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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

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.

exposition of all the propheticall bookes of the old Testament The historie the method especially to be noted in the prophets these two things especially are diligently to be observed and noted namely their history and their method or order in writing The history touching the things persons and times where with the severall bookes of the prophets deale and of the which they speake VVherein notwithstanding wee are litle or nothing holpen by the prophane Historicians if you except those things the which are set downe in the 11. chp. of Dan. for the easie understanding whereof that maketh very much the which Tit. Livius Appianus Plutarchus and some other writers of credit of the Greeke and Latine history have left unto us But as concerning the things which appertaine into the former age they receive either none at all or else very small light from the prophane Historiographers I meane Herodotus Diodorus Siculus Xenophon and such other like For with them all that age was either confused or disorderly mingled or bewrapped with tables or altogither unknown wherefore the whole historie of those former times is of us to be sought for out of the word of God written only yet hath there none hitherto in my iudgement bene found who hath wholly gathered it as it ought by the diligent and carefull comparing and laying togither of the holy scripture with it selfe albeit many have written many Histories Chronicles fardels of times c. The new writers do here more further us unto the knowledge of these matters as Iosephus Scalig. the very light of his age in his books de Emend Temporum Matthaeus Beroaldus a man whilest he lived Ios Scaliger Beroaldus my very friend Franciscus Iunius in a maner my citizen and most deare unto me Iunius a man of singular learning in his late scholies and notes most learned in my iudgement upon the Bible and finally Arias Montanus in Biblico suo apparatu for I would not have any mans praise taken from him yet for all this there is wanting unto us at this day such a writing the which out of the word of God might conteine the whole Arias Montanus that is a iust and full historie of the former times of the universall worlde the which 〈◊〉 being holpen with the writings of other men am about if God graunt me life and leisure for I wrote this at Orthesium in the yeare of the Lord 1584 being now fiftie yeere olde and that the peace of the Church will suffer it In the meane season le● euery man note and gather for him selfe as much as hee can out of the whole holy Scripture whatsoever appertained unto the historie of the prophets The methode also or order of the prophets is diligently to be noted of vs The method or maner of writing of the prophets to the ende that the exposition or knowledge of them may be cleare and easie unto us For albeit 〈◊〉 Lactantius writeth libr. 5. Institut Christian cap. 1. the prophets of God as unto the people did speake in the commo● and plaine language yet as Augustine writeth Libr. 4. de Doct. Christian cap. 7. the same were eloquent men and they ofter used figures in writing under which they covered many things the which by how much the more they seeme to be covered i● borrowed speeches by so much are they the more sweete when as they are opened especially if they be referred unto the newe Testament Rules to be observed in the Prophets Let us therefore brieflie shewe what profitable rules especially are in their writings As for the te … they that are diligent may gather out of Augustine lib. 4. de Doctr. Christ cap. 7. The first and the chiefest rule shall be That those things the which the Prophets doe foretell to come to passe hereafter they do so tell them They foretell things to come as if they were present or alreadie past as if they were now present or else already past to the end the certenty of the thing to come and by them foretold may be understood to be the greater Therefore the verbe● which they use in the preterperfectense or time past are to be taken for the future tense that is in the signification of the future or time to come and that in all prophesies and alwaies like as wen they tell of a thing done that those things which the prophets doe say to have bene or to haue come to passe by verbe of the preter tense or time past we doe expound that the same things shall come to passe and by a verb of the future tense or time to come albeit by them they be as I said conceived and uttered by a verbe of the preter tense or time past Examples whereof sith every one may meete withall there is no neede to make any stay in the alledging of them And especially this rule is to be followed when as they prophesie of Messias the king to come in the flesh For they deliver those things as alreadie done the which notwithstanding were as yet to come For they had their accomplishment in Christ whereupon it is said that the old Testament beareth witnesse unto the new 2. Rule Things spoken figuratively not to be taken simply The second rule is That we expound not nor take not those things which by them haue bene said or done tropically and figuratively as if they had bene only said or done naturally or simply albeit I deny not that they were done according to the letter or literally for that the writings of the Prophets are full of tropes and figurative kindes of speaking it is more knowen then that any man can doubt thereof the which hath read but one onely leafe in them So Mich. 1. So Isa 1. Many of the doings of the prophets mysticall and signes of things to come So every where that there are to be founde many actions and deedes of theirs the which are also mysticall and signes of things to come and not onely to be read according to the letter and as things by them barely done Augustine hath long since very notably taught writing against Faustus Otherwise they might be thought to be madde and franticke persons who notwithstanding were mooved by the holy Ghost unto the doing of them in such order and therein did altogether obey God and were most wise So Isaias goeth bare footed Isai cap. 20. vers 2. Isaias bare footed So Ieremie weareth a vvoodden chaine about his necke Ieremy weareth a woodden chaine Ierem. cap. 28. vers 10. So Ezechiel carrying his stuffe vpon his shoulder in a darke night making an hole in the vvall goeth into another mans house Ezech. cap. 12. vers 7. Ezechiel carieth his stuffe by night into another mâs house All these were the doinges of men well in their wits nay of godly men being so commanded by God but to be expounded mystically and not onely according unto the bare deed

