John Trapp on Isaiah 66:5-6

Ver. 5. Hear the Word of the Lord, ye that tremble, &c.] Here's a word of comfort for you, who being lowly and meek-ſpirited, are the apter to be trampled on, and abuſed by the fat bulls of Baſan: where the hedge is loweſt, thoſe beaſts will leap over: and every crow will be pulling off wooll from a ſheeps ſides.

Your brethren] By race, and place, but not by Grace.

That hated you] For like cauſe as Cain hated Abel, 1 Joh. 3.12. for trembling at Gods judgements whilſt they do yet hang in the threatnings.

And caſt you out] Either out of their company as not fit to be converſed with, chap. 65.5. or out of their Synagogue by excommunications, as fit to be cut off: See 1 Theſ. 2.14. Papiſts at this day do the like: whence that Proverb In nomine Domini incip[illegible: 1 letter]t omne malum: Ye begin in a wrong name ſaid that Martyr, when they began the ſentence of death againſt him with In the name of God, Amen.

Let the Lord be glorified] With ſuch like goodly words and ſpecious pretences did thoſe odious hypocrites palliate and varniſh over their abominations: they would perſecute godly men, and moleſt them with Church-cenſures, and ſay Let the Lord be glorified: So do Papiſts and other Sectaries deal by the Orthodox. Becket offered (but ſubdolouſly) to ſubmit to his Sovereign, ſalvo honere Dei, ſo far as might ſtand with Gods glory.Speed. 508. Anno 1386. The Conſpiratours in King Richard the ſeconds time endorſed all their letters with Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, good-will towards men. The Swenck feldians ſtiled themſelves The Confeſſours of the glory of Chriſt: and Gentiles the Antitrinitarian, when he was called to anſwer, ſaid that he was drawn to maintain his cauſe through touch of conſcience; and when he was to dye for his blaſphemy, he ſaid that he did ſuffer for the glory of the moſt high God: ſo eaſy a matter it is to draw a fair glove upon a foul hand, &c. Some for Let the Lord be glorified, render it Gravis eſt Dominus, The Lord is burdenſom or heavy: and they parallel it with thoſe ſayings in the Goſpel, This is an hard ſaying, Thou art an auſtere man, We will not have this man to reign over us, &c.

But he ſhall appear to your joy] Parallel to that, your ſorrow ſhall be turned into joy. How did ſome of the Martyrs rejoyce when excommunicated, degraded, &c.

Diod.Ver. 6. A voice of noiſe from the City] This is a Prophetical deſcription of the laſt deſtruction of Jeruſalem and the Temple by the Romans.

A voice from the Temple] Wherin they ſo much gloryed, where they had oft heard Chriſt and his Apoſtles preaching repentance unto life: but now have their ears filled with hideous and horrid outcries of ſuch as were ſlain even in the very Temple, which they defended as long as they were able, and till it was fited: That which Joſephus reporteth of Jeſus the ſon of Ananis a plain Country-fellow, is very remarkable; viz. that for four years together before the laſt devaſtation, he went about the City day and night, crying as he went, in the words of this text almoſt, A voice from the Eaſt, Lib. 7. B[illegible: 1 letter]lli. cap. 12. a voice from the Weſt, a voice from the four Winds, a voice againſt Jeruſalem and the Temple, a voice againſt all the people, Woe, woe, woe to Jeruſalem: and thus he continued to do till at length roaring out louder then ordinary, Woe to Jeruſalem and to me alſo, he was ſlain upon the wall with a ſtone ſhot out of an Engin, as Joſephus reporteth.

That rendereth recompence to his enemies] So they are here called who pretended ſo much to the glorifying of God, ver. 5. Falſe friends are true enemies.