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.

The voice of one crying]

Loudly and lustily; lifting up his voice* 1.1 as a trumpet, or as the sound of many waters. Semblably S. Paul was ordained to be a crier, 1 Tim. 1. ••1. and so is every faithfull Preacher, 2 Tim. 4. 2. He must cry, and be instant, stand to the* 1.2 work, and stand over it; Sta cum diligentia, saith the Syriack there, clangite, clamate, Jer. 4. 5. Ye have to doe with deaf men, dead men, living carcases, walking sepulchres of them∣selves.* 1.3 Now therefore as our Saviour lifted up his voice, when* 1.4 he said, Lazarus, come forth: So must Christs Ministers (when

they speak to such as lie rotting and stinking in the graves of their corruptions) cry aloud, Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up* 1.5 from the dead, that Christ may give thee light. Ecclesia (the Church) is a word in use among the Athenians, and signifies an Assembly of Citizens, called out of the multitude (as it were) by name, or in their ranks, by the voice of the publike Crier, to hear some speech or sentence of the Senate. The Church in like sort is a company called out of the kingdome of Satan, by the voice of Gods Ministers, as it were criers, to hear the doctrine of the Gospel revealed from heaven. There are that observe, that John* 1.6 Baptist entered upon his calling in the year of Jubilee, which used to be proclaimed by a Crier with the sound of a trumpet, and that in allusion thereunto, he is called, The voice of a crier.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Boa••••••, Vociferant••••. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.3

  Isa. ••8. 1.
• * 1.4

  〈◊◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊◊〉.
• * 1.5

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 14. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.6

  Rolloc. in Joh. 1. 15.