following Chapters are set for explanation of the dark and difficult passages in the former in the three last vials especially One of the seven Probably the seventh And talked with me Familiarly as the Samaritesse with her countrey-men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 4 42. or as the Master with his schollar I will shew unto thee Thou shalt not only be an ear but an eye-witnes Segniùs irritant animum demissa per aures Quàm que sunt oculis commissa fidelibus Horat. The judgement The damnation of her the destruction is reserved to the next Chapter Of the great whore The whore of Babylon more infamous and notorious Salust then any Thais Lais Phryne Messalina Orestilla cujus praeter formam nihil unquam bonus laudavit or Pope Joane Func com in Chronol of whom Funccius the Chronologer speaketh thus Ego Funccius non dubito quin divinitùs ita sit permissum ut foemina fi●ret Pontifex eadem meretrix c. I doubt not but that God therefore permitted a notorious harlot to be advanced to the Popedome and this about the very time when the Popes were most busie in subjecting the Kings of the earth and making them their vas●als that he might point out to men this whore here mentioned with whom the Kings of the earth committed fornication Verse 2. With whom the Kings As submitting their scepters to his keys and becoming his feudataries And the inhabiters of the earth So that she is not a noble whore only but a common strumpet prostituting her self to the meanest for their money as in the pardon office Have been made drunk Hence it is so difficult to convert Idolaters ther 's no dealing with a man that is drunk Whoredome and wine take away the heart Ho● 4. Of her fornication Both spirituall and corporall Sixtus Quintus lupanar utriusque Vener●s Romae condidit saith Agrippa decessit tubidus voluptate Verse 3. Into the wildernesse Whether the true Church fled Chap. 12. of which they must be saith one that can learn to know the Romish Church to be a Whore condemned of God I saw a woman See the Note on Verse 1. Sit upon Not going a-foot as Christ and the Apostles did but magnificently mounted as the Pope is ever either upon a stately palfrey Emperours holding his stirrop or upon mens shoulders England was once called the Popes asse for bearing his intolerable exactions Vpon a scarlet coloured beast The proper colour of the Court of Rome and it well serves to set forth their pomp and their hypocrisie Innocent the fourth gave a red hat to his Cardinals to shew them as he said that they should be ready to shed their bloud for the truth But that Painter was nearer the point who being blamed by a Cardinal for colouring the visages of Peter and Paul too red tartly replied that he painted them so as blushing at the statelinesse and sinfulnesse of his successours Full of names of blasphemy His head only before was busked with the blasphemy Chap. 13.1 now his whole body Thus evil men and seducers grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived 2 Tim. 3.13 Verse 4. In purple and scarl●● Clothing for Kings and Nobles over whom this whore domineers much more then the concubines did over the Kings of Persia And decked with gold Gr. Guilded with-gold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to note her hypocrisie and outsidenesse gold without copper within The Pope stiles himself the set vant of Gods servants but yet stamps in his coin That Nation and Countrey that will not serve thee shall be rooted out At the absolution of King John of England Daniels hist 8000 marks o● silver were presently delivered to Pandol●us the Popes Legate who trampled it under his feet as contemning that base matter but yet received it and sent away to Rome And precious stones and pearls Besides the rich stones that are in the Popes tripple crown of inestimable price and value he carries in his pantosse which he holds out to be kissed the picture of the crosse Heid●●ld set in pearls and precious stones Vt plenis fancibus cruc●m Christi d●rideat saith one Pope Sixtus quintus was wont to give to Tiresia his harlot pantosses covered with peatle I●● Re● 〈◊〉 He spent two hundred and threescore thousand crowns upon a Condui● which he built for his pleasure and yet he brought in fifty hundred thousand crowns into the new treasury built by himself in the Castle of S. Ang●●● At the coronation of Pope Leo X Vno e● l●e 1000000 a●●orum 〈…〉 ●61 Ibid. a thousand thousand crowns are said to have been spent in one day Pope Paul the second was wont to sleep all day and spend whole nights in weighing monies and beholding jewels and precious pictures A golden cup full of abominations Gold if it be right they say discovers and expels poison Put poison into a cup of gold and it will hisse and send up certain circles like rain bows Hereby is signified saith an authour that God threatneth judgement and 〈◊〉 to those that pour poison into divine doctrine as the Pope do●h with his mad mixtures Verse 5. D. Iames of the co●r of Script Prelace Mystery This word Mystery is in the Popes mitre saith Brocard the Venetian and many more who have been at Rome and professe to have seen it The whole Antichristian state is a Mystery of iniquity 2 Thess 2.7 and is much conversant about mysteries Sacraments Ceremonies pompous rites c.

