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A19799	A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.; Commentarii in prophetas minores. English.	Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1594 (1594)	STC 6227; ESTC S109220	1,044,779	1,114

and he doth acknowledge his Church to be the filling vp or the fulnes of his body Eph. 4. And as Paul writeth 1. Coloss ver 18.19 He is the head of the bodie of the Church he is the beginning and first borne of the dead that in all things he might haue the preeminence For it pleased the father that in him should all fulnes dwell The cause of the imparting of the benefits of Christ with vs. Bedam Berithick for the bloud of thy couenant Now the cause of this communicating or imparting of his benefites with vs is added to wit the couenant of the Church with God or Christ that is the fauour of God and his adoption of her And therefore in this place I doe expound the letter Beth for thy couenant And the Prophet in this place rehearsing the couenant according vnto the fashion and maner of that time that is of the ceremonies of the lawe addeth bloud because that the couenant of God with the Church and cōtrariwise of the Church with God was not made and established but by bloud and bloudie sacrifices So the writer vnto the Hebrewes witnesseth cap. 9. ver 20. that whē Moses sprinkled the booke and the people with bloud he sayd This is the bloud of the Testament which God hath appoynted vnto you So is it also in Exod. cap. 24. ver 8. Then Moses tooke the bloud and sprinkled it on the people and sayd Behold the bloud of the couenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these things Further the effect of this rule of Christ kingdome of the church was now euidently shewed and declared alreadie namely the deliuerance of them was made alreadie indeed who did before lye miserablie in Babylon as in a most drie pit and in a graue for here is an allusion or resemblance vnto the storie of Ioseph who by his brethren was put into a drie pit Gen. 37. ver 24. and languished were held their captiues whom Christ by that might and according vnto that power which he hath ouer al nations loosed out of those bands and bad them and made them to be free So doth he daily loose vs from the bands of finne and of Satan Vers 12. Turne ye to the strong hold ye prisoners of hope euen to day doe I declare that I will render the double vnto thee An exhortatiō vnto the Iewes and in their person vnto the Church of God AN exhortation that the Iewes might vnderstand how certaine things are promised vnto them So then God commandeth that now henceforth withall their mind they wayte for hearken after those promises of God made vnto Ierusalem that is vnto his Church and that they haue their eyes turned and fastened therevpon and consequently that they come vnto the same citie The word hope which is here added in the word Turne ye sheweth that in this place is not spoken of the returning and drawing backe of the feet only but also of the hope and expectation or looking for of the fulfilling of the promises of God and consequently of our conuersion hope heedfulnes of mind vnto them that we should not faint or quaile being ouerwhelmed with the euils the which fall out vnto vs in the meane season But here are three things to be considered First who are exhorted Secondly 1 Who are exhorted whereunto they are exhorted Thirdly what is here promised by God or by the prophet vnto those that are exhorted 2. Whereunto they are exhorted They that are exhorted are prisoners of hope that is the godly which were afflicted or punished most miserablie and most hardlie as namely who are most like vnto those which are bound and shut vp in a most filthie prison but yet hoping neuerthelesse in the promises of GOD 3. What is promised vnto those that are exhorted and giuing heede or hearkening after them according vnto that saying of Iob Albeit that he kill me yet will I notwithstanding trust in him cap. 13. ver 15. They are exhorted vnto the citie Ierusalem it selfe that they should flee thither as vnto a most strong tower or hold And why Ierusalem is called an hold the reason is for that as it is in the Psalm 49. God doth keepe fortifie and defend it Psal 122. and 125. ver 2. because that he is fauourable and louing toward it It is therefore called a hold because it is strongly enuironed round about with moūtaines as appeareth by the Psalme last quoted where the Prophet sayth As the moutaines are about Ierusalem so is the Lord about his people from henceforth and for euer So farre forth therefore both the Church now and also Ierusalem in times past is a most sure and safe place vnto vs as it hath the promises of God and as we haue regard vnto the same Therefore they are exhorted not onely to goe into this tower but also that they turne their mindes vnto the promises of God made vnto it Thirdly exceeding great gifts are promised vnto the Iewes exhorted and consequently vnto the Church of God namely not only those which they had and felt before but the double of them that is all things farre more plentifullie Which promise was fulfilled in Christ and through Christ by reason of the gifts which Christ the Messias giuen vnto vs hath giuen and daily giueth vnto his Church Vers 13. For Iudah haue I bent as a bowe for me Ephraims hand haue I filled and I haue raised vp thy sonnes O Zion against thy sonnes O Grecia and haue made thee as a Gyants sword Why the Iewes should flee vnto Ierusalem A Garnishing or staying in the further laying out of the former matter the which also containeth the rendring of a reason namely why the Iewes should flee vnto Ierusalem to wit because there should bee most grieuous warres betweene them and the Grecian Kings the which ruled in those countries and in the countries neere thereunto that is betweene the Iewes and the successors of Alexander the great in the East Empire yet shall the Iewes haue the vpper hand in those warres God fighting for them This is the summe and substance the which is layd forth by an amplification in this place Two parts of this verse to lay open vnto vs the more cleerely the glorie and grace or fauour of God And first of all this verse containeth a cause of the seeking vnto that hold of Ierusalem 1. A cause of seeking to Ierusalem and then secondly a promise of victorie The cause therefore were those hard and long warres betweene the whole nation of the Iewes and the successors of Alexander in the East 2. A promise of victorie or the Kings of Syria The which thing to be true the issue or falling out of the matter and the historie of the Machabees doth witnesse and also Daniel cap. 11. Wherfore by these words Iudah Ephraim Sion the whole nation of the Iewes is signified as vnder the name of the