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.

Verse 1. He departed thence to teach, &c.]

NEver out of action: the end of one good work was with our Saviour the beginning of another. So must it be with Mi∣nisters: let them 〈◊〉〈◊〉 look to rest, till they come to heaven: but (as S. Paul, that Insatiabilis Deicultor, as Chrysostom called him) teach Gods people publikely and from house to house, 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.1 warning every one night and day with tears, Dr 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.2 Martyr, preached not only every Sabbath-day and holy-day,* 1.3 but whensoever else he could get the people together. So did Bishop Ridley, Bishop Jewell, &c. So did not their successours, once a year was fair with many of them, (like the high-Priest 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Law) as if they had concurred in opinion with that Popish Bishop, that said, It was too much for any man, to preach every Sunday, and that Bishops were not ordained to preach: but to* 1.4 sing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sometimes, leaving all other offices to their 〈◊〉〈◊〉.* 1.5 It is as rare a thing at Rome, said Doctour Bassinet, to hear a Bi∣shop preach, as to see an Asse flee. Oh what will these 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.6 〈◊〉〈◊〉 when 〈◊〉〈◊〉 riseth up? and when he visiteth, how

will they answer him? See my true Treasure, pag. 2, 4.

To preach in their Cities]

That is in the Cities of his twelve Disciples, in the causes of Galilee, while they were doing the same in Iury. Maldonat the Jesuite will not have this to be the* 1.7 sense of this text, and only because it is the sense that the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (as he calls the Protestants) set on it. A goodly thing he holds it to dissent from them, though in a manifest truth. So George Duke of Saxony was heard to say: Though I am not igno∣rant, that heresies and abuses are crept into the Church: Yet I will never obey the Gospel that Luther preacheth. For hatred* 1.8 to the man, he would not hearken to the truth he taught. This is to have the faith of Christ in respect of persons, J am. 2. 1.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Act. 10. 20, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.2

  Act. and Mon.
• * 1.3

  sol. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.4

  Act. and 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.5

  sol. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.6

  Job 31. 14.
• * 1.7

  〈◊〉〈◊〉, inquit, est 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.8

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lect. in Hag∣geum. pag. 41.