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.

And are come to worship him]

With a religious worship: to kisse at his mouth, as the word signifieth: and as Pharaoh said to* 1.1 Ioseph, they shall all kisse at thy mouth. Wo worth to us, if we kisse not the Son with a kisse of faith and love: sith he is now so* 1.2 clearly revealed unto us, not by the sight of one star only, as to these, but by a whole Heaven bespangled with stars, though not in every part, yet in every zone and quarter of it, as one saith of our Church. We have a word of Prophecy (how much more is this true of the holy Gospel?) more sure 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that came from Heaven* 1.3 in the holy mount (saith S^t Peter,) whereunto we shall do well

to take heed, as unto a light shining in a darke place. Besides the works of God, those Regij professores, as one calleth them, those Catholike Preachers, Psal. 19. 2, 3. those reall Postilles of the Di∣vinity; Christ is purposely compared to sensible objects, as to the Sun, Stars, Rose, Rock, &c. that through the creatures, as so many Optick glasses, we might see him that is invisible, having the eyes of our minde turned toward Christ, as the face of the Cherubims were toward the Mercy-seat.

Notes

• * 1.1

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• * 1.2

  Psal. 3.
• * 1.3

  〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. 1. 15.