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. But whom say ye that I am?]

q. d. It behoveth you to say something, that is, better to the purpose, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the vulgar saith and censureth. God will take that of some that he will not of others. Christ would not have his to stand doubtfull, and to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to nothing certainly: to be in religion as idle beggars are in their way, ready to go which way soever the staff 〈◊〉〈◊〉: but to strive to a plerophory, a full assurance of knowledge, a certain∣ty, as Luke hath it, chap. 1. 4. and to be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 perswaded, vers. 1. A conjecturall confidence, a generall faith, the Colliers faith, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 they call it, sufficeth not, To believe as the Church believes, &c. And yet Thomas Aquinas, that great Schoolman had no better a

faith to support him at the last hour of his life: nor could he have any rest within, till he had taken up the Bible, and clipping it in his arms, said, Lord, I believe all that is written in this holy book.