John Trapp on Esther 4:13

Verſe 13. Then Mordecai commanded to anſwer Eſther] He would not take her excuſe, but ſeemes to ſay unto her, as one once did to a Philoſopher, that in a great tempeſt at ſea asked many trifling queſtions. Are we periſhing, and doeſt thou trifle?Aul. Gell. So, Doeſt thou caſt off the tare of community, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. and provide for no more then thine own ſafety?

Think not with thy ſelf, that thou ſhalt eſcape in the Kings houſe] Any more then Serena that Chriſtian Empreſſe, wife to Diocleſian did, or Eliz. Queen of Denmark, glad to flie for her life, becauſe a Lutheran; or Queen Katharine Parre, who hardly eſcaped the fire by the favour of her husband Henry the eighth: Sure it is, that the feare of man bringeth a ſnare (as fearful birds and beaſts fall into the Hunters toile) but he that truſteth in the Lord, (as good Mordecai did, and as he would have Eſther to do) ſhall be ſafe, or ſhall be ſet on high, out of harmes way, his place of defence ſhall be munitions of rocks, Eſay 38.15. Like as the coney, that weak, but wiſe creature, Prov. 30.24, 26.Prov. 29.25.) flieth to the holes in the r[illegible: 1 letter]cks; and doth eaſily avoid the dogs that purſue her; when the Hare that truſteth to the ſwiftneſſe of her legs, is at length overtaken, and torne in pieces.

More then all the Jewes] The Law was general and irreverſible▪ Darius ſought to deliver Daniel, and could not, And [illegible: 1 word] (at once Medina's [illegible: 1 word] in eighty eight) ſword knew no difference, nor would make any in that general Maſſacre; like as in that at Paris, they poiſoned the Queen of [illegible: 1 word], murdered the moſt part of the Peerleſſe Nobility in France, their wives and children, with a great ſort of the common people.