John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 3:17

Verſ. 17. I ſaid in my heart, God ſhall judge, &c.] Hee did not deny the Divine Providence, as Averroes for this cauſe did; much leſs did hee turn Atheiſt with Diagoras, becauſe hee could not have Juſtice done upon a fellow that had ſtollen a Poem of his, and publiſhed it in his own name. But hee concluded within himſelf, Pſal. 37. that God would ſurely take the matter into his own hand, Judge thoſe unrighteous Judges, right and relieve the oppreſſed, bring forth their righteouſneſs as the light, and their innocency as the noon-day, if not in this world, yet certainly at that great Aſſizes to bee held by his ſonne. (Becauſe hee hath appointed a day in the which hee will judge the world in righteouſneſs, whereof hee hath given aſſurance to allmen, &c.) Act. 17 31. His petty Seſſions he keepeth now, letting the Law paſs upon ſome few corrupt Judges by untimely death, diſgraces, baniſhment, remorſe of conſcience, &c. (as hee did upon Judge Morgan, that condemned the Lady Jane Gray, Judge Hales, Belknap, Empſon, Dudley, that I ſpeak not of Pilate, Felix, &c.] reſerving the reſt till the great Aſſizes, 1 Tim. 5.24. Some hee puniſheth here, leſt his Providence, but not all, leſt his patience and promiſe of Judgement ſhould be called into queſtion; as Auſtin well obſerveth. His two and twenty learned Books, De civitate Dei, were purpoſely written to clear up this truth. And ſo were Salvians eight Books, De gubernatione Dei, & de juſto praeſentique ejus judicio.