John Trapp on Esther 5:8

Verſe 8. If I have found favour in the ſight of the King] As ſhe had, not ſo much by her beauty and bravery (wherein Vaſht perhaps might eaſily have compared with her) but by the finger of God, who tameth to his Elect the fierceſt creatures (as he did the Lions to Daniel, and other ſavage beaſts to the Martyrs, whom they would not meddle with,) and turneth the Kings heart, as the rivers of water, into what channel ſoever he pleaſeth to put it, Prov. 21.1. as the Plowman doth the water-courſe with his paddle, or the Gardiner with his hand.

And if it pleaſe the King] See verſe 4. and ſubmit to God, James 4.7.

And I will do to morrow as the King hath ſaid] She had learned to preferre opportunity before time. There might be ſome by, at this firſt banquet, whoſe company ſhe liked not: or ſhe might not yet have ſo clear an anſwer in her own heart to her former prayers; and therefore deſireth ſome farther time that night to ſeek God: whatever the reaſon of not putting it off till dext day was, Gods holy hand was in it, that Mordecai might b[illegible: 1 letter] firſt ſo greatly honoured, and Hamans high Gallowes prepared. Illum utiquie magi[illegible: 1 letter] [illegible: 1 letter]eo[illegible: 1 letter]rum, R[illegible: 1 letter]ge[illegible: 1 letter] autem magis benevoli[illegible: 2 letters] magiſque fecit attentu[illegible: 1 letter], ſaith Rupertus. Hereby ſhe made Haman more ſecure, and the King more kinde and attent.