John Trapp on Proverbs 17:6

Verſ. 6. Childrens children are the Crown of old men] That is, if they bee not children that cauſe ſhame, as verſ. 2. and that diſgrace their Anceſtors, ſtain their blood. If they obey their Parents counſel, and follow their good example, for otherwiſe, they prove not Crowns, but corroſives to their aged Sires, as did Eſau, Abſolom, Andronicus, and others.

And the glory of children are their Parents] If thoſe children ſo well deſcended do not degenerate, as Jonathan the ſon of Gerſhom, the ſon of Manaſſeh (or rather of Moſes, as the Hebrews read it with a Nun ſuspenſum) Judg. 18.31. and as Elies, Samuels, and ſome of Davids ſons did. Heroum filii noxae: Manaſſeh had a good Father, but hee degenerated into his Grandfather Ahaz, as if there had been no intervention of a Hezekiah. So wee have ſeen the kernel of a well-fruited-plant degenerate into that crab or willow that gave the original to his ſtock. But what an honour was it to Jacob, that hee could ſwear by the fear of his Father Iſaac? To David, that hee could (in a real and heavenly complement) ſay to his Maker? Truly Lord, I am thy ſervant, [illegible: 2 letters]am thy ſervant, the ſon of thy handmaid, Pſal. 116.16. To Timothy, that the ſame Faith that was in him, had dwelt firſt in his Mother Lois, and his Grandmother Eunice? 2 Tim. 1.15. To the children of the Elect Lady? &c. To Mark, that hee was Barnabas his ſiſters ſon? To Alexander and Rufus (men mentioned onely,Euſeb. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Mark. 15.21.) but famouſly known in the Church to bee the ſons of Simon of Cyrene? To the ſons of Conſtaintine the Great, to come of ſuch a Father, whom they did wholly put on, ſaith Euſebius, and exactly reſemble? To bee deſcended of thoſe glorious Martyrs and Confeſſors that ſuffered here in Queen Maries daies?