He had a good minde to hea∣ven, and cheapens it, but was not willing to go to the price of it, that thorow-sale of all: Good desires may be found in hell∣mouth, as in Balaam, some short-winded wishes at least. The Spyes praised the land as pleasant and plenteous, but they held the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 impossible, and thereby discouraged the people. Many like well of Abrahams bosom, but not so well of Dives his door. They seek to Christ, but when he saith, Take up the Crosse and follow me: they stumble at the crosse and felt backward. Their desires 〈◊〉〈◊〉 heaven are lazy and sluggish, like the door that turnes upon the hinges, but yet hangs still on them: so these Wishers, and Woul∣ders, for all their faint and weake desires after heaven, still hang fast on the hinges of their sinnes: they will not be wrought off* 1.1 from the things of this world, they will not part with their fitnesse and sweetnesse, though it be to raigne for ever. Iudg. 9. 11. Theatinus in S t Ambrose would rather loose his sight then his sinne of intemperance: so many, their soules.
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.
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- 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.
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- Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
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- London, :: Printed by A.M. for John Bellamie, at the sign of the three golden-Lions near the Royall-Exchange,
- M.DC.XLVII. [1647]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63067.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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