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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

base flock of those by whome through the guidance of Christ they shall bee trulie fed and gouerned nor disdaine them for their Pastors and Shepheards See Isai cap. 11. Vers 6. And they shall destroy Asshur with the sword and the land of Nimrod with their swordes thus shall he deliuer vs from Asshur when he commeth into our land and when he shall trade within our borders The Rebels shal be conquered by force BVt the rebels the which shall continue resisting and striuing against Christ the which are here signified vnder the name of Assyrians and Nimrodians Christ shall master by force and subdue them by the sword partly in deede by the spirituall sword by the Pastors and true teachers whom he shall then raise vp partlie by the godly and christian Princes whom hee shall arme against such enemies of his church that they may keepe away their force from the church So God hath giuen vnto his Church Constantinus the great and Theodosius the elder Martianus and other godly Princes Vers 7. And the remnant of Iaacob shall be among many people as a dewe from the Lord and as the showres vpon the grasse that waiteth not for man nor hopeth in the Sonnes of Adam A third confirmation of the former comfort taken from the power and authoritie of the church THe third confirmation of the same comfort and promise taken from the power and authoritie of the Church For not onely Christ but also the Church hath authoritie and gouernement But Christ of himselfe as God hath it But the Church as receiuing it from Christ And by the authoritie of this rule and power the Church shall both defend those that are obedient vnto her and shall breake in peeces those that resist against her For the Pastors haue as Paul saith both the spirit of mildenes and also a rod the which they can vse And therefore he asketh the Corinthians 1. Cor. 4 ver 21. What will ye shall I come vnto you with a rod or in loue and in the spirit of meekenes And 2. Cor. 10. ver 4. cited before ver 5. Also Mat. 16. ver 19. where Christ saith vnto Peter I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of Heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth shall be bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heauen Wherefore the Prophet now in this place reciteth both effects of this power the which by Christ is giuen to his Church And in this verse that which shall appeare in those that shew themselues willing to be taught in the verse following the other effect which is to be seene in the rebels This verse hath three things to bee noted First to whom this power is promised 3. Things to be noted to wit to the remnant onely of Iacob and not vnto that whole people which boast themselues to be the seede of Iacob 1 To whom this power is promised For not whosoeuer are of the seede of Iacob the same are the Sonnes of Iacob Rom. 9. ver 6.7 But they which imbrace the faith of Iacob and those are they which are in deede godly and faithfull the which both in this place and euery where in the holy Scriptures are fignified vnder the name of a Remnant least the hypocrites might suppose the promises and this power to appertaine vnto them Secondly there is to be noted what he promiseth in this place 2. What is promised namely a most sweete effect of the power of the church towardes those that are godly in deede in euery nation The which consisteth herein that the Church or God by the spirituall worde doth in all places nourish them feede them giue them strength to increase comfort them Finally performeth the selfe same vses towards them the which the rayne or small dewe and glistering in the fieldes bringeth either vnto the grasse when it first peepeth out of the ground or when as it is alreadie growne forth The like similitude is else where vsed in the Scriptures as Psal 72. ver 6. He shall come downe like the rayne vpon the mowen grasse and as the showres that water the earth So Psalm 65. ver 9. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it thou makest it very rich the Riuer of God is full of water thou preparest them corne for so thou appointest it Thou waterest aboundant lie the furrowes thereof thou causest the rayne to descend into the valleyes thereof thou makest it soft with showres and blessest the bud thereof And this doth the Church performe vnto the godly by the disposing and preaching of the word of God whereof it is the keeper and pillar as Paul speaketh 1. Tim. 3.15 and in respect that it hath the externall or outward ministerie thereof to wit by ordeining of true and faithll Pastors These things if thou doe saith Paul thou shalt saue thy selfe and others 1. Tim. 4. ver 16. And Rom. 1.16 The gospell is the power of God vnto saluation Otherwise the power and vertue it selfe which inwardly dooth nourish vs comfort vs and giueth increase is properly from God and is the Spirit of God and commeth not from the church as Paul teacheth 1. Cor. 3. ver 7. saying So then neither is he that planteth any thing neither hee that watreth but God that giueth the increase And the Prophet amplifieth this effect of the power of the church toward the godly from the kinde of rayne whereunto he compareth it For this power of the church is like not vnto euery raine but vnto that which alone without the labour of men that are vine dressers gardeners and husbandmen without their trauaile and diligence I say nourisheth bringeth foorth and strengtheneth the grasse herbes that spring out of the earth The which doubtles is a most powerfull and plentifull vertue of rayne So dooth the Church feede the godly with the word of GOD alone not mingling therewith or vsing any doctrine of men Otherwise as touching the seruice and ministerie of men that preach the gospell the same doubtles is necessarie in the church of God and at no hand to be taken away neither is it in this place condemned For how shall they heare except there bee those that preach saith Paul how shall they preach except there bee some ministerie ordeined But in this place is shewed that the word of God alone is sufficient throughly to nourish the godly to shut out any other kinde of doctrine whatsoeuer such as are the traditions of men and not to take away the meanes of expounding the same worde of God such as are the faithfull Pastors For things contained one vnder another are not contrarie Thirdly 3. Among whom the Church shall haue and shew this power it is to bee noted among whome the Church shall haue and shew this power to wit among the nations that is people strangers before from true faith and the heauenly doctrine nay moreouer resisting and striuing against it yea

