John Trapp on Psalms 4:6

Verſ. 6. There be many that ſay, Who will ſhew us, &c.] This is Vox populi, the common cry: Studium improborum vagum, good they would have, but pitch not upon the true good. It was well obſerved, that he who firſt called Riches Bona, goods, was a better Husband than Divine; but the moſt are ſuch Husbands. O ſiquis daret ut vide[illegible: 1 letter]mus bonum! Who will help us to a good bargain, a good eſtate? &c. but God the chief good is not in all their thoughts; they minde not communion with him, or conformity to him, which is the Bonum hominis, Mic. 6.8. the totum hominis, Eccleſ. 12.13. the one thing neceſſary, though nothing is leſs thought upon. What are theſe outward comforts, ſo much affected, and admired, ſaith Plato, but Dei ludibria, banded up and down like Tennis Balls, from one to another? A Spiritual man heeds not wealth, or at leaſt makes it not his buſineſs. What tell you me of Money, ſaith Paul? I need it not, but to further your reckoning, Phil. 4.1. And David having ſpoken of thoſe rich and wretched people that have their portion herein all abundance, Pſal. 17.14. concludeth, I neither envie their ſtore, nor covet their happineſs: it is enough for me, that when I awake, ſo. at the Reſurrection of the juſt, I ſhall be full of thine Image, verſ. ult. Chriſt, who had all riches, ſcorned theſe Bona ſcabelli, earthly riches; he was born poor, lived poor, dyed poor; for, as Austin obſerveth, when Chriſt dyed he made no will &c. and as he was born in another mans houſe, ſo he was buried in another mans tombe; And yet he was, and ſtill is, God bleſſed for ever. Cicero indeed writing to Atticus, would have one friend wiſh to another three things only, viz. to enjoy Health, poſſeſs Honour, and not ſuffer Neceſſity. How much better Pauls with, Grace, Mercy, and Peace? or Davids deſire here?

Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us] One good caſt of Gods countenance was more to David than all this Worlds wealth than a confluence of all outward comforts and contentments. He had ſet up God for his chief good, and the light of Gods loving Countenance was the guide of that way that leadeth to that good; and hence his importunity; he cannot draw breath but in that air, nor take comfort in any thing without Gods gracious aſpect, and ſome comings in from Chriſt. It is better, ſaith one, to feel Gods favour one Hour in our repenting Souls, than to ſit whole Ages under the warmeſt Sun-ſhine that this world affordeth. Saith not David ſo much in the next words?