John Trapp on Psalms 2:4

Verſ. 4. He that ſitteth in the Heavens ſhall laugh at them] Videt, ridet: He ſeeth and ſmileth, he looketh and laugheth at theſe Giants. Hee ſitteth in Heaven far above their reach; neither doth he much trouble himſelf about the matter. No more ſhould we; but truſt in him, and know that there is a Council in Heaven that will daſh the mould of all contrary Counſels upon Earth; as the ſtone cut out of the Mountain did the Four great Monarchies, Dan. 2.34. See an inſtance hereof in latter times. Luther, that Heroical Reformer was Excommunicated by the Pope, proſcribed by the Emperour, hated and curſed all Chriſtendom over almoſt, yet he proſpered, and the Work of Chriſt went on in his hands. And when the Elector of Saxony (his only Patron) was much afraid what would become of him, and of the buſineſs of Religion, Luther out of his Pathmus (as he called it) where he lay hid, writeth him a rouſing Letter, wherein is read this among many other brave paſſages; Sciat Celſitudo tua & nihil dubitet longè alitèr in coelo quàm Noribergae de hoc negotio concluſum eſt, Let your Highneſs reſt well aſſured of this, that things are far otherwiſe carried, and concluded of in Heaven, than they are at the Imperial Diet held at Norinberg. After this, in the year of Grace, one thouſand five hundred twenty ſix, there conſpired againſt the Goſpel, and the Profeſſors thereof, the Emperour and his Priſoner in Spain, the French King, the Princes alſo, and Biſhops in Germany, ſtirred up by the Pope. The French King was ſet at liberty, upon condition to joyn with the Emperour to root out Lutheraniſm, that is, true Religion. This was the agreement, but God brake it, for the French King was no ſooner come home, but he made a League with the Pope, and the Venetians, againſt the Emperour. The Pope excuſeth his falling off from Caeſar by a petulant and malapert Epiſtle. Caeſar by another Letter [illegible: 1 letter]ays open to the World the Popes perfidy, exhorting him to peace, and concluding, that they had more need to unite their Forces for the extirpation of Lutheran Hereſie, &c. By this means the Church had an happy Halcyon, whiles theſe great ones were out, and at it.

The Lord will have them in deriſion] Adonai, that is, the ſuſtainer and upholder of all. Chriſt is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Rev. 19.16. Lords and Loſels are all his vaſſals and underlings, as Conſtantine, Theodoſius, and Valentine, thoſe great Emperours called themſelves. This Name or Stile Chriſt hath written on his Veſture, that all may ſee it, and on his Thigh, where hangs his Sword, to ſhew his abſolute Dominion, his illimited Empire, got and held out of the hands of his enemies, with his Sword, and with his Bow, as Gen. 48.22. And when he is ſaid to deride them, this is more than to laugh at them, as the following effects ſhew.