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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Title: 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.
Author: Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
Publication: 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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Cite this Item: "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 51. The vail of the Temple was rent]

To shew than there was an end of the Leviticall liturgy; and that now there was free and open accesse for all Saints to the throne of Gods grace, for the vail was a figure of the spirituall covering which was before the eyes of the Church till Christs coming.

And the earth did quake]

To work a heart-quake in the ob∣stinate Jews, as in some it did: others of them had contracted such an habituall hardnesse, such a hoof upon their hearts, as nei∣ther ministry, nor misery, nor miracle, nor mercy, could possibly mollifie.

And the rocks rent]

So they do, wherever Christ makes for∣cible entrance into any heart. I will shake all nations, and then the desire of all nations shall come, Hag. 2. 7. A man will never truly desire Christ, till soundly shaken. Gods shaking ends in set∣ling, he rents us, not to ruine, but to refine us.