John Trapp on Proverbs 17:5

Verſ. 5. Hee that mocketh the poor, &c.] See the Note on Chap. 14.31.

And hee that is glad at calamities, ſhall not bee unpuniſhed] Hee is ſick of the Devils diſeaſe, [non-Latin text not transcribed], which Job was not tainted with. Chap. 31. as the Edomites, Ammonites, Philiſtims, and other of Sions enemies, Lam. 1. were. How bitterly did the Jews inſult over our Saviour, when they had nailed him to the Croſſe? And in like ſort they ſerved many of the Martyrs, worrying them when they were down, as Dogs do other Creatures: and ſhooting ſharp arrows at them, when they had ſet them up for marks of their malice and miſchief. Herein they deal like barbarouſly with the Saints, as the Turks did with one John de Chabes a Frenchman,Turk. Hiſt. fol. 756. at the taking of Tripolis in Barbary. They cut off his hands and noſe, and then when they had put him quick into the ground to the waſte, they for their pleaſure ſhot at him with their arrows, and afterwards cut his throat. Mr. John Deuly Martyr, being ſet in the fire with the burning flame about him, ſang a Pſalm; Then cruel Doctor Story commanded one of the tormentours to hurl a faggot at him, whereupon, being hurt therewith upon the face,Act. & Mon. fol. 1530. that hee bled again, hee left his ſinging, and clapt both his hands upon his face. Truly, ſaid Doctor Story to him that hurled the fagot, Thou haſt marred a good old ſong. This Story being after the coming in of Queen Elizabeth, queſtioned in Parliament for many foul crimes, and particularly for perſecuting and burning the Martyrs, hee denied not but that hee was once at the burning of an Herewigge (for ſo hee termed it) at Uxbridge; Ibid. 1918. where hee caſt a faggot at his face as hee was ſinging of Pſalms, and ſet a winnebuſh of thorns under his feet a little to prick him, &c. This wretch was afterwards hanged, drawn and quartered, and ſo this Proverb was fulfilled of him,Anno. 1571. Hee that is glad at calamities, ſhall not bee unpuniſhed.