John Trapp on Micah 4:5

Verſe 5. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god,] They will do ſo, they are reſolved not to alter their religion: as Tully ſaid, Me ex ea opinione quam à majoribus accepi de cultu deorum, nullius unquam movebit oratio: I will never be diſſwaded by any one from that way of divine worſhip, which I have received from my forefathers. How wilfull at this day are Jews, Papiſts, Pagans, Heretikes? And how much eaſier a matter do we finde it, to deal with twenty mens reaſons, then with one mans will? A wilfull man ſtands as a ſtake in the middeſt of a ſtream, lets all paſſe by him, but hee ſtands where he was. Nay but wee will have a king ſay they, when they had nothing elſe to ſay. Nay, but I will curſe howſoever, though againſt my conſcience, ſaid Balaam: and do not the Popiſh Balaamites as much as this, many of them? As for the Vulgar ſort of them, they are headlong and headſtrong, reſolved to retaine contra gentes the ſenſeleſſe ſuperſtitions tranſmitted unto them by their Progenitours. But what ſaith the Oracle Rev. 14.7. Feare God, and give glory to him; for the houre of his judgement is come: and (what ever your anceſtours did) worſhip you him that made heaven and earth, and the ſea, and the fountaines of waters.

and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God] This was well reſolved, and is as well practiſed by all Chriſts faithfull people, who dare not follow a multitude to do evill Exod. 23.2. dare not walk by their fathers practiſe Ioſh. 24.2, 14, 15. for they conſider that no commandement doth ſo expreſly threaten Gods judgements upon poſterity as the ſecond. They therefore reſolve to walk in the name, that is, by the lawes and under the view of the Lord their God, who is God of Gods, and Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible, as Moſes deſcribeth him, in oppoſition to all other deities, whether ſo reputed or deputed Deut. 10.17.

for ever and ever] We will not only take a turn or two in his wayes, as temporaries; who are hot at hand but ſoon tire, and give in: but we will hold on a conſtant courſe of holineſſe, and not faile to follow the Lamb whitherſoever he goeth Pſal. 1.2. Ioh. 8.12. and 10.4.14. Rev. 7.17. As for thoſe Apoſtates that change their God, that change their glory for that which doth not profit, as they therein commit an horrible wickedneſſe, ſuch as the heavens have cauſe to be aſtoniſhed at Ier. 2.11, 12, 13. ſo they could not chuſe out for themſelves a worſe condition Heb. 10.37, 38. for why? they put the ſon of God to an open ſhame chap. 6.6. like (as thoſe that are carted amongſt us are held out as a ſcorn) and do in effect ſay, that they have not found him ſuch as they took him for.