side Verse 19. Promise them liberty As Mahometisme and Popery which is an alluring tempting bewitching religion Sr Walter Raleigh knew what he said that were he to chuse a religion for licentious liberty and lasciviousnesse he would chuse the Popish religion No sinne past but the Pope can pardon no sinne to come but he can dispense for it No matter how long men have lived in any sin though it be the sin against the holy Ghost extream unction at last will salve all Verse 20. Again entangled As a bird in a gin as a beast in a snare Sapè familiaritas implicavit saepè occasio peccandi voluntatem fecit Isidor solil l. 2. The later end is worse They fall ab equis ad asinos from high hopes of heaven into hell-mouth where they shall have a deeper damnation because they disgrace Gods house-keeping as if they did not finde that they lookt for in religion Verse 21. It had been better Nocuit sanè Judae fuisse Ape stolum Juliano Christianum to begin well and not to proceed is but to aspire to an higher pitch that the fall may be the more desperate Non quaeruntur in Christianis initia fed finis Act. and Mon. fol 993. saith Hierom B. Bonner seemed at first to be a good man and a favourer of Luthers doctrines Verse 22. The dog is turned Proverbia hac sunt Canonica quae Christiano nauseam commoverent God will spue out apostates for ever teaching them how they should have spued out their sin CHAP. III. Verse 1. This second Epistle SO must Ministers with one Sermon peg in another and never cease beating and repeating the same point saith S. Aug de doct Christian Augustine till they perceive by the gesture and countenance of the hearers that they understand it and are affected with it I stirre up Gr. I rouse you who perhaps are nodding with the wise virgins Mat. 25.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Your pare mindes Gr. Pure as the Sun Chrysostome saith of some in his time that they were ipso coelo puriores Hom. 55. in Math. more pure then the visible heavens and that they were more like angels then mortals Verse 2. Mindfull of the words See the Note on 1 Cor. 15.2 Run to this armory of the Scriptures for weapons against seducers and epicures Verse 3. Scoffers Those worst kinde of sinners Psal 1.1 those abjects of the people Psal 35.15 those Pests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Septuagint render them Psal 1.1 those Atheists that jear when they should fear and put farre away the evil day that make no more matter of Gods direfull and dreadfull menaces then Leviathan doth of a sword he laugeth at the shaking of a spear Job 41.29 Verse 4. Where is the promise c. The sleeping of vengeance causeth the over-flow of sin the sinner thinks himself hail-fellow with God Psal 50.21 and the overflow of the sinne causeth the awakening of vengeance Verse 5. Willingly ignorant of A carnall heart is not willing to know what it should do lest it should do what it would not Act. 28.27 That by the word of God And that by the same word again they may as soon be dissolved yea reduced to their first originall Nothing A learned man propoundeth this question How did the Lord imploy himself before the world And his answer is this D. Preston of Gods attrib p. 34. A thousand years to him are but as one day and one day as a thousand years Again Who knoweth saith he what the Lord hath done Indeed he made but one world to out knowledge but who knoweth what he did before and what he will do after Thus he And the earth standing c. God hath founded the earth upon the seas and established it upon the flouds Psal 24.2 This Aristotle reckons among the wonders in nature and well he may God hath set the solid earth upon the liquid waters for our conveniency Psal Lib. de mirabil 104.6 7. Verse 6. Being overflowed with water Therefore that is not altogether true that all things continue as they were at first as the scoffers affirmed ver 4. Verse 7. Reserved unto fire The old world was destroied with water Propter ardorem libidinis for the beat of their lust saith Ludolphus the world that is now shall be destroied with fire Propter teporem charitatis for their want of love Verse 8. One day is with the Lord c. Nullum tempus occurrit regi How much lesse to the Ancient of daies In God there is no motion or flux therefore a thousand years to him are but as one day Verse 9. Not willing that any should perish See the Note on 1 Tim. 2.4 Verse 10. The heavens shall passe c. The very visible heavens are defiled with mens sins Revel 18.5 and must therefore be purged by fire as the vessel that held the sin-offering was in the time of the law Shall be burnt up This the very Heathens knew in part as appears by the writings of Lueratius Cicere de natura Deorum and Ovids Metam lib. 1. Verse 11. What manner of men Even to admiration Quales quanti as the word signifies Mar 13.1 How accurate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and how elevate above the ordinary strain Verse 12. Looking for As Sisera's mother looked out at a window and expecting the return of her sonne said Why are his charriots so long a coming So should we look up and long for Christs coming in the clouds those charriots that carried him up and shall bring him back again The heavens being on fire c. A far greater fire then that at Constantinople Blnnts voiage where 7000 houses are said to have been on fire at once an Dom. 1633. And the elements shall melt And fall like scalding lead or burning bell-metall on the heads of the wicked who shall give a terrible account with the world all on fire about their ears Whether this shall fall out in the year 1657. as some conjecture because in the year of the world 1657. Alsted Chr●●oi the old world drowned and because the numerall letters in MVnDI ConfLagratiIo Make up the same number I have nothing to affirm Sure it is the Saints shall take no hurt at all by this last fire but a great deal of benefit Methodius writeth that Pyragnus a certain plant so called grows green and flourishes in the midst of the flames of burning Olympus as much as if it grew by the banks of a pleasant river And of this he saith that himself was an eye-witnesse Praeclarum sanè novissimi diei indicium documentum Verse 13. According to his promise Which is good sure-hold For he paies not his promises with fair words as Sextorius did but with reall performances Verse 14. That ye may be found of him Watching working well-doing See the Note on Mat. 24 43 44. Verse 15. That the long-suffering c. Rom. 2.4 which sentence

