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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Title: 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.
Author: Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
Publication: 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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Cite this Item: "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 1, 2024.

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Verse 13. Gathered all together]

Convasatis veluti omni∣bus.

With riotous living]

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Not caring to save any part, 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.1 nihil reservans, imò seipsum non servans, being such as safety it self could not save: whence the Latines call such a man Perditum, an undone person. Such were those of whom Seneca saith, that sin∣gulis auribus bina aut terna dependent patrimonia, hanged two or three good Lordships at their eares.

And such are those amongst us that turn lands into laces, great* 1.2 rents into great ruffes, &c. The expences of Apicius his kitchin a∣mounted to more then two millions of gold. He having eaten up his estate, and finding by his account that he had no more then 200000. crowns remaining, thought himself poor, and that this suf∣ficed not to maintain his luxury: whereupon he drank down a glasse of poyson.

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* 1.1

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, unsa∣veable.

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* 1.2

H. S. millies in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 conges∣sit. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

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