John Trapp on Psalms 112:7

Verſ. 7. He ſhall not be afraid of evil tydings] When the miſerly miſcreant is ready to make away himſelf for feat of what evil may follow, this man is undaunted and unappaled. The fear of God ſo ballaſteth his hears, that he floteth ſteadily; and blow what wind it will, he ſaileth ſate to the port. Fides famem non formidat, Faith ſeareth no famine, nor any thing elſe; when as a ſound of ſear is ever in the wicked mans cars, Job. 15.

His heart is fixed] viz. Upon the promiſes of God, and hence he [illegible: 1 word] a ſpiritual ſecurity, a bleſſed Sabbath of Spirit; he is freed, if not from the common deſtruction, yet from the common diſtraction; for he knoweth whom he hath truſted. Praeclara eſt equabilitas in omni vita,In offic. & idem ſemper vnitus, eademque frons, ſaith Cicero, It is a brave thing to have a well-compoſed ſpirit in all changes, and to look alike however the world goeth. [illegible: 1 word] lib. 9. The heathens tell us that C. Lalius was ſuch an one, and Archimedes, and Socrates, who are ſaid to have been far above all fear of, or grief at, any diſaſter. But that could not be, becauſe their hearts were not fixed, truſting in the Lord. And how Socrates (the beſt of them) ſtaggered and faultered when he came to dye, appeareth by his laſt ſpeech, as it is related both by Plato and Cicero.