John Trapp on James 1:11

Verſe 11. Shall the rich man fade] Periſh eternally, if he truſt in uncertain riches, and not in the living God. See Jam. 5.1. Thus that ſapleſſe fellow Nabal faded, when his heart died within him, not could his riches any more relieve him then they did that rich and wretched Cardinall, Henry Beanford Chancellour of England, in the raign of Henry the ſixt, who murmured at death, that his riches could not reprieve him till a further time. Fire (qu[illegible: 1 letter]th he) will not death be hired? Will money do nothing? No: money here bears no maſtery. Act. and Mon. [illegible: 1 word], 925.