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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

the Chaldeans vnto the setting forth giuing of the law of God vnto the people of Israel by Moses in the desert of Sinai This age comprehendeth 430. yeares as the holy Scripture it selfe doth declare Exod. 12. ver 41. Galat. 3. ver 17. This third age had these sixe Prophets well knowne Abraham Isaac Iacob who also is called Israel Ioseph Moses and Aaron as appeareth in Genesis the epistle vnto the Hebrews 11. cap. and infinite other places For whither in the meane season whilst the children of Israel liued vnder the Pharaos in Egypt after the death of Ioseph and before the birth or the wing of Moses there were any other Prophets of God of the Israelites ab●ding in Egypt the holy Scripture doth no where plainly make any mention And therefore neither wil I affirme the ●ame Further whereas some will haue certaine propheticall writings of Ab●●ham the Patriarch to be extant they are child●shly ●●ceiued foolishly setting one of the Rabbines called Abraham in steade of Abraham the Patriarch The 4. age from the Lawe to the bu●lding of the temple by Salomon 480 yeres had many prophets as The fourth age of the worlde is to be reckoned of vs from the giuing of the Law in Mount Sinai vntill the building of the Temple of God at Ierusalem by Salomon the which falleth into the fourth yeare of Salomon his reigne This age conteineth 480. yeares as appeareth 1. Thing 6. cap ver 1. And in the 480. yeare after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt and in the 4. yeare of the reigne of Salomon ouer Israel in the moneth Zif which is the second moneth he built the house of the Lord. This age had store of many godly Prophets Josua O●bora the Prophet 1. Sam. 2. ver 29. Samuel Davi● Nathan Gad. as these by the word of God well knowne vnto vs Iosua which succeeded Moses Deborah and a long time after that ●ame man of God se●t vnto Eli 1. Sam. 2. ver 27. Samuel David Nathan Gad. But whether those also were Prophets which wrote the books of the warres Num. 21. ver 14. and the booke of Iasher Ios cap. 10. ver 13. Also the bookes of Chronicles of the kingdome of Iuda and Israel whereof mention is often made in the bookes of the Kings is not set downe in the holy Scripture But that Dauid and Nathan and Gad were Prophets of God appeareth 2. Sam. 12. 1. Chron. 29. ver 29. and cap. 21. Besides these if there were any other Prophets in that age their names are not rehearsed For that which is written of Othoniel the Iudge in the third of the Iudges vers 10. and of other Iudges also that the Spirite of God fell vpon them when as they were called of God extraordinarily vnto that office this in my iudgement is not to be vnderstoode of the Spirits of prophesie as if then they became Prophets that is foretellers of things to come such as was Isaias Ieremias and others but it is to be vnderstoode of the spirite of fortitude or strength whereby they might be able boldly and without feare to resist and withstand the enemies of the Church were they neuer so much to be feared Neither are there any prophesies extant of those Iudges who after Iosua gouerned Israel as politique Magistrates in many ages neither are there any of them reckoned at any time among the Prophets but among the Magistrates of Israel Therefore that which is Hebr. cap. 11. ver 32. And what shall I more say For the time would be too short for me to test of Gedeon of Barac of Sampson of Iephthe and Dauid and Samuel and the Prophets doth not prooue those Iudges to be numbred among the Prophets but onely among godly men which by faith serued God For Paul Act. 13. ver 20. calleth them onely Kritas that is Iudges whereas he calleth Samuel who was himselfe a iudge in Israel a prophet also And albeit God Deu. 18.15 promised the Israelites that is his Church that it should come to passe that out of it he would raise vp Prophets euen after that Moses was deade yet was not this rancke and course of Prophets succeeding one an other continuall but oftentimes broken off as I haue said And in deede all the whole time in a manner of the Iudges it seemeth that there were none Few prophets in the time of the Judges or else very few Prophets of God in the Church Therefore 1. Sam. 3. ver 1. vision and prophesie is said to haue bin very rare and fayling in Israel that is in the Church and people of God But after Samuel it began to be both more common and also more knowne Therefore in his time there were many Prophets as appeareth 1. Sam. cap. 9. and 10. whose names notwithstanding the holy Scripture doth not set downe The 5. age frō the temple vnto the carrying away of the ten tribes by Salmanazar 294 yeares among many other had these prophets Proofe for this former spputation of time The fifth age of the world is from the Temple of God builded at Ierusalem by Salomon King of Iudah vnto the leading and carrying away of the tenne tribes of the kingdome of Israel