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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

twelue are alreadie placed in the coppies of our Bibles Isid●rus Let vs therefore now goe forward with the question that we haue in hand generally sh●w so farre as we may out of the worde of God what Prophets haue bin from the beginning of this world vntil the comming of Christ our Lorde And this shall easily be done if wee deuide the whole time which hath now passed from the creation of the worlde vnto Iesus Christ the King and onely sonne of God taking flesh vpon him for vs unto certaine courses or ages of times And these we will The time from the creation of the world vntil Christ deuided into seuen ages for the better laying open of this matter make and set downe to be onely seauen in euery one or which we will shewe what Prophets haue liued Where first of all I doe willingly confesse that the succession of the Prophets vas not alwaies so continued that it neuer was interrupted or broken off For whereas this office was extraordinarie in the Church of God no maruell if it often ended or for a time ceased for to be in as much as the ordinarie callings them selues of which sort was sacrificing vnder the Lawe did not withstanding sometime cease and were broken off as in the whole time of their exile and captiuitie in Babylon and oftentimes else So therfore it came to passe the sinnes of men deseruing the same that the Church of God was often destitute or voyd of true Prophets as is gathered out of 1. Sam. 3.1 And the word of the Lord was precious in those daies for there was no manifest vision And Psal 74 9. We see not our signes there is not one Prophet more nor any with vs that knoweth how long Therfore there were then no Prophets but their succession was for the time no doubt of the continuation of them broken off That which no godly man which readeth the holy Scriptures with diligent heedfulnes in my iudgement will denie But let vs returne vnto those seuen ages of the worlde which haue passed since the beginning thereof vnto Christ borne of the blessed virgin Marie The first of them containeth al that whole time which was from the making of the world vntil the floud which fell out in the sixe 100. yeere of the Patriarch Noah And this age comprehendeth 1656. yeeres This first age had these Prophets The 1. age of the world from the creation unto the floode 1656 yeres had these prophets Adam Abel Enoch Noah Adam Abel Enoch Noah Of Adam we haue spoken before Of Abel it seemeth that it may easily be gathered both out of Mat. 23.34 35. Heb. 11.4 namely that he was a Prophet as also was Enoch other Prophets whō the Iewes wickedly flew Of Enoch there is extant or remaining a most certen Testominie in the word of God to wit in the epist of Iude v. 14. whose prophesy also is there rehearsed in these words And Enoch also the seuenth from Ad●mprophesied of such saying Behold the Lord commeth with thousands of his Saints Of Noah it is a matter past al doubt that he was a Prophet of God did foretel of that ouerthrow of the whole world the dwellers therein the which was to come was through waters made by God almost 120 yeares before it came and that by especiall reuelation from God Gen. 6.13 And God said vnto Noah God ●●uealed vnto Noah the destruction of the world by water An end of al flesh is come before me for the earth is filled with crueltie through them and behold I will destroy them with the earth Read more hereof cap. 7. and 2. Pet. 2.5 Neither hath he spared the old world But saued Noah the eight person a preacher of righteousnes and brought in the floude vpon the world of the vngodly If there were any more Prophets besides these they are not rehearsed in the holy Scriptures The sonnes of God seuered from the sou●●s of men The sonnes of God indeed are seuered from the sonnes of men in all that first age and the one are called wicked despisers of God and the other to wit the sonnes of God are said to haue bin godly and fearing God Gen. 4. ver 26. And to the same Sheth also there was borne a sonne and he called his name Enosh Then men began to call vpon the name of the Lord. And Gen. 6. ver 2. The sonnes of God saw the daughters of men that they were fayre c. But yet are they not called Prophets To be short If any of thē were such their names are not expressed vnlesse any man peraduēture wil say that