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John Trapp on Psalms 9:15

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Psalms9:15

Verſ. 15. The Heathen are ſunk down, &c.] Hoc eſt initium cantici Sanctorum, ſaith Aben-Ezra. This is the beginning of the Saints Song, knit to the former verſe thus: ſaying, The Heathen, &c.

In the Net which they bid, &c.] To Hunters, they are compared for cruelty, and to Fowlers for craft. But ſee their ſucceſs, they are ſunk down in their own pit, caught in their own Net. Thus it befell Pharaoh, Exod. 15.9, 10. Jabin, and Sicera, Judg, 4. Sennacherib, 2 Chron. 32. Antiochus Epiphanes, Maxentius the Tyrant,Euſeb. lib. cap.9.(who fell into the river Tiber, from his own falſe Bridge laid for Conſtantine) The Spaniſh Armado, our Powder-Papiſts, &c. See the Note on, Pſal. 7.15.

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