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. -- Gospels -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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 1, 2024.
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And the deceitfulnesse of riches]
The world is a subtill, sly e∣nemy,* 1.1 that doth easily insinuate and dangerously deceive. We may safely say of it, as he sometimes did of an Historian, Both it's words and shews are full of fraud. As the Panther hides his de∣formed head, till the sweet sent have drawn other beasts into his danger: so deals the world, alluring men by the deceitfulnesse of riches, and masking the monstrous and deformed head, the end thereof, under the gilded shew of good husbandry, or dis∣guised shape of sin. In a word, these outward things, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as hosts they welcome us into our Inne with smiling countenance, yet, unlesse we look better to them, they will cut our 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in our beds.
Notes
* 1.1
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. de Herodoto.