John Trapp on Isaiah 46:4

Ver. 4. And even to your old age I am he] The mother beateth not her childe in her boſom,Idem faciunt [illegible: 1 letter]qui calcibus & canes morlu. when grown to ſome bigneſs. The Eagle beateth her young out of the neſt when able to prey upon their own wing: but God dealeth better a great deal with his whom he never caſteth off: as neither doth he his labouring and languiſhing Church, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

I have made, and I will bear, even I will carry] God himſelf will do it; I is emphatical, and excluſive.

— Et ſi gratiſſima ſemper Munera ſint Author quae precioſa facit;

How ſweet ſhould this precious promiſe be unto us, and how ſoveraigne againſt the fear of want in old age? Plutarch giveth this for a reaſon why old men are ſo covetous, viz. becauſe they fear they ſhall not have [non-Latin text not transcribed], ſuch as will keep them whiles they live, and ſuch as will bury them decently, when dead. The Lord here aſſureth all his, that he will ſee to their ſupport and ſuſtentation as long as life laſteth; yea for ſpirituals as well as temporals. This was no ſmall comfort to old David, Pſal. 71. to Dr. Rivet and others, And well it might. See Pſal. 48. ult. with the Notes.Pathos habent verba Me & Cui. Alap.