John Trapp on Job 6:12

Verſe 12. Is my ſtrength the strength of ſtones? Or, Is my fleſh of braſſe?] Is it made of marble, or of the hardeſt metal? as it is ſaid of one in Homer, that hee was [non-Latin text not transcribed], of brazen bowles, and of Julius Scaliger, that he had a golden ſoule in an iron body: he was a very Iron ſides, but ſo was not Job: he had neither a body of braſſe, nor ſinewes of iron, to ſtand out againſt ſo many ſtormes, and beare ſo many batteries; he felt what he endured, and could not long endure what he felt. As for the damned in hell, they are by the power of God upheld for ever, that they may ſuffer his fierce wrath for ever; which elſe they could never do. And as for thoſe deſperate Aſſaſines, Baltaſar Gerardus the Burgundian, who ſlew the Prince of Orange Anno Dom. 1584. and Ravilliac (Ferale illud prodigium, as one calleth him, that hideous hel[illegible: 1 letter]hound) who ſlew Henry the fourth of France in the midſt of his preparations, and endured thereupon moſt exquiſite torments; this they did out of ſtupidity of ſenſe, not ſolidity of faith; and from a wretchleſſe deſperation, not a confident reſolution.