The Vulturine Eagles especi∣ally, whereof read Job 39. 29, 30. they follow armies, and feed on carcasses. Eagles the Saints are called, 1. For their delight in high flying. 2. For their sharp sightednesse, and stedfast look∣ing into the Sun of righteousnesse. 3. For their singular sagaci∣ty, in smelling out Christ, and resenting things above, for the which they are said to have, A nose like the tower of Lebanon.* 1.1 4. For their feeding upon the bloudy sacrifice of Christ, the true carcasse. Briefly this proverbiall speech may be well understood, either of the conflux of the godly to the light and liberty of the Gospel, or else of their indissoluble union with Christ, to be per∣fectly enjoyed at the resurrection. For the sense of it is, that let the devil use what means so ever he can by his emissaries the false∣prophets, to divide betwixt Christ and his people, by telling them, There be is, or here he is, it will not be: for they will flee to him as a cloud, or as the Doves to their windows, Isa. 60. 8. Nay, as the Eagles to their carcasse, with incredible swiftnesse; so forci∣ble is the tie that is betwixt them, that they will not be kept a∣sunder. The Israelites removed their tents from Mithcah, which signifies sweetnesse, to Cashmonah, which signifies swiftnesse, Numb. 33. 29. To teach us (saith a Divine) that no sooner have the Saints tasted Christs sweetnes, but presently they are carried after him with swiftnes: they cannot rest till they are joyned un∣to him, whom their soul loveth.
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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"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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Cant 7. 4.