John Trapp on Zechariah 4:10

Verſe 10. Tor who hath d[illegible: 1 letter]ſpiſed the day of ſmall things?] Nay, who had not? The generality of the Iews were clearly guilty Ezra 3.13. and are therefore here juſtly reproved. As Naaman once looked on Gods Iordan with Syrian eyes, and ſo ſllghted the motion of waſhing therein: ſo theſe diſtruſiful Jews deſpiſed the ſmall beginnings of this great work; and the little likelyhood of ever bringing it to any good upſhot. Is it not in your eyes as nothing-ſaith Hagg[illegible: 1 letter]e, (hap. 2.3? They ſeemed onely to grieve at it: but God conſtrueth it for a downright contem pt: for he judgeth otherwiſe of our carnall affections then we our ſelves, and will have us to know that his thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are his wayes our wayes Eſay 55.8. Out of meancſt principles he many times raiſeth matters of greateſt moment: that his own immediate hand may the more appear. The kingdom of heaven was at firſt but as a grain of muſta[illegible: 1 letter]d-ſeed Mat. 13.32. The ſtone cut out of the mountain without hands, as if it had dropt out, or been blown down thnece, became a mountain and ſilled the whole earth Dan. 1.34, 35. The cloud that roſe as little as a mans hand, ſoon after muffled the whole heaven. God put little thoughts into the heart of Ahaſhueroſh concerning Mordecai, but for great purpoſes. Who would ever have thought, that out of Abraham now as good as dead ſhould have come the Meſſiah? or that out of the dry root of Jeſſe ſhould come the Branch ſpoken of in the former Chapter? who would have imagined that going forth onely with his bow Rev. 6.2. and arrows Pſal. 45.5. the fooliſhneſſe of preaching, he could conquer in three hundred yeers the whole Roman Empire? that by Hus a gooſe, and Luther a ſwan, ſuch ſtrange things ſhould have been done in Bohemia and Germany? that by a ſcruple caſt into Hen. the 8. his minde about his marriage with Katharine of Spain by the Trench Embaſſador (who came to conſult with him of a marriage between the Lady Mary and the Duke of Orleans ſecond ſon to the King of France) whether Mary were legitimate &c? the Pope ſhould be caſt off here, and reformation wrought by ſo weak and ſimple means,Spec. Erop. yea by caſual and croſſe means? this ſaith one, is that miracle which we are in theſe times to look for.

For they ſhall rejoyce] Or, But they ſhall rejoyce, or, Nay, they ſhall rejoyce, nay they ſhall ſee, viz. that which they deſpaired of ever ſeeing, and were therefore much caſt down about the perfection of the work, and its glorious accompliſhment. And this ſhall be ſurely effected by Gods powerful and watchful providence, called here thoſe ſeven eyes of the Lord which run to and fro thorow the whole earth] called elſewhere the ſeven ſpirits of God Rev. 5.6. and 1.4. and Gods ſpirit here Verſe 6. ſo guiding and managing all affaires and occurrences, that all the rayes and beames of providence iſſuing from thoſe eyes might be ſeen to meet in the accompliſhment of this, as their ultimate ayme, and ſcope. See the Note on Chap. 3.9.