John Trapp on Proverbs 6:14

Verſ. 14. Frowardneſs is in his heart] What marvel then though hee ſoleciſe with his hand, though hee twinkle with his eye, and tinkle with his feet, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. &c. When hee ſpeaketh fair, beleeve him not: for there are ſeven abominations in his heart, Prov. 26.25. Even thoſe ſeven next mentioned here, Verſ. 16, 17, 18, 19. as Aben-Ezra conceiveth upon that Text.

He[illegible: 1 letter] deviſeth miſchief continually] Heb. At all times. Pliny ſpeaks of the Scorpion, that there is not one minute, wherein it doth not put forth the ſting. The ſoul of a wicked man is in a ſling, reſtleſs, and violently toſſed about by Satan, who acts and agitates him,1 Sam. 25.29. Epheſ. 2.2. See Mic. 2.1. Hoſ. 7.6.

Hee ſoweth diſcord] And ſo ſhews himſelf a true breathing Devil, a Diſciple of Machiavel, whoſe Maxime was, Divide, & impora, make diviſion, and get dominion.Archb. Abbots Anſwer to D. Hills three reaſons. In the year 1579 Allen at Rhemes inſtructed his Emiſſary ſeducers ſent over into England, to make way for their great project of perdition in eighty eight, by dividing the people under the terms of Proteſtant and Puritan, and provoking them thereby to real and mutual, both hate and contempt. And what labouring there is now by the Jeſuitical party to heighten out unhappy differences, that they may make themſelves Maſters of all, who ſeeth not? Herein they deal (ſaith Gregory, of the like factors for the Devil in his time) as the Maſter of the Pit, who oft ſets two Cocks to fight together to the death of both, that after mutual conqueſt, hee may ſup with both their carkaſſes. The Jews, before they were baniſhed out of this Kingdome, threw bags of poiſon into the wells and fountains that the people were to drink of, and thereby indeavoured to poiſon them all: ſo do our ſeeds-men of ſedition.