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 60. Yea, though many false-witnesses came]

So adultery was objected to Athanasius, heresie and treason to Cranmer. Also I lay to thy charge, said Bonner to Philpot, Martyr, that thou killedst thy father, and wast accursed of thy mother on her death-bed, &c. Q. Elizabeth wrote these lines in the window at Woodstock;* 1.1

Much alledg'd against me, Nothing proved can be.

Freedome of speech used by the Waldenses against the sins of those times, caused, Ut 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nefariae eis affingerentur opiniones, a quibus* 1.2 omninè fuerant alieni, saith Gerard, That many false opinions were fathered upon them, such as they never favoured. So deal the Papists by us at this day; They tell the seduced peo∣ple,* 1.3 that we worship no God, count gain godlinesse, keep no promises, eat young children, make nothing of adultery, murther, &c. Good people, these men deny Christ to be God,

and the holy Ghost to be God, &c. said White Bishop of* 1.4 Winchester concerning Woodman, and other holy Martyrs, in a Sermon.

Yet found they none]

The enemies likeliest projects oft fail. These false witnesses, as those 〈◊〉〈◊〉-builders of old, disagreed in their language, which God confounded; and so he doth to this day.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Act. and Mon. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 1650.
• * 1.2

  See Alex 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉. to his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Pop brags.
• * 1.3

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. Io∣han 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉.
• * 1.4

  Act. and Mon. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 813.