John Trapp on Matthew 8:25

Verse 25. Master, save us, we perish.] Troubles drive us to God, (as bugbears doe children into their mothers bosom,) who delight to help those that are forsaken of their hopes. In prosperity, [illegible: 1 word] we pray not at all—Rarae fumant felicibus arae, or but faintly, yawningly, &c. [illegible: 1 word] fine malis, est ut avis sine alis. But in a stresse, as here, our prayers, like strong streams in narrow straits, run mightily upon God, and will not away, without that they came for.