Lamech the father of Noah others borne of Seth the Patriarchs such as are named in the holy Scriptures were prophets of God And these prophets of God had that first age of the world The second age is from the time of the floud vntil the first calling of Abraham out of Vr a citie of the Chaldeans The 2. age containing 422 yerees had fewe or no prophets which calling was made by God For Abraham first departing with his father Thara out of this citie Vr went vnto Carras following God calling him This age had 422 yeeres Gen 12. and Prophets either none or very fewe at least which are knowne vnto vs by the word of God vnlesse any man peraduenture will reckon Sem the sonne of Noah and Melchisedech among the Prophets of that age For concerning Abraham himselfe before this age it is manifest that he was anidolater and therefore no Prophet of God at that time Ios 24.2 such a one not withstanding as afterwarde he was Gen. 20.7 For the first that the was an idolatour ●o●ua saith Your fathers dwelt beyond the floud in old time euen Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nachor and serued other gods For the second that he was afterwards a Prophet of God saith of him to Abimelech in the place before cited Nowe deliuer the man his wife againe for he is a Prophet and he shall pray for thee But whether and of those which Gen chapter 10. and chapter 11. are reckoned vp for the heads of families and nations of the posteritie of Noah as Sem the sonne of Noah and others were prophets it cannot by any meanes by the word of God be determined For in the epistle vnto the Hebrewes cap. 11. all this whole seconde age as it which lacked his Prophets of God nay that which more is godly men is cleane ouerpassed and the holy Ghost by and by with a great leape and gulfe oftime and succession skippeth from Noah vnto the calling of Abraham Then were the Prophets of the world very few besides Sem and Abraham The 3. age from Abraham to the giuing of the law 430 yeeres had these prophets Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph Moses Aaron The third age of the worlde is from the first calling of Abraham out of Vr of

wrath of God against the people of Israel for the sinne of idolatrie he pronounced or declared health vnto the house of Iudah For the which it is shewed that Ezechias king of Iudah taking away the idols the which the former kings had halowed did purge and clense the Temple of the Lord. IOel the Lord God or Beginning vnto God or He was Gods Joel For this doth his name sound in an vncertaine signification AMos a people pulled away For his prophesie was vnto the people of Israel because it was now rent from the Lord Amos. and ●rued the golden calues or was pulled away from the kingdome of the stocke of Dauid NAhum a bud or a Comforter Nahum For he doth rebuke the citie for bloud and after the ouerthrow thereof he comforeth Sion saying Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that ringeth glad tidings and declareth peace ABacuk Embracing Abacuk because that either for this that he was beloued of the Lord he is called embracing or for that he ●ommeth into battell with God he hath the name embracing at is wrastling For none so boldly durst chalenge God vnto the disputing of his righteousnes namely why in the affaires of men of men 〈◊〉 of this world there was in things so great iniquitie MIcheas Micheas who is he This one that is left For he threatn● Samaria for the cause of Idols after that manner of 〈◊〉 which another saith Who is this that wrappeth vp sentences SOphonias is expounded Sophonias the glasse or secret of the Lord. B● agreeth vnto the Prophets For they know the mysteries o●● crets of the Lord. Whereupon it is said vnto Ezechiel I haue m● thee a Watchman or in Espiall ouer the house of Israel And in other place The Lord will not doe any thing vnlesse he reueale ●pen it vnto his seruants the Prophets ABdias Abdias The seruant of the Lord. For as Moses was the ●uant of the Lord and the Apostle the truant of Christ●o●● Prophet being sent an Embassadour vnto the Gentiles doth and preach such things as are beseeming the ministerie sent of a Prophet and thereupon he is called the seruant or the Lo IOnas expounded a Doue Ionas or sorrowing A doue for his ●owing when he was in the bellie of the Whale Sorrow either for the sorrow which he had for the saluation of the N●vites or for the Iuie tree