wife and all this by papall dispensation The Papists themselves write with detestation that in Rome a Jewish maid might not be admitted into the Stews of whoredome Espenc de continen l. 3. cap. 4. unlesse she would be first baptized That one should have his father wise Ethelbald King of West-Saxons with great infamy marrying his fathers widdow Judith enjoy'd his kingdom but two years and a half Daniel hist of Ergl 1 2. Verse 2. And ye are puffed up And yet ye are puffed up so Piscator reads it viz. with your spirituall gifts and your brave teachers whereas you have more cause to be cast down for your other mens sins now made yours because unlamented by you And have not rather mourned That any of you should incur the censure of excommunication at which time they did anciently fast and lament Verse 3. Have judged already c. q. d. I by mine Apostolicall authority do excommunicate him And yet how fiercely doth learned Erassus contend with Calvin and Beza about Excommunication denying the Church any such power Verse 4. With the power of our Lord Promised Matth. 18.18 19 20. This makes it to be a heavy case to be rightly excommunicated Indeed it may fall out that Jonas shall be cast out of the ship when Cham shall be reserved in the Ark. Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said for a pretence let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed Isa 66.5 When the sentence of Excommunication began with In ●omine Domini to be read against a certain Martyr he cried out as well he might You begin in a wrong name And another of them Act. and Mon. sol 1862. together with his five fellow-sufferers did formally excommunicate their persecutours Verse 5. To deliver such an one to Satan That he may learn not to blaspheme that is not to cause others to blaspheme or speak evil of the good way of God for his stagitious courses Verse 6. Your glorying is not good It is the height of wickednesse to glory in wickednesse as Lamech Gen 4. and Alexander Pheraeus who consecrated the Javelin Plato wherewith he had slain Polyphron Protagoras boasted that he had spent fourty years in corrupting of youth Mark Antony vomited out a book concerning his own ability to eat and drink much Joannes a Casa Act. and Mon. 1517. Dean of the Popes chamber wrote a Poem in commendation of his own beastly sin of Sodomy And Stokesly Bishop of London in King Henry 8. time lying at point of death rejoyced Ibid. ●025 boasting that in his life time he had burned fifty heretikes that is good Christians A little leaven leaveneth c. One spoonfull of vinegar will soon tart a great deal of sweet milk but a great deal of milk will not so soon sweeten one spoonfull of vinegar Verse 7. As ye are unleavened viz In part sanctified Every new man is two men Many a one that is merry in company hath a shrew at home so have the best their inward troubles The comfort is that God overlooks our involuntary infirmities and accounts us unleavened when yet there is much still to be purged out The leper when his leprosie began but to heal was pronounced clean because then he went on still to heal and his leprosie to shale off Verse 8. Let us keep the feast The benefits we receive by Christ should crown the Kalendar or our lives with continuall feastivals Yea make us everlastingly merry at our convivium juge of a good conscience Diogenes could say Plut. That a good man keeps every day holy-day And the Jews were bound to rejoyce at all their feasts Eat therefore thy meat with joy and drinke thy wine with gladnesse sith God now accepteth thy works Eccles 9.7 Verse 9. Not to company with fornicatours Dion Chrisostome saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Corinthus was the most luxurious and lascivious City in the world Lib. 8. Strabo saith that Venus had a most stately Temple there that was kept by above a thousand beautifull curtisans Another saith that it was the brothel-house of Greece and a most filthy Mart-town of abominable lusts Molin Anat. Ar●●inianis Verse 10. Yet not altogether c. Here he lets them know that in that former Epistle not extant now he meant not that they should wholly sever themselves from those wicked that are yet without the Church for that they cannot do but from profligate professours discinct Christians that they may be ashamed Verse 11. Not to keep company Gr. Not to be mingled with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The rivers of Peru after they have run into the main sea yea some write 20. or 30. miles they keep themselves unmixed the salt water so that a very great way within the sea men may take up as fresh water Abbots Geog. 331. Blunts voy p. 10. as if they were near the land So at Belgrade in Hungary where the Danuby and Sava two great rivers meet their waters mingle no more then water and oil c. We must so converse with the wicked as that we commingle not by holding any needlesse society with such no not with him that is called a brother but belies his profession Yet still must we perform to such though excommunicated offices of charity naturall and civill duties as those of parents toward their children of children toward their parents and the like Verse 12. Them also that are without These come not under the verge of Church-censures Revel 22.15 Verse 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore put away Gr. Ye will put away q. d. I hope you will though hitherto ye have not Soft words and hard arguments do soonest prevail Especially when we reprove or admonish not in our own but in Gods words as here the Apostle doth out of Deut. 13. Some warmth must be in a reproof but it must not be scalding hot Aegros quos potus fortis non curavit ad salutem pristinam aqua tepens revocavit saith Gregory They that could not be cured with strong potions have been recovered with warm water CHAP. VI. Verse 1. Goe to law before the unjust ALl unbelievers are 1. Void of Christs righteousnesse imputed 2. Of true civill righteousnesse as being self-seekers in all 3. They oppresse the Saints and draw them before the judgement●●ats Jam. 2.6 And not before the Saints Christians first brought their causes before the Bishops to be judged And hence grew their power as Paraeus noteth which the Christian Emperours first would not and afterwards could not take away from them This raised Papacy and Prelacy to such an height they would be Princes as well as Bishops Verse 2. Shall judge the world That is The wicked called the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea Revel 12.12 in opposition to the Burgesses of the new Jerusalem Phil. 3 20. And let this comfort

