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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Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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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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Verse 45. They 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that he spake of them]

Who told them

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so, but their own guilty consciences? Every man hath a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Chaplain within his own bosome, that preacheth over the Sermon to him again, and comes over him with, Thou art the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Conscience is said to accuse or excuse in the mean while,* 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 2. 15. In the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 betwixt 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Sermon, convicti∣on and conviction. So that personall and nominall application is therefore needlesse, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 every man hath a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 faculty within him, applying severall truths to every mans particular 〈◊〉〈◊〉. And, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gener 〈◊〉〈◊〉 de 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 est, ibi 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉, saith 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Where the discourse against vice is 〈◊〉〈◊〉, no man can justly complain of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 personall injury. By 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Christ many times smites the earth, Isa. 11. 4. that is, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of carnal men glued to the earth, Gods words 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them full in the teeth, and makes them spit 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Now if they rage, as Tygres tear themselves at the noise of a drum, if they flee in the faces of their teachers, and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 upon them, they 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 cast into a 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 escape the visible 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of God.

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