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.

Claudicat ingenium, delir at lingua{que}, mens{que}.

It is as impossible to comprehend heavens joyes, as to compasse the heaven with a span, or contain the Ocean in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉. No wonder then though Peter cry out, it is good being here: Or it is better being here then at 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (〈◊〉〈◊〉 S^t Chrysostom senleth it) whither our Saviour had said he must go, and suffer many things of the Elders, and be killed, &c. That S^t Peter liked not; but would build here rather. All men would have heaven, but not the rough way that leads to it: they would enter into Paradise but not through that narrow portall of afflictions: they would sit in the seat of honour with Zebedees children, but not drink of Christs cup, much lesle be baptized with his baptisme, that is, be dowzed over head and eares in the waters of miseries. They would feed on manchet, tread on roses, and come to heaven, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 at sea do many times to the haven, whiles they are sleeping, or before they are a ware. But this is no lesse a folly then a delicacy, thus to think to divide between Christ and his crosse, to pull a rose with∣out pricks, to have heaven without hardship.