John Trapp on Ezra 10:12

Verſe 12. Then all the Congregation anſwered and ſaid with a loud voyce] But not with a true heart, Heb. 10.22. For within a few years they returned to their vomit again.

As thou haſt ſaid, ſo muſt we do] Theſe were good words, and not unlike thoſe of Laelius in Lucan ſpoken to Caeſar.

Juſſa ſequi tàm velle mihi, quàm poſſe, neceſſe eſt.

But many of theſe fair promiſers turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their Fathers they were turned aſide like a deceitful bow, Pſal. 78.57. Look how a rotten bow, though otherwiſe fair, when an Arrow is drawn to the head, and both eye and arrow is leveld to the mark, yet it miſcarryeth: So do the deſires, purpoſes and promiſes that unſound hearts conceive in their afflictions, and under juſt convictions.