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. -- 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 16, 2024.

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Great drops of bloud]

Clotty bloud issuing through flesh and skin in great abundance. Oecolampadius tels of a certain poor man,* 1.1 who being kept hanging in the trusse of the cord (which is a cer∣tain hanging by the hands behind, having a weighty stone fastened at their feet) the space of six hours, the sweat that dropt from his* 1.2 body for very pain and anguish, was almost bloud. But here was no (almost) in our Saviours bloudy sweat; whiles, without any externall violence meerly by the force of his own saddest thoughts working upon him, sanguinem congelatum quasi extruserit. So great was Scanderbegs ardor in battell, that the bloud burst out of his* 1.3 lips. But from our Champions not lips only, but whole body, burst out a bloudy sweat. Not his eyes only were fountains of tears, or his head waters, as Jeremy wished Chap. 9. 1. but his whole body was turned, as it were, into rivers of bloud: A sweet comfort to

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such as are cast down for that, that their sorrow for sin is not so deep and soaking, as they could desire.

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