John Trapp on Proverbs 3:11

Verſ. 11. Despiſe not the chaſtening of the Lord] Slight it not, but ſit alone, Lam. 3.28. and conſider, Eccleſ. 7.14. Some think it a goodly thing to bear out a croſs by head and ſhoulders, and wear it out as they may, never improving it: As a Dog, that getting out of the water into which hee is caſt, ſhakes his cars; or as a man, that coming out of a ſhower of rain, dryes again; and all is as before. Perdidiſtis fructum afflictionis, ſaith Auſtin of ſuch Scapethrifts. Thus the proud Greeks (having loſt two Caſtles in Cherſoneſus, Miſerrimi facti eſtis, & peſſimi permanſiſtis. Aug. de civit. Dei, l. 1. c. 33. Turk Hiſt. fol. 185. taken from them by the Turks) commonly ſaid, that there was but an Hogſty loſt, alluding to the name of that Country: Whereas that was the firſt footing that the Turks got in Europe, and afterwards poſſeſſed themſelves of the Imperial City of Conſtantinople. Shortly after, Anno 1358. Callipolis alſo being loſt, the mad Greeks, to extenuate the matter, when they had any talk thereof, in jeſting-wiſe commonly ſaid, Ibid. 186. that the Turks had but taken from them a bottle of Wine. So Galicum the Roman Emperour, hearing that Aegypt was revolted, ſaid, Quid? fine lino Aegyptio eſſe non poſſumus? What? cannot wee bee without the hemp of Aegypt? So when Callice was taken from us by the French, the Court-Paraſites to eaſe Queen Maries minde (which yet they could not) ſaid,Englands Eliſab. that it was onely a refuge for runnagate Hereticks; and that no true Roman Catholick ought to deplore, but rather rejoyce at the damage.

Virgil.At Regina gravi jam dumdum ſaucia cura Vulnus alit veni[illegible: 1 letter] —

[illegible: 1 letter]eyl. Geog. Monſieur de Cordes uſed to ſay, that hee would bee content with all his heart to lye in hell ſeven years, on condition that Callice were taken from the Engliſh. And a conſiderate Engliſh Captain being asked by a proud Frenchman, When will yee fetch Callice again? Gravely replied, Quando peccata veſtra erunt noſtris graviora, when your ſins ſhall weigh down ours. God is to bee ſeen in every thing wee ſuffer ſith light afflictions not improved, are but as a drop of wrath fore-running the great ſtorms, a crack fore-running the ruine of the whole.

Neither bee weary of his correction] This is the other extream, deſpair and deſpondency of ſpirit.Non quia dura, ſed quia molles patimur. Sen. See my Love-tokens, pag. 44. &c.