John Trapp on Isaiah 1:21

Ver. 21. How is the faithful City] Here beginneth, as ſome think,Nota eſt admirantis, & deplorantis. a new Sermon; and it beginneth as Jeremiah's Lamentations do with an Ecack: How, a particle of Admiration mixt with grief, q. d. Proh pudor! proh dolor! O ſhamefull! O dolefull! What a ſtrange buſineſs is this? and how unworthily is this matter carried? Here's a City ſo altered that ye can ſcarce know her to be the ſame; ye may ſeek Jeruſalem in Jeruſalem and not find her: — tota eſt jam Roma lupanar. Mantuan. See Ezek. 16.15, 23. & 23.3. &c.

Become an Harlot?] In meretricem; not a privy Harlot only, but a proſtituted harlot, a very proſtibulum meretrix meretriciſſima, utpote quae cubile dilatavit, Iſa 57. Tibias devaricavit, Ezek. 16. Such a trite harlot is the great whore of Babylon at this day, whoſe faithfulneſs was once famous all the world over, Rom. 1. But now, O quantum haec Niobe! Ex aurea factam argenteam, ex argentea, ferream, ex ferrea terream, ſupereſſe ut in ſtercus abiret. Theod. Urias Auguſtinianus. circa. An. 1414. One of her own ſons once complained that of gold ſhe was become ſilver, of ſilver braſs: and that ſhe was ready to degenerate into dirt, and worſe.

It was full of judgement] topfull: Sad, that it was ſo. Fuimus Troes. It's a miſery to have been happy.

Righteouſneſs lodged there] Not in Melchiſedecks days only, who was King of Righteouſneſs according to his Name, and King alſo of Salem, afterwards called Jeruſalem: but alſo in the raignes of David, Solomon, Jehoſophat, and other good Princes. But now no ſuch matter; nay the contrary, like as the Prince of Orange his Country is fertil of all fruits ſave Orenges; whence the French Proverb, En Orenge it n'y a point de Oranges.

But now Murtherers] Hierapolis was become a very Poneropolis, the City of God a den of Thieves, or (as the Papiſts maliciovſly ſay of Geneva) a profeſſed Sanctuary of roguery. By Murtherers here may be meant Perſecutors of the pious, and oppreſſours of the poor man, whoſe livelihood is his life, Mark 12. ult. Luke 8.43. A poor man in his houſe is like a ſnail in his ſhell: cruſh that, and you kill him.