facere saith Luther I had rather obey then be able to do miracles Verse 20. Abide in the same calling And therein learn to maintain good works or to be their crafts-masters T it 3 8 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to excell in their profession Honestis functionibus praeesse as some render the Apostle there These things are good and profitable unto men Verse 21. Vse it rather Liberty is that we lost by sin and affect by nature Servus est nomen officy A servant is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that moveth absolutely of himself he is the masters instrument and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly his saith Aristotle O that we could be Gods servants in that sort Verse 22. For he that is called See a parallel place to this Jam. 1.9 10. Our preferment in Christ should make us hold up our heads but not too high and be chearfull Laeti simus in Domino sed caveamus à recidivo Bern. but not withall scornfull Verse 23. Ye are bought with a price The redeemed among the Romans were to addict themselves to the service of their Redeemers and to observe them as their parents all daies of their lives Be not ye the servants of men When they command you things forbidden by Christ or when they would tyrannize over your consciences as the Jesuites that require blinde obedience Cardinall Tolet saith Cas Co●s● l. 4. cap. 13. The people may merit at Gods hand in believing an heresie if their teacher propound it for their obedience is meritorious If a priest teach it saith Stapleton be it true be it false take it as Gods oracle If the Church should approve and authorize Arrianisme or Pelagianisme saith Erasmus I would do so too Epist ad ●irketmer But so would no wise man Verse 24. Let every man wherein c. This is the same with vers 20. The Apostle inculcateth it as we not only anoint our benummed limbs with ointments but also rub and chafe them in Verse 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I give my judgement The Rhemists after Erasmus render it counsell and thereupon ground a distinction between divine commands and counsels But the word betokens Viriboni rectum verum judicium In Arist Ethic l. 6. c. 10. saith Magirus the right and sound judgement of some good man And furely if the Apostle had no expresse command from Christ neither had he any counsell from him concerning this busines Verse 26. I suppose therefore This is his judgement his vote or verdict the first part thereof we have here the second v. 28. the third v. 35. Verse 27. Art thou bound to a wise A manifest metaphor from Oxen. Ovid Eipst Hence we call them yoke-fellows Quam male inaequales veniunt ad aratra juvenci tam premitur magno c. Dare not to yoke thy self with any untamed heifer that bears not Christs yoke Verse 28. Thou hast not sinned If any man call lawfull marriage a sinfull defilement he hath the apostate Dragon dwelling in him Epist ad Philadelph Act. and Mon. fol 790. saith Ignatius And yet the Papists teach that it is a farre greater sinne for a Priest to have a wife then to keep many harlots Such shall have trouble in the flesh Mark that he saith In the flesh the delights of wedlock will be allaied with troubles to avoid surfet Before marriage people promise themselves much happinesse in that estate and think they could live together with all delight but after they see they are deceived and therefore need to go to school to learn how to behave themselves one toward another But I spare you q. d. No more of that and yet I 'll shew you a way how you may scape or at least mitigate those troubles in the flesh Verse 29. This then I say brethren The best counsell I can give you is that you hang loose to all these outward comforts as having your selves but a while to be here You have a long task and but a little time God hath hanged the heaviest weights upon the weakest wiers for upon this moment depends eternity Castigemus igitur mores moras nostras Up therefore and be doing The time is short Gr. Contracted and roled up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as sails use to be by the mariners when the ship draws night to the harbour Others say it is a metaphor from a piece of cloth rolled up only a little left at the end So hath God rolled up all his works only he hath left a little at the end and then all his glory shall appear The time is short saith the Apostle and you have businesse enough another way therefore let other things as wiving and buying c. passe and minde the main There is water little enough to run in the right channel therefore let none run beside Some that have lain a dying would have given a world for time As I have heard saith a reverend man one crying day and night Call time again And I also have known the like of a great Lady of this Land They that have wives c. Not be uxorious sith they know not how soon God may take from them as he did from Ezekiel the delight of their eyes their dearest Spouses The Jews at this day have a custome when a couple are married to break the glasse wherein the bridegroom and bride drank thereby to admonish them of their dying condition and that there must be a parting again ere long Sphinx Philos p 4 22. Verse 30. And they that weep viz. In the losse of wife or children Let them moderate their grief as Abraham did in the losse of Sarah Gen. 23.2 He came to weep for her where the Hebrew hath one little letter extraordinary To note that Abraham wept but a little for her and this not because she was old and over-worne as the Rabbins give the reason but because he had hope of a happy resurrection 1 Thess 4.14 and because she was his still though dead therefore he so oft in that Chapter calleth her my dead v. 4 11 13 15. And they that rejoyce In the marrying of wives or birth of children The marriage-day is called the day of the rejoycing of a mans heart And when should men be merry rather then at the recovering of the lost rib Cant. 3.11 But he was too blame that said He had married a wife and therefore he could not come And he was a wiser man that said Martial Vxori nubere nolo meae As if they possessed not minde earthly things we must as if we minded them not As a man may hear a tale and have his minde elsewhere or as a man that baits at an Inne his minde is somewhere else A right believer saith one goes thorow the world Mr Ward as a man whose minde is in a deep study or as one that hath speciall haste of some weighty businesse Rebus non me trado sed