by Salmanazar King of the Assyrians into Assyria and Mesopotamia that which fell into the eight yeare or there about o● die reigne of Ezechias king of Iudah like as the besieging o● Samaria by the same Salmanazar happened about the sixth yeare of the reigne of the said Ezechias 2. King cap. 17. ver 6. In th● ninth yeare of Hoshea the king of Asshur tooke Samaria and carru● Israel away into Asshur And cap. 18. ver 9 10. And in th● fourth yeare of king Hezekiah which was the seuenth yeare of H●●shea sonne of Elah king of Israel Shalmanesar king of Asshur cam● vp against Samaria and besieged it And after three yeares they to●● it euen in the sixth yeare of Hezekiah that is the ninth yeare of Hesheaking of Israel was Samaria taken This age hath two hundred ninetie foure yeares to wit thirtie sixe of those fourtie yeares in which king Salomon reigned after he had built the Temple of God and two hundred fiftie eight yeares after the setting vp o● the kingdome in Israel by Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat that is among the tenne tribes the which fell a way from the kingdome of Iudah by and by after the death or Salomon For so man● yeares namely two hundred fiftie eight continued the same kingdome of Israel rent from the kingdome of Iudah Nowe th● age had Prophets almost innumerable For there was neuer any age vnder the whole olde Testament more full of them 〈◊〉 more garnished with the gifts of God and prophesies that a● well the Iewes as the Israelites might be made inexcusable 〈◊〉 without excuse for the despising of God and his worde Wherefore both of them for this cause afterwarde were very sharpel● and iustly punished by God as appeareth 2. King chap.

worthely powred out vpon the world and vpon such chiefely For as Paul saith 3. Colos ver 6. For such things sake the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience And so doth Moses threaten the Israelites that for their disobedience they should perish like vnto other nations Deut. 8. ver 20. As the nations which the Lord destroyed before you so ye shall perish because yee would not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God And to this end is all that to be referred Deut. 28. of the seuerall sortes of punishments which the Lorde hath in store for those that follow not his lawe and commandements Wherefore God at the last determined to ouerthrow and vtterly to destroy this people that is the kingdome of Israel like as for the iniquitie of men he destroyed the first world it selfe also in the dayes of Noe as it is Gen. 6. But yet such is the mercie of God alwaies both towards all mankinde but especially towards those the which do carrie the signe and token of his couenant such as they were hee would not punish them but being a long time and much warned before of their destruction God from time to time raysed vp Prophets among the Israelites to put them in minde of their duties if they continued still in the same sinnes Therefore in a certaine continuall ranke as it were and succession he raised vp Prophets the which should certifie those men both of the most sharpe iudgement of God against them if they did not repent and of his mercie readie for them if they would conuert and turne vnto him and that they should shew and declare vnto them both these sentences of iudgement and of mercie and in their persons should foretell the selfe same things vnto the whole world and now also vnto vs at this day who by their examples ought to learne to bee wise The office of the Prophets where in it doth consist Whereof it commeth to passe that the office of the Prophets doth consist both in the shewing of the iudgements of God against the sinnes of men and also in promising his fauour and fire mercie vnto his Church through Christ The which two poyntes ought especially to be obserued or marked of vs in the bookes of all the Prophets which are extant or remaining among vs like as also those are the chiefe parts and end of their whole ministerie or office And among those Prophets the which God peculiarly ordained and sent vnto the Israelites was this Oseas whose holy writings are these extant and the which continued in the exercise of this office by the space of very many yeares and that continuall●e and without ceasing Oseas not the first Prophet that was sent vnto the Israelites Why Oseas is placed first in the order of the bookes of the Small prophets Yet was not this Oseas the first of those prophets whom God sent vnto that kingdome of Israel and who●e writings are also now extant as I haue shewed in my notes before these Prophets and also vpon Amos but because of the long continuance in his office hee is preferred before the rest in setting downe the order of the bookes of the twelue small Prophets and set in the first place For he prophesied by the space of more the● fourtie yeares Therefore the whole argument and matter of his writing and Prophesie doth consist both in shewing and setting forth of the