The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

CHAP. XIIII. Of the time when they prophecied.

Of the pro∣phets, some prophecied

• before the captiuitie, as well of the ten tribes of Israel, as of the two tribes Iuda and Beniamin; as
  • Esay
  • Osee
  • Ioel
• after the captiuitie; as
  • Daniel
  • Aggeus
  • Zacharias.
• when the captiuitie was at hand; as
  • Ieremie in Iewrie
  • Ezechiel in Babilon

Ex Hier. in 1. cap. Ieremiae.

The finall scope of all the Prophets.

The prophets of God, bicause they would neither discorage the Iewes with threatnings, nor make them carelesse by the sweetnesse of Gods promises, sought throughout their books to set before their eies, the two principall partes of the law; to wit, the promise of saluation, and the doctrine of good life. For the first part, they direct the Iewes, and in them all the faith∣full, to the true Messias Christ Iesus, by whome onely they shal haue true deliuerance: for the second part, they vse threat∣nings and menaces to bring them from their vices. For this is the chiefe scope of all the prophets, either by Gods promi∣ses to allure them to be godly; or else by threatnings of his iudgements, to feare them from sinne and wickednesse. And albeit that the whole lawe containe these two points, yet the prophets note particularly, as well the time of Gods iudge∣ments, as the manner of the same.