Greek imports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebrais ut Exod. 8.14 Cartwright Whereupon an Expositour noteth Ordinatim res in Ecclesia faciendae Order must be observed in the Church CHAP. XV. Verse 1. And wherein ye stand A Military term as Martyr noteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satan overthroweth the faith of some 2 Tim. 2.18 and by this very engine wherewith he assaulted these Corinthians ib. So that the Apostle was fain to make Apology v. 19. to make a barricado Verse 2. By which also ye are saved Eternall life is potentially in the word as the harvest is potentially in the seed or as the tree is in the kernell or sience Jam. 1.21 If ye keep in memory Helimiteth the promise of salvation to the condition of keeping in memory what they had heard Tantum didicimus quantum meminimus said Socrates Many have memories like nets that let go the fair water retain the filth only or like sives that keep the chaff let go the corn If God come to search them with a candle what shall he finde but old songs old wrongs c. not a promise or any sword of God hid there for things of that nature they are like Sabinus in Seneca that never in all his life could remember those three names of Homer Vlisses and Achilles But the soul should be as an holy Arke the memory like the pot of Mannah preserving holy truths Verse 3. First of all Christ is to be preached with the first as being the prora puppis of mans happinesse Joh. 16.14 It is the office of the holy Ghost to take of Christs excellencies and hold them out to the world What then should Ministers the mouth of the holy Ghost do rather Verse 4. According to the Scriptures Which both fore-shewed and fore-shadowed it in Adams waking Isaac's reviving as it were from the dead Josephs abasement and advancement Samsons breaking the bars and bearing away the gates of Gaza Davids being drawn out of the deep Daniels out of the den Ieremies out of the dungeon Ionas out of the belly of hell Mat. 12.39 c. Verse 5. Seen of Cephas Adam died and we hear no more of him But Christ shew'd himself after death in six severall apparitions for our confirmation Verse 6. Above five hundred The number of beleevers then were greater then some would gather out of Act. 1.15 Those 120 may seem to have been Chieftains such as that any one of them might have been thought meet to succeed Iudas in his Apostleship Verse 7. Seen of Iames This is not mentioned in the Gospel as neither that of Peter v. 5 Verse 8. One born out of due time Quasi malo astro abortus adversante natura coactus One that deserved to be rejected as that forlorn Infant Ezek. 16.4 5. Verse 9. I am the least of the Apostles Not come to my just bignesse as one born out of due time and not without violence Not meet to be called True humility as true balm ever sinkes to the bottom of the water when pride like oil ever swims on the top Verse 10. I laboured more abundantly See 2 Cor. 12.23 Rom. 15.19 George Eagles Martyr in Q. Maries daies for his great pains in travelling from place to place to confirm the brethren was sirnamed Act. and Mon. fol. 1823. Trudge over the world Might not St Paul have been fitly so sirnamed Not I but the grace of God So those good servants Luke 19.16 Not we but thy talents have gained other five and other two c. Let God have the entire praise of all our good Verse 11. So we preach and so ye beleeved A happy compliance when the hearers affections and endeavours doe answer the affections and endeavours of the preacher as here and at Ephesus Act. 20 31-37 When people deliver themselves up to the forme of doctrine Rom. 6.17 and are cast into the mould of the Word Verse 12. No resurrection More then that of regeneration Math. 19.28 that estate of the Gospel called a new heaven and a new earth 2 Pet. 3.13 the world to come Heb. 2.5 that resurrection already past ● Tim. 2.18 that first resurrection Revel 20.5 Verse 13. Then is not Christ risen But of Christs resurrection there were many both living and dead Witnesses as the earth-quake empty grave stone rolled away cloathes wrapt up c. Verse 14. Then is our preaching vain Never was there any such imposture put upon the world as Christianity if Christ be yet in the grave Verse 15. False witnesses of God For they might safely say with Ieremy Lord if we be deceived thou hast deceived us Verse 16. Then is not Christ raised And so Gods decree is cassated Act. 13.33 with Psal 2.7 Verse 17. Ye are yet in your sins Rom. 4.25 If he had not been let out of prison our debt had remained upon us But God sent his Angel to roul away the stone as the Judge sends an officer to fetch one out of prison and to release him And this is the strength of our Saviours reason Ioh. 16.10 The Spirit shall convince the world of righteousnesse that I am Jehovah their righteousnesse because I go to the Father which I could not have done unlesse you were acquitted of all your sins Verse 18. A sleep in Christ The Germanes call the Church-yard Godsaker because the bodies are sowed therein to be raised again The Greeks call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sleeping-houses The Hebrews call the grave Bothchaijm the house of the living Iob cals it the Congregation-house of all living Job 30.23 As the Apostle cals heaven the Congregation-house of the first-born Heb. 12.23 Verse 19. Most miserable Because none out of hell ever suffered more then the Saints have done Verse 20. The first fruits c. As in the first-fruits offered to God the Jews were assured of Gods blessing on the whole harvest so by the resurrection of Christ our resurrection is ensured Verse 21. By man came also c. Gods justice would be satisfied in the same nature that had sinned Verse 22. Shall all be made alive The Saints shall be raised by vertue of the union with Christ to glory the wicked shall be dragged to his tribunall by his Almighty power as a Judge to be tumbled thence into hell-torment Verse 13. At his coming As in the mean time their very dust is precious the dead bodies consumed are not so destroied but that there is a substance preserved by a secret influence proceeding from Christ as a head Hence they are said to be dead in Christ who by rotting refineth them Verse 24. Delivered up the Kingdome Not his essentiall kingdome as God but his oeconomicall as Mediatour Verse 25. Till he hath put And after too but 1. Without adversaries 2. Without any outward means and ordinances Verse 26. That shall be destroied It is already to the Saints swallowed up in victory so that they may say to it as Jacob did to Esau Surely

