John Trapp on Zechariah 12:11

Verſe 11. In that day ſhall there be a great mourning in Jeruſalem] Magnificabitur luctus (ſo the Hebrew hath it) their mourning ſhall be greatened, their heavineſſe heightened, they ſhall riſe in their repentance above all that is ordinary. The Caſuifts and Schoolmen affirme ſorrow for ſin to be the greateſt of all ſorrowes. 1. In conatu: the whole ſoule ſeemes to ſend ſprings into it, out of every faculty. 2. In extenſione: It is a ſpring which in this life more or leſſe is continually dropping; neither would God have the wounds of godly forrow to be ſo cloſed up at all, as not to bleed afreſh upon every good occaſion. 3. In appreciatione: the true penitentiary doth ever judge that a good God offended, a Saviour crucified, ſhould be the prime cauſe of greateſt grief. 4. In intenſione: for intenſion of diſplicence in the will; there being no other things with which,Adrian. Scotus. Soto. or for which the will is more diſpleaſed with its ſelf, then for ſinning againſt God. There is more cauſe of grief, ſay they, for ſinning, then for the death of Chriſt: becauſe therein was aliquid placens, but ſin is ſimpliciter diſplicens. But is it not godly mourning, may ſome ſay, unleſſe it be ſo great? I anſwer, that other mourning may make more noiſe, like a daſhing ſhoure of rain, or a land-flood that by a ſmall ſhallow channel comes down from an hill. When a man mourns for his onely ſon, or the like, this comes from God as a judgement; it comes down hill as it were, hath nature to work with it, and nothing to hinder it: but this mourning and melting over Chriſt, is as a ſtream that goeth up hill, and through many reeds and flagges, M. Cotton. as a Reverend man expreſſeth it.

as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon] Where good Joſiah was ſlain, and where the people ſaw (to their unſpeakable grief, and heart-break) family, Church and Common-wealth pluckt up by the roots, in the loſſe of that one man, who was the very breath of all their noſtrils, as Jeremiah ſadly acknowledgeth in his Lamentations, compoſed on that very occaſion, and when he died, all their proſperity here died with him; and themſelves were no better then living Ghoſts, walking ſepulchers of themſelves: a being they had, but not a life: thoſe that before ſeemed to touch heaven with their finger, fell down to the earth,—nunc humi de repente ſerpere ſiderates eſſe diceres. as if they had been planet-ſtruck, as Budaeus ſpeaketh of the French courtiers at the death of Lewes the twelfth. When Auguſtus died, orbis ruinam timueramus, ſaith Paterculus, we thought all had been loſt, and that the world would have fallen about our ears. When our Edward the ſixth (that ſecond Joſiah) was taken away, Cardan ſung this ſorrowful Epicedion; Flete nefas magnum, ſed toto flebitis orbe Mortales; veſtrûum corrit omnis honos,