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 24. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Moses said]
They pretend Scripture: so did the devil, Mat. 4. So do heretikes all; Sed sensum afferunt, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, but they fetch not the meaning from the Scripture, but 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a sense (even that of their own devising) on the Scri∣pture: Cadem 〈◊〉〈◊〉 faciunt ad materiam 〈◊〉〈◊〉, saith 〈◊〉〈◊〉, They taw the text, as Shoemakers do their over-leathers, saith Polydor Virgil, that they may bring them to serve their 〈◊〉〈◊〉: They lay the dead childe of their own corrupt glosses in the bosom of holy Scripture, and then cry out, It is hers, and not 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
If a man die, having no children]
This Law these Sadduces* 1.1〈◊〉〈◊〉 to approve, when indeed they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it, as the mother of much 〈◊〉〈◊〉 confusion, if there ever be a resurrection. So deals the devil and his Janizaries (〈◊〉〈◊〉 I should say) at this day, by both Scriptures and Fathers, whom they 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 or 〈◊〉〈◊〉, further then they serve their turn, to confirm their 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 up seed 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉]
Our children are a principall part
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of our selves, even the seed; as though now there were nothing left in us, but the chaff.