Quotes by John Trapp

John Trapp (1601–1669) — Bibelkommentator · Puritaner · England

John Trapp (1601–1669) war ein englischer anglikanischer Geistlicher, Schulleiter und puritanischer Theologe, der vor allem in und um Stratford-upon-Avon wirkte. Bekannt ist er für seinen vollständigen Bibelkommentar zum Alten und Neuen Testament, der sich durch gelehrte Verweise, historische Anekdoten und pointierte Aphorismen auszeichnet. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet sein Werk einen sprachlich prägnanten und praxisnahen Zugang zur reformierten Schriftauslegung des 17. Jahrhunderts.

Era: Reformation & Baroque

Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Guilt & Forgiveness, Suffering & the Question of God, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Prayer & Silence

Quotes by John Trapp

God puts away many in anger for their supposed goodness, but not any at all for their confessed badness.
John Trapp

One son God hath without sin, but none without sorrow.
John Trapp

Be careful what books you read, for as water tastes of the soil it runs though, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads.
John Trapp

Reading maketh a full man, prayer a holy man, temptation an experienced man.
John Trapp

They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but fear not to lose themselves by keeping it.
John Trapp

It is the nature of faith to believe God upon His bare word… It will not be, saith sense; it cannot be, saith reason; it both can and will be, saith faith, for I have a promise for it.
John Trapp

It is a greater work of God to bring men to grace, than being in the state of grace, to bring them to glory; because sin is far more distant from grace than grace is from glory.
John Trapp

Means must be neither trusted nor neglected.
John Trapp

To an effectual prayer there must concur the intention of the mind and the affections of the heart; else it is not praying but parroting.
John Trapp

God was but six days in making the whole world, yet seven days in destroying one city.
John Trapp

Conscience is God’s spy and man’s overseer.
John Trapp

In our sufferings for Christ there is joy, not so when we suffer for our sins.
John Trapp

He that will be angry, and not sin, must not be angry but for sin.
John Trapp

Truth must be spoken however it be taken.
John Trapp

A man may go to hell with baptismal water upon his face.
John Trapp

God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.
John Trapp

It is in mercy and in measure that God chastiseth His children.
John Trapp

Heresy is the leprosy of the mind.
John Trapp

A ship may be overladen with silver, even unto sinking, and yet space enough be left to hold ten times more. So a covetous man, though he have enough to sink him, yet never hath he enough to satisfy him…a circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace, as the heart with gold.
John Trapp

The friends of free-will are the enemies of free-grace.
John Trapp

There is, indeed, mention made of a mercy-seat in the temple, but there was never heard of any school of merit but in the chapel of Antichrist.
John Trapp

An unbeliever shall have a double condemnation; one from the law which he hath transgressed, and another from the gospel, which he hath despised: as a malefactor, that being condemned and dead in law, rejecteth his prince’s pardon. But it is otherwise with these that are in Christ Jesus. The law cannot condemn them, because they have appealed; the gospel cannot because they have believed.
John Trapp

Sources: wikipedia.org, apuritansmind.com, digitalpuritan.net, blueletterbible.org

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