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 54. But how then shall the Scriptures, &c.]

Why dost thou not then pray (might they object) for an army of Angels, to rescue thee out of these wicked hands, that now hold thee prisoner, and will let out thy life-bloud? How then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, saith he, that have fore-told my death? This was his constant care, even when he hung upon the crosse, to fulfill the Scriptures: and so to assure us, that he was the very Christ.

That thus it must be]

Why must? but because it was, 1. So 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by God. 2, Fore-told by the Prophets; every particular of Christs 〈◊〉〈◊〉, even to their very spetting in his face. 3. Prefigured in the daily morning and evening 〈◊〉〈◊〉; this lamb of God was sacrificed from the beginning of the world. A necessity then there was of our Saviours suffering. Not a necessi∣ty of coaction (for he died freely and voluntarily) but of immutability and infallibility, for the former reasons and respects.