John Trapp on Amos 3:14

Verſe 14. That in the day that I ſhall viſit &c.] Tell them ſo from me, ſaith God: ſay to theſe wicked, Wo be unto them, it ſhall be ill with them Eſay. 3.11. The jelous Lord of Hoſts will ſurely viſit the iniquity of Idolatrous fathers upon their children, to the third and fourth generation Exod. 20.5. See Ier. 3. Ezek. 16. Hoſ. 2. As they have their day of defection, ſo hath He of Viſitation; his ſeaſon, his harveſt for judgment, Mat. 13.30. What then will they do when God riſeth up: and when he viſiteth, what will they anſwer him? Iob. 31.14.

I will alſo viſit the altars of Bethel] At firſt there was but one altar 1 King. 12.32, 33. and 13.2. but afterwards they multiplied, as in Peters at Rome, there are ſaid to be now above an hundred altars Hoſ. 8.11. and 10.1. there is no end of will-worſhip: but, like the Ieruſalem-Artichoke, plant it where you will, it overruns the ground and choakes the Heart. Now as God loved the gates of Zion where he was ſolemnly worſhipped, more then all the dwellings of Jacob Pſal. 87.2. and as the walls of good people (whoſe houſes are little churches) are continuall before him, Eſay. 49.16. So he heartily hateth places and monuments of Idolatry: and layeth them waſt as he hath done our Abbeys and Monaſteries Ziſca overthrew three hundred of them in Bohemia: and among the reſt the famous Monaſtery called the Kings-Court, a mile from Prague: Ziſca's life by Mr. Clark. in the walles whereof the whole Bible was moſt exquiſitely written in letters of gold; but little read or regarded by thoſe filthy Abbey-lubbers, of whom Luther teſtifieth that they were tam deſperatae malitiae &c. ſo deſperately debauched that they durſt adventure upon any villany whatſoever.

and the hornes of the altar &c.] which were held the holier parts thereof. This was fulfilled by good Ioſiah many yeares after 2 King. 23.15. 2 Chron. 34.4.6. Nullum tempus occurrit Regi. Time can be no prejudice to Gods proceedings: neither is his forberance any quittance.