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 15. For this peoples heart, &c.]

A fat heart is a fear∣full plague. Their heart is fat as grease, but I delight in thy law, Psal. 119 70. None can delight in Gods law that are fat hearted. Feeding cattel we know, are most brutish and blockish. And Phy∣fiognomers observe, that a full and fat heart, betokens a dull and doltish disposition. Eglons fat paunch would not part with the ponyard: and Pliny tells of bears so fat that they felt not the tharpest prickles.

Their ears are dull of hearing]

So were the believing Hebrews,* 1.1 for the which they are much taxed and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by the Apostle. Surdaster erat M Crassus: sed illud pejus, quid malè audiebat,* 1.2 saith Tully. These here hear very ill, for their no better hearing.* 1.3

Their eies they have closed]

Or they wink hard with their eies: they shut the windowes lest the light should come in: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 liberiùs peccent libentèr ignorant, they do not, what they might, toward the work.* 1.4

Lest at any time they should see]

See we may here (in that which they should have seen and done) the right order of repen∣tance to salvation, never to be repented of. The blinde eie is o∣pened, the deaf eare unstopped, the dull heart affected, &c. God first puts his lawes into mens mindes, that they may know them, and then writes the same in their hearts, that they may have the comfort, feeling and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of them: And then it is, I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people Heb. 8. 10.

Notes

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