ver 41. generally applye this saying of Habacuck vnto all the wicked 2. The thing it selfe foretold by the Prophet The second poynt which is here worthie the noting containeth the matter it selfe the which the Prophet foretelleth shall come to passe namely that same worke the which the Lord was to doe in their age and time Whereby appeareth that this prophesie went not long before those times wherein those things which are here threatned came to passe and wee haue sayd alreadie Further this worke is the rushing breaking in of the Chaldeans into the land of Iewrie and the destruction of Ierusalem For these euen at that time did God ordaine and prepare to bee the executioners of the people of the Iewes and the reuengers of the contemning or despising of his name Concerning this matter see Ierem. 5. Also Ierem. 13. ver 20. and 21. the are willed to enter into the consideration of these things in these words Lift vp your eyes and behold them that come from the North where is the flocke that was giuen thee euen thy beautifull flocke what wilt thou say when he shall visite thee for thou hast taught them to be captaines and as chiefe ouer thee shall not sorowe take thee as a woman in trauaile To this effect reade also the 20. and 25. chapters of his prophesie Furthermore God did thus prepare the Chaldeans vnto this Empire began to arise vp and gathered strength and power The Chaldeans growing in strength and power might the more easilie execute God his iudgements against the Iewes for so by this meanes it did the more easilie execute those iudgements of God against the Iewes Those increasings therefore of the Empire of the Chaldeans the which at that time began to waxe very great among other nations neere vnto them were as a gathering together and making readie of rods the which God would vse to whip his people withall And the Iewes are willed to marke this that very diligētly because that within short time afterward they were to be punished and sharply corrected by those Chaldeans So in the times of our Elders when as God raysed vp the Empire of the Turkes all the Christians ought to set their eyes thereupon as on whippes The kingdome of Spaine likely to be a whip to correct the sins of the professors of the Gospell the which God ordained for them So if any idolatrous kingdome such as is that of Spaine in God his will and purpose do afterward gather great increase let vs Christians and the faithfull take it as if euen now there were by God ordayned correctors of our sinnes and of the nought setting by the doctrine of the Gospell and fearfull reuengers of the despised name of God Wherefore let men that are Christians at the least now at length begin to abstain from their sinnes and with speede and earnestly turne vnto the true God when as they see these things to be done and to be in preparing by God in the word Vers 6. For loe I raise vp the Chaldeans that bitter and furious nation which shall goe vpon the breadth of the land to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs What that wonderfull worke is the which God shal worke against the Iewes A Making more plaine of that which went before For he sheweth what that so wonderfull a worke is the which God shall shortly worke against the wicked Iewes And it is this namely God shall raise vp and send in the Chaldeans most cruell and most mightie enemies that the Iewes may be punished by them And this agreeth with the threatnings of God the which are extant and to be found Deut. 28. ver 36.37 The Lord shall bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set ouer thee vnto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers haue knowne and there thou shalt serue others gods euen wood and stone And thou shalt be a wonder a prouerbe a common talke among all people A liuely de scription of the power and cru●●ltie of the Chaldeans whither the Lord shall carrie thee Further there is added a liuely and effectuall description or setting out of the power and crueltie of the Chaldeans that hypocrites should not thinke that they can escape the iudgements of God or that they are impossible because of that strength of their owne the which such as it was they had in some measure at that time in the kingdome of Iudah Conferre this place with that of Ieremie cap. 6. ver 22.23 c. Thus sayth the Lord Behold a people commeth from the North countrie and a great nation shall arise from the sides of the earth With bow and shield shall they be weaponed they are cruell and will haue no compassion their voyce roreth like the sea and they ride vpon horses well appoynted like men of warre against thee O daughter Zion Two things here to be noted This verse hath two things especially to bee noted One the name it selfe of the Enemies whom God shall bring and raise vp against the Iewes And these are the Chaldeans 1. The name of the Enemies Now who these were it is knowne by other places of the holie Scriptures and also out of the prophane histories themselues or Chronicles of the heathen The second thing is the description of this nation 2. The description of that nation whereby the same appeareth to be very terrible or much to be feared And first of all it is said to be a most bitter nation namely 1 A most bitter nation such a nation as is bitter ouer other nation because of their hard rule and gouemment ouer them For the rule of the Chaldeans ouer the Iewes which were vnder their subiection was a Manlian gouernment that is most cruell tyrannicall as is the rule of masters ouer their slaues or of the Spaniards ouer the West Indians and not as of a father ouer his children It was a quick and hastie nation that is 2. A quicke and hastie nation diligent in the executing of matters And such must all nations be the which of small beginnings and kingdomes doe gather vnto themselues great power and beare rule ouer others to wit diligent and speedie in the dispatching of things Such were the Romanes at the first as Salust teacheth in his Catilinarie warres in these words But the Romanes are diligent at home and in warre speedie readie incouraging one another going against their enemies 3. A nation ranging farre abrode The same nation of the Chaldeans was ranging farre abrode and walking vpon the breadth of the land For the Chaldeans made warre vpon sundrie nations and waged battaile farre abrode as appeareth Iere. cap. 25. Finally they were desirous of other mens goods 4. Desirous of that is none of theirs or of that which was not theirs as namely being couetous and ambitious or proud such as is the nation of the Spaniards the which for praise gaines sake is