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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61668	A paraphrasticall explication of the twelve minor prophets. Viz. Hoseah. Joel. Amos. Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai. Zechariah. Malachi. / By Da. Stokes. D.D.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.; Pearson, John, 1613-1686.; Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5719; ESTC R203657	306,596	639

constant readers of the holy Bible In which est aliquid prodire tenus To this purpose the Iews have a saying that we cannot have a full satisfactorie resolution of all doubts and queries till Elias come We must therefore be content to follow him that said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. to be Scholars and learners all our life long and as willing to be informed by others as to informe them He is well that knows much but no man living shall ever truly 〈◊〉 that he needs no help or direction ●●om another while that of Salomon in his Eccles. ● 3. 11. holds true as it ever will which I conceave to be there spoken to this purpose that God hath given the hearts of men a whole world of matter for meditation so large so copious that no man can ever fully go thorow with it and find it out Such variety of matter affording new work of speculation for us sometimes in plain and easie and sometime to sharpen our appetite and increase our industrie in harder and more intricate wayes and terms may move us willingly to joyn the help of others to our own labour and impart our helps to them So out of that plentie and varietie of matter our prayers and good thoughts may have a continual and profitable supply Thence we may every day select something to prepossesse that room in the heart which otherwise vain phancies and perhaps worse then vain phancies may incroach upon And if our meditations rise out of that plentie of matter which the holy Scriptures do best and most furnish us withall thence we have our Armoury to strengthen us in our saddest combats with our ghostly enemies And thence we have better then the balm of Gilead for curing the wounds and diseases of the soul. There we have a kind of conversation with God himself and the sight of his blessed will and pleasure in as clear a way and full measure as is most expedient for us In the most necessary things we shall find it most apparently true For though the Scriptures may be hid to them that willfully perish to such as come to them with the spirit of Pride or with prejudice or faction or contradiction or sinister respects Yet if we come otherwise with pure and faithful and thirsty souls we need not doubt but we shall find God in that which is his way wherein he usually comes to us all And God of his infinite mercy grant that we may all so find him to our everlasting comfort A PREFACE To the ensuing Paraphrastical Exposition BY THE Most Worthy and Learned Mr. IOHN PEARSON Minister of St. Clements Eastcheape IF the Eunuch in the Acts having a Prophet in his hand and being asked this question Understandest thou what thou readest could give no better answer than that How can I except some man should guide me If this were the best account which could there be given where the Original Language was familiarly understood What need of an Interpreter must they have who far distant both in time and place can read the Prophets in no other than their mother-language and that most different from the tongue in which those holy Authors wrote As therefore the Generality of Christians could not read the Scriptures at all except they were first translated so when they are many parts of them cannot yet be understood until they be interpreted And as of all the holy writers the Prophets are confessedly most obscure so amongst them the smallest must necessarily be most intricate brevity alwaies causing some obscurity Now though there be many Commentators which have copiously written on the Prophets Yet we shall not find that light which might be expected from them because some have undertaken to expound those Oracles being themselves either altogether ignorant of their language or very little versed in it Others enlarge themselves by way of doctrines or common-place which may belong as well to any Authors as to those to which they are applied Wherefore if any man hath really a desire to understand the Scriptures I commend unto him those Interpreters whose Expositions are Literal searching and declaring the proprieties of the speach of the Author and the scope and aim which he that wrote had in the writing of it Of these Literal Interpreters useful to all Readers those are most advantageous to the unlearned who contrive their Expositions by way of Paraphase and so make the Author speak his own sense plainly and perspicuously which is the greatest life that can be given unto any writing originally obscure For if the Interpreter truly understand the mind of the Author then without any trouble or circumlocution it becomes the same thing as if the Writer had clearly at first exprest himself And therefore proportionably to our opinion of the knowledge of the Paraphrast we may rely upon the understanding of the Author Thus in these smaller Prophets acknowledged by all especially by such as know most to be obscure that Interpreter which shall be able to deliver their mind and contrive the same as if it proceeded immediately from themselves must necessarily be confessed the best Expositour And no man can be able to perform this but he which is exactly knowing of all the idioms of the Hebrew tongue and familiarly acquainted with and constantly versed in the Prophets themselves and the writings of the Iews Now such a person as this is hath taken the pains to benefit the Church of God with a paraphrase of this nature The Reverend and Learned Dr. Stokes who hath from the happy beginning of his studies been known most industriously to have prosecuted that of the Oriental Languages and hath for more then forty years constantly made Remarques upon the Hebrew Text from which he hath raised unto himself a body of Critical Observations ready and most fit for publique view Amongst many advantages accruing especially to the understanding of the Scriptures he hath made choice to publish this Paraphrase of the small Prophets a work of more real then seeming value Which I cannot sufficiently commend to the Reader neither in respect of it self it is of so great use and benefit nor in reference to his other works which we may hope to see according to the entertainment given to this And that Christian Reader he desires may be found correspondent to the desert thereof Who is the Authors Most affectionate Friend but in this more thine JOHN PEARSON Errata PAg. 50. ver 3. d. for lege Therefore will l. p. 51. v. 5. lege in the chief seat p. 94. v. 1 r. fallen from him v. 2. r. desire to offer p. 124. v. 28. r. illiterate p. 151. l●● r shall run p. 60 v. 11. r. to their posterity p. 170. v. 11. r. of them N. p. 171. v. 15. r. Archer p 179. v. 18. r. houses p. 187. v 9 r. proceeded p. 198. v. 11. r. their family p. 238. l. 1. r. his ●ervants p. 276. v. 10. r. Iunah p. 297. r. those that