John Trapp on Malachi 3:17

Verſe 17. And they ſhall be mine] by peculiar right: Et ſuum cuique pulchrum: we all affect and admire our own things moſt: God chuſeth them for his love: and loves them for his choice. I will be a Father unto them: and they ſhall be my ſonnes and daughters, ſaith the Lord Almighty, 2 Cor. 6.18. which is all one with that here, They ſhall be mine ſaith the Lord of Hoſts. Concerning all which ſee my Righteous mans Recompenſe, Part 2. Chap. 1. and 3.

In the day when I make up my jewels] viz. from the worlds malignities, and miſuſages. They ſhall not plunder him of his Jewels, rob him of his chief treaſure. None ſhall take, or pluck them out of Chriſts hands, Job. 10.29. they that attempt it, ſhall find it a work not ſeiſable. When one deſired to ſee Great Alexanders treaſure, he bade one of his ſervants ſhew him not his gold and ſilver, but his friends.Liban. prog[illegible: 2 letters]. Chria. 1. Henceforth I call you not ſervants — but I have called you friends, Joh. 15.15. And a friend is as a mans own ſoul, Deut. 13.6. The Church is the dearly beloved of Gods ſoul, Jer. 12.7. yea his dearly beloved ſoul, as the Septuagint, and Vulgar render it, &c. See my Righteous mans Recompenſe, Part 2. Chap. 2.

and I will ſpare them] Or, indulge them, as David did Mephiboſheth, 2 Sam. 21.7. Vide ubi ſupra, Chap. 4. & 5.