suddenly withering with whose sha● he was couered against the heate of the sunne He also as Iewes doe hold is Amathi the sonne of the widowe of Sara●whome Helias raised from death his mother saying vnto him terward Now I know that thou art a man of God and the wo●● of the Lord in thy mouth is true and for this cause the childe called Amathi For Amathi out of Hebrew into english signif●● truth and of this that Helias spake the truth he which was ra● was called the sonne of truth ZAcharias Zacharias The remembrance of the Lord. For the seuen● yeare of the destruction of the Temple beeing ended ●●charias preaching the Lord remembred his people and by commandement of Darius the people of God returned the tie and the Temple is reedified or builded againe AGgeus in english Aggeus signifieth ioyfull and glad For he propfieth that the Temple destroyed must be built vp againe and after the sorow of their captiuitie preacheth the ioy of their return MAlachias is interpreted the Angel that is Malachias the Messenger of the Lord. For whatsoeuer he spake it was beleeued as if had beene commaunded from the Lord and therefore the Seuentie haue thus translated his name saying The taking vp of the word of the Lord vpon Israel by the hand of his Angel Now not onely a good man but also a wicked man may haue Prophesie For we finde that Saul the king did prophesie For he persecuted the holy one Dauid and beeing filled with the holy Ghost began to prophesie The ende of the Fore-notes THE WORLD FROM THE CREATION vntill the comming of Christ diuided into seuen ages and what Prophets of name flourished in euery one of them as more at large in the fore-notes appeareth The first age of the worl● from the creation v●to the flood containing 1656. yeares had these Prophets Adam Abel Enoch Noach The second age from the floud vntil the first calling of Abraham out of Vr of the Chaldees con aining 422. yeares had either none at all or els very fewe prophets knowne vnto vs out of the word of God except these may be coūted in that nūber Sem Melchisedech The third age from the first cal●ing of Abraham vnit the giuing of the Lawe by Motes in the desert of Sinai containing 430 yeares had these Prophets Abraham Isaach Iaacob Ioseph Aaron Miriam the prophetisse The fourth age from the giuing of the Law vntill the building of the Temple by Salomon containing 480. yeares bad th●se Prophets Ioshua Debora the Prophetisse Samuel Dauid Nathan Gad The sift age from the Tēple vnto the captiuitie of the ten tribes containing 294. yeares had Prophets almost innumerable but of name these Ahias Iadi Semeias Addo Azarias Hanani Iehu Elias Micheas 1. Elizeus Ionas Amos Oseas Esaias Micheas 2. The 6 age frō the captiuitie of the tē tribes till the times of the full captiuitie of Babylon is 133. yeares in this age flourished these Prophets whose names are recorded in the Scriptures Nahum Ieremie Ioel Olda the prophetisse Sophonias Abdias Habacuk Ezechiel The seuenth and last age from the captiuitie of Babylon vntill the birth of Christ containing 508. yeares had these Prophets whose names are written in the Bible Daniel Aggeus Zacharias Zacharias father of Iohn Baptist Simeon Malachias Anna the prophetisse A COMMENTArie of Lambertus Danaeus vpon the Prophet Ioel. CHAP. I. THE drift and ende of this Prophet Two ends of this Prophet is two fold the one proper and peculiar vnto this Prophet in a manner 1 Proper and peculiar namely to teach with howe great aptnesse to learne and with how readie obedience we ought to obey God when he calleth and how that vnto this matter we are not to take to counsell neither flesh nor bloud as Paul speaketh Galat. 1. ver 15 16. saying of himselfe But when it pleased God which had separated me from my mothers wombe and called me by his grace to reueale his sonne in me that I should preach him among the Gentiles immediatly I communed not with flesh and bloud neither ought we to be troubled about the euent or issue of this our trauaile and ministerie or seruice to be done Act. 26. ver 19. Wherefore king A●rippa I was not disohedient vnto the heauenly vision 1. Pet. cap. 5. ●er 2. Feede ye the flocke of God so much as in you lieth saith the Spirit of God Of the which places the first in like cases requireth our obedience and the latter our vtmost endeuour and diligence For there is a

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.