in April both wholsome roots and poisonable discover themselves Macar Hom 12. which in the winter were not seen so at the day of judgement good and evil actions The things done in his body That is Bernard the just reward of those things In die judicy plus valebit conscientia pura quam marsupia plena Then shall a good conference be more worth then all the worlds good And this was that that made Paul so sincere a Preacher and so insatiable a server of God as Chrysostome calleth him Whether it be good or bad Wicked men shall give an account 1. Debonis commissis Of goods committed to them 2. De bodis dimissis of good neglected by them 3. De malis commissis of evils committed 4. De malis permissis of evils done by others suffered by them Itaque vivamus saith the Oratour Cic. 4 in Ver. Let us so live as those that must render an account of all Verse 11. Knowing therefore the terrour c. What a terrible time it will be with the wicked who shall in vain tire the deaf mountains with their hideous out-cries to fall upon them c. We perswade men To slee from the wrath to come to repent and be converted that their sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come Act. 3.19 We speak persuasively to this purpose but it is God only that perswades Verse 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which glory in appearance Gr. In the face Hypocrites as they repent in the face Mat. 6.16 so they rejoyce in the face not in the heart Their joy is but skin-deep it is but the hypocrisie of mirth they do not laugh but grin their hearts ake many times when their faces counterfeit a smile Their mirth is frothy and flashy such as smooths the brow but fils not the brest such as wets the mouth but warms not the heart Verse 13. It is to God i. e. When to the world we seem mad of pride and vain-glory yet then we respect only Gods glory It is for your sakes i. e. For your learning that we are more modest and sparing in commending our Apostleship It is a good rule Quicquid agas propter Deum agas Doe all for Gods sake Verse 14. The love of Christ c. As reward hath an attractive and punishment an impulsive so love hath a compulsive faculty This love of Christ had so closed in S. Paul so hemmed him in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and begirt him round that his adversaries reported him a mad man as vers 13. he erred in love toward his sweet Saviour and even exhaled his blessed soul in continuall sallies as it were and expressions of his dear affection to the Lord Jesus Then were all dead All the body suffered in and with Christ the head and so are freed by his death Heb. 2.9 as if themselves in person had died Verse 15. Should not hence forth Servati sumus ut serviamus The redeemed among the Romans were to observe and honour those that ransomed them as parents all their daies Verse 16. No man after the flesh i. e. We esteem no man simply the better or worse for his wealth poverty honour ignominy or any thing outward See jam 1.9 10 11. Thomas Wats Martyr spake thus at his death to his wife and children Wife and my good children I must now depart from you Act. and Mon. fol 1450. therefore henceforth know I you no more but as the Lord hath given you to me so I give you again to him whom I charge you see that ye obey c. Though we have known Christ As possibly Paul might have known Christ in the flesh for Jesus of Nazareth was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people Luk. 24. 19. Austin wished that he might have seen three things Rome flourishing Paul preaching Christ conversing with men upon earth Bede comes after and correcting this last wish faith yea but let me see the King in his beauty Christ in his heavenly kingdome Paul was so spiritualized that he took knowledge of nothing here below he passed thorow the world as a man in a deep muse or that so looks for a lost jewell that he overlooks all besides it Verse 17. Is a new creature Either a new man or no man in Christ All things are become new The substance of the soul is the same the qualities and operations altered In regeneration our natures are translated not destroied no not our constitution and complexion As the melancholy man doth not cease to be so after conversion only the humour is sanctified to a fitnesse for godly sorrow holy meditation c. so of other humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 18. And all things are of God He is both authour and finisher of our faith the God of all grace the Father of all lights c. And hath given to us the Ministery He hath taken this office from the Angels those first preachers of peace Luk. 2.10 14. The Angel told Cornelius his praiers were heard in heaven but for the doctrine of reconciliation he refers him to Peter Act. 10. Verse 19. That God was in Christ c. As the salt-waters of the sea when they are strained thorow the earth they are sweet in the rivers so saith one the waters of Majesty and Justice in God though terrible yet being strained and derived thorow Christ they are sweet and delightfull Verse 20. Emb●ssadours for Christ And therefore sacred persons not to be violated on pain of Gods heavy displeasure Do my Prophets no harm As though God did beseech you Gods grace even kneels to us En flexanimam Suadae medullam Who can turn his back upon such blessed and bleeding embracements Verse 21. To be sin for us That is a sin-offering or an exceeding sinner as Exod. 29.14 So Christ was 1. By imputation for our sins were made to meet upon him as that Evangelicall Prophet hath it See Aug. Enchirid c. 41. Isa 53 6. And secondly By reputation for he was reckoned among malefactours ibid. And yet one Augustinus de Roma Archbishop of Nazareth was censured in the Councel of Basil for affirming that Christ was peccatorum maximus the greatest of sinners Christ so loved us saith one that he endured that which he most hated to become sin for us he was made sin passive in himself to satisfie for sin active in us and the want of that which was more worth then a world to him the sense of Gods favour for a time Ama amorem illius c. saith Bernard Who knew no sinne That is With a practicall knowledge with an intellectuall he did else he could not have reproved it We know no more then we practise Christ is said to know no sin because he did none That we might be made c. As Christ became sin not by sin inherent in him but by our sin imputed to him so are we made the

