Verse 63. Sir, we remember, &c.]
They that had forgotten
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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- M.DC.XLVII. [1647]
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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 June 1, 2024.
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so many sweet and savoury sayings of our blessed Saviour, and written them all in the sand, could remember (but for no good purpose,) that which his Disciples could not so readily call to minde for their good and comfort; no nor 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it, when plainly told them, Mark 9. 32. The soul should be as an holy Ark, the memory as the pot of Mannan, preserving holy truths, for holy uses. But most men have memories like nets, that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 goe the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 water, catch nothing but sticks, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉-〈◊〉〈◊〉; or like sieves, that retain the chafte, let go the good corn: like the creature Cervarius, that if he but look back, forgets the meat he was eating, though never so hungry, and seeks for new: Or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, who never in all his life could get by heart those three names of Homer, Ulisses and Achilles. Old songs, old wrongs, &c. they can retain sufficiently; but in matters of God, their memories serve them not.
This deceiver said]
Men 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as they use. Quis tulerit 〈◊〉〈◊〉? who can endure to hear the devil taxing God of en∣vy, as he did to our first 〈◊〉〈◊〉? or these deceitfull 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 the Faithfull and true witnesse, a deceiver, a cheater,* 1.1 one who doth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of cosening men to their faces? for* 1.2 so the Greek word signifieth. We must look to hear all that naught is, either whiles alive, or when dead. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mor tuits, 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 in deum, cruci affigitur, saith Zanchy: and all because he pleased not, in all points, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.3 Lutherans.
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* 1.1
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
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* 1.2
Eust ath. iu Hom.
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* 1.3
〈◊〉〈◊〉 M 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.