John Trapp on Luke 12:20-25

Verse 20. Thou foole, this night, &c.] This rich foole when, like a Jay, he was pruning himself in the boughs, came tumbling down with the arrow in his side: his glasse was run, when he thought it to be but new turned. He chopt into the earth before he was aware: like as one, that walking in a field cover'd with snow, falleth into a pit suddenly. He was shot as a bird with a bolt whilst he gazed at the bow: And this may be any mans case. Which made Austin say he would not for the gain of a world be an Atheist for one half hour: because he knew not but God might in that time call him. Then whose shall those things be, &c.?] As thy friends are scrambling for thy goods, worms for thy body, so devils for thy soul. We read of Henry Beauford that rich and wretched Cardinall, Bishop of Winchester, and Chancellour of England in the reign of King Henry the Sixth, that perceiving he must needs die, he murmur'd that his riches could not repreive him. Fie, quoth he,Fox Martyrol. vol. 1. pag 925. will not Death be hired? will mony do nothing? No: its righteousnesse only that delivereth from death.