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.

Thy will be done.]

Gods will must be done of thee, ere his king∣dom can come to thee. If thou seek his kingdom, seek first his* 1.1 righteousnesse, If thou pray, Thy Kingdom come, pray also, Thy* 1.2 will be done. Pray i, and do it; for other wise, Thou compassest God with lies, as Ephraim did. Now the will of God is two-fold, Secret and Revealed, whatever Siguardus blasphemeth to the con∣trary. His revealed will again is four-fold, 1. His determining will concerning us, what shall become of us, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 1. 5. 2. His prescribing will, what he requires of us, Ephes. 1. 9. 3. His ap∣proving will, by the which he graciously accepts, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 regards those that come to him in faith and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Matth. 18. 14. 4. His disposing will, and this is the will of his provi∣dence,* 1.3 1 Cor, 1. 1. Rom. 1. 10. Now we should resign our selves over to his determining will, as the highest cause of all things: rest in his approving will, as our chiefest happinesse: obey his

prescribing will, as the absolutest and perfectest form of holinesse; and be subject to his disposing will, being patient in all trials and troubles, because he did it, Psal. 39. 9. David hath this com∣mendation,* 1.4 that he did all the wills of God. And it is reported (saith* 1.5 M. Bradford) that I shall be burned in Smith-field, and that very shortly. Fiat voluntas Domini, Ecce ego, Domine, mitte me. The* 1.6 will of the Lord be done, said those good souls in the Acts, when they saw that Paul was peremptory to go up. This third Petiti∣on,* 1.7 Thy will be done, &c. was 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 text that ever M. Beza hand∣led,* 1.8 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 died; and departed (rather then 〈◊〉〈◊〉) to do Gods will more 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in heaven, as he had done to his power on earth. They that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 us do, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the will of God, are his 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Isa. 62. 4. And 〈◊〉〈◊〉 should be our constant care so to apply our 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, that God 〈◊〉〈◊〉 take pleasure in us, as in men after his own 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and say of us, as he did of Cy∣rus, He is the man of my will, that executeth all my counsel. This is to* 1.9 set the crown upon Christs head, Cant. 3. 11. Yea, this is to set the crown upon our own heads, 2 Tim. 4 8. 9.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 11. 12.
• * 1.2

  Sunt qui 〈◊〉〈◊〉 divinae distinctionem in revelatam & arcanam, quasi ipsius 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 au dent. Sic Si∣guardin. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. on. Christ.
• * 1.3

  Vide Pareum in Jacob. 4. 15.
• * 1.4

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.5

  Act. 13. 22.
• * 1.6

  Act. and Mon. fol 1502.
• * 1.7

  Act. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 41.
• * 1.8

  Deficere potius quam 〈◊〉〈◊〉 visus est 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Adam.
• * 1.9

  Isa. 45. 11.