John Trapp on 1 Timothy 6:3
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1 Timothy6:3
Verſe 3. If any man teach otherwiſe] Diſcover himſelf Heterodox, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. out of affectation of ſingularity, &c. as divers doe in this licentious age; broaching things different from the received doctrine, as holding it with Phocion, a goodly thing to diſſent from others.
Conſent not to wholſome words] Words that have a healing property in them. The Scripture (as that library of Alexandria] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. may be properly ſaid to be the ſouls phyſick. By the reading of Livy, Curtius, Aventinus, and other Hiſtorians, many are ſaid to have been recovered of divers deſperate diſeaſes.Joh. Bodin. de utilit hiſtoriae. O facile & beatum curationis genus, ſaith mine authour. But the reading of the holy Scriptures doth a far greater cure then this upon the ſoul.
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