and that among many nations that is diuers or many that is strong and more honorable then others Truely the Gospell when as it was preached did winne and bring vnto Christ both many nations and the same also most mighty as for example the kingdomes of the Romanes and Persians Vers 8. And the remnant of Iaacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as the Lyon among the beasts of the forrest and as the Lyons whelpe among the flockes of sheepe who when he goeth thorow treadeth downe and teareth in peeces and none can deliuer The second effect of the power giuen by Christ vnto his church THe second effect of the same power the which by Christ is giuen to his church to wit against the Rebels And that is such that the Church as a ramping lion shal crush them as easily teare them in peeces and consume them as hee is wont to doe a flocke of sheepe So Paul 2. Cor. 10. vers 4. speaking of the power and force of the word of God sayth For the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but mighty through God to cast downe holds And Christ sayth vnto Peter and in his person vnto all other his true ministers Matth. 16. vers 18. I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the Kingdome of heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth shall bee bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth shall bee loosed in heauen For either Christ or the Church throweth downe his enemies by the power of his word and that in such sorte that he taking away none can deliuer them and saue them out of his hands as Dauid complayneth of the cruelty of his enemies comparing them vnto a roaring Lyon from whom none can deliuer if God should not stand on his side and therefore he craueth earnestly his ayde Psal 7. ver 1 2. saying O Lord my God in thee I put my trust saue me from all that persecute me and deliuer mee lest hee deuour my soule like a Lyon and teare it in peeces while there is none to helpe Vers 9. Thine hand shall be lift vp vpon thine aduersaries and all thine enemies shall be cut off The conclusion by the figure Epiphonema which what it is see Ionas cap. 2. ver 9. THe conclusion by the figure Epiphonema or acclamation that it shall come to passe that in the ende the church shall get the vpper hand against her enemies The which also maketh plaine by an Antithesis or matching together of contraries and by the kind it selfe of the ruine or ouerthrow of the enemies of the church The antithesis is where he saith Thy hand shal be lift vp Thine enemies shall be cut off and so consequently cast down The kind of destruction is exceeding great for they shall be cut off that is they shall perish and vtterly be destroyed and rooted out and shall not onely be afflicted or haue their estate in part diminished but vtterly ouerthrowen And to the end this conclusion may be the stronger and take the deeper roote in their mindes and that hee may comfort them the more it is confirmed by the person of the promiser For it is God which promiseth and in deede the Iehouah not any feyned God nor any mortall man such as were also euen the Prophets themselues Vers 10. And it shall come to passe in that day sayth the Lord that I will cut off thine horses out of the midst of thee and I will destroy thy chariots The maner time of the former comfort promise A Laying open of the matter more plainely for hee sheweth the maner and the time wherein the former comfort and promise shall come to passe vnto his church The which also is a confirmation of it that the godly and faythfull may bee most assured of it whatsoeuer fall out vnto them in the meane season and albeit that their condition and estate may seeme to be very bad And first the time is expressed and afterward the maner And the manner is also manifold For there are three reckoned vp in this place in order to wit the casting downe and spoyling of the aydes whereon the church seemeth to stay the putting away of Idolatrie which raigned in it before the ouerthrow and destruction of the enemies of the church But this verse hath three things to be noted First Three parts of this verse a description of the time 1. A descriptiō of the time of the fulfilling of the former deliuerance wherein the fulfilling of the former deliuerance and lifting vp of the Iewes or of the church shall bee And it shall be in that day that is in that time For a day in this place doth not signifie the space of 24. houres but a long time yet a certaine time and a time set by God And indeede after that the Lord God shall haue taken away from his church both the aydes of men and also shall haue rooted out of her false doctrine and vngodlines that is shall haue wasted the countrey of the Iewes by the Babylonians and shall haue carried them away captiues into Babylon For then at the last God shall cut off and shall ouerthrow the enemies of his church So then that time may easily both now be obserued or noted and also in times past might haue been noted by the falling out of things foretolde here in this place 2. This promise shal be fulfilled how incredible or contrary soeuer it seeme to be The second thing here to be noted is that albeit in this place a thing neuer so much incredible or not to be beleeued and in shew seeming to be contrary be promised yet neuerthelesse it is promised that it shal most assuredly come to passe For it is God which promiseth and foretelleth these things This is sayd and spoken that is a determined sentence of Iehouah and such as is irreuocable or cannot be called backe And yet this seemeth vtterly an absurde thing or contrary to reason and impossible that then at last God should restore his Church when as he shall haue taken away from it all helpes and aydes But God hath a reason of his counsell and doing the which we will anon declare 3. The taking away of the aids of men The third thing to be noted is the taking away of the aydes of men the which the Iewes that is the Church seemed for to haue the which when as they are sundry and manifold they are onely in parte rehearsed in this verse to wit the aydes of warre as are horses and chariots wherewith the Iewes did fight agaynst their enemies and such other thinges necessary vnto warre the which God will take away from the Iewes before he deliuer them And why I pray you will GOD doe this To wit that they may vnderstande that this their deliuerance is indeede the worke of GOD and to come from GOD alone not from themselues not from mans or any