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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Title: 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.
Author: Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
Publication: 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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q. d. Deal not unfaithfully in the ministry: conceal not the truth in unrighte∣ousnes, betray not the cause of God by a cowardly silence. For (whatsoever you may plausibly plead and pretend for your false∣play) all shall out at length: and well it shall appear to the world, that you served not the Lord Christ, but your own turnes upon Christ: and, so your selves might sleep in a whole skin, let what would become of his cause and kingdome. Fearfull men are the first in that black bill, Reve. 21. 8. And God equally hateth the ti∣morous as the treacherous.