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. -- 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 16, 2024.

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Verse 31. And he shall send his Angels]

As his apparitours and executioners. David went otherwise attended when he went a∣gainst Nabal, then when against Goliah: So Christ shall come, when he shall come again with his troops and trumpets, &c.

With a great sound of a Trumpet]

Christ shall put forth his own mighty voice, Joh. 5. 28. & 1 Thess. 4. 16. ministred 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his Angels, as in the text, and set forth by the sound of a trumpet, in allusion, belike to Numb 10. where the people 〈◊〉〈◊〉 congregated and called together by the sound of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the door of the Tabernacle. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah shall roar from above, and thrust out his voice from his holy habitation, when he entreth into judgement with all flesh, Jeremy 25. 30, 31. As the Lion roareth over his whelps, brought forth dead at first, and raiseth them from death 〈◊〉〈◊〉 life, as Pliny re∣porteth.

And they shall gather together his elect]

How shall they know* 1.1 them from reprobates? By Gods saving mark set fairly in their fore-heads, Ezek. 9. And by their blith and merry countenances, cleared and cheared in the apprehension and approach of their full redemption, now drawing nigh. Besides, as servants know their masters harvest from ano hers, and can easily discern the corn from the cockle, so can the good angels soon single out the elect, about whom they have been familiarly conversant here on earth, as mini∣string 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation, ready prest to any good office about them.* 1.2

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