John Trapp on Isaiah 1:19

Ver. 19. If ye be willing and obedient] If ye love God and keep his Commandements, Exod. 20.6. If ye love to be his ſervants, Iſa. 56.6. willing in all things to live honeſtly,Baſil. Conc. de prodigo. Enchir. id. cap. 32. Heb 13.18. Tantum velis & Deus tibi praecurret: ſay thou canſt not open the door, yet be lifting at the latch: ever holding that of Auſtin, Nolentem praevenit Deus ut velit, volentem ſubſequitur ne fruſtra velit. It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleaſure. Phil. 2.8. Auſtin (after Paul) ſtood ſo much for free-grace, that the Papiſts ſay be yielded too little to free will.

Ye ſhall eat the good things of the land] Ye ſhall, and not ſtrangers for you, as ver. 7. The Eaſterlings ſhall not eat thy fruit, nor drink thy milk, as Ezek. 25.4. Thine enemies ſhall not eat thy corn, nor the ſons of the ſtranger drink thy wine; But they that have gathered it ſhall eat it and praiſe the Lord: and they that have brought it together ſhall drink it in the Courts of my holineſs, Iſa. 62.8, 9. Godlineſs hath a Cornucopia: Religion is the right Palladium of a Nation. The Heathen Poet could acknowledge that ſo long as Rome ſtood Religious, ſo long ſhe continued victorious and proſperous; as on the contrary, Horat.Dii multa neglecti dederunt Heſperiae mala luctuoſae.

Italy was undone by irreligion. The Greek Empire had not faln from the Paleologi to the Turks,Non caliditate & robore. ſed pietate & religione omnes gentes ſupera [illegible: 1 letter]is. Orat. de Art. reſponſ. [illegible: 1 letter]ib. 3. had the Chriſtian verity ſtood firm in Conſtantinople. Tully confeſſeth that the Inſtruments by which the Romans ſubdued the world, were not ſtrength and policy, but Religion and Piety. Wherefore alſo Mecaenas in Dion Caſſius adviſeth Auguſtus [non-Latin text not transcribed] by all means, and at all times to advance the worſhip of God, to cauſe others to do the ſame, and not ſuffer Innovations in Religion.