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John Trapp on Zephaniah 3:12

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Zephaniah3:12

Verſe 12. I will alſo leave in the middeſt of thee an afflicted and poor people] Poor and therein afflicted, therefore deſpiſed. Poverity is an affliction, and makes a man trodden upon. Men will be ſure to go over the hedge where it is loweſt. Hence St.Nil habet inſoelix paupertus durtus in ſe, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Paul ioyned them together, I have leared to want and to be abaſed. They that want muſt look to be abaſed. This thy ſon ſaith He Luk 15.30. not, this my brother: he would not once own him, becauſe in poverty. But though men will not, yet God will Iam. 2.5. Rev. 2.9. I know thy poverty, but that's nothing, thou art rich: poor in ſpirit, rich to God-ward, glorying in nothing but this, that thou underſtandeſt and knoweſt me and my will, thy ſelf and thy duty Ier. 9.23. and art therefore a rich Cargazon, a full Magazine, ſuch as the world is not worthy of.

and they ſhall truſt in the name of the Lord] As having nothing elſe o truſt to. So St. Pauls widdow indeed, being deſolate and left aloue, truſteth in God, who whiles ſhe had an husband truſted too much in him. 1 Tim. 5.5. A noble-woman of Savoy, mother to Iohn Galear Duke of Millaine after her hu[illegible: 1 letter]bands deceaſe, cauſed a coyne to be made, upon the one ſide whereof ſhe drew theſe words, Sola facta ſolum Deum ſequor, Being left alone, I truſt in God alone.

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