John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 1:26

Verſe 26. Not many mighty] The Eagle and Lion were not offered in ſacrifice, as the Lamb and the Dove were. It is hard for great ones to deny themſelves. Hence it grew to a Proverb in times of Popery, That hell was paved with Prieſts ſhaven crowns,Rafit ſacrificulorum verticibus & magnatumgolgia. Hieron. and great mens head-pieces. Indeed if men might paſſe de deliciis ad delicias, è eaeno ad coelum, as Hierom hath it: If they could dance with the devil all day, and ſup with Chriſt at night: If they might live all their lives long in Dalilah's lap, and then go to Abrahams boſome when they die, they would have a ſine time of it. But that cannot be: and hence ſo many mighties miſcarry.

Not many noble] Bleſſed be God that any: as Galeacius Caracciolus an Italian Marqueſſe, and Nephew to Pope Paul 5. was converted by Peter Martyr reading upon this firſt Epiſtle to the Corinthians. George Prince of Anhalt, a pious preaching Prince, converted by Melancthon: Ʋlyſſes Martinengus Earl of Baccha another Italian convert, and ſome few more that might be inſtanced. But good Nobles are black-ſwans (ſaith one) and thinly ſcattered in the fit mament of a ſtate, even like ſtars of the firſt magnitude. We may ſay of ſuch, as Luther doth of Elizabeth Queen of Denmark, a pious Princeſſe,Luther in epiſt. ad Joh. Agricol. Scilicet Chriſtrus etiam aliquando voluit reginam in coelum vehere.