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 29. Ye do erre, not knowing]

Ignorance is a breeder.

All sins are seminally 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ignorance. S. Paul thanks it for all his* 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 1 Tim. 1. 13. Aristole makes it the mother of all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the world. All heresies, saith Chemnitius are known to have proceeded, Velex 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 velex 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dialectica, velex AEtij 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, from 〈◊〉〈◊〉, sophistry, or ignorance.

Nor the power of God]

Who can as easily raise the dead, as he did at first create them. This the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with all their learning, understood not: and therefore counted all that S. Paul could say to* 1.2 it bibble babble, because he preached Jesus, and Anastasis, or the re∣surrection, which they took to be some strange goddesse, Act. 17. 18, 19. They saw not how there could possibly be a regresse from a privation to an habit. Neither can any of us see it, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 God by his spirit of revelation, give us to know what is the exceed∣ing greatnes of his power, according to the working of his migh∣ty power, which he wrought in raising Christ, and us by him, Eph. 1. 19, 20. where it is easie to observe a six-fold gradation in the o∣riginall, and all to set forth the power of God, in Christs and our resurrection.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Arist 〈◊〉〈◊〉. l. 3 Chem. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. 2.
• * 1.2

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