John Trapp on Proverbs 12:25

Verſ. 25. Heavineſs in the heart of a man maketh it ſtoop] Grief is like Lead to the ſoul, heavy and cold; it ſinks downward, Homer. Odyſſ. 1. Mans mind is like the ſtone Tyrrhenus, which ſo long as it is whole, ſwimeth, but being once broke, ſinketh. and carries the ſoul with it; [non-Latin text not transcribed]. How decrepit was David grown with much grief at ſeventy years of age? The like wee may ſay of Jacob, who attained not to the daies of the years of the life of his Fathers, Gen. 47.9. as being a man of many ſorrows. And this, ſome think, was the reaſon that our Saviour Chriſt, at little paſt thirty, was reckoned to bee toward fifty, Joh. 8.57. Hee was the man that had ſeen affliction by the rod of Gods wrath, Lam. 3.1.

But a good word maketh it glad] Such as was that of our Saviour to the poor Paralytick, Son, bee of good chear, thy ſins are forgiven thee. The promiſes are called a good word, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Jer. 29.10. ſo David found them, Pſal. 119.92. Phyſick for the ſoul (more truly ſo called than the Library at Alexandria) cordials of comfort, breaſts of conſolation, Iſa. 66.11. Wells of ſalvation, Iſa. 12.3. [non-Latin text not transcribed] miſeriarum (as Plato ſaid of Wine and Muſick) that which mitigates mans miſeries; and without which Wine, Muſick, merry company, &c. will prove but miſerable comforters, and at the beſt, but the Devils Anodynes.