John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 9:2

Verſ. 2. All things come alike to all] See the Note on verſ. 1. Health, Wealth, Honours, &c. are caſt upon good men and bad men promiſcuouſly. God makes a ſcatter of them as it were; good men gather them, bad men ſcramble for them.Nihil eſt niſi mica panis. The whole Turkiſh Empire, ſaith Luther, is nothing elſe but a cruſt caſt by Heavens great Houſe-keeper to his Doggs.

And hee that ſweareth, as hee that feareth an oath] No ſurer ſign of a prophane perſon, than common and cuſtomary ſwearing. Neither any ſo good an evidence of a gracious heart, as not onely to forbear it (for ſo one may do by education, and civil converſation) but to fear an oath out of an awful regard to the divine Majeſty. Plato and other Heathens ſhall riſe up and condemn our common ſwearers: for they, when they would ſwear, ſaid no more but Ex animi ſententia, Suidas. or if they would ſwear by their Jupiter, out of the meer dread and reverence of his name, they forbare to mention him. Clinias the Pythagorean, out of this regard, would rather undergo a mulct of three talents,Acts and Mon. 865. than ſwear. The Merindolians, thoſe antient French Proteſtants, were known by this through all the Country of Province, that they would not ſwear, nor eaſily bee brought to take an oath, except it were in judgement, or making ſome ſolemn covenant.