John Trapp on Psalms 75:7

Verſ. 7. But God is the Judge] He ſitteth at the ſtern, and ordereth all human affairs, according to the good pleaſure of his will.

He putteth down one, and ſetteth up another] As we ſeen in Saul, and David, in the four great Monarchies, in Bajaz[illegible: 1 letter]t and Tamerlan; beſides many others. Vertue exalteth the meaneſt, when villany tumbleth down the mightieſt. Agathocles the ſon of a Potter became King of Sicily. Valentinian the ſon of a Rope-maker became Emperour of Rome. Justinus was firſt a Swineheard, then an heardſman,Anno. Chr. 518. then a Carpenter, a ſouldier, and after all, an Emperour. If Alexander, to ſhew his greatneſſe, advanced Abdilominus from a poor Gardiner, to be King in Sidon, What cannot the Lord do? Tamerlan having overcome Bajazet, asked him whether ever he had given God thanks for making him ſo great an Emperour? who confeſſed ingenuouſly he never thought of it; To whom Tamerian replyed, [illegible: 1 span]. that it was no wonder ſo ungratefull a man ſhould be made a ſpectacle of miſery. For you, ſaid he, being blind of one eye, and I lame of a leg, was there any worth in us, why God ſhould ſet us over two great Empires of Turks and Tartars, to command many more worthy than our ſelves?