iudgements of God against the wicked and also in declaring of his mercie towards his church and the godly Things to be noted in the first verse This first verse then hath three certaine things to be obserued or noted The one what is the certaintie and authoritie of the doctrine following and the which is to bee propounded or deliuered And it is very singular and worthie of greatest reuerence 1. The certaintie and authoritie of this prophesie because it is the word of Iehouah that is of that same indeede almightie and true God and not the deuise of men or the dreaming of the Prophet Oseas or some odde fable or tale composed and made by art for as Peter teacheth 2. Epist cap. 1. ver 16.18 the worde of God is not any fable fraught with deceite but a matter of assured truth and certaintie and therefore hee saith of the same vnto the faithfull vnto whom he did write We followed not deceiuable fables when we opened vnto you the power and comming of our Lord Iesus but with our eyes we same his maiestie And we heard the voyce of his father concerning him when it came from heauen being with him in the holy mount This his word God would not haue to bee kept secret and hidden but to bee opened and declared vnto those men And therefore the Prophet is commanded to deliuer it And vnto him this word came from God himselfe In the second place it is to be noted in this verse 2. Vnto whom the word of God was reuealed vnto whome this word was reuealed that it might be declared to with vnto Oseas the sonne of Beeri that is vnto that Oseas who at the same time was sufficiently knowne and famous among the Israelites by the honestie name godlines and diginitie of his father For the setting downe of this name of his father doth not onely note out the familie or house of Oseas but also the famousnes of the same then well knowne The third poynt is here declared at what time Oseas prophesied 3. At what time Oseas prophesied And this time is noted two maner of waies namely both by the kings of Iudah and also by the kings of Israel as for the Kings of Iudah Oseas prophesied in the dayes of Vzzias Iotham Ahaz and Hezekias For vnder all these he executed his office by the space of aboue fortie yeares and vnder the King Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas which was King of Israel And him alone doth he name of the Kings of Israel because that albeit hee continued his office vnder other Kings of Israel also yet was it more maruailous that in that time such iudgements of God as these should be declared vnto this people whenas the estate of this kingdome of Israel was vnder this Ieroboam most florishing For as it is 2. King cap. 14. ver 25. He restored the coast of Israel from the entring of Hamath vnto the Sea of the wildernes And it may appeare by Amos cap. 6. ver 2. that in this kinges dayes vnder whome he prophesied the kingdome of Israell might compare with any other kingdome on any side of them both for wealth and largenes For thus hee saith of the same Goe you vnto Calneh and see and from thence goe ye vnto Hamah the great the● goe downe vnto Gath of the Philistines be they better then these kingdomes or the border of their land greater then your border By these things it is manifest Oseas began to prophesie before the Prophet Isay that Oseas began

neither can bee sinne because he is borne of God Wherefore of such kinde of desperate and malicious sinners God is not found Vers 7. They haue transgressed against the Lord for they haue begotten strange children now shall a moneth destroy them with their portions An amplification of their wickednes taken from the circumstance of the person of God and also from the person of the Israelites themselues AN amplification of their wickednes that both the cause of God his withdrawing himselfe from them may be vnderstoode and also the greatnes of their shamelesnes and disobedience The amplification is taken from the circumstance of the person of God whom these haue forsaken For he is Iehouah that is that same true most mighty and alone God Also from the person of the Israelites themselues the which by an especiall couenant had vowed themselues vnto that God and as it were by a contracted mariage had agreed within themselues that the same God should be their husband and they the chaste spouse of God playing the harlot at no hand And therefore Paul 2. Cor. cap. 11. vers 2. in regarde of this spiritual marriage betweene Christ and his Church sayth of the Corinthians a member of the same That he was ielous ouer them with a godly ielousie because he had prepared them for one husband to present them as a pure Virgin vnto Christ. See before touching this marriage cap. 2. ver 16. And yet this couenant notwithstanding they had ioyned themselues vnto others and had played the harlots both in body and also in minde In mind with Idols as hath been sayd before In bodie with strange women against the commandement of God Deut. 7. by whom they had begotten strange children that is not of the seed of Abraham or of another then the blood of Abraham to wit they had begotten them of a strange woman the which should be notwithstanding a part of the people of God Of this matching with strange women see Ezra 10. Nehem. 