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 9. But in vain doe they worship me]

For they loose their labour, and which is worse, they commit sinne. Di∣spleasing service is double dishonour, as dissembled sanctity is double iniquity.

Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men]

So do Papists.* 1.1 The Pope can do all things that Christ can do, saith Hostiensis. He* 1.2 can of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 make righteousnesse, saith Bellarmine, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉,* 1.3 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of nothing, something. His determinations are ipsissimum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 verbum, the very word of God, saith Hosius. Murders, trea∣sons, thefts, &c. ther's no command of the morall Law, but they can dispence with it; but none of their ceremoniall Law. Let God, say they, look to the breach of his own Law, we will look to ours. Heathen Socrates and Cicero, shall rise up against* 1.4 these Pseudochristians, and condemn them. God, said Socrates, will be worshipped with that kinde of worship only which him∣self* 1.5 hath commanded. He will not be worshipped, said Cicero, with superstition, but with piety.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Host c. 4.
• * 1.2

  Bellar. de pont.
• * 1.3

  Rom. l. 4.
• * 1.4

  Socrat. ap. Xe. nophon.
• * 1.5

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 non super∣stitione coli 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pietate.