John Trapp on Proverbs 29:10

Verſ. 10. The bloud-thirſty hate the upright] As Cain did Abel for his goodneſs, 1 Joh. 3.12. and as many bloudy Villains ſtill, who bear about, and, ſo farre as they dare, make uſe of Cains club to knock on the head Gods righteous Abels. All hatred is bloudy, but eſpecially the habit of hatred. No ſight pleaſed Hannibal better than a ditch running over with mans bloud. Nothing would ſatisfie Farneſius the Popes Champion, but to ride his horſe up to the skirts in the bloud of the Lutherans. Charls the ninth of France (Author of the Pariſian Maſſacre) looking upon the dead Carkaſs of the Admiral, that ſtank by being long kept unburied, uttered this moſt ſtinking ſpeech: Quam ſuavitèr olet cadaver inimici? How ſweet is the ſmell of an enemies carcaſs? And the Queen-mother of Scotland, beholding the dead bodies of her Proteſtant Subjects, whom ſhe had ſlain in battel, ſaid, that ſhe never ſaw a finer piece of Tapiſtry in all her life.

But the juſt ſeek his ſoul] In a good ſenſe, as Pſal. 142.4. Seek the ſalvation of it, as Chriſt did of his deadlieſt enemies, as Paul did of his Country-men the Jews, of whom five times he received forty ſtripes ſave one, 2 Cor. 11.24. As the Diſciples did of thoſe ſpiteful Phariſees, that had cauſeleſly accuſed them, Matth. 15.2, 12. as that Martyr Maſter Saunders did, My Lord (ſaid he to Biſhop Bonner) you ſeek my bloud, Act. & Mon. fol. 1358. and you ſhall have it. I pray God you may be ſo baptized in it, that you may hereafter loath bloud-ſucking, and ſo become a better man. And another time, when Steven Gardiner being prettily nipped and touched by the ſame Sanders, ſaid, Carry away this frenzie fool to Priſon; hee anſwered, that he did give God thanks which had given him at the laſt a place of reſt and quietneſſe, where he might pray for the Biſhops converſion. If yee will not hear me ſpeak for my ſelf, ſaid another Martyr,Ibid. then ſend mee to my Priſon again among my Toades and Froggs, which will not interrupt me, whiles I pray to God for you.