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 48. Whomsoever I shall kisse]

Ah lewd losell! Betraiest thou the Son of man with a kisse? Givest thou thy Lord such rank* 1.1 poison in such a golden cup? Consignest thou thy treachery with so sweet a symboll of peace and love? But this is still usuall with those of his Tribe. Caveatur osculum Iscarioticum. Jesuites at this day kisse and kill familiarly: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 occidunt, as one saith of* 1.2 false Physitians. When those Rhemish Incendiaries, Giffard, Hodgeson, and others, had set Savage awork to kill Queen Eliza∣beth,* 1.3 they first set forth a book to perswade the English Catho∣likes to attempt nothing against her. So when they had sent. Squire out of Spain to poison the Queen, they taught him to a∣noint* 1.4 the pummel of her saddle with poison covertly, and then to pray with a loud voice, God save the Queen. Lopez, another of their agents, affirmed at Tiburn, That he had loved the Queen as* 1.5 he had loved Jesus Christ: Which, from a Jew, was heard not without laughter. So Parsons, when he had hatched that name∣lesse villany the powder-plot, set forth his book of resolution: as if he had been wholly made up of devotion, Esocietate Iesu fuit qui Iesum tradidit.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Philo 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pa∣cis tradidit sa∣crisicium pacis.
• * 1.2

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.3

  Camd. Elizab.
• * 1.4

  Ibid. an. 1598.
• * 1.5

  Ibid sol. 431.