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.

Till heaven and earth passe]

And passe they must: The visible* 1.1 heavens being defiled with our sins (that are even 〈◊〉〈◊〉 unto them,* 1.2 as Babylons sins are said to be, Rev. 18. 5.) shall be purged with the fire of the last day, as the vessels of the sanctuary were, that held the sin-offering. The earth also, and all the works that are therein shall be burnt up. And this the Heathens had heard of, and ham∣merd* 1.3 at, that the world should, at length, be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as Ovid hath it, and Lucretius disputeth it according to the naturall causes. But Ludolfus of the life of Christ doth better; when he telleth us, that of those two destructions of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the former was by water, for the heat of their lust, and the later shall be by 〈◊〉〈◊〉, for the coldnesse of their love.

Notes

• * 1.1

  2 Pet. 3. 20.
• * 1.2

  Esse quo{que} in fatis 〈◊〉〈◊〉, &c. Metam. lib. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Cicer. de 〈◊〉〈◊〉. deor.
• * 1.3

  〈◊〉〈◊〉, propter 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉; igni, pro∣pter teporem 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Lu∣dolf. de 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 lib. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. cap. 87.