John Trapp on Psalms 49:1

PSAL. XLIX.

VErſ. 1. Hear this all ye people] This that is of ſo great conſequence, and univerſall concernment, viz. that the Saints ſhould not be frighted nor perplexed at the preſent proſperity of graceleſſe perſons; but conſider that death at utmoſt ſhall render them extreamly miſerable, and at the day of Judgement men ſhall retutn and diſcern a manifeſt difference betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked, betwixt him that ſerveth God, and him that ſerveth him not, Mal. 3. ult.

Give ear all ye Inhabitants of the World] Hear and give ear, be not proud, for the Lord hath ſpoken it, Jer. 13.15. The Inhabitants of the World (Heb. of the tranſitory World) are like men in a Mill, through hurry of buſineſſe; or as one that is running a race, to whom though never ſo good counſell be given, he cannot ſtay to hear it. Of ſuch we uſe to ſay, that they hear with their harveſt-ears (harveſt it is a time of great pleaſure, and of great buſineſſe) and hence it is that we have ſo ill a feed-time for the Word. Wee had need to wiſh (as Harding once did) that wee could cry out againſt ſin as loud, as the bells of Oſeney; yea as thoſe Catholick Preachers, whoſe voice is heard in all ſpeeches, and languages, Pſal. 19.3.