John Trapp on Amos 2:15

Verſe 15. Neither ſhall he ſtand that handleth the bow] Arcitenens, though he can do it never ſo dexterouſly: yet if he truſt in his bow Pſal. 44 6. God will break it Ier. 49 35.Herodot. Aug. de civ. Dei l. 5. c. 26. or otherwiſe render it unuſefull: as it befell the army of Senacherib in Egypt, of Maximus againſt Theodoſius, and the French in the battle between our Edward the third, and their king Philip: who being enraged with a defeat,Daniels hiſt. 237. reſolved preſently to revenge it: being elevated with an aſſured hope of triumphant victory. But it fell out otherwiſe: for there fell at the inſtant of the battle a piercing ſhowre of raine which diſſolved their ſtrings, and made their bowes unuſefull &c.

neither ſhall he that rideth the horſe] though it be as good an one, as Cain is fained by Dubertas to have mannaged, or as Alexanders Bucephalus, or Julius Caeſars great horſe, ſerviceable, and full of terrour. A horſe is ſo ſwift, that Iob ſaith he eateth up the ground: [non-Latin text not transcribed] Panſan. and the Perſians dedicated him to their God the Sun, as the ſwifteſt creature to the ſwifteſt power-divine. But as the ſun in heaven can neither be out-run, nor ſtopt in his race: ſo neither by men nor meanes can God be fruſtrated, or his anger avoyded. the Canaanites had both horſes and charrets, the Iſraelites had neither: and yet they found an horſe a vaine thing for victory &c. Pſal. 33.17. and 147.10.