John Trapp on Proverbs 12:6

Verſ. 6. The words of the wicked are to lye in wait for blood] As they think not,Mat. 5. ſo neither ſpeak they the language of the righteous. Yee are the light of the world; and becauſe the light ſtands in the light of their wicked waies, as the Angel in Balaams way to his ſin, therefore they hate the Saints; and (as all hatred is bloody) ſeek their lives, mixing cruelty with their craft, as Cain, Herod, Julian, &c. The old Serpent lends them his ſeven heads to plot, and his ten horns to puſh. Their own ſtudy and exerciſe alſo hath made them expert and skilful in their helliſh trade; and the taſte of blood hath made them as hungry as hounds after it. Thus I kept the ban-dogs at ſtaves end (ſaid Nicholas Shetterden, Martyr) not as thinking to eſcape them, but that I would ſee the Foxes leap above ground for my blood,Act. & Mon. if they can reach it (ſo it bee the will of God) yet wee ſhall ſee them gape and leap for it.

But the mouth of the upright ſhall deliver them] Shall defend harmleſs men that are helpleſs, Prov. 24.11. Hence thoſe many Apologies of Tertullian, Apollonius, Arnobius, and others for the Primitive Chriſtians under perſecution. Hence wee had that unparralleld peece, Calvins Inſtitutions, which was written upon this occaſion. Francis King of France, willing to excuſe his cruelty exerciſed upon his Proteſtant Subjects, to the German Princes (whoſe friendſhip hee then deſired) wrote to them, that hee onely puniſhed Anabaptiſts for their contempt of the Scriptures, and of all Civil Government. Calvin (though then but five and twenty years of age) not able to bear that blur caſt upon the Reformed Religion under the name of thoſe Sectaries, Scultet. Annal. 454. ſet forth that excellent work, as well to vindicate the truth, as to plead for the innocency of thoſe that profeſſed it.