This is that pepper-corn we pay to God, who is content that we have the benefit of his favours, so He may have the glory of them. Not lepers onely, but all sorts, af∣ter sicknesse, were bound to offer to God the ransom of their lives, Exod. 31. Hezekiah made a song, and left it to posterity, for a seal of his thankfulnesse. Heathens in this case, would con∣secrate something to their gods, to their Teraphim. The very word in Greek that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to heal, (framed from Teraephim)* 1.1 signifies first to worship and serve God: So shewing us what they were wont to doe in case of cure. But now-adaies sciopato il morbo, fraudato il Santo, as the Italian proverb hath it. Sick men recovered, deal as ship-wrackt men escaped: they promise God, as he in Erasmus his Naufragium did the Virgin, a picture* 1.2 of wax as big as S. Christopher: but when he came to shore, would not give a tallow-candle. This is a cursed kinde of cou∣senage, Mal. 1. 14.
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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"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 16, 2024.
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Offer the gift, &c.]
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* 1.1
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
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Eras. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.