5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which we have done We that are bankrupts in Adam would yet fain be doing and think to be saved for a company of poor b●ggarly duties as bankrupts will be trading again though but for pins c. But according to his mercy God is not merchant his kingdom is not partum but paratum He that said Coelum grat is non accipiam I will not have heaven on free cost Vega. went without it Verse 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which he shed Gr. Poured out as it were by pail fuls his spirit the best thing upon all flesh the basest thing Joel 2.28 Verse 7. Be made heirs Not purchasers all is of free grace Horreo quicquid de meo est ut sim meus Paul was a most constant preacher of grace Bernard Augustin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 8. That thou affirm constantly Be well setled in it thy self and avouch and averre it confidently to others being ready to make it good if questioned Be carefull Bend their wits and beat their brains 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To maintain good ●orks To exceed and excell others in their honest functions and faculties 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch to be their crases-masters to bear away the bell from all that are of the same trade or profession This was Tully's study to be best at any thing he ever undertook should it not then be a believers Verse 9. But foolish questions Such as is that of the Papists whether an asse drinking at the font do drink the water of baptisme and so may be said to be baptized Est quaestio digna asinis saith Melancthon Such questionists are as Stapleton saith of Bodin magninugatores great triflers Verse 10. A man that is an berotike All heresies are found to flow saith Chemnitius Loc com part loc 2. either from the supercilious pride of Samosatenus or from the sophistry of Arrius or from the ignorance of Aetius These mens wit will better serve them to devise a thousand shifts to elude the truth then their pride will suffer them once to yeeld and acknowledge it And here this rule of St Paul takes place Nestorius was an unlearned and proud man but very bold and well-spoken Insomuch as thereby he oft carried it and so seduced the Emperour Theodosius as that Cyril a very good Bishop was thrown out of his place Zanch Mise epist dedicat Howbeit he was afterwards restored again with honour when the Emperour had better bethought himself and the heretike Nectorius was condemned and cast out Verse 11. Condemned of himself Sith as a head-strong horse he gets the bit between his teeth and runs away Thus did the Pharisees Totiès puncti puncti minimè tamen Ad resipiscentiam compuncti as one saith They shut the windows lest the light should come in Verse 12. Come unto me to Nicopolis The inhabitants of this City are said so to have hated the braying of an Asse that they would not endure to hear the found of a trumpet So some pretend such an hatred of hypocrisie that they will not abide the profession of piety Verse 13. That nothing be wanting Those that labour in the Lords work must have all necessary accommodations and encouragements They must be set forth and brought forward on their journey and in their negotiations worthy of God 3 Joh. 6. Deductione honorifie â Act. 15 3. 20.38 21.5 A Balaam will not deal hardly with his Asse if once he perceive the Lord to be in him and to speak by him Shall we deal unworthily with Gods Ministers in whom God is of a truth 1 Cor. 14.25 and hath given unto them the ministery of reconciliation 2 Cor. 5.18 Verse 14. To maintain good works See the Note on Verse 8. of this Chapter That they be not unfruitfull As drone-Bees or body-lice living upon others labours and so opening the mouths of Heathens who will be ready to say as he once did Odi homines ignavâ operâ philosophâ sontentiâ Verse 15. That love us in the faith That best ligament of love The Church is the only daughter of her mother and is called Ecclesia of calling all hers together Religion hath its name of binding because it binds men all in a bundle and makes them be of one heart and of one soul Act. 4.32 to serve the Lord with one shoulder Zeph. 39. to glorifie God with one minde and with one mouth Rom. 15.6 there being no such onenesse in the world as among true believers A COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION Vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to PHILEMON Verse 1. Paul a prisoner c. THis is a notable Epistle and full of worth Plena roboris lacertoruoa est tota episto●a each word having its weight each syllable its substance From an abject subject the receiving of a run-away servant St Paul soars like an heavenly Eagle and flies an high pitch of heavenly discourse Elocutine totâ gravis brevis densus sentent●●s sanus judiciis c. as Lipsius saith of Thucydides Lips not ad Po● lit l. 1. c. 9. may we say of our Apostle Our dearly beloved Or Our lovely one as Hierome renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dil●g●bi●i And fellow-labourer This shews say some that Philemon was a Minister of the Gospel Verse 2. And to our beloved Apphia For Appia but this was the manner of pronunciation at Tarsus S. Pauls countrey This Apphia was saith Theodoret Philemons wife whose good-will might make much to the furtherance of S. Pauls suit And Archippus our fellow-souldier Who seems to have sojourned with Philemon See the Note on Col. 4.17 And to the Church in thy house Every Christian family is a Church But Phil mons house was belike a publike meeting house and so continued for many years after as Theodoret witnesseth Verse 3. Grace to you c. See the Note on 1 Co● 1.3 and on 2 Cor. 1.2 Verse 4. I thank my God Thus the Apostle begins most of his Epistles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As any man is more or lesse gracious so is he thankfull The same Greek word for grace signifieth thankfulnesse Neither is these any think that seals up more comfort to the soul then for a man to be able from the bottome of his heart to praise God Self-love may make an hypocrite pray from the bottome of his heart c. Verse 5. Hearing of thy love and faith Love is first mentioned as more notice But faith is the mother grace the womb wherein love and all the rest of that heavenly of-spring are conceived Verse 6. That the communication c. This is that which S. Paul praid for Philemon ver 4. For the fifth verse comes in by a parenthesis Verse 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The bowels of the Saints are refreshed Gr. Rested as it were after much toil and travels which made their hearts ake Verse 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

