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.

Jesus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Peter James and John]

So Matth. 9. when he raised the damosell he took with him these three only: haply as best beloved, because bold: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, more zealous then the rest: or the better to fit them for further triall: great feelings oft precede great afflictions. Howsoever, it is no small favour of God to make us witnesses of his great works, and so let us take it. As all Israel might see Moses go toward the Rock of Rephidim: None but the Elders might see him strike it. That God 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his Sonne before us, that he fetcheth the true water of life out of the Rock in our sight, is an high prerogative. And no lesse surely, that we are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 transported in prayer, carried out of the bo∣dy in divine meditation, and lost in the endlesse maze of spirituall ravishments; that we returne from the publike ordinances as Moses did from the mount, with our faces shining; that we are transfigured and transformed into the same image from glory to glory, and that the Angell of the covenant doth wondrously, du∣ring the time of the sacrifice, whiles Manoah and his wife look on, &c. These are speciall priviledges communicated to none but the communion of Saints.