wares or since the poore men receiued that money The fourth kinde is Their shameles corrupting 4. They doe make the common weights lesse thē they ought to be or changing of the common weights and measures the which they did by subtiltie and false dealing For those former falsifiers of the weights did keep the rates of the co●mon weights iust but they would not deliuer so much in weight and measure But these fellowes did subtillie falsifie the common weights in making of them lesse and yet would shewe them for iust and true weights This also is shameles couetousnesse Vers 6. That we may buy the poore for siluer and the needie for sh●●● yea and sell the refuse of the wheat Sundrie kinds of their crueltie AS before he set downe sundrie kinds of couetousnesse so doe he here reckon vp diuers kinds of their crueltie and the same also ioyned with couetousnesse The first for that they would for their money buy vnto themselues the poore man 1. They bought the poore for money like bruit beasts and haue him t● be their owne after such sort as they did buy any bruit beast Ye● these were both men and also their brethren whom therefore it was not lawfull for them to buy in such sort And therefore they might not by the law of God vse those of their owne nation wh●● they bought for their money in such sort as they might other seruants that were strangers but were after certaine yeares to let th●● goe out free as it is Exod. 21. ver 2. c. If thou buy an Hebrew s●●uant he shall serue sixe yeares and in the seuenth he shall goe out fr●● for nothing 2. They bought them for a matter of nothing The second for that they bought or would buy thee for a most vile low price as for a paire of shoes that is for a matter of nothing for the which valew they could not buy at any 〈◊〉 his hand so much as a poore dogge or silie sheepe so great doubtles was their crueltie and vnmercifulnes that they made 〈◊〉 much account of men yea and those their brethren also as they did of the basest and smallest cattell 3. They vsed false dealing with their wares in corrupting the same The third kind is for that they vsed very bad and false dealing in the deliuerie of the ware ●●●ter which they sold or gaue to wit they did mixe and mingle together the soyle and refuse with the graine in the barne and 〈◊〉 sell this mixture or medlie in stead of the good and sound come the which by bargaine and promise they were to deliuer wherewith the men that bought it were not nourished Therefore like there was in them notorious couetousnesse so was there also op●● crueltie and deceit By this occasion let our Merchant men of 〈◊〉 times consider how they deale and with what faithfulnes and vprightnes they doe sell their wares least that they also come with the compasse of these threatnings Vers 7. The Lord hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaacob surely I will neuer forget any of their workes Two parts of this verse THe threatning of a most grieuous punishment the which is afterwards declared As for this verse it hath two parts namely the threatning it selfe and the confirmation of the threatning 1. A threatning The threatning is That God will not afterwards forget these their wicked deedes and so lewd workes like as before whilest that he spareth them and tarrieth for them and their repentance he seemeth to haue forgotten them but he will in the end punish them all most sharply keeping the bedroule and number of them in his minde as hath bin shewed before in the second verse of this chapter So in the second of Malach ver 17. the Lord sheweth that he remembreth the speeches of the wicked when as they by their bold answer seeme to thinke that he hath nothing to charge them withall For thus in that place sayth the Prophet Ye haue wearied the Lord with your words yet ye say wherein haue we wearied him when ye say euery one that doth euill is good in the sight of the Lord and he delighteth in them Or where is the God of iudgement And in his third chapter ver 16. he doth in plaine words teach vs that God keepeth a booke of remembrance of those that doe feare him that he may recompence them in the end though for a time they seeme to be forgotten Then spake they that feared the Lord sayth Malachie euery one to his neighbour and the Lord hearkened and heard it and abooke of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought vpon his name And Dauid Psal 130. ver 3. sheweth that none is able to abide it if God enter into a strait reckoning with him for his misdoings saying If thou O Lord straitly markest iniquities O Lord who shal stand And therfore Psal 32. ver 1. he pronounceth him an happie man that is not called to this sharpe reckoning as the wicked ones that are vnrepentant in their sinning shall be where he writeth Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen and whose sinne is couered After what manner God is sayd to remember and to forget But touching this that here the Lord is sayd not to forget it is to be noted that remembrance and forgetfulnes are in the holie Scripture attributed vnto God by a certaine Anthropopathia that is by ascribing vnto him for our capacitie and better vnderstanding such affections as are in man 2. The confirmation of the threatning The confirmation of the former threatning is contained in the oth the which in this place is expreslie set down by God that these hypocrites or rebels should not thinke that these were but vaine and bare words and childish feare-bugs And God sweareth here in this place by the excellencie of Iaacob that is by all the priuiledges and prerogatiues which he had giuen vnto them wherwith they did excell the other nations of the world in happinesse both heauenly and earthly This excellencie is set out by Paul Rom. 3. ver 1.2 What is then the preferment of the Iewe or what is the profit of circumcision Much euery maner of way answereth he for chieflie because vnto them were committed the Oracles of God And againe Rom. 9. ver 4.5 he reckoneth vp a great many of them shewing That vnto them pertaineth the adoption and the glorie and the couenants and the giuing of the law and the promises Of whom 〈◊〉 the fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came who is God ouer all blessed for euer Before chap. 6. ver 8. God sware by himselfe The name of Iacob is here recited because that he and also his posteritie was preferred before Esau and his seede of the meere or only fauour of God towards the Israelites and also Iacob himselfe as it is witnessed Malach. cap. 1. ver 2.3 Was not Esau Iacobs