John Trapp on Habakkuk 1:2

Verſ. 2. O Lord, how long ſhall I cry, and thou wilt not hear?] Lo, this is the confidence of a good conſcience towards God, 1 Pet. 3.21. when it is parling with him by prayers, and bold interceſſions, 1 Tim. 2.1. it dare plead, as Jer. 12.1. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. and interrogate, as Rom. 8.33, 34, 35. Eſay 63.15. and expoſtulate, as David often: when God ſeems to be aſleep, he wakes him: when to delay, he quickens him: when to have loſt his wonted kindneſſe, he finds it for him; ſo doth Habakkuk here: for he knew he might do it. See his holy boldneſſe beneath, verſe 12. and learn to continue inſtant in prayer, Rom. 12.12. crying, Quouſque Domine? Beza in vita. How long Lord? This was Mr. Calvias Motto; ever in his mouth, as D[illegible: 1 letter]o gratias was, in Auſtins.

even cry out unto thee of violence] i. e. Of all ſorts of hainous ſinnes, which I have long cryed out upon, and ſought by preaching and prayer to redreſſe, but cannot; ſo incorrigibly flagitious are they grown, that I have now no other way left, but to turn them over to thee, with a Non convertentur, They will not be converted. Shall they ſtill eſcape by iniquity? In thine anger caſt down the people, O God: Pſal. 56.7. and let them feel the power of thy wrath, that will not ſubmit to the ſcepter of thy kingdom. Thus the holy Prophet (Elias-like, Rom. 11.2.)Impendam & expendar. maketh interceſſion to God againſt Iſrael (when once incorrigible, uncurable) for whoſe ſouls health he would have ſpent, and been ſpent.