John Trapp on Psalms 7:4

Verſ. 4. If I have rewarded evil, &c.] If I have broke the conditions of our reconciliation, or betrayed my truſt.

Yea I have delivered him that, &c.] This was true Chriſtianity, to overcome evil with good, Matth. 5.44, &c. Rom. 12.17, &c. O quam hoc non eſt emnium! O how few can skill of this! Eliſha made the Syrians a Feaſt, who came to make him a Grave. David ſpared Saul, and delivered him, not without the hazard of his own life. Bradford conducted Bourn from the Pulpit at Pauls Croſs, (where hee had cried up Popery at the coming in of Queen Mary) ſafe to his Lodging. A certain Gentleman ſaid unto him, Ah, Bradford, Bradford, thou ſaveſt him that will help to burn thee. I give thee his life, if it were not for thee, I would run him thorow with my ſword. And it proved as the Gentleman had Propheſied. There he ſits, I mean my Lord of Bath, Mr. Bourn (ſaid Bradford in his third Examination before Stephen Gardiner) which deſired me himſelf for the Paſſion of Chriſt, I would ſpeak to the people. Upon whoſe words, I coming into the Pulpit, I had like to have been ſlain with a Dagger which was hurled at him, I think, for it touched my ſleeve. He then prayed me I would not leave him, and I promiſed, that as long as I lived I would take hurt before him that day: And ſo went I out of the Pulpit, and intreated with the people, and at length brought him my ſelf into an houſe. Beſides this, in the afternoon I preached in Bow Church, and there going up into the Pulpit, one willed me not to reprove the people; For, quoth hee you ſhall never come down alive if you do it. And yet in that Sermon I did reprove their Fact, and called it Sedition at leaſt twenty times. For all which my doing I have received this recompence, Priſon for a year and half, and more, and Death now, which you (my Lord of Bath among the reſt) go about.Acts and Mon. fol. 146[illegible: 1 letter] Let all men bee judge where Conſcience is. Thus Maſter Bradford, like another David in his own defence.