Verse 19. Take no thought how, or what ye shall speak]
Be not anxious about either matter or manner of your apology for your
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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"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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selves. Ye shall be supplied from on high both with invention and elocution. Demosthenes, that great Oratour, was many times 〈◊〉〈◊〉, when he spake to King Philip, and sometimes so amated that he had not a word more to say. Moses, that great scholar, feared he should want words when he was to stand before Pharaoh, and professeth, that since God had called him to that service, he found lesse freedom of speech then before. Latomus of Lovain, a very learned man, having prepared an eloquent Oration to Charles the fifth Emperour, was so confounded in the delivering of it, that he came off with great discredit, and fell into utter despair. No won∣der therefore though the Apostles, being ignorant and unlettered men, were somewhat troubled how to doe when brought before Kings and Kesars. Our Saviour here cures them of that care, by a promise of helpe from heaven: And they had it, Acts 2. & 4. & 5. & 7. And so had the Confessours and Martyrs in all ages of the Church. Nescio unde veniunt istae meditationes, saith Luther of* 1.1 himself in a letter to his friend. And in his book of the Babylonish captivity he professeth, that whether he would or no, he became every day more learned then other. How bravely did Anne As∣kew, Alice Dri••er, and other poor women answer the Doctours, and put them to a nonplus? Was not that the spirit of the Father speaking in them?
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