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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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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Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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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 8, 2024.

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And to say, Repent]

Both for sinne by contrition, and from* 1.1 sinne by conversion. Change your mindes and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, your constitution and conversation, from worse to better: Recover* 1.2 your lost wits with the Prodigall (who repenting is said to come to himself) and become 〈◊〉〈◊〉 after your folly. Pull down the very frame of the old man, unmake your selves, as St 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hath* 1.3 it, 1 Pet. 2. 24. Undoe what you had done before, and be ye 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.4 * 1.5 and metamorphosed by the renewing of your 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.6 For, Except a man be born again, not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉, but 〈◊〉〈◊〉,* 1.7 from above, but a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 time (as Nicodemus understood our Saviour) except he goe over all again that is past, rejecting it as unprofitable, and begin anew, he cannot see the Kingdom of God; where old things are past, all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. a whole new creation.

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