John Trapp on Micah 1:14

Verſe 14. Therefore ſhall thou give preſents, &c.] And ſo ſeek to make thee friends among the Philiſtines: but ſuch carnall confederacies never proſper. The Greek Churches, Anno 1438. afraid of the Turks, ſent and ſubjected themſelves to the Biſhop of Rome, that they might have the help of the Latine Churches: but ſhortly after, they were deſtroyed, their Empire ſubdued, and ſwallowed up by the Ottoman greatneſſe, &c. How much better were it to ſend a Lamb to the Ruler of the earth, Eſay 16.1? to bring preſents unto Him that ought to be feared, Pſal. 76.11? even to God, who cutteth off the ſpirits of Princes, and is terrible to the Kings of the earth? verſe 12. Was he not ſo to Sennacherib whom Lachiſh here feared, and fled from? to Nebuchadnezzar, Belſhazzar, Xerxes, who after he had [illegible: 3 letters]ted over two millions of men into Greece, and beaten the Helleſpont (for battering his bridge of boats over it) with three hundred ſtripes, was defeated, routed,Hered. and forced to flee back in a poor fiſhers boat, to ſave his own life?

The houſes of Achzib (that is of a lie) ſhall be a lie to the kings of Iſrael.] Or have been a lie to the kings of Iſrael: never true to thoſe that truſted them: And wilt thou confederate with them, and confide in them?