John Trapp on Proverbs 19:16

Verſ. 16. Hee that keepeth the Commandement, keepeth his own ſoul] This is the firſt fruit of ſhaking off ſloth and ſleepineſs. Hee that ſtirs up himſelf to take hold of God, Iſa. 64.7. and to take hold of his Covenant, Iſa. 56.4. to love the name of the Lord, and to bee his ſervant, verſ. 6. to love him, and keep his Commandements, Exod. 20.6. to do that little hee does out of love, if it bee no more than to think upon his Commandements to do them, Pſal. 103.18. this mans ſoul ſhall bee bound up in the bundle of life, hee ſhall finde his name written in the book of life. For in vitae libro ſcribuntur omnes qui quod poſſunt, faciunt, etſi quod debeut non poſſunt, ſaith Bernard. Their names are written in Heaven who do what they can, though they cannot do what they ought. If there bee a willing mind, 2 Cor. 8.12. God accepts, according to what a man hath, not according to what hee hath not. Aug. Exchir. cap. 32. And here alſo, Nolentem praevenit Deus ut velit, volentem ſubſequitur ne fruſtrà velit. God that gives both to will and to do, cauſeth his people to keep his Commandements,Ezek. 36. Iſa. 26. and worketh all their works in them, and for them. Lex jubet, gratia juvat: petamus ut det, quod ut habeamus jubet. Aug. in Exod. quaſt. 55. The Law commandeth, but Grace helpeth; let us beg that God would make us to be what hee requires us to be.

But hee that despiſeth his waies] That is, Gods waies, chalked out in his word. See the Note on chap. 13.13. Or, Hee that deſpiſeth his own waies, Aut mentem aut reſtim comparandum. Chryſip. lives careleſly, and at randome; walks at all adventures with God, cui vita eſt incompoſita, & poſſimè morata contra gnomonem & canonem Decalogi, a looſe and lawleſs perſon, hee ſhall dye, not a natural death onely (as all do) but ſpiritual and eternal. There is but an inch betwixt him and hell, which already gapes for him, and will certainly ſwallow him up.