John Trapp on Micah 6:13

Verſe 13. Therefore alſo will I make thee ſick in ſmiting thee] This is one twig of that rod Verſ, 9. that now they ſhall heare and feel too, that would not harken to Gods word. Bernard telleth us concerning a brother of his; that when he gave him many good inſtructions and he, being a ſouldier, minded them not: he put his finger to his ſides and ſaid, One day a ſpeare ſhall make way to this heart of thine, for inſtructions and admonitions, to enter. God can (and, where he intendeth mercy will) make way for his his word by his rod: and ſeale up inſtructions by chaſtening men with paine upon their beds, and the multitude of their bones with ſtrong paine Iob 33.16, 19. He can faſten them to their beds, as he did Abimelech, David, Hezekiah, and thereby tame them, and take them a link lower Iob 33.17. He can ſmite them with ſickneſſe, and make them deſolate, as it is here: with ſuch ſickneſſe as ſhall make their beſt friends afraid of them, and that none dare look at them, but as through a grate: and all this with a ſting too in the taile of it, Becauſe of thy ſins. Fooles, becauſe of their tranſgreſſion, and becauſe of their iniquities are afflicted. Their ſoule abhorreth all manner of meate (ſo ſick they are and ſtomackeleſſe, that nothing will down with them) and they draw neare to the gates of death Pſal. 107.17, 18. This was the caſe of that rich and wretched Cardinall Henry Beauford Biſh: of Wincheſter and Chancellour of England,Fox Martyr. fol. 925. in the raigne of Henry 6. who toſſing upon his ſick-bed, and perceiving he muſt die, murmured at ſickneſſe and death, that his riches could neither relieve him under the one, nor reprieve him from the other. This was alſo the caſe of that great Emperour Charles 5. of whom Du-pleſſy reporteth, that when he was old and crazy, he curſed his honours, his victories, trophies, riches, ſaying, Abite hinc, abite longe, Away, be gone miſerable comforters are ye all. Mention is made before of a great man that wrot this a little before his death, Spes & fortuna Valete. And ſurely there are not a few rich Cormorants, who may well ſay to their wealth when they are ſick, as Cornelius Agrippa did to his familiar ſpirit, Abi perdita beſtia, quae me predididſti, Be gone thou wicked beaſt, that haſt been mine undoing. &c. A promiſe contrary to this threatening in the text is that Eſai 33.24. And the inhabitant ſhall not ſay I am ſick: the people that dwell therein, ſhall be forgiven their iniquity.