John Trapp on Psalms 30:7

Verſ. 7. Lord, by thy favour thou haſt made my mountain, &c.] Yea, but there is no mountain ſo ſtrong that may not bee moved, if not removed with an Earthquake. Is it not as eaſie with God to blaſt an Oak, as trample a muſhrome? And what though God in his favour had ſeeled ſtrength to Davids mountain? what though he had conſtituted and eſtabliſhed it ſure as Mount-Zion (for there was Davids arx, & aularegia) which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever? Pſal. 125.1. yet by a turn of his countenance only, God can ſoon diſ-ſweeten all his injoyments, and plunge him into a deplorable condition.

Thou didſt hide thy face and[illegible: 2 letters] was troubled] i. e. Thou didſt ſuſpend the actuall influence and communication of thy grace (the Chaldea calleth it Sheahinab the divine prefence) and I was all-amort. The life of ſome creatures conſiſteth in the E[illegible: 2 letters] ſo doth that of the Saints in the light of Gods countenance. And [illegible: 1 letter]sun an Eclipſe of the Sun there is a drooping in the whole frame of nature ſo when God hideth his face, the good ſoul laboureth and languiſheth. And as none look at the Sun but when it is in the eclipſe; ſo neither prize wee Gods loving countenance, till we have loſt it.