John Trapp on Habakkuk 2:4

Verſe 4. Behold his ſoule which is lifted up] Ebulat, protuberat, which ſwelleth like a bubble, and breaketh thorough its own weakneſſe: [non-Latin text not transcribed] Heb. 10.37. Ecce quiſemu. nit. Gualth. he that by unbeliefe or carnall ſecurity withdraweth from God, and confideth in the creature; ſeeking to ſhift and ſave himſelf ſome other way, as he is a proud preſumptuous perſon, ſo let him know that,

his ſoule is not upright in him] that is, it is very corrupt and crooked, ſtark naught: and Gods ſoule can take no pleaſure in him; but he will puniſh him as a run-away, as one that hath fled from his colours, forſaken his captaine, revolted to the enemy Heb. 10.37, 38. Transfugas ubicunque inventi fuerint, quaſi hoſtes interficere licet, was the old law of armes. What God will do to ſuch, See Pſal. 125.5.

but the juſt ſhall live by his faith] This is an anſwer to thoſe that would ask what ſhall we do till the viſion ſpeake? how ſhall we hold out till it come? till the ſeventy yeers of captivity be expired? The juſt ſhall live by faith ſaith He, and ſhall make a good living of it too: He ſhall live and be ſafe by the ſame faith, whereby he is juſt. He ſhall feed upon faith, as ſome read that Pſal. 37.3. And whereas we find in thoſe Apocryphal additions to Daniel, that Habakkuk brought a meſſe of pottage to that Prophet in the Lions den; as it ſeems to be but a Jewiſh fable, ſo the Jew that invented it, grounding his conceit upon this text, would expreſſe thus much,Keck. Phyſ. that as pottage (that ſuccus benignus, as Keckerman calleth it) preſerveth this naturall life from periſhing: ſo doth faiths acting upon the promiſes, and extracting nouriſhment from the ſame, maintain life ſpirituall: and thereby it was that Daniel ſtopped the mouthes of the Lions, Heb. 11. How Habakkuk taketh out this his own leſſon of living by faith, and not by ſenſe, ſee chap. 3.17. Although the fig-tree ſhall not bloſſome, &c.] See here the life of faith, in the fail of outward comforts, ſo true is that of Solomon, Prov. 2.7. The Lord layeth up ſound wiſdom for the righteous: When he is in greateſt ſtraits, then he hath ſuch quietneſſe, ſoundneſſe, and preſence of minde, as bears him up above all troubles: like as blown bladders do the body aloft all waters. Faith furniſheth him with ſtrongeſt and moſt ſatisfying joyes; ſuch as the flames cannot dry up, nor rivers of blood drown: faith actuated upon the promiſes maketh the beleever walk above the middle region of the air (as it were) in a continuall ſerenity, as Henoch did: and ſealeth him a double charter of privative, and poſitive priviledges. See it ſet down 1 Cor. 3.21, 22, 23. Faith makes him live in the mouth of death, by ſtrengthening him againſt the horrours of it Pſal. 23.4. Rom. 8.38. Heb. 11.31. 1 Cor. 15.55, 56, 57. and by ſhewing him heaven beyond it, Heb. 11.13. and therein freedome from all evil, fruition of all good.