John Trapp on Micah 6:3

Verſe 3. O my people, what have I done unto thee?] Or rather, what have I not done, to do thee good? O generation, ſee yee the word of the Lord, Jer. 2.31. and not hear it onely: was ever any thing more evidencing and evincing then what I now alledge? Have I been a wilderneſſe unto Iſrael, a land of darkneſſe? May I not well ſay unto you, as He did to his ungratefull countreymen; What? Are ye weary of receiving ſo many benefits from one man? But ſay; What hurt have I ever done you?Themiſtocles. and wherein have I wearied you, or been troubleſome to you? unleſſe it be by daily loading you with loving-kindneſſes, Pſal. 68.19. and bearing with your provocations? Forgive me that injury, 2 Cor. 12.13.

Teſtifie againſt me,] Put me in remembrance, let us plead together, declare thou againſt me, that thou mayeſt be juſtified, Eſay 43.26. See here, firſt, with what meekneſſe, and mildneſſe God proceedeth againſt ſinners, ſo Eſay 5.3. Judicate quaeſo. See, next, that God is content, for our better conviction, to ſubmit his courſes unto ſcanning, and to bring his proceedings with us to a triall, before hee paſſe ſentence; that he might be juſtified when he ſpeaketh, and cleared when hee judgeth, Pſal. 51.4. Here hee wills them to plead the cauſe with him, as it were at even hand; offering to make anſwer to whatſoever they could object, or lay to his charge. Seipſum quaſi reum ſiſtit. He maketh himſelf the Defendant,Gualther. and bids them put in their Bill of complaint againſt him, freely and without fear. This is Stupenda ſanè dignatio, a wonderfull condeſcention indeed. Should he uſe martiall law againſt us, M. Neh. Rog. and aſſoon as ever we offend (like Draco) write his lawes in blood upon us (as One well ſaith) it were but juſt and right. But for him to reaſon and plead with us about the juſtice of his cauſe before he proceedes to judgment, this deſerves admiration and acknowledgement in the higheſt degree. O the depth!