John Trapp on Habakkuk 2:10

Verſe 10. Thou haſt conſulted ſhame to thy houſe &c.] Thou haſt taken a wrong courſe both for thy houſe of the kingdome (ſo the Perſians called the kings palace Dan. 4.27.) which ſhall be blown up: and for thine own private family and poſterity: it is not all thy care, paines, plotting and practiſing, that can preſerve it from ignominy and utter ruine. God will turn thy glory into ſhame, and make thy name to rot and ſtink as putrified fleſh Prov. 10.7. and ver. 9. He that perverteth his wayes ſhall be known. And when ſuch a man is raked up in the duſt, his evill courſes ſhall be caſt as dung in the faces of thoſe whom he leaveth behind him. What fooles then are Extortioners, Muckwormes and Cormorants, that live miſerably and deale unjuſtly, opening the mouthes of all to cry out upon their cr[illegible: 2 letters]tineſſe, covetouſneſſe and cruelty, and yet think to raiſe up their houſes and advance their names, and adorne their children with glory and eſtimation?

by cutting off many people] A poore glory it was to Sylla to have made ſuch a mercileſſe maſſacre at Athens: and after that, to have proſcribed and ſlaine 4700. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. citizens of Rome, as he cauſed it to be publikely recorded, videlicet ne memoria tam praeclarae rei dilueretur, ſaith mine Authour.Johnſt. de Nat. Conſt. So for Julius Caeſar to have been the death of a million of men, Mahomet the great Turk, of 800000. So for Stokeſly biſhop of London to boaſt upon his death-bed, that he had in his time brought to the fire fifty heretikes, as he called them: or for the bloody Spaniards, that they have murthered fifty millions of Indians in 42. yeers, as Acoſta the Jeſuite teſtifieth.

and haſt ſinned againſt thy ſoule] The worth whereof is incomparable, the loſſe irreparable, as Chriſt (who only went to the price of ſoules) telleth us Mat. 16.26. It was therefore no ill counfell that Francis Xaverius gave Iohn 3. King of Portugall to meditate every day a quarter of an houre on that divine ſentence, What ſhall it profit a man to win the world, and loſe his ſoule? Neither was it any evill anſwer that Maximilian (King of Bohemia, afterwards Emperour) gave the Pope, who perſwaded him to be a good Catholike with many promiſes of profits and preferments: the king anſwered, I thank your holineſſe: but my ſoules health is dearer to me then all the things in the world.Hiſt. of Counc. of Trent. 429. Speed 496. This pleaſed not the Pope, who ſaid that it was a Lutheran form of ſpeech. and yet that of Lewis king of France about the yeer 1152. pleaſed him much worſe, who caſt his Bulles (whereby he required the fruites of vacancies of all Cathedrall Churches of France) into the fire, ſaying, I had rather the Popes bulles ſhould roaſt in the fire, then that my ſoule ſhould fry in hell.