John Trapp on Proverbs 5:11

Verſ. 11. And thou mourn at the laſt] Heb. And thou roar, Zeph. 3.5. as being upon the rack of an evil conſcience, and in the ſuburbs of Hell, as it were: whiles the juſt Lord makes thee, even here, poſſeſs the ſins of thy youth, and writes bitter things againſt thee. The word ſignifies to roar as a Lion, or as the Sea, [non-Latin text not transcribed] est m[illegible: 1 letter]rit agitatio. Hom. Iliad. H. vide Euſtath. Venus ab antiquis [non-Latin text not transcribed] dicta. or as the Devil doth. For the Devils beleeve and tremble, or roar, James 2.19. Grecians aſcribe the Original [non-Latin text not transcribed] to the roaring of the Sea.

When thy fleſh and thy body] By the word here rendred body, there are that underſtand the radical humor, the natural moiſture that maintains life: and is much impaired by this ſenſual ſin. Avicenna doubted not to ſay, that the emiſſion of a little ſeed more than the body could well bear, was a great deal more hurtful, than the loſs of forty times ſo much blood; Gouts, Palſies, Epilepſies, &c. oft follow upon this ſin: But the French diſeaſe is the natural fruit of it, ſuch as will ſtick by men when their beſt friends forſake them. Jeſabel is caſt into a bed, and they that commit adultery with her, into great tribulation, Rev. 2.20. The Popiſh libidinous Clergy are ſmitten with ulcers, Rev. 16.11. Their Pope Paul the fourth died, ex nimio Veneris uſu, Runius de vit. Pontif. ſaith the Hiſtorian, by waſting his ſtrength in filthy pleaſure, as the flame conſumeth the candle.