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 7. Woe to the world, because of offences]

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pro∣priè* 1.1 tendicula, hoc est, lignum illud curvum, quo moto decipula claudi∣tur. The world, besides the ••ff••nces they give to the Saints, they give and take much hurt one from another, and so heap up wrath; whiles, besides their own, they bring upon themselves their other mens sins to answer for. I have read of a woman, who living in* 1.2 professed doubt of the God-head, after better illumination and re∣pentance, did often protest that the vitious life of a great scholar in

that town did conjure up those damnable doubts in her soul. When therefore corruption boiles, and thou art ready to run into some reproachfull evil, think the name of Christ, and thy poor brothers soul lies prostrate before thee. And wilt thou trample upon that, and thrattle this?

It must needs be that offences come]

By Gods permission, Sa∣tans* 1.3 malice, and mans wickednes: Venenum aliquando pro remedio f••it. God oft draws good out of evil, as wine draws a nourishing vertue from the flesh of serpents: as the skilfull Apothecary, of the poisonfull viper, maketh an wholesome triacle, 1 Cor. 11. 19.

Notes

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• * 1.2

  M Wards hap∣pinesse of para∣dise.
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  Senec. de benif. lib. 2. cap. 18.