John Trapp on Proverbs 3:16

Verſ. 16. Length of dayes is in her right hand] This is the ſame in effect with verſ. 2. See the Note there, [non-Latin text not transcribed], ſaid Socrates, the ſame again may bee profitably ſaid over; Solomon wanted neither matter, nor words, and yet hee repeats and inculcates (for his Readers greater benefit) the ſame matter in the ſelf-ſame words almoſt.Seneca. Nunquam ſatis dicitur quod nunquam ſatis diſcitur. As to the Text, health and long life is that which every man covets. Now, Non domus & fundus, He[illegible: 3 letters]. non aris acerv[illegible: 1 letter] & auri Aegroto domini deducant corpore febres. Riches avail not in the day of wrath, but righteouſneſs delivereth from death, Prov. 10.2. The honourable garter cannot cure the Gout, nor the chair of eſtate eaſe the Colick, nor a Crown remove the head-ach. Nugas the Scythian deſpiſing the rich preſents and ornaments, that were ſent unto him by Michael Paleologus Emperour of Conſtantinople, Pachymer. Hiſt. lib. 5. asked, whether thoſe things could drive away calamities, diſeaſes, or death? No; this they cannot do; as Henry Beauford (that rich and wretched Cardinal) found by woful experience in the reign of Henry the ſixth. For perceiving death at hand, hee asked, Wherefore ſhould I dye being ſo rich? If the whole Realm would ſave my life, I am able either by policy to get it, or by riches to buy it. Fox Martyrol. vol. 1. p. 925. Fye, quoth hee, will not death bee hired? will mony do nothing? No; mony in this caſe bears no maſtery. Death (as the jealous man) will not regard any ranſome, neither will hee reſt content though thou offer many gifts, Prov. 6.35.

Aug. de civit. Dei. l. 5. c. 25. And in her left hand riches and honour] Bonus Deus Conſtantinum Magnum tantis terrenis implevit muneribus, quant[illegible: 1 letter] optare nullus auderet. The good Lord heaped ſo much outward happineſs upon his faithful Servant Conſtantine the Great, as no man ever durſt to have wiſhed more, ſaith Auſtin. If God give his People a Crown, hee will not deny them a cruſt: If they have bona throni, the good things of a Throne, they ſhall bee ſure of bona ſcabelli, the good things of the footſtool.