John Trapp on Amos 2:14

Verſe 14. Therefore the flight ſhall periſh from the ſwift] men are apt to bleſſe themſelves when God curſeth Deut. 29.19. and to bind upon impurity in a common calamity; to make faire weather when ſuch a tempeſt is up, as ſhall never be blown over. Or, if worſe come, then, as all creatures run to their refuges Prov. 30.25. Pſal. 104.18. Prov. 18.11. Dan. 4.14.11. Judg. 9.50, 51. (the hunted hare runns to the forme, to the buſhes that ſhe formerly haunted, but now thoſe cannot ſave her) ſo men in miſery bethink themſelves of and betake themſelves to creature-comforts, and refuges, either naturall or artificiall as here, but theſe all ſerve them as Abſoloms mule did her maſter, hanging betwixt heaven and earth, but rejected of both. Let a man be as ſwift as Aſahel, God can eaſily overtake him;Life of Edw. 6. by St. Ioh. Heyw. his ſin will find him out, and he ſhall but in running from his de[illegible: 3 letters] run to it: as the Hiſtorian ſpeaketh of thoſe Scots defeated by the Engliſh at Muſcleburough fled, that they ſo ſtrained themſelves in running for their lives, that, they fell down breathleſſe and dead. Surely as the coney that flies to the holes in the rocks doth eaſily avoyd the dogs that perſue her: when the hare that truſts in the ſwiftneſſe of her legs is at length overtaken and torne in peeces: So thoſe that truſt in God ſhall be ſecured: whereas thoſe that confide in themſelves or the creature, ſhall be ſurprized, and come to an ill end. David ran to God in diſtreſſe and was releeved. Saul goes to the witch, and from thence to the ſwords-point, Judas to the Phariſees, and thence to the halter.

the ſtrong ſhall not ſtrengthen his force] but be made weake as water. None of the men of might have found their hands Pſal. 76.5. their hands are palſied, their ſinews crackt and cripled. It is God that both ſtrengtheneth and weakneth the armes in the day of battle Ezek. 30.24.