John Trapp on Job 3:17

Verſe 17. There the wicked ceaſe from troubling] Here they are restleſſe, as being acted and agitated by the divel, who being a diſcontented, turbulent creature, maketh adoe in the world, and ſetteth his [illegible: 1 letter]mps awork to do miſchief, and to vex others. [non-Latin text not transcribed] The word here rendred wicked ſignifieth vexatious perſons, that worry and weary out others, moleſtuous and miſchievous: In the grave they ſhall ceaſe from ſo doing. That was a ſtrange mind of our Edward the firſt, who adjured his Son and Nobles, that if he died in his journey into Scotland, they ſhould carry his corps with them about Scotland, and not ſuffer it to be interred, till they had abſolutely ſubdued the Country. This was a deure more Martial then Chriſtian, ſaith the [illegible: 1 letter]hronicler,Daniels hiſt. 201. ſhewing a mind ſo bent to the world, as he would not make an end when he had [illegible: 1 letter]one with[illegible: 2 letters]t, but de[illegible: 1 letter]greth his travel beyond his life.

An [illegible: 1 span] ] Hence ſome Heathens alſo have counted mortality a mercy and ſome of them appointed contrary ceremonies to thoſe now in uſe; for they brought their friends into the world with mournfull obſequies, but they carried them out or the world with joyfull exequies,Plotin. ap Aug. de C.D.l 9 c. 10 Quntil. Inſt. lib. 5 H[illegible: 2 letters]ol. l. 5. Va[illegible: 1 letter]. Max. all ſorts of ſports and paſtimes, becauſe then they conceived they were at reſt, and out o[illegible: 1 letter] gun-ſhot.