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 17. Not come down to take any thing]

See here the mi∣series of war, which now, alas, we feel and can 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to; being glad to flee for our lives with the losse of all, lest with 〈◊〉〈◊〉, seeking to save our goods, we lose 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and all; glad if we may 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with the skin of our teeth: And how like 〈◊〉〈◊〉 our present 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to end in a deadly consumption! Warre is called evil by a specialty, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 45. 7. Sin, Satan, and war have all one 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Evil is the best of them. The best of sin is deformity, of Satan 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of war misery. God yet offereth us mercy, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 did those he warred against, whiles the lamp burned. O let us break off our sins by repentance, and be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in it, lest we should seem to come 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Heb. 4. 1.