John Trapp on Proverbs 19:21

Verſ. 21. There are many deviſes in a mans heart] They may purpoſe, but God alone diſpoſeth of all. See the Note on chap. 16.1.9. Some think to riſe by ill principles, but it will not bee. Some to bee rich, but God croſſeth them, and holds them to priſoners pittances, to hard meat, as wee ſay. Some, to live long, and to enjoy what they have gotten: but they hear, Thou fool, Luk. 12. this very night ſhall thy ſoul bee taken from thee, &c. Some ſet themſelves to root out true Religion, to dethrone the Lord Chriſt, &c. But God ſees and ſmiles, looks and laughs, Pſal. 2. The counſel of the Lord, that ſhall ſtand when all is done. Chriſt ſhall reign in the midſt of his enemies: the ſtone cut out of the mountains without hands, ſhall bring down the golden Image with a vengeance, and make it like the chaff of the Summer-floor, Dan. 2.35. Sciat Celfitudo veſtra & nihil dubitet, (ſaith Luther in a letter to the Electour of Saxony) longè aliter in coelo quàm Noribergae de hoc negotio concluſum eſſe. Scult. Annal. Let your highneſs bee ſure that the Churches buſineſs is far otherwiſe ordered in Heaven, than it is by the Emperour and States at Norinberg. And Gaud eo quod Chriſtus Dominus eſt; alioqui totus deſperaſſem. I am glad that Chriſt is King; for otherwiſe I had been utterly out of heart and hope, ſaith holy Myconius in a Letter to Calvin, upon the view of the Churches enemies.