A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: 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. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.

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A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: 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. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.
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Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
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London, :: Printed by A.M. for John Bellamie, at the sign of the three golden-Lions near the Royall-Exchange,
M.DC.XLVII. [1647]
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: 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. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63067.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Verse 14. And whosoever shall not receive you]

Two sure signes of reprobate goats, 1. Not to receive Christs Ministers to house and harbour, accounting themselves happy in such an enter∣tainment. 2. Not to hear their words. The most good is done by Gods Ministers commonly at first coming. Then some receive the word with admiration, others are daily more and more hardned:

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as fish, though fearfull, stir not at the great noise of the sea, where∣unto they are accustomed: and as birds that build in a belfree, star∣tle not at the tolling of the bell.

Shake off the dust of your feet]

In token that you sought not theirs, but them, and that you will not carry away so much as any of their accursed dust: that you will not have any communion at all with them, wait no longer upon them: that the dust of those feet (that should have been beautifull) shall be fatall and ferall to them; that God shall hence-forward beat them here as small as dust with his heavy judgements, as with an iron-mace, and that hereafter he shall shake them off as dust, when they come to him for* 1.1 salvation, at the last judgement.

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