John Trapp on Psalms 8:4

Verſ. 4. What is man that thou art mindful of him?] Sorry, ſickly man, a Maſs of Mortalities, a Map of Miſeries, a mixture or compound of Dirt and Sin? And yet God is mindful of him; he not only takes care of him in an ordinary way, as he doth other Creatures, but ſingularly attendeth, and affecteth him, as a Father doth his deareſt Childe. Heis, Divini ingenii cura, ſaith one; he is the end of all in a ſemi-circle, ſaith another Philoſopher; meaning, that all things in the World were made for man, and man made for God: Neither is there ſo much of the glory of God in all his Works of Wonder, as in one gracious performance of a godly perſon. But if we underſtand the Text (as the Apoſtle doth, Heb. 2.6.) of the Man Chriſt Jeſus, Hic homo & filius hominis qualis & quantus eſt, Deus bone! ſaith Junius.

And the Son of Man] Heb.Arrian in Epictet. Of earthly men; for what is the greateſt Potentate, but [non-Latin text not transcribed] a peece of Clay neatly made up?

That thou viſiteſt him?] That thou mindeſt him more than other Creatures, and makeſt him Lord of all? thy viſitation preſerveth his ſpirit, Job 10.12.