John Trapp on Jeremiah 12:5

Ver. 5. If thou haſt run with the footmen] Here God returneth an anſwer to the Prophets foregoing complaint, ſaith the Chaldee: partly checking him for his diſcontentedneſſe, and partly exciting him to an humble ſubmiſſion, and a well knit reſolution.

Then how wilt thou contend with horſes?] If thy countrymen of Anathoth overmatch and overmaſter thee, how wilt thou deal with thoſe of Hieruſalem who are a fair deale worſe?

And if in a land of peace] Theſe are proverbial ſpeeches, both to one purpoſe: Ferre minor a velis, ut graviora feras. How would'ſt thou endure wounds for Chriſt, that canſt not endure words? ſaith one; and how wilt thou fry a faggot that ſtartleſt at a reproach for the truth? Whileſt William Cobberly Martyr was in durance, his wife alſo, called Alice, being apprehended was in the Keepers houſe the ſame time detained: where the keepers wife had ſecretly heated a key fire-hot, and laid it in the graſſe on the back-ſide; ſo ſpeaking to Alice Cobberly to fetch her the key in all haſte,Act. & Mon. fol. 1719. ſhe went with ſpeed to bring the key; and taking it up in haſte, did piteouſly burn her hand; whereupon ſhe cryed out. Ah thou drabbe, quoth the other, thou that canſt not abide the burning of thy hand, how wilt thou be able to abide the burning of thy whole body? And ſo ſhe afterward revoked.