13. And by this meanes they did communicate or impart the heritage vnto others thē vnto the true sonnes of Abraham against the graunt and pleasure of God that is of the true Lord and right owner of that land Which is vnlawfull to bee done euen among men and in those lands which we hire and paye farme and rent for much more is it vnlawful in that land the which God had appoynted to the seede of Abraham only Their punishment shal be agreeable to their sinns Last of all is set downe with what punishment they shall in the end be punished by God for this so vile pleasure in playing the harlots to wit with a punishment answerable and most agreeable vnto their sinne For a moneth that is to say their monethly termes and that same most filthy corruption shall deuour and defile them and weaken all parts of their bodie Others take the word moneth for their seede the which they shall not bee able to keepe like as harlots and vnchast women cannot keepe the same But I for my part had rather to referre this punishment vnto termes fluxes or issues of seede hemeroids or the Piles and such like bloodie issues the which may happen as well vnto men as women sometimes And these kindes of diseases are very troublesome and grieuous the which in the end doe bring a consuming of the whole body vnto those which are haunted with them and weaken the partes of their bodies take away the colour of the face and to bee shorte weare them a way by little and little and consume and eate vp their whole body with paines most grieuous that which they finde and haue proofe of which are taken with the sicknes of Naples that is the filthy disease of the poxe And this to be true in the Iewes at this day experience doth teach who are knowen peculiarly to haue many foule bloody diseases For the Iewes said Let the blood of Christ be vpon vs and vpon our children Mat. 27. ver 25. And among other diseases the which for their not walking according vnto God his commandements are threatned vnto them Deut. 28. ver 27. issues and followings of blood is reckoned where Moses writeth thus The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt and withe the emeroids vnder which he comprehendeth all maner of bloodie issues and with the scab and with the itch that thou canst n●● be healed So then experience it selfe doth plainly confirme mine opinion and my interpretation Vers 8. Blowe ye the trumpet in Gibeah and the shaume in R●mah crie out at Beth-auen after thee ô Beniamin A confirmatiō of the former threatnings of God A Confirmation of the former threatnings of God against the Israelites and Iewes by the adioyntes For it appeareth that they shall both perish in as much as God doth will the same to be forthwith proclaymed and that openly in the borders of both people and kingdomes And therefore God will haue cryers of this punishment and destruction to be sent the which should affirme that thing to come to passe the which God by Oseas hath foretold And this place is a very notable Hypotyposis The figure Hypotyposis which what it is see Amos cap. 8. ver 12. or liuely setting fon● of the matter where by it seemeth in such sort to bee described as if it were represented or shewed to be seene with the eyes in a maner This description hath two things to be noted First the place where these things are willed to be proclaimed 1. The place wher this proclamation is to bee ●s ●●e And this is not cōmāded to be done in one place alone but in diuers as namely in Gabaa or Gibeah Rama Beth-auē al which were border towns betweene both kingdomes For thus when as warres are proclaymed by Heraults the warre is proclaymed and published to bee notified in those Cities and townes especially which are the bounders of the kingdome But it is added also in all Beniamin the countrey of which tribe bordered vpon those townes and that behinde and not before them and the Prophet himselfe also prophesiyng in Israel Wherefore Beniamin is sayd to be after or behinde in respect of the scituation of the place after such sorte as it stoode then before the eyes of Oseas turning himselfe vnto Israel vnto whom he spake And Oseas maketh mention of Beniamin about the other tribes because that the first tempest of GOD his iudgements laide harder vpon that tribe then vpon the rest and therefore it is expreslie set downe by name For out of that quarter commonly the Iewes and the Israelites crushed each others with warres 2. The phrase or maner of speaking The second part of this verse containeth the kinde or maner of speaking here vsed by the Prophet which is vnioynted as it were and loose and not tied together with any bands of coniunctions coplatiues Therefore he repeateth one thing after diuers maners both that hee might thereby the