John Trapp on Psalms 116:9-10

Verſ. 9. I will walk before the Lord] Indefinenter a[illegible: 1 letter]bulabo: I will not onely take a turn or two with God, go three or four ſteps with him, &c. but walk conſtantly and in all duties, before him, with him, after him. Hypocrites do not walk with God, but halt with him, they follow him as a Dog doth his Maſter, till hee comes by a carrion; they will launch no further out into the main than they may be ſure to return at pleaſure ſafe again to the ſhore.

In the land] i.e. here in this world, called alſo the light of the living, Pſal. 56.13. and 52.5. Job 28.13.

Verſ: 10. I beleeved, therefore have I ſpoken] Fundamentum et fulcrum vera ſpei eſt fides viva. Hope is the daughter of faith, but ſuch as is a ſtaff to her aged mother; and will produce a bold and wiſe profeſſion of the truth before men, as alſo earneſt prayer to God. It is as the Cork upon the Net: though the lead on the one ſide ſink it down, yet the Cork on the other keeps it up. Some tranſlate the words thus: I beleeved, when I ſaid, I am greatly afflicted: I beleeved when I ſaid in my haſte, all men are Lyars. q. d. Though I have had my offs and my ons, though I have paſſed through ſeveral frames of heart, and tempers of ſoul in my tryals, yet I beleeved ſtill, I never let go my hold, my gripe of God in any perturbation.