q. d. Though the spirit purpose otherwise, yet the flesh will falter, and ye will be foiled else. Or, our Saviour speaks this by way of excuse of their infirmity, q. d. I see you are willing, so farre as you are spirituall and regene∣rate: but the flesh is treacherous and tyrannicall. It rebels ever and anon, and would gladly raign. It hangs off, when called to suffer, and makes shy of the businesse. So Peter was carried whe∣ther he would not, Joh. 21. 18. So Hilarion chides out his soul (which plaid loth to depart) with Egredere ô anima, &c. So M. Saunders, Martyr, in a letter to his wife, a little afore his death, Fain would this flesh, said he, make strange of that which the spirit doth embrace. O Lord, how loth is this loitering slug∣gard, to passe forth in Gods path, &c? So M. Bradford going to his death, Now I am climing up the hill, said he, It will cause me to puff and blow, before I come to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. The hill 〈◊〉〈◊〉 steep and high: my breath is short, and my strength is fee∣ble.
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 May 3, 2024.
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The spirit indeed is willing]
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Pray therefore to the Lord for me; pray for me, pray for me, for Gods sake, pray for me. See more in the Notes on 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 21. 18.
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Act. and Mon. sol. 1359
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Ibid. 1497.