shrike horribly Act. 16.29 Mar. 6.49 Their hearts ake and quake within them and shall any man mock at Gods menaces Verse 20. But wilt thou know Interrogatio docturientis saith Piscator A question made by one that is desirous to teach Verse 21. Justified by works sc Declarativè in foro humano but not before God Rom. 3.2 It is saith that justifieth the man but they are works that justifie faith to be right and reall saving and justifying Verse 22 Wrought with his works Or Was a help to his works and was her own midwife to bring them forth of her self into the open light Heb. 11.17 Was faith made perfect That is Declared to be operative and effectuall Verse 23. And it was imputed See the Note on Gen. 15.6 on Rom. 4.3 and on Gal 3.6 The friend of God A very high stile If Eusebius held it such an honour to be the friend of Pamphilus and Sir Fulk Greevill Lord Brook to be friend to Sr Philip Sidney causing it to be so engraven upon his tomb What is it to be the friend of God And yet such honour have all the Saints Verse 24. By works a man is justified Declaratively as by faith apprehensively by God effectively Verse 25. The Messengers Gr. The Angels so Luk. 7.24 Act. 12.15 See the Notes there Verse 26. As the body c. Yet is not charity the soul of faith but the vitall spirit only CHAP. III. Verse 1. Be not many masters MAster 's of opinions that boldly obtrude upon others their own placits and will not have them disputed or debated Praesat in●● Sent. Est ipsissimum Dei verbum Hosius Such are the Sorbonists who rejoyce to be called Magistri notri Parisienses our Masters of Paris Bacon the Carmelite was called Doctor resolutissimus because he would endure no guessing or may be 's The Popes parasites perswade the people that what interpretation soever he gives of Scripture be it right or wrong it is without further triall to be received as the very word of God Verse 2. For in many things c. This is Euphormio Triste mortulitatis privilegium the sad priviledge of man-kinde as one phraseth it to have leave to offend sometimes Every Pomgranate hath at least one rotten grain within it said Crates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And it is the honour of God alone to be perfect saith Plato Hierom pronounceth a curse upon him that shall say that the fulfilling of the whole law is impossible to any But Patres legendi eum venia Hierome was out in this and too blame A perfect man That is A prudent man Ps 37.30 31. Verse 3. That they may obey us Horses ass●s camels elephants God in great wisdome for the use of man hath made without galls that they might with the more ease be made tame and serviceable Verse 4. Whither soever the governour Johnston de Nat. constant Peterent coelum navibus Belgae si navibus petiposset saith one Verse 5. Boasteth great things Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It doth magnifically lift upit self as an untamed horse doth his head It exalts it self and exults of great things It walketh thorow the earth and faceth the very heavens Psal 73.9 It can run all the world over and bite at every body being as a sharp rasour that doth deceit that instead of shaving the hair cutteth the throat Psalms 52.2 Verse 6. A world of iniquity A new found world Not a city or a countrey only but a world of iniquity a sink a sea of sin wherein there is not only that Leviathan but creeping things innumerable The course of nature Gr. Ps●l 104.46 The wheel of our nativity Their breath as fire devoureth Isa 33.10 And it is set on fire of hell That is of the devil called elswhere the gates of hell as the holy Ghost on the other side set on sire the Apostles tongues with zeal that flame of God Cant 86. Act. 2.3 Evil speech is the devils drivell a slanderer carries the devils pack Verse 7. For every kinde of beasts c. See the Note on Heb. 2.7 Verse 8. But the tongue c. Where then are our Justiciaries with their pretended perfection Davids heart deceived him Psal 39.1 I said I will look to my waies I will bridle my tongue But presently after he shews how soon he brake his word My heart was hot c. and I spake with my tongue Pambus in the ecclesiasticall history could never take out that one lesson read him out of Psal 39.1 An unruly evil There be but five vertues of the tongue reckoned by Philosophers But there are 24. severall sinnes of the tongue as Peraldus recounteth them The Arabians have a proverb Cave ne feriat lingua tua collum tuum Take heed thy tongue cut not thy throat An open mouth is oft a purgatory to the master Verse 9. Therewith blesse we God And so make our tongues our glory Therewith curse we men Yea the best of men as Co●e and his complices fear not to object to Moses the meek with one breath pride ambition and usurpation of authority Verse 10. Out of the same mouth As it did once out of the mouth of Pope Julius the second who in the battle of Ravenna on Easter-day between him and the French as he sate by the fire reading of his praiers Annal Gallic and having news of the defeat he slung away his book saying Sit ergo gallus in nomine diabolorum The devil take the French Is not this that mouth that speaketh great things and blasphemies Rev. 13.5 Verse 11. Doth a f●untain send forth The fountain or rather the botch of sensuall and sinfull pleasure doth Sin is a bitter-sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the poison of aspes which first tickleth and then killeth All creature comforts are dulcis acerbitas saith one Tertull. Amarissima voluptas saith another Principium dulce est at finis amor is amarus Leata venire Venus tristis abire solet Verse 12. Both yeeld salt water and fresh That is strange that is reported of the rivers of Peru that after they have run into the main sea yea some write 20 or 30 miles Abbots his Geog. they keep themselves unmixt with the salt water so that a very great way within the sea men may take up as fresh water as if they were near the land But that is as sure as strange that an eye witnesse reporteth of the Danuby and Sava two great rivers in Hungary that their waters meeting mingle no more then water and oyl Blunts vo●age p. 10. so that near the middle of the river I have gone in a boat saith mine authour and tasted of the Danuby as clear and pure as a well then putting my hand not an inch further I have taken of the Sava as troubled is a street-channel tasting the gravel in my teeth Thus they run 60 miles together c. Verse 13. Who is a