John Trapp on Psalms 10:14

Verſ. 14. Thou hast ſeen it] For thou art All-eye, whatever the wicked conceiteth to the contrary, making thee a God of clouts, as they ſay, or an Heathen-Idoll, which is nothing in the World.

To requite it with thine hand] reponendo in manu tua, by taking it in thy hand (ſo ſome render it) ſc. ut propius intnearis, certius conſideres, dijudices & vindices, Aben-Ezra-Relinquit in te [illegible: 1 letter]onus ſaum. R. Solomon. that thou mayeſt take a more neer and narrow view of it, and duely puniſh it.

The poor committeth himſelf unto thee] Heb. leaveth, relinquit ſcipſum, & currit ad te, he relinquiſheth himſelf, and runneth unto thee. Now whoſoever committeth himſelf, and his affaires to God, ſhall bee ſure to find him a faithfull Depoſitarie.

Thou art the helper of the father leſſe] The Worlds Refuge, as the Grand Signiour is called; The poor mans King, as James 5. of. Scotland. In God the Fatherleſs findeth mercy, Hoſ. 14.3. And theſe Arguments David uſeth in his prayer, not to move God to hear and help, but to work upon his own heart thereby, and to perſwade himſelf to more Faith, Love, Obedience, Humility, Thankfullneſs, whereby wee are the better fitted for mercy. When a man in a Ship plucks a Rock, it ſeemeth as if he pluckt the Rock nearer the ſhip, when as indeed the ſhip is pluck'd nearer the Rock. So is it in this caſe; wee ſeem to perſwade God by our Arguments, when as indeed the change is not wrought in him, but only in our ſelves; our Arguments are curarum noſtrarum levamenta, & fiducia impetrandi augmenta, the cure of our cares, and props to our faith of obtaining.