John Trapp on Amos 7:8

Verſe 8. Behold I will ſet a plumb-line] I will call them to a ſtrict account and ſhew them no favour Jer 16.13. I will now actually execute my juſtice which I have hitherto ſuſpended; and pay them home for the new and the old; bringing upon them an evill, an onely evill, without mixture of mercy Ezech. 7.5.

I will not againe paſs by them any more] A metaphor from men that paſſe by ſuch things as they ſlight and count inconſiderable: winking at ſmall faults as not worthy to be reckoned upon. Hence Mic. 7.18. God is ſaid to pardon iniquity and paſſe by tranſgreſſion: as elſewhere he is ſaid to bind them up in a bundle, to ſeale them up in a bag, to caſt them behind his back, to remove them as far as the Eaſt is from the Weſt, Pſal. 103. ſo that he beholdeth no ſin in Jacob, nor perverſeneſſe in Iſrael Num. 23.21. The Church, privy to her own infirmities, calleth her ſelf black Cant. 1.5. but Chriſt calleth her faire all over chap. 4.7. She ſaith, God hath puniſht us leſſe then our ſins, Ezra 9.13. He ſaith, She hath received double for her ſins Iſa. 40.1. Too much ſaith God; too little, ſaith She. O beautifull contention? But this is a priviledge proper to the communion of Saints, with whom God will not deale according to the rigour of his law (as he doth with the wicked) but according to his prerogative.