John Trapp on Micah 5:14

Verſe 14. And I will pluck up thy groves, &c.] wherein thou placeſt a part of thy happineſſe, (as the Hebrew word importeth) and haſt an over-high opinion of them, becauſe anciently frequented by the Fathers, before the Law. But it ſhould have been conſidered, that it was but a will-worſhip at beſt; yea, that God had flatly forbidden the planting of groves, Deut. 16.21. as things in uſe among Pagans, for honour, either of ſome God, or ſome great mans ghoſt, which was thought to dwell there. Nulli certa domus, lucis habitamus opacis.Virg. Aeneid. The worſhippers of Priapus, (that ſhame) when they had ended their ſacrifice, ſtept into a grove hard by the altar, and there like bruit heaſts, promiſcuouſly ſatisfied their luſts: thereby as they conceived, beſt pleaſing their god.

So will I deſtroy thy cities.] Or, thine enemies: and this will be the end, or fruit of that forementioned reformation. Mr. Fox obſerveth, that in K. Edw. the ſixts time, the Engliſh put to flight their enemies in Muſcleborough field,Acts & Mon. in the ſelfſame day and hour wherein the Reformation, enjoyned by Parliament, was put in execution at London, by burning of idolatrous images.