John Trapp on Isaiah 57:16

Ver. 16. For I will not contend for ever] It ſoon repenteth the Lord concerning his ſervants: Et pro magno peccato parum ſupplicii ſatis eſt patri. Terent. See Pſal. 103.9.

For the ſpirit would fail before me] Heb. would be overcovered, ſc. tenebris a[illegible: 1 letter] terroribus, it would even ſink and faint away. When the child ſwoones in the whipping, God lets fall the rod, and falls a kiſſing it, to fetch life into it again, Jer. 31.20. As the rule in Phyſick is ſtill to maintain nature, ſo doth he their ſpirits, by Cordials.