John Trapp on Zechariah 12:10

Verſe 10. And I will pour upon the houſe of David] Pour as by whole pailefuls; God is no penny-father; no ſmall gifts ſall from ſo great a hand; he gives liberally Iam. 1.15. and is rich to all that call upon his name Rom. 10.12. abundant in kindneſſe Exod. 34.6. plenteous in mercy Pſal. 103.8. the grace of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt hath over-abounded, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. hath overflowed all the banks 1 Tim. 1.14. indeed it hath neither bank nor bottom. Oh pray for that bliſſe-full ſight Eph. 1.18. and 3.18, 19. that Spirit of wiſdome and revelation.

of grace and of ſupplications] Or deprecations of that utter deſtruction that ſhall befall other nations. God will ſave his people, but ſo as by prayer Pſal. 32.6. 2 Chron. 7.14. Zach. 13.9. he will grace his own ordinance, draw many ſuitours, and derive many prayſes to himſelf. See Ezek. 36.37. Pſal. 50.15. and 116.2. Some render it a ſpirit of grace and of lamentations, ſc. before the Lord, when they felt the nailes, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. where with they had pierced Chriſt, pricking their own hearts Act. 2.37. punctually pricking and piercing them.

and they ſhall look upon the whom they haue pierced] Dacaru, whom they have d[illegible: 1 letter]ggered or digged, as Pſal. 22.16. him they ſhall look upon and lament, [non-Latin text not transcribed],Rev. 1.7. Lam. 3. their eye ſhall affect their heart; for the eye is the inſtrument both of ſight and of ſorrow; and what the eye never ſees the heart never rues. The Sun looketh upon the earth, draweth up vapours thence, and diſtilleth them down again: ſo doth the Sun of the underſtanding; which till it be convinced, the heart cannot be compuncted. Sight of ſin muſt precede ſorrow for ſin. The The prodigall came to himſelf, ere he repented of his looſe practiſes, men muſt bethink themſelves, or bring back to their hearts (as the Hebrew hath it 1 King. 8.47.) ere they will ſay, We have ſinned and dealt perverſely, we have committed wickedneſſe. See Ier. 8.6. Pſal. 38.18. An infant in the womb cryes not becauſe he ſees not; but as ſoon as it comes into the light, he ſets up his note. Get therefore your eyes anointed with eye-ſalve, with this ſpirit of grace and ſupplications: ſo ſhall you ſoon ſee (ſaith Mr. Bradford martyr) your face foull arrayed, and ſo ſhamefull, ſaucy, mangy, pocky, and ſcabbed, that you cannot but be ſorry at the contemplation thereof. It is the ſpirit that convinceth the world of ſin; neither can the waters till his wind bloweth Pſal. 147.18. A ſigh is not breathed out for ſin, till the ſpirit imbreach the ſame into us.

and they ſhall mourn for him] Or, for it, viz. for their crucifying the Lord of glory in their forefathers, and having a great hand in it themſelves; ſith their and our ſins were thorns and nails that pierced him, the lance that let out his heartblood &c. We bound him with cords; we beat him with rods; buffetted him with fiſts, reviled him with our mouths, nodded at him with our heads, &c. We were the chief actours and principal cauſes, that ſet awork Judas, Pilat &c. Oh ſtand a while with the devout women, and ſee him bleeding, groaning, dying, by the wounds that we gave him; and mourn affectionatly over him as here.

they ſhall mourn] with ſuch outward pomp and rites as are uſed at fune ralls; as wringing the hands, beating the breaſts, ſhaking the head, and the like externall geſtures and expreſſions of heavineſſe.

and ſhall be in bitterneſſe] by inwardneſſe of extream grief; as when Davids heart was leavened with it Pſal. 73.21. it was ſowred with goodly ſorrow, and ſowced in the teares of true repentance. So Peter went forth and wept bitterly Mat. 26.15. waters of Marah flowed from Mary Magdalens eyes, which were as a fountain for Chriſts feet: here ſorrow was deep and down-right, producing repentance never to be repented of. The ſorrow we conceive for an unkindneſſe offered to Chriſt muſt not be ſlight and ſudden, but ſad and ſoaking: like that of the Iſraelites met at Mizpeh, when they drew water before the Lord 1 Sam. 7.6. whereunto the Prophet Jeremy ſeemeth to allude, when he ſeriouſly wiſheth that his head were waters &c. Ier. 9.1. and David with his rivers of teares Pſa. 119.136. His heart was ſoft and ſoluble: now ſoftneſſe of heart diſcovers ſin; as the blots run abroad, and ſeem biggeſt in wet paper: and as when the Cockatrice egge is cruſhed, it breakes forth into a viper Iſa. 59.5. Now to make and keep the heart ſoft and tender, the conſideration of Chriſts dolorous paſſion muſt needs be of ſingular uſe and efficacy: as the ſight of C[illegible: 1 letter]ſars bloody robes brought forth, greatly affected the people of Rome, and edged them to revenge. The hardeſt heart ſoundly ſoaked in the blood of Chriſt (the true ſcape-goat) cannot but relent and repent for ſuch a horrid villany.

as one mourneth for his onely ſon—for his firſt born] ſc. with a funerall-ſorrow: ſuch as was that of the Sunamite, and of the widdow of Naim, of Rachel, who refuſed to be comforted &c. There is an Ocean of love in a fathers heart: as we ſee in Jacob toward Joſeph, in David towards Abſolam, in the father of the Prodigall &c. Chriſt was Gods only ſon in reſpect of his divine nature: he was alſo the firſtborn amongſt many brethren. And yet God ſo loved the world &c. So? how? So as I cannot tell how: for this is a Sic without a Sicut: Even ſo ſhould our ſorrow be, for having a wicked hand in his dolorous death. The Prophet here ſeemes to be at a ſtand as it were, whence to borrow compariſons to ſhaddow it out by. Great is the grief of children for their deceaſed parents, as of Joſeph for Iacob Gen. 50.1. he fell upon his fathers face, as willing to have wept him alive again if poſſible. So our Edward the firſt returning from the warrs in Paleſtina, reſted himſelf in Sicily: where the death of his ſon and heir comming firſt to his eare, and afterwards of the king his father, he much more ſorrowed his fathers departure, then his ſons: whereat King Charles of Sicily greatly marvelled,Speed. 646. and demanding the reaſon, had of him this anſwer: The loſſe of ſons is but light, becauſe they are multiplyed every day: but the death of parents is irremediable, becauſe they can never be had againe. Thus He, Howbeit, love rather deſcendeth then aſcendeth, and Abraham could better part with his father Terah, then with his ſon, his only ſon Iſaac whom he loved Gen. 22.2. Before he had him, Lord God, ſaid Abraham, what wilt thou give me ſo long as I gee childleſſe. Gen. 15.2. His mouth was ſo out of taſt with the ſenſe of his want, that he could reliſh no comfort. But now to be bereft of him, and that in ſuch a manner, as he might conceive by that probatory precept Gen. 22.2. this muſt needs go to the very heart of him, for though he had put on grace, yet he had not put off nature. Both Iacob and Iacobs father (as Iunius underſtandeth that paſſage Gen. 37, 35.) wept ſavourly for Ioſeph, and would go down into the grave unto their ſen mourning. True it is, that the loſſe of ſome wife may be greater then the loſſe of ſome ſon, (Abraham came from his own tent to Sarah's tent to mourn for her Gen. 22.2. and ſhe was the firſt that we read of in ſcripture mourned for) but the Prophet here ſpeaketh of the mourning of husband and wife together: and they can loſe no greater outward bleſſing, then their firſt-born, if an onely-one eſpecially.