John Trapp on Isaiah 7:12

Ver. 12. I will not ask] Ah lewd loſel! I will not ask; what a baſe anſwer was this of a Bedlam Belialiſt? what a wretched entertainment of ſuch an over-bounding Mercy? He doth upon the matter ſay, Ile ask no Asks, Ile try no ſigns, I know a trick worth two of that: God ſhall for me, keep his ſigns to himſelf: I crave no ſuch curteſie at his hands: I can otherwiſe help my ſelf, viz. by ſending to the Aſſyrian. If the Lord could and would have helped, how happeth it that ſo lately no leſs then an hundred and twenty thouſand of my Subjects were cut off in one day by this Remaliah's ſon, as you contemptuouſly call him?

Neither will I tempt the Lord] Or, neither w[illegible: 1 letter]ll I make tryal of the Lord, as in the former Note. Ambroſe was miſtaken who thought that Ahaz refuſed to ask or try the Lord, out of modeſty and humility: rather it was out of pervicacy, or (at beſt) Hypocriſie. Hic deſcendamus in noſtras conſcientias, ſaith good Oecolampadius. Here let us each deſcend and dive into his own conſcience, to ſee whether we alſo have not matched Ahaz in his madneſs, or at leaſt wiſe, coaſted too near upon his unkind uſage of the Lord, by rejecting his ſweet offers of Grace and motions of Mercy: by ſlighting his holy Sacraments, thoſe Signs and Seals of the Righteouſneſs that is by Faith. Adſit fides, & aberit periculum.