John Trapp on Nehemiah 4:11

Verſe 11. And our adverſaries ſaid] But their plot was ſome way diſcovered, and ſo prevented. Detexit facinus fatuus & non implevit, ſaith Tacitus of one in his time. So the Gun-powder-traytours betrayed themſelves; and all came to light, though they had digg'd as low as hell to hide their counſels from the Lord.

They ſhall not know, neither ſee] But what ſhall he do who is Omniſcient and [non-Latin text not transcribed], All-eye? whoſe providence is like a well-drawn picture that vieweth all that comes into a roome.

Till we came into the middeſt among them] Either in the night undiſcerned; or by day, but unarmed, and not as enemies: for the Florentine Secretary, though not yet (nor of many ages after) born into the world; yet the good of this world was as great a Maſter then, as afterwards.

And ſtay them, and cauſe the work to ceaſe] The craft of the Churches adverſaries is never but accompanied with cruelty: and their cruelty is ſeldome without craft. The Devil lends them his ſeven heads to plot, and his ten hornes to puſh: but in the thing wherein they deale proudly, God is above theſe cruell-crafties.