John Trapp on Psalms 7:13

Verſ. 13. He hath alſo prepared, &c.] The puniſhment of ungodly perſons is here elegantly ſet forth by Three Similitudes.

1 From Warfare.

2 From Child-birth, verſ. 14.

3 From Hunting, verſ. 15, 16. Well might the Lord ſay, I have uſed Similitudes by the Miniſtery of the Prophets, Hoſ. 12.10. See the Note there.

He ordaineth his Arrows againſt the Perſecutors] Heb. Ardemes, Importing [illegible: 1 word] haſt to perpetra[illegible: 2 letters] miſchief. The hot burning Perſecutors, that are ſet on work by the great red Dragon. Such were Felix of Wartemburg, who ſwore that ere he dyed he would ride up to the Spurs; and Forneſius, who vowed that he would ride up to the Saddle-skirts in the bloud of the Lutherans. The Arch-biſhop of Toures made ſute for the erection of a Court called Chambre Ardent, wherein to condemn the French Proteſtants to the fire.Act., & Mon. 1911. But ere he dyed he had fire enough, for he was ſtricked with a Diſeaſe called The Fire of God; which began at his feet, and ſo aſcended upward, that he cauſed one Member after another to be cut off, and ſo he dyed miſerably. This was Gods burning Arrow againſt a hot burning Perſecutor. The like may be ſaid of Diocleſian that bloudy Tyrant, who had his houſe burnt over his head with fire from Heaven;Euſeb. l. 5. wherewith he was ſo affrighted that he dyed ſoon after. The above-mentioned Count Felix of Wartemburg was, the ſame night that he had ſo vowed and vaunted,Illyric. choaked in his own bloud. So he rode not, but bathed himſelf, not up to the Spurs but Throat, not in the Lutherans bloud, but in his own, before he dyed. And the like we read of Charls the ninth of France.